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Summer Seas and Autumn Leaves
A Small Collection of Poems
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Summer Seas and Autumn Leaves is a short collection of eighteen poems that pack a big punch. Written over a span of seventy years, these are poems from the author’s early days as a father to the present day in 2022. Themes of personal loss,...
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eyes.
a collection of poems
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This collection of poems covers a wide range of topics—death, mental health, relationships, loss, substance use, nihilism—all from the perspective of an emerging poet. Rendered clearly, economically, and frankly, these poems show us, rather than...
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Family and Friends Along the Way
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This is my story. About a gay guy born and raised in suburban Toronto. It is about being different and about the struggle to discover and recognize my gayness in a society that shunned and targeted gay youth and men. But it is not just about...
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Unrequited Expressions
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Unrequited Expressions is a collection of poetry that deals with a wide variety of social and personal issues, from race, mental health, love, loss, family, and so on. The main idea showcases what it is like to be black in America. Young deals...
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NEWBORN and other poems
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So here’s a simple wakeful dream: That words will come into my head Pass through my fingers Dance on the page Have grace and rhythm Make sense and reason And when someone reads them, make her think, “Ah yes, that’s how it is.” These lines, from...
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Offertories
Exclamations and Disequilibriums
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This collection of free-verse poetry travels, along with the author, across her lifetime—from high school through college and graduate school, past marriage, divorce, and the death of a parent, deep into raising children, always finding a new...
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Colours
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Seven colours—beige, yellow, teal, purple, blue, red, and grey—brighten the composition of a young man’s life, and characterize its various phases. In COLOURS, “the conflict is romantic,” “the brain is endless,” and “love is alive.” Playful,...
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Our Heritage
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Our Heritage is a gesture towards home. The stories and poems in this collection are little slices of life, explorations of family, labour, illness, spirituality, war, and environmentalism, featuring coastal landscapes and a meteorologist’s...
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Omertà
A Mafia Family
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In a Mafia crime family, loyalty is everything, and snitches get stitches. Omertà is a code of silence; keeping it means protection, but the danger is real and unpredictable. This collection of heartfelt poems takes a deep dive into how growing...
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Treasure of Pearls
Celebrating Life Lived, in Poetry
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This collection of poems and illustrations celebrates the vision-widening joys of travel and multiculturalism while bringing to light the urgent need for tolerance, love, compassion, and respect for the old, young, and vulnerable. Author Selwyn...
