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“michael minassian”

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  • 1000 Pieces of Time

    by Michael Minassian ...
    What is time? These finely crafted, imaginative poems weave fleeting encounters, centuries-long love stories, lingering grudges, and moments of unexpected clarity into a surreal cloth grounded in verisimilitude. Time's myriad possibilities come to life as historical figures, both real and fictional, face a changing landscape of memory, longing, and desire. Minassian's vital narrative voice, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Jack Pays a Visit

    by Michael Minassian ...
    These poems are centered around the character Jack Karapetian (1925-1994), who wrote under the pen name of Hakob Karapents. Born in Tabriz, Iran, Jack was a prolific Armenian-American writer who wrote almost exclusively in Armenian. ... Read more

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    1925-2025

    by New Yorker Magazine Inc ...
    Edited by the magazine’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New YorkerSeamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, Czesław Miłosz, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, E. E. Cummings, Sharon Olds, Franz Wright, John ... Read more

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  • The Love Poems of Rumi

    by The Book Laboratory, Inc. ...
    The Love Poems of Rumi, as translated by Philip Dunn in this gorgeous little book, maintain the same emotional significance with readers today as they did seven centuries ago when originally composed by the Persian poet.Samples:The heart is comforted by true words, just as a thirsty man is comforted by water.Don't hide your heart but reveal it, so that mine might be revealed, and I might accept ... Read more

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  • Oceanic

    by Aimee Nezhukumatathil ...
    "Nezhukumatathil’s poems contain elegant twists of a very sharp knife. She writes about the natural world and how we live in it, filling each poem, each page with a true sense of wonder." —Roxane Gay“Cultural strands are woven into the DNA of her strange, lush... poems. Aphorisms...from another dimension.” —The New York Times“With unparalleled ease, she’s able to weave each intriguing detail into ... Read more

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  • Aqibat: Life After Death

    by Hazrat Inayat Khan ...
    The soul's dwelling in the material body deludes it so much that it thinks, 'I can live only on material food, can stand only on earth, can enjoy only material surroundings. Without these I am nowhere, I am nothing.' There is a Persian saying: 'Do not build a house on the ground of another.' This is what the soul does. Whatever it sees, the consciousness recognizes as itself. Its purity makes it ... Read more

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  • The Feather Room

    by Anis Mojgani ...
    Science, birds, Billy the Kid, and lots of feathers surround The Feather Room, Anis Mojgani's follow up to his Pushcart-nominated work, Over the Anvil We Stretch. In The Feather Room, Mojgani further explores storytelling in poetic form while traveling farther down the path of magic realism, endowing his tales with a greater sense of fantasy and brightness. The work recounts loss and heartbreak ... Read more

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  • Lean Against This Late Hour

    by Garous Abdolmalekian ...
    Translated by Idra Novey, Ahmad Nadalizadeh ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    **Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in TranslationA vivid, "mesmerizing" (New York Times Magazine) portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian**The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a captivating, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Endpoint and Other Poems

    by John Updike ...
    A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.The opening sequence, “Endpoint,”is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness. He looks back on the boy that he was, on the family, ... Read more

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  • A Daring Rescue

    by BodhaGuru ...
    This is a short inspiring story of a scientist who is working on low cost solar battery invention for his country . One day the scientist gets kidnapped. Three children with the help of villagers rescue the scientist using the concept of electric bulbs. This story helps children to learn that a little knowledge that gets used is worth infinitely more than the knowledge that is idle.After reading ... Read more

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  • Pluck Me and Hum

    by Kazim Ali ...
    Kazim Ali has become known for his careful attention to the architecture of a poem, his restless intellect and his musically driven line. In these eight poems and two diary entries, Ali draws on deep literary and cultural tradition to explore history, devotion, both spiritual and physical, and loss and loneliness in fractured lyrics, surreal narratives and prose poems. In addition to a ghazal, ... Read more

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  • Time You Let Me In

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