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On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose by Theodore Roethke
azw3 |eng | 1965-06-01 | Author:Theodore Roethke [Roethke, Theodore]

A Word to the Instructor Written in 1954, this was originally intended as the introductory piece for the anthology Twelve Poets, edited by Glenn Leggett. The publishers of the anthology, ...
( Category: Literary Criticism October 18,2021 )
Collected Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-10-21 | Author:Carol Ann Duffy [Duffy, Carol Ann]

( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray
azw3 |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:Alasdair Gray

For a few years Helen and I received a greetings card from her each Christmas with a Dunedin postmark but no address which would have let us answer it. Did ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-29 | Author:Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov [Ilf, Ilya]

146 “Why don’t you bid?” snapped Vorobyaninov. “Get out!” retorted Ostap, clenching his teeth. “A hundred and twenty roubles at the back. A hundred and twenty-five in the next seat. ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
Selected Poems by James Tate
azw3 |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:James Tate [Tate, James]

the owls are sleeping on a distant black planet A scarf is pulled quickly through the veins of a covered bridge 4 Feeding those pigeons each spoonful of stone eyes ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
The Iliad by Homer & Peter Green
azw3 |eng | 2015-05-13 | Author:Homer & Peter Green

So he spoke, and Idomeneus lashed the fine-maned horses back to the hollow ships, for fear had seized his heart.625 Nor did great-hearted Aias and Menelaös fail to see that ...
( Category: Children's Classics October 18,2021 )
Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography by Alberto Manguel
azw3 |eng | 2007-10-07 | Author:Alberto Manguel [Manguel, Alberto]

Oh, thou eternal Homer! I have now To paint a siege, wherein more men were slain, With deadlier engines and a speedier blow, Than in thy Greek gazette of that ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
azw3 |eng | 1950-01-01 | Author:Barbara Comyns [Comyns, Barbara]

20 Charles kept asking people’s advice on how to get rid of babies, and everyone seemed to know someone who knew someone who knew someone who did something which sounded ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
The Odyssey by Homer & Robert Fagles
azw3 |eng | 1996-10-14 | Author:Homer & Robert Fagles

So he grieved but I tried to lend him heart: ‘About noble Peleus I can tell you nothing, 576 but about your own dear son, Neoptolemus, I can report the ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
Nine Horses: Poems by Billy Collins
azw3 |eng | 2002-09-16 | Author:Billy Collins [Collins, Billy]

And I was even more surprised after a period of benevolent staring to notice how the stark profile of that woman, fixed forever in her chair, began to resemble my ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 by Charles Bukowski
azw3 |eng | 2002-05-29 | Author:Charles Bukowski [Bukowski, Charles]

The Swans Walk My Brain in April It Rains would you have me peel an orange and talk of Saavedra (Miguel de) Cervantes? get out! you are like that fly ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
Goose of Hermogenes by Ithell Colquhoun
azw3, epub |eng | 1961-01-01 | Author:Ithell Colquhoun [Colquhoun, Ithell]

During the year before her death, the only one of her life in which I knew her, she was visited by several strange visions. In the month of December, one ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
Long Life: Essays and Other Writings by Mary Oliver
azw3, pdf |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Mary Oliver [Oliver, Mary]

That we are spirits that have descended into our bodies, of this Emerson was sure. That each man was utterly important and limitless, an “infinitude,” of this he was also ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings
azw3 |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:E.E. Cummings [Cummings, E.E.]

for hope of hope must coo or boo may strut or creep ungenerous who ape deftly aims they dare not share) such make their names (this poet made war whose ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
Paterson by William Carlos Williams
azw3 |eng | 1946-01-01 | Author:William Carlos Williams

Scattered, the fierceness of knowledge comes flocking down again— souvenir of childhood, the skull of the white stone . There was Margaret of the big breasts and daring eyes who ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )

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