| Author: | Anne M. Carson |
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Poetry |
The central heart of the book is an extended mediation on the loss of Anne's husband - poems both deeply personal and universal. They are held by two other sections which explore her relationship with and place within the natural world, particularly drawing on the theme of regenerat... read more
| Author: | Anne M. Carson (Editor) |
| Category: |
Poetry |
A chapbook published by Mark Time Books and dedicated and donated to the work of Anti Slavery Australia as a fundraiser to help in ending slavery. It comprises two essays (by Profess... read more
| Author: | Jim Bell |
| Category: |
Poetry |
"What lies curl dry off a wishing well's wall? Is the world an eye and an eye a world?" Sardine Can is packed with 60 oblique tales and poems of assorted bit players at large; chiefly the mad, the bad, and the brokenhearted. Some traverse seas, wars, the twilight years, and squalor; others,... read more
You Know How a Catwill bring a mouse it hascaught and lay it at yourfeet so each morning Ibring you a poem thatI've written when I wokeup in the night as my tributeto your beauty &a promise of my love.-James LaughlinAcross the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with compani... read more
| Author: | Emily Fragos (Editor) |
| Category: |
Poetry |
| Series: | Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser. |
Perhaps no other European city has so captured the poetic imagination as Paris. Poems of Paris spans the centuries from the Renaissance to the present, and includes a pantheon of French (and Francophone) poets - Ronsard, Deschamps, Villon, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Apollinaire, ... read more
| Author: | Stanley Moss |
| Category: |
Poetry |
WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Moss is oceanic: his poems rise, crest, crash, and rise again like waves. His voice echoes the boom of the Old Testament, the fluty trill of Greek mythology, and the gongs of Chinese rituals as he writes about love, natur... read more
| Author: | Anthony Holden |
| Category: |
Poetry |
Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same revealing question of 100 remarkable women. What poem has moved you to tears? The poems chosen ... read more
| Author: | Kamla K. Kapur |
| Category: |
Poetry |
Retold in award-winning writer Kamla K. Kapur's elegant, flowing language, Rumi's tales of wisdom and humanity are given fresh life in this modern masterpiece.
Rumi: Tales of the Spirit is a sweet, comforting, and at times, fiery guide to nourishing the spiri... read more
| Author: | Kahlil Gibran |
| Category: |
Poetry |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
First published in the 1920's, "The Prophet" an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, the book is perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of the Twentieth Century and has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. Gibran's protagonist, called simply 'the "Pro... read more
| Author: | Rupi Kaur |
| Category: |
Poetry |
A revised hardcover edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur, author the #1 New York Times bestseller milk and honey. Her long-awaited second collection of poetry is a vibrant and transcend... read more
| Author: | Gershom Gerhard Scholem |
| Category: |
Poetry |
A bilingual collection of poetry from pioneering scholar in Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism, Gershom Scholem.With this volume, Scholem's work reaches beyond the confines of the academy and enters a literary dialogue with writers and philosophers like Walter Benjamin and Hans ... read more
