Author: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0307700933
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. The villains and victims who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men. The literary forms they inhabit are just as varied, from the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads to the hard-boiled poetry of twentieth-century noir, from lighthearted comic riffs to profound poetic musings on murder. Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Mark Doty, Frank Bidart, Toi Derricotte, Lynn Emanuel, and Cornelius Eady are only a few of the many poets, old and new, whose work is captured in this heart-stopping—and criminally entertaining—collection.
Killer Verse
Author: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0307700933
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. The villains and victims who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men. The literary forms they inhabit are just as varied, from the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads to the hard-boiled poetry of twentieth-century noir, from lighthearted comic riffs to profound poetic musings on murder. Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Mark Doty, Frank Bidart, Toi Derricotte, Lynn Emanuel, and Cornelius Eady are only a few of the many poets, old and new, whose work is captured in this heart-stopping—and criminally entertaining—collection.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0307700933
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. The villains and victims who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men. The literary forms they inhabit are just as varied, from the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads to the hard-boiled poetry of twentieth-century noir, from lighthearted comic riffs to profound poetic musings on murder. Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, W. H. Auden, Stevie Smith, Mark Doty, Frank Bidart, Toi Derricotte, Lynn Emanuel, and Cornelius Eady are only a few of the many poets, old and new, whose work is captured in this heart-stopping—and criminally entertaining—collection.
The Predator
Author: RuNyx
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781087931760
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object in the field of death? In the dark underbelly of the mob, Tristan Caine has been an anomaly. As the only non-blooded member in the high circle of the Tenebrae Outfit, he is an enigma to all - his skills unparalleled, his morality questionable, and his motives unknown. He is lethal and he knows it. As does Morana Vitalio, the genius extraordinaire daughter of the rival family. What Caine does with weapons, Morana does with computers. When a twenty-year old mystery resurfaces, Morana infiltrates Caine's house, intent on killing him, unaware of a tie that binds them together. Hate, heat, and history clash together with unexpected sparks. But something bigger, something worse is happening in their world. And despite their animosity, only they can fight it down. The Predator is an enemies-to-lovers, dark, contemporary romance set in a fictional universe with mafia, passion and incredible storytelling.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781087931760
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object in the field of death? In the dark underbelly of the mob, Tristan Caine has been an anomaly. As the only non-blooded member in the high circle of the Tenebrae Outfit, he is an enigma to all - his skills unparalleled, his morality questionable, and his motives unknown. He is lethal and he knows it. As does Morana Vitalio, the genius extraordinaire daughter of the rival family. What Caine does with weapons, Morana does with computers. When a twenty-year old mystery resurfaces, Morana infiltrates Caine's house, intent on killing him, unaware of a tie that binds them together. Hate, heat, and history clash together with unexpected sparks. But something bigger, something worse is happening in their world. And despite their animosity, only they can fight it down. The Predator is an enemies-to-lovers, dark, contemporary romance set in a fictional universe with mafia, passion and incredible storytelling.
The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse
Author: Philip Schultz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393242900
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
“Gripping, eloquent, moving, this is a powerful tale about what remains hidden and/or unspeakable in history.” —Elie Wiesel I, one Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski, Head Clerk of Closed Files, a department of one, work… in a forgotten well of ghostly sighs This astonishing novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother’s diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941. Wildly inventive, dark, beautiful, and unrelenting, The Wherewithal is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of war.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393242900
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
“Gripping, eloquent, moving, this is a powerful tale about what remains hidden and/or unspeakable in history.” —Elie Wiesel I, one Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski, Head Clerk of Closed Files, a department of one, work… in a forgotten well of ghostly sighs This astonishing novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother’s diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941. Wildly inventive, dark, beautiful, and unrelenting, The Wherewithal is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of war.
