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From TikTok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a brand-new collection of poems exploring the cadences of love, loss, grief, and healing<br/><br/><br/><br/>i am finally finding a balance,<br/><br/>a great harmony<br/><br/>between the loss<br/><br/>and the love,<br/><br/>between who i was<br/><br/>and who i have become<br/><br/><br/><br/>In this exquisite poetry collection, Whitney Hanson, chronicles the loss of a loved one, tracing the progression of grief and healing through the lens of music.<br/><br/>We each begin with a simple note, but as life progresses, we're led to the next note, and the next-all of which combine to form the melody of a song and a life. As life becomes more complicated and complex, we find that loss, grief, and heartache can muffle our music, making the world go silent.<br/><br/>But as Whitney's poems show, all of these rests and pauses in the music are part of the composition of life, and it is only by moving through the variations that we can find the harmony and grace that come with healing.

Deborah L. Davitt's To Love Unquietly oscillates between love and desire, life and death, oneness and severance. She masterfully weaves the various elements of relationships into a patchwork tapestry of poetry, which acts as a dark, dusty mirror showing what was, what could be, what could have been, and what is in its beautiful, cobwebbed truthfulness.<br/><br/> When you look into this volume of poetry, which self will you see?

Life, as it appears is a collection of poems about just that; how life is affected by the world around us and everything that is constantly going on there. The tone of Life, as it appears seems quite dark, which can easily be explained by how the world around us has changed during the time the poems have been written. War, rearmament, warmongering and a development towards more extreme politics, increased inequality and fewer and fewer democratically governed countries. However, I have made an effort to try to let hope come out in some poems. So do not fear the dark, there is hope for a better world. Quoting Arundhati Roy, Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Coffee Poems is a chapbook collection of sixteen poems that embraces coffee in a wide variety of application, though hardly exhaustive. This includes the origin of coffee, traditions, obsessions or rituals, common associations (and uncommon ones), a bit of science, mixology, metaphor, and others. The collection also presents a variety of forms in addition to the standard lineated free verse poems: prose poems, personal essay/didactic poem, Duplex Sonnet in prose poem format, Erasure poem (presented two ways), Fibonacci sequences poem, a poem whose genesis is from the "opposites game," and a Golden Shovel with a Cento epigram. Some poems have a backstory below the text.<br/><br/> Whether you like your coffee swirled with a bit of cream or black and bitter, you will relish the offerings in this latest book brewed by John C. Mannone. From the stoops of the Columbian mountains, where the original Juan Valdez grew his coffee beans, to the monks of Ethiopia who, having been informed of the antics of goats that ate the coffee berry, then imbibed a liquid from those same berries and hence were able to remain awake through the long evening prayers, and on through history to the author's own cup steaming before him, the face of his long dead father looking back upon him from the "fluid folds of the dark pool," there is much to savor and to learn in this small collection. The poems are testaments to the magic and mysticism of the drink from a poet with his "fingers wrapping the . . . cup / as something holy." Mannone brings a lifetime of refining his palette and honing his use of language to produce a delightful collection of 16 poems, an apt bit of reading while you drink your first morning cup, or your final afternoon cup, of the "essential elixir."<br/> -Connie Jordan Green, author of Nameless as the Minnows<br/><br/> Such an excellent variety of poems serving as brews of choice that bring out the best of each one for the discriminating connoisseur! Who among us coffee drinkers hasn't known moments of quiet worship in a layered awakening? Reading this collection is an education both in poetic forms and the magic power of the coffee bean. I guarantee you'll savor it as a keeper on your bookshelf.<br/> -Marge Simon, Grand Master poet, SF Poetry Association, and co-author of Cast from Darkness

<i>Quick before the story ebbs away.</i><br/><i>There are things I need to tell you</i><br/><br/>A work of great strength and equal delicacy, <i>Mouth</i> transports us to a world where violence hangs in the air, where beauty, pity and cruelty intertwine. The sequence at its heart, <i>Palace</i>, takes the overlooked women from the edges of Greek tragedy and places them centre stage, to tell unforgettable stories of survival and loss. With new depth and force, their voices set off echoes with women navigating the terrible reality and aftermath of war today.<br/><br/>As a human rights lawyer, Arshi saw power and its abuses, the structures of silencing set against refugees. As a poet, she charts the movements and migrations that change the course of our lives - from child to adult, from home to elsewhere, from grief to what lies beyond.<br/><br/><i>Mouth</i> is a complex and original study of speaking's limitations, chasms in communication, but also the unexpected power of silence: 'sometimes / language picks us clean'.

This is the fourth collection of poetry from Graham Bowers.<br/><br/> It is not a thematic collection -- the poems are as wide-ranging in terms of subject, tone and technique as in Graham's previous volumes; that being said, a number of the pieces deal, directly or indirectly, in one way or another, with communication -- 'signalling' -- and its possibilities and pitfalls.

These fifty poems by Yuu Ikeda, author of The Pallete of Words: Poems and Ode to the Moon, explore life refracted through multifaceted shards of glass. Her elegant, minimalistic and poignant writing on insecurity, pain, longing, loneliness and love will guide you, glueing the shattered fragments into a something still useful, broken yet whole.<br/><br/> Life deserves to be filled with poetry.