The Rooster Mask

The Rooster Mask PDF Author: Henry Hart
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066924
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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The Rooster Mask

The Rooster Mask PDF Author: Henry Hart
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066924
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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One for All

One for All PDF Author: Chris Cleverly
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847990290
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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In the bloody chaos of the French Revolution an exceptional man comes of age: Alexandre - romantic, intelligent, immensely strong, son of a slave-owning Count and his Haitian first wife. He accidentally discovers the guilty secret of his new stepmother and her vicious brother. They conspire to destroy him. Cast out by his father, Alexandre is befriended by Chevalier de Saint-George - France's greatest swordsman, Marie-Antoinette's lover - and falls in love with hot-tempered Marie Labouret. When Saint-George is wounded helping the Royal Family escape, Alexandre leads the Free American Legion - 1,000 Black lancers - in a brave defence of the Republic against the invading Royalist armies. In ONE FOR ALL the most extraordinary people and amazing events are actual historical fact. Alexandre's son, world-renowned author Alexandre Dumas, found inspiration in the adventures of his father and his father's friend - the Black originals of the much loved characters Porthos and D'Artagnan in THE THREE MUSKETEERS.

Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art

Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art PDF Author: Hope B. Werness
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826419132
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Animals and their symbolism in diverse world cultures and different eras of human history are chronicled in this lovely volume.

A Map of the Night

A Map of the Night PDF Author: David Wagoner
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252092759
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 167

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David Wagoner’s wide-ranging poetry buzzes and swells with life. Woods, streams, and fields fascinate him--he happily admits his devotion to Thoreau--but so do people and their habits, dear friends and family, the odd poet, and strangers who become even stranger when looked at closely. In this new collection, Wagoner catches the mixed feelings of a long drive, the sensations of walking against a current, the difficulty of writing poetry with noisily amorous neighbors, and many more uniquely familiar experiences.

James Dickey

James Dickey PDF Author: Henry Hart
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 146682865X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1486

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A fascinating biography of one of the most popular, colorful, and notorious American poets of our century. The legendary Southern poet James Dickey never shied away from cultivating a heroic mystique. Like Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway, he earned a reputation as a sportsman, boozer, war hero, and womanizer as well as a great poet, novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. But James Dickey made lying both a literary strategy and a protective camouflage; even his family and closest friends failed to distinguish between the mythical James Dickey and the actual man. Henry Hart sees lying as the central theme to Dickey's life; and in this authoritative, immensely entertaining biography he delves deep behind Dickey's many masks. Letters, anecdotes, tall tales and true ones, as well as the reluctant but finally candid cooperation of Dickey himself animate Hart's narration of a remarkable life. Readers of Dickey's National Book Award-winning poetry, his bestselling novel Deliverance, and anyone who witnessed his electrifying readings of his work will savor this book.

Chance Ransom

Chance Ransom PDF Author: Kevin Stein
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068621
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Winner of Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, Kevin Stein casts a wide net over the "ineffable befuddlement" of everyday life. His poems render history's chance larder of the consecrated and profane from which we ransom our fate. Often improvisational and always lyrical, Stein's poems move effortlessly through the art of Beckmann and Degas, the music of Bob Marley and garage bands, and the pathos of cancer patients, factory workers, and victims of bigotry. Insightful and refreshingly unaffected, Chance Ransom explores the shifting shore between self and other with clarity and compassion.

The Welcome

The Welcome PDF Author: David Friedman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252091302
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Fables for the modern age

King Vulture

King Vulture PDF Author: K. E. Duffin
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781557287854
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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This stunning collection heralds the debut of a most gifted poet, one who turns to the formal traditions of the past to celebrate and elegize our vast and transient world in which human stories--tragedies and triumphs--are invariably bound up with nature. K. E. Duffin's poems are about transformations, from life to death and from death to life, from the sprawl of experience to the spare music of the poem that can reach the future only through memory. These are poems that court the ear and eye alike. They surprise us with their elegant forms and rich, classical themes; they delight us with their force of language and delicious renderings of the vast complications of things.

Some Jazz a While

Some Jazz a While PDF Author: Miller Williams
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067747
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Here one of our best-loved poets gathers his most representative work from twelve collections and adds some new pieces as well. An American original, Miller Williams involves the readers emotions and imagination with an effective illusion of plain talk, continually rediscovering what is vital and musical in the language we speak and imagine by.

Manderley

Manderley PDF Author: Rebecca Wolff
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252092937
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Selected by Robert Pinsky as one of five volumes published in 2001 in the National Poetry Series In the Manderley of Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's forbidding haven of mocking ghosts and secrets that refuse to remain buried, nothing is as it seems. So in this stunning debut collection by Rebecca Wolff, cities, partners, mothers, sisters, friends, and perfect strangers all disguise their true faces, while they who seek connection are "transported from one great gaping / hole in the fabric / of our knowledge to another." No passage is too dark, no garden too tangled for the troubled dreamer of Manderley. Wolff turns a quicksilver gaze on a fluid world where both the real and the imaginary are transfigured. Tempering steely candor with a sophisticated delight in wordplay, these poems turn on a dime from the sensual to the eerie, the resigned to the hopeful, the comforting to the shocking. Each poem weaves together layers of dream, remembrance, and fantasy, distilling from romantic excess a gritty, spare language of truth-telling and surprise