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Written between 2007 and 2022, this collection of lyrical poems explores the the impact of a spouse's dementia on a loving relationship. These are poems in search of a good life, which, the author believes, must be available to us even in the midst of profound suffering.In her introduction, Christine Klocek-Lim, editor of Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY writes, "most of the poems that appear in my inbox every day deal with grief and love, yet few manage to walk the border of both with such grace and lightness as does this book of poetry.... the splintered pieces of poems are glued together with lush imagery and difficult realizations, until at the end, 'the art / of golden repair is the art of refusing / to hide the beautiful strength of our damage.' The speaker has learned to gild pain with beauty. The reader has learned that beauty in loss is indeed possible."

Lindsey Royce has given us a beautifully observed book of love and remembrance, loss and endurance. You will be moved. You might even be changed. It is shining with life (Luis Alberto Urrea). This is poetry that touches and transports, which is what we expect from the art; the difference in The Book of John is the generosity with which the poet nourishes our creativity, inspiring us to sing-renewed!-in our own voices. Lindsey Royce serves us our communion feast with her sublime poetry, inviting us, "Break bread with me then- / Make merry, drink my wine." (Aliki Barnstone)

J.R. Rogue has self-published five novels and ten poetry collections. Several of her poetry collections have become bestsellers, including Tell Me Where It Hurts, La Douleur Exquise, and Exits, Desires, & Slow Fires, two of which were also Goodreads Choice Nominees for poetry. In her latest book of poems, I'm Not Your Paper Princess, the author focuses on love, heartache, and continuously discovering old truths in new ways.

All the Words Kept Inside chronicles the emotional journey after a life-changing event - divorce. The haiku could apply to a wide range of situations, however, exposing the rawness of grief, loneliness, anxiety, and so on that people often keep to themselves when going through a tough time. Ultimately, the haiku emerge from sadness into hopefulness and new beginnings.

Forgotten Echoes is a series of poems about the soul of God that splits itself into multiform. One spark takes on the form of "the man of Earth", dividing himself further into his creations. There he experiences the pleasures of the Earth. As he dreams, the Goddess also descends into multiform and they wage war against one another. She reveals the path of ascension and her companion refuses to fulfill a promise. Then he begins to fight his creations which are aspects of himself. In the act of creation, he falls deeper into his dream. The Goddess also descends deeper into the Abyss to walk beside her companion, waiting for a single spark to find his way home. Forgotten Echoes is inspired by the mystery traditions of Wicca, Gnosticism, and Jewish mysticism.

Et barn er dødt, og Estela sidder alene i en fængselscelle og fortæller sin version af historien til de politifolk, hun tror, sidder på den anden side af spejlvæggen. Hun voksede op i det chilenske landskab og flyttede til hovedstaden for at arbejde som barnepige og hushjælp hos en rig familie. Hushjælpens tilsyneladende enkle liv forvandler sig til et repetitivt mareridt af nedværdigelser og vold, samtidig som hun på underlig vis føler en uforklarlig kærlighed til familien, hun tjener hos. Estelas undertrykte følelsesliv bliver, sammen med udmattelse og raseri, til en livsfarlig cocktail.Om forfatteren:Alia Trabucco Zerán (f. 1983) er en chilensk forfatter. Hun er blev nomineret til Booker-prisen allerede for sin første roman, mens hun for sit non-fiktionsværket "When Women Kill" fik British Academy Book Prize for i 2022. "Ren" er hendes anden roman.

Kurze Geschichten über das Aufbrechen, Suchen, Verlieren. Die Suche nach anderen Orten oder anderen Menschen, die doch vielleicht immer nur die Suche nach sich selbst ist.

