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Love for Imperfect Things / The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down

— Haemin Sunim

The hidden peace beneath your racing thoughts: a Buddhist monk's short lessons on slowing the mind.

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🧘 Buddhist Self-Help ☸️ Zen Buddhism 🧠 Mindfulness Practice 💭 Emotional Awareness 🤲 Self-Compassion

Love for Imperfect Things / The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down

The hidden peace beneath your racing thoughts: a Buddhist monk's short lessons on slowing the mind.

— Haemin Sunim

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2 000+ оценок

🧘 Buddhist Self-Help ☸️ Zen Buddhism 🧠 Mindfulness Practice 💭 Emotional Awareness 🤲 Self-Compassion

The Rumi Prescription

— Melody Moezzi • 2020

When pills weren't enough, a 13th-century poet's words became her bipolar survival guide.

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📜 Sufi Poetry 🧠 Mental Health Memoir ✨ Spiritual Healing 🌍 Cultural Identity ⚡ Bipolar Memoir

The Rumi Prescription

When pills weren't enough, a 13th-century poet's words became her bipolar survival guide.

— Melody Moezzi 2020 304 стр.

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📜 Sufi Poetry 🧠 Mental Health Memoir ✨ Spiritual Healing 🌍 Cultural Identity ⚡ Bipolar Memoir

The Way of Rest

— Jeff Foster • 2016

Self-improvement ends here. Your flaws, pain, and doubt were never obstacles: they were the path.

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🫂 Radical Acceptance 🕉️ Spiritual Nonduality 💔 Vulnerability 🤲 Self-Compassion 🌫️ Embracing Uncertainty

The Way of Rest

Self-improvement ends here. Your flaws, pain, and doubt were never obstacles: they were the path.

— Jeff Foster 2016 352 стр.

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🫂 Radical Acceptance 🕉️ Spiritual Nonduality 💔 Vulnerability 🤲 Self-Compassion 🌫️ Embracing Uncertainty

On Drinking

— Charles Bukowski • 2019

The poetry and prose of a man who traded sobriety for stories and never looked back.

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🍺 Drunken Confessional 📓 Autobiographical Poetry 🚪 Literary Outsider 🎨 Self-Destructive Artist 🥃 Bleak Humor

On Drinking

The poetry and prose of a man who traded sobriety for stories and never looked back.

— Charles Bukowski 2019 263 стр.

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🍺 Drunken Confessional 📓 Autobiographical Poetry 🚪 Literary Outsider 🎨 Self-Destructive Artist 🥃 Bleak Humor

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

— Charles Bukowski • 1986

Five cats, a bottle, and a typewriter: what survival looks like when you stop pretending.

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🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🚬 Dirty Realism 🍷 Alcoholism And Art 🏭 Working Class Life 🏙️ Urban Isolation

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Five cats, a bottle, and a typewriter: what survival looks like when you stop pretending.

— Charles Bukowski 1986 320 стр.

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🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🚬 Dirty Realism 🍷 Alcoholism And Art 🏭 Working Class Life 🏙️ Urban Isolation

Там, где кончается тротуар

— Шел Силверстайн • 1974

Over a hundred poems and drawings for the part of you that never outgrew nonsense.

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🎭 Nonsense Verse 🤪 Absurdist Humor ✨ Whimsical Tone 🗣️ Read-Aloud Favorite 🌍 All-Ages Appeal

Там, где кончается тротуар

Over a hundred poems and drawings for the part of you that never outgrew nonsense.

— Шел Силверстайн 1974 176 стр.

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🎭 Nonsense Verse 🤪 Absurdist Humor ✨ Whimsical Tone 🗣️ Read-Aloud Favorite 🌍 All-Ages Appeal

Полное собрание рассказов и стихотворений

— Эдгар Аллан По • 1849

Every tale and poem: madness, murder, mourning, and the birth of modern detective fiction.

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🖤 Gothic Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌑 Dark Romanticism 👥 DoppelgäNger 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

Полное собрание рассказов и стихотворений

Every tale and poem: madness, murder, mourning, and the birth of modern detective fiction.

— Эдгар Аллан По 1849 821 стр.

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🖤 Gothic Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌑 Dark Romanticism 👥 DoppelgäNger 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

Reflections of a Man

— Amari Soul • 2015

A man's inside take on what to demand, and why lowering standards disappoints twice.

