I've learned that not all poetry lends itself to music-- some thoughts need to be sung only against the silence. There are softer and less tangible part(s) of our selves that are so essential to peace, to open heartedness, to unfolding the vision and the spiritual realm of our lives, to exposing our souls.- Jewel, From the Preface. Writing poems and keeping journals since childhood, Jewel has been searching for truth and meaning, turning to her words...

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Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...

Congratulations. You have found the hidden book. ; Invocation / Bob Holman-- Sidewalk of high art, introduction / Miguel Alagariń-- I. POETRY INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY-- Darryl Strawberry asleep in a field of dreams ; At ease / Paul Beatty-- An open letter to myself ; Front page or bust ; "There must be a conspiracy" / Nicole Breedlove-- Fantasy lover ; Housecleaning / Dana Bryant-- Check one ; Game boy / Regie Cabico-- Lonely night in...

"Thomas Hardy was fifty-eight before his first book of poetry, Wessex Poems, was published in 1898. By the time of his death in 1928, he was known as one of Britain's most distinguished poets. In The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy, James Gibson has compiled the first complete edition of verse by this nineteenth-century Englishman. Included are previously uncollected poems, among which are examples of Hardy's finest work--"Domicilium" and the songs...