"I vores familie dør kvinderne unge". Det har Selma vidst, siden hun var barn. Men i dag vågner hun på sin fødselsdag, 66 år gammel og stadig i live. Hun har undgået sin skæbne. Hun har snydt døden. Hun har levet længere end sin mor, mormor og oldemor.Men hvad skal hun nu med sine dage? Bade i havet, spise kage, blive liggende i sengen? Hvad vil det egentlig sige at være i live? Og er hun i stand til at give datteren Olga plads til at være sin egen, fri af familiens historie?Om forfatteren:Hannah Lutz, f. 1984, er opvokset i Ekenäs, Finland. De seneste mange år har hun boet i Danmark, hvor hun er uddannet fra Forfatterskolen. Hun debuterede med den anmelderroste roman "Vildsvin" i 2016. "Vildsvin" blev solgt til udgivelse på Albert Bonniers Förlag (Sverige) og Förlaget M (Finland).

In her second book of poetry, Kimmy Joy invites us to dig our hands into mess -- personal and corporeal, , great and small, curable and chronic -- with her signature mise-en-scene. Each confession, ode, observation, and prayer crackles with wit and lucidity. Grounded in a familiar world of burnout, grief, and isolation, MESSY navigates deftly to a center of humor and connection, hope and understanding.

Enclosed within these pages are the Musings of a young man struggling at the border of adulthood. From professions of love to battles with anxiety and depression, this is an exploration of the complex nature surrounding human life at a junction of many paths. The collection does not follow a specific progression rather it separates certain poems into sets as they tackle specific ideas and notions.These poems may on occasion conflict in terms of the conclusion to which they arrive. This is because the author has compiled all of these poems from a five-year period from High School to the beginning of college in the hopes of reflecting change and exemplifying multiple, time-changed, perspectives on the same topic in an attempt to exhibit the growth of someone going through this period in their life.Without further ado, the author hopes you, the reader, glean some meaning from this collection and thus enjoy it.

MAN KAN IKKE UNDSLIPPE ØRKENEN. MAN KAN IKKE UNDSLIPPE SUNDIAL. ”SUNDIAL” er en gribende roman om de hemmeligheder, vi begraver for dem, vi elsker allermest. Det er en psykologisk thriller fortalt af to upålidelige fortællere med så mange plottwists, at du sidder på det yderste af stolen og venter på at mysteriet bliver opklaret. Det eneste Rob ønskede var et normalt liv. Hun fik det også næsten: en mand, to børn og et dejligt hus i forstæderne. Men Rob er bekymret for døtrene, navnlig sin ældste datter, Callie, som samler på små knogler og hvisker til sine fantasivenner. Rob ser et mørke i Callie, som minder hende om den familie, hun forlod. Hun beslutter at tage Callie med tilbage til barndomshjemmet, til Sundial, langt ude i Mojaveørkenen. Dér skal hun træffe et frygteligt valg. Callie er bange for sin mor. Rob er begyndt at se så mærkeligt på hende. At fortælle hende hemmeligheder fra fortiden, som både skræmmer og opløfter. Callie begynder at spekulere på hvor galt det kan gå … Mor og datter begiver sig ud på en mørk ørkenrejse til fortiden i håbet om at redde deres fremtid. ”Hvis du er thrillerfan, krimifan eller horrorfan SKAL DU LÆSE DEN HER. Ægte skræmmende!” – Stephen King CATRIONA WARD er født i Washington, D.C., og voksede op i USA, Kenya, Madagaskar, Yemen og Marokko. Catriona vandt August Derleth-prisen for bedste horror-roman i 2016 for sin debut, Rawblood, og igen i 2018 for Little Eve, hvilket gjorde hende til den første kvinde, der fik prisen to gange. Little Eve vandt også den ansete Shirley Jackson Award for bedste roman og var på The Guardians liste over bedste bøger i 2018. Last House on Needless Street (udkommer på dansk i 2023) blev fremhævet i Richard & Judy Book Club, kom på bestsellerlisten i The Times og på Kindle, blev årets thriller i både The Times og The Observer og vandt August Derleth-prisen for bedste horror-roman i 2022. Sundial var bl.a. på Apple Books liste over ”Best Books of 2022” og toppede Kindle listerne i flere lande.Pressen og kollegerne skrev: ”En psykologisk thriller af højeste kvalitet, absolut på niveau med de fleste litterære romaner.” – The Times ”Du godeste, hvor Sundial kulegraver de psykologiske dybder og fælder i et toksisk forhold. Bogen er en fremragende blanding af spænding, chok og ildevarslende stemning. Det er en vild, grotesk gotisk familiesaga, der ikke minder om noget andet og er umulig at glemme.” – Paul Tremblay, forfatter (A Head Full of Ghosts og The Pallbearers' Club)

In Miss Virginia and the Sweet Sisters, we are immersed in the world of Kentucky bluegrass horse country, coming-of-age wonders, and the mysteries of life experienced by a young girl on the cusp of young adulthood.

