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The OdysseyWith an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. His colourful...
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Collected NonsensePublished to coincide with the celebration of this beloved poet s centenary, this volume contains all the poems and illustrations previously published inMervyn Peake'smuch-loved "Book of Nonsense" in addition to 40 unpublished works discovered in manuscripts and various uncollected sources. Accompanied by newfound drawings...
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Hallaig and Other Poems: Selected Poems of Sorley MacLeanThis selected works of Sorley MacLean brings together published poetry from MacLean's own edited volumes of Poetry. The poems will be given in their original Gaelic with English translations and introduced by Angus Peter Campbell and Aonghas Mac Neacail.Sorley MacLean was born on the...
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To Water Her Garden: A journey of self-discoveryThis is a story about healing. From recognizing pain, to unveiling its origins, only to discover the power behind your failures. This is a journey towards self-love and recognizing that everything you are searching for starts with you. All it takes is the courage...
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Out of Doors: Nature Songs and PoetryThis collection of evocative poems based upon scenes in nature are based upon the author's faith in God, and her love of beauty in the natural world. A beautiful and moving anthology of verses, Out of Doors offers a look at both the great...
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The War Poems of Wilfred Owen'Orpheus, the pagan saint of poets, went through hell and came back singing. In twentieth-century mythology, the singer wears a steel helmet and makes his descent down some profound dull tunnel in the stinking mud of the Western Front. For most readers of English...
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The Divine Comedy / La Divina Commedia - Parallel Italian / English TranslationThis edition gives a side-by-side parallel translation of Dante's Divine Comedy using Longfellow's translation. The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. It is generally considered to be the preeminent work of Italian literature...
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Climbing Shadows: Poems for ChildrenA splendidly illustrated collection of poems inspired by young children that address common themes such as having a hard day at school, feeling shy or being a newcomer. The poems in Climbing Shadows were inspired by a class of kindergarten children whom poet and...
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Beholden: A Poem as Long as the RiverComprised of two lines of poetic text flowing along a 114-foot-long map of the Columbia River, this powerful image-poem by acclaimed poets Fred Wah and Rita Wong presents language yearning to understand the consequences of our hydroelectric manipulation of one of North America's largest...
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Alden Nowlan: Selected PoemsThe best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. Now featuring an introduction by Susan Musgrave. Alden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983. He leaves a rich legacy of poetry that is accessible yet...
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Killol ( Gujarati Edition )Killol is a gujarati language poetry book written by Jhaverchand Meghani published in 1930.Author: Jhaverchand MeghaniPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 07/23/2018Pages: 68Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14dISBN: 9781723468957Language: GujaratiAbout the AuthorJhaverchand Meghani (28 August 1896 - 9 March 1947) was a...
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Little Black GirlLittle Black Girl is a love letter to little black girls all around the globe to remind them who they are, where they come from, and what they can be.Author: Fuuji Tashaki, Brittany M. GreenPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 07/13/2018Pages: 26Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize:...
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Midnight Milkshakes: Ice Cream And Suicide Vol. IIThe poetry presented in this volume personifies very personal and intimate moments that have impacted the author's life. The book features raw, blunt, and in your face poems depicting the darker side of relationships. Readers will find themes such as lies, cheating, and heartache...
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Say Something Back & Time Lived, Without Its FlowA moving meditation on grief and motherhood by one of Britain's most celebrated poets. The British poet Denise Riley is one of the finest and most individual writers at work in English today. With her striking musical gifts, she is as happy in traditional...
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Sublingual: Winner of the 2017 Open Chapbook CompetitionAuthor: Joan Naviyuk KanePublisher: Finishing Line PressPublished: 11/02/2018Pages: 36Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.12lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.07dISBN: 9781635347692About the AuthorKane, Joan Naviyuk: - Joan Naviyuk Kane's most recent book is Milk Black Carbon. Honors for her work include the Whiting Writer's Award, an American...
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High Ground CowardAlicia Mountain's urgent and astonishing debut collection maps a new queer landscape through terrain alive and sensual, defiant and inviting. With a voice that beckons while it howls, Mountain nimbly traverses lyric, confessional, and narrative modes, leaving groundbreaking tracks for us to follow. High...
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Prose Poetry and the City"In this fascinating book, Donna Stonecipher doubles down on the development of prose poetry and the city. Tactically, her sweeping, complex yet meticulous essay engages Baudelaire's sudden--or is it sudden?--incursion from the constraints of verse into the 'roominess' of prose, 'paragraphs of place, '...
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Keep a Pocket in Your Poem: Classic Poems and Playful ParodiesThirteen classic poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and David McCord are paired with parodies that honor and play off of the original poems in a range of ways. For example, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is...
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Circles Where the Head Should BeWinner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2010 The poems in Circles Where the Head Should Be are full of objects and oddities, bits of news, epic catalogues, and a cast of characters hoping to make sense of it all. Underneath the often...
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The Marvelous Bones of Time: Excavations and ExplanationsIncorporating memoir, folktales, fact, and hearsay into two distinctly moving poems, this collection attests to history's manifestation in the present moment. Beginning in the author's Indiana hometown, not far from the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, and along the Kentucky border where "looking from the...
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