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From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief. My prayers are my poems are...

Commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf is an epic poem that traces the exploits of the titular hero. After coming to the aid of the king of the Danes, whose mead hall is under constant attack by the monster Grendel, Beowulf slays Grendel's mother and goes on to become the king of the Geats.

As you walk with David, the main character, he shares how he is feeling victimized by life. Through serendipity he meets some wise guides, Ted and Sophia, who show David how he can move from feeling like a victim to being a creator of his own life. The Power of TED* offers a powerful alternative to the Karpman Drama Triangle with its roles of victim, persecutor, and rescuer. The Empowerment Dynamic (TED) provides the antidote roles of creator, challenger, and coach - and a more positive approach to life's challenges.

"In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost." When you find yourself suddenly without bearings, as Dante Alighieri voiced so well centuries ago, where will you look for guidance? Throughout the ages, teaches David Whyte, the language of poetry...

Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi. ‘Here is something that no devotee of the Hobbit epic can afford to miss, while awaiting a further instalment of the history of these fascinating people – a selection [of verses] offered as an ‘interim report’...

Man seduces another's wife then kidnaps her. The husband and his brother get a gang together to steal her back and take revenge. The woman regrets being seduced and wants to escape, whilst the man's entourage resent the position they have been placed in. Yet the battle lines have been drawn and...

Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to original music that is exclusive to the audiobook. This wide-ranging and deeply moving...

Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the author’s death, The Book of Disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prose-poetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory. Credited to Pessoa’s alter ego, Bernardo Soares, who chronicles his contemplations in this so-called "factless" autobiography, the work is a journey of one man’s soul and, by extension, of all human souls that allow their minds and hearts to roam far and free.

The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most ambitious collection yet. In this third and final installment of his poetic trilogy, Yung Pueblo expands upon favorite themes while guiding readers further, toward a life lived authentically, intuitively, and in harmony with others. In...

Brought to you by Penguin The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly...

Brought to you by Penguin. How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being...

En este libro, la poesía ofrece un descanso del mundo. Cartografía las grietas en el asfalto, busca los rayos de sol que se alcanzan a colar entre los edificios, agiganta los silencios que sobreviven en el escándalo urbano. Al nombrarla invoca una pausa, y sus lectores entramos a un ámbito microscópico donde el tiempo se detiene. Este artefacto lírico y experiencial contiene el paisaje íntimo donde el ser se reconoce cuerpo y conciencia estrechamente unidos.

Camarada imaginario o encarnación del subconsciente, destinatario de postales que hablan de la extrañeza del mundo, el amigo al que la autora dirige estos poemas sirve de ancla incierta pero entrañable en el ir y venir de una voz: la de quien recorre el mundo en derivas vitales y literarias, a través de las rutas de la imaginación y los países ajenos. Un perro, corazón oculto del libro, trota sobre presencias y ausencias. La poesía como vía de descubrimiento, principio de incertidumbre que conlleva sorpresa y dicha.

Dans ces Poésies complètes, la fulgurance d’un très jeune Arthur Rimbaud embrase la langue française. Entre révolte et extase, satire et prière, le verbe s’y fait météore: images éclatées, audaces rythmiques, visions de routes, d’eaux et de villes, tendresse brusque et insolence souveraine. On y entend la naissance d’une modernité fiévreuse, où l’innocence se cabre et l’ivresse entrouvre le réel. À l’écoute, heurts, syncopes et musiques secrètes révèlent une poésie qui brûle et bouleverse encore.

In Young Romantics Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a solitary, introspective genius, telling the story of the communal existence of an astonishingly youthful circle. The fiery, generous spirit of Leigh Hunt, radical journalist and editor of The Examiner, took centre stage. He bound together the restless Shelley and his brilliant wife Mary, author of Frankenstein; Mary's feisty step-sister Claire Clairmont, who became Byron's lover and the mother of his child; and Hunt's charismatic sister-in-law Elizabeth Kent.

Silas House is known throughout the South as a quintessential person of letters—a novelist, music journalist, environmental activist, columnist, and the former Poet Laureate of Kentucky. His first full-length collection of poetry blends his Appalachian upbringing with his ongoing relation to the natural world. Poems of praise for community and the collective appear alongside others tinged with nostalgia and grief when House keenly observes the loss of rural America as he once knew it.

For the quiet battles. For the silent strength. For the moments you held it all together while breaking inside. Unleashing the Power Within is a collection of healing, faith-filled poetry for the seasons that change you, the ones that shake you, stretch you, and slowly rebuild you.

Trash//America is a raw, devotional poetry collection tracing one voice through addiction, survival, and spiritual awakening in modern America. Blending queer identity, recovery, and Sufi-inspired longing, these poems move through collapse, connection, and quiet resurrection, where the sacred appears in motel rooms, meetings, bodies, and breath. Unflinching and intimate, this book refuses polish in favor of truth, offering a living record of not breaking, of beginning again, and of discovering that even in the wreckage, love remains.

These poems follow a course that began with the death of the author's eight-year-old brother when she was just six, and her endless longing for his return. It took a lifetime to be free of those yearnings. She did that through her writings and love of nature.

Within this book--Moon and Stone--You will find stories of strange fox hunts; distressed opera stars; droll, odd, and dangerous neighbors; a fiction editor who perhaps works for The New Yorker; an officious doctor on a ghostly river walk; a poetry war; a magical Waterbear. Also, find poems, chants, sigils, and songs--some funny, others, gothic, searching... all, messages from what T. F. Long likes to call the wide primal river.