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Report copyright infringementby Robert W. Service (Author)Robert Service was born in 1874 and grew up in Scotland as the oldest of 10 siblings. Even as a child he craved excitement, but his energy was channeled into the quiet life of a bank clerk. He did enroll in the English Language and Literature program at the University of Glasgow, leaving after challenging a lecturer to a fistfight when the lecturer questioned Service's ability despite his top grades. Bored, he departed for Canada. His ...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Dean (Author)Adirondack Blue is a compilation of poems Christopher Dean has written over the years. These poems have been inspired by his own experiences, spirituality, family and friends. The poems are a way for him to express his thoughts and emotions in a constructive way. Dean has always believed that the arts are important and this book is his way to help encourage others to become involved in the arts however they are able. Number...

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Report copyright infringementby Speedy Publishing LLC (Author)Write down your favorite poems that are reflective of your thoughts and personality in this handy poetry journal. Be inspired every time you open the pages of this journal and find that perfect poem that would suit your situation. Share your favorite poems to help others process their emotions and help with their pain and/or confusion. Spread your love for poetry! Number of Pages: 50 Dimensions: 0.1 x 11 x...

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Report copyright infringementby May Sarton (Author)2016 Reprint of 1937 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The subject of the book is the human heart. The emotion is intense, the point of view mature, the expression direct, fresh and simple. Sarton's aim is to present the landscape of the heart without confusion and without sentimentality, a fire reflected in a mirror, flight as expressed in the tension of a spire--From the dust ...

Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude Mckay

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Report copyright infringementby Claude McKay (Author), Max Eastman (Introduction by)2018 Reprint of 1922 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. "Here is a young man, born in the British West Indies, who is without doubt the most talented and versatile of the new school of imaginative, emotional negro poets. Feeling intensely, at times bitterly, he succeeds, nevertheless, in preventing his emotions from affecting his genius as a poet....

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Jonson (Author), Jonas Barish (Editor)2018 Reprint of 1958 Edition. Much-studied and frequently performed, this comedy by the great Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson satirizes the greed, mendacity, gullibility, and pretension of seventeenth-century London society. In Volpone (1605), a crafty rich man attempts to augment his wealth by feigning a mortal illness. His wealthy neighbors, spying the opportunity for an inheritance, vie with each other in courting ...

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Report copyright infringementby Wallace Stevens (Author)2019 Reprint of 1923 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. His first book at the age of forty-four, Harmonium was published in 1923 by Knopf in an edition of 1500 copies. This collection comprises 85 poems, ranging in length from just a few lines ("Life Is Motion") to several hundred ("The Comedian as the Letter C"). Harmonium was reissued in 1931 with three poems omitted and f...

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Report copyright infringementby Alexander Pushkin (Author) Number of Pages: 172 Dimensions: 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2018

Set the Mood: A Collection of Poems from 1993-2005

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Report copyright infringementby Tear Drop Williams (Author)Relationships though intimate or friendFrom beginning to endThrough the ups and downsIs the reason for the direction of a frownThese words you are about to readAre not just letters on a page But feelings in a craze;A passion of happiness;Forceful sadnessConcern for the madnessAll explained in different ways. Number of Pages: 80 Dimensions: 0.19 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: February 23, 2023 ...

Post-Glacial: The Poetry of Robert Kroetsch

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Kroetsch (Author), David Eso (Editor), Aritha Van Herk (Afterword by)Post-glacial is a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso. The book features Kroetsch's iconic collection, Completed Field Notes, alongside rare work gathered from different stages of Kroetsch's career. The book contains an afterword by Aritha van Herk. Kroetsch's poetry evolved from short lyric poetry in the 1960s to postmodern long poems in the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dennis Lee (Author), Nick Mount (Introduction by)Civil Elegies is Dennis Lee's uncompromising exploration of citizenship, both Canadian and human. Eli Mandel has called Civil Elegies one of the most important contemporary books of poetry in our country. It was the winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in 1972. This edition features a new introduction by noted academic Nick Mount, who places this important collection in the context of Canadi...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Watsky (Author)A KIRKUS RECOMMENDED REVIEW Watsky does the work of 10 poets in this excellent, slim collection. An avid baseball fan, Watsky writes gorgeously of his passion for America's pastime. To borrow a term from the sport: he's a utility player. Watsky handles multiple positions with equal dexterity and skill. In fact, there's not much he can't do. Verse about Jungian archetypes? He's got it: "Yes!! shouts Shadow, straight to hell! / Be nice, admoni...

