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

av 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.

av Haemin Sunim

4.36

2 000+ betyg

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

The Rumi Prescription

av Melody Moezzi • 2020

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

4.18

500+

📜 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.

av Melody Moezzi 2020 304 sidor

4.18

500+ betyg

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

The Way of Rest

av Jeff Foster • 2016

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

4.45

287

🫂 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.

av Jeff Foster 2016 352 sidor

4.45

287 betyg

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

On Drinking

av Charles Bukowski • 2019

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

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1 000+

🍺 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.

av Charles Bukowski 2019 263 sidor

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1 000+ betyg

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

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

av Charles Bukowski • 1986

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

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19 000+

🖋️ 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.

av Charles Bukowski 1986 320 sidor

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

Där trottoaren slutar

av Shel Silverstein • 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

Där trottoaren slutar

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

av Shel Silverstein 1974 176 sidor

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1 000 000+ betyg

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

Samtliga berättelser och dikter

av Edgar Allan Poe • 1849

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

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200 000+

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

Samtliga berättelser och dikter

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

av Edgar Allan Poe 1849 821 sidor

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200 000+ betyg

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

Reflections of a Man

av Amari Soul • 2015

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

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6 000+

💌 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.

av Amari Soul 2015 278 sidor

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6 000+ betyg

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

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

av Sylvia Plath • 2000

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

4.28

26 000+

🎭 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.

av Sylvia Plath 2000 732 sidor

4.28

26 000+ betyg

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

Unlearn

av Humble the Poet • 2014

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

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3 000+

🧘 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.

av Humble the Poet 2014 320 sidor

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3 000+ betyg

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

El amor, las mujeres y la vida

av Mario Benedetti • 1995

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

4.21

6 000+

🗺️ 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.

av Mario Benedetti 1995 176 sidor

4.21

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

Korpen

av Edgar Allan Poe • 1845

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

4.29

100 000+

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

Korpen

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

av Edgar Allan Poe 1845 64 sidor

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

Alice i Spegellandet

av Lewis Carroll • 1871

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

4.01

100 000+

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

Alice i Spegellandet

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

av Lewis Carroll 1871 92 sidor

4.01

100 000+ betyg

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

Walking in Wonder

av John O'Donohue • 2018

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

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1 000+

☘️ 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.

av John O'Donohue 2018 173 sidor

4.45

1 000+ betyg

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

The Complete Memoirs

av Pablo Neruda • 1974

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

4.16

4 000+

🖋️ 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.

av Pablo Neruda 1974 498 sidor

4.16

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

Prometheus Bound

av Aeschylus • 1990

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

3.94

22 000+

🏛️ 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.

av Aeschylus 1990 144 sidor

3.94

22 000+ betyg

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

you left me on read

av akhira • 2023

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

3.73

1 000+

💌 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.

av akhira 2023 203 sidor

3.73

1 000+ betyg

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

Inciting Joy

av Ross Gay • 2022

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

4.13

5 000+

🎁 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.

av Ross Gay 2022 256 sidor

4.13

5 000+ betyg

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

The Parent's Tao Te Ching

av William Martin • 1999

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

4.53

1 000+

🧘 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.

av William Martin 1999 160 sidor

4.53

1 000+ betyg

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

The Rigveda

av Anonymous • 1001

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

3.92

1 000+

🕉️ 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.

av Anonymous 1001 1728 sidor

3.92

1 000+ betyg

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

The Pleasures of the Damned

av Charles Bukowski • 2007

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

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7 000+

🖋️ 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.

av Charles Bukowski 2007 557 sidor

4.35

7 000+ betyg

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

Coming Home to Myself

av Marion Woodman • 1998

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

4.26

297

🧠 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.

av Marion Woodman 1998 280 sidor

4.26

297 betyg

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

Flowers on the Moon

av Billy Chapata • 2020

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

4.10

4 000+

📱 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.

av Billy Chapata 2020 304 sidor

4.10

4 000+ betyg

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

Alone

av Megan E. Freeman • 2021

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

4.13

22 000+

📖 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.

av Megan E. Freeman 2021 404 sidor

4.13

22 000+ betyg

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

The Creative Writing Coursebook

av Julia Bell • 2001

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

3.95

363

✍️ 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.

av Julia Bell 2001 449 sidor

3.95

363 betyg

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

Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown

av John Lithgow • 2020

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

4.21

1 000+

🖋️ 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.

av John Lithgow 2020 104 sidor

4.21

1 000+ betyg

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

Not Quite What I Was Planning

av Larry Smith • 2008

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

3.89

3 000+

📝 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.

av Larry Smith 2008 240 sidor

3.89

3 000+ betyg

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

Run With the Hunted

av Charles Bukowski • 1994

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

4.26

4 000+

🚬 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.

av Charles Bukowski 1994 497 sidor

4.26

4 000+ betyg

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

Crank

av Ellen Hopkins • 2004

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

4.16

100 000+

💉 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.

av Ellen Hopkins 2004 537 sidor

4.16

100 000+ betyg

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

The Book of Healing

av Najwa Zebian • 2021

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

4.35

500+

📱 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.

av Najwa Zebian 2021 288 sidor

4.35

500+ betyg

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

The Cottage Fairy Companion

av 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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1 000+

🐌 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.

av Paola Merrill 2022 180 sidor

4.29

1 000+ betyg

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

The Flowers of Evil

av Charles Baudelaire • 1857

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

4.19

82 000+

🥀 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.

av Charles Baudelaire 1857 464 sidor

4.19

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

Tales from the Perilous Realm

av J.R.R. Tolkien • 1997

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

4.07

12 000+

🎪 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.

