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A Question of Gravity and Light
ISBN: 9780816526222 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is rare to find contemporary American poetry that speaks to readers with engaging directness, free of pretense or posturing. That is exactly the kind of poetry that Blas Falconer writes. In his first collection, Falconer presents 46 poems that are emotionally forthright and linguistically evocative but written without affectation or subterfuge. Although Falconer is formally trained and is aware of the structures and potential of both free verse and traditional poetic forms, he crafts exquisite, heartfelt poems that surprise us with their simple intensity. Whether writing about the...
It is rare to find contemporary American poetry that speaks to readers with engaging directness, free of pretense or posturing. That is exactly the ki...
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67,96 |
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A Love Story Beginning in Spanish
ISBN: 9780820327426 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Judith Ortiz Cofer s third volume of poetry collects thirty-four poems written over the course of many years. In places as stark as a New Jersey barrio or fabled as the island home of Penelope and Odysseus, the people in these poems sometimes resist, sometimes reconcile, multiple cultures, tongues, and traditions as they navigate over ever-changing landscapes."
Judith Ortiz Cofer s third volume of poetry collects thirty-four poems written over the course of many years. In places as stark as a New Jersey barri...
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83,43 |
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Landscape with Human Figure
ISBN: 9780822328759 / Angielski / Twarda / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Landscape with Human Figure, " his fourth and most compelling collection of poetry, Rafael Campo confirms his status as one of America's most important poets. Like his predecessor William Carlos Williams, who was also a physician, Campo plumbs the depths of our capacity for empathy. Campo writes stunning, candid poems from outside the academy, poems that arise with equal beauty from a bleak Boston tenement or a moonlit Spanish plaza, poems that remain unafraid to explore and to celebrate his identity as a doctor and Cuban American gay man. Yet no matter what their unexpected and inspired...
In "Landscape with Human Figure, " his fourth and most compelling collection of poetry, Rafael Campo confirms his status as one of America's most impo...
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403,20 |
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Landscape with Human Figure
ISBN: 9780822328902 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Landscape with Human Figure, " his fourth and most compelling collection of poetry, Rafael Campo confirms his status as one of America's most important poets. Like his predecessor William Carlos Williams, who was also a physician, Campo plumbs the depths of our capacity for empathy. Campo writes stunning, candid poems from outside the academy, poems that arise with equal beauty from a bleak Boston tenement or a moonlit Spanish plaza, poems that remain unafraid to explore and to celebrate his identity as a doctor and Cuban American gay man. Yet no matter what their unexpected and inspired...
In "Landscape with Human Figure, " his fourth and most compelling collection of poetry, Rafael Campo confirms his status as one of America's most impo...
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106,83 |
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City of a Hundred Fires
ISBN: 9780822956839 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A journey in through the cultural coming of age experiences of the hyphenated Cuban-American. It exposes and brings into question the cultural contradictions and yearnings of childhood and adolescent experiences through poetic narratives.
A journey in through the cultural coming of age experiences of the hyphenated Cuban-American. It exposes and brings into question the cultural contrad...
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76,02 |
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Red Beans
ISBN: 9780918273918 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Selected as one of the best books of 1991 by Publishers Weekly. A blend of cultures and races, with inspirations ranging from Caribbean musical rhythms to Castillan and Moorish influences. -Quirky and utterly lovely.---VLS-This vigorous bilingual Latino troubador's poems and essays are 'a dance on the edges'.---Library Journal
Selected as one of the best books of 1991 by Publishers Weekly. A blend of cultures and races, with inspirations ranging from Caribbean musical...
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64,43 |
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Destruction Bay
ISBN: 9780931122927 / Angielski / Twarda / 61 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first collection by a talented Chicana Mestiza poet invokes her upbringing in Fairbanks, Alaska. Much of the work, some of it written as dramatic monologues, reflects her passionate interest in womens lives; he woman who longs to escape on the late night train; the deserted woman who raises Akitas, good-natured killers; the whore in the Fairbanks motel; the young widow walking home remembering her husbands chest crushed like an egg when a jack shifts. Other poems, like the title poem Reaching Destruction Bay, are deeply rooted in the harsh and dramatic landscape of Alaska. A manuscript...
This first collection by a talented Chicana Mestiza poet invokes her upbringing in Fairbanks, Alaska. Much of the work, some of it written as dramatic...
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33,96 |
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My Father Was a Toltec: And Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781400034994 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country's most powerful and entrancing novelists, but she began her literary career as a poet of uncompromising commitment and passion. My Father Was a Toltec is the sassy and street-wise collection of poems that established and secured Castillo's place in the popular canon. It is included here in its entirety along with the best of her early poems.
Ana Castillo's poetry speaks--in English and Spanish--to every reader who has felt the pangs of exile, the... Mixing the lyrical with the colloquial, the tender with the tough, Ana Castillo has a deserved reputation as one of the country's most powerful and en...
