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Shakespearean Insults 2024 Day-To-Day CalendarWish'st thou to talk'st trash like the great bard, Shakespeare? A pox on your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!--The Tempest Each page of this 2024 desktop calendar features one of Shakespeare's most scathing, ruthless, and laugh-inducing smackdowns. Take your insults to the next...
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Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to LifeAuthor: Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael WisemanPublisher: Anchor BooksPublished: 10/24/2023Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781984898982
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Absolute Solitude: Selected PoemsIn the first comprehensive selection and translation of Dulce María Loynaz's poetry, James O'Connor invites us to hear the haunting voice of Cuba's celebrated poet, whom the Nobel Laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez terms in his Foreword, "archaic and new...tender, weightless, rich in abandon." Widely...
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In the Company of Radical Women WritersRecovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society's failures and injustices in the 1930s--a decade unnervingly similar to our own In the Company of Radical Women Writers rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers--Black, Jewish, and...
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Practicing to Walk Like a HeronIn Practicing to Walk Like a Heron multiple-award-winning Michigan poet Jack Ridl shares lines of well-earned wisdom in the face of a constantly changing world. The familiar comforts of life-a warm fire in winter, a lush garden in summer-become the settings for transcendent and...
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Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial AfricaIn Continuous Pasts, author Sakiru Adebayo claims that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa depicts the intricate ways in which the past is etched on bodies and topographies, resonant in silences and memorials, and continuous even in experiences as well as structures of...
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Catching the LightAuthor: Joy HarjoPublisher: Yale University PressPublished: 10/24/2023Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780300274066
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The Birth of the BestThe Making of The Best American Poetry.The first chapter, written for the 2018 reissue of the inaugural volume of the series, gives an account of the birth of The Best American Poetry (Scribner) and is followed by the forewords Lehman wrote for the books...
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The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature: Artists and Writers on Creating Graphic Narratives, Poetry Comics, and Literary CollageA New and Much-Needed Craft Guide Anthology to Graphic Narratives, Poetry Comics, and Literary CollageThe fourth volume in the immensely popular Field Guide series, THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO GRAPHIC LITERATURE gives readers unprecedented insight into the techniques of 28 of today's...
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Bad RoadsIn the darkest recesses of Ukraine, a war is raging. A journalist takes a research trip to the front line. Teenage girls wait for soldiers on benches. A medic mourns her lover killed in action. A heartbreaking, powerful, and bitterly comic account of what...
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James Merrill, Postmodern Magus: Myth and PoeticsOne of the unique voices in our century, James Merrill was known for his mastery of prosody; his ability to write books that were not just collected poems but unified works in which each individual poem contributed to the whole; and his astonishing evolution...
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Shakespeare in BloomsburyAuthor: Marjorie GarberPublisher: Yale University PressPublished: 09/26/2023Pages: 400Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780300267563Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/21/2023
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Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and BeyondThe veteran contributors to this volume take as their central drama, and their essential task for analysis, the enduring literary and political legacy of Israel Prize laureate Amos Oz (1939-2019). Born a decade prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, in what...
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Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and PoemsShow Me Your Environment, a penetrating yet personable collection of critical essays, David Baker explores how a poem works, how a poet thinks, and how the art of poetry has evolved--and is still evolving as a highly diverse, spacious, and inclusive art form. The...
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A Year and a Day: An Experiment in EssaysA compelling celebration of the power of the essay, this collection of 47 writings offers a glimpse into the mind of a modern-day Montaigne as he reflects on the miscellany of daily life--movies and art, friends and family--over the course of a single year....
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In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]"Embark on a literary journey of unparalleled depth and beauty with Marcel Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time.' Across seven mesmerizing volumes, Proust intricately weaves together memory, love, and the passage of time into a tapestry of human experience. Delve into the captivating prose...
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Das Alttestamentliche WerkIn der ersten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts - rund 200 Jahre vor Martin Luther - hat ein Anonymus gro e Teile der Bibel ins Deutsche übersetzt und teilweise mit ausführlichen Erläuterungen versehen, die sich aus der lateinischen Kommentartradition sowie apokryphen und erbaulichen Texten speisen....
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A New Literary History of AmericaAmerica is a nation making itself up as it goes along--a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and...
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The Neapolitan Recipe Collection: Cuoco NapoletanoThe fields of cookery and medieval food continue to draw the attention of those interested in a panoramic picture of aristocratic and bourgeois social life in the late Middle Ages. In the fifteenth century, wealthy courts in the Italian peninsula led all of Europe...
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Twentieth-Century Crime FictionTwentieth-Century Crime Fiction aims to enhance understanding of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction by examining a wide variety of the detective and crime fiction produced in Britain and America during the twentieth century. It will be of interest to anyone...
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