Notes On The Habits Of Certain Venezuelan Birds (1903)
by Austin Hobart Clark
From celebrated poet Christopher Howell, Love's Last Number is a series of musings on time's arrow: on both the relentless march that divides each moment into past, present, and future -- before and after -- and the ultimately porous and recursive nature of time itself. A soldier remembers limes and curious children in Portugal. Refugees cross a dangerous land, and find each other in love. Boy scouts play war in devastating ways, a child listens to a baseball game in a more innocent time. In th...
Burns (Pocket Poets) (Collins Gems)
by Robert Burns and James Logie Robertson
Robert Burns is one of the world's great romantic poetsand one of its great songwriters. As Scotland's national bard, he is the hero of Scots and people of Scottish descent everywhere. Using both the printed and spoken word, this pack provides an insight into the romance, compassion, humanity and wry, earthy humour that so characterized the life and work of this remarkable man.
Nature! Nature! Nature! (The Poetry of James Burns, #18)
by James Burns
This bilingual collection of Neruda's most essential poems is indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes. An impressive group of translators that includes Alistair Reid, Stephen Mitchell, Robert Hass, Stephen Kessler and Jack Hirschman, have come together to revisit or completely retranslate the poems; and a handful of previ...
A Life Above Water is a cycle of poems that examines both the natural and human worlds and explores the boundaries between the two. The manuscript is concerned with personal ecologies and mythologies the ways that things are interconnected and the stories that we create to explain those connections. The manuscript is arranged in three concentric sections, each subsequent division nesting within the previous one. The reader is drawn into the broad, inclusive view of All These Indigestible Parts w...
