Memoir Poetry

Why I Was Late fuses text with performance, bringing a transmasculine wisdom, humor, and experience to bear upon tailgates, spaceships, and wrestling rings. Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing—Petch works hard. And whether it’s as a film union lighting technician, a hospital bed allocator, a Toronto hot dog vendor, or a performer/player of the musical saw, the work is survival. Heroes are found in unexpected places, elevated by both large and small gestures of kindness, accountability and acceptance.

Depois de conquistar o coração dos brasileiros com sua Poesia que transforma e passar mais de um ano entre os autores mais vendidos do país, Bráulio Bessa volta a nos brindar com poemas que, como de hábito, nos fazem pensar e nos fazem sentir.

Denise Riley has pursued her singular path with a determined disregard for poetic fashion: a poet of immense musical gifts and formal skill, as happy in traditional forms as experimental, her non-alignment with any ‘tribe’ has led to a rich and various poetry that, while densely allusive and...

Captive, Madeline Dyer's first poetry collection, is based on the therapy writings she produced when she was experiencing psychosis and OCD due to autoimmune basal ganglia encephalitis, a rare type of brain inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the brain. While her communication skills and cognitive abilities diminished due to the effects of the inflammation, she was able to share her thoughts and emotions via the written word

I am a proud father and a family man. A Scotsman. A Londoner. A countryside-townie. A patriot. A rebel and a gentleman. A child of the seventies. A graduate from the school of hard knocks. A cat and dog lover. An aficionado of music and books. I am an outsider. I am a maverick, often outspoken and sometimes controversial. I am a warrior and worrier. An overthinker. I am both a success and a failure. I am intensely prolific.

“When I become mayor, we become mayor.” Ras Baraka’s famous words speak to exactly who he is as a leader - a fiercely loyal member of his community. In this innovative and ground-breaking Audible Original, hear how Baraka - the mayor of Newark, New Jersey - grew from spoken-word artist to school principal to successful politician.

Plunging into darkness, you look for a lifeline. I came forth from the mental hospitals fighting; drugged and almost committed for life. Flashbacks and putting the pieces together, memories unearthed. Unwanted are the memories, yet they come, crying out to God to not be forgotten. The mental system is designed to lock one in without recourse. And then comes the realization that to be alive is to breathe the air without restraint. To know that after the journey of waiting, my truth has set me free. I am Hilary Nili, and I survived.

Poised between myth and time, Philip Brady's To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet is a sprawling, genre-defying verse epic, an audacious masterpiece of wit and erudition that blends Homer's discovery of the alphabet with a man's return from near-death and a boy's struggle to see the adult world through the prism of an ancient epic.

Are you living the way you want to live? Or is it some broken shell of an existence far from what you hoped for? Many are living a life far below what they dreamed of and see no way out. Author Julianna M. Dawson asked herself those questions and wasn't pleased with the answers. The result is the poems shared in Inspiring Words: Finding Yourself. These poems shed light on her efforts to rediscover her true self and her true needs, wants, desires, and beliefs.

Have you ever felt alone and fatigued from consistently battling with a list of negatives? If so, this is for you. There are times when the emotion is just a feeling and other times, it's reality. Countless people have feelings and thoughts they think no one will understand and relate to. The author relates all throughout this book and uses her pen as a weapon against mental and emotional fights.

Dan Erickson, writer of erotic m4m fiction and commentator of American culture, collects his commentaries and poetic works in one volume for the first time. This car has no air bags! Welcome to Dan Erickson's brazen view into the strengths and nonsense of masculine life and lust.

Love & Angst is a book especially of interest to anyone who has ever desired to be the subject of and inspire love poems, love letters and the like but doesn't exist within that sort of environment. At its most basic, it is simply a recounting of the adventures of a hopeless romantic and his attempts to find true love. Told through the poems and prose of interactions with the objects of his desire - Women whose attentions alternatively take him to the dizzying heights of man’s highest emotions - Love - and then drive him to the lowest depths of man’s darkest emotion - Angst

A book of short stories coupled with contemporary poetry in different forms.

A deathbed request inspires an army nurse to tell the truth about the war. He Called Me Lieutenant Angel speaks to you with the insistent voice of love, hope and redemption, from the intensive care ward of a Vietnam hospital. It is a story of strength and enlightenment, a tribute to all the extraordinary young soldiers and nurses who share the intimate, final moments of life.

A new volume of poetry from the New York Times bestselling and esteemed author of The Liar’s Club and Lit. Long before she earned accolades for her genre-defining memoirs, Mary Karr was winning poetry prizes. Now the beloved author returns with a collection of bracing poems as visceral and...

From an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity. FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY “Written with great tenderness and intimacy, Dream of the Divided Field reveals what we do (and do not) owe to others...

Recently, Forbes magazine named John Lennon the ultimate, all time, iconic rockstar for the ages. While that’s certainly true, John was even more than that: a dedicated peace politician, philosopher, early women’s advocate, proponent of yogic meditation, Hare Krishna and Eastern philosophy, as well as his well known anti-war efforts and timeless inspirational music. Here is a man who made his brief life count!

Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman: The Lives and Careers of 19th Century America’s Most Famous Poets looks at the remarkable lives of the two, and the impact their famous works have had.

This book gives hope to those in the depths of despair. This book of poetry and art can be a quick listen or one to ponder over many times. I recommend this book to anyone interested in personal healing and growth or to those who work with individuals who are beginning a pathway of healing.

Take an unforgettable journey from the Cold War USSR to Savery, Wyoming, from the mountains of Tuscany to the peak of Yosemite's Half Dome, from the Canadian wilderness to the beaches of Normandy.