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by Hollie McNish (Author)'This book should be required reading for anyone thinking of having a baby, or even anyone who knows someone who is thinking of having a baby'Scotland on Sunday 'Fascinating and honest'Mumsnet 'Like talking to a friend'ObserverWinner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry There were many things that Hollie McNish didn't know before she was pregnant. How her family and friends would react; that Mr Whippy would be off the menu; how quickly ice can melt on a stom...

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by Liz Ison (Compiled by)Soothe your spirit with this emotional, romantic, must-have collection, an homage to some of the poets and writers who have inspired Taylor Swift. This collection of timeless poems is a beautiful introduction to the passionate words that have inspired artists and lyricists for generations. Discover poetry that overflows with folklore, love, heartbreak, revenge, and peace - the perfect balm for any tortured soul. Featuring poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dick...

Rival Wisdoms: Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales - Hardcover

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by Nancy Mason Bradbury (Author)In this elegantly written study, Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucer's last and most ambitious work in the context of a zeal for proverbs that was still rising in his day. Rival Wisdoms demonstrates that for Chaucer's contemporaries, these tiny embedded microgenres could be potent, disruptive, and sometimes even incendiary.In order to understand Chaucer's use of proverbs and their reception by premodern readers, we must set aside post-Romantic prejudices agai...

Veinte Poemas de Amor Y Una Canción Desesperada Y Cien Sonetos de Amor / Twen Ty Love Poems and a Song of Despair and One Hundred Love Sonnets - Hardcover

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by Pablo Neruda (Author)Premio Nobel de Literatura"El más grande poeta del siglo xx en cualquier idioma". --Gabriel García Márquez Un gran éxito desde el mismo momento de su publicación en 1924 cuando el autor contaba con tan solo diecinueve años, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada causó un fuerte revuelo en la conservadora sociedad chilena debido a su franco retrato de la relación del autor con dos mujeres. Se convirtió inmediatamente en una de las colecciones de poesía más leíd...

Footprints: An Interactive Journey Through One of the Most Beloved Poems of All Time - Hardcover

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by Margaret Fishback Powers (Author)Footprints: An Interactive Journey Through One of the Most Beloved Poems of All Time explores each line of Margaret Fishback Powers' timeless poem that highlights the ways God cares for people who are hurting or lonely. Now with a repackaged four-color design and new journaling and list prompts, the poem that has touched so many lives is available for a new generation of readers.Inside this new edition you'll find: a feature spread containing the entire "F...

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by Kim Fernandes (Author) One of the most familiar popular poems and stories for children is Clement C. Moore's 1823 work A Visit From St Nicholas, which begins: 'Twas the night before Christmas When all through the house Not a creature was stirring, Not even a mouse. . . . and it is so familiar that phrases from it -- like "visions of sugar plums danced in their heads" have become part of our shared memories of warm holidays of the past. Kim Fernandes has illustrated Moore's poem with am...

Eat the World: A Collection of Poems - Hardcover

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by Marina Diamandis (Author)For the first time, platinum-certified singer-songwriter Marina shares her singular observations of the human heart through poetry; this collection is essential. Marina's talent for powerful, evocative song lyrics finds a new outlet in her poetry. Each poem resonates with the same creative melodies and emotional depth that have made her an artistic sensation. Hailed by The New York Times for "redefining songs about coming of age, and the aftermath, with bluntness ...

Veterans: Heroes in Our Neighborhood - Hardcover

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by Valarie Pfundstein (Author), Aaron Anderson (Illustrator) Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9.4 x 11.6 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2024

Czeslaw Milosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity - Hardcover

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by Stanley Bill (Author)This book presents Czeslaw Milosz's poetic philosophy of the body as an original defense of religious faith, transcendence, and the value of the human individual against what he viewed as dangerous modern forms of materialism. The Polish Nobel laureate saw the reductive "biologization" of human life as a root cause of the historical tragedies he had witnessed under Nazi German and Soviet regimes in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. The book argues that his ...

The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Matore (Author)Is poetry a visual art? Why do the pages of nineteenth-century poetry look so different to those of twentieth-century verse? Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print--from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface--is one of the defining ways in which poetry was modernized in the twentieth century. While the visual experiments of European poets have been well documented, the typographical explorations of poets writing in En...