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💌 Dating Advice 📏 Setting Standards 🚩 Red Flags In Dating 🔮 Trusting Intuition 💔 Heartbreak Recovery

Reflections of a Man

A man's inside take on what to demand, and why lowering standards disappoints twice.

— Amari Soul 2015 278 стр.

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💌 Dating Advice 📏 Setting Standards 🚩 Red Flags In Dating 🔮 Trusting Intuition 💔 Heartbreak Recovery

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

— Sylvia Plath • 2000

Her uncensored journals: the ambition, the marriage, the breakdown, and the art she fought to make.

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🎭 Confessional Poetry 📓 Writer's Journals 🤯 Women And Madness 🏆 Literary Ambition 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Conflict

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Her uncensored journals: the ambition, the marriage, the breakdown, and the art she fought to make.

— Sylvia Plath 2000 732 стр.

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🎭 Confessional Poetry 📓 Writer's Journals 🤯 Women And Madness 🏆 Literary Ambition 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Conflict

Unlearn

— Humble the Poet • 2014

A poet's hundred reminders: the heaviest things you carry are beliefs you can set down.

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🧘 Inner Work 💛 Self-Acceptance 🍃 Letting Go 🌅 Present Moment 🙏 Gratitude Practice

Unlearn

A poet's hundred reminders: the heaviest things you carry are beliefs you can set down.

— Humble the Poet 2014 320 стр.

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🧘 Inner Work 💛 Self-Acceptance 🍃 Letting Go 🌅 Present Moment 🙏 Gratitude Practice

El amor, las mujeres y la vida

— Mario Benedetti • 1995

Love as daily resistance to death: a poet's half-century of intimacy, absence, and stubborn hope.

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🗺️ Latin American Poetry 💝 Love Poetry 🏠 Everyday Intimacy ⏳ Mortality And Love 🌌 Solitude And Connection

El amor, las mujeres y la vida

Love as daily resistance to death: a poet's half-century of intimacy, absence, and stubborn hope.

— Mario Benedetti 1995 176 стр.

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🗺️ Latin American Poetry 💝 Love Poetry 🏠 Everyday Intimacy ⏳ Mortality And Love 🌌 Solitude And Connection

Ворон

— Эдгар Аллан По • 1845

In a shadowy chamber, a scholar's grief summons a raven whose sole reply damns him to despair.

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🖤 Gothic Poetry 👻 Haunted By Grief 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🐦‍⬛ Ominous Bird 🥀 Unreliable Narrator

Ворон

In a shadowy chamber, a scholar's grief summons a raven whose sole reply damns him to despair.

— Эдгар Аллан По 1845 64 стр.

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🖤 Gothic Poetry 👻 Haunted By Grief 🌀 Descent Into Madness 🐦‍⬛ Ominous Bird 🥀 Unreliable Narrator

Алиса в Зазеркалье

— Льюис Кэрролл • 1871

A girl steps through the parlor mirror to find she is a pawn inside a chessboard.

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📚 Literary Nonsense 🪞 Portal Fantasy 💭 Dreamlike Logic 🐰 Talking Animals 📝 Wordplay And Puns

Алиса в Зазеркалье

A girl steps through the parlor mirror to find she is a pawn inside a chessboard.

— Льюис Кэрролл 1871 92 стр.

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📚 Literary Nonsense 🪞 Portal Fantasy 💭 Dreamlike Logic 🐰 Talking Animals 📝 Wordplay And Puns

Walking in Wonder

— John O'Donohue • 2018

The modern world dulls the soul. Wonder, nature, grief, and aging are the doorways back.

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☘️ Celtic Spirituality 📝 Contemplative Essays 🌳 Nature Mysticism ✨ Sense Of Wonder 🧘 Inner Life

Walking in Wonder

The modern world dulls the soul. Wonder, nature, grief, and aging are the doorways back.

— John O'Donohue 2018 173 стр.

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☘️ Celtic Spirituality 📝 Contemplative Essays 🌳 Nature Mysticism ✨ Sense Of Wonder 🧘 Inner Life

The Complete Memoirs

— Pablo Neruda • 1974

The Nobel poet who turned exile, love, and the Chilean forest into one continuous poem.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🌎 Latin American Literature 🎨 Art And Politics 🏃 Exile And Return ✈️ Travel And Identity

The Complete Memoirs

The Nobel poet who turned exile, love, and the Chilean forest into one continuous poem.

