Lives of the Poets, Paperback

A rejacketed edition of this humorous novel about one man's downturn and his attempt to protect his family through selling high-grade dope, to appe...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

You know how, since the dawn of humanity, great philosophers and poets have dedicated their entire lives to exploring concepts like love, life itse...

Reducere. THREE GREAT ABBASID POETS Abu Nuwas, al-Mutanabbi & al-Ma'arri Lives & Poems Translation & Introduction Paul Smith The Abbasid Caliphate that ruled...

Jeet Thayil's definitive selection covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. It is the first anthology to represent not just the major poets of ...

Reducere. "The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over. The poets of today are amplified."-- LEONARD COHENPicking up where Samue...

Reducere. With Lament for the Makers W. S. Merwin honors the lives and work of twenty-three poets of our time. Each of them has been important to him, and al...

Reducere. Stephen Sweigart graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia. He studied poetry and creative writing. He has worked full time in Floor Coverin...

Reducere. A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011This is the definitive edition of the work of one of America's greatest poets, increasingly recognized as on...

Reducere. Oregon Book AwardsThe historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalit...

DescriptionA one-of-a-kind collection of work by one of India's best contemporary poets. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is one of the most celebrated Indi...

Reducere. Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poets Gilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest ...

This first anthology of 'Apocalyptic' or neo-romantic poetry since the nineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (Dylan Thomas, W.S...

This collection of up to 50 poems translated from the original Tamil, comes with an afterword that will provide readers with the historical and pol...

Reducere. In his fourteenth collection, Stephen Dunn, one of our indispensable poets (Miami Herald), continues to probe brilliantly the unsaid and the elusiv...

As the year changes, so we change with it. Since time out of mind our daily lives have been shaped and directed by the seasons. This book features ...

I provide a sense for the texture of the Persian world by discussing what made poetry precious. By focusing on reports on poets' lives, I illuminat...

A collection of poems by Grace Nicholls and James Carter. At Key Stage 2 Wordsmith gives you 'single voice' collections of poetry. This approach en...

A debut collection by one of Britain's liveliest young poets. Wayne Holloway-Smith has been a strong presence on the London poetry scene for severa...

Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark's leading poets. The Taste of Steel and The Smell of Snow are the first two collections in her new series of books fo...

Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of...

In November 2019, 30 famous poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong and ten cities in China afterwards to read their works based on the t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Audre LordeAuthor: Pat ParkerEditor: Julie R. EnszerLiterary Nonfiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQI...

Reducere. About the AuthorJessica Greenbaum is the author of Inventing Difficulty, winner of the Gerald Cable Prize, and The Two Yvonnes, chosen by Paul Muld...

Reducere. Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was one of the four great Russian poets of the 20th century, along with Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Pasternak. She also ...

The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 B.C.--greats such as Sappho, Anacreon, and Simonides--produced some...

Reducere. The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, providing...

In this modern classic of global feminist literature, the only novel by one of Romania's most heralded poets, styled as a long letter addressed to ...

A collection of poems by Roger McGough and Christina Rosetti. At Key Stage 2 Wordsmith gives you 'single voice' collections of poetry. This approac...

A collection of poems by Michael Rosen and Charles Causley. At Key Stage 2 Wordsmith gives you 'single voice' collections of poetry. This approach ...

Writers have been killing themselves for centuries. From Petronius in ancient Rome to the 20th Century Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, writers, mo...

Reducere. Anxiety of Words focuses on the work of three contemporary Korean women poets whose fierce poetic voices display a critical consciousness of women'...

Portraits of 22 extraordinary women whose lives have made, and continue to make, a lasting impact on our world.They are saints, mystics, martyrs, r...

"Those who lament that the novel has lost its prophecy should pay heed and cover-price: Muck is the future, both of Jerusalem and of literature. Go...

Reducere. "It's really quite good." - Elon Musk Twelve Against the Gods was an instant bestseller when it first published in 1929. In his trademark journalis...

