Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Aphra Behn (Author)First published in 1688, Oroonoko, or, The Royal Slave is a short, politically charged novella by the Restoration playwright - and spy - Aphra Behn, and is arguably one of the founding texts of the novel form. Purporting to chart the life of an African prince, Oroonoko, who is tricked into slavery and taken to South America, the narrative follows the Prince through his trials of love, loss and rebellion.Vying for the title of the first Englis...

Apremiante deseo de manantial: Obra poética (1977 - 2009)

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Report copyright infringementby Elena Iglesias (Author)Todo libro de poesía es confesión, desnudez, entrega; y como eso de desnudarse por dentro es algo tremendo, el poeta -el verdadero poeta, claro- se aferra siempre a sus poemas entre temeroso y feliz de alumbrarlos. Ni más ni menos que la mujer al dar un hijo al mundo. Elena Iglesias se ha hecho periodista, narradora, crítica de arte, viajera de pie inquieto y mirada abierta...; pero a Elena Iglesias la hicieron mujer, cubana y poeta.Autho...

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Report copyright infringementby Melissa Michaels (Author)Melissa Michaels' A Look Within, Volume III is an adventure of art, love, betrayal, death and redemption. It's a journey within yourself providing fresh perspectives that will transform your life. Her poetry is passionately lyrical, sensual and captivating.Author BiographyMelissa Michaels is an award-winning author. She is the insightful author of "A Look Within" book series. She is the Face for The Skin Revolution, multi-talented entre...

The Complete Poems of John Milton: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. IV (in 51 Volumes)

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Report copyright infringementby John Milton (Author), Charles W. Eliot (Editor)Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal educat...

Poems and Famous Stories Every Child Should Know

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Report copyright infringementby Hamilton Wright Mabie (Author)Is this another collection of stupid poems and stories that children cannot use? Will they look hopelessly through this volume for poems and stories that suit them? Will they say despairingly, "This is too long," and "That is too hard," and "I don't like that because it is not interesting"? * * * * Are there three or four pleasing poems and are all the rest put in to fill up the book? Nay, verily! The poems in this collection are t...

Pan Tadeusz: An Epic Poem of Polish Life, Tradition, and History

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Mickiewicz (Author)A central work of Polish literature, Pan Tadeusz presents a poetic narrative of life, conflict, and tradition in the final years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.Written as an epic poem, the work is set in the early nineteenth century and follows the intertwined lives of noble families in the Lithuanian countryside. Through its narrative of feuds, reconciliation, and shifting loyalties, the poem captures a society shaped by custom, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ma Del Socorro Uriostegui (Author) Number of Pages: 116 Dimensions: 0.28 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: April 29, 2011

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience: A Classic Exploration of Innocence, Experience, and Human Perception

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Report copyright infringementby William Jr. Blake (Author)A unified poetic work exploring contrasting states of perception through paired lyric sequences. In Songs of Innocence and of Experience, William Blake presents two complementary groups of poems that examine the conditions of human life from differing perspectives, moving between simplicity and complexity, harmony and tension.The poems are structured as a deliberate progression, with recurring motifs and mirrored subjects that invite c...

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Report copyright infringementby William Congreve (Author)William Congreve's The Way of the World stands as one of the finest comedies of the English Restoration, a brilliant satire of manners, marriage, and the social games of fashionable society. First performed in 1700, the play follows the clever lovers Mirabell and Millamant as they attempt to secure both their happiness and their fortunes while navigating the intricate expectations of polite society.Set among the drawing rooms and fashio...

Lyrical Ballads 1798: The Foundational 1798 Collection of English Romantic Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby William Wordsworth (Author), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Author)Lyrical Ballads 1798 is one of the decisive books in English Romantic poetry, co-written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in a volume that changed the course of modern literature. First published anonymously in 1798, the collection includes Wordsworth's poems of rural life, feeling, memory, suffering, childhood, and ordinary speech, alongside Coleridge's great supernatural ballad "The...

Poetry and Psychiatry: Essays on Early Twentieth-Century Russian Symbolist Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Magnus Ljunggren (Author)A century ago the Symbolists in Moscow and St. Petersburg dreamed of a fundamental transformation of life in Russia. From their reading of signs in the heavens, these poets, philosophers, and mystics sensed that tsardom was on the threshold of an apocalyptic upheaval. They were influenced by Vladimir Solovyov and Friedrich Nietzsche, but under the impact of the 1905 Revolution they later also subscribed to current radical political idea...

