Poetry
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Carole Satyamurti [Satyamurti, Carole]

Sanjaya continued: The fourth day of the war. The Kauravas moved forward in a formidable array. Elephants were adorned with dazzling cloths in festive colors, as if this were a ...
( Category: European June 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:John Dryden [Dryden, John]

Sir William Jones was an excellent lawyer, and, in his private character, an upright, worthy, and virtuous man; in his religion he had some tendency to nonconformity, and his political ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-16 | Author:Harold Bloom

That wanders till the dawn hath cross’d The dolorous dark, or Earth hath wound Closer her storm-spredd cloke, and thrust The baleful phantoms underground. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850–1894) Requiem Admirable ...
( Category: Anthologies June 17,2015 )
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 |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Hesse, Hermann [Hesse, Hermann]

Hesse’s love of nature received much criticism even from his friends in a time when the speed of trains and cars and then airplanes brought a fascination and even an ...
( Category: Love Poems June 14,2015 )
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 )
epub, mobi, azw3 | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Grandin, Greg [Greg, Grandin,]

CHAPTER 14 LET’S WANDER OUT YONDER IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL THE STORY OF FORDLANDIA WITHout invoking Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, that great, indelible allegory of European colonialism ...
( Category: Brazil June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Karen Solie

FORTY It was a black-and-white episode, our stroll along the shore road at Tobermory. Sodium lamps did the best they could for us in their limited spectrum and reach, walked ...
( Category: Nature June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Mamet

Scene VI BERNIE: I don't care. 1950, 1970. (Pause.) You know what I mean. What's on my mind now is getting to know you. And maybe getting married again. You ...
( Category: United States June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Day

sold from back of a truck. A preacher stumbling over a mastiff, like a little man; the insinuation of a human on a chain— the slobbering aperture. A street sweeper ...
( Category: Death, Grief & Loss June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nickole Brown

Used before the FDA and never formally cleared, Pheno is a renegade drug, a cowboy hee-hawing outside town, not giving a good God-damn, so it makes sense for forty years ...
( Category: United States June 12,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Duffy, Luke [Duffy, Luke]

18 "There'll be nothing left," Marcus sighed as he watched a tall apartment building take a direct hit, destroying the top half of it in a ball of fire. Before ...
( Category: Occult June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-02 | Author:Patrick Phillips [Phillips, Patrick]

Or that joke of a pistol you chose at the pawnshop and loaded, and unloaded, and cleaned, then tucked in your belt, like when you were seven, as you crossed ...
( Category: Death, Grief & Loss June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-26 | Author:Dick Davis [Davis, Dick]

THE ONE WHO GAVE YOUR LOVELY FACE ITS ROSY red and white Can give me peace, and patience to endure my wretched plight; The One who taught your curls their ...
( Category: Middle Eastern June 11,2015 )