Spider-Verse
Author: David Hine
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302527398
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Collects Edge of Spider-Verse (2014) #1-5, Edge of Spider-Verse (2022) #1-5, Edge of Spider-Verse (2023) #1-4. Traverse the Spider-Verse with a swarm of Spiders familiar, fresh and flabbergasting! As the vicious Morlun targets wall-crawlers across all realities, Spider-Man Noir returns, Gwen Stacy is Earth-65's Spider-Woman and Peni Parker dons the sensational mech-suit known as SP//dr! When the end of the Spider-Verse looms, Spider-Ham and Araña head into action, the legacy of Spider-UK passes to a new champion, Sergei Kravinoff becomes the Hunter-Spider and Spinstress is an all-singing, all-slinging princess! Plus: The Spider-Mobile rides again! Spider-Rex faces the Venomsaurus! Billie Morales is all grown up as Spider-Smasher! Make way for Spider-Boy, the forgotten sidekick! Who is Headline? And even more amazing arachnid adventurers!
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302527398
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Collects Edge of Spider-Verse (2014) #1-5, Edge of Spider-Verse (2022) #1-5, Edge of Spider-Verse (2023) #1-4. Traverse the Spider-Verse with a swarm of Spiders familiar, fresh and flabbergasting! As the vicious Morlun targets wall-crawlers across all realities, Spider-Man Noir returns, Gwen Stacy is Earth-65's Spider-Woman and Peni Parker dons the sensational mech-suit known as SP//dr! When the end of the Spider-Verse looms, Spider-Ham and Araña head into action, the legacy of Spider-UK passes to a new champion, Sergei Kravinoff becomes the Hunter-Spider and Spinstress is an all-singing, all-slinging princess! Plus: The Spider-Mobile rides again! Spider-Rex faces the Venomsaurus! Billie Morales is all grown up as Spider-Smasher! Make way for Spider-Boy, the forgotten sidekick! Who is Headline? And even more amazing arachnid adventurers!
The Public
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
Love Novel
Author: Ivana Sajko
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1771965991
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Winner of the HKW Internationaler Literaturpreis • Shortlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award • One of The Millions Most Anticipated Titles of 2024 Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us to the frontlines of a war waged between kitchen and bedroom. He, an unemployed Dante scholar, trying to change the world and write a novel. She, once a passable actress with a vaguely rewarding theater job, now a stay-at-home mom. He is delirious with dreams of grandeur; she is on edge, a detonator bomb with a dirty laundry trigger. The rent is late, the neighbor caviling, the government astoundingly callous: with violence looming on all sides, husband and wife circle one another in a dizzying dance towards the abyss. Intense and astutely ironic, devastating and darkly comic, Ivana Sajko’s Love Novel takes a scalpel to the heart of modern married life.
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1771965991
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Winner of the HKW Internationaler Literaturpreis • Shortlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award • One of The Millions Most Anticipated Titles of 2024 Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us to the frontlines of a war waged between kitchen and bedroom. He, an unemployed Dante scholar, trying to change the world and write a novel. She, once a passable actress with a vaguely rewarding theater job, now a stay-at-home mom. He is delirious with dreams of grandeur; she is on edge, a detonator bomb with a dirty laundry trigger. The rent is late, the neighbor caviling, the government astoundingly callous: with violence looming on all sides, husband and wife circle one another in a dizzying dance towards the abyss. Intense and astutely ironic, devastating and darkly comic, Ivana Sajko’s Love Novel takes a scalpel to the heart of modern married life.
