Recently revised to fix all the pops and clicks. This is my first collection of poems and stories. A trip along the red thread and all its various permutations and consequences.

"A heady, infectious celebration."-The New Yorker"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."-Harvard ReviewBrenda Shaughnessy's heartrending third collection explores dark subjects-trauma, childbirth, loss of faith-and stark questions: What is the use of pain and grief? Is there another dimension in which our suffering might be transformed? Can we change ourselves? Yearning for new gods, new worlds, and new...

However grand or short our tale, it is the moment we set sail, when all the former pale away, a fresh new wind come into play, that lets us see in grand array: it was the entire journey, that made our perfect day! Hurry, scurry, there now in summer's flurry come and walk with me, and on a mountain see, the view eclipse magically, the ardour of our century.

This volume contains eleven poems. The subject matter generally lies in the realm of love found, love lost or some other aspect of love.

This is a wide ranging collection of contemporary poetry. Some of the themes are ambitious, dealing with, in part, a grandfather's Holocaust, finding your longitude without a good watch, the melancholy of a generation, seventh grade science class, and falling off the edge of the earth with a Rabbi. Others are content with more circumscribed lives - first loves, botched loves, hearts living in gallon jars, a dog singing the blues, and the computations of an old calico. Wherever you enter t...

About Threshold Songs, the voices in these poems perform at the interior thresholds encountered each day, where we negotiate the unfathomable proximities of knowing and not knowing, the gulf of seeing and feeling, the uncanny relation of grief to joy, and the borderless nature of selfhood and tradition. Both conceptual and haunted, these poems explore the asymmetry of the body's chemistry and its effects on expression and form. The poems in Threshold Songs tune us to the microtonal music o...

Jack Prelutsky’s exploration of outer space is not for the faint of heart. No friendly little E.T.–type aliens await your arrival. There are many imaginative ways to perish in these darkly comedic cautionary verses about unexplored worlds so far beyond our solar system. The final poem is an environmental tour de force that packs a wallop. Here are poems the older reader will find great fun to memorize and rattle off to anyone who will listen! And there is a special bonus: anagrams for the ...

Amera is a classically self taught poet, award-winning author, social-butterfly and Renaissance thinker who leads from the heart toward a world of unlimited possibilities. She believes that every person is worthy of being loved and deserves to know and explore their own unique and beautiful talent. Amera believes that poetry is a gift and with help and support from other poets that gift can be perfected and carry the art to a new level. Amera is a formal poet who has written in more than 5...

A selection of poetry covering topics including, life, death, the universe and everything else. Whilst this book is clearly aimed at adults a small section including some of the children's poems from the forthcoming book of children's verse are included. The book is a rollercoaster ride, containing some light hearted verse mixed with much darker poetry.

This book is a collection of poems written by Mikial Kenneth Millard. Topics range from love, metaphysics, spirit, god, sadness, relationships to nature. The author has kept high quality and integrity of the art while also making the price reasonable so that as many people as possible could read this interesting work. It is hoped that the powerful words of this book will bring hope and inspiration to many. Enjoy.

In todays society of the hustle and bustle of busy life, we so often miss not only the greatest pleasures of life, but, also the greatest lessons of life as well. We are forever submerged in an ocean of consciousness and possibility, however, this ocean of consciousness must exist within us as well, for it must in order for us to exist. Without taking the time that is essential to learning from these wonderful things, we can easily go from the craddle to the grave without ever experiencing...

What do we think of when we hear the word family? Perhaps brothers and sisters, mother, father, cousins are brought to mind. In the strictest sense, of course these are all family members. But the bond goes much deeper than that. Families share a common ancestry or beginning which is not limited to people.Man has always had a strong connection with nature. It is the first thing we think of when we want to get away from lifes trials. But, perhaps it is not that we want to get away s...