Weaving in letters, innovative forms, and meditations on devotion, sexuality, and self-deceit, We Contain Landscapes introduces a speaker who will not turn away from the ache of this world. For every reader who also harbors a voracious longing to encounter infinite landscapes and ways of being, this incisive collection dreams toward a more expansive idea of kinship--of becoming beloved to one another and ourselves.
Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites is a Chicana's witness to the American ethos in a time marked by controversy, division, and transformation. Bermejo delves into the heart of the matter, contemplating the significance of US monuments as both symbols of history and battlegrounds for ideological strife, and imparts a compassionate ear to the marginalized, memorializing the lives of Black and brown individuals whose lives were cut short by state-sanctioned violence.
But Bermejo's poetry also brims with love, passion, and determination to resist the prevailing chaos. Amidst the chaos, she crafts love poems celebrating the bonds of family, the strength of friendships, and the allure of defiance. This collection dances like flames in rituals of resistance and resilience, illuminating paths toward a future unburdened by the shackles of misogyny and white supremacy.
The collection is inspired by writers like bell hooks, Audrey Lorde, and Adrienne Maree Brown. The influence of hooks' All About Love lends a profound sense of introspection to Bermejo's poetry as she examines the complex interplay of love within the context of societal upheaval. Lorde's exploration of the Uses of the Erotic adds layers of empowerment to the collection, breathing life into the transformative potential of embracing the self. And from Brown's Pleasure Activism, Bermejo draws that pleasure can be a vehicle for activism, a means of reshaping a world fractured by discord. She summons love, pleasure, and the human body to reimagine a collective vision of liberation from prejudice and discrimination. Bermejo crafts a literary sanctuary, a space where readers can confront the harsh realities of today's America while kindling the flames of hope.
There's Beauty in the Breakdown is a friendly reminder that behind every fresh manicure and perfect pair of jeans, we are all human and share similar struggles while trying our best in this thing called life. Madison shares personal experiences that shaped her to be authentically vulnerable. discussing topics such as depression, anxiety, toxic relationships, and heartbreak. She gives insight into finding peace, happiness, love, and her voice all while allowing negative emotions to surface and overcoming the dark days. This book of poetry is bound to land in the hands of those who are seeking support as a reminder that we are never alone. You'll be taken on a journey that is so relatable you'll think she wrote it about your life.
Love is a journey full of highs and lows. It's in the moments of awe when your heart races, but also in those when it shatters with pain. In this book, you'll find not only words about love-but also about healing, strength, and hope-that will help you rediscover yourself no matter where you are in your journey. Each page guides you through emotions we all experience, letting you know that you're not alone.
You're really the main character of this movie called life. You experience family, friendships, relationships, jobs, and all that follows. For each step, you get your lesson, you move on to the next challenge, and keep on growing. So if you're struggling right now, it's because you're evolving. There's no point in doubling back or dwelling on the past. Once something has made its course, move ahead accordingly.
The author of this book has touched millions of hearts, with his words inspiring around 5 million people daily on Instagram through the profile @love.quotes.
Now, for the first time, you can hold these quotes in your hands-in one place where you'll always find comfort and inspiration.
Discover a collection of heartfelt prose and poetry that explore the beauty of love, healing, and personal growth. Every page offers a powerful reminder of the strength within us to overcome heartbreak, embrace self-love, and rediscover joy. Whether you're on a journey of healing or looking for daily inspiration, these carefully crafted quotes will speak to your heart and soul, offering comfort and motivation when you need it most.
Perfect for those who seek emotional connection, reflection, and the wisdom of love in all its forms.
Inside, you will find:
Leona Sevick's The Bamboo Wife captures the experiences of an imperfect woman held up against the standard of good wife and mother. Sevick is a master of metaphor and imagery, depicting, for example, a mother as a kraken. In the sea creature's words, It takes a hard-ass woman to raise her young. Every poem is wrought with precise description and emotion. We get nature as well as some location-based poems orienting us in Korea. There is anger and sadness, the animal need to run in all directions at once, and family trauma both past and present. This trauma is inflicted on the speaker as a child and to some degree perpetuated through her own parenting. The collection asks the reader to provide space in poetry for a woman trying to do her best for her own and others' sake, for one who has made bad decisions and lived. Every poem is necessary, and Sevick makes each word count. Honesty carries this collection through her speaker's good, bad, and ugly moments. It takes courage for someone to say, there's no mistake I haven't made.
Sometimes I wonder if there are others like me. Who feel everything and everything has feeling.
In My Head, the debut release of one of Instagram's most popular poets whose writing has been liked by millions, dives below the surface of love, loss, and life.
J.M. Storm has crafted a haunting yet hopeful poetry collection that is meant to be felt as much as it is read.
Postscripts makes many travels, from the landscapes and cultures of foreign travels, to the long journey through grief. Thrown also into relief is home-for this poet, West Virginia, in the heart of Appalachia-and all the ways it balances the hard-hewn beauty and hardscrabble realities. Like a travel diary or a love letter home, these poems speak to place in all its incarnations: physical, artistic, spiritual, familial, and imagined.
In Zebra Lashes, Rikki Santer's thirteenth poetry collection, she demonstrates once again her delight in wordplay as well as her knack to forge elements of surprise, philosophical meditations, and inventive renderings of subject matter. Each cleverly titled section is like a strand of pearls which weaves smoothly into the next section through personal narrative, odes to the real and the imagined, and political verse. Explorations through life's ironies or dire premonitions for the future unfold elegantly as we are left with the challenge to enter mindful examinations of how our thoughts and actions affect others and our planet.
IN MY HEAD Vol. II is the follow up to J.M. Storm's successful debut release IN MY HEAD.
Similarly, Volume II of this poetry series deals with love, loss, life, and the human condition.
For fans of Americana music and a beer after mowing the lawn, The Last Saturday in America confronts the long shadow of Southern masculinity.
The Last Saturday in America is set in a nation on the precipice of great change. Through examinations of suburban neighbors, bullies, gun violence, and vasectomy appointments, Ray McManus draws a portrait of American masculinity in the face of political division, pandemic, and cultural warfare. McManus's speaker is caught between the way he was raised and the future he wants to see for who he is raising. He can no longer rely on what he thought he knew, nor does he know what to do about it. The man rendered in these pages is a father, a son, a Southerner. And he is willing to burn it all down and start something new, only to see that the new start he is looking for has been with him the whole time.