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Dinosaur lives: unearthing an evolutionary saga
Par John R Horner, Edwin Dobb. 1997
Companion to Digging Dinosaurs. A paleontologist explores how these creatures evolved, lived, and adapted to the environment. Draws upon extensive…
fieldwork to depict the dinosaur's pattern of living and survival methods. Ventures theories on key controversies, such as what caused its extinction. c1997.De profundis and other writings (Penguin English library)
Par Oscar Wilde, Hesketh Pearson. 1973
'I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A good part of that…
genius is evident in the essays and poems included in this volume. Includes “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, “De Profundis”, and “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”. 1973.Cruise missile liberals
Par Spencer Gordon. 2017
WARNING: "Cruise Missile Liberals" does not contain proper poems--that is, poems with proper politics, proper tightness, proper attention to sound…
and shape; poems that are meek in all the right ways, culturally and aesthetically; poems that make musical brocades that are equal parts pedantic and overwrought. Instead, this debut poetry collection reeks of explosive contradiction. Incorporating invented lyrical content and found material, it presents the reader with pleasurable collisions and oppositions. It is of the here and now: digital, online, urban, urbane and ironic. These are poems of play, rant, irreverence and humour, a mash-up of ordinary lyrical anxiety with ambitious injections of the experimental--filled with cheek that, every once in a while, turns into a punch to the gut. 2017. Uniform title: Poems.Curtain of faith
Par Patricia Knapton. 1998
Dailies & rushes
Par Susan Kinsolving. 1999
A finalist for several prestigious American poetry awards presents the first major collection of her work. Her observations offer insights.…
In "Dried Butterflies" she describes her reaction to finding shoe boxes of pressed butterflies in her late Aunt Gertrude's closet, for no one knew she collected them. 1999.Crow: from the life and songs of the Crow
Par Ted Hughes. 1972
In this collection of Ted Hughes' poetry, each poem is an almost funny story, in which natural forces and creatures,…
mythic figures, even parts of the body act out their special roles, each endowed with its own irrepressible life. For senior high readers. 1972.Crickets and bullfrogs and whispers of thunder: poems
Par Lee Bennett Hopkins, Harry Behn. 1984
Ceremonies for the dead
Par Daniel Heath Justice, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Giles Benaway. 2013
These poems examine the haunting themes of inter-generational trauma, cyclical abuse, and inherited grief. Four generations of the dead take…
turns narrating these themes, navigating from the Great Lakes through the Appalachian Mountains, and examining the fur trade, an exile from Minnesota, the experiences of West Virginia coal miners, and the legacy of mission schools. Black humour and satire fill the collection, illuminating a fierce determination to survive and resist colonization and the endurance of culture and identity under extreme duress. Winner of the 2014 Young Authors Award. 2013.Bent box (Bent Box Ser.)
Par Lee Maracle. 2000
One of the first aboriginal writers to have her work published in the 1970s, Maracle has since become one of…
the most prolific Native-American authors. In this collection of poetry, she offers verse written over the last 20 years, ranging the full spectrum of emotions. Some descriptions of sex. 2000.Beowulf
Par Welwyn Wilton Katz. 1999
Beowulf is endowed with a magical gift. Unfortunately, his gift of superhuman strength often makes him clumsy and overpowers his…
own weapons. This doesn't stop him from embarking on epic adventures during which he kills several monsters, battles a wicked troll and struggles against sea serpents. Grades 5-8. 1999.Break the mirror: the poems of Nanao Sakaki
Par Nanao Sakaki. 1987
Complete poems of Anna Akhmatova
Par Anna Akhmatova, Judith Hemschemeyer. 1993
Through much of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova's poetry has given voice to the deepest yearnings and struggles of the…
Russian people. This collection of more than 800 poems, half of them available in no other translated edition, includes 80 new poetic texts which came to light at the end of 1990. 1993.Complete poems: Complete Poems (The Collected works of E.J. Pratt)
Par Sandra Djwa, E. J Pratt, R. G Moyles. 1989
The complete poetic work of E.J. Pratt, one of the most important figures in Canada's literary history. The poems are…
arranged chronologically by date of first publication; nearly a third have not been published since their initial appearance. 1989.Correspondences: a poem
Par Anne Michaels. 2013
Anne Michaels's resonant book-length poem ranges from the universal to the intimate, as she writes of historical figures for whom…
language was the closest thing to salvation; on the other side, we have Bernice Eisenstein's quotes from such twentieth-century writers and thinkers as Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, Primo Levi, and Albert Einstein. The poetry and quotes join together in a dialogue that perfectly reflects the thematic interconnectedness of this collaboration. 2013.Complete sonnets (Dover Thrift Editions Ser.)
Par William Shakespeare. 1991
The sonnets have provoked disputes as to the identities of "the dark lady" and "lovely boy" to whom most are…
addressed, and controversy over the full name of the dedication's "W.H." What is not disputed is that these lyrics rank among the finest sonnets ever written - in any language. Over 150 poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's fragility, death and other themes in language unsurpassed for power, precision and beauty. A glossary explains archaic terms. Senior High.1991. Uniform title: SonnetsBlindfold (The Hugh MacLennan poetry series #22)
Par John Asfour. 2011
A sense of exile and belonging dominates these poems, following the journey of a blind man whose life in his…
new land has been hampered by prejudice and barriers to communication. Exposing the possibilities of a life that has undergone a frightening transformation, “Blindfold” relates feelings of loss, displacement, and disorientation experienced not only by the disabled but by everyone who finds themselves separated from the norm. 2011.Camber: selected poems, 1983-2000
Par Don McKay. 2004
This selection of poems from previous books (including two Governor General's Award winners) highlights the poet's consistent themes: birds, flight,…
gravity, the moon, music, the natural world, and everyday life. McKay comes at things from a skewed angle (calling an alto sax "a kazoo with buttons"); his work embodies the poet at play. 2004.Book of longing
Par Leonard Cohen. 2006
A collection of musings, jottings, quatrains, lyrics, prose meditations and offhand epigrams, including previously unpublished poems dating as far back…
as 1970. Cohen displays both a surface humility and an underlying self-confidence as he reflects on women, Zen doctrine, his own advancing age, and the legacy of the '60s. Descriptions of sex and strong language. 2006.Bones of contention: the archaeopteryx scandals
Par Paul Chambers. 2002
Since its discovery the Archaeopteryx - half bird, half reptile - has caused more trouble than any other scientific icon.…
It has been used not just to support dozens of different views on evolution but to start feuds, destroy reputations, further personal ambition and promote nationalism. This book investigates the life and times of Archaeopteryx and also at the chaotic scientific world into which it emerged. 2002.Collected poems, 1937-1971: Collected Poems, 1937-1971
Par John Berryman, Charles Thornbury. 1989
All of the short poems that Berryman wrote, arranged, and published, plus "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet," one of his two…
long poems. The collection opens with a cold and silent scene from an early poem, "Winter Landscape," which is followed by the sonnets and the epic "Homage." The final group contains confessional poems, like "Freshman Blues," and poems on thoughts and feelings as fanciful as what Beethoven heard in his sleep. c1989. Uniform title: Poems