Narrative theme: Love & relationships Books

A new collection of poetry by Dannye Romine Powell remains cause for celebration; and her latest, In the Sunroom with Raymond Carver, underscores her abiding reputation as a poet of breathtaking candor and precision, the consummate craftswoman, who...

Have you ever looked at a piece of art, or closed a book, and found yourself left with deep, profound feelings?​Often our lives resonate with unexpected beauty. For Marie, wandering an art museum is like wandering the hearts of artists, seeing...

Her Whole Bright Life is a collection of poems that weave together the trauma and exhaustion of a life lived with disordered eating and the loss and grief of the death of the poet's father. Love and hunger intertwine and become inseparable as the...

Love is the pure connection formed with someone whom at their arrival, of their destination, will take you on a journey. Love Journey is a collection of poetry that will take you to the various directions that love can bring you. It is for anyone who has...

1st Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2020A poignant, poetic memoir written in the wake of the death of the author's parents, celebrating a multicultural life of love and adventure. "I was learning to be the hero of my own story. This...

2nd Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2020Because everybody has a mother. And everybody's going to lose her.A collection of poems inspired by one woman's relationship with her mother, the chapbook My Mother Never Died Before and Other Poems...

2024 International Book Awards Finalist in Poetry"Gail Cloud's unique memoir is written in semi-poetic style of the Greek classics. The reader watches her dance her way past complicated emotional roadblocks, increasingly creative, determined, graceful,...

Singing Is Praying Twice gives voice to an intergenerational community of women."[This poetry collection] is filled with pathos and empathy, populated with memorable characters who alternately amuse, enrage, puzzle, and pull at the heart. Taken...

寂しがり屋ながら自立心の強い女が, やっとある男に出会った。ところが, 「だれか」を愛するということ以上に, 「いったい人の何を愛するのか」がわからない。でも、恋愛のローラーコースターなんて、まっぴらごめん。それを超え、ともに成長していける関係になるには, どうすればいいのだろう？ そう思いながら、孤独、恋愛, 結婚への疑問と向かいあった6年間が紡いだ、101編の詩からなるストーリー。幸せな関係を探してまっすぐに, ときにはユーモアとともにゆるやかに歩んだ, 心の道がつづいています。

The path of life is full of thorns,That erupt in full bloom each day,They prick and prick and each sharp spike,Draws blood along the way.For Stuart Lancaster, life's thorny path throws up many challenges, but will he find a way through and discover what...

In this wonderful book of love poemsVic Hall has written,The meaning of true love and beautyIn all its creation.What is love you ask me? To me love is bliss,Love is beautiful especially the first kiss.Love is sensual, the body, the touch,The feeling of...

Introducing Here to Stay (an Anthology) by Ty Smith, a mesmerizing collection of poems that will sweep readers off their feet. In this remarkable anthology, Ty Smith showcases his poetic prowess, taking readers on an emotional journey through...

Love, Sex and Death... the three major forces of human existence. They liberate us and constrain us. Corvix explores these in all their multifaceted experience through fifty-three poems embracing love, loss, obsession, isolation and regret, and the...

My Cousin's Cousin follows the lives of playboys Emil and Rafael whose carefree existence is disrupted by the arrival of their much younger cousin Ino. Over the next few years, the seemingly glamorous lives of all three will change irrevocably...

MEMOIR OF A GRATEFUL POET is the second book Judy has written. She began composing the poems themselves in her early forties. That was in the early 1980s when she moved from Colorado to California, and the fact that flowers bloomed even in the Wintertime...

The poems in this collection are celebrations of the muse who speaks directly to us. She is described not in the manner of courtly love, from a distance, but up close, from a notion that passion mixed with beauty exists in us all; and how that...

Joe Rossetti is a marketing guru, the very best in the business, and he has made a lot of money.But one night, standing at the bar at the Smokehouse Restaurant in Burbank, California, he meets Nancy and everything changes. A brilliant...

Becoming... : Poetic Reflections Looking Back At It All is an insightful collection of original poetic expressions that evolved over years of personal journal jottings. The 290 topics reflect a wide variety of life experiences and recognize that...

Inspired by the Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge, two authors set out to pen a contemporary homage to this timeless collection. As the collaboration progresses, however, the poetry and the unique narrative it carries takes on a life of its own...

A collection of bold lyrics to make your heart burst, these intense portrayals of love are inadvertently excessive, just like our feelings always are, when we are vulnerable, in love. Originally written in 2011 after releasing his debut...

¿Puede el amor vencer la cobardía? ¿Puede la bondad conquistar el amor?Carlota, joven madre separada no espera una nueva relación sentimental. Es feliz con sus hijos y su brillante carrera periodística. Todo cambia cuando conoce a Mateo, artista...

  Sailing and the Eastern Seaboard are the inspiration for shared emotional connections and conveying a sense of place in this debut collection of poems with themes of love and romance, unrequited love and nostalgia, father and...

