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Subjects in PoetryDaniel Brown's Subjects in Poetry is the first book to examine the broad and imposing topic of poetic subject matter, probing both what poems are about and how that influences the way they're made. It comprises one poet's attempt to plumb the nature of...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces In Prose And Poetry: Selected From The Best Writers: Designed To Assist Young Persons To Read With Propriety And EffectThe English Reader, Or, Pieces In Prose And Poetry: Selected From The Best Writers: Designed To Assist Young Persons To Read With Propriety And Effect, To Improve Their Language And Sentiments, And To Inculcate Some Of The Most Important Principles Of Piety And Virtue:...
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MadhushalaAuthor: Harivansh Rai BachchanPublisher: Rajpal & SonsPublished: 01/01/2018Pages: 82Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31dISBN: 9788170283447Language: HindiAbout the AuthorBachchan, Harivansh Rai: - "ହରିବଂଶ ରାୟ ବଚ୍ଚନ (୨୭ ନଭେମ୍ବର ୧୯୦୭ - ୧୮ ଜାନୁଆରୀ ୨୦୦୩) ହିନ୍ଦୀ ସାହିତ୍ୟକୁ ଋଦ୍ଧିମନ୍ତ କରିଥିବା ଅନେକ କବିଙ୍କ ମଧ୍ୟରେ ଅନ୍ୟତମ । ତାଙ୍କ...
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The Masnavi I Ma'navi of Rumi (Complete 6 Books): The Festival of Spring from The Díván of JeláleddínThe Persian poet and Sufi mystic Jeláleddín Rumi (1207-1273) found his own religious order, the Whirling Dervishes. His Sufi poems are amongst the most compelling and memorable spiritual works of world literature. Their diversity and profoundness had entertained generations of readers and profoundly shaped...
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Sea Glass: New & Selected PoemsLuci Shaw's poems have delighted, nurtured and inspired readers-and other writers-for decades. They regularly appear in Books & Culture, The Christian Century, Image, Nimble Spirit, Rock & Sling, Stonework, Weavings and other journals. They have been collected into fourteen books published between 1973 and...
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Nowhere: PoemsA book of wild imagination and linguistic play, Nowhere begins by chronicling the pain that the speaker and her absent father endure during the years they are separated while he is in prison. The alternative universe the speaker builds in order to survive this...
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Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and DecolonizationNavigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). Poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez brings critical attention to a diverse and intergenerational collection of CHamoru poetry and scholarship. Throughout this book, Perez develops an Indigenous literary...
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The Man from Snowy RiverAuthor: A. B. PatersonPublisher: E-ArtnowPublished: 04/22/2021Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22dISBN: 9788027340361This title is not returnable
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Old Stones UnderstandIt's easy to think there are no more tricks to learn, especially when weary of the world. Faded, forgotten awareness can become new again with a fresh look. In her first poetry collection, Old Stones Understand, writer Stacey Murphy explores new ways of seeing...
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Under, Over, by the Clover, 20th Anniversary Edition: What Is a Preposition?Prepositions do their job/in a way that just amazes--/Relating nouns and pronouns/to the other words and phrases. In this 20th anniversary edition of Under, Over, By the Clover, author Brian Cleary and illustrator Brian Gable provide numerous examples of prepositions. The text's playful rhymes...
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Encouraging Words Can Make a DifferenceSometimes we all need an encouraging word to help us move forward from a difficult situation or to even help us with our own thoughts of self-doubt and insecurity. An encouraging word can be shared with everyone regardless of their age, gender, color, background,...
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Leaving: A Poem from the Time of the VirusAn exceptionally current volume of poems from one of Europe's greatest poets that dwell on the most pressing reality of our times: the coronavirus pandemic. One of the leading living European writers, Cees Nooteboom never shies away from contemporary issues. His latest collection of...
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DollsPoems that address the pain caused by gender stereotypes and racial oppression in the American South. Claire Millikin's poetry collection, Dolls, stages a confrontation of gendered and racial oppression. Working through the motif of the doll, the poems interrogate femininity in the traditional culture...
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Words Are the Worst: Selected PoemsBorn in 1968 in The Hague, Erik Lindner is one of the Netherland's most acclaimed poets. Admired for a style that fuses simplicity with strangeness, Lindner builds his poems through a montage of descriptive images that, by fending off closure, generate extraordinary visionary power....
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The Poems of Phillis WheatleyPoems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) is the first book of poetry published by an African American author. Written while Wheatley was a slave in Boston, the collection was published in England. Regarded for her mastery of classical poetic form, Phillis Wheatley...
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Contemporary Turkish Women PoetsIn recent decades Turkish women have risen to extraordinary prominence in a literary culture once dominated by men. From This Bridge: Contemporary Turkish Women Poets is the first comprehensive survey of these startling, vibrant developments. In his landmark anthology, poet-translator George Messo gathers twenty-two...
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Tarte À l'Esquimaude: Une Poétique de l'Identité InuitTarte l'esquimaude: une po tique de l'identit inuit is the French translation of Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity previously published in English by BookLand Press. This poetry collection examines the author's lived history as an Inuk who was born, raised and continues...
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In a Bucolic LandA moving, posthumous collection of elegies and eclogues that meditate on nature, landscape, and history, by a great Hungarian poet. Szilárd Borbély spent his childhood in a tiny impoverished village in northeastern Hungary, where the archaic peasant world of Eastern Europe coexisted with the...
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Earthly Delights: PoemsFrom the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a new collection of philosophical, elegiac, and wry meditations on film, painting, music, and poetry itself Earthly Delights begins with an invocation to the muse and ends with the departure of Odysseus from Ithaca....
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El Infinito Naufragio: Antología de José Emilio PachecoEl infinito naufragio re ne poemas, relatos e "inventarios" que dan cuenta de las inquietudes literarias que Jos Emilio Pacheco explor e interrog a lo largo de m s de medio siglo de escritura. El lenguaje, la Historia como figura de reverencia y terror,...
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