If Once You Have Slept on an Island
Author: Rachel Field
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA poetic description of the changes that come over you once you have experienced life on an island.
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Author: Rachel Field
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA poetic description of the changes that come over you once you have experienced life on an island.
Author: Frann Preston-Gannon
Publisher:
Published: 2018-09-06
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780857637703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Donne
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780285628748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis meditative prose conveys the essence of the human place in the world -- past and present.
Author: Robin Clifford Wood
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1647420466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was a National Book Award–winning novelist, a Newbery Medal–winning children’s writer, a poet, playwright, and rising Hollywood success in the early twentieth century. Her light was abruptly extinguished at the age of forty-seven, when she died at the pinnacle of her personal happiness and professional acclaim. Fifty years later, Robin Clifford Wood stepped onto the sagging floorboards of Rachel’s long-neglected home on the rugged shores of an island in Maine and began dredging up Rachel’s history. She was determined to answer the questions that filled the house’s every crevice: Who was this vibrant, talented artist whose very name entrances those who still remember her work? Why is that work—so richly remunerated and widely celebrated in her lifetime—so largely forgotten today? The journey into Rachel’s world took Wood further than she ever dreamed possible, unveiling a life fraught with challenge, and buried by tragedy, and yet incandescent with joy. The Field House is a book about beauty—beauty in Maine island landscapes, in friendship, love, and heartbreak; beauty hidden beneath a woman’s woefully unbeautiful exterior; beauty in a rare, delightful spirit that still whispers from the past. Just listen.
Author: Gaby Morgan
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2019-10-03
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1529013216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt Whitman, John Keats and Christina Rossetti. Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library series, featuring expert introductions for your favourite classics. As internationally acclaimed author Paul Theroux writes in his introduction, ‘Here is a collection of travel poetry composed by real travellers, weekending tourists, feverish fantasists, bluffers, dreamers, brave adventurers and resolute stay-at-homes. It succeeds in what poetry does best – inspires and consoles, reminds us of who we are, where we’ve been, and where we might want to go next.’
Author: John Keats
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Published: 1818
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Published: 1858
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780811213981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sequel to Ferlinghetti's "A Coney Island of the Mind", this sequence of 100 poems with recurrent themes includes various sections on love, art, music, history, and literature, as well as confrontations with major figures in the avant-garde before the arrival of the Beat generation.
Author: Ellen Bass
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 75
ISBN-13: 161932217X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A bold and passionate new collection... Intimacy is rarely conveyed as gracefully as in Bass’s lustrous poems.” —Booklist Indigo, the newest collection by Ellen Bass, merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life’s complexities. Whether her subject is oysters, high heels, a pork chop, a beloved dog, or a wife’s return to health, Bass pulls us in with exquisite immediacy. Her lush and precisely observed descriptions allow us to feel the sheer primal pleasure of being alive in our own “succulent skin,” the pleasure of the gifts of hunger, desire, touch. In this book, joy meets regret, devotion meets dependence, and most importantly, the poet so in love with life and living begins to look for the point where the price of aging overwhelms the rewards of staying alive. Bass is relentless in her advocacy for the little pleasures all around her. Her gaze is both expansive and hyperfocused, celebrating (and eulogizing) each gift as it is given and taken, while also taking stock of the larger arc. She draws the lines between generations, both remembering her parents’ lives and deaths and watching her own children grow into the space that she will leave behind. Indigo shows us the beauty of this cycle, while also documenting the deeply human urge to resist change and hang on to the life we have, even as it attempts to slip away.
Author: Roger Housden
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 2009-01-21
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0307494705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his collection Risking Everything, Housden addressed love’s many aspects. Now, in Dancing with Joy, he assembles 99 poems from 69 poets that celebrate the many colors of joy. Anything can be a catalyst for joy, these poems reveal. For Wislawa Szymborska, the catalyst is a dream; for Robert Bly, being in the company of his ten-year-old son; for Gerald Stern, it is a grapefruit at breakfast; for Billy Collins, a cigarette. Dancing with Joy includes English and Italian classical and romantic works; early Chinese and Persian verse; and poets from Chile, France, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Turkey, and India, plus a range of contemporary American and English poets. Whether inspiration is what you need, or an affirmation of what is already joyful in life, Dancing with Joy is a welcome treat for Housden’s numerous fans, as well as anyone looking for sheer happiness, marvelously expressed.