Author: Giovanni Pascoli
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999261354
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Poetry. Italian Studies. Translated by Geoffrey Brock. An essential new translation of one of Italian literature's most celebrated poets. Giovanni Pascoli stands as a towering figure at the threshold of modern Italian poetry, yet he is little known in English. He wrote his best poems in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first few years of the twentieth, in an extraordinary burst that included his three most important collections, Myricae, Canti di Castelvecchio, and Primi poemetti. In this volume, translator Geoffrey Brock offers a personal anthology that conveys the wide-eyed spirit and formal beauty of the originals. "This collection is a revelation. In Geoffrey Brock's impeccable versions, Pascoli becomes a poet who demands to be read out loud. Time and again I found myself stopping to savor a phrase, a line break, a rhyme, a stanza. And then reading the poem over from the start. 'The Sleep of Odysseus' is heart-stopping. It's difficult to overstate my admiration for that tact, grace, and formal imagination that shape these remarkable translations."--Clare Cavanagh "A champion of childlike intuition, muted tones, and 'small things,' Pascoli has until now been confined to his corner of the map. In this personal anthology, poet and translator Geoff Brock conveys to us the best of Pascoli. His Pascoli is the author of subtle, bewitching poems that look both inward and outward, celebrating the natural world and the inner life of humble objects: kites, walking sticks, the little nests of spring. Brock has kept the rhymes and meters, and his deeply intelligent remakings breathe new life into the old idiom."--Will Schutt
Author: D.V. Bernard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1593091400
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Roland Micheaux is a young attorney with a dark secret. The secret drives him to succeed in order to redeem himself. However, the more he accomplishes, the more he has to lose. When a mysterious man called Jasper Kain tells Roland he knows his secret - and that his actions will bring about the end of the world - Roland's life begins to crumble. As Kain's premonitions begin to come true, Roland must find a way to save himself - and the world that suddenly wants to destroy him. --from publisher's description.
Author: Seven
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462068561
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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Through several life times Tommy must fight a demon named maximus in order to be reunited with his eternal love Nyle. On an island in the forest in the city and in the desert, with the hero the lover the fake the child the wise old man Each life teahes him a lesson as he comes closer and closer only to realize in the end the true nature of what he is fighting. symbolically he learns what maximus means to him as well as nyle and the ture nature of love and hate.
Author: Paul Dalzell
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458203123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Jack Bone is a detective, and nothing gets in the way of solving a casenot even the recent death of his partner. Still reeling from loss, Bone accepts an assignment in Wolfston, investigating the profitability of Englands last woolen mill. Theres something strange about the staff at the mill, thoughespecially the night shift, who seem to have a lot of secrets. The employees at the Wolfston mill are vampires, and they dont like Bone snooping around. He escapes unscathed, but that isnt the end of his troubles. Bones busy caseload also includes the suspected smuggling of illegal aliens into England in trucks owned by Astra Clothing. Nearby, in Leeds, he encounters the Russian gangsters who are running the show. In a curious twist, he finds safety with the Wolfston vampires, who agree to help him with his case while keeping him safe. Bone is right on the gangsters tail when they produce their own powerful vampire, threatening the lives of Bones close friends and family. Fearing further loss, he vows to bring the Russians to justice before its too late, but how can he fight an immortal foe? This might be Bones last case, but he wont go down without a fight.
