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How Did I Get Here?: Your Story from the Big Bang to Your Birthday
Par Philip Bunting. 2018
From the Big Bang to your birthday, and (almost) everything in between, this funny and informative book tells your story.You…
are one of the newest members of a family tree that goes way, way, way back to the very first life on Earth. A lot of incredible things had to happen between the beginning of the universe and today in order to make you. The fact that you (and everyone you know) are here is nothing short of mind-boggling! Read this book to discover how it happened, and prepare to be amazed by the awesomeness of you.This clever, funny, and scientific timeline of the journey of human existence is designed to get young readers asking questions, finding answers, and marveling at the many wonders of our world, from the Big Bang, to evolution, to a brand-new baby, and more.Unfolding Journey
Par Catherine Weeks. 2019
Poetry, like music, is another way to express emotions. The words follow a winding path carrying your feelings along with…
them. The rhythms speak to your heart and draw you in giving a voice to things you may not know you needed to say.Life is an unfolding journey of joys and sorrows, confidence and confusion. Unfolding Journey follows those ups and downs in my life. Feelings turned into words. Words given as a gift from our Heavenly Father- words He didn&’t intend for me alone.Let the words He gave sink into your heart. Let them become His words to you. Words to guide and to heal, to bring you to tears or laughter. Make His message part of your unfolding journey.77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin
Par Thomas King. 2019
Timely, important, mischievous, powerful: in a word, exceptionalSeventy-seven poems intended as a eulogy for what we have squandered, a reprimand…
for all we have allowed, a suggestion for what might still be salvaged, a poetic quarrel with our intolerant and greedy selves, a reflection on mortality and longing, as well as a long-running conversation with the mythological currents that flow throughout North America.John Donne (1572-1631) is firmly fixed in the canon of English literature. "No man is an island" and "For whom…
the bell tolls" are just two of his phrases known by virtually everyone. The Poems of John Donne is a two volume edition of Donne's poems based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of his work from composition to circulation and reception. Donne's output is tremendously varied in style and form and demonstrates his ability to change his writing according to context and occasion. This edition presents the text of all his known poems, from the epigrams, songs and satires written for fellow young men about town, to the more mature verse-epistles and memorial elegies written for his patrons. Volume One contains the Epigrams, Verse Letters to Friends, Love Lyrics, Love Elegies and Satires.Monument: Poems New and Selected
Par Natasha Trethewey. 2018
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry “[Trethewey’s poems] dig beneath the surface of history—personal or communal, from…
childhood or from a century ago—to explore the human struggles that we all face.” —James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress Layering joy and urgent defiance—against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone—Trethewey’s work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. Monument, Trethewey’s first retrospective, draws together verse that delineates the stories of working class African American women, a mixed-race prostitute, one of the first black Civil War regiments, mestizo and mulatto figures in Casta paintings, Gulf coast victims of Katrina. Through the collection, inlaid and inextricable, winds the poet’s own family history of trauma and loss, resilience and love. In this setting, each section, each poem drawn from an “opus of classics both elegant and necessary,”* weaves and interlocks with those that come before and those that follow. As a whole, Monument casts new light on the trauma of our national wounds, our shared history. This is a poet’s remarkable labor to source evidence, persistence, and strength from the past in order to change the very foundation of the vocabulary we use to speak about race, gender, and our collective future. *Academy of American Poets’ chancellor Marilyn NelsonA Songbird Dreams of Singing: Poems about Sleeping Animals
Par Kate Hosford. 2019
Learn more about the variety of fascinating ways animals sleep: from upside down and holding hands, to sleeping while swimming…
or flying!Did you know otters sleep while holding hands; zebra finches rehearse their songs while dreaming; ducks and dolphins sleep with one half of their brains at a time; and, frigate birds sleep while flying? A Songbird Dreams of Singing: Poems about Sleeping Animals is a book of poetry with a scientific-and child-friendly-underpinning. With a poem for every animal, followed by a paragraph explaining the fascinating science behind how that animal sleeps, this artfully compiled book captures the wonder of our ecosystem. Designed with the look of a classic storybook/collection, with special effects on the cover, the book makes the perfect gift for young children!Feed
Par Tommy Pico. 2019
From the Winner of the Whiting Award, an American Book Award, and finalist for a Lambda, Tommy Pico's Feed is…
