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Report copyright infringementby Lauren Strain (Editor), Chris Holdaway (Editor), Minarets Journal (Author)Minarets is a journal of poetry based in Auckland, New Zealand. Gregory Kan Jamie Robertson Amber Knox Katie Winny Vincenzo Anastasia Alex Taylor Chris Holdaway Sarah Natalie Webster Rebecca Nash Number of Pages: 52 Dimensions: 0.12 x 7.99 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 17, 2012

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Holdaway (Editor), Lauren Strain (Editor), Minarets Journal (Author)Minarets is a journal of poetry based in Auckland, New Zealand. http: //minaretsjournal.com Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle Richard Osler Eden Bradfield Katie Winny Mark Pirie Megan Towey Cameron Churchill Lynley Edmeades Magnolia Wilson Alex Taylor Lauren Strain Oliver Quincy Page Number of Pages: 66 Dimensions: 0.16 x 7.99 x 5 IN Publication Date: Novem...

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Report copyright infringementby Saad Abdullah Sowayan (Author)Nabati Poetry: The Oral Poetry of Arabia offers a deep exploration of a vibrant poetic tradition that has long captured the cultural and social essence of Arabia. Rooted in the central region of Najd, Nabati poetry serves as a vernacular artistic expression of the Arabian Peninsula, blending historical narrative, tribal ethos, and personal emotion into its verse. This book illuminates the profound role Nabati poetry has played as a...

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Report copyright infringementby Myron Simon (Author)T. S. Eliot, in his 1961 address "To Criticize the Critic," admitted that his early critiques of Georgian poetry were partly motivated by a desire to defend the Modernist poetry he and his peers championed. This personal insight reflects a broader pattern where critics, advocating for successive waves of "new" poetry in the 1920s through 1940s, often targeted the Georgians as symbols of outdated literary styles. Figures like Day Lewis used d...

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Report copyright infringementby Joel Collishaw (Author)Discover poetry like you've never seen it before. A youthful, modern approach with over 100 Titles on Life, Love, Death, Sex, Broken Hearts, Confusion, Drugs, and Suicide. Titles include Black Butterfly, The Rose, Misunderstood, The Vampire Inside Me, A Thirst For Seduction, Die With You, Screaming Scars & Whispering Tears, The Beautiful Letdown and the controversial "My Suicide Note" Number of Pages: 160 Dim...

The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley Volume 1

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Report copyright infringementby James Whitcomb Riley (Author)This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part ...

Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland into English - Volume 2

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Report copyright infringementby John Martin Crawford (Author)This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part ...

Rosalia de Castro Selected Poems rendered into English verse

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Report copyright infringementby John Howard Reid (Author)This 118-page book contains selected poems by Rosalia de Castro (1837-1885), rendered into English verse by John Howard Reid. Some of Rosalia's most famous poems are also presented in their original Castilian so that interested readers can compare de Castro's highly charged thoughts and phrases with Reid's interpretations. It is hoped that Rosalia's unique vision, her firmly feminist outlook and her startling modernity have been well se...

The Sacred Dance: Poetry to Nourish the Spirit

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Eugene Perry (Author)Poetry is a way to express the innermost thoughts and feelings which arise from the very core of our being. The calling of the poet is to transform the everyday world into a place of wonder, to reveal the spirit which hides behind the physical world, and to invite the reader to take part in the Great Mystery of Creation. It is my heart's desire that in these pages you will experience the sacredness of life and the connectedness of al...

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Report copyright infringementby Lakishi Johnson (Author)This book is for every woman who needs that "woman to woman" pick me up, or that curious man who wonders what lies deep within women's hearts. Written from her mind and soul, Lakishi hopes that by sharing a part of herself she can inspire and enlighten every woman who embraces each and every word. She believes that her life is an open book and if she can help someone else by sharing a piece of herself then she is doing her part to make t...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Shaffer (Author)Edward Damson, famous English playwright, has died violently at his remote Aegean home. His son, whom he has never acknowledged, American academic Philip Damson, has had a lifelong obsession with the father he never knew and he begs permission from his stepmother, Helen, to write Edward's biography. She agrees reluctantly on the proviso that he tells the whole story - a story, she warns, he will find painful...5 women, 4 men N...