A Healing Journal: Struggles from Addiction to Sobriety

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Report copyright infringementby Patrick McGraw (Author), Karen Gifford (Editor), Sue McGraw (Editor)A Healing Journal is a collection of poetry designed to give inspiration to those who are in search of the path to recovery and spiritual peace. Appealing to readers who are interested in poems conveying inspirational messages of hope, love, and faith, these are poems which have helped Patrick through his recovery. Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN ...

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Perry (Author)The world of Beauty/Beauty is 'built from the nose/out, like a painting', accumulating its various feelings, ideas, objects, disappointments and joys to the point of almost overflowing. Preoccupied with demise and loss, as well as reimagination and regeneration, Rebecca Perry's debut collection has the duality and symmetry of its title at its core. Beauty/Beauty is a book with tenderness running through its veins, exploring salvation, repa...

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Gross (Author)Love Songs of Carbon is Philip Gross's 18th book of poetry, and is a coming of age - inhabiting the ageing body with a confident, inventive curiosity. At the same time searching, tender, intellectually agile, unexpected and erotic, this is poetry at home with great shifts of perspective, from the outer edge of science to the sensations at our fingertips. These are love poems, both to the person and to the body itself, even as - especially a...

Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Other Poems. the Poetical Works of John Milton

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Report copyright infringementby John Milton (Author)This book contains John Milton's poetical works, with line numbers and footnotes. This includes Paradise lost, Paradise Regain'd and Sampson Agonistes as well as forty-nine other works. Most famous of these is Paradise Lost which is the Epic Poem by Milton, considered to be one of the greatest literary works in the English language. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, containing over ten thousand lines of verse. The poem brings...

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Report copyright infringementby Hilaire Belloc (Author), Basil Temple Blackwood (Illustrator)Hilaire Belloc's misbehaving children suffer all manner of grisly ends in these cautionary tales that poke fun at the idea of improving children's morals through verse stories. Once heard, who can forget 'Henry King, Who chewed bits of String' or the unfortunate lies of Matilda? The wicked humour ensures that they will remain favourites throughout the generations. This new edition has been carefully t...

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Report copyright infringementby Rustico Filippi (Author), Fabian Alfie (Translator)Rustico Filippi (c. 1230-c. 1299) was probably the first Italian poet to explore the poetics of insult. During the Middle Ages, literature was categorized as a subset of ethics; through the descriptions of characters, all literature consisted of the praise of the worthy, or of the blame of the reprehensible. Literature enforced traditional morality by inspiring admiration or condemnation in its readers. By writ...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Kingsley (Author)Charles Kingsley was born on June 12th 1819 in Holne Devon, a region of the Country for which he is now most associated. He spent his early years in Devon and Northamptonshire before studying at King's College, London and Cambridge graduating from Magdalene College in 1843. Wishing to pursue a career in the Church he was appointed Rector of Eversley in Hampshire in 1844. In 1855 he published one of his two enduring novels; Westward Ho! ...

Sarah Fuller Flower Adams - Poetry & Play.:

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Fuller Flower Adams -. Poet Adams (Author)Sarah Flower Adams was born on February 22, 1805 in Great Harlow in Essex. Originally her ambition was to be an actress but poor health ensured her career would now be that of a writer. A Unitarian by faith she is perhaps best known for her hymns which include "Nearer, my God, to Thee" and "He sendeth sun, He sendeth shower." However she also wrote for various magazines and produced a small but beautiful folio of ...

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Report copyright infringementby William Wordsworth (Author)William Wordsworth was born on 7 April, 1770 in Cockermouth, in Cumbria, northwest England. Wordsworth spent his early years in his beloved Lake District often with his sister, Dorothy. The English lakes could terrify as well as nurture, and as Wordsworth would write "I grew up fostered alike by beauty and by fear". After being schooled at Hawkshead he went to St. John's College, Cambridge but not liking the competitive nature of the ...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Marlowe (Author)Christopher Marlowe was born in Canterbury to shoemaker John Marlowe and his wife Catherine. His exact date of birth is not known, but he was baptised on 26 February 1564. And with this, Christopher Marlowe, one of the supreme English literary talents, made his entrance into the world. Little is really known of his life except that from an early age, even at University, he was perhaps working as a spy. His short life was filled with ...

