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Whether you are a hopeful romantic, a skeptic, or someone in need of healing, "Twin Flames" will touch your heart, inspire your spirit, and remind you that, in the end, love is the greatest force in the universe-one that can overcome all obstacles, bridge all distances, and rekindle faith in even the most wounded of souls. This enchanting new collection of love poems by bestselling poet Mark Anthony is born out of direct experiences and will take the reader on a profound journey through the many facets of a twin flame relationship and its timeless ability to heal and inspire the soul.

Indeed, there is much to fill our hearts with grief, post-covid: two wars, in Ukraine and the Middle East; a virus which just won't go away; people whose lives have been shattered by illness, politics and loneliness. These are the "thorns" of our existence, and they have pierced the hearts of humanity. The greatness of any garden is as weeds take over and plants die, what grows in its place is often new, beautiful and different. These are the "trellises" which continue to bloom and grow: friends; family; the connections which ultimately bind us to this world. TRELLISES AND THORNS does a superb job of exploring the grief and elegance in this world, both of which are inextricably bound.

This collection explores many subjects that demand looking after - family, artistic achievements including literature, the natural world, memories, history, and others that call for tending to. It also focuses on the complexities of this engagement - when easy, when difficult, when the subjects are shaded by emotion or the effects of time. Then too there is the looking after, as in afterwards, the reflection on things gone by. These poems cover a broad range - small personal experiences to the grander occasions of life, and the memories of life. They explore the multi-faceted subject of alert custodianship - the necessity of paying daily attention, while at the same time tending to the past already lived.

First published in 1982, In rima e senza brought together all the poetry Giorgio Bassani wished to preserve. The Collected Poems offers anglophone readers for the first time the opportunity to experience his full poetic range. Not only do Bassani's early poems foreshadow key themes of the fiction, such as his classic The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, but his later free verse scrutinizes with a startling directness the life and work of this major Italian writer."Everything is connected in Giorgio Bassani's work, everything articulated through the first verses in Poor Lovers' Stories to the last in Epitaph and In Great Secret and through his entire lyrical and narrative production. And yet, there are twists, major fractures, starting with perhaps the most critical and poignant of all, the author's last production in verse, in which Bassani most likely reaches the apex of his artistic expression [...] Welcome back to life, dear Father, welcome back among us!"-Paola Bassani, from the Foreword

Beginning with its opening poem, "The Invention of Time," Ken Autrey's collection shows an attentiveness to the power of the past along with its riches and sorrows. The poems in Circulation address the writer's upbringing, the influence of his parents, and in turn his aging, with accompanying bafflements and fulfillments. The poems often range far away from the domestic front but just as often reveal the natural marvels of his own backyard. Some of them address the challenge of employing words to convey the depths of love and attachment that sustain us. Whether the topic is skating on a frozen pond, feeding piranhas in a zoo, his daughter's preparation for her wedding, or a visit to a junkyard with his father, events here unfold vividly, sometimes with an element of mystery, always with a sense of wonder.

"This book is a unique blend of poetry and prose written in a way that reflects the author's attempt to create an environment where his life experiences and education coexist. Where his personal feelings and life events, mathematics, physics, and art, come together to produce a book unlike any other. The book consists of 28 pieces and each one includes one or two paintings or photos, which reflect the desires, emotions, humor, and other strong feelings of the poem or story. This is a book where randomness and reason emerge as part of the world we leave in."SAMPLE POEM:ODE TO AN IDENTICAL TWINThe softer and the harderThe sensitive and the indifferentThe emotional and the reasonableThe calm and the upsetThe poet and the writerThe weaker and the strongerThe unlucky and the luckyI cheated you I took moreAnd you were left with lessYou were the weakerI was the strongerI cheated youBut you never complainedBecause you loved meEven a small uphill creates a noticeable windHow then can I not notice you?Fading face Eyes drifting into the darkness of futureCome find me you sayI will wait for you, you sayYou took the moon awayAnd now it's always dark at night A rainbow missing one color You touch me and I feel I exist I want you backJust for a secondA second Too much to ask?Parallel loveInfinite the distanceBut for one momentI wishYou cross to my universeAnd touch me Just for the smallest unit of time Whatever that isI dance for youA zeibekikoIn the space-time floorYou in some other universeSuspended in timeLooking at me through our photo togetherLaughing at my styleBecause I want to be funnyTo make you smileIn that parallel lineWhich will never meet my lineBut really who cares?We are very close parallelsWe live for ever Passing from universe to universeAnd are togetherIn every dream

The spirit of Emily Dickinson resides throughout these brilliant, richly observed lyric narratives.

"This first collection by Dale Tracy explores the atmosphere that derelict bicycles breathe. Unconventional but interested in convention, these poems turn the world in on itself. Tracy mines the intersection of the surreal and the philosophical, with a sprinkling of Samuel Beckett and a dash of Hâeláene Cixous."--

As Canada's punk poet laureate, Art Bergmann has been tearing up stages, and terrifying the music industry, for half a century. Often referred to as "Canada's Lou Reed," Art's story is one of rock and roll's great tales untold. Until now. From his days helping to lay the foundation of the Vancouver punk scene with The K-Tels, to his acclaimed solo work in the '80s and '90s, and a late career resurgence that has culminated with being named to the Order of Canada, The Longest Suicide chronicles every unlikely twist and turn Art's life has taken.Working with veteran music journalist Jason Schneider, Art lays it all out in his own inimitable way, with dozens of people who took part adding their own voices to corroborate (and sometimes dispute) the often-incredible chain of events. With cameos by John Cale, Bob Rock, The Clash, Bob Geldof and many others, The Longest Suicide is both a triumphant story of personal survival, as well as a unique glimpse inside the rise of alternative rock. Above all, it is a tribute to Canada's most unheralded singer-songwriter, whose greatness is only now being widely recognized.Illustrated throughout.Literary Nonfiction. Music.