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By Rob Winger. 2014
While rich with advice to "Keep your personal longings with you at all times", "Old Hat" is also generous, incisive,…
boisterous, and funny, a collection of poems about place, but also about understanding and situation. Spoken through clichés, vernacular, and jargon, it is just as familiar as it is odd, just as comforting as disquieting, an exceptional meditation on what it means to think about writing. 2014.By Umberto Eco, Martin McLaughlin. 2006
By Thomas F Madden, Timothy Baker Shutt, Fred E Baumann. 2008
Part four provides a close look at the period from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution and into the early…
Enlightenment. These lectures take in the immense variety and singular achievements that have helped mould our present societies. 2008.By Thomas F Madden, Monica Brzezinski Potkay, Timothy Baker Shutt. 2007
By Timothy Baker Shutt, Kim J Hartswick, Lawrence H Schiffman, Joel F Richeimer. 2007
This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. The lectures…
draw upon the resources of history, philosophy, literary study, art history, religious studies, political science, and the history of science and technology in hopes of engaging the rich and profoundly interactive discussions that, over the course of forty centuries, have made Western culture what it is. 2007.By Peter Meineck, Eric H Cline, Timothy Baker Shutt, Kim J Hartswick, Lawrence H Schiffman. 2007
This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars. The lectures address, in chronological order, a…
series of major works that have shaped the development of Western thought. 2007.By Sean O'Brien. 2011
Poems haunted by the missing and the missed, the vanished and the uncounted, and the uncountable lost: sleep, connections, muses,…
books, the ghosts and gardens of childhood. Includes strong language. 2011.By John Updike. 1992
This 4th collection of nonfictional prose is probably the richest yet. Over the years Updike has gallantly coped with many…
"odd jobs", and these are some of them. The opening section "Fairly personal" follows him to Finland, Boston and Pennsylvania, while the central section "Mostly literary", pays tribute to older masters and fellow novelists. "Literally personal" contains an appendix of Updike's comments on his own works and endeavours. 1992.By Jean Larose. 1991
Dans ce recueil, la parole coule comme la pensée et les larmes. André Roy part audacieusement à la recherche de…
l'intensité, jusque dans le bleu, jusque dans la douleur, jusque dans le sel du premier jour. 1987.By Roxane Gay. 2018
Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay presents a collection of essays that explore what it means to live in…
a world where women are frequently belittled and harassed due to their gender, and offers a call to arms insisting that "not that bad" must no longer be good enough. 2018.By Bernard Werber. 2003
Les humains sont-ils intelligents ? Sont-ils dangereux ? Sont-ils comestibles ? Sont-ils digestes ? Peut-on en faire l'élevage ? Peut-on…
les apprivoiser ? Peut-on discuter avec eux comme avec des égaux ? Telles sont les questions que peuvent se poser les extra-terrestres à notre égard. Pour en avoir le cœur net, ils kidnappent deux Terriens, un mâle et une femelle, Raoul et Samantha. Ils les installent, pour les étudier tranquillement, dans une cage à humains. Une " humainière ". Ils espèrent ainsi assister à une reproduction en captivité. Le problème, c'est que Raoul est un scientifique misanthrope et Samantha une dompteuse de tigres romantique. Pas simple dans ce cas pour nos deux cobayes de se comprendre et, a fortiori, de s'aimer... Avec cet ouvrage, rédigé comme un huis clos philosophique, Bernard Werber nous présente une nouvelle facette de son art. Une fois de plus, il nous propose de prendre un peu de recul, d'avoir une perspective différente pour comprendre l'humanité " autrement ".By James Baldwin. 2017
By Rod Townley. 1998
Twenty-six poets reflect on the "generative relationship" between dreams and poetry. Most quote complete works or fragments of poems in…
their essays. Writers include Laurel Blossom, Edward Hirsch, David Ignatow, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, Paul Mariani, Joyce Carol Oates, and Richard Wilbur, among others. 1998.By Don McKay. 1991
By David Harsent. 2011
Poems in which the sureties of daylight become uncertain: dark, unsettling narratives about what wakes in us when we escape…
our day-lit selves to visit a place where the dream-like and the nightmarish are never far apart. Culminates in 'Elsewhere', a noirish, labyrinthine quest-poem in which the protagonist is drawn ever onward through a series of encounters and reflections like an after-hours Orpheus, hard-bitten and harried by memory. Includes sex, strong language and violence. c2011.By Robyn Sarah, Eric L Ormsby. 2015
Poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the fleetingness of dreams, and the bittersweet pleasure of thinking on…
the “hazardous … treasurehouse” that is the past. Natural, musical, meditative, warm, and unexpectedly funny, this is a restorative and moving collection from one of Canada’s most well-regarded poets. Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. 2015.By Seamus Heaney. 1990
Selections from Heaney's first 25 years of published translations and poems. He writes of the myths that are part of…
his culture and of the political turmoil, exposing his Irish humour and his sense of guilt. 1990. Uniform title: Poems.By Sayed Qashu. 2016
An Arab-Israeli, Kashua started writing (in Hebrew) with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could…
relate to, rather than two that cannot coexist together. Here he writes about his children’s upbringing and encounters with racism, fatherhood and married life, the Jewish-Arab conflict, his professional ambitions, travels around the world as an author, and his love of books and literature. He reflects on social and cultural dynamics as experienced by someone who straddles two societies. 2016. Uniform title: Ben Haaretz.By Pamela Paul. 2017
For twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books she reads, rather than the life…
she leads. Or does it? Over time, it's become clear that this Book of Books, or Bob, as she calls him, tells a much bigger story. For Paul, books reflect her inner life-- her fantasies and hopes, her dreams and ideas. And her life, in turn, influences which books she chooses, whether for solace or escape, diversion or self-reflection, information or entertainment. "My Life with Bob" isn't about what's in those books; it's about the relationship between books and readers. A testament to the power of books to provide the perspective, courage, companionship, and ultimately self-knowledge to forge our own path. 2017.