— Pablo Neruda 1974 498 стр.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 🌎 Latin American Literature 🎨 Art And Politics 🏃 Exile And Return ✈️ Travel And Identity

Prometheus Bound

— Aeschylus • 1990

Chained for giving fire to mortals, a Titan holds the secret that could overthrow Zeus.

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🏛️ Greek Tragedy 🏺 Ancient Greece ⚡ Defying The Gods 🔮 Secret Prophecy ✊ Righteous Defiance

Prometheus Bound

Chained for giving fire to mortals, a Titan holds the secret that could overthrow Zeus.

— Aeschylus 1990 144 стр.

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🏛️ Greek Tragedy 🏺 Ancient Greece ⚡ Defying The Gods 🔮 Secret Prophecy ✊ Righteous Defiance

you left me on read

— akhira • 2023

When the reply never arrives, the answer is the one you give yourself.

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💌 Modern Love 📝 Instapoetry 💔 Unrequited Love 🩹 Heartbreak Recovery 💎 Self-Worth Journey

you left me on read

When the reply never arrives, the answer is the one you give yourself.

— akhira 2023 203 стр.

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💌 Modern Love 📝 Instapoetry 💔 Unrequited Love 🩹 Heartbreak Recovery 💎 Self-Worth Journey

Inciting Joy

— Ross Gay • 2022

Why skateboarders share everything: a poet's case for joy in grief and refusal to be useful.

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🎁 Gift Economies 🐢 Slowing Down 💗 Vulnerability 🌱 Transformative Grief 🏫 Unschooling

Inciting Joy

Why skateboarders share everything: a poet's case for joy in grief and refusal to be useful.

— Ross Gay 2022 256 стр.

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🎁 Gift Economies 🐢 Slowing Down 💗 Vulnerability 🌱 Transformative Grief 🏫 Unschooling

The Parent's Tao Te Ching

— William Martin • 1999

What a 2,500-year-old poem says about raising children: try less, trust more, and let them be.

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🧘 Mindful Parenting ☯️ Daoist Wisdom 🪞 Parenting By Example 🌿 Natural Learning 💖 Unconditional Parenting

The Parent's Tao Te Ching

What a 2,500-year-old poem says about raising children: try less, trust more, and let them be.

— William Martin 1999 160 стр.

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🧘 Mindful Parenting ☯️ Daoist Wisdom 🪞 Parenting By Example 🌿 Natural Learning 💖 Unconditional Parenting

The Rigveda

— Anonymous • 1001

Sacred book without a single creation story, terrifying afterlife, or call to renounce the world.

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🕉️ Vedic Religion 🌍 Creation Myths 🪔 Ritual Sacrifice 💀 Death And Afterlife 📜 Sacred Hymns

The Rigveda

Sacred book without a single creation story, terrifying afterlife, or call to renounce the world.

— Anonymous 1001 1728 стр.

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🕉️ Vedic Religion 🌍 Creation Myths 🪔 Ritual Sacrifice 💀 Death And Afterlife 📜 Sacred Hymns

The Pleasures of the Damned

— Charles Bukowski • 2007

A hard-drinking poet buries his tenderness in the grit of L.A.'s gutters and bars.

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🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🍺 Dirty Realism 🥃 Hard-Drinking Narrator 🖤 Gallows Humor 🌴 Mid-Century LA

The Pleasures of the Damned

A hard-drinking poet buries his tenderness in the grit of L.A.'s gutters and bars.

— Charles Bukowski 2007 557 стр.

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🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🍺 Dirty Realism 🥃 Hard-Drinking Narrator 🖤 Gallows Humor 🌴 Mid-Century LA

Coming Home to Myself

— Marion Woodman • 1998

The soul is a well, not a crown. Wholeness through feminine depth, dreams, and body wisdom.

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🧠 Jungian Psychology 🕯️ Feminine Spirituality 🏛️ Depth Psychology 🌑 Shadow Work 💤 Dream Work

Coming Home to Myself

The soul is a well, not a crown. Wholeness through feminine depth, dreams, and body wisdom.

— Marion Woodman 1998 280 стр.