Women in Martial: A Semiotic Reading - Hardcover

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by Ilaria Marchesi (Author)Women in Martial is the first monograph to treat the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams in a systematic way. In this volume, Marchesi proposes a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age, presenting an interplay between close readings of Martial's poems and their contextualization through legal, historiographic, rhetorical, and grammatical discussions. This book discusses the social roles assigned to women in Roman soc...

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by Cecil Gray (Author) Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2014

Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light - Hardcover

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by Kelvin Everest (Author)Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light combines unrivalled textual knowledge, biographical and contextual expertise, and profoundly insightful close readings of the poetry in a selection of outstanding essays from a leading critic of English Romantic Poetry. Some of the essays have been previously published and are established as classic studies, which have strongly influenced scholarly interpretation of the poems they discuss, including landmark readings of Shelley's Pro...

What Rosalind Likes: Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English Verse - Hardcover

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by Paul J. Hecht (Author)What Rosalind Likes begins with the strange ferocity of Elizabethan responses to poetry: a woman named Rosalind expresses scorn for a shepherd's poems, and a character in a play loses his temper and storms off stage at the sound of a blank verse line. What are these people so angry about? Thus begins a journey into a world where the details of poetic form and vagaries of Latin translation are caught up in the dynamics of gender, sexuality, class, and race, and power, ...

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by Diane Raptosh (Author)Pointing the way to what Montaigne called unlearning how to be a slave, Human Directional teaches us how to be free. With the deadly precision of the fey, it reveals the heartbreak and absurdity of our world by exploring--and often exploding--its most sacred memes. Diane Raptosh writes for lovers of poetry, books, words, mountains, and people who are worried about the world.Diane Raptosh's American Amnesiac (Etruscan Press) was longlisted for the 2013 National Book Aw...

The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums

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Report copyright infringementby Nicola J. Watson (Author)The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through the conventions of the writer's house museum, The Author's Effects anatomises the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of author...

Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836 - Hardcover

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by Simon Bainbridge (Author)This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 1802. It argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Walter Scott were central to the activity's evolution. It explores how ...

Reading Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Prose Poem - Hardcover

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by Seth Whidden (Author)Through its readings of Charles Baudelaire's collection Le Spleen de Paris and other prose poems from the nineteenth century, this book considers the practice of reading prose poetry and how it might be different from reading poetry in verse. Among the numerous factors that helped shape the nascent modernity in Baudelaire's poetic prose are the poems' themes, forms, linguistic qualities, and modes. The contradictions identifiable at the level of prose poetry's discours...

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on - Hardcover

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by Franny Choi (Author)Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift Pick One of: Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022" * NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022"A Goodreads Readers Choice Award SemifinalistFrom acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, and future. Choi's third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to ea...

Before Whiteness: City Lights Spotlight No. 21 - Paperback

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by D. S. Marriott (Author)Volume 21 in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series: A searing indictment of anti-Black social and political violence by British Jamaican poet and leading scholar of Afro-pessimism D.S. Marriott.A book that turns Blackness into a question of reading, of inscribing and decoding Blackness in poetry, Before Whiteness ranges from medieval Beowulf to contemporary UK grime. Born in Britain but now living in the U.S., D.S. Marriott trains his analytical gaze on grim Americ...

Skiing with Dostoyevsky: New and Selected Poems - Paperback

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by David Axelrod (Author)This volume brings together pieces from David Axelrod's previous nine collections along with thirty-two brilliant new poems--the whole a kind of symphonic effort to clarify the unity of consciousness, water, wind, and stone--all life, in fact, and the planet itself. These poems are powerful meditations. To read them is to enter into an act of praise driven by intelligence and an unfailingly accurate ear for what might be called the melody of meaning. Number of Pages: ...

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by Raisa Tolchinsky (Author)Striking and big-hearted, Glass Jaw depicts the grit and glamor of women's boxing based on the poet's time training as a fighter in New York City. Beginning on the ropes, fighting back against the limitations of gender, Raisa Tolchinsky situates us within the dynamic context of the boxing gym, through both a chorus of named women boxers and a single fighter battling for her selfhood. In a Dantean reimagining, we follow the boxer as she descends into the hellish "ri...

