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Pariah in Paradise is an anthology of pooled efforts by a new generation of poets coming to the fore with a host of contemporary issues emanating from their resonating voices. This anthology is a gorgeous thematic embroidery by twenty first century Zimbabwean poets who are so much poised to depict the Orb the way it is without even the slightest of reservations. This anthology has new voices whose echoes twitch one to discern life differently. Themes...
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Artes poéticas españolas es un compendio de observaciones sobre la poesía y sus formas más difundidas. La presente antología contiene textos de los siguientes autores:
Enrique de Villena (Cuenca, 1384-1434)
Juan de la Encina (Salamanca, 1469-1529)
Cristóbal de Castillejo (1492-1550)
Juan de la Cueva (Sevilla, 1543-1612)
Lope de Vega (1562-1635)
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Dans cette époque matérialiste o nous vivons, pour sauvegarder notre capacité de rêve, d'enthousiasme et d'imagination, ne pourrions-nous pas nous réfugier dans un « Ailleurs » ? , celui du monde enchanté de l'harmonie poétique et musicale, l'une des formes d'expression les plus anciennes et les plus spontanées, indispensable à la pensée. humaine. Découvrez, grâce à l'extraordinaire talent de Jean Faubert et de Ghislaine Paradis la...
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Discover How Hafiz's Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own
Hafiz is known throughout the world as Persia's greatest poet, with sales of his poems in Iran today only surpassed by those of the Qur'an itself. His probing and joyful verse speaks to people from all backgrounds who long to taste and feel divine love and experience harmony with all living things.
This beautiful sampling of Hafiz's works captures his deep spiritual understanding,...
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A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, "is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases."
The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Their essays, which range in style...
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854—1900), one of Ireland's most beloved writers, was a playwright, poet, novelist and author of fairy stories and political essays. A complex man with many sides, he was both a revolutionary thinker and a flamboyant dandy and man about town. His wit and razor-sharp observation made him the toast of society on both sides of the Atlantic before scandal and notoriety stripped...
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This is an anthology designed to help you get through the stresses of modern life. For rapid and effective relief around the clock, 24-7, without side effects, try a poem -- whatever the time of the day (or night), you can be sure that some poet, past or present, has been there too.
To help you find the right poem at the right time, the organization of the book is like that of a book of hours. Starting with Getting Up, it then moves on to those other...
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Stone Soup is the international literary magazine and website publishing writing and art by young people under the age of 14. Founded in 1973, we have published more creative work by children than any other publisher, selecting the very best from thousands of submissions every year.
The 120 poems in this volume were written by authors between the ages of four and 13, selected for publication in Stone Soup magazine. Since its beginning in 1973, Stone...
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Este monográfico, publicado en dos grandes volúmenes, da cuenta de las principales líneas de investigación actuales en torno a literatura y ficción en la Edad Media. Se recogen estudios sobre el discurso literario y la poética de la ficción, los distintos modelos y materias narrativas, así como su evolución y recepción a lo largo de la Edad Media, los géneros literarios de la ficción y su público, la difusión manuscrita e impresa de...
74) Yet to Love
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To those, Who haven't received the loved yet.
To those, Who don't know love very well.
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Illustrator Rogé visited a school in Mingan, an Innu village in northeastern Quebec. He spent a few days taking the time to photograph each child. Once he returned home to his studio, brush in hand, he revisited the eyes of these children and drew their portraits.
Mingan, my Village is a collected of fifteen faces, and fifteen poems written by young Innu. Given a platform to be heard, the children chose to transport readers far away from the difficulties...
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Sista, Stanap Strong! is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women, and the first of its kind. With poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, and song, its narrative arc stretches from the days of blackbirding to Independence in 1980 to Vanuatu's coming of age in 2020. Most of these writers are in Vanuatu living in Vanuatu. Some have set down roots in New Zealand, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, and Canada. Some were born overseas and...
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Poetry has always been our refuge in this life. We read it when we want to find our sanity, our balance, and hope in the days we aren't feeling so great. And often, the hardest thing is to find the right style of poetry that speaks to the right state of mind we're in. In our second collective poetry book, following the success of our first one "Fields of Poetry", we bring to you new poetic voices from the UAE.
This book features a beautiful variation...
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Public Poetics is a collection of essays and poems that address some of the most pressing issues of the discipline in the twenty-first century. The collection brings together fifteen original essays addressing "publics," "poetry," and "poetics" from the situated space of Canada while simultaneously troubling the notion of the nation as a stable term. It asks hard questions about who and what count as "publics" in Canada. Critical essays stand alongside...
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A beautifully illustrated anthology of poetry celebrating babies, children and childhood—from the magical times and memories of childhood, through to the unconditional love a parent has for a child.
Some of our best-loved poets are featured, such as William Blake, John Betjeman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Adrian Mitchell and W. H. Auden.
The poems begin in infanthood, with the joys that babies and toddlers bring as they learn to move and speak, and...
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The best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured each year with the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's most prestigious and valuable literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English. The judges for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize are Heather McHugh,...
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