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Report copyright infringementby Luke Kennard (Author)"The Solex Brothers" explores the fate of the individual - albeit a rather feeble individual - and of personal responsibility in a culture of absurd, inexorable forces. Farce navigating towards moral absolution in narratives at once Fauvist and Baroque, expunging the twee with a reformist's remorseless vigour; cherishing its influences with a poststructuralist's vertical rigour; and, at times, chasing its tail with a schoolboy's reductive s...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Blau Duplessis (Author)"Pitch" is a skeptical monument, tracking an encounter with an edge we might pitch over, with the pitch dark of our time, with our lurching desires to do the necessary work of seeing and understanding. This book manifests one of the more distinctive ethical-aesthetic practices in contemporary poetry. Number of Pages: 196 Dimensions: 0.45 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 18, 2010 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ian Gregson (Author)This book is designed to introduce Simon Armitage to those studying him at school and university, and is built around detailed and accessible readings of his most important poems. It contains the most basic and important information about Armitage's life and work, but is especially good at explaining the concepts which shape Armitage's poetry, so that its readers will be able to differentiate their performance from that of other students. Si...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael O'Brien (Author)Sills gathers together poems from four of O'Brien's early books and combines them with later work, forming a selection from 1960-1999. O'Brien writes, "The poems dance their dance of stillness and motion. The issue is a quiet, patterned music, animated, disciplined, ecstatic; not closure, but recognition." Number of Pages: 148 Dimensions: 0.34 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 04, 2009

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Atkins (Author)Folklore is an ecstatic, dreamlike, and starkly realist poem sequence which extends, challenges, and continues the tradition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, John Clare's visionary lyrics, the elegiac minimalism of AE Houseman, contemporary work of Geoffrey Hill, and linguistic innovation of Gertrude Stein and the language poets. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication D...

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Report copyright infringementby Jill McDonough (Author)Jill McDonough's frank, funny, and tender second book offers each day fresh with the gift of it. Fierce/nose-sting of tears, quick breath out of nowhere. In love-poems, conversations, intimate jokes, from a hundred parties, five prisons, and three beloved bars, McDonough helps you better see "Where You Live". Number of Pages: 108 Dimensions: 0.26 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: August 15, 2012 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Tamas (Author)The poems in the first half of "The Ophelia Letters" explore the interaction between self and place in ways both strange and loaded with magic: journeying to the Arctic with Werner Herzog, stopping off in Scottish islands and English wildernesses, revealing an electric language of the road that is both expansive and complex. In long title poem Tamás pours this fractured, cut-throat lyricism into the figure of Shakespeare's Ophelia, attempt...

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Blau Duplessis (Author)A surge into twenty-first century poetry and poetics, a book of passionate poetic energies and odic verve, "Surge" is the provocative, open-ended ending to DuPlessis's twenty-six year long poem project, Drafts. This work exemplifies a tertium quid, transcending poetic schools and critical binaries with its fusions of intellection and emotion, with its reassessments of Dante, Eliot, Duchamp, with its witty genre experimentation, wit...

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Report copyright infringementby Miodrag Pavlovic (Author), James Sutherland Smith (Translator), Nenad Aleksic (Translator)A generous selection of work by Miodrag Pavlovic. He is the third of the Serbian triumvirate of Popa, Lalic and Pavlovic which transformed Serb poetry in the 1950s. Pavlovic has been translated and published in English in book form and in pamphlets in Canada, but never before in from a British publisher. Nenad Aleksic and James Sutherland-Smith provide these astonishing ne...

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Report copyright infringementby James Brookes (Author)Shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize This remarkable debut sees tales of treachery, guilt and love play out against the whole canvas of history. Empires rise and fall; the beasts of Britain stalk from the age of Rome to the new age of austerity; heroes and villains take their stands on the Sussex Downs and on the Pennines, from the Death Star to Dancing on Ice. A courageous study of the violence and beauty of belonging, this b...