Le médecin s'installe. Je vois mieux l'écran. Ah, je vais pouvoir voir Lucie. Ils ont coupé le son ? Dommage. J'aurais bien voulu écouter son petit coeur... Elle aussi est concentrée mais elle semble plus à l'aise. Ouf !! Tiens, l'image est arrêtée ? Je vois bien Lucie, mais sans mouvement... Elle veut mesurer quelque chose sans doute et a arrêté l'image...Et d'un coup, je ne m'y attends pas. Elle me regarde, nous regarde et j'entends : « Je suis désolée, il n'y a plus de rythme cardiaque chez votre bébé ».Je ne comprends pas. Je regarde Emmanuel sur ma gauche. Je le vois en larmes, prêt à crier et là, le choc, je comprends... C'est fini. Elle éteint l'écran.A travers ce témoignage touchant, Julie Laroche-Bocquillon partage la douloureuse expérience qu'est le décès d'un enfant in utero et le deuil périnatal. De la joie de pouvoir donner la vie à la lente et difficile reconstruction en passant par la terrible nouvelle, Julie retrace le parcours de sa deuxième maternité.Un livre qui pourra sans nul doute aider les mam'anges et pap'anges, mais également leurs proches.Une partie des bénéfices sera reversée à l'association « Décroche-moi une étoile » ou d'autres associations d'aides aux parents endeuillés.

Children go missing all the time, and many remain missing, for days, months, years, for more than a lifetime. They are not seen again. This performance is an attempt to tell what might have happened - without using words, but music.

Upgraded to ChronicI had to almost dieto learn how to truly live.I had to sink to depthsof hellto write beautiful poetry.Such is life, isn't it?You have to accept the thorns to love the rose.I left my entire worldto discover my voice.I broke all the way openand put myself back together.My trauma My lifeMy strengthMy vulnerabilityAll my gift to share.My lessonon livingFully CompletelyIn her first book, Amy Figgs seeks to share her lived experiences in a genuinely raw and poignant way. While life was certainly not easy for her, she found beauty and meaning, which she shares generously with you. She currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with her son. She travels whenever possible and runs to nature when she can't. "In a book that instructs the reader to start where you like, Amy Byers Figgs' debut collection is startlingly brave, honest, and authentic. A woman who is 'a bit much' champions her child, survives divorce, trauma, cancer, and loss, this story of triumph reminds us times of sorrow and grief and depression need to be honored." ~ B. Elizabeth Beck, author of Mama Tried¿"Amy's writing is so visceral that almost immediately into "The Poems," I came across a passage which made me want to literally tear out the page and frame it as art. "The Stories" section is no less powerful. I cried. For the trauma Amy endured; what what she overcame; but mostly for her courage in gifting her story to us in such a beautifully nuanced way.~ Ayser Salman, author of The Wrong End of the Table, A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In

Lend Me Your Fire- Poems of Love and Longing by Dead Society Poet is the second collections of poems from JR Hataway (DSP). You are invited to take a journey of raw emotion that swells from page to page between love, heartbreak, and longing.

“Man venter altid på noget. Døden eller livet. Om lidt kommer toget. Vi er i Berlin.”En teaterassistent, en ejendomsmægler, en anorektiker, en pusher, en aftenskolelærer, en anbragt, en pædagog ... Alle fortæller vi de historier om os selv, vi kan leve med. Indtil vi heller ikke kan dét mere. Under en mørk himmel mødes syv mennesker på en perron, de stiger ind i samme togvogn, drevet af smerte, hidkaldt af Q.Tomas Lagermand Lundme (f. 1973) er forfatter, dramatiker, manuskriptforfatter og billedkunstner.

