Corazón Espinado de María Iglesias es una obra extraordinaria que entrelaza poesía y prosa para narrar el amor perdido y el dolor que de ello emana. Con maestría y sensibilidad, la autora captura la intensidad de las emociones de una joven mientras procesa el duelo por el fin de su historia de amor.

María Iglesias abre su corazón a través de palabras poéticas y prosa evocativa, llevando a los lectores a un mundo de sentimientos genuinos. Sus páginas están impregnadas de una melodía de emociones, explorando el amor y el dolor de manera profunda y poderosa.

Corazón Espinado es un viaje a través del dolor, pero también es una historia de esperanza y resiliencia. A través de su obra, la autora demuestra que incluso en los momentos más oscuros, el corazón humano tiene la capacidad de sanar y renacer.

Si buscas un libro que te inspire y te sumerja en las profundidades de las emociones humanas a través de la poesía y la prosa, Corazón Espinado es una elección extraordinaria.

Una obra de profunda sensibilidad, este libro ofrece una lectura sincera y auténtica.

Prepárate para un emocionante viaje a través de las sutilezas del amor, la pérdida y la fortaleza interior.

Beyond Thoughts is a poetry collection that explores the root cause of anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, negative thinking, and emotional suffering to help you heal.

This book will take you on a beautiful journey of self-discovery, self-love, happiness, hope, and deep healing to help you find inner peace in a simple, yet profound way.

Here's What You'll Discover:

• How to let go of negative thinking, anxiety, guilt, and shame
• How to hold space for yourself and all emotions so that you are less affected by them
• How to heal from the past and let go of the fear of the future
• How to end the vicious cycle of self-judgment
• How to love yourself and others unconditionally
• How to find yourself and discover who you truly are
• How to let go of self-limiting beliefs
• How to find happiness and peace in the present moment no matter what you are going through
• How to trust yourself and develop strength, confidence, and courage in yourself again
• How to become conscious of the subconscious, so that it stops controlling you and you can finally be liberated
• How to not only be okay in the unknown, but to thrive in it to create an abundant life filled with love and joy

There is something within you that is greater than everything you've ever been through. There is a deep part of you that knows this, which is what drew you here.

Beyond everything you think is your true essence that has been patiently waiting to be discovered.

Welcome home.

Bats can hear shapes.

Plants can eat light.

Bees can dance maps.

We can hold all these ideas at once

and feel both heavy and weightless

with the absurd beauty of it all.

This three-book poetry collection is comprised of Field Guide to the Haunted Forest (2020), Love Notes from the Hollow Tree (2022), and Leaf Litter (2023), collectively known as The Haunted Forest Trilogy. Jarod K. Anderson's best-selling nature poetry is celebrated by readers for its clarity, insight, and warmth. Vivid and approachable, the work gathered here invites readers to rediscover commonplace wonders and find new meaning in topics ranging from moss to mortality.

The poems in this trilogy highlight our connection to a living universe and affirm our place in a wilderness worthy of our love.

Brianna Pastor is by far one of my favorite new writers. Good Grief is a powerful testament that shows how hard the past can be and that overcoming it is possible. If you want to feel seen and deeply moved, read Good Grief. Brianna Pastor has unparalleled talent, let the power of her writing guide you to a better life.--yung pueblo, #1 New York Times bestselling author

An expanded edition with over forty brand-new poems of the bestselling poetry collection Good Grief by Brianna Pastor

When Brianna Pastor released her self-published poetry collection, Good Grief, she was blown away by the outpouring of support from people who reached out and said, Yes. Me too. For anyone who has struggled with questions of identity or coped with serious emotional issues, including grief, trauma, anxiety, and depression, this collection will help you find hope on the other side.

we don't know how long our pain will last. we assume that because it hurts now, it is probably going to hurt tomorrow. it may even hurt the next day. perhaps it will get worse. but we sleep, and you see, and we do this marvelous thing in our sleep--we mend. And tomorrow is not always what we thought it would be.--from Good Grief

The Things I Think About and Other Stories captures thoughts and stories shaped by years of challenges, failures, violence, wins and moments of clarity. Through this work, she hopes to sharpen your iron as hers has been sharpened. May these words stir something within you- thoughts that are both critical and reflective, a story to share that may change a life, guiding you toward your own peace.

the love that is meant for you
will always find you -
the river
always finds
the sea.