the final book in the Teebs Cycle. Feed is the fourth book in the Teebs tetralogy. It's an epistolary recipe for the main character, a poem of nourishment, and a jaunty walk through New York's High Line park, with the lines, stanzas, paragraphs, dialogue, and registers approximating the park's cultivated gardens of wildness. Among its questions, Feed asks what's the difference between being alone and being lonely? Can you ever really be friends with an ex? How do you make perfect mac & cheese? Feed is an ode of reconciliation to the wild inconsistencies of a northeast spring, a frustrating season of back-and-forth, of thaw and blizzard, but with a faith that even amidst the mess, it knows where it's going.Passage of Time
Par Anthony Antonio. 2019
“Anthony António’s Passage of Time has selected poems of longing and hope. It contains bracing poetry that offers a host…
of pleasures and rich and briny atmospheres filled with burr and bristle for the ear and thoughts. The poems show a passion for love and a restless eye for the exact and scary details of one of the most essential voices in contemporary poetry. They reveal a man haunted and haunting, beautiful and brutal, ancient and immediate—capable of tricking ghosts from the most innocuous and familiar shadows. Behind each word and intricate sentence, there is a hidden truth, a mystically charged world, a modern life of forked storms, of hard, clear music. The muscularity and toughness of the verses is counterpointed everywhere by a deep tenderness and longing. The poems are increasingly compelling and vast in their embrace, their dark and lustrous landscapes fully inhabited, fully haunted by the ghosts of present and past.”Bantam: An Anthology of Albanian Verse
Par Miranda Shehu-Xhilaga. 2019
"There are liberties taken in rendering Albanian poetic nuance into English idiom; Ariadne's thread is often hard to follow. But…
poetry is there to show us a different dimension of our world, no matter if we lose ourselves there for a while. "By virtue of the time I have spent with them, these distinctive poems will stay with me as companions in life, as I hope some of them may do in yours. I am glad to have helped guide them, singing, into the English-speaking world." - Elizabeth Wade EditorTea, Tisane and a Load of Old Tosh: Observations of Modern Life
Par John Dixon. 2019
Have you ever stood in an endless queue in a coffee shop, waiting for your lukewarm cup of decorated froth…
and asked yourself why? Have you ever wandered through the aisles of a home and design store asking yourself why? Why do they want me to decorate my house like a beach hut or Parisian Boudoir; or want me to put up plaques of house rules or toilet rules? Ever been inspired to bake an inevitably awful cake after watching one of the many cooking-made-easy TV shows...and failed horribly? This book is a journey through the maze of modern life, told by someone trying to answer life’s great questions including: what can Mindfulness do for me, and what exactly is the attraction of a Chai Latte? To be honest, it’s all Tea, Tisane and a Load of Old Tosh!Sixty Sexy Sonnets
Par James Martin. 2019
With 'Sixty Sexy Sonnets', poet James Martin presents in sonnet form his 'Weltanschauung' - philosophy, religion, love, loves, lust, desire,…
hopes, people and pets. It is an intensely personal journey through the events, people and places, both internal and external, that express the soul within the man, on every page for all to see. Deeply serious and contemplative at times, mischievously tongue-in-cheek at others, Martin pulls no punches in this emotional and evocative expose of what it means to live in a world of contradictions - when love and belief emerge as life's only consolation in the face of madness and prejudice. In doing so, he does not ask the reader to agree, but to feel - and respond with the compassion 'la condition humaine' expects: 'one for all, and all for one'.Acqua
Par Jesús María Flores Luna. 2019
Acqua di Jesús María Flores Luna Agua presenta 10 poesie dalla trasparenza dell'acqua alla sua corsa sotto le città. È…
una raccolta di poesie sull'acqua. Dal suo aspetto e dal primo contatto dell'uomo con esso, seguendo il suo uso quotidiano di sopravvivenza per il mondo, per il flusso e la corsa sotto le città e il loro inquinamento oggi.Lord Hogge's Grand Ball
Par Frances Beresford. 2019
In this marvellous, wondrous rhyming tale You’ll meet characters, see them succeed and fail; Like Little Miss Piggy on her…
trip to town, Who tripped on a bump in the road, and fell down; Or Lord Hogge, throwing a grand country ball To the awe and amazement and pleasure of all; Then there’s Septimus Scroat, among other folk, A poet who wants to write works of note; Or Ruby Ramsbottom, who knows how to bake But finds that life can’t rely just on cake; And on the list goes, so come and meet them all, And enjoy the stories in Lord Hogge’s Grand Ball.6: Words of a Leaking Heart
Par Shaikha. 2019
Amor entre líneas: Un destino sin retorno
Par Karina Cassandra Rojas Alarcón. 2018
La misteriosa actividad de fraguar palabras para inventar historias, de tal manera que parezcan verdaderas ante los lectores es fascinante.…
Un buen texto hace llorar y reír al lector, es decir le da la oportunidad de vivir más y entender mejor lo que ocurre en su mundo. La literatura es un proceso enigmático, fantástico, con raíces que llegan a lo más profundo del inconsciente. Amor entre líneas es una de esas historias. Es un relato ficticio, es un texto extraño pero apasionante, en la que uno descubre áreas desconocidas sobre sí mismo. Tal vez uno se llegue a asustar descubriendo los fantasmas que emergen de las catacumbas de la personalidad, para convertirse luego en personajes reales. “Me recargué en el respaldo de la silla mientras trataba de ocultar mi sorpresa. La verdad era que no tenía ninguna idea de cuál era la relación del jefe de mi hermano con Anastasia; cuando estábamos solos los tres, se trataban de una manera que es difícil de explicar, era como si se tuvieran un cariño de hermanos, pero su comportamiento era de pareja; sin embargo, cuando había una cuarta persona en la habitación, sus papeles se convertían en jefe y empleada. Si tenían una relación amorosa, el jefe de Sebastián se preocupaba mucho por ocultarla, pero si su relación era de negocios, Anastasia se esforzaba para que…..”Little You / Nën Nechíle: Little You - Chipewyan edition
