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  • On Elizabeth Bishop

    by Colm Tóibín ...
    Series Book 7 - Writers on Writers
    A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences—the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Penultimi

    Series series Janus-Giano
    I penultimi non sono gli ultimi. I penultimi possono ancora trovare ciò che resta della civiltà occidentale, delle sue idealità: la comunanza, la commozione, la morbidezza di ciò che è sensuale, corporeo, vitale. Possono ancora concepire la speranza del cambiamento. Il mondo che emerge non è più quello dell’alienazione operaia ma quello dell’apartheid prodotta dalle nuove oligarchie finanziarie. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Come diventare felici con la divina commedia - inferno

    Come diventare felici con la Divina CommediaPrimo quaderno. Come riconoscere il male. L’InfernoQuali sono i caratteri e i segni della perduta gente? Come si comportano, quali sono i modi di sentire e di pensare dei numerosi personaggi infernali? Come si presentano e quali argomenti portano per giustificare o abbellire la loro colpa? E soprattutto quanto ne sono consapevoli? A queste domande ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Little Eurekas

    A Decade's Thoughts on Poetry

    by Robyn Sarah ...
    A reader-friendly miscellany of essays, appreciations, reviews, and conversations, published in newspapers and literary magazines over the past ten years, these are pieces that will resonate equally with the lay poetry lover and the specialist. This collection explores all aspects of a life in poetry: reading it, writing it, teaching it, editing it, publishing it, reviewing it. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Truth and Beauty

    How the Lives and Works of England's Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus

    by Andrew Klavan ...
    Follow Andrew Klavan to a deeper, richer understanding of the words of Jesus.Andrew Klavan believed what he read in the Gospels, but he often struggled to understand what Jesus really meant. So he began a journey of wrestling with the beautiful and often strange words of Jesus.He learned Greek in order to read the Gospels in their original languages, and he vowed to set aside any preconceptions ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Summary: A Gentleman in Moscow - Summrized for Busy People

    A Novel: Based on the Book by Amor Towles

    This book summary is created for individuals who want to flesh out the important contents and are too busy to go through the entire original book. This book is not intended to replace the original book.The year is 1922, and facing of the judgement of the Bolshevik tribunal is Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov. Considered an impenitent aristocrat, Count Rostov is sentenced to a lifetime of house arrest ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost

    Edited by Louis Schwartz ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates. Chapters are arranged to mirror the way the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

    by John Berger ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial experience of viewing lilacs at dusk, and explores the meaning of home to early man and to the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ted Hughes

    The Unauthorised Life

    by Jonathan Bate ...
    Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain's most important poets, his work infused with myth; a love of nature, conservation, and ecology; of fishing and beasts in brooding landscapes.With an equal gift for poetry and prose, and with a soul as capacious as any poet in history, he was also a prolific children's writer and has been ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • Unicorn

    The poetry of Angela Carter

    a) The UnicornAs with the night-scented stock, the fullsplendour of the unicorn manifests itself most potentlyat twilight. Then the horn sprouts, swells, bloomsin all its glory. SEE THE HORN(bend the tab, slit in slotmarked 'x')Despite being one of the most influential - and best-loved - of the post-war English writers, Angela Carter remains little-known as a poet. In Unicorn, the critic and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser

    Mechanic of Splendor

    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
    A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor is the first major study illustrating Robin Blaser’s significance to North American poetry. The poet Robin Blaser (1925–2009) was an important participant in the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1950s and San Francisco poetry circles of the 1960s. The book illuminates Blaser’s distinctive responses to and relationships with familiar writers ... Read more

    $35.99 USD $31.99 USD

  • Grandi Classici di Giovanni Verga

    Series series Grandi Classici
    In questo ebook troverete i tre capolavori di Giovanni Verga:- Storia di una capinera- I Malavoglia- Mastro Don Gesualdo ... Read more

    $3.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Waste Land (Wisehouse Classics - Original Authoritative Edition)

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot. It is widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central text in Modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Poetry For Dummies

    Demystify and appreciate the pleasures of poetrySometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in the best order.” St. Augustine called it “the Devil’s wine.” For Shelley, poetry was “the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” But no matter how you define it, poetry has exercised a ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

  • Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

    Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry

    The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Four decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, "Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran" brings her ground-breaking work into new focus. During her lifetime Farrokhzad embodied the vexed ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • What W. H. Auden Can Do for You

    Series Book 5 - Writers on Writers
    When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by Auden. Indeed, the novelist, best known for his No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, calls the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dinanimismo 2009-2019 10 anni di avanguardia poetico-artistica

    Antologia poetico-letteraria AA.VV. libri Asino Rosso

    In dieci anni di attività il Dinanimismo (movimento poetico-artistico già riconosciuto della critica) ha collaborato con le principali Avanguardie letterarie ed artistiche attive in Italia.Ad oggi numerosi Autori (ndr. oltre 60), sia Nazionali che Internazionali, hanno deciso di sostenere la neoavanguardia dinanimista, inviando e pubblicando gratuitamente proprie "opere" (poesie, saggi, quadri etc ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cantos órficos

    by Dino Campana ...
    Indica Rodolfo Alonso que "sólo Campana, sí, nada más y nada menos que Dino Campana, la única voz de la península que resulta auténtica y original en un momento suspendido entre uno y otro siglo, antes de que aparezcan las grandes voces de la muy grande poesía italiana de comienzos del siglo veinte". ... Read more

    $4.19 USD

  • Thinking Its Presence

    Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry

    Series series Asian America
    When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own reading as a roadmap.While focusing on the work of five contemporary Asian American poets—Li-Young ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Truth about Romanticism

    Pragmatism and Idealism in Keats, Shelley, Coleridge

    by Tim Milnes ...
    Series Book 83 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    How have our conceptions of truth been shaped by romantic literature? This question lies at the heart of this examination of the concept of truth both in romantic writing and in modern criticism. The romantic idea of truth has long been depicted as aesthetic, imaginative and ideal. Tim Milnes challenges this picture, demonstrating a pragmatic strain in the writing of Keats, Shelley and Coleridge ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Post-glacial

    The Poetry of Robert Kroetsch

    Series Book 31 - Laurier Poetry
    Post-glacial is a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso. The book features Kroetsch’s iconic collection, Completed Field Notes, alongside rare work gathered from different stages of Kroetsch’s career. The book contains an afterword by Aritha van Herk.Kroetsch’s poetry evolved from short lyric poetry in the 1960s to postmodern long poems in the 1970s and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Bluebirds and Faith

    by M. Gail Grant ...
    Bluebirds and Faith is a poetry collection that celebrates God's gift of eternal grace by finding joy, humility, and comfort in our surroundings. Inspired by the death of a beloved father, Grant shares her journey of sorrow and healing in a world that seems so incredibly far away from heaven. Finding mercy in the wings of a bluebird, Grant discovers that the separation between heaven and earth may ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complete Works of John Milton (Delphi Classics)

    Series Book 19 - Delphi Poets Series
    John Milton, whose epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’ is widely regarded as the greatest exemplar of its form in the English language, created a body of poetry and prose that reflected his strong personal convictions and passion for freedom during the political turmoil of his day. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Elephant Wisdom: Poetry on Science, Religion, Division, & Loss

    by M. Gail Grant ...
    Elephant Wisdom is a poetry collection that explores topics equivalent to "the elephant in the middle of the room." In other words, through a variety of poetic forms, utilizing a combination of free-verse, narrative, and rhythmic components, the poems encourage readers to broaden their minds and consider connections between science and religion while introducing the paradox of collective ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus