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Pan Tadeusz (Revised): With Text in Polish and English Side by SideAn epic tale of country life among the Polish and Lithuanian gentry in 1811-1812, PAN TADEUSZ by Adam Mickiewicz is perhaps Poland's best-known literary work and has been translated into almost every European language. This bilingual edition, with side by side Polish and English,...
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Said the Shotgun to the HeadThe greatest Americans Have not been born yet They are waiting quietly For their past to die please give blood Here is the account of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies of understanding into an...
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Live Loud, Love LoudGiven Your human is what you call me and your human is what I always want to be. human on the other end of the line, the human beside you, the human there on the good days and the bad, the human you call...
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C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems - Bilingual EditionC. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among...
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Selected Poems and Four PlaysSince its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays. It adds The Words Upon the Window-Pane, one of Yeats's most...
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Donne: Poems: Introduction by Peter WashingtonThe Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Donne contains Songs and Sonnets, Letters to the Countess of Bedford, The First Anniversary, Holy Sonnets, Divine Poems, excerpts from Paradoxes and...
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Boy, You Are Brilliant!Boy, You Are Brilliant is an inspirational illustrated poem for young men and the second book by Ashley Aya Ferguson. This book serves as a vehicle to deliver positive affirmations to boys and to reinforce messages about empathy, being kind and knowing that it...
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The Forward Book of Poetry 2020The Forward Book of Poetry 2020 brings together a selection of the best poetry published in the British Isles over the last year, including the winners of the 2019 Forward Prizes. In celebrating today's fresh voices alongside new work by familiar names, this anthology...
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Mr. Pendlum's Compendium: The Illustrated Multiverse Vol. 1If Carl Sagan and Shel Silverstein had written a book together, it may have resulted in something like Mr. Pendlum's Compendium-Illustrated Verse from the Multiverse Vol. 1. This book is a bridge between fact and fiction that inspires wonder and curiosity. It presents real...
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Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino ElegiesDuring three feverish weeks in 1922, Rainer Maria Rilke composed the 55 sonnets that constitute Sonnets to Orpheus. Inspired by the death of a friend's daughter, the poet felt that he was being compelled to write by the girl's ghost. At about the same...
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The New Life/La Vita Nuova: A Dual-Language BookAn exquisite medley of lyrical verse and poetic prose, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) ranks among the supreme revelations in the literature of love. Its allegorical view of the soul's crisis and growth combines a narrative with meditations, dreams, songs, and prayers.In this...
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The Wonder Clock Or, Four and Twenty Marvelous TalesIt is rare indeed when a writer's original stories are regarded as masterpieces on a par with the great folkloristic fairy tales that have been handed down through the ages. But Howard Pyle's absorbing tales have for generations enjoyed such overwhelming popularity with boys...
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Parzival: A Romance of the Middle AgesAuthor: Wolfram Von EschenbachPublisher: VintagePublished: 03/12/1961Pages: 512Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.20h x 4.30w x 1.10dISBN: 9780394701882About the AuthorWolfram von Eschenbach was the greatest of the medieval German narrative poets. Very little is known about his life, but it is generally accepted that he belonged...
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Roll DeepIn his fourth collection, a breakthrough volume, Major Jackson appropriates the vernacular notion of "rolling deep" to capture the spirit of aesthetic travel that defines these forceful new poems and brazenly announces his steady accretion of literary and artistic influences, both formal and experimental--his...
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Miscreants"Troubled young men and boys animate" these "memorable" (Publishers Weekly) poems of James Hoch's second collection, set in the decaying, working-class towns of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.Author: James HochPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 12/01/2008Pages: 120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.40dISBN:...
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Making Certain It Goes on: The Collected Poems of Richard HugoRichard Hugo was, in James Wright's words, "a great poet, true to our difficult life." Making Certain It Goes On brings together, as Hugo wished, the poems published in book form during his lifetime, together with the new poems he wrote in his last...
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The Metamorphoses: Introduction by J. C. McKeownOvid's famous mock epic--a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity--is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum. Roman poet Ovid's dazzling cycle of tales begins with the creation of the world...
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All the Small Poems and Fourteen MoreAll the Small Poems and Fourteen More gathers all four of Valerie Worth's small poetry children's books and includes the original illustrations by Natalie Babbitt, the award-winning writer/artist of Tuck Everlasting. Inspired by her love of nature, Valerie Worth's wondrous verse about animals, plants,...
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TraverseTraverse is a collaboration between artist Power Boothe and writer Laurence Carr. Power Boothe's 64 colorful drawings in conversation with Laurence Carr's poetic texts create images of a mythic world whose people live in the past, present and future, simultaneously. This inventive and often...
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El Hacedor / Dreamtigers"Yo vivo, yo me dejo vivir, para que Borge pueda tramar su literatura y esa literatura me justifica". --De "Borges y yo" Considerado por el mismo Borges como su libro m s personal, El hacedor explora la relaci n entre el mundo interior y...
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