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Characterized by "a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions" (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe's poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. This essential volume draws from each of Howe's four previous collections-including What the Living Do (1997), a haunting archive of personal loss, and the...
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The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation.
Intimate, moving, virtuosic, and hilarious, Tayi Tibble is one of the most exciting new voices in poetry today. In Poūkahangatus (pronounced “Pocahontas”), her debut...
Intimate, moving, virtuosic, and hilarious, Tayi Tibble is one of the most exciting new voices in poetry today. In Poūkahangatus (pronounced “Pocahontas”), her debut...
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"Young readers will learn about the lives and legacies of seventeen heroes of the queer community from both past and present. Marsha P. Johnson, Harvey Milk, Cleve Jones, Pauline Park, Richard Blanco, and Pete Buttigieg are just a few of the iconic figures represented in this wonderfully designed and colorful picture book with illustrations by Harry Woodgate. A perfect introduction to the people who have stood up for what they believed in, lived lives...
4) Home
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"Twenty-seven poems look inside the dwellings of animals like elf owls, cathedral termites, Sumatran orangutans, and foam-nest tree frogs"--
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"An accessible guide to the most important poems ever written-- from the Epic of Gilgamesh to The Waste Land--and the poets behind them. Discover the key themes and ideas behind the most important poems ever written, and the poetic geniuses who wrote them."--Provided by publisher.
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"First you must realize you're homesick for all the lives you're not living. Then, you must commit to the road and the rising loneliness. To the sincere thrill of coming apart. So begins Joy Sullivan's Instructions for Traveling West- a lush debut collection that examines what happens when we leave home and leap into the deep unknown. Mid-pandemic, Sullivan left the man she planned to marry, sold her house, quit her corporate job, and drove west....
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"Following several of his internationally acclaimed, beloved novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes wittily funny, moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the influence of every border crossed. Moving from a Sri Lankan...
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Das Komponisten-Paar Schönherz & Fleer ist der Schöpfer des mehrfach preisgekrönten Rilke Projekts. Renommierte Schauspieler und Sänger interpretieren ausgewählte Texte Rainer Maria Rilkes im Zusammenspiel mit eigens komponierter Musik - eine kongeniale Mischung. Erstmals widmen sie sich mit ihrem neuen Album WUNDERWEIßE NÄCHTE einem bestimmten Thema: der Schönheit, der Anmut und der Dramatik von Herbst und Winter. Das Hörbuch verströmt...
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Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by fifty of our most celebrated contemporary writers.
For many years, "nature poetry" has evoked images of Romantic poets standing on mountain tops. But our poetic landscape has changed dramatically, and so has our planet.
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"Diane Seuss’s signature voice--audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude--has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill-equipped student, one who felt poetry was beyond her reach. Many of the poems make use of the forms...
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Hombres y mujeres del Romanticismo en español (1), incluye algunos de los poemas más conocidos de la poesía del Romanticismo en español, escritos por algunos de sus autores más importantes y reconocidos: José de Espronceda, Rosalía de Castro, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, y Carolina Coronado.
El Romanticismo fue un movimiento literario que revolucionó la mirada poética entre finales del Siglo...
14) At the River
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At the River: Poems of Love and Laughter with God is a collection of inspirational, whimsical and holiday poetry that will remind you of what's important in life. Toggling between poignant and witty word play, the poems will brighten your day while making you think.
Speaking to controversial topics like politics, religion, deconstruction, sexuality, social justice and more, this uplifting book puts wings on which your mind soars to places deep....
15) Mondgedichte
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Edda Moser hat mit viel Liebe und Freude Gedichte über den Mond von den unterschiedlichsten Autoren zusammengestellt und mit beeindruckender Interpretationskraft vorgetragen. Sie wird bei ihrem Vortrag harmonisch und untermalend von ihrem
Pianisten Ivan Törsz begleitet.
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Katharina von Bora flieht mit acht weiteren Nonnen aus dem Kloster in die Obhut von Martin Luther, den sie durch seine Schriften verehren gelernt haben. Luther verheiratet die Nonnen mit seinen Freunden, Katharina und Luther werden ein
Paar. Dies ist jedoch keine Liebesverbindung, da Katharina Lucas Cranach mehr als zugetan ist. Die Balance der Paare und der scharfe Intellekt der Figuren machen den Reiz dieses gefeierten Stückes aus.
17) Jeder Engel ist schrecklich - Freie Rezitation von Rainer Maria Rilkes "Duineser Elegien". Live-M
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Rilkes Verse mit Kopf und Herz begreifen
Die "Duineser Elegien" gehören zum Schönsten, das in deutscher Sprache geschrieben wurde. Über zehn Jahre, von 1912-1922, arbeitete Rainer Maria Rilke an den Elegien, deren Thema die Fülle des menschlichen Daseins ist. Das Schauspieler:innen-Paar Franziska Walser und Edgar Selge widmet sich ihnen seit Jahren in gefeierten Darbietungen. Sie lesen sie nicht vor, sondern lassen sich vom Augenblick leiten und...
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Hombres y mujeres del Romanticismo en español (2), incluye obras de importantes autores de ese movimiento, algunos de ellos por reivindicar: José Zorrilla, Carolina Coronado, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Ángel de Saavedra (Duque de Rivas), Concepción de Estevarena, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Fernanda Siliuto, Fernando Martínez de la Rosa, y María Josefa Massanes.
El Romanticismo fue un movimiento literario de hombres y mujeres que revolucionaron...
19) Dear Memphis
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'What do I know about exile?' asks the speaker in DEAR MEMPHIS, embedded in the colliding migrations and intimate economies of the American South. Offering a direct address to the city where the poet grew up, this collection explores questions of generation amidst the displacement and belonging of a Jewish family in Memphis, Tennessee. These poems sing with their attention to the particular body and what it cannot carry, what it cannot put down. Through...
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In der berühmten Versdichtung "Sonette an Orpheus" zeichnet Rainer Maria Rilke die Lebensgeschichte des mythischen Sängers Orpheus nach. Eindringlich, poetisch, leidenschaftlich: Die Gedichte haben bis heute nichts von ihrem großen Reiz und ihrer intensiven Wirkung verloren.