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🧠 Jungian Psychology 🕯️ Feminine Spirituality 🏛️ Depth Psychology 🌑 Shadow Work 💤 Dream Work

Flowers on the Moon

— Billy Chapata • 2020

A poet's hard-won lessons in choosing yourself after losing everyone who demanded you shrink.

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📱 Instagram Poetry 📖 Self-Help Poetry 💖 Self-Love 🧸 Inner Child Work 🚧 Boundary Setting

Flowers on the Moon

A poet's hard-won lessons in choosing yourself after losing everyone who demanded you shrink.

— Billy Chapata 2020 304 стр.

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📱 Instagram Poetry 📖 Self-Help Poetry 💖 Self-Love 🧸 Inner Child Work 🚧 Boundary Setting

Alone

— Megan E. Freeman • 2021

A twelve-year-old wakes to a deserted town, stranded with nothing but a neighbor's rottweiler.

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📖 Novel In Verse 🏝️ Solo Survival 🐕 Girl And Her Dog 🏚️ Abandoned Town 🌫️ Eerie Atmosphere

Alone

A twelve-year-old wakes to a deserted town, stranded with nothing but a neighbor's rottweiler.

— Megan E. Freeman 2021 404 стр.

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📖 Novel In Verse 🏝️ Solo Survival 🐕 Girl And Her Dog 🏚️ Abandoned Town 🌫️ Eerie Atmosphere

The Creative Writing Coursebook

— Julia Bell • 2001

Forty authors teach the exercises and craft tools that turn rough drafts into publishable work.

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✍️ Creative Writing 📝 Writing Exercises 🏫 Workshop Method 👤 Character Development 📐 Story Structure

The Creative Writing Coursebook

Forty authors teach the exercises and craft tools that turn rough drafts into publishable work.

— Julia Bell 2001 449 стр.

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✍️ Creative Writing 📝 Writing Exercises 🏫 Workshop Method 👤 Character Development 📐 Story Structure

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown

— John Lithgow • 2020

A bulbous king demands a crown: satirical poems that rhyme the Trump years into infamy.

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🖋️ Political Poetry 🎭 Satirical Verse 🐘 Trump Presidency ⚠️ Authoritarianism 📺 Media Manipulation

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown

A bulbous king demands a crown: satirical poems that rhyme the Trump years into infamy.

— John Lithgow 2020 104 стр.

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🖋️ Political Poetry 🎭 Satirical Verse 🐘 Trump Presidency ⚠️ Authoritarianism 📺 Media Manipulation

Not Quite What I Was Planning

— Larry Smith • 2008

Six words: thousands wrote their life story in six words. The results are hilarious and devastating.

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📝 Flash Memoir ✍️ Writing Prompts 🔗 Creative Constraints 👥 Collective Memoir 🪞 Reflective Writing

Not Quite What I Was Planning

Six words: thousands wrote their life story in six words. The results are hilarious and devastating.

— Larry Smith 2008 240 стр.

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📝 Flash Memoir ✍️ Writing Prompts 🔗 Creative Constraints 👥 Collective Memoir 🪞 Reflective Writing

Run With the Hunted

— Charles Bukowski • 1994

Childhood beatings, dead-end jobs, cheap wine: an outsider's life in his own poems and stories.

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🚬 Dirty Realism ✍️ Autobiographical Fiction 🍺 Hard Drinking Writer 🎨 Survival Through Art 💸 Down And Out Life

Run With the Hunted

Childhood beatings, dead-end jobs, cheap wine: an outsider's life in his own poems and stories.

— Charles Bukowski 1994 497 стр.

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🚬 Dirty Realism ✍️ Autobiographical Fiction 🍺 Hard Drinking Writer 🎨 Survival Through Art 💸 Down And Out Life

The Cottage Fairy Companion

— Paola Merrill • 2022

You do not need the cottage. The slow life and its wonder are built from the inside out.

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🐌 Slow Living 🍄 Cottagecore ✨ Finding Wonder 🫂 Self-Acceptance 🧘 Introvert Life

The Cottage Fairy Companion

You do not need the cottage. The slow life and its wonder are built from the inside out.

— Paola Merrill 2022 180 стр.

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🐌 Slow Living 🍄 Cottagecore ✨ Finding Wonder 🫂 Self-Acceptance 🧘 Introvert Life

Crank

— Эллен Хопкинс • 2004

At her addict father's, a good girl tries meth and fractures into a reckless double.

