Amy A. Kass

Readings from marriage and about love from famous literature. We used this to come up with reading passages for our wedding. A few dog-eared pages, but only 1-2 notes or no creases in the book, making it practically new! Great engagement gift!

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Missouri

Readings on Courting and Marrying

Despite current concerns for "family values" and the dissolution of marriages, Amy A. and Leon R. Kass see very little attention being paid to what makes for marital success. They argue there are no longer socially prescribed forms of conduct that help guide young men and women in the direction of matrimony; the very concepts of "wooing" and "courting" seem archaic. Yet they see major discontent with the present situation and detect among their students certain longings--for friendship, for wholeness, for a life that is serious and deep, and for associations that are trustworthy and lasting--longings they do not realize could be largely satisfied by marrying well. Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Courting and Marrying is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It addresses important questions that emerge not from theory, but from practice: Why marry? Is this love? How can I find and win the right one to marry? What about sex? Why a wedding and the promises of marriage? What can married life be like? Using readings taken mainly from classic texts of Homer, Herodotus, Plato, Aquinas, Erasmus, Shakespeare, Rousseau, Austen, Tolstoy, C.S. Lewis, Miss Manners, and many others, this collection challenges our unexamined opinions, expands our sympathies, elevates our gaze. It offers a higher kind of sex education, one that prepares hearts and minds for romance leading to lasting marriage, and introduces us to possibilities open to human beings in everyday life that may be undreamt of in our current philosophizing. This unapologetically pro-marriage anthology is intended to help young people of marriageable age and their parents think about the meaning, purpose, and virtues of marriage and, especially, about finding the right person with whom to make a life.

Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

An anthology of modern verse for boys and girls

My poetry book

Megan Fox

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Nevada

Poems

Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than seventy poems Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process. “These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence. I’ve spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins. My freedom lives in these pages, and I hope that my words can inspire others to take back their happiness and their identity by using their voice to illuminate what’s been buried, but not forgotten, in the darkness,” says Fox. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous marks the powerful debut from one of the most well-known women of our time. Turn the page, bite the apple, and sink your teeth into the most deliciously compelling and addictive books you’ll read all year.

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous

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Courtney Peppernell

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

When a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things - your hope, your strength, yourself. One day, in the middle of the darkness, you meet a spirit, washed from the ocean onto the shore. The spirit hands you a key. 

           

It is time to find the way back home. 


Returning with her newest poetry book, bestselling author Courtney Peppernell combines storytelling, poetry, and prose in a uniquely inspirational way. Filled with anecdotes, messages, and feelings from the pandemic that changed the world, The Way Back Home is a tribute to rebuilding our lives. Divided into sections that draw on themes of courage, resilience, purpose, and hope, Peppernell once again walks us through an illuminating journey of the heart, mind, and soul. 

 

Discover what it means to continue forward in life, despite such loss, and find the way back home.

The Way Back Home

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Florida

Library of World Poetry 

Soft Thorns

Cleo Wade does it again!  Like her previous “Heart Talk,” Wade speaks truth to power in a deeply personal way. Bought multiple copies of her book and would love to share with YOU ❤️#nonfiction #poetry #hardcover #diverseauthors #love #bethechange

 A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our (Crazy) World

Where To Begin

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In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience. In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman—known as @poeticpoison—does what she does best: reflects our own experiences back at us and makes us feel less alone, one exquisite and insightful piece at a time. She writes about giving up too much of yourself to someone else, not fitting in, endlessly Googling “how to be happy,” and ultimately figuring out who you are. This hardcover collection features completely new material plus some fan favorites from Caroline's account. Filled with haunting, spare pieces of original art, Light Filters In will thrill existing fans and newcomers alike. it’s okay if some things are always out of reach. if you could carry all the stars in the palm of your hand, they wouldn’t be half as breathtaking

Light Filters in: Poems

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Rupi Kaur

A transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring one's roots and expatriation, and rising up to find a home within yourself.

The Sun and Her Flowers

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Nebraska

A journey toward self 

I love my love 

Catherine Cohen

hi troot sloot! I enjoyed these little poems and would love for the next gal about town to read them as well 💕 

Poems from a Gal about Town

Poems of heartbreak and sex, self-care and self-critique, urban adventures and love on the road from the millennial quarantine queen and comedy sensation.

in L.A. we got naked and swam in the ocean
we ate cured meats and carrots
& sat in the back of a red pickup truck
like we were in a film where two old friends fight
& wrestle their way into a hug
heave-sobbing as the dust settles
I want to be famous for being the first person
who never feels bad again

In these short, captivating lyrics, Catherine Cohen, the one-woman stand-up chanteuse who electrified the downtown NYC comedy scene in her white go-go boots, and who has been posting poignant, unfiltered poems on social media since before Instagram was a thing, details her life on the prowl with her beaded bag; she ponders guys who call you "dude" after sex, true love during the pandemic, and English-major dreams. "I wish I were smart instead of on my phone," Cat Cohen confides; "heartbreak, / when it comes, and it will come / is always new." A Dorothy Parker for our time, a Starbucks philosophe with no primary-care doctor, she's a welcome new breed of everywoman--a larger-than-life best friend, who will say all the outrageous things we think but never say out loud ourselves.

God I Feel Modern Tonight

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Michael Faudet

North Carolina

Cult of Two is the fifth book of internationally bestselling poet Michael Faudet, author of Winter of Summers, Smoke & Mirrors, Bitter Sweet Love, and Dirty Pretty Things--a finalist in the Goodreads Readers Choice awards. His intimate writing style and exquisite ability to paint pictures with words has captured the imagination and hearts of thousands of people from around the world.

