My Heart Does Not Whisper: POETRY: VOLUME 1 by Aurelia Folk

Combining an old-fashioned style of poetry 

with the modern emotional experience, this debut volume of poems by AURELIA FOLK delves into themes of unrequited love, spirituality, nature, and more for the reader to connect with on a deep and personal level. The customer can expect each page in this book to consist of multiple short poems and occasionally longer ones which hold structure, rhyme, and emotive power and will resonate to an imaginative and intellectual mind. Also included is a detailed table of contents for the ease of locating poems

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Esce una nuova raccolta poetica dal titolo Cantico degli amanti – Dalla parte del marito di Sabatina Napolitano per i Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni

Una nuova raccolta poetica intitolata “Cantico degli amanti – Dalla parte del marito” è disponibile sugli scaffali, pubblicata da I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni di Stefano Donno. L’autrice, Sabatina Napolitano, si impegna in una rilettura e riscrittura del “Cantico dei Cantici di Salomone”, distribuendo l’opera in sei sezioni che esplorano varie sfaccettature dell’amore. La prefazione del volume è stata curata da Pasquale Vitagliano, mentre Gianpaolo G. Mastropasqua ha offerto la sua già riconosciuta esperienza per la postfazione.

L’estasi amorosa è imponderabile. Il sentimento amoroso è indomabile. Le forme più comuni per rappresentarlo riempiono di sabbia le mani di chi voglia comprenderlo realmente. Non bastano le frasi rimate nascoste nei cioccolatini, neppure le meccaniche del sesso epigrammatico. Per fare un’esperienza di quanto rovente possa essere la materia dell’amore e nello stesso istante vibrante di una tensione mistica estrema fino al punto in cui dolore e piacere si toccano sorpresi, si può leggere questo Cantico degli amanti – dal lato del marito di Sabatina Napolitano. Come precisa la stessa autrice, la raccolta è un poema che rilegge (e riscrive) il Cantico dei Cantici di Salomone. Si divide in sei sezioni. In una di queste l’amante-marito diventa eteronomo della stessa poetessa. Mario Luzi, Herman Hesse, Özdemir Asaf, Hafez, ci accompagnano con i loro testi in questa inchiesta amorosa.

 

Mentre mi spogli diglielo a dio/ che per te sono la California, New York./ Diglielo a dio che io sono tutte le tue città. Prima e fuori da ogni lettura allegorica, ammesso che ce ne sia una, la sorgente di questo testo è il profondo desiderio amoroso dell’autrice. Sgorga dal profondo, l’eco risale da distanze lontanissime che non serve né colmare né esplorare, in quanto contengono la matrice da cui tracima il magma poetico, un mistero che invita alla conoscenza, non al disvelamento. Di questo fuoco scuro/ possa bruciare il tuo desiderio/ fin tanto che non lo spegni a me vicino./ (…) Sono una stella dal fuoco scuro,/ bevo vino dormendo con santi e poeti. Il fuoco è l’elemento che alimenta la vis poetica della Napolitano. (dalla prefazione di Pasquale Vitagliano)

 

‘‘Questa raccolta, coraggiosa e intenzionalmente a tratti scentrata dal proprio tempo, nonostante l’utilizzo talvolta di lemmi ‘social’, è in realtà un viaggio nella divergenza del sentire dove tutti i numi tutelari personali della poesia d’amore, orientali e occidentali, vengono convocati benché sfiorati, vengono invocati per salvare il nostro tempo dall’assenza d’Amore. In virtù e in correlazione con il Cantico delle origini, il marito e la moglie potrebbero sia essere maschio e femmina reali, sia coppia idealizzata o adamitica, nonchè estrema metafora, ossia rimanderebbero a Dio che ha in sposa la Terra/Umanità. Sabatina Napolitano, che può vantare una rara e sedimentata conoscenza letteraria contemporanea in rapporto alla giovane età, sia per il suo percorso personale che per la sua evoluzione e trasversalità in scrittura, è da ritenersi senza alcun dubbio, e questa raccolta lo conferma, tra le più autentiche poetesse italiane della sua generazione’’. 

(dalla postfazione di Gianpalo G. Mastropasqua)

 

Sabatina Napolitano, classe ‘89, è una poetessa, scrittrice, insegnante. Suoi testi sono apparsi nella rivista Gradiva, su La poesia e lo Spirito, Nazione Indiana, Neobar, Poesia del nostro tempo e diverse altre testate. La sua prima raccolta poetica è del 2010. Ha pubblicato un romanzo e otto libri di poesia.

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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.

“No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional collections. Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem.” —The Washington Post

“It’s as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration.” —Chicago Tribune

Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.

Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world.

