Splitting the Moon tracks Joel Hayward's intriguing journey into Islam, his fascination with the mysteries of faith, his experiences and observations as a Western Muslim, and his thoughts on the state of the Ummah (Islamic...
Poetry
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Author:Hayward, JoelSummary: - Author:Summary:
The most important anthology of American poetry ever recorded, this essential document is now available in three volumes from Recorded Books, digitally remastered with introductions and brief poet biographies. This volume includes works...
- Author:Masters, Edgar LeeSummary:
From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their simple, honest, happy lives. Some are elderly and others are...
- Author:Haines, RayanneSummary:
Isabella Caro, born in Florence at the de-occupation of Italy in WW2 is a woman shaped by the resilience of her country and a thirst for knowledge. In this fictional Novel-in-Verse we take a journey through one woman's life, told...
- Author:Bourdon, ValérieSummary:
Stand by est le mouvement d’amour d’une voix qui cherche à approcher le corps du père, cerné ici à partir de ses failles et de ses fatigues. Ces moments de désœuvrement sont recueillis comme de précieux instants où quelque chose se...
- Author:Cadsby, HeatherSummary:
By turns funny, frank, mysterious, and heartbreaking, Standing in the Flock of Connections, Heather Cadsby's fifth collection of poetry, is one hundred proof associative thought. These poems testify to the human mind's...
- Author:Hamilton, J. A.Summary:
J.A. Hamilton distinguished herself with Body Rain (1991) a tough, passionate lyrical book written out of a woman's anger and a woman’s love. Steam-Cleaning Love, Hamilton’s second book of poetry, is "ginger root tough...
- Author:Gagnon, Madeleine, Moorhead, AndreaSummary:
Born in Amqui, Quebec, in 1938, Madeleine Gagnon has published over forty books of poetry and prose in Quebec and France. Although Gagnon's work is firmly rooted in North American mythology, history, and culture, she has published...
- Author:LaSorda, AllisonSummary:
Allison LaSorda's Stray shows the formation of a considerable poetic talent. These poems are sun-bleached, at once gritty, raw, and playful. LaSorda can conjure childhood memories of beaches and ice cream, ponder the elemental force of...
- Author:Riccio, GiovannaSummary:
These elegantly crafted works of social and psychological realism, counterpointed with expressionistic and surrealist textures, employ a language teeming with images, ideas and rhythms. This versatile book of travel poems, portraits, a...
- Author:Crate, JoanSummary:
Joan Crate's much-anticipated third book of poetry is equal parts revision and reverie, offering a mid-life view of childhood influences and expectations that is stirring, startling, and wise. Deliciously invoking the iconic figure of...
- Author:Mordecai, PamelaSummary:
These "subversive sonnets" overhaul the traditional sonnet form to address a range of subjects, from the tenderness of love to the terror of rape, punishment, torture, and murder. Mordecai has an unfailing ear for voices, for...
- Author:Salazar, RebeccaSummary:
An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and collide. The poems in sulphurtongue ask how to redefine desire and kinship across languages, and across polluted environments. An immigrant...
- Author:Bluger, MarianneSummary:
Winner of the 1993 Archibald Lampman Award and shortlisted for the 1992 Pat Lowther Award
Summer Grass follows Marianne Bluger's previous Brick books, On Nights Like This (1984) and Gathering Wild (1988...
- Author:Bernard, Jay.Summary:
Brought To You By Penguin. The audiobook edition of Surge, written and read by Jay Bernard. Winner of The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2020. * Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2018 * Jay Bernard'...
- Author:Reinhart, LiliSummary:
This program is read by the author The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity. I seem to be your new favorite novel. One that keeps you up at...
- Author:Blais, MathieuSummary:
Sylvestre est la quête d’un père qui veut transmettre à ses enfants le désir de réinvestir le pays. Une quête poétique qui cherche à établir des ponts entre ce qu’était hier et ce que sera demain. Un poème/mythe aussi, qui cherche à...
- Author:Richardson, PeterSummary:
Sympathy for the Couriers is a collection of messages from the border region of our lives—that vast allegorized territory of cheap self-deceptions and illusions. By turns comical and grim, these new poems feature Peter Richardson at his...
- Author:Remski, MatthewSummary:
Syrinx and Systole is a book of prose poems and lyrical poems which meditate, with a Buddhist orientation, on philosophical and religious themes such as the relationship between human consciousness and the natural world, and between...
- Author:Wright, CatrionaSummary:
Carnal, flamboyant, visceral and bold, Table Manners is a rich meal. Catriona Wright’s debut introduces us to the image of the poet as “gastronaut,” a figure who seems to live entirely between table and a stove and who steeps her...
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