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Whether you are a hopeful romantic, a skeptic, or someone in need of healing, "Twin Flames" will touch your heart, inspire your spirit, and remind you that, in the end, love is the greatest force in the universe-one that can overcome all obstacles, bridge all distances, and rekindle faith in even the most wounded of souls. This enchanting new collection of love poems by bestselling poet Mark Anthony is born out of direct experiences and will take the reader on a profound journey through the many facets of a twin flame relationship and its timeless ability to heal and inspire the soul.

The Stonehenge Murders is an exciting thriller set between Stonehenge and St. Paul, it's a must read for any mystery enthusiast.

Indeed, there is much to fill our hearts with grief, post-covid: two wars, in Ukraine and the Middle East; a virus which just won't go away; people whose lives have been shattered by illness, politics and loneliness. These are the "thorns" of our existence, and they have pierced the hearts of humanity. The greatness of any garden is as weeds take over and plants die, what grows in its place is often new, beautiful and different. These are the "trellises" which continue to bloom and grow: friends; family; the connections which ultimately bind us to this world. TRELLISES AND THORNS does a superb job of exploring the grief and elegance in this world, both of which are inextricably bound.

An innovative work of fiction, Jeff Alessandrelli's And Yet interrogates contemporary shyness, selfhood and sexual mores, drawing out the particulars of each through historical references, cultural commentary, and the author's own restless imagination. And Yet builds off the work of authors as disparate as Michel Leiris, Marguerite Duras, and Kobo Abe, while alluding to the work of Susan Sontag, Young Thug, Young Jean Lee, Cesare Pavese, Sylvia Plath, and Louise Glück, among others. With its nameless protagonist simultaneously proud and afraid of his daunting interiority, And Yet's form morphs, cracks, and continuously tries to repair itself while becoming a nuanced story of our times. "Love is a thing full of anxious fear. Especially when what you ultimately love and fear is your self," writes Alessandrelli, and And Yet draws such a notion down, out and around again, arriving at its own idiosyncratic answers by the end of the book.

From the desert to MRI machines to online dating to the Large Hadron Collider to the flora and fauna of natural and imagined worlds, Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine follows the central protagonist, Alva, as she seeks meaning and the keys to human connection.

This collection explores many subjects that demand looking after - family, artistic achievements including literature, the natural world, memories, history, and others that call for tending to. It also focuses on the complexities of this engagement - when easy, when difficult, when the subjects are shaded by emotion or the effects of time. Then too there is the looking after, as in afterwards, the reflection on things gone by. These poems cover a broad range - small personal experiences to the grander occasions of life, and the memories of life. They explore the multi-faceted subject of alert custodianship - the necessity of paying daily attention, while at the same time tending to the past already lived.

Beginning with its opening poem, "The Invention of Time," Ken Autrey's collection shows an attentiveness to the power of the past along with its riches and sorrows. The poems in Circulation address the writer's upbringing, the influence of his parents, and in turn his aging, with accompanying bafflements and fulfillments. The poems often range far away from the domestic front but just as often reveal the natural marvels of his own backyard. Some of them address the challenge of employing words to convey the depths of love and attachment that sustain us. Whether the topic is skating on a frozen pond, feeding piranhas in a zoo, his daughter's preparation for her wedding, or a visit to a junkyard with his father, events here unfold vividly, sometimes with an element of mystery, always with a sense of wonder.

