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A Critical Friendship: Donald Justice and Richard Stern, 1946-1961
ISBN: 9780803245044 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A chance meeting in the University of North Carolina campus library in 1944 began a decades-long friendship and sixty-year correspondence. Donald Justice (1925 2004) and Richard Stern (1928 2013) would go on to become, respectively, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet and the acclaimed novelist. A Critical Friendship showcases a selection of theirletters andpostcards from the first fifteen years of their correspondence, representing the formative period in both writers careers. It includes some of Justice s unpublished poetry and early drafts of later published poems as well as some... A chance meeting in the University of North Carolina campus library in 1944 began a decades-long friendship and sixty-year correspondence. Donald J... |
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Rise, with Healing in Our Wings : Extraordinary Stories from the Life of an Ordinary Mormon with 20 Poems
ISBN: 9781478711544 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rise, with Healing in Our Wings The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is mysterious to those outside of it, and fulfilling and often challenging to those within it. With Rise, with Healing in Our Wings, author and longtime LDS member Paul H. Schneiter lifts the veil with a reaffirming, touching glimpse inside the life. Living LDS standards with true devotion is a 24/7 proposition: The average church member attends three hours of church on Sundays (sometimes with meetings during the week), shuns R-rated movies and media that conflict with their values, dedicates 10 percent of...
Rise, with Healing in Our Wings The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is mysterious to those outside of it, and fulfilling and often c...
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Remembrance and Gratitude: A Selection of Poems and Writings
ISBN: 9781771430715 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Remembrance and Gratitude is a collection of poems and writings paying tribute to our military veterans as well as many community-minded individuals and organizations of Terrace, British Columbia. From firefighters, police officers, medical workers and others, the author expresses his appreciation for his ancestry and other like-minded people who have contributed to the betterment of humanity with a smile and a helping hand. About the Author: Remembrance and Gratitude is a collection of poems and writings paying tribute to our military veterans as well as many community-minded ind... |
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In This We Hear the Light
ISBN: 9781897475966 / Angielski / Twarda / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In This We Hear the Light," is a exceptional collection of Cuba theme poetry by award winning poet, John B. Lee, - without a doubt some of his most outstanding work, juxtaposed by an equally splendid assembly of Cuba theme photography by Richard M. Grove. The poems and photographs represent the inspiration from many years of travelling in Cuba. Since first traveling to Cuba, John B. Lee came to love the island and to admire her people. "In This We Hear the Light," is an ekphrastic project, its literary efforts are beautifully complemented by Grove's exquisite photographs. The poems and the...
"In This We Hear the Light," is a exceptional collection of Cuba theme poetry by award winning poet, John B. Lee, - without a doubt some of his most o...
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153,05 |
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Brave the Unknown
ISBN: 9780982279700 / Angielski / Miękka / 115 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In her debut collection of poems, Brave the Unknown, Ushi Patel inspires courage in the face of loss. The 50 provocative poems in Brave the Unknown reveal how the cracks of a seemingly shattered heart are the doorway to an ancient and unbreakable love. Full of hope, Brave the Unknown, reminds us of the beauty in the darkness and value of the storm.
In her debut collection of poems, Brave the Unknown, Ushi Patel inspires courage in the face of loss. The 50 provocative poems in Brave the Unknown re...
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The Divan of Presence
ISBN: 9780983525387 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The word "divan" has multiple meanings. It can refer to a pillowed couch or daybed, a room with one side open to a sunny garden, or an oriental council of state. A "divan" can also be a collection of poems, especially in the Persian Sufi tradition (such as the divans of Rumi and Hafiz) in which the poet celebrates the states experienced in the progress toward unity with God. This divan is a year's worth of poems in seasonal sequence recording the progress of a student following the discipline of an esoteric school. The collection begins in autumn - harvest - gathering the fundamental ideas...
The word "divan" has multiple meanings. It can refer to a pillowed couch or daybed, a room with one side open to a sunny garden, or an oriental counci...
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Schistsong
ISBN: 9781599540528 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poetry. LGBT Studies. An urban songline of New York. From the author of the memoir L is for Lion, comes a panegyric of the geology of Manhattan. These poems glitter. Manhattan schist is rendered as a template for the skyline and characters of New York. Grit and stardust collide in this debut collection of poetry and song. The book begins with the bright reflective quality of Mica and ends with the gentrified vision of the city where "New York is nine millions doors, and you have not one key." In between are stories of urban icons: iceman, fish peddler, heart butcher, meter maid, San...
Poetry. LGBT Studies. An urban songline of New York. From the author of the memoir L is for Lion, comes a panegyric of the geology of Manhatt...
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57,02 |
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Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets
ISBN: 9781939675019 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets, the first anthology of its kind, seeks to give the best Quaker poets writing today a voice in contemporary letters. Many anthologies of writing from other spiritual traditions have been published in recent years, and this Quaker collection will be an important addition to the conversation. The poets presented in Gathered come from all points on the Quaker cultural spectrum. There are Quakers from all over the United States and Quakers from abroad. There are liberal Quakers and conservative Quakers. There are lifelong Quakers, Quakers from hybrid spiritual...
Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets, the first anthology of its kind, seeks to give the best Quaker poets writing today a voice in contemporary letter...
