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Rebellions, perversities, and main events
Par Murray Kempton. 1994
A compendium of articles published over a thirty-year period. Kempton admires defiance, such as that displayed by Lillian Hellman before…
the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He confesses to harboring perverse thoughts about anyone who obtains an interview under false pretenses. And he notes how brief encounters, like sitting on a porch with Martin Luther King, Jr., become life's turning points. 1994.Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Par Azar Nafisi. 2004
In Iran in the late 90's, Azar Nafisi and seven young women - her former students - gathered at her…
house every Thursday to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. Shy and uncomfortable at first, they soon began to open up, not only about the novels they were reading but also their own dreams and disappointments. Their personal stories intertwine with those they are reading. Azar Nafisi also tells her own story. 2004.Rag cosmology
Par Erin Robinsong. 2017
In this time of ecological precarity, "Rag Cosmology" is an urgent invitation to reinvent our modes of engagement with the…
environment we not only inhabit, but are. Refusing the lamentation that leaves us as resigned witnesses to devastation, "Rag Cosmology" counters fatalist narratives with the pleasures of ecological entanglement and engagement. Tracing relationships between seemingly irreconcilable things--economy and ecology, weather and lust, bills and inner voices, wages of avoidance and wages of listening--these poems offer the intimate and lush language of thought that yearn for an imaginative reinvention of how we understand what we are part of and what we are losing. Winner of the 2017 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QWF). 2017.Probably inevitable
Par Matthew Frederick Tierney. 2012
A collection of high-energy poems jolted by the philosophy and science of time. Sailing through the rhythms of a world…
made concrete by Samuel Johnson, before it was undone by Niels Bohr, Tierney uses his wit and legerdemain to grapple with the gap between what's seen and what's experienced. Winner of the 2013 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. c2012.Powers of observation: familiar essays
Par George Woodcock. 1989
King Lear
Par William Shakespeare. 2002
A tragedy concerning a petulant king and his three daughters. Amid the political action, Lear is taken in by false…
avowals of love from two of his daughters, and disinherits his third because of her refusal to flatter him. This is a fully dramatised version. Believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. 2002.Paradise lost
Par John Milton, David Scott Kastan. 1994
Milton tells the story of Man's creation, fall and redemption - to 'justify the ways of God to men'. Milton…
produced characters which have become embedded in the consciousness of English literature - the frail, human pair, Adam and Eve; the terrible cohort of fallen angels; and Satan, tragic and heroic in his unremitting quest for revenge. The tale unfolds from the aftermath of the great battle between good and evil to the moving departure of Adam and Eve from Eden, with human and eternal anguish intertwined in magnificent resonance. 1994, c1667.Poems before and after: Collected English Translations
Par Miroslav Holub. 1990
Covering over 40 years of Holub's poetry. BEFORE are his poems from the 1950s and 60s, poems written before the…
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, AFTER are his poems written after 1968. 1990.Poetry, narrative, history (The Bucknell lectures in literary theory #Vol. 1)
Par Frank Kermode. 1990
An attempt to re-establish contact between literary history and poetic form in readings of Horace, Marvell and Auden. In part…
an explicit comment on New Historicism, this lecture is accompanied by a manifesto for literary study of the Bible informed by historical scholarship, techniques of close reading and the theory of narrative. 1990.Poems and shorter writings: including Epiphanies, Giacomo Joyce and 'A portrait of the artist'
Par James Joyce, Richard Ellmann, John Whittier-Ferguson, Arthur Walton Litz. 1991
This collection brings together all the poems published by James Joyce in his lifetime, most notably "Chamber music" and "Pomes…
Penyeach". It also includes a large body of his satiric or humorous occasional verse, much of which is little known. 1991.Poetry please!: 100 popular poems from the BBC Radio 4 programme
Par Charles Causley. 1985
Poems, new & selected
Par Patrick Lane. 1978
Poems and sketches of E.B. White
Par E. B White. 1981
Collection of poems, essays, satires, and other occasional short pieces which display the author's characteristic wit, craft, and whim, most…
originally published in such magazines as the "New Yorker", "Harper's", and the "Atlantic". Several of the works have never been published before. 1981.Planet Middle School
Par Nikki Grimes. 2011
Planning your retirement
Par Blossom T Wigdor. 1985
Planet earth: poems selected and new
Par P. K Page, Eric L Ormsby. 2002
The title of this book is taken from Page's poem, `Planet Earth', which was chosen by the United Nations in…
2000 for their celebratory program Year of Dialogue among Civilizations. A selection of the best of Page's poems from previous volumes, with a few newer ones contributed by the author. 2002.Pig girl
Par Colleen Murphy. 2015
At 4:00 a.m. on a secluded farm, a woman fights to take her life back from a serial killer as…
her desperate sister and a haunted police officer reach across time and distance in an attempt to rescue her. Winner of the 2016 Governor General’s Award for Drama. 2015.Personals: poems
Par Ian Williams, Robyn Read, Owen Percy. 2012
A collection of poems voiced through a variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to the challenge of connecting…
with others, often to no avail. The author writes in traditional poetic forms: ghazals, a pantoum, blank sonnets, mock-heroic couplets. He also invents his own: poems that spin into indeterminacy, poems that don’t end. 2012.Personal effects: poems
Par Ronna Bloom. 2000
A collection of poems by Ronna Bloom, some of which have previously been published in different versions elsewhere. Many of…
the poems deal with the themes of truth, reconciliation and love. 2000.Pigeon: poems
Par Karen Solie. 2009