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The Burden of Light: Poems

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By Deena Metzger — 2019

This 2019 collection of Deena Metzger’s poetry includes her full color photographs of nature and the beauty of the Earth.

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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

This work illuminates today's Black experience through the voices of transformative and powerful African American poets. Included in this volume are the poems of 43 African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Tracy K. Smith.

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Phil Cushway (compiler), Michael Warr (editor)
2024
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The Resilient Founder: Lessons in Endurance from Startup Entrepreneurs

Venture backed companies are expected to grow at high velocity, raise large amounts of capital, build teams effectively to achieve unicorn, no decacorn status. Yet the journey is long, filled with uncertainties, extremities and black swan events. It can wear out the best and the brightest.

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Mahendra Ramsinghani
2021
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Given Sugar, Given Salt: Poems

In this luminous and authoritative collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-deepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems utterly unique, as William Matthews once wrote of her work, in their “praise of ceaseless mutability as life’s central splendor.

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Jane Hirshfield
2024
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The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

These translated poems were written by 2 ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D. The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment.

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Ono no Komachi, Izumi Shikibu, Jane Hirsfield (translator)
1990
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The Beauty: Poems

The Beauty opens with a series of dappled, ranging “My” poems—“My Skeleton,” “My Corkboard,” “My Species,” “My Weather”—in which Hirshfield uses materials both familiar and unexpected to explore the magnitude, singularity, and permeability of our shared existence.

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Jane Hirshfield
2017
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Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women

This groundbreaking anthology presents the spiritual life of women throughout history as recorded in their poems, prayers, and songs.

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Jane Hirshfield (editor)
1995
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Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, Essays

A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays.

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Jane Hirshfield
1998
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Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World

"Poetry," Jane Hirshfield has said, "is language that foments revolutions of being.

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Jane Hirshfield
2017
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Ledger: Poems

Ledger's pages hold the most important work yet by Jane Hirshfield, one of our most celebrated contemporary poets. From the already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance ("Let them not say: we did not see it.

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Jane Hirshfield
2024
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The Upside of Being Down: How Mental Health Struggles Led to My Greatest Successes in Work and Life

After graduating from college, Jen Gotch was living with her parents, heartbroken and lost, when she became convinced that her skin had turned green.

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Jen Gotch, Rachel Bertsche
2020
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