"This book is a unique blend of poetry and prose written in a way that reflects the author's attempt to create an environment where his life experiences and education coexist. Where his personal feelings and life events, mathematics, physics, and art, come together to produce a book unlike any other. The book consists of 28 pieces and each one includes one or two paintings or photos, which reflect the desires, emotions, humor, and other strong feelings of the poem or story. This is a book where randomness and reason emerge as part of the world we leave in."SAMPLE POEM:ODE TO AN IDENTICAL TWINThe softer and the harderThe sensitive and the indifferentThe emotional and the reasonableThe calm and the upsetThe poet and the writerThe weaker and the strongerThe unlucky and the luckyI cheated you I took moreAnd you were left with lessYou were the weakerI was the strongerI cheated youBut you never complainedBecause you loved meEven a small uphill creates a noticeable windHow then can I not notice you?Fading face Eyes drifting into the darkness of futureCome find me you sayI will wait for you, you sayYou took the moon awayAnd now it's always dark at night A rainbow missing one color You touch me and I feel I exist I want you backJust for a secondA second Too much to ask?Parallel loveInfinite the distanceBut for one momentI wishYou cross to my universeAnd touch me Just for the smallest unit of time Whatever that isI dance for youA zeibekikoIn the space-time floorYou in some other universeSuspended in timeLooking at me through our photo togetherLaughing at my styleBecause I want to be funnyTo make you smileIn that parallel lineWhich will never meet my lineBut really who cares?We are very close parallelsWe live for ever Passing from universe to universeAnd are togetherIn every dream

Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Every anthology constructs a tradition. Sitting directly in dialogue with the feminist literary recovery project of the past 30 years, this anthology constructs a tradition of American women's writing that is truly multiple and inclusive, bringing together women's voices from across a broad spectrum of U.S. social life. Anyone who cares about women's literature is sure to be intrigued by this anthology's radical vision of what the history of women's writing truly has been.Neither narrowly canonical nor exclusively literary, this 1200-page anthology features women's voices as they appear in nontraditional public formats, such as trial transcripts, petitions and criminal confessions. It includes women's writing in public formats other than just print, including speeches and song lyrics. It also features expanded selections from Chicanas, working class women and antebellum Native American women, as well as thematic concerns with disability, women's sexuality, immigration and diaspora, women's suffrage, and lynching. And it offers expanded selections of plays, including temperance and "minstrel" plays; travel narratives; as well as a broader range of fiction from both women's magazines and "literary" magazines. The aim of VOLUME ONE: 17TH THROUGH 19TH CENTURIES is to show when and where and how women entered into public discourse pre-20th century, and how that access varied according to race, national origin, class, education, geographical location, physical ability, etc. as well as how it varied over the two centuries. Some of these materials have not been reprinted since their original publication; many have never been available in "literature" or "women writers" anthologies.

"POETRY: In this debut collection, Katie Lehman pays tribute to Emily Dickinson, with homage to the nineteenth-century American poet's lexicon of fierce vulnerability. Some poems quote Dickinson verbatim. Others channel Dickinson's radiant spirit in lyric narratives that reflect Lehman's own journey through a life lived close to the earth. We learn about Benedictine nuns tending the Victorian walled garden and farm at Kylemore Abbey on the west coast of Ireland, a newborn calf on a Mennonite dairy farm in Northern Indiana, the poet's coming-of- age among horses in Ohio, and school picture day during the Covid pandemic with her young son. Like Dickinson's, Lehman's poems pose a precise questioning of suffering and death through an inherent lens of light and hope. In the end, Lehman creates an emotional lexicon of her own that urges us not merely to enter but to bask in the sheer exuberance of language and find transport"--

"This first collection by Dale Tracy explores the atmosphere that derelict bicycles breathe. Unconventional but interested in convention, these poems turn the world in on itself. Tracy mines the intersection of the surreal and the philosophical, with a sprinkling of Samuel Beckett and a dash of Hâeláene Cixous."--

As Canada's punk poet laureate, Art Bergmann has been tearing up stages, and terrifying the music industry, for half a century. Often referred to as "Canada's Lou Reed," Art's story is one of rock and roll's great tales untold. Until now. From his days helping to lay the foundation of the Vancouver punk scene with The K-Tels, to his acclaimed solo work in the '80s and '90s, and a late career resurgence that has culminated with being named to the Order of Canada, The Longest Suicide chronicles every unlikely twist and turn Art's life has taken.Working with veteran music journalist Jason Schneider, Art lays it all out in his own inimitable way, with dozens of people who took part adding their own voices to corroborate (and sometimes dispute) the often-incredible chain of events. With cameos by John Cale, Bob Rock, The Clash, Bob Geldof and many others, The Longest Suicide is both a triumphant story of personal survival, as well as a unique glimpse inside the rise of alternative rock. Above all, it is a tribute to Canada's most unheralded singer-songwriter, whose greatness is only now being widely recognized.Illustrated throughout.Literary Nonfiction. Music.