-- inevitable

Emory Hall's debut poetry collection, Made of Rivers, intricately maps the anatomy of a river, surging with themes of loss, grief, and the sacred currents of transformation and motherhood. Brimming with magic and profound depth, Made of Rivers will wash anew all those who come to it, revealing hidden corners of the self yearning to be discovered. It explores the feminine and draws upon Emory's own wellspring of life experiences, hardships, triumphs, and revelations. Her work sheds light on vital themes of healing and self-care, offers solace to those navigating profound loss, and strikes a chord with mothers, both seasoned and new, who find their own journey mirrored in the pages of her poetry.

Shane McCrae, peer to the peerless (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary vision of Hell.

Of death the muse is death the muse of Hell
Is death the muse of Heaven I don't know
O muse of where howcan I hope to go
To where I pray I'll go sing at least tell

Shane McCrae, one of the most prophetic and powerful poetic voices of our time, has created a twenty-first-century epic in New and Collected Hell. As David Woo wrote in Poetry, McCrae's poems allude to literary precursors like Dante, Milton, and the Bible, but the voice is unabashedly of our time . . . By seeking to heal the rift in his own identity, McCrae has listened intently to the literary echoes emanating from the English language and transmuted them through his own dynamic voice. Here, he gathers new and previous work as a culmination of his long-standing poetic project: a new and unforgettable journey through Hell. McCrae's work is indelible, and this collection brings his searing vision to new depths.

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection
Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR
Named One of the Best Poetry Collections of the Year by The Guardian, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature

A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit.

Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square.

With My Back to the World engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly original, fluidly strange, Victoria Chang's new collection is a book that speaks to how we see and are seen.

National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen's second poetry collection, a haunting of a family's past upon its present, and a frank reckoning with how loss and displacement transform mothers and daughters across generations.

In Root Fractures, Diana Khoi Nguyen excavates the moments of rupture in a family: a mother who was forced underground after the Fall of Saigon, a father who engineered a new life in California as an immigrant, a brother who cut himself out of every family picture before cutting himself out of their lives entirely. And as new generations of the family come of age, opportunities to begin anew blend with visitations from the past. Through poems of disarming honesty and personal risk, Nguyen examines what takes root after a disaster and how we can make a story out of the broken pieces of our lives.

As Terrance Hayes writes, 'There is nothing that is not music' for this poet. Poetry is found in the gaps, silences, and ruptures of history. This astonishing second collection renders poetry into an act of kintsugi, embellishing what is broken in a family's legacy so that it can be seen in a new light.

In taxidermy one encounters the word 'articulate, ' which means both to give shape to something and to express its systemic whole. The word means more or less the same thing in regards to language as well, though with language the system and shape are a part of a larger map of sounds and signs than that which is contained within the visible world. Amanda Hawkins articulates and is articulate. These poems reassemble bodies so that we may experience them as living or once living beings: the dead whale, the box of ash, the beloveds of one's life, intermingled in the dust of living and the decay of dying. Articulation is also a synonym for eloquence, and in these poems especially this is true: faithful renderings, vatic cries, devotional meditations: a landscape, a seascape and an inscape intricately involved in each others' symmetries. A monumental debut.

-D.A. Powell, author of Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys and Chronic

Even doubt is a flame, writes Amanda Hawkins in this beautiful new collection of poems. At the heart of this book is personal loss, hemmed by the science of bodies transformed into ash. But the bones are the bones as death, pandemics, wars, the opioid crisis, and the threat of the sixth mass extinction worry these poems at every turn. Following their gaze along the skeleton of a blue whale and seeing a cathedral, I fell in love with this book. I love Hawkins' undimmable delight for the places-body and world. They invite us to be like stone and sink down and down where (somehow) the hope lives.

-Amber Flora Thomas, author of Eye of Water

Between desert and ocean, the living and the dead, bone and ash Amanda Hawkins dissects our fervent need to grieve, not only personal loss, but the loss of our ever-changing physical landscapes, for the solidity of the earth under our feet and a faith in all that does not fail us (knowing full well it will). When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones takes a microscope to the core of the human body in its final granular form and creates a world where grief, wonder, mystery, and the stoic facts of nature leave us with the knowledge that What matters is that I speak/of heavens and their call /and our response. What matters/is that we can both cry/and cry out loud.

