Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Drunk in the Furnace
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
W. S. Merwin
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438115938
Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
A comprehensive research and study guide to five of the poems of W.S. Merwin.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438115938
Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
A comprehensive research and study guide to five of the poems of W.S. Merwin.
The First Four Books of Poems
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 155659139X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 155659139X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.
Out of This Furnace
Author: Thomas Bell
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Our all-time bestselling title, this classic and powerful novel spanning three generations of a Slovak immigrant family has been adopted for course use in more than 250 colleges and universities nationwide. Out of This Furnace, is Thomas Bell's most compelling achievement. Its story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family - the Dobrejcaks - still stands as a fresh and extraordinary accomplishment. The novel begins in the mid-1880s with the naive blundering career of Djuro Kracha. It tracks his arrival from the old country as he walked from New York to White Haven, his later migration to the steel mills of Braddock, and his eventual downfall through foolish financial speculations and an extramarital affair. The second generation is represented by Kracha's daughter, Mary, who married Mike Dobrejcak, a steel worker. Their decent lives, made desperate by the inhuman working conditions of the mills, were held together by the warm bonds of their family life, and Mike's political idealism set an example for the children. Dobie Dobrejcak, the third generation, came of age in the 1920s determined not to be sacrificed to the mills. His involvement in the successful unionization of the steel industry climaxed a half-century struggle to establish economic justice for the workers. Out of This Furnace is a document of ethnic heritage and of a violent and cruel period in our history, but it is also a superb story. The writing is strong and forthright, and the novel builds constantly to its triumphantly human conclusion.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Our all-time bestselling title, this classic and powerful novel spanning three generations of a Slovak immigrant family has been adopted for course use in more than 250 colleges and universities nationwide. Out of This Furnace, is Thomas Bell's most compelling achievement. Its story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family - the Dobrejcaks - still stands as a fresh and extraordinary accomplishment. The novel begins in the mid-1880s with the naive blundering career of Djuro Kracha. It tracks his arrival from the old country as he walked from New York to White Haven, his later migration to the steel mills of Braddock, and his eventual downfall through foolish financial speculations and an extramarital affair. The second generation is represented by Kracha's daughter, Mary, who married Mike Dobrejcak, a steel worker. Their decent lives, made desperate by the inhuman working conditions of the mills, were held together by the warm bonds of their family life, and Mike's political idealism set an example for the children. Dobie Dobrejcak, the third generation, came of age in the 1920s determined not to be sacrificed to the mills. His involvement in the successful unionization of the steel industry climaxed a half-century struggle to establish economic justice for the workers. Out of This Furnace is a document of ethnic heritage and of a violent and cruel period in our history, but it is also a superb story. The writing is strong and forthright, and the novel builds constantly to its triumphantly human conclusion.
Empire of Booze
Author: Henry Jeffreys
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783522259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Winner of the Fortnum and Mason Best Debut Drink Book Award 2017 From renowned booze correspondent Henry Jeffreys comes this rich and full-bodied history of Britain and the Empire, told through the improbable but true stories of how the world’s favourite alcoholic drinks came to be. Read about how we owe the champagne we drink today to seventeenth-century methods for making sparkling cider; how madeira and India Pale Ale became legendary for their ability to withstand the long, hot journeys to Britain’s burgeoning overseas territories; and why whisky became the familiar choice for weary empire builders who longed for home. Jeffreys traces the impact of alcohol on British culture and society: literature, science, philosophy and even religion have reflections in the bottom of a glass. Filled to the brim with fascinating trivia and recommendations for how to enjoy these drinks today, you could even drink along as you read... So, raise your glass to the Empire of Booze!
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783522259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Winner of the Fortnum and Mason Best Debut Drink Book Award 2017 From renowned booze correspondent Henry Jeffreys comes this rich and full-bodied history of Britain and the Empire, told through the improbable but true stories of how the world’s favourite alcoholic drinks came to be. Read about how we owe the champagne we drink today to seventeenth-century methods for making sparkling cider; how madeira and India Pale Ale became legendary for their ability to withstand the long, hot journeys to Britain’s burgeoning overseas territories; and why whisky became the familiar choice for weary empire builders who longed for home. Jeffreys traces the impact of alcohol on British culture and society: literature, science, philosophy and even religion have reflections in the bottom of a glass. Filled to the brim with fascinating trivia and recommendations for how to enjoy these drinks today, you could even drink along as you read... So, raise your glass to the Empire of Booze!
The Carrier of Ladders
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Young Men in Spats
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393348512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
“Sublime comic genius”—Ben Elton These eleven stories describe the misadventures of the delightfully idle “Eggs,” “Beans,” and “Crumpets” that populate the Drones club: young men wearing spats, starting spats, and landing in sticky spots. For the first of his many appearances in the Wodehouse canon, Uncle Fred comes to what he believes to be the rescue.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393348512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
“Sublime comic genius”—Ben Elton These eleven stories describe the misadventures of the delightfully idle “Eggs,” “Beans,” and “Crumpets” that populate the Drones club: young men wearing spats, starting spats, and landing in sticky spots. For the first of his many appearances in the Wodehouse canon, Uncle Fred comes to what he believes to be the rescue.
A Mask for Janus
Author: W. S. Merwin
Publisher: Yale Series of Younger Poets
ISBN: 9780300246384
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection centered in myth, A Mask for Janus is the 49th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets While Merwin's poetry as a whole is grounded in the poetic forms of many eras and societies, this first collection is inspired by classical models. Writing in American Poetry Review, Vernon Young traces the poems to "Biblical tales, Classical myth, love songs from the Age of Chivalry, Renaissance retellings; they comprise carols, roundels, odes, ballads, sestinas, and they contrive golden equivalents of emblematic models: the masque, the Zodiac, the Dance of Death."
Publisher: Yale Series of Younger Poets
ISBN: 9780300246384
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection centered in myth, A Mask for Janus is the 49th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets While Merwin's poetry as a whole is grounded in the poetic forms of many eras and societies, this first collection is inspired by classical models. Writing in American Poetry Review, Vernon Young traces the poems to "Biblical tales, Classical myth, love songs from the Age of Chivalry, Renaissance retellings; they comprise carols, roundels, odes, ballads, sestinas, and they contrive golden equivalents of emblematic models: the masque, the Zodiac, the Dance of Death."
Four Drunk Beauties
Author: Alex Smith
Publisher: Random House Struik
ISBN: 9781415201046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
"Left to rot in an Iranian prison and under the shadow of death, Kamaal tells fellow-insurgent Drew the story of the four drunk beauties ... The two men follow the beauties' wild chase through Iran in pursuit of a killer, a quest undertaken to prevent a catastrophe. And all the while the ancient and modern flavours of a country - its poetry, architecture and music - come to life ..."--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Random House Struik
ISBN: 9781415201046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
"Left to rot in an Iranian prison and under the shadow of death, Kamaal tells fellow-insurgent Drew the story of the four drunk beauties ... The two men follow the beauties' wild chase through Iran in pursuit of a killer, a quest undertaken to prevent a catastrophe. And all the while the ancient and modern flavours of a country - its poetry, architecture and music - come to life ..."--P. [4] of cover.
Unchopping a Tree
Author: W S Merwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781595343079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An intimate, beautifully illustrated gift edition of poet laureate W. S. Merwin's wondrous story about how to resurrect a fallen tree
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781595343079
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An intimate, beautifully illustrated gift edition of poet laureate W. S. Merwin's wondrous story about how to resurrect a fallen tree