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Echoes of Faith and Love: Collections of the Fallen Dove
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Faith Alanna Richardson was the fourth of five children in Jacksonville, Illinois. She received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and a master’s degree in public administration. She worked in public service, being a voice for other minority women in the government sector in her community. She wrote persistently throughout her life before passing away.
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Miss Manhattan
$9.99Miss Manhattan truly captures the richness of diversity and the simultaneity of life happening in New York. The text is rich, tumbling, and layered, yet never chaotic as the sensations of people, cars, birds, flowers, and all forms of city life cascading around the speaker’s (and reader’s) attention. This unique collection cleverly displays the inherent resonance of life in the city, in a beautiful, joyful, and sometimes riotous, but always with a sense of life and creative force, not destruction or entropy. These poems live in the individual body, even as they describe an external and collective experience.
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Señorita Manhattan: Miss Manhattan (Spanish)
$9.99Señorita Manhattan realmente captura la riqueza de la diversidad y la simultaneidad de la vida que sucede en Nueva York. El texto es rico, tambaleante y estratificado, pero nunca caótico como las sensaciones de personas, automóviles, pájaros, flores y todas las formas de vida de la ciudad que caen en cascada alrededor de la atención del orador (y del lector). Esta colección única muestra inteligentemente la resonancia inherente de la vida en la ciudad, en un lugar hermoso, alegre y, a veces, desenfrenado, pero siempre con un sentido de vida y fuerza creativa, no destrucción o entropía. Estos poemas viven en el cuerpo individual, incluso cuando describen una experiencia externa y colectiva.
Biman Roy ha estado escribiendo poesía durante las últimas tres décadas y ha sido ampliamente publicado. Su escritura ha sido nominada para el premio Best of the Net y Pushcart. Biman Roy es autor de un libro de poemas en prosa, Of Moon and Washing Machine, y otros dos chapbooks de poesía, Dinosaur Hour y Navigating the Quartz Forest.
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Love, Faith & Bullets: My Unspoken Sermon
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99Love, Faith, & Bullets
This is a beautiful collection of poems written over the span of a decade. It is a timeless tale of love & heartache while Nate was discovering his faith and what it meant to be in the 21st Century America military. He masterfully colors the emotional toils of his heart onto every page.
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Reflections of Humanity: A Tapestry of Perceptions
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99This collection will take on different meanings at different points in time. Many of the key themes have multiple messages. This is also the case in many interpretations of the vocabulary. Everyone has an individual perception of what truth is. These works are representative of this writer’s understanding of that entity.
It is my hope that this collection will inspire the realization within each reader that the true wisdom in life is one’s ability to believe in oneself. Thus, will it become possible to accept responsibility for our own actions? Once this end is accomplished, we can, each in his own right, make beneficial changes. Many have had this same dream since the dawn of time. It is this writer’s most ardent hope that this work will find acceptance within the heart of each reader. A further hope is that these perceptions will serve as an inspiration to each to establish a positive sense of self and a more cohesive view of the people around you.
Try to set gender aside in these works. Wherever possible, substitute people and situations within your own life and the lives of the loved ones around you.
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Navigating the Quartz Forest
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99Each dreamlike lyric in Biman Roy’s Navigating the Quartz Forest is charmingly paired with a small handwritten note hastily jotted down on blue-lined notebook paper-artifacts from his daughter’s life outside the family home. “All through the evening, we keep talking nonessentials, / tiptoeing around secret tulips,” he says. These notes, like scraps of overheard conversations removed from their natural habitats, become the crystalline seeds of new poems. Side-by-side with each other, the poems act as translator for these somewhat oracular messages from an unknown world of teenage gossip and pop culture references, fitting the pieces together like a shattered mirror and filling in the jagged-edged gaps with the poet’s expansive imagination. In Navigating the Quartz Forest, Roy’s whimsical poems become a sparkling tribute from a father to his beloved daughter.
