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1) Emma
Author
Language
English
Description
"Emma, perhaps the most technically accomplished of all of Austen's novels, is also, after Pride and Prejudice, her most popular one. Its numerous film and television adaptations testify to the world's enduring affection for the headstrong, often misguided Emma Woodhouse and her many romantic schemes. Like the previous volumes in Harvard's celebrated annotated Austen series, Emma: An Annotated Edition is a beautiful and illuminating gift edition that...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Divided into five chapters and illustrated by kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.
this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
fall
root
rise
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[38] p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inside every acrostic is a secret message, often lurking in the first letter of each line (read top to bottom). But look out! These acrostics not only follow their subjects to Africa, but they also take the form to a whole new level. Here you'll find the elusive double acrostic (in which the first and last letters of each line spell a message), the cross acrostic (in which the message is read diagonally), and the multiple acrostic (see it to believe...
14) Think again
Author
Publisher
KCP Poetry
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
62 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This collection of quietly beautiful and surprisingly humorous short poems reveals first love's uncertainties, frustrations and joys. Whether describing two people meeting or the misunderstandings and revelations that follow, these poems and the evocative illustrations that accompany them will give readers every reason to think ... and think again"--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of lyrics, poems, notebook sketches, and self-portraits maps the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee's singular creative journey through the weeks just prior to his death.
18) 3 summers
Author
Publisher
Coach House Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Flaubert's Three Tales and Stein's Three Lives, a grappling with time, form and embodiment.
Recite your poem to your aunt.I threw myself to the ground.Where were you in the night?In a school among the pines.What was the meaning of the dream?
Organs, hormones, toxins, lesions: what is a body? In 3 Summers, Lisa Robertson takes up her earlier concerns with form and literary precedent, and turns toward the timeliness of embodiment. What...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 118 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the seventh century, on the coast of Fife, Scotland, an Irish missionary named Ethernan withdrew to a cave in order to decide whether to establish a priory on May Island, directly opposite, in the Firth of Forth, or pursue a hermit's solitude. His decision would have been informed by the realities of war, religious colonization, and ideas of progress, power, and corruption, and complicated by personal interest, grief, confusion, and a faith (religious...
20) Eunoia
Author
Publisher
Coach House Books
Pub. Date
[2009].
Edition
Upgraded edition.
Physical Desc
115 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In most of the poems in this collection, the poet uses words that contain the same single vowel, so that the only vowel used throughout all the words in "Chapter A," for instance, is the letter A.
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