Author: Daniel HahnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Twelve contemporary stories inspired by Shakespeare and Cervantes, to mark the 400th anniversaries of their deaths. Introduced by Salman Rushdie.
Lunatics, Lovers & Poets
Author: Daniel HahnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Twelve contemporary stories inspired by Shakespeare and Cervantes, to mark the 400th anniversaries of their deaths. Introduced by Salman Rushdie.
Lunatics, Lovers, Poets, Vets & Bargirls
Author: Gerald NicosiaPublisher: Host Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9780924047053
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Poetry. The witty, heartfelt and compassionate poems of Gerald Nicosia's first collection come alive in his extraordinary narrative style. Known for his seminal biography of Jack Kerouac, Memory Babe, and the important work on Vietnam Veterans, Home to War, Nicosia evokes the spirit and vitality of the poets from the Beat Generation, yet he speaks with a voice all his own. Haunting and expressive illustrations by Jakub Kalousek are also include in the book and capture Nicosia's intense imagery.
Another Gravity
Author: Don McKayPublisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 1551996642
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
From one of Canada’s most acclaimed poets and the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. This book, Don McKay’s ninth collection, practises "the dark art of reflection" – which, as one of the poems tells us, whether boldly or capriciously, could not have existed without the moon – as it moves ever more deeply into ideas of home.
Great Love Poems
Author: Shane WellerPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486272842
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. — W. B. Yeats Down through the millennia the emotion of love has inspired countless poets to great heights of lyrical expression. In this volume readers can sample more than 150 great love poems by English and American poets. Spanning over four centuries of literary creation in the service of amour, the works include a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets, John Donne's "The Ecstasy," William Blake's "The Garden of Love," Robert Burns's "The Banks o'Doon" and "John Anderson My Jo," Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee," Robert Browning's "Meeting at Night," as well as works by W. B. Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Keats, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Richard Lovelace, Sir John Suckling, Matthew Arnold, A. E. Housman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Robert Frost. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Sonnet 73" and "Song."
The Poet and the Lunatics
Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755100204
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Gabriel Gale is an eccentric poet. His madness is the madness of insight and he uses this gift to solve or prevent crimes committed by madmen. Chesterton ably illustrates his own premise that lunacy and sanity may just be a point of view...
A Midsummer-night's Dream
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Pity the Beautiful
Author: Dana GioiaPublisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555976132
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The long-awaited fourth collection by one of America's foremost poets O Lord of indirection and ellipses, ignore our prayers. Deliver us from distraction. Slow our heartbeat to a cricket's call. --from "Prophecy" Pity the Beautiful is Dana Gioia's first new poetry book in over a decade. Its emotional revelations and careful construction are hard won, inventive, and resilient. These new poems show Gioia's craftsmanship at its finest, its most mature, as they make music, crack wise, remember the dead, and in a long, central poem even tell ghost stories.
Lunatics, Lovers, Poets, Vets and Bargirls
Author: Gerald NicosiaLunatic Lovers of Language
Author: Marina YaguelloPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Examines the creation of imaginary languages in history and fiction as an expression of the search for an original and primitive or universal language. The author's other works include "Les Mots et les Femmes" (1978) and "Alice au pays du Language" (1981).
Author: Ella Hepworth Dixon