-Tina Schumann, author of Praising the Paradox and Requiem: A Patrimony of Fugue

Amanda Hawkins's When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones burns through themes of living, dying, of the spiritual, how human beings fit onto and into the earth. Her poems connect Israeli settler colonialism of Palestine with the ongoing desecration of America's Native lands such as Bear Ears National Monument all the while remaining tender and open to transformation as they admit Something about driving the eastern Sierras makes me understand. And this understanding will blossom in your mind, dear reader, long after you put the book down.

-Rajiv Mohabir, author of Whale Aria, Cutlish, The Cowherd's Son, and Antiman

Amanda Hawkins's When I Say the Bones, I Mean the Bones is a book of compassionate imagination. Deftly drawing a line from religious faith to the mortal body to our increasingly fragile environment, Hawkins reckons with our most primal vulnerabilities and, consequently, reckons with the febrile divisions that ought to connect us. From poem to poem, they exude tenderness and the passionate hope that our belief systems need not be bound by institutions or orthodoxies but by witness, love, and a shared sense of possibility, or as Hawkins beautifully observes this hope is entrance.

-Jennifer Chang, author of The History of Anonymity, Some Say the Lark, and An Authentic Life

Written with all of the frustration, grief, and gratitude that comes from a life with chronic illness, this poetry collection offers a cathartic read for anyone who lives in pain, and provides a revealing look for anyone who wishes to understand them more.

Some days I think I might dislike the chronic part more than the illness part.

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes' I Do Everything I'm Told explores disobedience and worship, longing and possessiveness, and nights of wandering cities. Its poems span thousands of miles, as a masterful crown of sonnets starts in Shanghai, then moves through Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Palermo, Paris, and Philadelphia--with a speaker who travels solo, adventures with strangers, struggles with the parameters of sexuality, and speculates on desire.

Across four sections, poems navigate the terrain of queer, normative, and ambiguous intimacies with a frank intelligence: It's better to be illegible, sometimes. Then they can't govern you. Strangers, ancestors, priests, ghosts, the inner child, sisters, misfit raccoons, Rimbaud, and Rilke populate the pages. Beloveds are unnamed, and unrealized desires are grieved as actual losses. The poems are grounded in real cities, but also in a surrealist past or an impossible future, in cliché love stories made weird, in ordinary routines made divine, and in the cosmos itself, sitting on Saturn's rings looking back at Earth. When things go wrong, Fernandes treats loss with a sacred irreverence: Contradictions are a sign we are from god. We fall. We don't always get to ask why.

A collection of poems to help ride the waves of grief and provide comfort in the wake of loss.

Becky's words have been read as part of funerals, eulogies and memorials all around the world, providing comfort when people need it most.

Written with love, When I Am Gone is here to remind you - more than anything - to be gentle with yourself.

A lyrical, radiant memoir. --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

Ann Wroe, obituaries editor for The Economist, reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences and through people she has known, studied, or merely glimpsed in windows, she movingly explores what makes a life and how that life lingers after in this breathtaking combination of poetry, memoir, and observation.

'What is life?' asked the poet Shelley, and he could not come up with an answer. Scientists, too, for all their understanding of how life manifests, thrives and evolves, have still not answered that fundamental question. Yet biographers and obituarists continue to corral lives in a few columns, or a few hundred pages, aware all the time how fleeting and elusive their subject is.

In this dazzlingly original blend of poetry, biography, observation, and memoir, Wroe explores the experience of trying to capture the essence of a person. Animated by her rare imagination, eye for the telling detail, and the wit, beauty and clarity of her writing, Lifescapes is a luminous, deeply personal answer to Shelley's question.

After her husband's death, Molly Peacock realized she was not living the received idea of a widow's mauve existence but instead was experiencing life in all colors. These gorgeous poems--joyful, furious, mournful, bewildered, sexy, devastated, whimsical and above all, moving--composed in sonnet sequences and in open forms, designed in four movements (After, Before, When, and Afterglow)--illuminate both the role of the caregiver and the crystalline emotions one can experience after the death of a cherished partner. With her characteristic virtuosity, her fearless willingness to confront even the most difficult emotions, and always with buoyancy and zest, Peacock charts widowhood in the twenty-first century.

From Touched:
After you died, I felt you next to me,
and over months you entered gradually
into that lake and disappeared. Not gone,
but so internalized you're not next to me.