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore (Author)Of the three books collected here, the first is celebratory of Islam's eschatology (next-world doctrine), the second an homage to the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and the third written on an 'Umra in 1995/96 to Mecca and Medina... These are all poems of my root work, going down into the loam of study, practice and fidelity to the ideas and often the terminology of Islamic and Sufic thought, while my...

Building New Bridges: Embracing The Hopes and Dreams of Today

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Report copyright infringementby Jenna Kandyce Linch (Author)We all go through hard times and life isn't always easy. There are times we question where our lives are going and where they are taking us. But despite the rough times we've faced, we set out to rebuild our lives, creating them and designing them into what we want them to be. These poems offer hope and encouragement for those wanting to make a change and those who believe in the power of dreams and turning them into reality as they ...

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Report copyright infringementby Carlos Tarrac (Author)The author presents a collection of poems easy to read and interpret based on topics such as love, friendship, nostalgia, hope, etc. The intention is that readers discover personal connections that stimulate their emotions allowing them to recreate each poem with their imagination. The poems included in this book are written in Spanish using rhymes and metaphors. The author's intention is to share with the English readers the theme and ton...

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Report copyright infringementby Dasan Ahanu (Author)"The Innovator" is a collection of poems from NC poet Dasan Ahanu. Inspired by a 2005 chapbook of the same name, this offering features some of Ahanu's signature poems. Full of emotion, sincerity, passion, and social commentary, Ahanu's unique perspective is on display. Not only an inside look into this poet's mind, "The Innovator" is a critical analysis of the world we live in. Number of Pages: 78 Dimensions: 0.19 ...

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Report copyright infringementby R. H. Lola Koundakjian (Author)A collection of Armenian poems translated into English and Spanish Number of Pages: 90 Dimensions: 0.22 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 05, 2011

Love, War, Fire, Wind: Looking Out from North America's Skull

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Report copyright infringementby Eliot Katz (Author), William T. Ayton (Author)Selected by Poetry.About.com as one of its Best Books of 2009. Mixing humor and imagination, visions of a healthy future and the windstorm realities of today, this collection of poems by Eliot Katz and artwork by William T. Ayton deals with themes of love, war, politics, ecology, and daily life. "I love these poems, which are full of passion and thought. Eliot Katz is among a handful of contemporary American poets w...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Gudgel (Author)"Mark Gudgel suffers from an illness far in excess of typical white guilt. It is that near-suicidal self-assault of historical truth. All the euphemistic prisms thorough which the harsh light of time is bent into glow-in-the-dark velvet paintings, the brilliant spectra of Navaho weavings, or carved cedar cigar-store totems he redirects back upon itself - tying himself and all of us together in a knot of all our shame and lies. So as it is tr...

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Report copyright infringementby Aaron Rogier (Author)A poetical exploration of bipolar mania, from the view of a philosopher so afflicted. Number of Pages: 56 Dimensions: 0.13 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 23, 2009

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Report copyright infringementby Will Alexander (Author)"Yet the voice of Will Alexander, who here commemorates Lamantia in his pluperfect poem The Brimstone Boat, rose hardly more than a quarter century later... In this automatistically extended poem, we are witness to the passage of energies from the older to the younger poet, as Alexander charts Lamantia's life and writings across a Renaissance globe... It is here as well that Alexander succeeds Lamantia, who died in 2005, as America's grea...

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Report copyright infringementby Joan Triadu (Selected by), Joan Gili (Editor)This title offers a profound exploration of Catalonia's rich poetic tradition, tracing its origins, influences, and thematic evolution over centuries. This collection is not merely a representative sample but a carefully curated selection of poems that embody what the editor perceives as the enduring essence of Catalan lyricism. Catalan poetry, the editor argues, contains a latent energy, waiting to be unleashed by t...

