epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Douglas Glover [Glover, Douglas]

puns: “The skin is the largest organ; mine’s a little out of tune”; apostrophe: “O, I am ill at these numbers”; chiasmus (modified): “Propane slept in the tank and propane ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sheila M.F. Johnston

In this poem Pauline lampoons her wildly successful poem “The Song My Paddle Sings.” HIS MAJESTY, THE WEST WIND Once in a fit of mental aberration I wrote some stanzas ...

epub |eng | | Author:Esi Edugyan [Henry Kreisel Lecture Series]

II This brings me to the kind of belonging with which I have been most concerned recently, that of citizenship. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a citizen as, “an inhabitant, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dionne Brand [Dionne Brand]

I SPENT THE FIRST seventeen years of my life consuming this literature, passing through its sentences; absorbing its form, its structure, and its aesthetic; coming to know its rules of ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-05 | Author:Brett Josef Grubisic & Gisèle M. Baxter, & Tara Lee

Notes 1 “Las mujeres como tú van a cambiar este país” (89). Translations are mine unless otherwise noted. 2 Carlos Fuentes refers in this quotation to “America” the continent. Latin ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:John Robert Colombo

There is, incidentally, no doctrine that I know of in the New Testament like that of Plato, which says that the soul is immortal by nature. I think the Biblical ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:M. A. Orthofer

KEEP IN MIND • Mohammed Naseehu Ali’s (b. 1971) collection of stories about Ghana and Ghanaians in the United States is entitled The Prophet of Zongo Street (2005). CÔTE D’IVOIRE ...

epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Karen Emilson [Emilson, Karen]

NOT MUCH OF A FATHER Within a few days, everybody in the district had heard about the stolen wood. The twins were branded as thieves and they and their stepfather ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-27 | Author:Graeme Gibson

Margaret Laurence FICTION This Side Jordan The Tomorrow-Tamer The Stone Angel A Jest of God The Fire-Dwellers Jason’s Quest A Bird in the House NON-FICTION A Tree for Poverty The ...

mobi |eng | 2019-06-16 | Author:Ryan Porter

I would try to make lists. A list of all the stores and businesses going up and down the main street and who owned them, a list of family names, ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-08 | Author:Ryan Porter

Beyond ordering the minutiae of her past life, Del wants to preserve those momentary flashes in which she perceives the order of fleeting experiences, and also to synthesize these moments ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-30 | Author:Mary di Michele

After Dinner Story G.’s father was a natural philosopher. All would gather round to listen to him. One story lingers in my mind as does that long ago night sitting ...

epub |eng | 1995-05-31 | Author:Margaret Atwood

The North, the Wilderness, has traditionally been used in Canadian literature as a symbol for the world of the unexplored, the unconscious, the romantic, the mysterious and the magical. There ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Yann Martel [Martel, Yann]

In front of the Jane Austen Centre. I was in Bath recently, where Jane Austen lived for a few years. She was miserable while there, but it’s a lovely town ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

“I didn’t write these letters.” “Aren’t you her?” “No. I don’t know who she is. I don’t know.” “Why did you take them?” “I didn’t understand. I didn’t know what ...