Author: John ClosePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Poet Close's Fifth Grand Lake Book
Author: John ClosePoet Close's Fifth Grand Christmas Book, Containing the Wondrous Story of a Poet's Life!! ...
Author: John ClosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cumbria (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Poet Close's Grand Lake Book. Containing 1. The Port Admiral of the Lakes. 2. Battle with the Mermaids. 3. The Prima Donna of Windermere. 4. Ladies Sweeping the Streets, with a Grand Comic Cut. 5. Poet Close and Editor of Kendal Mercury, with Comic Cut, &c., &c. With Portraits, Etc., by J.L. Marcke. 10th Thousand Lake Book
Author: John ClosePoet Close's New Lake Book. Ninth Season at the Lakes! New Poems ...
Author: John ClosePoet Close's Chronicles of Westmoreland
Author: John CloseLife and Every Day Scenes at the Lakes
Author: John ClosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cumbria (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Poet Close's Chronicles of Westmorland a Record of the Days We Live in
Author: John CloseThe Poets' Corner
Author: Mr. John LithgowPublisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0446501999
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
From listening to his grandmother recite epic poems from memory to curling up in bed while his father read funny verses, award-winning actor John Lithgow grew up with poetry. Ever since, John has been an enthusiastic seeker of poetic experience, whether reading, reciting, or listening to great poems. The wide variety of carefully selected poems in this book provides the perfect introduction to appeal to readers new to poetry, and for poetry lovers to experience beloved verses in a fresh, vivid way. William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Dylan Thomas are just a few names among Lithgow's comprehensive list of poetry masters. His essential criterion is that "each poem's light shines more brightly when read aloud." This unique package provides a multimedia poetry experience with a bonus MP3 CD of revelatory poetry readings by John and the familiar voices of such notable performers as Eileen Atkins, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Billy Connolly, Jodie Foster, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Lynn Redgrave, Susan Sarandon, Gary Sinise, and Sam Waterston. Every reader will enjoy reciting or listening to these poems with the entire family, appreciating how each one comes to life through the spoken word in this superlative poetry collection.
Voyage of the Sable Venus
Author: Robin Coste LewisPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1101911204
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" (The New York Review of Books) meditation on the black female figure through time. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. In the center of the collection is the title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present—titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewis's own autobiographical poems, "Voyage" is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know. A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly begin—five hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who adores her culture and the beauty to be found within it. Yet she is also a cultural critic alert to the nuances of race and desire—how they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history. Lewis's book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of race—a full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.
The Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Northumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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