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Elegien der Liebe
by Ovid
Die Amores (Elegien der Liebe) gehören zu den bekanntesten Werken des römischen Dichters Ovid. Die "Elegien der Liebe" sind eine Sammlung von Elegien (Klage- oder Liebesgedichte mit oft sehnsuchtsvoller und schwermütiger Grundstimmung), in denen der Erzähle...
(2011)
345 Reads
Seeing in the Dark
Poet Phyllis Webb initiated new ways of seeing into the cultural "dark" of Western thought. By blurring the axis between "light" and "dark," she redefined in positive terms women's subjectivity and sexuality, which are traditionally assigned "dark" negative values. _Seeing in...
(1997)
120 Reads
A Book of Chinese Verse
by A.R. Davis
This slim volume is a memorial to a long friendship between two men, brought together in Hong Kong by their common work and by their common love of Chinese petry, just 50 years ago.
(2010)
66 Reads
Surviving Nirvana
Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture
by Louise Ho
In these poems written over four decades, Louise Ho is from beginning to end a poet of Hong Kong, whether her subjects are local or cosmopolitan. She has a strong sense of place, a sharp and unillusioned eye, and a voice in which English poetry takes on a
(2009)
19 Reads
Annulments
Winner of the 2010 Colorado Prize for Poetry. "It is the poet who, undistracted by the imbecile telegraphy of this moment, dares to sustain a sustaining sound I most esteem and most warmly embrace. Zach Savich has written a book both intimate and vast, both tender and acidly c...
(2011)
3 Reads
All These Roads
by Louis Dudek
A passionate believer in the power of art--and especially poetry--to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his meditative and experimental poems as well as his work in publishing and tea...
(2008)
2 Reads
We Are Starved
We Are Starved introduces an important poetic vision, a surprising and exciting voice.
(2011)
2 Reads
Hong Kong Media Law
A Guide for Journalists and Media Professionals
by Doreen Weise..., Jill Cottrell, and Mei Ning Yan
Poetry against Torture sets out the clear conflict between two competing conceptions of society and civilization. Poetry represents one: the fundamental human capacity to make itself and its societies in ways that will produce the most nearly perfect form of the species. Tortu...
(2007)
1 Read
Last Effort of Dreams, The
When Pier Giorgio Di Cicco first appeared on the Canadian literary scene in the early 1980s, he was immediately recognized as one of the most compelling voices of his generation. _The Last Effort of Dreams_ is the first critical collection on Pier Giorgio Di Cicco and traces t...
(2007)
53 Reads
He Was Some Kind of a Man
Masculinities in the B Western
He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-centurys most familiar names, especially ...
(2009)
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Florence Nightingale on ...
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 8
Volume 8: Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution makes available a great range of Florence Nightingales work on women: her pioneering study of maternal mortality in childbirth (Introductory Notes on Lying-in Institutions), her opposition to the re...
(2005)
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The Poems of Sir Francis...
A poet of substance though little noticed, Sir Francis Hubert (1568-1629) embodies in his life and works much of the agitated spirit of his times. His verse Historie of Edward the Second, its strong element of political satire, and its minatory finger wag
(2010)
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Brenda Is in the Room & ...
The winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry, this is a beautiful and original work that appears to be, on first impression, a light-hearted and amusingly self-conscious account of daily life, but reminds us that our mundane lives are utterly strange and magical.
(2011)
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The Lesser Fields
"Rob Schlegel has a mind of winter. Like the painter Morandi, Schlegel makes a world of absence and deprivation-our world, the world of human mortality-feel like plenitude. Imagine wanting to discover the place where you yourself 'have not yet happened.' Now imagine creating t...
(2011)
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