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Poetry & hope

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Conamara Blues: Poems

Translating the beauty and splendor of his native Conamara into a language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, John O’Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined worlds.

John O’Donohue

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Revolutionary Petunias: Poetry

These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers—about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love, even while facing the firing squad.

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Waking after the Surgery

Chatti, who bled uncontrollably for two years due to a tumor, writes a heartfelt, hopeful poem about finally healing from her trauma.

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FindCenter Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into an idea, then into more tangible action.

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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived.

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Horses at Midnight without a Moon

This poem speaks to the strength of our spirit, the abiding hope we can place in our inner angels.

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"'Hope' is the thing with feathers . . ."

Hope is the thing with feathers / that perches in the soul . . .

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Emily Dickinson

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