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by Renée Sarojini Saklikar (Author)One afternoon, in an old house in an abandoned village on the outskirts of Perimeter, in the place they call Pacifica, Bramah and the beggar boy find fragments of an ancient text. Hunched over scraps of parchment and broken computer disks, they blow the dust off a cover, and so our story begins. Many things happen--some good, but mostly bad--including five eco-catastrophes and a viral bio-contagion. Steeped in the tradition of fairy tales, THOT J BAP (The He...

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Report copyright infringementby Czeslaw Milosz (Author), Robert Hass &. David Frick (Translator), Robert Hass (Foreword by)A new collection of work from Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz that includes previously untranslated poems written during his time in Washington, D.C., and his years in Europe before and after.One of the most revered poets of the twentieth century, Czeslaw Milosz famously bore witness to violence in his native Poland in the aftermath of World War II. Milosz lived in exil...

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by Lorna Dee Cervantes (Author)Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes's first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency. Rooted in her Chicana heritage, these poems illuminate the American experience of the last quarter century and, at a time when much of what is merely fashionable in American poetry is recondite and exclusive, Cervantes has the ability to speak to and for a large audience.Author BiographyLorna Dee Cervantes is the a...

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by Randall Horton (Author)"Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or slant rhyme," remarks the speaker, Maryland Department of Corrections prisoner {#289-128}, early in this haunting collection. Three sections -- {#289-128} Property of the State, {#289-128} Poet-in-Residence (Cell 23), and {#289-128} Poet in New York -- frame the countless ways in which the narrator's body and life are socially...

Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays - Paperback

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by A. C. Cawley (Editor)God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the Innocents Miracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic and dramatic tradition on which Shakespeare drew. Everyman discovers what you can't take with you when you go. He beseeches in turn friends, family (one pleads 'cramp in my toe'), possessions ('I follow n...

Field Guide for Accidents: Poems - Paperback

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by Albert Abonado (Author), Mahogany L. Browne (Foreword by)SELECTED BY MAHOGANY L. BROWNE FOR THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES An irreverent poetry collection that wrestles with questions of family, mortality, cultural history, and identity from the Filipinx-American experience "you showed him your teeth, you dared him to look into your mouth to see the metal bands straightening your jaw into an American smile."--from Field Guide for Accidents Born in the United States to Filipino immigrants, poe...

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by Susan Parr (Author)"Pacific Shooter is a book of transformations as insubordinate and subversive as Ovid's Metamorphoses -- and with all the taste and twang of a new language. The bourgeois reader will hate it: there's too much magic, too much genius, too much linguistic bliss." -- Susan Mitchell, from her judge's citation"Susan Parr's poetry is an orchestra of rim-shots and flashbang intimacy. 'Wind a sheet around all, ' she croons in this vivid collection, 'then bring into the dark this ...

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Report copyright infringementby DK (Author)An accessible guide to the most important poems ever written-- from the Epic of Gilgamesh to The Waste Land--and the poets behind them Discover the key themes and ideas behind the most important poems ever written, and the poetic geniuses who wrote them. The perfect introduction to poetry, The Poetry Book takes you on a fascinating journey through time to explore more than 90 of the world's greatest poetic works. Discover poems in all their many guis...

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Report copyright infringementby Samantha Pious (Translator), Renee Vivien (Author)* Finalist for the Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew Prize Renée Vivien (née Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877-1909) was an English expatriate who made her home in Paris during the Belle Époque. In 1903, Vivien's collection of translations and adaptations from the Ancient Greek poetry of Sappho became one of the first works of modern European lesbian literature to be published by a lesbian writer under her real name. This ...

A Beautiful Composition of Broken - Paperback

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by R. H. Sin (Author)r.h. Sin, bestselling author of the Whiskey, Words & a Shovel series, returns with a collection of poetry and prose meant to remind the wounded that they are, in fact, beautiful in a way society may never comprehend. A Beautiful Composition of Broken is inspired by some of the events expressed artistically by Samantha King in the bestseller Born to Love, Cursed to Feel. It serves as a poetic documentary of the lives of people who have been mistreated, misunderstood, a...