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💉 Addiction Fiction 🎭 Verse Novel 👥 Dual Identity 🌀 Good Girl Unraveling 💔 Toxic First Love

Crank

At her addict father's, a good girl tries meth and fractures into a reckless double.

— Эллен Хопкинс 2004 537 стр.

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💉 Addiction Fiction 🎭 Verse Novel 👥 Dual Identity 🌀 Good Girl Unraveling 💔 Toxic First Love

The Book of Healing

— Najwa Zebian • 2021

Let go without giving up: poetic medicine for turning pain into self-knowledge and peace.

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📱 Instapoetry 🕊️ Forgiveness 💎 Self-Worth 📢 Finding Your Voice 🩹 Processing Pain

The Book of Healing

Let go without giving up: poetic medicine for turning pain into self-knowledge and peace.

— Najwa Zebian 2021 288 стр.

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📱 Instapoetry 🕊️ Forgiveness 💎 Self-Worth 📢 Finding Your Voice 🩹 Processing Pain

The Flowers of Evil

— Charles Baudelaire • 1857

Poems that find ecstasy in the gutter, hold you responsible, and turned despair into an art form.

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🥀 French Poetry 🖤 Symbolist Poetry 🥱 Existential Ennui 🌸 Beauty And Decay 🏙️ Urban Alienation

The Flowers of Evil

Poems that find ecstasy in the gutter, hold you responsible, and turned despair into an art form.

— Charles Baudelaire 1857 464 стр.

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🥀 French Poetry 🖤 Symbolist Poetry 🥱 Existential Ennui 🌸 Beauty And Decay 🏙️ Urban Alienation

Writing Poetry To Save Your Life

— Maria Mazziotti Gillan • 2013

Forget the rules. Your story, told honestly, is the poem someone out there needs to read.

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📝 Poetry Writing ✨ Creative Writing 🧱 Creative Blocks 💚 Writing As Healing 🗣️ Personal Storytelling

Writing Poetry To Save Your Life

Forget the rules. Your story, told honestly, is the poem someone out there needs to read.

— Maria Mazziotti Gillan 2013 202 стр.

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📝 Poetry Writing ✨ Creative Writing 🧱 Creative Blocks 💚 Writing As Healing 🗣️ Personal Storytelling

Tales from the Perilous Realm

— J.R.R. Tolkien • 1997

Enchanted dogs, cunning dragons, unfinished paintings: tales where our world meets the fairy realm.

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🎪 Whimsical Fantasy 🏰 Medieval England 🤷 Reluctant Hero 🧚 Fairy Realm 😄 Comic Fantasy

Tales from the Perilous Realm

Enchanted dogs, cunning dragons, unfinished paintings: tales where our world meets the fairy realm.

— J.R.R. Tolkien 1997 178 стр.

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🎪 Whimsical Fantasy 🏰 Medieval England 🤷 Reluctant Hero 🧚 Fairy Realm 😄 Comic Fantasy

Letters on Cézanne

— Rainer Maria Rilke • 1907

One poet's letters on Cézanne: how seeing becomes the artist's hardest and most honest work.

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🖌️ Post-Impressionism 🎨 Art Theory 🌌 Creative Process 👁️ Artistic Perception 📜 Letters On Art

Letters on Cézanne

One poet's letters on Cézanne: how seeing becomes the artist's hardest and most honest work.

— Rainer Maria Rilke 1907 112 стр.

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🖌️ Post-Impressionism 🎨 Art Theory 🌌 Creative Process 👁️ Artistic Perception 📜 Letters On Art

«Зелёные яйца и ветчина» доктора Сьюза

— Роберт Капилоу • 1996

A relentless optimist won't stop until a stubborn grump tries the weirdest breakfast.

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🍽️ Picky Eaters 📜 Rhyming Text 🐣 Early Reader 🔁 Repetitive Narrative ☀️ Relentless Optimism

«Зелёные яйца и ветчина» доктора Сьюза

A relentless optimist won't stop until a stubborn grump tries the weirdest breakfast.

— Роберт Капилоу 1996 96 стр.

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🍽️ Picky Eaters 📜 Rhyming Text 🐣 Early Reader 🔁 Repetitive Narrative ☀️ Relentless Optimism

The Anatomy of Influence

— Harold Bloom • 2011

Literary influence is love with its guard up, and Shakespeare is still winning.