Himalayan Voices: An Introduction to Modern Nepali Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Michael James Hutt (Author)While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal today.An introduction to the two most developed genres of modern Nepali literature--poetry and the short story--this work profiles eleven of...

Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics

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Report copyright infringementby Frances W. Pritchett (Author)Frances Pritchett's lively, compassionate book joins literary criticism with history to explain how Urdu poetry--long the pride of Indo-Muslim culture--became devalued in the second half of the nineteenth century.This abrupt shift, Pritchett argues, was part of the backlash following the violent Indian Mutiny of 1857. She uses the lives and writings of the distinguished poets and critics Azad and Hali to show the disastrous conseque...

Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections Volume 8

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Report copyright infringementby Ian Hamilton Finlay (Author), Alec Finlay (Editor)This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays...

Romanticism and Religion: The Tradition of Coleridge and Wordsworth in the Victorian Church

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen Prickett (Author), Prickett Stephen (Author)Modern scholarship has tended to separate literature and theology. Yet it is impossible to understand the ideas of such Victorian theologians as Hare and Maurice, Keble and Newman without reference to contemporary literary criticism - just as it is impossible to understand criticism of the period (and the sensibility it implies) isolated from its theology. This book is an attempt to reinterpret a whole theolog...

Poetry, Enclosure, and the Vernacular Landscape, 1700 1830

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Crawford (Author)Rachel Crawford examines the intriguing, often problematic relationship between poetry and landscape in eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century Britain. She discusses the highly contested parliamentary enclosure movement which closed off the last of England's open fields between 1760 and 1815. She considers enclosure as a prevailing metaphor for a reconceptualization of the aesthetics of space in which enclosed and confined sites became ...

The Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Modes of Self-Expression

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Report copyright infringementby Joan Rees (Author)In its response to a distinct revival of interest in Pre-Raphaelite painting, much biographical attention has been focused on members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and on Dante Gabriel Rossetti in particular. Rossetti's poetry, however, received comparatively scant attention, and that often far from sympathetic. This 1981 book aims to provide the basis for a better understanding and a juster appreciation of his poetic achievement. The main...

'Michael Field': Poetry, Aestheticism and the Fin de Siecle

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Report copyright infringementby Marion Thain (Author)'Michael Field' (1884-1914) was the pseudonym of two women, the aunt and niece Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who lived and wrote together as 'lovers'. The large oeuvre contains poems, dramas, and a vast diary. Marion Thain recounts the development of a fascinating and idiosyncratic poetic persona, which became a self-reflexive study in aestheticism. The constructed life and work of 'Michael Field' is used here to deepen and complicate...

The Countesse of Pembroke's 'Arcadia': Volume 4: Being the Original Version

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Sidney (Author), Albert Feuillerat (Editor)Feuillerat's edition of the complete works of Sir Philip Sidney in the series Cambridge English Classics has long been out of print. It has however been reissued with the omission of the poetical works. The prose works are divided among the four volumes as follows: volume 1, Arcadia, 1590; volume 2, Arcadia, 1593 and The Lady of May; volume 3, The Defences of Poesie, Political Discourses, Correspondence and Tran...

Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals in the Iliad

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Report copyright infringementby Margo Kitts (Author), Kitts (Author)In Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualized violence. She analyzes ritual paradigms, metaphors, fictions, and poetic registers as oath-making principles, which she then traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East. Discussing ritual features that are common to acts of religious violence...

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Report copyright infringementby Loretta Holland (Author), Elly MacKay (Illustrator)Autumn is in the air: days grow shorter and nights are long. Birds leave, flowers, too. Apples and temperatures fall--then snow! Part poem, part silent stage, this luminous picture book puts autumn on display and captures the spirit of change that stays with us long after fall leaves. Unlock the secrets of this busy and beautiful time of year as the natural world makes way for winter.Author BiographyLoretta Hol...

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Report copyright infringementby William Butler Yeats (Editor), William Blake (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the origin...