Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Strether's first question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconcerted. A telegram from him bespeaking a room "only if not noisy," reply paid, was produced for the enquirer at the office, so that the understanding they should meet at Chester rather than at Liverpool remained to that extent sound. The same secret...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Strether's first question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconcerted. A telegram from him bespeaking a room "only if not noisy," reply paid, was produced for the enquirer at the office, so that the understanding they should meet at Chester rather than at Liverpool remained to that extent sound. The same secret...

Join Scott Caputo on a pilgrimage where we are offered nothing less than the full measure of being human. Accessible, these poems are made from the whole cloth of experience. Caputo never shies away from his religion or the marketplace. Astonishment lies down with humor. In Holy Trinity of Chiles the wanderer and the word-lover find nourishment. Kit Kennedy, poet and host of Gallery Cafe Reading Series, San Francisco In Holy Trinity of Chiles, poet Scott Caputo is fully engaged on an inspired journey as guide and follower. These compelling narrative poems reflect themes of exploration and...

Mary Ellen Branan returns again and again to test what stands between us, never quite giving up on what might connect us. These poems are touching and well-traveled in the least facile sense of these terms. They cherish contact as well as the possibility of genuine sympathy, proving the tender spot between the self and the other, either human or animal.
These poems venture out to various points in the United States and Poland, not as a tourists appropriation of exotic places and creatures, but as the fragile words of a person in search of intimate communion, a bond made more precious by...

"Its terrible, / getting what you want, / because thats when you know youll always want / something different" confesses the speaker in Cradling Monsoons with a fabulously poignant bravado that keeps the reader tractor-beamed in thrall and enthralled within the light of these smart, funny, heartbreakingly gorgeous poems. Opening with a poem about a father who "cut down his family tree / to build a bridge from Kokomo to San Francisco thats still burning," the speaker in Sarah McKinstry-Browns poems conversely puts down roots and stays for the birth of a first child whose arrival sets the city...

There are sensibilities time cannot dull or the imperfections of memory degrade. In Dreams and Dreamers, Lynn Carroll Cohen offers her readers these. In her finest poems, she displays a rare gift-recollections that are tender and yet enduring, reflections that are deeply passionate and yet in possession of discernment and terrific grace. A bravura performance!
-George Wallace
First Suffolk County Poet Laureate

Lynn Cohens Dreams and Dreamers evokes a palpably inflamed sensuality that doesnt dissipate into the thin air of dreams, disillusionment, and the taut arrow of time because "In the...

Written with passionate precision, Florsheims collection goes to the core of a wide range of intrigues and interests: the Holocaust, artworks, the mysteries of the everyday. Urbane and astute, his work is empathetic and clear-headed. A rich offering.
-David Meltzer, author of Davids Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer

Among the pleasures of Stewart Florsheims A Split Second of Light are his incisive character portraits of parents and family and the dramatic incidents he conjures out of paintings by Caillebotte, Chardin, Bonnard and others. Florsheims gift for scene-setting and succinct...

"These poems have a lovely pacing and interior radiance." -Tess Gallagher
". . . superbly written, beautifully controlled, and yet continually freshened by a kind and fresh imagination. -Robert Bly
". . . such a beauty, so moving, so beautifully made that I have to tell you that it is one of the finest lyrics in the language." -William Carlos Williams
"These poems have a lovely, understated directness and restraint."
-Amy Glynn Greacen
"Daniel J. Langtons poems are a pleasure to read." -Paul Muldoon, poetry editor The New Yorker
"The poems I have known before are as fresh as ever. ...

Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him. On the same day another English child was born to a rich family of the name of Tudor, who did want him. All England wanted him too. England had so longed for him, and hoped for...

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~~~~Christmas wont be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "Its so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "I dont think its fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff. "Weve got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner. The four young faces on which the firelight shone...