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From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders and Bite by Bite, Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s fifth collection of poetry explores love, nature, and the transformative powers of the night. In her latest poetry collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil plumbs the depths of nighttime, crafting a series of nocturnes that explore the magic, sensuality, and life that emerge as the rest of the world goes to bed.

In Young Words, I expose many of the tough issues young people are facing, drawing from my own experiences. I discuss everything from education, finances, and occupation choices, to family life, relationships, and accomplishing goals. Young Words is a book of poetry highlighting the reality of the critical concerns that frame every young person’s life.

Cada poema é como a última tragada de um cigarro aceso: breve, densa e inevitavelmente efêmera. Nosso amor foi queimado como cinzas de um cigarro é uma coleção de poesias intensas e melancólicas sobre amores que ardem, consomem e desaparecem.

In a world of enduring winter, You Only Live Twice is a hope-filled signpost for spring’s birth—a collection of forty-nine Easter-Advent poems. They are calls to courage in the lingering cold, knowing in hope like the early-blooming crocus, that spring came before, and it will come again.

"SKOVEN" er et musical-digt om det at være kvinde fra barn til voksen - og om det at være et mandligt vidne til et cyklusstyret kvindeliv i evig udvikling. Du vil møde en kvinde, en mand og de 9 muser: Thaleia, Terpsicore, Kalliope, Kleio, Melpomene, Erato, Euterpe, Urania og Polyhymnia.

As Our Souls Foretold is an evocative collection that transcends time, identity, and human experience, guiding listeners into the hidden currents of the mind and soul. Each verse flows like a wave—sometimes gentle and calm, other times intense and transformative—carrying listeners through the ebb and flow of subconscious thoughts and emotions. Themes of love, loss, transformation, and resilience weave throughout the collection, offering a poetic journey that invites reflection and self-discovery.

The Epic of Gilgamish, written in cuneiform on Assyrian and Babylonian clay tablets, is one of the most interesting poems in the world. It is of great antiquity, and, inasmuch as a fragment of a Sumerian Deluge text is extant, it would appear to have had its origin with the Sumerians at a remote period, perhaps the fourth millennium, or even earlier.

In this modern audio version, you get to know the amazing world of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald. Discover how Rubiyat captured the world's imagination and became one of the most famous poems ever.

Saris and a Single Malt is a moving collection of poems written by a daughter for and about her mother. The audiobook spans the time from when the poet receives a phone call in New York City that her mother is in a hospital in New Delhi to the time she carries out her mother's last rites. The poems chronicle the author's physical and emotional journey as she flies to India, tries to fight the inevitable, and succumbs to the grief of living in a motherless world.

Kahlil Gibran's aphorisms, stories, and poetry on a theme remain among some of those best known to Western readers. His views, however, extend beyond the most-quoted "greeting card" sayings to a wide realm of human emotions and relationships - passion, desire, idealized love, justice, friendship, and the challenges of dealing with strangers, neighbors, and enemies. This little book captures love and life in all of their complexities and nuances.

This anthology of twenty poems was Yeats's first major collection after he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923.

Emory Hall’s debut poetry collection follows the anatomy of a river, swelling with loss and grief, and dances with the sacred waters of transformation and motherhood. Full of magic and deep emotion, Made of Rivers will wash anew those who come to it, uncovering hidden corners of the self. It draws upon Emory’s wellspring of experiences, hardships, triumphs and revelations.

William Wordsworth composed hundreds of sonnets, among which are some of his best-known poems. The sonnet form particularly suited Wordsworth, enabling the poet to encapsulate the beauties of mundane life in language of appealing directness and simplicity. This recording contains 122 poems, ranging across many decades of Wordsworth’s writing career.

Take a look into the mind of the undead bohemian Jack Townson, an artist who found himself trapped in a world of nightmares, a life without sunlight, never to feel the warmth of day or the permanence of true love. Jack dives inward to put pen to paper, filling each minute with forbidden secrets—from the loves he's lost, to the friends he's made, to the villains who have plagued him, and the dreams of tomorrow. Step into the shoes of a child of dusk trying to find his way back into the dawn.

Es un poema épico anglosajón anónimo que fue escrito en inglés antiguo en verso aliterativo. Cuenta con 3182 versos. Tanto el autor como la fecha de composición del poema se desconocen aunque las discusiones académicas suelen proponer fechas que van desde el siglo VIII al XII d. C.

We are delighted to offer this excerpt from The Poems of Rumi as read by Coleman Barks, leading scholar and translator of Rumi poetry, and Robert Bly, poet, author, and leader of the men's movement. Jalaluddin Rumi is a beloved as a spiritual master and one of the greatest poets of all time.

No amarás es un viaje de autodescubrimiento, sanación y transformación personal. Este libro es una esperanza para quien haya sobrevivido a una relación tóxica, así como también para cualquiera que esté transitando una ruptura o un duelo. Es momento de reparar viejas heridas y dejar que el amor regrese de manera saludable y segura.

The Life of a Wannabe Mogul: Mental Disarray, Bella Thorne’s collection of illuminating and inspiring poems chronicles her personal struggles, relationships, and wild-child lifestyle, all with her trademark wit and wisdom.

Jungle Nama is a beautiful verse adaptation of a legend from the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest. It tells the story of the avaricious rich merchant Dhona, the poor lad Dukhey and his mother; it is also the story of Dokkhin Rai, a mighty spirit who appears to humans as a tiger, of Bon Bibi, the benign goddess of the forest, and her warrior brother, Shah Jongoli.

Una de las obras más célebres del poeta Pablo Neruda. "Me gusta cuando callas porque estás como ausente. Distante y dolorosa como si hubieras muerto. Una palabra entonces, una sonrisa bastan. Y estoy alegre, alegre de que no sea cierto." Reseña: "Neruda significa un hombre nuevo en la América, una sensibilidad con la cual abre todo capítulo emocional americano. Su alta categoría arranca de su rotunda diferenciación." Gabriela Mistral