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  Lady of the Beasts - Poems

  Robin Morgan

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  Robin Morgan’s second collection of poems is a rich tapestry of female experience, both literal and mythic Daughter, wife, mother, lover, artist, and even priestess are all here in shorter lyrics that cluster around four subjects: blood ties, activism and art, love between women, and archetypes. But Morgan surpasses the political grief and rage she delineated in Monster, her acclaimed first book of poems—especially in the four major metaphysical poems here: “The City of God,” balancing grace and despair; “Easter Island,” on the ironies of transcendence in embattled love; “The Network of the Imaginary Mother,” which became a virtual anthem of the women’s movement; and “Voices from Six Tapestries,” inspired by the famous Lady and theUnicorn weavings that hang in the Musée de Cluny in Paris.   Themes of familial love and hurt, mortality, survival, and transformation inform the poems collected here as the author weaves a wise and powerful self into being. Lady of the Beasts is Robin Morgan at her most lyrical yet.

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  Stories From The Faerie Queene

  Edmund Spenser

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  "Stories From The Faerie Queene" is a retelling or abridged version of Edmund Spenser's epic poem "The Faerie Queene," which is a richly imaginative allegorical work dedicated to celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. The poem, originally published in the late 16th century, weaves tales of knights, dragons, maidens, and quests to represent virtues and human struggles. The stories within are adaptations of Spenser's intricate stanzas into prose or shorter narratives that make the text more accessible while maintaining its magical and moral complexity.

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  Papua

  TJ Hawk

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  Papua, with its vast regions of unexplored jungles and isolated 
  indigenous tribes, is home to a medicinal plant with potent 
  curative powers. The plant’s unique ability to regenerate 
  human nerves is even more consequential. Neurological  
  scientist Ripon Siraj and his research botanist sister, Rava,   
  search Papua’s interior rivers for this rare miracle plant when  
  they become the target of a scurrilous Asian virologist.  
  A co-worker and his girlfriend are mistaken for Rip and Rava 
  and are murdered. Rip calls Washington D.C. for help- 
  Gar Randolph and his unconventional Grey Hawk International 
  team soon intervene to provide support and protection. 
  Papua’s jungles run deep with intrigue. The Taritatu River 
  reveals breath-taking beauty around every bend but beware. 
  Deadly inhabitants lurk in the shadows. Tension poisons 
  serenity. Everyone comes under a cloud of danger.

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  Liz Lochhead Five Plays (NHB...

  Liz Lochhead

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  Five plays from the makar (national poet) of Scotland, one of the country's best-known (and best-loved) living playwrights.
  Liz Lochhead is the author of many highly inventive original plays, adaptations and translations, all crafted with her special blend of the vividly colloquial and the energetically poetic. This volume brings together five of her best original plays ranging over three decades and several, contrasting styles.
  Her first play, Blood and Ice (1982), is about the creation of Frankenstein, and weaves a spider's web of connections between the literary monster and Mary Shelley's own turbulent life.
  The modern classic Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off (1987) retells the familiar tale of enmity between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, with Lochhead's own brand of ferocious iconoclasm and boundless wit.
  Quelques Fleurs (1991) is a portrait of a marriage, both funny and tragic, and told through interlaced monologues.
  The last two plays, Perfect Days (1998) and Good Things (2004), mark a woman's fear of turning, respectively, forty and fifty. In the first, Barbs, 39, a celebrity hairdresser, determines to do something to drown out the ticking of her biological clock. In the second, Susan, 49, sets out to find love the second (or is it third or fourth?) time round'
  This rich collection of plays carries a new and candid introduction by the author, specially written for the volume.
  'Funny, feisty, female, full of feeling' Liz Lochhead possesses the deeply Scottish qualities of independence, inquisitiveness and inventiveness' Carol Ann Duffy

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  The Unraveling Strangeness - Poems

  Bruce Weigl

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  A collection of poems about returning home by the war veteran and Pulitzer Prize finalist who is “one of the most important poets of our time” (Carolyn Forché, Guggenheim Fellow, on Archeology of the Circle).  The Unraveling Strangeness represents the record of a man in the middle of his life who comes back to his home after being away for twenty-five years. In these poems, we find odes to a disappearing New York City neighborhood and meditations on how national turmoil seeps into everyday consciousness. At stake in this journey is a rediscovery of deep and abiding connections to place, to family, and old friends.   A two-time Pushcart Prize–winner, Bruce Weigl’s collection The Abundance of Nothing was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His poetry has been acclaimed by C. K. Williams as “powerful and frightening, poems [that] force us to repudiate our comfortable uncertainties, our drowsy vagueness.”

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  Inventions of the Idiot The...

  John Kendrick Bangs

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  "It was before the Idiot's marriage, and in the days when he was nothing more than a plain boarder in Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog's High-class Home for Single Gentlemen, that he put what the School-master termed his "alleged mind" on plans for the amelioration of the condition of the civilized." This humorous story by the editor of Puck magazine describes how the Idiot sets out to improve the lot of civilized man through his inventions - the lot of barbarian man already being well tended to by missionaries and other do-gooders. (Introduction by peac) 
  Cast:Narrator: peacThe Idiot: Algy PugMrs. Smithers Pedagog: TriciaGMr. Pedagog (aka The Schoolmaster): Adam BratcherThe Doctor: RakenBibliomaniac: AvailleMr. Poet:Matthew ReeceMr. Whitechoker: Aidan BrackThe Genial Old Gentleman who sometimes imbibed: om123

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