English Poetry Anthology

More than 60 stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories - later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver's literary development.

As scholars of African American literature and cultural history, Bennett and McCarthy repeatedly find themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they come across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals, whose work has been neglected and, in some cases, entirely ignored, even by those academic circles devoted to the study of Black poetry. Minor Notes is an excavation initiative that addresses this problem by recovering archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Meet the married Dads, the divorced Dads, the widowed Dads and the gay Dads; the gamblers, the firemen, the bankers, the nurses, the soldiers and the milkmen. They’re trying to guide their sons through the foothills of childhood into the bewildering uplands of adulthood. But it’s hard to know if they’re doing it right. Or what their sons’ mothers think... Wise and funny, touching and true, What We’re Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown-up.

A runaway waitress leaves her lover, grabs her dog, and hits the highway. Ali Liebegott maps her travels in a series of hilarious and heartbreaking letters to the girl she left behind, and some of the most exquisite poetry written about love, heartache, and madness.

This audiobook features fresh poems that are flirty, audacious, and original. It is a collection of the author's experience of love as a lesbian. The poems are arranged according to the phases of lesbian love relationship, like Becoming, Falling, Grappling, Breaking, Living, and Ending.

Tombstones is a collection of some of the finest dark verse and horror-themed literature while exploring the various elements of dreams, erotica, and psychology and visualizing complete fear and terror...including the popular dark verse "The Fallen Angel", the powerfully erotic vampire tale "Blood Hungry", and a journey into the mind of the "Wicked Torturer".

Walk of Life is an anthology of poems which gives poetic voices a mike.

The Shatter Between Heartbeats is not a poetry collection. It is a psychological event. A descent into the raw architecture of the human mind, where trauma is not described but embodied-where anxiety tightens like a vice, depression seals every exit, and survival is carved line by line without anesthesia. Written by E. T. Vale and edited by Amir Kapoor, this groundbreaking anthology explores the lived experience of mental illness through twenty-four unflinching, interconnected poems.

A collection of 108 poems on love and chaos.

A collection of short narratives and euphonious poems written for a raconteur. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Waldegrave's Tales and Poetry, and experience the compelling world of poetry.

Trials of poetry are lyrical episodes presented as an opening dialogue or correspondence on the subject of love. Keywords and white blank pages are symbolic of reflective spaces, inviting to examine and perhaps continue an imaginary compositional journey. Conceptual basis of this work is rooted in an assessment of the value of poetry, and its potential accessibility as a literary genre.

We’ve given the planet a hard time over the last couple of centuries, and she’s showing the wear and tear of her least considerate offspring. We asked our authors: Where are the signs of renewal? Are there signs of regrowth? Have we pushed nature too far? What if it’s already too late? This audiobook presents poems and stories from the brink, responding to the floods and droughts and fires all around the globe with tenderness, compassion, fear, grief, and rage.

A collection of poems and short stories by Emily Nelson, author of The Locket.

This audiobook includes 43 classic and contemporary poems dealing with nature, including animals; insects; earth; wind and storms; landscapes; and trees.

The eloquence of lovers is celebrated in this rich and sensuous collection - the love of women for men. Héloïse, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Katherine Mansfield, George Sand, and others express their very real passion intensely - as, in fiction, does Juliet for her Romeo, Jane Eyre for her Rochester and Catherine for her Heathcliffe. With the music of Mendelssohn, Tchaikovksy, Puccini, Legar and more, here is some of the most tender and love prose and poetry in literature.

The nurturing words gathered here offer the courage to move toward recovery and healing and to summon faith and grace in the midst of pain to anyone who is ill, as well as to their families and friends. Wise and compassionate, this uplifting volume encourages listeners to find solace in simplicity, take comfort in ritual, and welcome the healing touch of a loved one's warm embrace.

Unconventional Poetry, Volume 1: Love Edition has 22 different poems about love, deceit, desire, and betrayal. The Love Edition of Unconventional Poetry is a short, thought-provoking book.

This audiobook has 41 poems about sorrow, pain, and darkness.

Take a trip into Wonderland with Alice, sing along with the twinkling stars and take a snooze with Sleeping Beauty in Bedtime Stories and Lullabies, an audiobook of popular stories, lullabies and rhymes. With a running time of approximately 60 minutes, it's perfect listening for little ones who are ready for bed!

"Listen and Play" encourages pre-school children to observe the world with theirs ears! Each audiobook contains an exciting mix of songs, nursery rhymes, sound puzzles, and tongue twisters, and finishes with a short story.