Regional & Cultural
epub |ara | 2015-04-06 | Author:Clementine von Radics [von Radics, Clementine]

The Wedding Tell me again about the wedding we did not have. How I did not wear white, did not choke on tradition, did not blush. All the weddings that ...
( Category: Love Poems December 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:C. Clyde Squires [Augusta Huiell Seaman]

CHAPTER X AN EXCITING DISCOVERY THE autumn of that year ended, the winter months came and went with all their holiday festivities, and spring entered in her appointed time. The ...
( Category: United States November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wislawa Szymborska

If I could just rehearse one Wednesday in advance, or repeat a single Thursday that has passed! But here comes Friday with a script I haven’t seen. Is it fair, ...
( Category: European November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Lawrence Durrell [Lawrence Durrell]

V We suffer according to the terms we make With time in cities: allowing to be rooted from us Like useless teeth the few great healers Who understand the penalties ...
( Category: European October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Clive James [James, Clive]

Threatening always to give birth to Edith Sitwell like Venus in a seashell, even in its heyday such billowing foam-froth counted as high spirits at best, and in the long ...
( Category: Poetry October 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-15 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe

THE TELL–TALE HEART TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. ...
( Category: United States October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Lehman

from The Iowa Review WENDY VIDELOCK * * * How You Might Approach a Foal: like a lagoon, like a canoe, like you are part earth and part moon, like ...
( Category: United States October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Anthony Hecht [Hecht, Anthony]

II I am much too tired now to do anything But look at the molding along the top of the wall. Those orchid shadows and pearl highlights bring My childhood ...
( Category: United States October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-09 | Author:Louise Glück [Glück, Louise]

THE SWORD IN THE STONE My analyst looked up briefly. Naturally I couldn’t see him but I had learned, in our years together, to intuit these movements. As usual, he ...
( Category: United States September 20,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Gray, Richard

This is certainly not confessional verse, but it does represent a startling departure from Merwin’s earlier work. “We are words on a journey,” Merwin insists in one of his later ...
( Category: United States August 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Marge Piercy [Piercy, Marge]

Buy 10 stale potato chips for six dollars. Come ride with your knees digging hard into your chin. When the guy in front leans back, your tray will slam your ...
( Category: Nature July 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dr. Seuss [Seuss]

( Category: Beginner Readers July 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:Allen Ginsberg

I read this poem again, but found that it did not shed any further light on what I was after, and turned idly over the pages till my eye was ...
( Category: United States June 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:C.P. Cavafy [Cavafy, C. P.]

We have Cavafy’s transcription of this passage into Modern Greek, and it is worth quoting because, in the subtle alterations it makes to the original, it sheds light on the ...
( Category: European June 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Rhoda Janzen

That night Hannah and I stayed up late watching Japanese Iron Chef on the food network. I didn't have cable, a fact that I liked to pretend was due to ...
( Category: United States June 12,2015 )