Translations of Favorite German and English Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Fritz Vonderheiden (Author)Fritz Vonderheiden has selected ten of his favorite poems for translation. Five are taken from German to English and five English to German: GERMAN Erlkönig by J. W. von Goethe Ein Traum by Friedrich von Schiller Barbarossa by Friedrich Rückert Die Lorelei by Heinrich Heine Du Bist Wie Eine Blume by Heinrich Heine ENGLISH Trees by Joyce Kilmer Sea Fever by John Masefield Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael John Carignan (Author)This poetry collection, like a cerebral train, travels through the varied landscapes of my thoughts, opinions, and life experiences. Words collide with syllables, erupting into vivid imagery that reaches the far recesses of the imagination. These poems are my literary children: sometimes impulsive, but always carrying a message. I hope this collection touches you like the warmth of the sun's rays on a somber October afternoon. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Cameron Pierce (Author)The bacon storm is rolling in. We hear the grease and sugar beat against the roof and windows. The doughnut people are attacking. We press close together, forgetting for a moment that we hate each other. In Die You Doughnut Bastards, amputees, lonely young people, and talking animals struggle for survival against the freakish whims of nature. A typewriter made of fetuses is the source of woe for an expecting couple. Tao Lin rewrites The H...

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Report copyright infringementby Carrie Anne (Author)Learn the alphabet the natural way with bright illustrations to engage readers. Finger traceable letters that will enhance letter recognition. As well as acrostic poems to help increase vocabulary along and letter sound association. Budding naturalist are sure to enjoy this alphabet book!CarrieAnne's knowledge of the natural world comes from a lifetime of playing outdoors, as well as a degree in zoology and time spent working in a zoo. Check...

Hesiod Theogony 800-700 BC: Birth of the Gods and Cosmos

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Report copyright infringementby Dimitrios Kiriakopoulos (Translator)Hesiod Theogony 800-700 B.C. is a highly engaging book that provides a practical methodology for studying the ancient Greek language. The longest of the three surviving works of Hesiod, Theogony is a story consisting of 1022 verses that describe the creation of the cosmos and the birth of the Gods. The work is divided into five sections and begins when Hesiod is authorized by Mousai to hear the story of the universal creation...

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Report copyright infringementby Donna Perkins (Author)Drawing upon 50 years of victorious living by walking on the Word of God, Donna Perkins is presently associated with PAVE THE WAY MINISTRIES of Weslaco, Texas. She is a licensed minister, teacher and evangelist of the Word of God. The Word of God states that we are never tested or tried above our ability to resist and with each test; we are provided with what is needed to overcome. The Word of God also states that we overcome by "The Blood...

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Jr. Hardy (Author) Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.43 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: April 03, 2013

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Kline (Author)Deviants is about transgression and transcendence, about passing as a man or a woman, as gay or straight, about passing through unseen, passing by without stopping to help, passing over the threshold, passing from innocence, passing from life.The deviants in this book are the many masks we wear, the loners and flirts, the worriers and snarlers; they can be found in the deviant use of ancient forms. These poems are beautiful and meaningfully ...

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Kosmicki (Author)In Sheep Can Recognize Individual Human Faces, the poet confronts questions of mortality in meditative poems that revolve around people in his life that he has known and loved."I wrote this book for the same reason that I do any writing--to attempt, however haltingly and feebly, to find a connection to the stuff of life, to be more energized, to be more in contact with the world, to understand the world and my purpose in it."--from the aut...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark E. Sanders (Editor)A Sandhills Reader: 30 Years of Great Writing from the Great Plains is a retrospective anthology of some of the best work published by Sandhills Press, a Nebraska-based small press concern for literature, between 1979 and 2009. The anthology collects poems, criticism, and creative prose from such authors as David Baker, Hilda Raz, Ted Kooser, Barton Sutter, William Kloefkorn, Twyla Hansen, Ronald Wallace, Kelly Cherry, Dana Gioia, Greg K...

Arabic-Andalusian Poetry and the Rise of the European Love-Lyric

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Report copyright infringementby 'Abdulwāhid Lu'lu'a (Author)The idea of this book goes back to the author's college days in the Department of Foreign Languages in Baghdad, where he learned that English poetry developed under the influence of foreign types of poetry, including classical, medieval, and Renaissance. He began to wonder whether Arabic poetry had a role in that development, especially in the love lyric, its main aspect. He researched during a sabbatical year in 1971-1972 in Cambrid...