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The Nightmares of HIMM
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99The Nightmares of HIMM is formerly known as The Psych Ward. It tells stories of the dark and light of reality. The experience of the truth of how a poet live his life in fear most of his childhood life. The poems are the stories the madness and the mayhem within the mind of mine. His only comfort was writing to escape the reality of abuse, and these are the curious cases of the madman or is he. The poems are based on the nightmare of FD Ravenskraft’s sleepless night being afraid of the world. But he understands the true fear of society himself. The constant terror within the insomnia of this broken night after night he compose the horror of his sleepless experience and write them down to try to understand his critical thinking. His style of poetry is aspired and inspired by the writing of H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe and writings of Charles Baudelaire, Lord Byron, Keats and Shelley and Mary Shelley. In the beginning, that was creation. And at the end of the journey, is Ravenskraft.
Welcome to the horrors of HIMM!
He is Madness and Mayhem!
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Poetry to Meditate On
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Poetry to Meditate On is a continuation of Poetry to Live By. The book is about living by and through many trials and tribulations for spiritual growth and edification in all aspects of Christian life and being blessed by them.
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A Poet’s Diary
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99For Lisa, a diary always meant writing poems. Often set in worlds of hellscape, meadow or ocean, her first collection bathes the reader in darkness, sunlight and moonbeam. The reader will find themselves lost aboard a sinking ship, on a train barreling through mountain snow, or clinging to a towering cliff. Presented in nine books, this collection runs the gamut of human emotions, exposing the tenderness and naivety of youth, the infatuation and dismay of immature love, and the early realizations of finding your place in this world. It is for young souls struggling to find hope and for old souls ready to reminisce.
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All About Life: A Black Man’s Journey
Price range: $3.99 through $7.99With an intensity of understanding and a straightforward wisdom, Johnny Albritton, Jr. writes poetry that is, indeed, All About Life.
In this, his debut collection of published verses, Mr. Albritton examines the spiritual and physical life of man, and how one deals with each from day to day. His poems burst forth with images about everyday life that range in theme from criticizing apathy to celebrating one’s newfound relationship with the Lord. It is not often readers of fine religious poetry get to absorb a man’s vision of the world that is not condescending but uplifting in its intent. Johnny Albritton, Jr. certainly achieves that, and much more.
The poet recognizes that he and his readers have to answer to God every day, but how to do that is the key. Are hearts opened in joyful song? Or are the lower depths of society, those that can only cause harm, sought out? In poems such as Job the Man” “Chasing After the Wind” and “What’s Going On? ” to name but a few, Mr. Albritton’s keen wit, sensitive lament, and defined optimism are clear. In others, such as “What Happened to Justice? ” and “A Prayer for Mankind” he continues to boldly clarify today’s state of affairs as he sees it, whether good or bad, right or wrong. Whatever your present state of mind, the poems in All About Life, by Johnny Albritton, Jr., have that unique ability to entertain inform and enlighten.
Johnny Albritton Jr, grew up in New Jersey, attended Lincoln Tech Trade School, and later served in the United States Navy. An athlete when younger, he earned a four year scholarship to Tennessee State University before enjoying his lifelong self-employed business of appliance refrigeration and air conditioning service. He also enjoys inventing and of course writing poetry from his home in Florida.
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Journey
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Journey, a collection of life experiences, includes her first poem Make Room written at the age of twelve. The verses are intended to demonstrate the ability of the human spirit to keep going despite grief and loss and heartbreak.
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Evergreen Pines: Book of Religious Poetry
Price range: $3.99 through $16.99When I was pondering a name for this book, I heard a small voice saying to me, “Look at you. You are like an evergreen pine that has stood the test of times. It bends in the wind, bears the summer heat and the winter snow, laughs at the coolness of fall, and gets ready for the songbirds to nest in the spring.”
At that time, the name Evergreen Pines: Book of Religious Poetry was born.
