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Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
An accessible and comprehensive gathering of the works of the metaphysical English poet John Donne, a writer who has continued to loom large on the literary landscape (after a long period of obscurity) since his championing by TS Eliot and others. With a new introduction, in a volume edited by Charles Coffin.
6) Essentials
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Publisher
Many Rivers Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It is not a coincidence that this book will slide easily into your jacket pocket; you'll want to keep it close for unexpected moments, those gifts of small, beckoning spaciousness amidst all our obligations and necessities. In addition to works written over a span of many years, plus one new poem and one new essay, the book contains David's personal reflections for many of the pieces, providing deeper context to its meaning. In some ways an artistic...
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Language
English
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The last major verse written by Eliot and what Eliot himself considered his finest work, Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision brought out in The Waste Land. Here, in four linked poems, spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. Four Quartets is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest...
Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
This beautiful volume of holiday writings is lavishly illustrated with works of art from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In such holiday favorites as a medieval stained-glass window, a Currier and Ives print, Romare Bearden's The Block, and Victorian greeting cards, every element of the Christmas season is lovingly depicted. The accompanying text includes selections to delight every member of the family, from the traditional to the...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Jay Hulme is an award-winning transgender poet, performer, educator and speaker. In this new poetry collection, Jay details his journey through faith and baptism during an unprecedented world-wide pandemic. Jay's poetry explores belief in the modern world and offers a fresh and unique perspective on queer faith.
Publisher
Playa Los Vendos
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
Description
In this collection of poems, Henshaw recreates pueblo life in a Mexican seaside community with warm, elegant, and lyrical language. His absorbing, vibrant images place you under the glorious sun of Venados, where the waves are green serpent tails. You are there on the Dia de Virgen de Guadalupe when Serita sings lead with a snappy mariachi banda. You will meet the very old man sweeping with his homemade broom the size of his shadow. Your days will...
14) Collected poems
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
One of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Philip Larkin had only a small number of poems published during his lifetime. "Collected Poems" brings together not only all his books--"The North Ship," "The Less Deceived," "The Whitsun Weddings," and "High Windows-"-but also his uncollected poems from 1940 to 1984. This new edition reflects Larkin's own ordering for his poems and is the first collection to present the body...
Author
Publisher
Playa Los Vendos
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
Description
"In Flags of Surrender, Tyler Henshaw's life strikes a reef, facing surrender, reappraisal, resurrection, and return. Despite the complexity of these issues, he is poetically true to his journey. When trolling for salmon with an old friend in SE Alaska, he feels rejuvenation when he watches "sea otters floating past, their fussy paws busy." He wakes with "bankers, lawyers, or repo-goons knocking with pistol butts." In Mexico, he shares meeting the...
20) Starlings
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Language
English
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"In her first collection, award-winning novelist Jo Walton delivers both subtle legends and reinvented realities. An ancient coin cyber-spies on lovers and thieves. The magic mirror sees all but can do nothing. A cloned savior solves a fanatically-inspired murder. Three Irish siblings thieve treasures with bad poetry and the aid of the Queen of Cats"--Back cover.
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