Take the Mic
Author: Marc Smith
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 140224231X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Get on Stage and Perfect Your Performance Have you ever enjoyed a slam or two and thought, "I could do this," but felt apprehensive staring at that empty mic—or worse, you climbed up on stage and struggled? Let Marc Kelly Smith, the founder of Slam Poetry, teach you everything you need to be a confident performer, from writing a powerful poem, to stage techniques, to going on tour (if that's where your muse leads you). Take the Mic is filled with insider tips, backstage advice, and tons of examples of slam poems that wake up an audience. With this book, you'll also be able to link to the PoetrySpeaks.com community to listen to samples, meet poets, and unearth inspirations for your next performance. The Ultimate Guide to Writing and Performing with Power Take the Mic is an essential guide for lifting your poetry from the page to the stage. Marc Kelly Smith (So What!), grand founder of the Slam movement, serves as you personal coach, showing you how to craft stage-worthy verse and deliver a poetry performance that shakes the rafters and sparks thunderous applause. In Take the Mic, you discover how to... Pen poetry that's conducive to on-stage performance Overcome stage fright Practice powerful performance techniques Rehearse like a pro Shape a loose collection of poems into a killer set Connect with your audience — heart and soul Master the art of self-promotion Schedule your own slam poetry tour Transform your hobby into paying gigs Act professional to establish a solid reputation in the Slam community Take the Mic is packed with practical exercises you can do alone or in class to hone your skills and transform your body, mind, voice, verse, and spirit into an engaging stage presence. You'll also find a brief history of slam, the rules and regulations that govern official slam competitions, and a list of PSI (Poetry Slam, Inc.) Certified Slams, so no matter where you are, you always have a place to Take the Mic!
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 140224231X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Get on Stage and Perfect Your Performance Have you ever enjoyed a slam or two and thought, "I could do this," but felt apprehensive staring at that empty mic—or worse, you climbed up on stage and struggled? Let Marc Kelly Smith, the founder of Slam Poetry, teach you everything you need to be a confident performer, from writing a powerful poem, to stage techniques, to going on tour (if that's where your muse leads you). Take the Mic is filled with insider tips, backstage advice, and tons of examples of slam poems that wake up an audience. With this book, you'll also be able to link to the PoetrySpeaks.com community to listen to samples, meet poets, and unearth inspirations for your next performance. The Ultimate Guide to Writing and Performing with Power Take the Mic is an essential guide for lifting your poetry from the page to the stage. Marc Kelly Smith (So What!), grand founder of the Slam movement, serves as you personal coach, showing you how to craft stage-worthy verse and deliver a poetry performance that shakes the rafters and sparks thunderous applause. In Take the Mic, you discover how to... Pen poetry that's conducive to on-stage performance Overcome stage fright Practice powerful performance techniques Rehearse like a pro Shape a loose collection of poems into a killer set Connect with your audience — heart and soul Master the art of self-promotion Schedule your own slam poetry tour Transform your hobby into paying gigs Act professional to establish a solid reputation in the Slam community Take the Mic is packed with practical exercises you can do alone or in class to hone your skills and transform your body, mind, voice, verse, and spirit into an engaging stage presence. You'll also find a brief history of slam, the rules and regulations that govern official slam competitions, and a list of PSI (Poetry Slam, Inc.) Certified Slams, so no matter where you are, you always have a place to Take the Mic!
The American Blacksmith
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blacksmithing
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blacksmithing
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Like A Ghost In The Night
Author: Rachel Lawson
Publisher: Rachel Lawson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Song Lyric book of songs from the author of the Dark Fantasy series: the Magicians. The Nightmare Waltz My head is spinning, I'm lost in a nightmare of a world, I do not know how to escape it. I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I am dizzy, lost in my nightmare world, I can't stop my head spinning, I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I'm lost in a nightmare of a world, I do not know how to escape it. I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I am dizzy, lost in my nightmare world, I can't stop my head spinning, I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I'm lost in a nightmare of a world, I do not know how to escape it. I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I am dizzy, lost in my nightmare world, I can't stop my head spinning, I am lost in the nightmare wal- wal- waltz My head is spinning, I'm lost in a nightmare of a world, I do not know how to escape it. I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I am dizzy, lost in my nightmare world, I can't stop my head spinning, I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I'm lost in a nightmare of a world, I do not know how to escape it. I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I am dizzy, lost in my nightmare world, I can't stop my head spinning, I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I'm lost in a nightmare of a world, I do not know how to escape it. I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I am dizzy, lost in my nightmare world, I can't stop my head spinning, I am lost in the nightmare waltz
