Priceless lessons, that only mistakes and sorrow can teach, leap out from the middle part of the book with the forethought to heal an inner wound that is still raw, still painful. This book of yearning, heartache and realisations gradually comes to a beautiful end in part three by unveiling how love is supposed to look like when it truly enters one’s life. By expressing some of the sweet feelings of falling in love and being consumed by it in this last section, with the right person this time, the aim of the book is one: to give hope to souls that propels them to the continuous search for Love. True Love. Throughout this book, loss, lessons and love have been portrayed in a brief, whimsical, poetic manner with meanings that are intensely deep.

    He's ready to see you through to the end.

    Mad Woman, Anchors & Vacancies, Redamancy, and most of Throes are sectioned here to take you on a journey. From madness to love and the heartache in between, it's all here.

    52 laws of love by Himanshu Goel (author of A Rational Boy in Love) is a journey of love in 52 poems through all its aspects, from the honeymoon, to the sacrifices, to the bitter end and forever after.

    Her work combines the spiritual desperation of Dickinson with the rhetorical virtuosity of Wallace Stevens. The result is a poetry at once ornate and intense; linguistically marvelous, yes, but also as visceral as anything you are likely to encounter."—Tony Hoagland"In poems striking for their vivid, playful, and original use of the imagination, [Mary Ruefle] brings us an often unnerving, but always fresh and exhilarating view of our common experience of the world."—Charles SimicSelected Poems brings together the finest work from Mary Ruefle's distinguished and inimitable poetic career, showcasing the arc of her development as one of the most expert, surprising, and hilarious practitioners of the art. Anyone who wishes for poetry to be both richly challenging and thoroughly entertaining need look no further than this monolithic retrospective by a contemporary master.Mary Ruefle, winner of the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award for Selected Poems, has published ten books of poetry, a book of prose (The Most of It, Wave Books, 2008), and a comic book; she is also an erasure artist whose treatments of nineteenth-century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries, and published in A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006). Mary is the recipient of numerous honors, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont, and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.

    . . a young woman who . . . rose from the dead to become, in ten driven years, the best - the most exciting and influential, the most ruthlessly original poet of her generation." -- John UpdikeOf the many American poets who reached her zenith in the last few decades, perhaps none looms so large as the legendary Sylvia Plath. Consummately crafted, Plath's poetry is stormy but luminous, sharp but poignant. This unique, compelling and intriguing recording has been heralded as "a significant tribute to and record of the lyric art that Sylvia Plath left to the literary heritage of America." (Booklist)Contents:The Ghost's LeavetakingNovember GraveyardOn the Plethora of DryadsThe Moon Was a Fat Woman OnceNocturneChild's Park StonesThe Earthenware HeadOn the Difficulty of Conjuring up a DryadGreen Rock--Winthrop BayOn the Decline of OraclesThe GoringOuijaThe Beggars of Benidorm MarketSculptorThe Disquieting MusesSpinsterParliament Hill FieldsThe StonesCandlesMushroomsBerck-plageThe Surgeon at 2 A.M.

    Alix has returned for her mother's death and to receive her dying wish. Joseph, an American architect, is there to build a hotel. Both are hiding a great deal - from others and from themselves.

    It can often seem like there's no way things will ever get better. I wrote this book to remind you that it will, and to give you some comfort and hope along the way. May you find the healing and love your heart deserves. -Illiana Cenjur

    With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.

    It is 1989 and Community Care is about to reboot the industry of psychiatry. In a soon-to-be-closed asylum a bruised nurse, Adam Sands, is feeling less like a purveyor of kindness and more like a concentration camp guard with every passing drink. Many years later Adam has got used to the quiet life when his past finds him. Maybe this time he can do some good. Even make a diference. But redemption, like magic, can come from the strangest of places.

    Or is it? He's not sure, he doesn't really care. It might be his last day or the beginning of a new chapter in his life. He must find the key to his old room. He knows the truth about his past lies there and somehow he must get in and confront it.Over a million Rose Tremain books sold‘A writer of exceptional talent ... Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion’ Independent I‘There are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain’ Irish Times‘Tremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master, and she uses it to stunning effect’ The Times'Rose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists' Salman Rushdie‘Tremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity. The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness’ Marcel Theroux, Guardian

    "Shroud of the Gnome" is a bravura performance in Tate's signature style: playful, wicked, deliriously sober, charming, and dazzling. Here, once again, one of America's most masterful poets celebrates the inexplicable in his own strange tongue.

    But that wasn’t her only form of release. Her journal was another form of escape, the one place she could always be herself. While reading Jessica’s poetry you can follow her journey down the path of pain, sadness, love, loss, THERAPY, and, ultimately, healing. *This is a book of poetry, not a novel, and includes THERAPY Extras. Readers of the novel THERAPY are sure to love this companion. *BONUS MATERIAL INCLUDES: A collection of favorite THERAPY quotes and an excerpt from THERAPY Ever After, the continuation of Jessica's story that will release later in 2014.