Poetic Flames


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So much talent and emotion lies between the pages of this book. Words carefully crafted and designed to awaken the innermost passions. From the subtle innocence and hungry temptations to the all consuming lust of burning desires, let these words fulfill your fantasies and awaken those sleeping inside of you Come, ignite a flame... spark a fire... and let your passions burn.




Ordinary Cruelty


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In her debut poetry collection, Ordinary Cruelty, Amber Flame spells out rituals in everyday decisions to hold on or let go. While questioning the role of elder, mentor, mother in the face of losing those figures, Flame details the unrelenting nature of parenthood through the cycles of grief. Her poems exuberantly rejoice in the brown skin of the female body, while soberly acknowledging the societal dangers of claiming such skin as home. Flame takes the reader through a visceral examination of the body's processes of both dying and continuing to live and the joy to be found while we do.




Fire to Fire


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“Fire to Fire should solidify Doty’s position as a star of contemporary American poetry. . . . The poems combine close attention to the fragile, contingent things of the world with the constant, almost unavoidable chance of transcendence.” — Publishers Weekly A landmark collection of new and published works by one of our finest poets that is a testament to the clarity and thoughtful lyricism of his poems Fire to Fire collects the best works from seven books of poetry by Mark Doty, acclaimed poet and New York Times bestselling author of two memoirs, Firebird and Dog Years. Doty’s subjects—our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire’s transformative power, and art’s ability to give shape to human lives—echo and develop across twenty years of poems. His signature style encompasses both the plainspoken and the artfully wrought; here one of contemporary American poetry’s most lauded, recognizable voices speaks to the crises and possibilities of our times.







Fist and Fire


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Lesle' Honore', Chicago-based poet, has released her first collection of poems and essays. Her work has been widely shared by thousands of followers on social media. The collection is written in two major parts: Fist- poignant pieces written in real-time, responding to issues of social injustice, police brutality, and the realities of poverty vs. privilege; and Fire- a love story: the sparks, the flames and the embers that linger when the love is gone.




Poetic Fire


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Poetic Fire provides words of inspiration as well as intimate encounters. Author Marvin Lunsford has created a poetic masterpiece that reveals true insight into love, intimacy, and romance. Poetic Fire, invites comparison to the works of Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, and Shakespeare. Based on true relationships, Poetic Fire captures the romance of friends and lovers. As words embrace the readers thoughts, curiosity of intimate encounters arise.




Poetry's Fire


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Eight years ago we began with just one basic idea: we wanted to provide a platform for poets to share their work for free. Issue #1 was started in March 2011 and we have not slowed down since. Submissions from all over the world have been sent to us and we have been excited to read some great work from some great writers with their various and intriguing backgrounds. This compilation consists of Issues #1 through #25 of Poet Speak Magazine in a book format that is easy and pleasurable to read and will certainly make a wonderful keepsake and conversation piece in your homes and classrooms. So go ahead and browse the poetry in this book from talented writers from across the globe and feel Poetry's Fire!







W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise


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Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Yeats and Pound define poetry in terms of paradise and paradise in terms of poetry, Pryor suggests, and these complex interconnections fundamentally shape the development of their art. Even as he maps the shared influences and intellectual interests of Yeats and Pound, and highlights those moments when their poetic theories converge, Pryor's discussion of their poems' profound formal and conceptual differences uncovers the distinctive ways each writer imagines the divine, the good, the beautiful, or the satisfaction of desire. Throughout his study, Pryor argues that Yeats and Pound reconceive the quest for paradise as a quest for a new kind of poetry, a journey that Pryor traces by analysing unpublished manuscript drafts and newly published drafts that have received little attention. For Yeats and Pound, the journey towards a paradisal poetic becomes a never-ending quest, at once self-defeating and self-fulfilling - a formulation that has implications not only for the work of these two poets but for the study of modernist literature.







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