Dog Songs: Poems by Mary Oliver

“The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming.” —The Boston Globe

 

Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver’s poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers, but through her extraordinary vision, these observations become higher meditations on the world and our place in it.

Dog Songs includes visits with old friends, like Oliver’s beloved Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver’s life merge as fellow travelers and as guides, uniquely able to open our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection

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All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living – Illustrated by Morgan Harper Nichols

 A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of freedom. All Along You Were Blooming is the ultimate love letter from the pen of popular Instagram poet Morgan Harper Nichols to your mind, heart, soul, and body.

On Instagram @morganharpernicols, Morgan has over a million followers. Fans can add Morgan's beautiful artwork and thoughts for boundless living to their library.

All Along You Were Blooming is a striking collection of illustrated poetry and prose, inviting you to "stumble into the sunlight" and delight in the wild and boundless grace you've been given. Morgan reminds you:

• There is a purpose in every season
• No matter how you want to race through this day or run away from this place, you are invited to live fully--right here, right now
• Light will always find you, even when the sun sets and you sit awaiting the dawn
• That you are always blooming in the way you were meant to

All Along You Were Blooming is perfect:

• For men and women of all ages
• For teachers to share with classrooms during poetry focused lessons
• Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, National Best Friend Day, birthdays, and holiday gifting

In each small moment, whether in the light or the dark, you can make room for becoming, for breathing, for stumbling, and for simply being--for there is grace, today and every day.

Water, Water: Poems by Billy Collins

From the former Poet Laureate of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a wondrous new collection of poems focused on the joys and mysteries of daily life.

"[Billy] Collins remains the most companionable of poetic companions."—The New York Times

In this collection of sixty new poems, Billy Collins writes about the beauties and ironies of everyday experience. A poem is best, he feels, when it begins in clarity but ends with a whiff of mystery.

In Water, Water, Collins combines his vigilant attention and respect for the peripheral to create moments of delight. Common and uncommon events are captured here with equal fascination, be it a cat leaning to drink from a swimming pool, a nurse calling a name in a waiting room, or an astronaut reciting Emily Dickinson from outer space. With his trademark lyrical informality, Collins asks us to slow down and glimpse the elevated in the ordinary, the odd in the familiar. It’s no surprise that The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal both call Collins one of America’s favorite poets.

The Monet Conundrum

Is every one of these poems

different from the others

he asked himself,

as the rain quieted down,

or are they all the same poem,

haystack after haystack

at different times of day,

different shadows and shades of hay?

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Walk A Little Slower: A Collection of Poems and Other Words by Tanner Olson

Walk A Little Slower: A Collection of Poems and Other Words is a book of hope, honesty, and joy by Tanner Olson. This collection of more than 60 poems and writings will invite you to slow down, lean in, hold fast, and to keep going. In the midst of the uncertainty and unknown, the already and not yet, the hopes and fears, we can easily forget that life was meant to be enjoyed. Tanner Olson’s writing weaves together faith, questions, humor, and hope as he encourages you to walk a little slower

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Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell

Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. It is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most.

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The Odyssey by Homer

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic. The Odyssey is a fundamental work in the modern Western canon, being the oldest extant piece of Western literature, second to the Iliad. Scholars believe the Odyssey was composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere in Ionia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia.

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The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien Box Set: Three-Volume Box Set

The first-ever publication of the collected poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, spanning almost seven decades of the author’s life and presented in an elegant three-volume hardcover boxed set.

J.R.R. Tolkien aspired to be a poet in the first instance, and poetry was part of his creative life no less than his prose, his languages, and his art. Although Tolkien’s readers are aware that he wrote poetry, if only from verses in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, its extent is not well known, and its qualities are underappreciated. Within his larger works of fiction, poems help to establish character and place as well as further the story; as individual works, they delight with words and rhyme. They express his love of nature and the seasons, of landscape and music, and of words. They convey his humor and his sense of wonder.

The earliest work in this collection, written for his beloved, is dated to 1910, when Tolkien was eighteen. More poems would follow during his years at Oxford, some of them very elaborate and eccentric. Those he composed during the First World War, in which he served in France, tend to be concerned not with trenches and battle, but with life, loss, faith, and friendship, his longing for England and the wife he left behind. Beginning in 1914, elements of his legendarium, “The Silmarillion,” began to appear, and the “Matter of Middle-earth” would inspire much of Tolkien’s verse for the rest of his life.

The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien presents almost 200 works across three volumes, including more than 60 that have never before been seen. The poems are deftly woven together with commentary and notes by world-renowned Tolkien scholars Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond, placing them in the context of Tolkien’s life and literary accomplishments and creating a poetical biography that is a unique and revealing celebration of J.R.R. Tolkien.