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"The Evil We All Feel" is more than just poetry, it is more than just journal writings. It is more than just a book. It is a cry for help. A plea, a prayer, a message. It might not be for you. As it is searching for truth. It is filled with words of hope, wisdom and love but equally filled with words of despair, anguish and frustration. It is contradictory as it is a reflection of our everyday society, vague with imagery and straightforward with quotes. Right to the point, this self-help poetry touches on topics of addiction, depression, love, society and life. This is a hand coming through the rubble searching to be lifted up.

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Jerilyn Elise Miripol was a Fellow at The Ragdale Foundation in 1985. She was accepted to The Breadloaf Writers' Conference in Middlebury, Vermont;; The Aspen Writers' Workshop; she received a full-tuition scholarship at The Squaw Valley Community of Writers in Olympic Valley, California; she was asked to study with Pulitzer-Prize Winning poet, Lisel Mueller, at The University of Indiana, Bloomington.
She was invited to join PEN International–South Africa and PEN America. She was a nominee of The Danforth Foundation.
Her poetry was published in a mental-health textbook, «Group Psychotherapy: Practice and Development» by Barry Levine PhD which was published by Prentice-Hall.
She is a poet-in-the-prisons teaching writing to prisoners, as well as sending them relevant books for their education, in Lexington, Kentucky, The Pontiac Correctional Center in Illinois and Joliet Prison.
Ms Miripol is a writing-therapist with an office in The Mental Health Center at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Illinois. She works with students who are on disability (SSI, Medicare and Medicaid) due to their mental illness. She, also, teaches students from the community-at-large through an ad in The Chicago Tribune.

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Since I'm slowly going blind A collection of rhymes to pass the time

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“Ohana” is poetry about emotions, feeling and situations, of lessons learnt by each other, family and the heart. As a poetry writer with published prior poem’s, mother and wife Samantha’s first priority has always been her family and children. This book consists of poetry addressing all types of emotions and feelings with the aim of readers being able to relate and know they are not alone. Samantha hopes that these poems will help the you form a way of dealing with problems and emotions you feel as when on paper it seems more real. This book celebrates love, play, hurt, pain, anger and loss with dedications to family, friends and children.

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The fifth and final volume of poetry by the author of Wild Cat Falling was originally published in India in 2013. There are 45 poems from the Master of the Ghost Dreaming, as he reels and sways through his long held interest in Buddhism and the Blues. While still writing about rejuvenation and the great cycles of Life, there is a strong awareness of finality, of passing on, of Death. Always lyrical, this is a wonderful offering from the award-winning poet.

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When I listen to Bach, I seem to turn into a fish'. – Bach (Pau) in Love.<br /> <br />'We forget because we want to live. We forget because we live in hope for a better life. It's this wretched hope that demands that we forget the unforgettable'. – The Last Smile of Graf Tolstoy.<br /> <br />These stories explore the nature of love, loss and memory: central to them is the uneasiness the narrators feel about their place in the world. A critical moment in the life of each narrator illuminates these themes in remarkable ways. For instance, in the story 'Walter Benjamin's Pipe' the narrator wants to comprehend that critical moment when Walter Benjamin, the famous Jewish-German philosopher and literary critic, decided to end his life. In the story 'Bach (Pau) in Love,' the famous Catalan cellist Pablo Casals imagines the situation which would have inspired Bach to compose his six suites for cello. In the story 'Anna and Fyodor in Basel,' Anna, Fyodor Dostoevsky's wife waits for that moment when Holbein's famous painting about the dead Christ makes its appearance in the novel The Idiot. In 'The Quartz Hill,' a Cantonese photographer looks at the prints of Paddy Bedford's paintings about the Bedford Downs massacre and decides to visit Halls Creek in search for her Gija grandmother's roots.

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Collecting the nationally-recognized poems of Victoria Kelly, When the Men Go Off to War captures the hopes, anxieties, and intimacies of the military spouse during a time of war. Written over the course of her husband&#8217;s deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan, these haunting poems span vast geographical distances and generations, moving between the literal and the fanciful to find community in the midst of isolation. Kelly blends lyric and narrative elements to evoke themes of loneliness and human fragility with keen insight. But ultimately, When the Men Go Off to War is a heartrending ode to enduring romance, the reclamation of a marriage tested by loss and separation.

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At the dawn of World War I, poet Sassoon exchanged his pastoral pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. This collection of his epigrammatic and satirical poetry conveys the shocking brutality and pointlessness of the Great War and includes «Counter-Attack,» «'They,» «The General,» and «Base Details.»

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An insurance company executive with a law degree, Wallace Stevens (1879&#8211;1951) lived an outwardly conventional life but composed highly original and exotic works of verse. One of America's most important twentieth-century poets, Stevens forever changed the landscape of modern poetry with his provocative, experimental style.<BR>This first-rate collection by the winner of the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for poetry invites students and other readers to enjoy the richness and variety found in 82 of Stevens's finest creations. Included are such well-known compositions as «Sunday Morning,» «Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock,» «Anecdote of the Jar,» «Peter Quince at the Clavier,» «Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,» and the title piece &#8212; the author's favorite &#8212; as well as lesser known yet equally stimulating works such as «The Florist Wears Knee-Breeches» and «The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad.»<BR>Invaluable to students of American literature, this volume will be an indispensable treasury for lovers of modern poetry.

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One of the most successful poets in America and a fascinating literary figure of the early twentieth century, Edna St. Vincent Millay found her voice in a national poetry contest at the age of twenty. Her poems received critical praise and became the first step toward receiving the Pulitzer Award years later. An acclaimed poet of the Jazz Age, this liberated, often rebellious, woman enchanted us with her beautiful sonnets and lyrics, even as she surprised us with her unconventional personal life. This vibrant volume includes the complete selection of poems from Millay's first three books. Each gem reflects a different facet of the author's versatility.Renascence and Other Poems was Millay's first collection of poetry, a literary sensation when it was published in 1912. Acclaimed by critics for its remarkable use of compelling language and imagery, it is a deeply personal work that reflects the poet's spiritual awakening, using the themes of death and resurrection. In contrast, the poetry in A Few Figs from Thistles represents a cynical stage, a time of rebellion, and a search for personal freedom, as depicted in her famous line, «My candle burns at both ends.» Part beauty, part despair, the free verse and heartfelt sonnets of Second April are an expression of Millay's feelings about love and disillusionment. Eloquent, daring, and sometimes bittersweet, these masterful lyrics exemplify the best work of a complex, passionate, and gifted poet. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: «Afternoon on a Hill.»

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