Our journeys mirror nature in many ways, especially the changing of the seasons. Sometimes our hearts radiate with warmth from the summer sun. Sometimes out hearts freeze over and shatter from the winter frost. Our hearts feel every ripple and every...

What you're holding in your hands is testament to a lifetime of witty, wry, poignant, and gripping insights on topics that demand honesty, courage, humor, and resolve. Aging. Honor. Dying. Love. Fatherhood. Poetry. Cipriano is as at home penning an...

A Secret in a Distant Place is Zhang Guan’s first collection of poems, the poetry collection includes modern poems written by Zhang Guan from 2005 to 2010, the traditional Chinese edition of the book was published in 2015.AfterwordWriting poems is...

本书集结作家高覠罄141篇新诗与1短篇文章。每个夜晚，她都用自己的美图将他的梦境描绘成星光闪耀；每个清晨，他都用自己的诗文将她的心园装点成风花雪月。他和她隔山隔水，却心心相印。诗是生活的回忆，也是他和她的故事的记载。高覠罄，本名高峻卿，于1983年山西大学历史系毕业后即到西藏亚东工作，后又回到山西侯马，相继从事教育、新闻、机关各种工作。虽然长期身处基层，但勤奋笔耕，近年来作品有山西人民出版社出版的调研文集《窗台上的一抹春色》、历史文化研究文集《女人，改变了历史》和长篇小说《家有老大》、《为你落凡尘》和诗集...

Out of the maelstrom of a daughter's heroin addiction come these gripping poems of love and powerlessness, tenacity and surrender, brokenness and resilience. In The Heroin Addict's Mother, Miriam Greenspan, eminent psychologist and author of the...

This book is a compilation of the emotions and feelings that remain unspoken and subsequently 'unheard'. The author writes her unfiltered and in-depth thoughts as she experiences different seasons of life, and hopes to take you all on a poetic journey of...

Sexy Mush is a collection of poems by author and poet, LH Maloney, a man who knows what wonders stir inside all of us about love, life, and everything in between. With his words, he pulls one's feelings up to the surface; up and out to behold, languish,...

Pulling traditional forms into the 21st century, Alison Stone uses pantoums, ghazals, a jeweled sonnet crown, and other structures to explore the subjects of contemporary life. Love, sex, family, politics, and the pandemic are both confined and liberated...

In Between Twilight Post delves deep into the difficult journeys of everyday life and intersects those with the difficult maps of the past. There are "atrocities in the body" and many ways a person can falter, fall or rise from "the hue of an unseen self...

How far would you go to protect your child? An absorbing new novel of psychological suspense by the author of Venus Was Her Name.Three friends at pivotal points in their lives have some serious decisions to make . . .Gina is struggling...

Dopo una notte nera, di incubi ed insonnie, passata tra una poltrona, una finestra, una birra, un sigaro, un boccale di distillato al peperoncino, un panettone, una musica jazz, una pisciata, una telefonata alla stronzetta di turno, una mezza bottiglia...

From the sick and twisted mind of Ryan Reeves comes Poems from the Bathroom Wall. This book is original content in the style of the writings you may find on the wall in public restrooms. In this volume every filthy bathroom hi-jink and sexual practice is...

Bubblegum Daydreams is a pop music project from another timeline. Somewhere in the vastness of the multiverse, another version of the author is the world's greatest pop-star; crooning about love, sex, art, fame, and pain. This lyrical and melodic book is...

"For hundreds of years the description of love was left to poets and novelists. For example, here is Jane Austen showing how lovers behaved differently than the rest of us:"For though a very few hours spent in the hard labour of incessant talking will...

Springtime is in full swing as the town of Tranquil Springs comes out of hibernation. With blossoming flowers comes the hope of life made new and fresh. What better way to brighten your life than to marry the one you love?But will everything always be...

Songs in the Key of Misery is a bold collection of poems about love, heartbreak, vulnerability, and healing. This spectacular piece on complex human experiences is calming yet provocative and uniquely grasps a range of feelings and emotions while tugging...

Eb and flow, sable to indigoA journey abrupt, stretching endlessThrough a maze darkened senselessEb and flow, sable to indigoA journey fleeting, prolonging deathlessThrough grayed lobes wrought defenseless- Nicholas M. Abdo

Diary of a Foreigner Hendrika's exposure to an inexplicable experience early one morning shatters her perception of life. How was she ever going to share it with anybody?Her children were growing up, moving from primary school to high school, followed by...

i neverhad muchbut i had hopeand i thinkthat's whatsaved meFilled with heartbreak and healing, Hope Looks A Lot Like Me is a poignant poetry collection about finding love, losing love, and learning how to live after love. Inspired by stories and Nada's...

For Joan L. Marshall, there are powerful metaphors buried in the word "mud." Not just the natural material that squelches under a child's bare feet when playing at the beach, but complex memories of coming of age in her native Barbados. Sun, Sky, Sea,...

This book is for you, as much as the poems are directly about me, believe me it is for you. To encourage you to write your own stories and your own poetry. To remember your grade 5 self that their words matter, that you matter. This book is for you; the...