wyszukanych pozycji: 15
Sweet Theft: A Poet's Commonplace Book
ISBN: 9781619029088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Centuries ago, when books were rare, those who owned them would lend them to friends, who in turn would copy out passages they especially liked before returning the precious book to its owner. These anthologies came to be known as Commonplace Books, and modern writers as different as W. H. Auden and Alec Guinness have kept them as well, recording phrases or passages that struck them as wise or witty or quirky. The result is as much the self-portrait of a sensibility as it is a collection of miscellaneous delights. Renowned poet J. D. McClatchy has been keeping such a book for three decades...
Centuries ago, when books were rare, those who owned them would lend them to friends, who in turn would copy out passages they especially liked before...
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78,03 zł |
DIVISION OF SPOILS
ISBN: 9781900072656 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A selection of J D McClatchy's poems published over the past two decades.
A selection of J D McClatchy's poems published over the past two decades.
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60,47 zł |
Poems Of The Sea
ISBN: 9781841597461 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. This collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin.
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. This coll...
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61,80 zł |
Decide: Work Smarter, Reduce Your Stress, and Lead by Example
ISBN: 9781118554388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How to make better decisions and achieve your goals
What shapes a person's career and life, and defines them as a leader? Their decisions. We all want to be more productive and deliver our best results. But doing this effectively--and consistently over time--is a significant challenge. Managing it all is hard, and leading in today's hyper-paced world is even harder. The good news is that leadership expert Steve McClatchy makes it easier. In Decide, McClatchy--who works with Fortune 1000 people every day to help them achieve outstanding levels of performance--shows you... How to make better decisions and achieve your goals
What shapes a person's career and life, and defines them as a leader? Their decisions. W... |
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98,98 zł |
Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780804168755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) At last, a definitive selection of the elegant work by a poet at the forefront of American poetry for more than three decades.
With his first several books, J. D. McClatchy established himself as a poet of urbanity, intellect, and prismatic emotion, in the tradition of James Merrill, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop--one who balances an exploration of the underworld of desire with a mastery of poetic form, and whose artistry reveals the riches and ruins of our -plundered hearts.- Now, opening with exquisite new poems--including the stunning -My Hand Collection, - a catalogue of art... At last, a definitive selection of the elegant work by a poet at the forefront of American poetry for more than three decades.
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86,72 zł |
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
ISBN: 9781400030934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Gluck, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings. Other poets include:
Sylvia Plath James Merrill Amy clampitt Jorie Graham W. S. Merwin Charles Simic Allen Ginsberg Frank O'Hara Anne... Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past f...
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99,98 zł |
Twenty Questions
ISBN: 9780231111737 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In Twenty Questions, one of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads us back into them. In a series of linked essays progressing from the autobiographical to the critical--and closing with a remarkable translation of Horace's Ars Poetica unavailable elsewhere--J. D. McClatchy's latest book offers an intimate and illuminating look into the poetic mind. McClatchy begins with a portrait of his development as a poet and as a man, and provides vibrant details about some of those who helped shape his...
In Twenty Questions, one of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it le...
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201,04 zł |
Poets on Painters
ISBN: 9780520069718 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What are poets looking at, looking for, when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American and British poets about painting. The poets bring to their task a fresh eye and a freshened language, vivid with nuance and color and force.
What are poets looking at, looking for, when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this questio...
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159,56 zł |
Twenty Questions
ISBN: 9780231111720 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Twenty Questions, one of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads us back into them. In a series of linked essays progressing from the autobiographical to the critical--and closing with a remarkable translation of Horace's Ars Poetica unavailable elsewhere--J. D. McClatchy's latest book offers an intimate and illuminating look into the poetic mind. McClatchy begins with a portrait of his development as a poet and as a man, and provides vibrant details about some of those who helped shape his...
In Twenty Questions, one of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it le...
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484,18 zł |
Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems
ISBN: 9780375411700 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter-a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merrill. Their poems of love are among the most perceptive, the most passionate, the wittiest, and the most moving we have. From Michelangelo's "Love Misinterpreted" to Noel Coward's "Mad About the Boy," from May Swenson's "Symmetrical Companion" to Muriel Rukeyser's "Looking at Each Other," these...
From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter-a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented he...
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86,94 zł |
Bright Pages: Yale Writers 1701-2001
ISBN: 9780300089455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) College years--when ideas collide, literature intrigues and inspires, lasting passions are first fired--can stamp a young writer for life. This extraordinary book contains the work of dozens of writers whose experiences at Yale over the past three centuries exerted a powerful force on their writing lives. Formed and nurtured by the unique intellectual community of the university, writers as diverse as Noah Webster and Gloria Naylor emerged from Yale to make their own fresh contributions to our nation's remarkable literary heritage.
From the galaxy of authors Yale has produced, J. D.... College years--when ideas collide, literature intrigues and inspires, lasting passions are first fired--can stamp a young writer for life. This extrao...
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420,14 zł |
Next Chapters Unleashed: A Beachy Anthology
ISBN: 9798201725587 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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77,85 zł |
Fairfield Porter
ISBN: 9780847848744 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive survey of the beloved figurative realist painter Fairfield Porter to be published in more than two decades. A figurative realist in the heyday of abstract expressionism, Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) painted himself, his family, and friends in New York City, in Southampton, Long Island, and on an island off the Maine coast, all depicting a relaxed and comfortable world that seemed to mirror his own affluent, well-connected existence. With virtually all of the artist's previous publications now out of print, this much-anticipated volume is an important addition to the...
The first comprehensive survey of the beloved figurative realist painter Fairfield Porter to be published in more than two decades. A figurative reali...
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304,29 zł |
Christmas Poems
ISBN: 9780375407895 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to the cherished carols around the punch bowl. This garland of Christmas poems contains not only the ones you would insist on finding here ("A Visit from St. Nicholas," "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," and "The Twelve Days of Christmas" among them) but such equally enchanting though lesser-known Yuletide treasures as Emily Dickinson's "The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman," Anthony Hecht's "Christmas Is Coming," Rudyard Kipling's "Christmas...
Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to t...
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86,94 zł |
Edna St. Vincent Millay Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781931082358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Praised by poets and critics ranging from A. E. Housman and Thomas Hardy to Edmund Wilson, Edna St. Vincent Millay's bold, exquisite poems take their place among the enduring verse of the twentieth century. Claiming a lyric tradition stretching back to Sappho and Catullus and making it very much her own, Millay won over her contemporaries--and readers ever since--with her passion, erotic candor, formal elegance, and often mischievous wit. J. D. McClatchy's introduction and selections offer new and surprising insights into Millay's achievement. Included are her most beloved and justly admired...
Praised by poets and critics ranging from A. E. Housman and Thomas Hardy to Edmund Wilson, Edna St. Vincent Millay's bold, exquisite poems take their ...
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86,94 zł |