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76,02 |
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Dona Julia: And Other Poems by Alberto O. Cappas
ISBN: 9781403307378 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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42,36 |
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Poesía sencillamente profunda
ISBN: 9781414007908 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,09 |
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The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
ISBN: 9781556591730 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. National Book Award finalist Alberto Rios explains the world not through reason but magic. These poemsset in a town that straddles Mexico and Arizonaare lyric adventures, crossing two and three boundaries as easily as one, between cultures, between languages, between senses. Drawing upon fable, parable, and family legend, Rios utilizes the intense and supple imagination of childhood to find and preserve history beyond facts: plastic lemons turning into baseballs, a grandmother s long hair reaching up to save her life, the painted faith jumpers leaping to the earth and crowd below. This... National Book Award finalist Alberto Rios explains the world not through reason but magic. These poemsset in a town that straddles Mexico and Ari... |
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64,62 |
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Maraca: New & Selected Poems 1966-2000
ISBN: 9781566891226 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A colorful percussive collection spanning thirty-five years.
A colorful percussive collection spanning thirty-five years.
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83,62 |
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Wild Animals on the Moon and Other Poems: And Other Poems
ISBN: 9781880684443 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In lyrical, original language expressing anger, hope, optimism and fierce independence, Naomi Ayala explores being Puerto Rican on the mainland -- displaying pride in her culture coupled with the pain of exclusion, vividly describing her encounters with racism and poverty, and the power of love in these difficult circumstances. "Naomi Ayala writes poems like water, a clear, strong current, sometimes tranquil, sometimes furious, but always swirling with life"
In lyrical, original language expressing anger, hope, optimism and fierce independence, Naomi Ayala explores being Puerto Rican on the mainland -- dis...
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63,11 |
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Trochemoche: Poems
ISBN: 9781880684504 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. TROCHEMOCHE means helter-skelter in Spanish, and this book expresses the turmoil of the barrio and the various themes that drive Luis J. Rodriguez's poetry. Drawing on more than ten years of poems, Rodriguez writes powerfully and passionately about urban youth, family, and the plight of neglected communities, while exploring the rich cultural roots of his Chicano ancestry.
TROCHEMOCHE means helter-skelter in Spanish, and this book expresses the turmoil of the barrio and the various themes that drive Luis J. Rodriguez's p...
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63,11 |
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Dove Over Clouds
ISBN: 9781891386671 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nieves has blessed us with a cacophony of magical verses; conjure and spells that give us clarity about the experiences of women, mothers, and immigrants. They give us new ways of understanding loss, love, and redemption. By reading and re-reading these poems, we not only bear witness to Nieves' growth as a woman, warrior and writer, but we, in turn, grow ourselves. Asi
Randee Lipson Lawrence, Ed. D., National-Louis University Yolanda Nieves has woven an elaborate tapestry of dreams, memories, desire, and most importantly, love. Her voice is that of a priestess - the conjure woman... Nieves has blessed us with a cacophony of magical verses; conjure and spells that give us clarity about the experiences of women, mothers, and immigra...
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56,83 |
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To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry
ISBN: 9781929918188 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book of essays on poetry by Snodgrass since "In Radical Pursuit "(1975).
The first book of essays on poetry by Snodgrass since "In Radical Pursuit "(1975).
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91,22 |
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The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande
ISBN: 9781929918201 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Known for his superrealism and magical images born of the imagery of the Chicano/South Western culture, Ray Gonzalez gives new imagery and intensity to the mystery and common miracles of that culture, the passionate reclamation of identity. Ray Gonzalez is a poet, essayist, and editor born in El Paso, Texas. He is the author of five books of poetry, including The Heat of Arrivals (BOA 1996), which won the 1997 Josephine Miles Book Award for Excellence in Literature, and Cabato Sentora (BOA 1999). He is the editor of twelve anthologies and serves as Poetry Editor... Known for his superrealism and magical images born of the imagery of the Chicano/South Western culture, Ray Gonzalez gives new imagery and intensit... |
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64,62 |
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Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781929918706 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection balances ample selections from award-winning poet Ray Gonzalez's six previous books with 30 new poems. Gonzalez's early poems are dominated by Southwest desert landscapes and deal with the pressure of conflicts between border cultures. More recent poems upend prevailing stories about historical figures, artists, and writers, create new animal myths, and push traditional boundaries of the free verse lyric deeper into surrealism. Ray Gonzalez has published 14 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and has edited 12 anthologies. He is the poetry editor of The... This collection balances ample selections from award-winning poet Ray Gonzalez's six previous books with 30 new poems. Gonzalez's early poems are d... |
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95,03 |
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Poemas
ISBN: 9788498164671 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,63 |
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La Cautiva
ISBN: 9789871136117 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Echeverria's classic poem La cautiva in a new, annotated edition Though critisized by the Martin Fierro supporting authors such as Leopoldo Lugones as a romantisized vision of the Pampa, Echeverria's poem is still considered a cornerstone of the Latin American poetry, depicting the human drama of the Southern cone frontier life.
Echeverria's classic poem La cautiva in a new, annotated edition Though critisized by the Martin Fierro supporting authors such as Leopoldo Lugones as...
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68,42 |
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