av J.R.R. Tolkien 1997 178 sidor

4.07

12 000+ betyg

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

Writing Poetry To Save Your Life

av Maria Mazziotti Gillan • 2013

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

4.10

178

📝 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.

av Maria Mazziotti Gillan 2013 202 sidor

4.10

178 betyg

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

Letters on Cézanne

av Rainer Maria Rilke • 1907

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

4.16

500+

🖌️ 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.

av Rainer Maria Rilke 1907 112 sidor

4.16

500+ betyg

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

Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham

av Robert Kapilow • 1996

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

4.48

100 000+

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

Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham

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

av Robert Kapilow 1996 96 sidor

4.48

100 000+ betyg

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

The Anatomy of Influence

av Harold Bloom • 2011

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

3.93

477

📝 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.

av Harold Bloom 2011 368 sidor

3.93

477 betyg

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

How to Write a Song that Matters

av Dar Williams • 2022

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

4.15

163

🎸 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.

av Dar Williams 2022 289 sidor

4.15

163 betyg

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

The Book of (More) Delights

av Ross Gay • 2023

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

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2 000+

📝 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.

av Ross Gay 2023 301 sidor

4.25

2 000+ betyg

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

Why Bob Dylan Matters

av Richard F. Thomas • 2017

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

3.74

1 000+

⛓️ 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.

av Richard F. Thomas 2017 368 sidor

3.74

1 000+ betyg

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

Dear Stranger, I Know How You Feel

av Ashish Bagrecha • 2019

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

3.84

1 000+

🖋️ 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.

av Ashish Bagrecha 2019 198 sidor

3.84

1 000+ betyg

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

Grief Lessons

av Anne Carson

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

4.38

2 000+

🎭 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.

av Anne Carson 312 sidor

4.38

2 000+ betyg

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

William Blake vs the World

av John Higgs • 2021

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

4.15

1 000+

🏛️ 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.

av John Higgs 2021 280 sidor

4.15

1 000+ betyg

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

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

av Nick Flynn • 2004

His estranged father walked into the shelter where he worked. Helping him meant becoming him.

3.80

11 000+

👤 Absent Fathers 🏚️ Homelessness In America 🍷 Addiction And Family 🩹 Memoir Of Recovery 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

His estranged father walked into the shelter where he worked. Helping him meant becoming him.

av Nick Flynn 2004 347 sidor

3.80

11 000+ betyg

👤 Absent Fathers 🏚️ Homelessness In America 🍷 Addiction And Family 🩹 Memoir Of Recovery 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma

When Women Were Birds

av Terry Tempest Williams • 2012

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

4.21

9 000+

📖 Lyric Essay 🗣️ Finding Voice 🤫 Women's Silence 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🌿 Nature As Teacher

When Women Were Birds

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

av Terry Tempest Williams 2012 224 sidor

4.21

9 000+ betyg

📖 Lyric Essay 🗣️ Finding Voice 🤫 Women's Silence 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🌿 Nature As Teacher

The Calm Center

av Steve Taylor • 2015

That gnawing restlessness you carry is not a flaw. It is the beginning of waking up.

4.32

263

📜 Meditative Poetry ✨ Spiritual Awakening 🧘 Mindfulness Practice 🍂 Non-Attachment 🎭 Ego Transcendence

The Calm Center

That gnawing restlessness you carry is not a flaw. It is the beginning of waking up.

av Steve Taylor 2015 128 sidor

4.32

263 betyg

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The Practice of Poetry

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90 poetry exercises for practicing imagery, sound, and the revision that outlasts inspiration.

4.06

1 000+

🖋️ Poetic Craft 🏫 Poetry Workshops 📝 Writing Exercises 🔓 Creative Unblocking 🖼️ Imagery And Metaphor

The Practice of Poetry

90 poetry exercises for practicing imagery, sound, and the revision that outlasts inspiration.

av Robin Behn 1992 300 sidor

4.06

1 000+ betyg

🖋️ Poetic Craft 🏫 Poetry Workshops 📝 Writing Exercises 🔓 Creative Unblocking 🖼️ Imagery And Metaphor

Essential Sufism

av James Fadiman • 1997

The heart of Sufism: love, remembrance, and service dissolve the wall between self and God.

4.07

500+

📿 Islamic Mysticism 📚 Spiritual Anthologies 🙏 Devotional Practice 🦋 Self-Transformation 🎭 Mystical Poetry

Essential Sufism

The heart of Sufism: love, remembrance, and service dissolve the wall between self and God.

av James Fadiman 1997 288 sidor

4.07

500+ betyg

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Shark Girl

av Kelly Bingham • 2007

A shark takes her drawing arm. Now she must learn who she is without it.

3.85

3 000+

🖋️ Novel In Verse 🦾 Acquired Disability 🎨 Artist Protagonist 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🕊️ Quiet And Lyrical

Shark Girl

A shark takes her drawing arm. Now she must learn who she is without it.

av Kelly Bingham 2007 288 sidor

3.85

3 000+ betyg

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

av Omar Khayyám • 1120

Facing the certainty of death, a Persian poet prescribes wine, love, and acceptance of the moment.

4.17

23 000+

🍷 Carpe Diem 📜 Persian Poetry 💀 Memento Mori 🏛️ Epicurean Wisdom 🤲 Acceptance Of Fate

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Facing the certainty of death, a Persian poet prescribes wine, love, and acceptance of the moment.

av Omar Khayyám 1120 52 sidor

4.17

23 000+ betyg

🍷 Carpe Diem 📜 Persian Poetry 💀 Memento Mori 🏛️ Epicurean Wisdom 🤲 Acceptance Of Fate

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