Par Richard Van Camp. 2016
Richard Van Camp, internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of the hugely successful Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for…
Newborns, has partnered with award-winning illustrator Julie Flett to create a tender board book for babies and toddlers that celebrates the potential of every child. With its delightful contemporary illustrations, Little You is perfect to be shared, read or sung to all the little people in your life—and the new little ones on the way!Little You / Anetséleh: Little You - South Slavey edition
Par Richard Van Camp. 2016
Richard Van Camp, internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of the hugely successful Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for…
Newborns, has partnered with award-winning illustrator Julie Flett to create a tender board book for babies and toddlers that celebrates the potential of every child. With its delightful contemporary illustrations, Little You is perfect to be shared, read or sung to all the little people in your life—and the new little ones on the way!Devil in the Woods
Par D. A. Lockhart. 2019
A collection of letter and prayer poems in which an Indigenous speaker engages with non-Indigenous famous Canadians. D.A. Lockhart’s stunning…
and subversive fourth collection gives us the words, thoughts, and experiences of an Anishinaabe guy from Central Ontario and the manner in which he interacts with central aspects and icons of settler Canadian culture. Riffing off Richard Hugo’s 31 Letters and 13 Dreams, the work utilizes contemporary Indigenous poetics to carve out space for often ignored voices in dominant Canadian discourse (and in particular for a response to this dominance through the cultural background of an Indigenous person living on land that has been fundamentally changed by settler culture). The letter poems comprise a large portion of this collection and are each addressed to specific key public figures—from Sarah Polley to Pierre Berton, k.d. lang to Robertson Davies, Don Cherry to Emily Carr. The second portion of the pieces are prayer poems, which tenderly illustrate hybrid notions of faith that have developed in contemporary Indigenous societies in response to modern and historical realities of life in Canada. Together, these poems act as a lyric whole to push back against the dominant view of Canadian political and pop-culture history and offer a view of a decolonized nation. Because free double-doubles… tease us like bureaucratic promises of medical coverage and housing not given to black mold and torn- off siding. Oh Lord, let us sing anew, in this pre-dawn light, a chorus that shall not repeat Please Play Again. (from “Roll Up the Rim Prayer”)Mowing
Par Marlene Cookshaw. 2019
An award-winning poet’s day-book of poems, where both bounty and loss are tenderly assigned value. Marlene Cookshaw, in her first…
collection of poetry in more than a decade, invites her readers to partake in a long-anticipated harvest that comes in many forms. Whether she’s haying June-high grasses, relishing a neighbour’s gift of new potatoes with her husband, logging fragments of poetry she’s read in a notebook, or honouring the deaths of her parents, Cookshaw works an open field. Through this pastorale wander dogs, horses, chickens, and donkeys in counterpoint to farm labourers and long-time residents who share in her abiding connection to the land they mutually watch over and tend. The power grid may fail while every monthly expense is brought to account, but observation as careful and particular as Cookshaw’s more than weighs the seasons that it seeks to bring into balance. Each day I plan how the next will differ, will more resemble what I want a life to be. “These poems can confront quotidian life in plainspoken language because, like an extraordinary pencil drawing, there is so much subtle cross-hatching and shading. Cookshaw observes her mother’s death, for example, both directly and aslant, half turning away, as if unsure which is the more truthful. Mowing requires that you sit and visit for a good long while.” —Ross LeckieVancouver for Beginners
Par Alex Leslie. 2019
In Vancouver for Beginners, the nostalgia of place is dissected through the mapping of a city where readers are led…
past surrealist development proposals, post-apocalyptic postcards, childhood landmarks long gone and a developer who paces at the city's edge, shoring it up with aquariums.In these poems you will traverse a city lined with rivers, not streets. Memory traps and tourist traps reveal themselves, and the ocean glints, elusive, in the background. Here there are many Vancouvers and no Vancouver, a city meant for elsewhere after the flood has swept through. This place of the living and the dead has been rewritten: forests are subsumed by parks, buildings sink and morph, and the climate has changed.Vancouver for Beginners is a ghost story, an elegy, a love song for a city that is both indecipherable and a microcosm of a world on fire.