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"Dreesen presents an unusual and welcoming memoir-in-verse, an epic colloquial journey through his childhood in a chaotic, eight-kid family as they ran a 24-hour highway truck stop and popular roadhouse in Nebraska...Dreesen expertly plays with language, cadence, texture, emotion, memory, and facts to impart the sense that all our knowledge is 'second hand, ' full of miscomprehension of other people and their perceptions, and yet our experiences are...
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A collection of poetry and full-color artwork from Middle Eastern and North African countries. In an unparalleled collection, honored anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye brings together the work of over 120 poets and artists from 19 countries in the Middle East. In turn compelling, lyrical, tragic and humorous, this rich anthology opens the door to the Middle East and beckons readers to explore our common ground. Full-color illustrations.
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"An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis. A Penguin Classic The Mirror of My Heart is a unique and captivating collection of eighty-three Persian women poets, many of whom wrote anonymously or were punished for their outspokenness. One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe'eh, who lived over a thousand years ago)...
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Ciekawski bałwanek Olaf jest bardzo blisko odkrycia wigilijnej tajemnicy. Czy otrzyma prezent, o którym zawsze marzył? Poznaj świąteczną przygodę najsympatyczniejszego bohatera "Krainy lodu"! Elsa śpi spokojnie otoczona mroźnym blaskiem, z sypialni Anny dobiega głośne chrapanie, także Olaf powoli zapada w słodki sen.
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A collection of epic poems telling stories from legend, history, and romance: The Prisoner of Chillon, by Lord Byron; Arethusa, by P. B. Shelley; The Eve of St. Agnes [by J. Keats] La Belle Dame Sans Merci, by J. Keats; Lady Geraldine's Courtship by E. B.lBrowning; Morte d'Arthur [by Lord Tennyson] The Revenge, by Lord Tennyson; Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister [by R. Browning] "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by R. Browning; Sohrab and Rustum,...
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Includes a selection of poems by American poets and works of art by a variety of artists. A collection of well-known poems, from Ogden Nash to Walt Whitman, with accompanying illustrations that also represent a wide range of artists and styles. A number of garden poems are matched with beautiful color reproductions of famous paintings. Includes a selection of poems by American poets and works of art by a variety of artists.
75) Mothman apologia
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Yale series of younger poets volume 116
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"Robert Wood Lynn's collection of poems explores the tensions of youth and the saturation points of knowledge: those moments when the acquisition of understanding overlaps with regret and becomes a desire to know less. Comprising poems of place set across the Virginias, this collection includes an episodic elegy exploring the opioid crisis in the Shenandoah Valley as well as a separate series of persona poems reimagining the Mothman (West Virginia's...
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"Ovid's Metamorphoses is the original source for classical mythology. Combining the best-known versions of tales from Icarus to Medusa, Ovid's epic compendium of Greco-Roman legend has exerted an influence on European art and culture rivaled only by the Bible. Yet despite it being the magnum opus of Rome's cleverest and most creative poet, centuries of conservative translators have robbed the poem of its subversive force as a book-length exploration...
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