wyszukanych pozycji: 16
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Rembrandt Would Have Loved You
ISBN: 9780701167158 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Shifting between vulnerability and guilt, innocence and doubt, tenderness and frustration, teasing reproach and the exaltation of deep love and sexual happiness, this book explores the complexity of emotions that go with falling in love. It includes the poem that won the 1996 National Poetry Competition 'Icicles round a tree in Dumfriesshire'.
Shifting between vulnerability and guilt, innocence and doubt, tenderness and frustration, teasing reproach and the exaltation of deep love and sexual...
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66,97 |
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The Soho Leopard
ISBN: 9780701176211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Hallucinatory and lyrical, these poems cross Pizza Hut with mating alligators and endangered animal species with stage directions for Beauty and the Beast. Making wild connections over space and time, this new collection displays her gift for getting into the same register areas of life that are normally far apart. Full of wildlife and color, these poems explore new extremes of voice, range, and poetics, linking mythology and zoological science to rich descriptive powers, vivid speaking voice, and passionate, sensual language. Starting from London streets, Soho, and Kings Cross, the...
Hallucinatory and lyrical, these poems cross Pizza Hut with mating alligators and endangered animal species with stage directions for Beauty and th...
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66,97 |
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Daughters of The Labyrinth
ISBN: 9781472156389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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50,16 |
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Where The Serpent Lives
ISBN: 9780349122328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Married to dangerously charismatic Tyler, despairing of her teenage son's silences and alienated from her zoologist father, Rosamund feels cut off from the world of her Indian childhood. What of she goes back into it? This is a mesmerising tale of love, terror, renewal, and the place of wild nature in all our lives.
Married to dangerously charismatic Tyler, despairing of her teenage son's silences and alienated from her zoologist father, Rosamund feels cut off fro...
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132,11 |
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Emerald
ISBN: 9781784741075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. `Here in deep earth, the blackblossom of mourning still sifting within meI remembered that emerald was my birthstone ...'Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel's heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an elegy for her mother on her death at the age of ninety-seven.
`Here in deep earth, the blackblossom of mourning still sifting within meI remembered that emerald was my birthstone ...'Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel...
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72,12 |
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Daughters of The Labyrinth
ISBN: 9781472156396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An artist turns back to her roots and discovers they are not what she thought. Daughters of the Labyrinth is a contemporary story, for an era of instability, about love, loss and memory, parents and children, the fragility of life, and the forgotten Jews of Crete.
An artist turns back to her roots and discovers they are not what she thought. Daughters of the Labyrinth is a contemporary story, for an era of insta...
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95,35 |
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The Poem and the Journey: 60 Poems for the Journey of Life
ISBN: 9780099492948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Suitable for those who want to write as well as read poems, this book reveals the journey of thought, language and music within sixty more poems and also shows how poems fortify us on the journey of our lives, in a collection of essays written in elegant, accessible prose.
Suitable for those who want to write as well as read poems, this book reveals the journey of thought, language and music within sixty more poems and a...
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87,59 |
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Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth
ISBN: 9780701188160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Through images of craft and conflict, and the ways in which human beings turn to making things as a way through crisis, these poems trace a quest for harmony in the midst of destruction. An ancient synagogue survives two arson attacks. An oud, the core instrument of Middle Eastern music, is made and broken. A Palestinian boy in a West Bank refugee camp learns to dance and a Polish Jew in a Nazi camp carves a chain from a broom-handle. A guide shows us round Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity during a siege. What unites this book is the common ground shared by the world's core religions:...
Through images of craft and conflict, and the ways in which human beings turn to making things as a way through crisis, these poems trace a quest for ...
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72,12 |
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We Are All From Somewhere Else: Migration and Survival in Poetry and Prose
ISBN: 9781529112788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
cena:
65,23 |
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Girl
ISBN: 9781784745806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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65,23 |
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52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life
ISBN: 9780099429159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Modern poetry is often represented as difficult or remote from most people's experience. This is a passionate attempt to introduce and examine all aspects of contemporary poetry and make it a familiar part of our lives.
Modern poetry is often represented as difficult or remote from most people's experience. This is a passionate attempt to introduce and examine all asp...
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65,23 |
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On Migration: Dangerous Journeys and the Living World
ISBN: 9781619024335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Life began with migration." In a magnificent tapestry of life on the move, Ruth Padel weaves poems and prose, science and religion, wild nature and human history, to conjure a world created and sustained by migration. "We're all from somewhere else," she begins. "Migration builds civilization but also causes displacement." From the Holy Family's Flight into Egypt, the Lost Colony on Roanoke, and the famous photograph 'Migrant Mother', Padel turns to John James Audubon's journey from Haiti and France, heirlooms carried through Ellis Island, Kennedy's "society of immigrants" and Casa del...
"Life began with migration." In a magnificent tapestry of life on the move, Ruth Padel weaves poems and prose, science and religion, wild nature and h...
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64,79 |
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Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life
ISBN: 9781784742515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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60,25 |
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In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self
ISBN: 9780691037660 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of consciousness, even male consciousness, with the darkness attributed to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and daemonological metaphors for what is within. Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that ... |
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235,10 |
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Darwin: A Life in Poems
ISBN: 9780099547051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this sequence of poems using multiple viewpoints, Ruth Padel follows not only the development of the great scientist's professional thought, and the drama of the discovery of evolution, but also imagines the fluctuating emotions within Darwin, the private man and tender father.
In this sequence of poems using multiple viewpoints, Ruth Padel follows not only the development of the great scientist's professional thought, and th...
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51,50 |
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Fusewire
ISBN: 9781784740573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Fusewire has the fierce historical awareness and linguistic energy of Ruth Padel's previous collections but moves into new territory and new clarity. Poems on British activity in Ireland through the ages intrude on an intensely moving series of love poems which reverse sexual clichés of colonisation: here Britain is female and Ireland the high-profile man. From the prize-winning poet of Rembrandt Would Have Loved You, Voodoo Shop and The Soho Leopard, all shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
Fusewire has the fierce historical awareness and linguistic energy of Ruth Padel's previous collections but moves into new territory and new clarity. ...
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66,97 |