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The Order in Which We Do Things: The Poetry of Tom Wayman
ISBN: 9781554589951 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tom Wayman's poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada's most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, hopeful, tender, and hilarious. His voice and persona are his alone but simultaneously ours too. His recurring themes--work, mortality, love, lust, friendship, the natural world--make his work a poetry of human inevitabilities, a poetry that exults in the inevitability of seeing poetry in the everyday.
Wayman's craft is poiesis (from the Ancient Greek "to make")--making a change, making... Tom Wayman's poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada's most prolific and public poets, and his writing si...
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Hysteria: A Collection of Madness
ISBN: 9781935738497 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Asylums once used to confine those deemed mentally unfit linger, forgotten behind trees or urban development, beautiful yet desolate in their decay. Within them festers something far more unnerving than unlit corners or unexplained noises: the case files left to moulder out of sight, out of conscience. Stephanie M. Wytovich forces your hands upon these crumbling, warped binders and exposes your mind to every taboo misfortune experienced by the outcast, exiled, misbegotten monsters and victims who have walked among us. The poetry contained in Hysteria performs internal body modification on its...
Asylums once used to confine those deemed mentally unfit linger, forgotten behind trees or urban development, beautiful yet desolate in their decay. W...
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An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton
ISBN: 9780415887472 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton blossomed into a world-famous poet. Orne audiotaped her last years of therapy and it is these tapes which are the focus of this book.
In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for t...
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The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley
ISBN: 9780520241602 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. Through his engagements with mentors such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, peers such as Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, and mentees such as Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Susan Howe, and Tom Raworth, Creeley helped forge a new poetry that re-imagined writing for his and subsequent generations. This first-ever volume of his...
Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with th...
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
ISBN: 9780571252480 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1939, T.S. Eliot's collection of cat poems, written originally to amuse his godchildren and friends, has become one of the all-time favourites of children's literature.
First published in 1939, T.S. Eliot's collection of cat poems, written originally to amuse his godchildren and friends, has become one of the all-time...
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Allen Ginsberg : Beat Poet
ISBN: 9780753522523 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new preface by the author updates this reissue of a seminal biography of the counter culture icon, by a luminary of the 1960s underground Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet and on Ginsberg's journals and correspondence to produce an immensely detailed and fascinating account of one of the 20th century's most extraordinary poets.
A new preface by the author updates this reissue of a seminal biography of the counter culture icon, by a luminary of the 1960s underground All...
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Beowulf
ISBN: 9781908058140 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A warrior sails to a distant land, to a once great hall plagued by a murderous enemy: the monster Grendel. Can the hero Beowulf defeat his blood-thirsty foe, save the Geats from being wiped off the map, and claim his just rewards? The Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf is brought to life by American poet Meghan Purvis in a vigorous new translation.
A warrior sails to a distant land, to a once great hall plagued by a murderous enemy: the monster Grendel. Can the hero Beowulf defeat his blood-thirs...
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Soil
ISBN: 9781908058157 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Geography and language collide in Soil by Tim Cresswell. His poems delight in the strange, situated at the cusp of natural and urban. A fox climbs a London skyscraper; municipal trees are displaced from their mountain habitats; sandworts take root in abandoned mine shafts; geological time is glimpsed through the 'crushed structures' of the city.
Geography and language collide in Soil by Tim Cresswell. His poems delight in the strange, situated at the cusp of natural and urban. A fox climbs a L...
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Caravaggio's Dagger: A Pursuit of Right Action
ISBN: 9781771800150 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many come to evil; many others search for a different way to be. Animated by the work of Caravaggio, Hendrik Slegtenhorst's poems inquire, what is a pursuit of right action? Caravaggio, the murderous, brilliant 16th-century painter, depicted the decapitation of John the Baptist at the moment the act is botched: jugular severed, head attached, the saint in agony - an exemplification of humanity's predilections. Early on, Slegtenhorst accepted Somerset Maugham's admonition of the error of adopting a course of action thought to be right, even though we knew it could not bring us happiness, ever....
Many come to evil; many others search for a different way to be. Animated by the work of Caravaggio, Hendrik Slegtenhorst's poems inquire, what is a p...
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The Third Shore: Chinese and English-language Poets in Mutual Translation
ISBN: 9781848613096 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Walter Benjamin called translation "The Third Language," because a translation is neither the same as the original, nor the same as the normal foreign-language of other texts, for it is something unique, something set apart from either, just as bronze forged from copper and tin overcomes the brittleness of copper and the softness of tin to become both hard and pliable, as if it has become a new element. In this volume, Chinese poets and English-language poets come together to translate each other's work. The Chinese poets involved are: Jiang Tao, Leng Shuang, Tang Xiaodu, Wang Xaoni, Xiao...
Walter Benjamin called translation "The Third Language," because a translation is neither the same as the original, nor the same as the normal foreign...
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Ancestors' Song
ISBN: 9781599540634 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poetry. Italian American Studies. Maria Mazziotti Gillan's Ancestors' Song takes the reader on a journey, one in which she recognizes deep within herself "the voices of the women who came before," their words blending together, forming, as she tells the reader, "the beat I move to." This beat is very much a part of the narrative she weaves in her characteristically honest, intimate, and humorous voice. This beat is true, hard working, strong; a beat that began in the villages on the mountaintops in San Mauro, Italy, and continues to the present day, illuminating the path for those that will...
Poetry. Italian American Studies. Maria Mazziotti Gillan's Ancestors' Song takes the reader on a journey, one in which she recognizes deep within hers...
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53,21 |
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The Gospel Witch
ISBN: 9780674429925 / Angielski / Twarda / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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