Author: Art Aeon
Publisher: AEON PRESS, Halifax, NS, Canada
ISBN: 199006020X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Virgil’s Last Dream of Aeneas and Homer by Art Aeon is a fictional narrative poem in the tercet stanza. It unfolds the imaginary dialogues between Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE), the first Roman emperor, and Varius Rufus (74-14 BCE), a literary executor of the great Roman poet, Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 BCE), known as Virgil. Varius reports Virgil’s untimely death to Augustus and reveals that he keeps Virgil’s unpublished manuscript of The Aeneid. At Augustus’s request, Varius relates a succinct gist of the first six books of The Aeneid and what Virgil told him at his death about his numinous last dream on how the spirit of Aeneas guided Virgil to Dis to meet with the spirit of Homer, and what they discussed on the epic poetry: In his dream, Virgil prayed to muse Calliope for inspiration to bring his Aeneid to a meaningful conclusion. Calliope suggested that Virgil invoke Aeneas to guide him for a supernatural adventure to meet Homer in Dis and ask for expert advice in improving his new epic. At Virgil’s sincere invocation, Aeneas’s spirit appeared to him. Eventually, Aeneas guided Virgil to the palace of the queen of the dead, Proserpina. In an impromptu symposium, held by Proserpina at the plea of Aeneas, Virgil met Homer-Meles, the author of The Iliad, and Homer-Outis, the author of The Odyssey. Virgil recited his Aeneid for his revered Greek poets. After their earnest and enlightening discussions, the Greek bards convinced Virgil that his Aeneid was as good as a human could achieve. Proserpina announced that Virgil’s visit to Dis was overdue; he should return to the world of the living. At that point, Virgil awakes from his numinous dream and finds his dear friend Varius, waiting by his bed. He realizes that the time has come for him to depart from this world to Dis. Virgil requests Varius to publish The Aeneid as it is and impart his dream of Aeneas and Homer to others. Then Virgil gently passes away in peace.
Author: Tony Spada
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 1595691464
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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What you are about to read is an adventurous story - a little like a fairy tale. However, it is a wish for an Earth better than the actual one, a kind of "teaching" for the younger people, in the hands of whom one day the destiny of our planet will be placed. Andrew, the main character of the book, will be the chosen one: he who will have to spread Love, Liberty, Happiness, Harmony, Peace, Wisdom, and Respect towards mankind and the environment. This could seem imaginative; but it is really not at all far from reality. It is at the same time a distant and an imminent truth - a truth almost totally and, it seems, deliberately ignored. This is a book substantially for the younger people, but suitable for everyone because it is never too late to start to read books and to believe in the unknown. But, above all, it is never too late to take a cue from reading and behave differently in everyday life.
Author: W. E. Gutman
Publisher: CCB Publishing
ISBN: 1771430249
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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In his newest and most chilling dystopia, W.E. Gutman takes fellow insomniacs on a dark, eerie journey into a netherworld of visions that skirt the nightmarish regions of insanity. Written for the stage and screen, ONE LAST DREAM asks disquieting questions: Do the dreams we spin, the thoughts we ponder betray us? Can our musings be censored? Will the neurons in our brains be rewired to turn us into servile conformists? Is the clash of dreams the real cause of mankind's afflictions? If neuroscientists succeed, there will soon be a way to access and decipher the brain's most quirky constructs.
Author: Amber Benson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101630523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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In the second Witches of Echo Park novel, one coven must keep the world in balance and stand against a rising darkness. Lyse MacAllister did not step into an easy role when she took over as master of the Echo Park coven of witches after her great-aunt Eleanora’s death. As she begins to forge the bonds that will help her lead her sisters, she struggles to come to terms with her growing powers. And she soon faces a deadly new threat. A group of fanatics intent on bringing about the end of times has invaded the witches Council—but the Council is turning a blind eye to the danger growing in its midst. Only one witch is prophesied to be able to stop the encroaching darkness. And if Lyse and her blood sisters are to have any chance at protecting all we know from being lost forever, they must keep her safe—no matter what the cost…
Author: Gordon R. Dickson
Publisher: New York : Baen Pub. Enterprises
ISBN: 9780671655594
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author presents a fantasy tale featuring dragons, water-witches, were-creatures, and a haunted village
Author: Florin Timish
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329956621
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Since discovering my passion for writing lyrics during adolescence, I have tried to develop my own style - somewhere anchored in traditional, but also powered by the emotional complexity of living in the modern society. Therefore, in my struggle to achieve the ultimate wisdom of the words, I write imperfect poetry that seems to be a bit too complex and somewhat out of reach at the first glance. However, a careful and persistent reading will lead the reader to unveiling emotions and thoughts that are common and simple, yet deep and intriguing. Most of my poems are rhymed and fall under the traditional lyric genre, expressing some personal, as well as various role-playing perspectives, in a rather philosophical and often abstract manner.
