Poetry genre books (319)


51.

Come Close by Sappho EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Greece flag Greece
Description:
Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods.


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Confidential Reports by Immanuel Mifsud EN

Rating: 1 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Malta flag Malta
Description:
He writes mainly here about private experience, sometimes of loss, sometimes of love, sometimes of the erotic. His poems work by suggestion and allusion and they place human experience, even the most intimate or distressing, at the heart of an impersonal physical world which provides the sensual ground of our imagining of reality. He seems to want to recall the reader always to this human status as part of physical world which existed long before us, gave rise to us, and will see us disappear. The impersonality of this world is a foil to the personal nature of human life. By juxtaposing the tw... continue

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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
A musical, magical, resilient volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Called a "magician an... continue

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Contrasecunde

Contrasecunde by Iulia Pană RO

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania

56.

Couplets : A Love Story by Maggie Millner EN

0 Ratings
Description:
"A dazzling, genre-bending debut about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone"--


58.

Cuentos Y Poesías / Stories and Poems by Rubén Darío, Stanley Appelbaum EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Presents selections of Rubâen Darâio's writings, with English translations appearing beside the original Spanish, and includes annotations for each story and poem.

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Cultural Refugees : Anthology of Poems by Julie Mota EN

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Description:
This poetry collection is an exploration on whether cultural immersions and transitional processes are producing cultural refugees in our midst. The different perspectives represented in this collection opens up dialogue on how we Papua New Guineans look at our society, the changes that are happening and challenges us to discuss, embrace and pave a way forward for further exploration on the themes raised. It is a reflective collection that invites further dialogue even in informative and entertaining form.