The first full-length collection of poems by Kate Reavey.For the last three decades, poet Kate Reavey has lived on Lost Mountain, taught college, and raised a family, all with an eye and ear closely attuned to the intricate subtleties of her inner and outer landscapes. In poems both intimate and philosophical, she reveals a fascination with language matched only by her care for the world she deeply inhabits. These luminous poems shine light on the dark, difficult moments of living in an uncertain world--a world steeped in loss--but illumined by the poet's belief in the power of love to sustain and transform. We're drawn into the gravitational pull of Reavey's universe, as the curve of her life becomes both metaphor and inspiration to follow."The poems in Kate Reavey's Curve tenderly follow the contours of a fully embodied life--the lush hums of desire, the hard swerves of grief. Her steadfast attention to the way light defines the places and people she loves evokes the solace of timeless wonder."--H.K. Hummel, author of Lessons in Breathing UnderwaterPoetry.

Hey You! Whether you are considering having children, or already have them, chances are you don't know what you're doing. Now you have your very own Army Drill Sergeant, an honest to goodness American hero who has no problem telling you how to properly raise your disgusting little hippies. This former US Army Drill Sergeant (aka DS Dad) has ten years experience training basic recruits, and raised three almost perfect children of his own. It's an "In Your Face" guide filled with advice on choosing the right parenting partner and raising toddlers to teens, using Army values to instill your troopers with a stronger moral compass. With advice both fair and meaningful, but not for the faint of heart or easily offended, this is the guide you need to help you navigate the battlefield of modern parenting.

The first anthology to examine the multiple facets of daughterhood in South Asian American families.The voices in this volume reveal how a Good Girl is trained to seamlessly blend professional success with the maintenance and reproduction of her family's cultural heritage. Her gratitude for her immigrant parents' sacrifices creates intense pressure to perform and embody the role of the "perfect daughter." Yet, the demand for such perfection can stifle desire, curb curiosity, and make it fraught for a Good Girl to construct her own identity in the face of stern parental opinion.Of course, this is not always the case. Certain stories in this collection uncover relationships between parents and daughters that are open and supportive while also being exacting. Many of the essays, however, dig into difficult truths about what it is to be a young woman in a world of overbearing cultural expectation.Good Girls Marry Doctors is filled with honest stories, difficult and joyous, heartbreaking and hilarious, from a diverse array of powerful women. These narratives combine to expose struggles that are too often hidden from the public eye, while reminding those going through similar experiences that they are heard, and they are not alone.Contributers: Ankita Rao, Ayesha Mattu, Fawzia Mirza, Hema Sarang-Sieminski, Jabeen Akhtar, Jyothi Natarajan, Leila Khan, Madiha Bhatti, Mathangi Subramanian, Meghna Chandra, Natasha Singh, Nayomi Munaweera, Neelanjana Banerjee, Phiroozeh Petigara, Piyali Bhattacharya, Rachna Khatau, Rajpreet Heir, Roksana Badruddoja, Sayantani DasGupta, SJ Sindu, Sona Charaipotra, Surya Kundu, Swati Khurana, Tanzila Ahmed, Tara Dorabji, Tarfia Faizullah, and Triveni Ghandi.This collection is filled with stories that put into words the feelings and struggles that isolate daughters of the diaspora. ... There is pain. There is trauma. There is also humor and hope. In short: there is truth. Every story, every word comes from a place of vulnerability and pain -- from a struggle toward self-understanding and self-acceptance. These are the voices of women who have fought to be themselves and who have chosen to come back to their pain in order to offer a helping hand to the young girls and women who still inhabit that painful space. --Karen Marrujo, Poetry International