Phoenix poems is a series of poems that takes place in Phoenix, Arizona, and tracks magic, mystery and mayhem through the eyes of a young shaman recovering from a psychosis. The work spans two months in time and features many spirits from nature, cartoons and the realms of fairies. It is intended in this form as both an act and work of healing, for a generation of disenfranchised youth struggling with issues of drug addiction, law enforcement and sexual trauma.

This book was written when I was in a bad place. You could say I was not in a good place. In fact, that's how I chose to say it. See? It's the title. It's about love, and more pointedly, the loss of it. It's about finding words and places and random household objects with more meaning in the absence of the people that made that stuff feel special. It's about feeling foolish in the wake of heartbreak. It's about yelling at god to feel a little more significant than any of us really is. But more than any of that, it's just me avoiding therapy with words and more attempts at public affirmation. I hope you dig it. And if you don't, I hope the next time you cook pasta it gets mushy and gross and that you don't even have any extra pasta in the pantry so you just have to eat saltines. And milk. Like a weirdo.

Kan tro flytte bjerge? Da Søren mister sin storebror i en bådulykke, plages han af skyld og dårlig samvittighed. Omverdens reaktion er ikke til hjælp, og mens han fægter sig frem på vej ud i voksenlivet, er han tvunget til at finde sin egen måde at håndtere sorgen på. Skyggen af min bror er et psykologisk drama, der handler om tro, der kan flytte bjerge, om håb, kærlighed og alt det andet, der måske vitterlig er mellem himmel og jord. Romanen følger Søren og hans trængsler gennem sommeren 1991. Originalmanuskriptet er udfærdiget i foråret og sommeren 1991. Derfor eksisterer her hverken mobiler, Netflix, Storebæltsbro eller rygeforbud. Efter 31 år er det endelig lykkedes at nå frem til en udgivelse.

I got a bee in my bonnet over the last weekend of October. One could argue, adroitly, that I was avoiding doing other things, but I think putting together 90% of this book over 2 days counts as being productive.I went through old hard drives, notebooks, and the web to find all the poetry I've written. It's not a lot, about 60 or so, but it was fun looking for them and revisiting some I'd not thought about for a few decades.This book is sort of a "collected works" edition. Some of the poems I've worked hard on and some of them were written in less than a minute. I think I tend to like those the best. There are one or two that I set out to do something very specific and I think I accomplished that.Could they all be better? Of course. Getting through the final 10% took another month.Are any of them great? One is.I could work for another 30 years on some of these-that's how poetry goes. But at some point, to steal a phrase from dayjob-land, you gotta ship it.This book is a word temple.At least, it wants to be.I hope you like the book you are about to read, even if it isn't this one.

"To the Boy Who Was Night collects the poetry published by Rigoberto Gonzâalez since 1999, including selections from five previous books as well as new work. Mirroring Gonzâalez's personal trajectory, the arc of this work articulates the course of a life: these poems recall leaving a beloved homeland, confront masculinity and sexuality in new adulthood, imagine the earth devoid of human inhabitants, descend into the realm of ghosts, and return to arrive at Dispatches from the Broken World. This latest section ventures into foreign terrain -- an autobiographical confrontation with isolation and the aging body."--Publisher marketing.

While Hoffman's debut collection interrogated the mythos built around grief, inhabiting an Alaska of the mind, her stunning sophomore collection When There Was Light looks at the past for what it was.These poems map out a topography where global movements of diaspora and war live alongside personal reckonings: a house's foreclosure, parents' divorce, the indelible night spent drunk with a best friend "[lying] down inside a chronic row of corn." Here, her father's voice "is the stray dog barking / at the snow, believing the little strawberries grow wilder / against a field." In these pages, she points to Russia and Poland and Germany, saying, "It was / another time. My people / another time. The synagogues burn decades / of new snow." The brilliance of this collection illuminates the relationship between memory and language; "another time" means different, back then, gone and lost to us, and it means over and over, always, again. With this linguistic dexterity and lyrical tenderness, Hoffman's work bridges private and public histories, reminding us of the years cloaked in shadows and the years when there was light.