Publisher: Rachel Lawson
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Song Lyric book of songs from the author of the Dark Fantasy series: the Magicians. The Nightmare Waltz My head is spinning, I'm lost in a nightmare of a world, I do not know how to escape it. I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I am dizzy, lost in my nightmare world, I can't stop my head spinning, I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I'm lost in a nightmare of a world, I do not know how to escape it. I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I am dizzy, lost in my nightmare world, I can't stop my head spinning, I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I'm lost in a nightmare of a world, I do not know how to escape it. I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I am dizzy, lost in my nightmare world, I can't stop my head spinning, I am lost in the nightmare wal- wal- waltz My head is spinning, I'm lost in a nightmare of a world, I do not know how to escape it. I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I am dizzy, lost in my nightmare world, I can't stop my head spinning, I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I'm lost in a nightmare of a world, I do not know how to escape it. I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I am dizzy, lost in my nightmare world, I can't stop my head spinning, I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I'm lost in a nightmare of a world, I do not know how to escape it. I am lost in the nightmare waltz, My head is spinning, I am dizzy, lost in my nightmare world, I can't stop my head spinning, I am lost in the nightmare waltz
Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative
Author: Heather O'Donoghue
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019153305X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative is a study of the varying relationships between verse and prose in a series of Old Norse-Icelandic saga narratives. It shows how the interplay of skaldic verse, with its metrical intricacy and cryptic diction, and saga prose, with its habitual spare clarity, can be used to achieve a wide variety of sophisticated stylistic and psychological effects. In sagas, there is a fundamental distinction between verses which are ostensibly quoted to corroborate what is stated in the narrative, and verses which are presented as the speech of characters in the saga. Corroborative verses are typical of-but not confined to-historical writings, the verses acting as a footnote to the narrative. Dialogue verses, with their illusion that saga characters break into verse at crucial points in the story, belong to the realm of fiction. This study, which focuses on historical writings such as Ágrip and Heimskringla, and three of the major family sagas, Eyrbyggja saga, Gisla saga and Grettis saga, shows that a close reading of the prosimetrum in the narrative can be used to chart the complex and delicate boundaries between history and fiction in the sagas. When skaldic stanzas are presented as the dialogue of saga characters, the characteristic naturalism of these narratives is breached. But some saga authors, as this book shows, extend still further the expressiveness of saga narrative, presenting skaldic stanzas as the soliloquies of saga characters. This technique enables the direct articulation of emotion, and hence dramatic focalization of the narrative and the creation of psychological climaxes. As an epilogue, Heather O'Donoghue considers the absence of such effects in Hrafnkels saga-a highly literary narrative without verses.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019153305X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative is a study of the varying relationships between verse and prose in a series of Old Norse-Icelandic saga narratives. It shows how the interplay of skaldic verse, with its metrical intricacy and cryptic diction, and saga prose, with its habitual spare clarity, can be used to achieve a wide variety of sophisticated stylistic and psychological effects. In sagas, there is a fundamental distinction between verses which are ostensibly quoted to corroborate what is stated in the narrative, and verses which are presented as the speech of characters in the saga. Corroborative verses are typical of-but not confined to-historical writings, the verses acting as a footnote to the narrative. Dialogue verses, with their illusion that saga characters break into verse at crucial points in the story, belong to the realm of fiction. This study, which focuses on historical writings such as Ágrip and Heimskringla, and three of the major family sagas, Eyrbyggja saga, Gisla saga and Grettis saga, shows that a close reading of the prosimetrum in the narrative can be used to chart the complex and delicate boundaries between history and fiction in the sagas. When skaldic stanzas are presented as the dialogue of saga characters, the characteristic naturalism of these narratives is breached. But some saga authors, as this book shows, extend still further the expressiveness of saga narrative, presenting skaldic stanzas as the soliloquies of saga characters. This technique enables the direct articulation of emotion, and hence dramatic focalization of the narrative and the creation of psychological climaxes. As an epilogue, Heather O'Donoghue considers the absence of such effects in Hrafnkels saga-a highly literary narrative without verses.