Reducere. DescriptionPaul Mariani has spent fifty years writing poetry that celebrates the vibrant sacramentality of life in the twilight of Modernity, and w...

Reducere. From their first publication, when Rich was twenty-one, in the prestigious Yale Younger Poets series, the successive volumes of her poetry have bot...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Eavan BolandIn this important prose work, one of our major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's li...

Reducere. These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean...

Reducere. Colm T ib n knows the languages of the outsider, the secret keeper, the gay man or woman. He knows the covert and overt language of homosexuality i...

The alternate self is a persistent theme of modern culture. From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, poets and novelists-and...

Reducere. In comical and complex poems, David Kirby examines our extraordinarily human condition through the lens of our ordinary daily lives. These keenly o...

Reducere. An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wart...

DescriptionFor her five volumes of poetry over the course of her career, Jane Cooper (1924-2007) was deeply admired by her contemporaries, and teac...

DescriptionFor Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they ...

Reducere. Young Romantics tells the story of the interlinked lives of the young English Romantic poets from an entirely fresh perspective--celebrating their ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Review Paris ReviewAuthor: Paris ReviewSixteen of the world's great women writers speak about their work, their colleagues,...

DescriptionAn encouraging guide for the angry or heartbroken soul, in the form of uplifting stories and quotations. Sometimes forgiveness can feel ...

Reducere. An astonishing synthesis of humankind's understanding of the Great Spirit that energizes, sustains, and runs through all creation. Poets knew it. M...

Reducere. Du Fu (712-770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry--still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now Dav...

Reducere. Graffiti crews are willing to risk anything for their art. Called vandals, criminals, even creative terrorists, graffiti artists set out to make th...

Reducere. Description"These poems love. Prophesize. Return us to our beginnings. To days that we want to remember. Or forget. But don't. Thus in our sister's...

Reducere. This stunning little book gives you a glimpse of strong, independent women from all four corners of the globe. It's kid friendly and has a mix of d...

Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and Pakistan, K2 has some of the harshes...

Reducere. DescriptionThe poems in The Off-Season are populated with things--'90s TV shows, mixtapes, crosstown buses, winter beaches--signifiers that trace a...

Reducere. Mabel Dodge Luhan, hostess and visionary, made Taos, New Mexico, a center for artists and utopians when she moved there in 1917 and began inviting ...

Reducere. What does it mean for a poet to love a dog--especially knowing it will never outlive them? The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry catapults readers in...

Reducere. In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whit...

Reducere. DescriptionErica Jong has never stopped writing poetry. It was her first love and it has provided inspiration for all her other books. In a dark ti...

Reducere. Winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award The Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain. Socc...

Reducere. DescriptionBack To Grace by Earthschool Harmony is a collection of 79 illuminating poems, celebrating the eternal spiritual truth within each heart...

Reducere. DescriptionIsako Isako follows a single family lineage spanning four generations of female Japanese Americans to explore the chilling historical le...

Reducere. In the midst of our busy world we need islands of calm. These short readings, one for each day of the year, offer deep inspiration for readers who ...

Reducere. Unflinching portrayals of desire and alienation fill Bonnie Chau's award-winning story collection. Chau's short fiction explores the lives of young...

Reducere. Set in San Francisco, Brocken Spectre examines the way the past presses up against the present. The speaker, raised in the wake of the AIDS crisis,...

Reducere. DescriptionColonial violence is a sticky phenomenon, gumming up the associational matrices of our daily lives and dreamscapes. Edgar Garcia interve...

Reducere. A Special Edition with a New Introduction and an Updated DiscographyThis is Greil Marcus's acclaimed book on the secret music made by Bob Dylan and...

Reducere. Following the successful reception of her first book, The Shining Material, comes Aisha Sasha John's THOU -- a powerful collection of two long, nar...

Reducere. The distinctive voices of women at prayer throughout the ages and around the world--compiled by the biographer of Therese of Lisieux.This beautiful...

Reducere. Religion and the Rebel, Colin Wilson's second volume from his internationally acclaimed Outsider Cycle, is a casebook about and for rebels. With in...