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FuelPoems that find meaning in a world where we are so tired of meaning nothing.Author: Naomi Shihab NyePublisher: BOA EditionsPublished: 06/01/1998Pages: 65Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.18w x 0.41dISBN: 9781880238639Review Citation(s): Library Journal 04/01/1998 pg. 99Publishers Weekly 04/27/1998 pg. 62Kirkus Reviews 07/01/1998 pg....
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Songbook: Selected Poems from the Canzoniere of Umberto SabaPoetry. Bilingual, translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Stephen Sartarelli. Poems written between 1900 and 1954, by a lyric poet who fashioned an art in which the life and the work mirror and sustain each other (from the Introduction), Let us...
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Cailleach: The Hag of BearaAn Cailleach Bhéarra, or the Hag of Beara, is a wise woman figure embedded in the physical and mental landscape of western Ireland and Scotland, particularly in the Beara Peninsula in West Cork where Leanne O'Sullivan comes from. The Cailleach's roots lie in pre-Christian...
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In the Space BetweenAuthor: Gerry BolandPublisher: Arlen HousePublished: 06/01/2016Pages: 64Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 8.55h x 5.48w x 0.22dISBN: 9781851321339
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Vintage Humour: The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu NuwasAbu Nuwas, the pre-eminent bacchic bard of the classical Arabic canon, was loved and reviled in equal measure for his lyrical celebration of Abbasid Baghdad's dissolute nightlife, his cutting satires of religion and the clergy, and the extraordinary range and virtuosity of his literary...
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Undocumentaries'Rosa Alcalá, originally from Paterson, N.J. is a true daughter of W.C. Williams with a distinct, gutsy, and penetrating identity twining a public poeisis with her own luminous particulars. I know of no one else writing such poems that cut into and reenact the...
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Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some WayThe poems in Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way arise amidst those remnants, historical and everyday, that redefine what we know to be underfoot in the places we live. From the Rose Creek Preserve to Koppel Farm Community Garden to a...
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Jack and Jill: American Sign LanguageChildren are able to communicate by signing before they develop the skills necessary for speech. By teaching simple sign language to children from as young as eight months, we can help them to convey their emotions and their needs. When children begin to talk,...
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Everyone Knows I am a HauntingRamlochan's poems take the reader through a series of imaginative narratives that are at once emotionally familiar and compelling, even as the characters evoked and the happenings they describe are heavily symbolic. Her poems reference the language and structural patterns of the genres of...
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More Shadow Than BirdThe poems in "More Shadow Than Bird" are imagistic narratives of emotional situations that offer not the story of a life, but of the consciousness accompanying the life lived. This consciousness, even as it operates on a more symbolic level, is embodied-not abstract or...
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Blade Pitch Control UnitBlade Pitch Control Unit gathers together Sean Bonney's work of the past five years. Bonney combines formal experiment with a sarcastic voice rooted in punk to provide an original account of London's threatened psychogeography. His first major collection, the book suggests new possibilities for...
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The Canterbury TalesChaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales between 1387 and 1400, as a series of stories told by a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury. The pilgrims come from every part of society, tell each other tales to pass the tile while...
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Robert Browning - Men and Women: "such Ever Was Love's Way: To Rise, It Stoops"Robert Browning is one of the most significant Victorian Poets and, of course, English Poetry.Much of his reputation is based upon his mastery of the dramatic monologue although his talents encompassed verse plays and even a well-regarded essay on Shelley during a long and...
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The Tale of Kieu: Truyen KieuThe Tale of Kieu is an epic poem in Vietnamese written by Nguyen Du (1766-1820), and is widely regarded as the most significant work of Vietnamese literature. In 3,254 verses, written in luc bat (6/8) meter, the poem recounts the life, trials and tribulations...
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Salad AnniversaryMachi Tawara's first book of poems, Salad Annivsersary, combines the classical 'tanka' form with the subject of a modern love affair. It became a sensation, selling over 2 million copies - and the 'salad phenomenon' in Japanese culture was comparable to the 'bananamania' that...
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New Selected PoemsAs well as being Germany's most important poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. No British poet can match him in his range of interests and his moral passion. Enzensberger is a cultured, learned, widely...
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[Dis]connected Volume 2: Poems & Stories of Connection and Otherwise Volume 2This highly-anticipated second volume of poetry and short stories combines the forces of some of the most popular poets of current day. [Dis]Connected Volume 2 presents poems and short stories about connection wrapped up in a most unique exercise in creative writing. Follow along...
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LediLedi, the second book by Vancouver-based poet Kim Trainor, describes the excavation of an Iron Age Pazyryk woman from her ice-bound grave in the steppes of Siberia. Along with the woman's carefully preserved body, with its blue tattoos of leopards and griffins, grave goods...
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Al-Zajal Al-Lubnani Wa Zaghloul Al-Damour Fi Beit Meri: (lebanese Zajal and Zaghloul Al-Damour in Beit Meri)Zajal is the public register of the collective memory of its people and the chronicle that preserves their traditions, conventions, and popular heritage. It is mainly an oral poetic tradition that is meant to be presented (sung or recited) in a public forum before...
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It's Only WordsIt's Only Words is a collection of poetry and prose pulled from the exhilarating heights and bittersweet depths of love and loss. There are words within that floated free, helium-filled, and then there are those that came up with roots, dripping blood. But they...
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