Oranges From Dominic's Tree: Selected Poems by Dominican Friars, Sisters and Laity

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Powell (Author)The title of this anthology, Oranges From Dominic's Tree, comes from the tradition that Saint Dominic planted an orange tree in the garden of the Priory of Santa Sabina in Rome. A series of oranges trees have grown in that garden for almost nine hundred years, each taken from a shoot of the previous tree. (In her poem, The Orange Leaf, Sister Mary Stanislaus McCarthy commemorates that tree.) Dominic's tree still produces oranges. The oran...

Poetry Night at the Ballpark and Other Scenes from an Alternative America: Writings, 1986-2014

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Kauffman (Author)Bill Kauffman has carved out an idiosyncratic identity quite unlike any other American writer. Praised by the likes of Gore Vidal, Benjamin Schwarz, and George McGovern, he has, with a distinctive and slashingly witty, learnedly allusive style, illumed forgotten corners of American history, articulated a defiant and passionate localism, and written with love and dark humor of his repatriation. Poetry Night at the Ballpark gathers the best ...

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Report copyright infringementby Megan Gannon (Author)From the ruins of ocean liners and model cities, to the dark impulses of Greek myths and biblical narratives, poet Megan Gannon casts a wide thematic net in tracing the legacy of desire in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With the lyric compression of Emily Dickinson, the syntactical momentum and surrealist imagery of Sylvia Plath, the poems in White Nightgown examine how desire serves as both a creative and a destructive force, dr...

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Report copyright infringementby Kay Ulanday Barrett (Author)Kay Ulanday Barrett has been bringing his unique poetry to audiences for over a decade, unpicking vital political questions around race, sickness and disability and gender, and chronicling the everydayness of life in the U.S. Empire with humor, poignancy and inimitable vitality. Now at last a generous selection of his work will be available in print. Each of these poems is a brilliant little story. Taken together, they show a master ...

The Waste Land, Prufrock, and Other Poems

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Report copyright infringementby T. S. Eliot (Author)This volume brings together three of T. S. Eliot's powerful collections into one. It includes such classic poems as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Portrait of a Lady," "Preludes," "Gerontion," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "The Waste Land." Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 19, 2013

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Report copyright infringementby G. Olujuwon Kellman (Author)Beside Still Waters is a collection of Divinely Inspired Poems. Passing through different phases of life, the writer was able to discover the awesomeness of God which he shares in this book. It is not just another anthology, the collection is borne out of lessons from real life experiences as well as Spirit-breathed compositions which are poised to challenge someone's unbelief and indifference, and awaken faith in the potency of the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nikki Giovanni (Author), Nolan Jeri Rogers (Editor), Maurice Ferguson (Editor)Artemis: Her History and Rebirth After 20 years of publishing Artemis, year 2000 marked more than the end of the 20th century and the beginning of a new millennium. It also marked the end of a respected and distinguished small press journal. Artemis was one of the few publications in southwest Virginia to provide an off campus literary and arts presence in our communities. After fourt...

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Report copyright infringementby George Witte (Author)Dramatic and intimate, the poems in Does She Have a Name? trace the journeys of two women-one middle aged, the other her infant granddaughter-through near-mortal encounters with medical crises. Both survive their trials, passing from life to death and back again; both face wrenching, unpredictable challenges; both emerge from years of therapy, made whole but alone, changed by experience in apparent and invisible ways. Moving from a neonatal...

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Report copyright infringementby Bunkong Tuon (Author)In his first full-length collection, GRUEL, Bunkong Tuon documents the lives of Cambodian refugees and explores the poetic landscape of a Cambodian America. Written tenderly, with honesty, intelligence, and occasional humor, GRUEL is populated by survivors such as a boy who loses his mother to the Khmer Rouge regime, a grandmother who risks her life to steal a few grains of rice for her grandson, an uncle who is beaten by Thai military poli...

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Report copyright infringementby Bim Willow (Author)Bim's unique and varied life is reflected in his observations, humor, and the wonder he experiences in every day. This book represents a collection of entries, poems, and thoughts from the journals of his life. Number of Pages: 278 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 21, 2014