wyszukanych pozycji: 53
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Sport, Violence and Society
ISBN: 9781138830714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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195,06 zł |
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Riding the Edge: A Life Under the Reign of Bipolar
ISBN: 9781849914819 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Description Riding the Edge is about the author's struggles through life in dealing with his bipolar disease coupled with attention deficit disorder. There is humor and sadness to the book but it is a life truly lived on the edge. About the Author Kevin Young, born in 1963, has lived with bipolar disease all his life but was not diagnosed as such until 2009. How bipolar affected his life can be both sad and humorous. Learning to live with the disease without going over the edge is the hardest part.
Description Riding the Edge is about the author's struggles through life in dealing with his bipolar disease coupled with attention deficit diso... |
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92,25 zł |
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Sport, Violence and Society
ISBN: 9781138830707 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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707,28 zł |
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Night Watch: Poems
ISBN: 9780593319628 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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111,75 zł |
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Blues Poems
ISBN: 9781841597584 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, to "Blues on Yellow" by Marilyn Chin and "Reservation Blues" by Sherman Alexie. Here are blues-influenced and blues--inflected poems from, among others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan, Richard Wright, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Cornelius Eady. And here, too, are classic song lyrics-poems in their own right-from Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, and Muddy Waters. The rich emotional palette of...
The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W. H. A...
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60,53 zł |
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Stones
ISBN: 9781787333758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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60,53 zł |
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Jazz Poems
ISBN: 9781400042517 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Ever since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are as varied and as vital as the music that inspired them. From the Harlem Renaissance to the beat movement, from the poets of the New York school to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a compelling literary force--one that Jazz Poems makes palpable. We hear it in the poems of Langston Hughes, E. E. cummings, William Carlos Williams, Frank O'Hara, and Gwendolyn Brooks, and in those of Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles...
Ever since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are...
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77,07 zł |
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For the Confederate Dead
ISBN: 9780375711411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The award-winning lively and excellent collection (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about African-American griefs and passages, from the author of Jelly Roll and Black Maria, a poet who has set himself apart from his peers with his supple, variable, blues-inflected lines (Publishers Weekly)."
The award-winning lively and excellent collection (Los Angeles Times) about the South and its legacy, about African-American griefs and passage...
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88,63 zł |
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The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
ISBN: 9781608194667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The Art of Losing is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning. Divided into five sections (Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery, and Redemption), with poems by some of our most beloved poets as well as the best of the current generation of poets, The Art of Losing is the ideal gift for a loved one in a time of need and for use by therapists, ministers, rabbis, and palliative care workers who tend to those who are... The Art of Losing is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 d... |
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65,53 zł |
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To Repel Ghosts: The Remix
ISBN: 9780375710230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Revamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
In spare, jazzlike verse Kevin Young tells the story of Basquiat's rise from the mock prophet and graffiti artist SAMO to one of the hottest painters of the 1980s ("blue-chip Basquiat / playing the bull / market"), exploring the artist's bouts with fame and heroin, mourning his untimely death, and celebrating his legacy. Along the way Young riffs on Basquiat's paintings and sayings, on the music he... Revamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief li...
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92,48 zł |
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African American Poetry: : 250 Years of Struggle & Song: A Library of America Anthology
ISBN: 9781598536669 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 1170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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173,41 zł |
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Jazz Poems
ISBN: 9781841597546 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Ever since its first flowering in the 1920s, jazz has had an influence on American poetry, and this anthology offers a collection of jazz poems. From the Harlem Renaissance to the Beat Movement, from the poets of the New York School to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a literary force.
Ever since its first flowering in the 1920s, jazz has had an influence on American poetry, and this anthology offers a collection of jazz poems. From ...
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60,53 zł |
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Book of Hours: Poems
ISBN: 9780375711886 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. -In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor, - he tells us, in one of the collection's piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement (-Not the storm / but the calm / that slays me-), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life's passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son: in -Crowning, - he delivers what is surely one of the most powerful birth poems written by a man, describing -her face / full of fire, then groaning your face /...
A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. -In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor, - he tells ...
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80,92 zł |
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Night Watch
ISBN: 9781787335271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 'One of the most important poets of his generation' Washington Post A richly evocative and moving collection about African American identity and history, this is an ode to home places and the dearly departed, and to what of them – of us – poetry can save. In bellowing declarations of suffering and whispered prayers of faith, Night Watch speaks to an inner history which is compelling and authentic and deeply American, rippling with timely and devastating truths about the insidious nature of the American nation. 'Keeping up with him is like trying to keep up with Bob Dylan or Prince in...
'One of the most important poets of his generation' Washington Post A richly evocative and moving collection about African American identity and hist...
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65,57 zł |
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Most Way Home
ISBN: 9781581950212 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Most Way Home is the incandescent first collection by award-winning poet Kevin Young. Selected by Lucille Clifton as part of the National Poetry Series, and now back in print, Most Way Home illuminates the African-American experience in language by turns gutsy and erudite, fresh and familiar -- but never dry or academic. This is great American poetry by a young poet to watch.
Most Way Home is the incandescent first collection by award-winning poet Kevin Young. Selected by Lucille Clifton as part of the National Poetry Serie...
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65,47 zł |
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Dear Darkness: Poems
ISBN: 9780307264428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Delivered in Young s classic bluesy tone, this powerful collection of poems about the American family, smoky Southern food, and the losses that time inevitably brings bristles with life, nerve and, best of all, wit ("San Francisco Chronicle).
"" Delivered in Young s classic bluesy tone, this powerful collection of poems about the American family, smoky Southern food, and the losses that time i...
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80,92 zł |
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Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
ISBN: 9780375711619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, language, hopes, dreams, and fight for freedom, of the African Americans abducted in the "Amistad" rebellion.
Based on the 1840 mutiny on board the slave ship "Amistad, Ardency" begins with "Buzzard," a sequence of poems told in the voice of the interpreter for the captive rebels, who were jailed in New Haven. In "Correspondence," we encounter the remarkable letters to John Quincy Adams and others that the captives wrote from jail. The book culminates in "Witness," a libretto chanted by Cinque,... Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, language, hopes, dreams, and fight for freedom, of the...
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104,04 zł |
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Affiliate Marketing for Beginners: How to Start Your Online Business as an Affiliate Marketer (How to Grow Your Affiliate Business From Zero to Super
ISBN: 9781774851937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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76,88 zł |
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Jelly Roll: A Blues
ISBN: 9780375709890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as "Stride Piano," "Gutbucket," and "Can-Can," these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized songs and follow a classic blues trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion ("To watch you walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is to see / civilization start"), only to end up lamenting the loss of love ("No use driving / like rain, past / where you at"). As Young conquers the sorrow left...
In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which h...
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77,07 zł |
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Bobby The Not So Great Blue Heron Book 3: Moving On
ISBN: 9781723803383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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40,47 zł |