Cult of Two

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Sticker on back I was unable to remove, spine is NOT broken, normal wear around the edges

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Impulse

Alan Rudrum

*Slight damage to cover. Otherwise excellent.

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Massachusetts

English

The publication of The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose is a literary event; this comprehensive volume is the first anthology of the period to reflect the breadth of seventeenth-century studies in recent decades. Over one hundred writers are included, from John Chamberlain at the beginning of the century to Elisabeth Singer Rowe at its end. There are generous selections from the work of all major writers, and a representation of the work of virtually every writer of significance. The work of women writers figures prominently, with extensive selections not only from canonical writers such as Behn and Bradstreet, but also from other writers (such as Katherine Philips and Margaret Cavendish) who have been receiving considerable scholarly attention in recent years. The anthology is broadly inclusive, with writing from America as well as from the British Isles. Memoirs, letters, political texts, travel writing, prophetic literature, street ballads, and pamphlet literature are all here, as is a full representation of the literary poetry and prose of the period, including the poetry of Jonson; the prose of Bacon; the metaphysical poetry of Donne, Herbert, Marvell, and others; the lyric verse of Herrick; and substantial selections from the poetry and prose of Milton and Dryden. (While Samson Agonistes is included in its entirety, Milton’s epic poems have been excluded, in order to allow space for other works not so readily accessible elsewhere.) The editors have included complete works wherever possible. A headnote by the editors introduces each author, and each selection has been newly annotated.

The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose

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District of Columbia

"A collection of poetry and prose about survival, about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity"--Amazon.com.

Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers (Set of 2)

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caitlin kelly

The Words I Wish I Said

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R. H. Sin

r.h. Sin completes his bestselling series with Planting Gardens in Graves III, another powerful collection of poetry that hones in on the themes dearest to his readers. This series celebrates connection, mourns heartbreak, and above all, empowers its readers to seek the love they deserve.

 

Planting Gardens in Graves III

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Amanda Lovelace

ladybookmad

"more forgetting time. more midnight dances with yourself." amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are some kind of magic" poetry series, presents a new companion series, "you are your own fairy tale" the first installment, break your glass slippers, is about overcoming those who don't see your worth, even if that person is sometimes yourself. in the epic tale of your life, you are the most important character while everyone is but a forgotten footnote. even the prince.

Break Your Glass Slippers

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Brings together seventy-three stories and fifty-three poems by the master of the macabre

Complete Tales and Poems

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Ted Hughes

24 Passages from the Metamorphoses

A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Metamorphoses of Ovid stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry; Hughes translated twenty-four of its stories with great power and directness. The result is the liveliest twentieth-century version of the classic, at once a delight for the Latinist and an appealing introduction to Ovid for the general reader.

Tales from Ovid

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Pennsylvania

Critical Introduction

The burgeoning field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of such ecopoets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry, among others, whose poems increasingly deal with ecological and environmental issues. Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction assembles previously unpublished contributions from many of the most important scholars in the field as they discuss the historical and crosscultural roots of ecopoetry, while expanding the boundaries to include such themes as genocide and extinction, the lesbian body, and post colonialism. This volume gathers these necessary voices in the emerging conversation regarding poetry's place in the environmental debate.

Ecopoetry

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Samantha Schutz

A harrowing, remarkable poetry memoir about one girl's struggle with anxiety disorder.

I Don't Want to Be Crazy

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Cover is a little bent on the bottom right corner, some pages are missing bottom corners

Kristina is determined to defeat her crystal-meth addiction in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.

Glass

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#paperback #cageoflitglass #charleskell #nonfiction #poems #poetry #poetrycollection 

Rhode Island

The debut poetry collection of Charles Kell, Cage of Lit Glass engages themes of death, incarceration, and family through a range of physical, emotional, and philosophical spaces. In startling images of beauty and violence, Kell creates a haunting world that mirrors our individual and cultural fears. Boldly engaging with the absurdity, strain, and horrors of life, Kell's poems expand upon the lineage of writers such as Kafka, Beckett, and Rimbaud.
 
Cage of Lit Glass follows multiple individuals and points of view, all haunted by various states of unease and struggle that follow them like specters as they navigate their world. Kell's poems form blurred narratives and playful experiments from our attempts to build lives from despair. A tense and insightful collection, these works will follow the reader long after the book is finished.
 

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Amy A. Kass

Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar

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My poetry book

Megan Fox

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous

Courtney Peppernell

The Way Back Home

William Cullen Bryant

Library of World Poetry

Bridgett Devoue

Soft Thorns

Cleo Wade

Where To Begin

Caroline Kaufman; Yelena Bryksenkova (Illustrator)

Light Filters in: Poems

Rupi Kaur

The Sun and Her Flowers

Reyna Biddy

I love my love

Catherine Cohen

God I Feel Modern Tonight

Michael Faudet

Cult of Two

Ellen Hopkins

Impulse

Alan Rudrum

The Broadview Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose

Rupi Kaur

Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers (Set of 2)

Caitlin Kelly

The Words I Wish I Said

R. H. Sin

Planting Gardens in Graves III

Amanda Lovelace; ladybookmad

Break Your Glass Slippers

Edgar Allan Poe

Complete Tales and Poems

Ted Hughes

Tales from Ovid

Scott Bryson

Ecopoetry

Samantha Schutz

I Don't Want to Be Crazy

Ellen Hopkins

Glass

Charles Kell

Cage of Lit Glass