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📝 Literary Criticism 📜 Poetry Studies 🏛️ The Western Canon 🧬 Literary Influence 🌹 Romantic Criticism

The Anatomy of Influence

Literary influence is love with its guard up, and Shakespeare is still winning.

— Harold Bloom 2011 368 стр.

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📝 Literary Criticism 📜 Poetry Studies 🏛️ The Western Canon 🧬 Literary Influence 🌹 Romantic Criticism

How to Write a Song that Matters

— Dar Williams • 2022

Poetic attention, a guiding tone, ruthless editing: turn a spark into a song strangers need.

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🎸 Songwriting Craft 🌱 Creative Process 💡 Finding Inspiration 🎤 Sharing Your Work 🗣️ Creative Mentorship

How to Write a Song that Matters

Poetic attention, a guiding tone, ruthless editing: turn a spark into a song strangers need.

— Dar Williams 2022 289 стр.

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🎸 Songwriting Craft 🌱 Creative Process 💡 Finding Inspiration 🎤 Sharing Your Work 🗣️ Creative Mentorship

Why Bob Dylan Matters

— Richard F. Thomas • 2017

A classicist reveals the ancient texts hidden inside Bob Dylan's most famous lyrics.

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⛓️ Intertextuality 🪕 Folk Revival 🎧 Music Criticism 📝 Lyric Analysis 🏛️ Classical Tradition

Why Bob Dylan Matters

A classicist reveals the ancient texts hidden inside Bob Dylan's most famous lyrics.

— Richard F. Thomas 2017 368 стр.

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⛓️ Intertextuality 🪕 Folk Revival 🎧 Music Criticism 📝 Lyric Analysis 🏛️ Classical Tradition

The Book of (More) Delights

— Ross Gay • 2023

A year of looking closely: when joy and sorrow share the same sentence.

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📝 Lyric Essays 👀 Practice Of Noticing 🙏 Everyday Devotion 🌱 Garden As Teacher 🍂 Midlife Reflection

The Book of (More) Delights

A year of looking closely: when joy and sorrow share the same sentence.

— Ross Gay 2023 301 стр.

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📝 Lyric Essays 👀 Practice Of Noticing 🙏 Everyday Devotion 🌱 Garden As Teacher 🍂 Midlife Reflection

Dear Stranger, I Know How You Feel

— Ashish Bagrecha • 2019

A companion through the dark: self-compassion, gratitude, and purpose you create, not find.

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🖋️ Instapoetry 💗 Self-Compassion 🧠 Cognitive Reframing 🙏 Gratitude Practice 🛤️ Mental Health Journeys

Dear Stranger, I Know How You Feel

A companion through the dark: self-compassion, gratitude, and purpose you create, not find.

— Ashish Bagrecha 2019 198 стр.

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🖋️ Instapoetry 💗 Self-Compassion 🧠 Cognitive Reframing 🙏 Gratitude Practice 🛤️ Mental Health Journeys

Grief Lessons

— Anne Carson

Four Euripidean plays where the gods are cruel, grief is permanent, and the living envy the dead.

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🎭 Greek Tragedy 📜 Verse Drama ⚡ Divine Vengeance 🔥 Feminine Rage 💔 Women In War

Grief Lessons

Four Euripidean plays where the gods are cruel, grief is permanent, and the living envy the dead.

— Anne Carson 312 стр.

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🎭 Greek Tragedy 📜 Verse Drama ⚡ Divine Vengeance 🔥 Feminine Rage 💔 Women In War

William Blake vs the World

— John Higgs • 2021

Blake saw angels and mapped the mind. Modern neuroscience is just catching up.

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🏛️ Romanticism 🔮 Mystical Philosophy 🧠 Consciousness Studies 💫 Ego Dissolution 👁️ Visionary Art

William Blake vs the World

Blake saw angels and mapped the mind. Modern neuroscience is just catching up.

— John Higgs 2021 280 стр.

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🏛️ Romanticism 🔮 Mystical Philosophy 🧠 Consciousness Studies 💫 Ego Dissolution 👁️ Visionary Art

When Women Were Birds

— Terry Tempest Williams • 2012

Her mother's journals arrived after her death: every page blank. The silence became the gift.

4.21

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