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  Dreams of Waking - An Anthology...

  Vincent Barletta, Mark L. Bajus,...

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  In this anthology, Vincent Barletta, Mark L. Bajus, and Cici Malik treat the Iberian lyric in the late Middle Ages and early modernity as a deeply multilingual, transnational genre that needs to break away from the old essentialist ideas about language, geography, and identity in order to be understood properly. More and more, scholars and students are recognizing the limitations of single-language, nationalist, and period-bound canons and are looking for different ways to approach the study of literature. The Iberian Peninsula is an excellent site for this approach, where the history and politics of the region, along with its creative literature, need to be read and studied together with the way the works were composed by poets and eventually consumed by readers. With a generous selection of more than one hundred poems from thirty-three poets, Dreams of Waking is unique in its coverage of the three main languages—Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish—and lyrical styles employed by peninsular poets. It contains new translations of canonical poems but also translations of many poems that have never before been edited or translated. Brief headnotes provide essential details of the poets’ lives, and a general introduction by the volume editors shows how the poems and languages fruitfully intersect. With helpful annotations to the poetry, as well as a selected bibliography containing the most important editions and translations from all three of the main Iberian languages, this volume will be an indispensable tool for both specialists and students in comparative literature.

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  Multilingual Poetry Collection 003

  Various Various

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  In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. (Summary by David Barnes).

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  Perry Mason and the Case of the...

  Erle Stanley Gardner, M. J. Elliott

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  Criminal lawyer and all-time #1 mystery author Erle Stanley Gardner wrote close to 150 novels that have sold 300 million copies worldwide. His most popular books starred the incomparable attorney-sleuth Perry Mason. 
  The Case of the Lucky Legs is the story of a confident man who promoted fake beauty pageants in small California towns. Marjorie Clune was one of his winning victims, "The Girl with the Lucky Legs."  She was promised a Hollywood movie contract, but the scam artist fled with the money. Marjorie fled too, left her hometown in shame to try and "prove" herself in Hollywood. Perry Mason is hired to track her down, but when the deceitful pageant promoter turns up murdered, Marjorie becomes the prime suspect in this "edge of your seat" murder mystery.

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  Jekyll & Hyde (NHB Modern Plays)

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Evan Placey

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  Everyone has another face they hide behind…
  A radical re-imagining by playwright Evan Placey of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, where civilised society meets seedy Soho in a thrilling collision of Victorian England with the here and now.
  Written for the National Youth Theatre, and first performed by the company at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End in 2017, Jekyll & Hyde offers a full range of parts for schools and youth-theatre groups looking for a contemporary reinvention of a macabre classic.
  'Intense, exciting... a bold reimagining' - WhatsOnStage
  'Ambitious, angry, and intriguing, Evan Placey's radical adaptation transforms the familiar story into a discussion of powerfully resonant contemporary issues' - The Stage
  'A topical. intelligent, thoughtful, feminist take on Robert Louis Stevenson's novella... rollicking good theatre – frank, uncompromising, fresh and often quite confrontational… an ensemble piece in that it forms a fine show case for the talents of every cast member' - Sardines Magazine

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  Eunoia - The Upgraded Edition

  Christian Bok

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  Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2002)
   
  Stunning and masterful in its execution, Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram.
   
  The word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (l’Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), a French writers’ group interested in experimenting with different forms of literary constraint, Eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapteris a univocal lipogram – the first chapter has A as its only vowel, the second chapter E, etc. Each vowel takes on a distinct personality: the I is egotistical and romantic, the O jocular and obscene, the E elegiac and epic (including a retelling of the Iliad!).
   
  Stunning in its implications and masterful in its execution, Eunoia has developed a cult following, garnering extensive praise and winning the Griffin Poetry Prize. The original edition was never released in the U.S., but it has already been a bestseller in Canada and the U.K. (published by Canongate Books), where it was listed as one of the Times’ top ten books of 2008.
   
  This new edition features several new but related poems by Christian Bok and an expanded afterword.
   
  'Eunoia is a novel that will drive everybody sane.' —Samuel Delany
   
  'Eunoia takes the lipogram and rendersit obsolete.' —Kenneth Goldsmith
   
  'A marvellous, musical texture of rhymes and echoes.' —Harry Mathews
   
  'An exemplary monument for 21st century poetry.' —Charles Bernstein
   
  'Bök's dazzling word games are the literary sensation of the year.' —The Times
   
  'A resounding success ... brilliant.' —The Guardian
   
  'Brilliant ... beautiful and strange.' —Today Programme, BBC Radio 4
   
  'Impressive.' —Sunday Telegraph
   
  'No mere Christmas stocking filler for Countdown fans. Rather, it's an ingenious little novel ... playful and irreverent ... charming.' —Metro

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  The Rainbow and the Rose

  Edith Nesbit

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  Although Edith Nesbit is best known for her innovative children's books and classic ghost stories, her passion was poetry. She published over 20 volumes of poetry during her lifetime. Her timeless poetry was praised by authors and poets such as Algernon Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, and literary critic, Andrew Lang. 
  Part I: The Things That Matter; The Confession; Work; The Jilted Lover; The Will to Live; and The Beatific Vision. 
  Part II: Mummy Wheat; The Beech Tree; In Absence; Silence; Raison d'être; The Onlookers; The Tree of Knowledge; At Parting; Song; and Renunciation. 
  Part III: The Veil of Maya; Song; To Vera; The Poet to His Love; The Maiden's Prayer; Song; The Magic Flower; La Derniere Rose de Soie; The Least Possible; En Tout Cas; Appeal; St. Valentine's Day; Chagrin d'Amour; Bridal Eve; Love and Life; and From the Italian. 
  Part IV: Out of the Fulness of the Heart; Summer Song; The Lower Room; Song; and May Song. 
  Part V: To Iris; To a Child; Birthday Talk for a Child; To Rosamund; From the Tuscan; and Mother Song, from the Portuguese. 
  Part VI: The Island; Possession; Accession; The Destroyer; The Egoists; The Way of Love; To One Who Pleaded for Candour in Love; The Enchanted Garden; The Poor Man's Guest; In the Shallows; And the Rains Descended and the Floods Came; and The Star. 
  Part VII: The Prodigal Son; Despair; The Temptation; Second Nature; and De Profunis. 
  Part VIII: At the Gate; Via Amores; Retro Sathanas; The Old Dispensation; The New Dispensation; and The Three Kings. 
  Part IX: After Death; Chloe; Invocation; The Last Betrayal; A Prayer for the King's Majesty; True Love and New Love; Death; In Memory of Saretta Deakin; and A Parting. 
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  AnnaLisa Bodtker is the narrator of the popular audiobook Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale and Christmas in the Forest.

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