A small book of very big poems. Drew Dellinger's poetry reaches out to the far ends of the Milky Way and to the inner depths of the soul. His poetry and performances have captivated thousands across six continents. He is, in the words of Cornell West, "one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation." This power of his poetry is tied to his passion for ecological survival and social justice movements. The Rev. Osagyefo Sekou calls Dellinger "the poet laureate of the global justice democracy movement." it's 3:23 in the morning and I'm awake because my great great grandchildren won't let me sleep my great great grandchildren ask me in my dreams what did you do while the planet was plundered? what did you do when the earth was unraveling? from the poem "hieroglyphic stairway" read on the floor of Congress during climate change hearings

“Milky Way of Poems” an anthology of 45 poems covers various topics of human life. Poems depict topics such as chastity of a girl, for her it is paragon of virtue, a precious ornament. Leisure time describes admiration of beauty. Amulet on breast is weapon against evil and rape. Loneliness shattered the dreams, teaches real sense of hurting. A glamorous girl walks like pretty diva. Wealth brought a handsome faced wife. Money is all purpose tool, can fix many things. Mathematics add blessings, multiplies joys, divides sorrows. Reality of life is that lust cannot be fulfilled till death. True love exists in books only. It is puzzle of pain and pleasure. Celebrate love that ignites spark in heart, makes one realize that he is still alive. Understand the feelings of single mother. Collect shattered pieces of heart; give a blast of love to restore. Draw figures of vivid thoughts on silvery sand. Illusions are created by artists to enact game of heaven and hell. Wayfarer is to be given mask of free smiles. Love poems in heart nursery germinate to incarnate lover’s body. Jasmine is a girl, mine of treasure, ocean of pleasure. Love is when she opens slowly her deep navel and round breasts. Love is defender, love with passion. As poet I use pens of different colors that depict emotions of the poem. When I was a little girl, everyone loved and kissed, I still possess that love. A tattooed girl smiled, her lips got tattooed on my heart. Love plant fruits are vibrant with secrets, full of life. Relatives are like fish in water, slippery, catch them to release. As coal I will burn your heart, with emotions of smiles and tears. I tried to conceal my love, my eyes expressed them. I am a poet I reflect the image of society, I have narrated the truth, scenes of life. Poetry is pure imagination, conscious refinement of words, originates in emotion.

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers—be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: “Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality. Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope—in it, a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love.

This major new poetry collection from bestselling poet and priest Malcolm Guite features more than seventy new and previously unpublished works. At the heart of this collection is a sequence of twenty seven sonnets written in response to George Herbert’s exquisite sonnet 'Prayer', each one describing prayer in an arresting metaphor such as ‘the church's banquet’, ‘reversed thunder’, ‘the Milky Way’, ‘the bird of paradise’ and ‘something understood’. In conversation with each of these, Malcolm’s sonnets offer profound insights into the nature of communion with God in all circumstances and conditions. Recognising that all poetry is a pursuit of prayer, After Prayer also includes forty five more widely ranging new poems, including a sonnet sequence on the seven heavens.

Collects folklore of the Cherokee people on various topics including animals, the origin of the Earth, and spirits.

Debut novel about a young family forced to flee their war-ravaged homeland, forced to leave behind everything & everyone beloved & familiar. Old family photographs & lush watercolor paintings based on medieval illuminated manuscripts interweave with remembrances, ghost stories/stories of the war dead, & fairy tales to conjure a story of war, of emigration & immigration, the remarkable human capacity to experience love & wonder amidst destruction & loss, & how to create beauty out of horror.