Virgin: Poems, Paperback

Reducere. To write these poems, I select a paragraph from a Woolf novel-The Waves or Mrs. Dalloway-and only use the words from that paragraph to create a poe...

Sometimes a fact swings down like a hammer and we are changed. The fact of loss, the fact of desire, and all the wild, unruly facts of history hamm...

Reducere. Carrie Green's Studies of Familiar Birds reflects upon the series of nest-and-egg illustrations that Virginia Jones saw to completion after her dau...

In Sailing the Bright Stream: New & Selected Poems, David Treadway Manning, Three-time winner of the North Carolina Poetry Society's Poet Laureate ...

Reducere. This collection of 106 poems by 44 female Tang-era poets is the most comprehensive of its kind. Poets are organized based on their status in Tang d...

Reducere. BlurbsLee evokes the nuanced character of the capital city, a place "between joy / and bruise" where you can be "born of church and Sunday dinners"...

Reducere. If two girls are two halves of a deep, lifelong friendship, what does one girl wholly become when the other is gone? Amy Woolard's debut collection...

Reducere. Following her successful Literary Guide to Washington, DC, which Library Journal called "the perfect accompaniment for a literature-inspired vacati...

Reducere. Translation of poems by Yuri Zhivago, the main character of the Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak's world- famous novel "Doctor Zhivago, " which w...

Reducere. In poems of compassion and social justice, Mihaela Moscaliuc probes borders and memory to work through, and further complicate, understandings of b...

Reducere. In her fourth full-length book, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia, Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to Virginia, where she digs into her genealogical a...

Reducere. The poet Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) was once recognized as one of black America's most important modernist voices. Playful, fluent, and intellect...

Reducere. Praise for earlier editions: "[A] reminder that contemporary poetry is not only alive and well but continuing to grow."--Publishers Weekly "This co...

Reducere. A pack of beloved fruits and vegetables travel through the United States and visit friends along the way. During their trip they will learn all abo...

Reducere. "Beyond Katrina" is poet Natasha Trethewey's very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were for...

From migrations to pop culture, loss to la d rive, Life in a Country Album is a soundtrack of the global cultural landscape--borders and citizenshi...

Reducere. LIFE, LIFE A book of poetry by Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky, translated by Virginia Rounding. Includes many poems used in Arseny's son's films (An...

Reducere. This collection of poetry by West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman explores the difficulty of living with an awareness of the eventual death of...

Reducere. The sixty-three fiction writers and poets within this anthology delve deep into the many senses of place that modern West Virginia, the core of App...

The poems of Kevin Hart have nurtured international poetry audiences for nearly four decades. Translations of Hart's work have appeared in Chinese,...

Reducere. DescriptionIn her striking second collection, Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on the borders of things. Lima: : Lim n ...

Reducere. The first edition of W. B. Yeats's The Tower appeared in bookstores in London on Valentine's Day, 1928. His English publisher printed just 2, 000 c...

Reducere. These poems grapple with how romantic relationships, both gay and straight, are defined--and what we gain or lose from these definitions. The poems...

Reducere. DescriptionI don't want words to sever me from reality.I don't want to need them. I want nothingto reveal feeling but feeling--as in freedom, or th...

Lyrics and carols are two of the most important types of medieval literature. This anthology provides a generous and wide-ranging selection, beginn...

Reducere. Poetry Collection by Temple Cone: Temple Cone is Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy and the former Poet Laureate for the City ...

"Dying never / ends for us. It only slowly rearranges us, " writes Steve Scafidi in his poignant new collection. Inspired by his own work as a cabi...

Reducere. For the unknown women who witnessed the Civil War, whose lives and experiences were lost and forgotten in the pages of history. Step back into time...

Reducere. Though women have long felt kinship with animals, in the past, they seldom participated in the study of them. Now, as more women make animals the s...

Reducere. Grief Doesn't Do Math offers comfort and connection, while embracing a personal way to experience and endure the grieving process on one's own term...

Perhaps the most distinctive aspect of The Boatloads is its overt references to church and Christianity. Dan Albergotti's references are not mere p...

Reducere. The fourth book of poetry by this New York City poet, Walter Holland's Reconstruction is a work of poetic reconciliation with his boyhood in Lynchb...

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. If you've ever wanted to be the life of the party but were unsure of where to start, this book will point you in the right direction Contained with...

Reducere. This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as ``A Valedict...

Reducere. After 60 years at Gethsemani Abbey, Br. Paul follows up his recent memoir, In Praise of the Useless Life, with a poetic collection that shows how t...

Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the N...

Reducere. In his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino Am...

'Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose lightLike Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine' The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential ...

Reducere. In the Gospel of Luke, we hear the angel's timeless proclamation to Mary, "Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among...

Before Willa Cather turned primarily to the fiction that made her reputation, she produced striking poems that were collected in April Twilights. I...

Reducere. Poet and activist Mara Eve Robbins tells the story of the personal, legal, and physical struggles to protect the mountain streams and watersheds, t...

This anthology -- the first general-reader collection of writing by Italian American authors -- is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner. A gathering ...

The Trials and Tribulations of Henry C. (The 'C' Is for Cool)By: Kelpia SimmonsHis name is Henry C. and the C stands for... well, he can tell you h...

Reducere. Alexander Theroux has taught at Harvard, MIT, Yale, and the University of Virginia, where he took his doctorate in 1968. He is the author of four h...

Reducere. British Literature, the fourth volume of the Excellence in Literature curriculum, is designed to cultivate not only a love for great literature, bu...

Lush Diodorus sets the lads on fire, But now another has him in his net -Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes . . . Meleager, AP 12.109 Encompassing ...

Reducere. When Robert Waldruff returned home - with "luck and divine grace" - from the Vietnam Conflict, he put the memories behind and began his pursuit of ...

Reducere. Time was plunging forward, like dolphins scissoring open water or like me, following Jenny's flippers down to see the coral reef, where the color o...

Reducere. More than a thousand years ago, the ruler of a beleaguered kingdom saw a vision of the Virgin Mary that moved him to rally his chiefs and make a la...

At the core of Libby Burton's highly anticipated debut poetry collection, Soft Volcano, are the vivid details underpinning the relationships we hol...

Reducere. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known f...

Reducere. Mrs. Virginia Hall writes: "I love to start my day with my mind on the Lord. Reading this daily journal has helped me realize God's presence when y...