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  The Secret Rapture and Other Plays

  David Hare

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  A collection of five plays from the Tony Award–winning playwright and screenwriter, “the premiere political dramatist writing in English” (The Washington Post).   David Hare, “Britain’s leading contemporary playwright,” has established a unique reputation for plays that are at once personal and political, deeply serious and incredibly funny (The Times). He is the author of seventeen plays, many of which have been presented on Broadway. Included in this collection are Fanshen; A Map of the World; Saigon: Year of the Cat; The Bay at Nice; and The Secret Rapture. Of the title play, Frank Rich of The New York Times said, “The Secret Rapture has gone further than before in marrying political thought to the compelling drama of lives that refuse to conform to any ideology’s utopian plan . . . Mr. Hare embraces the human, messy though it may be.”  Praise for David Hare  Fanshen   “The nearest any English contemporary writer has come to emulating Brecht.” —Financial Times  A Map of the World   “Mr. Hare’s A Map of the World, which passionately embraces utopia without arrogantly presuming to annex it, is original and provocative.” —The New York Times  Saigon   “An impressive new film which vividly captures the last desperate days in Vietnam as the Reds laid siege to the sweltering city.” —Daily Express  The Bay at Nice   “Witty, cerebral, and full of fine-spun ironies.” —The Guardian  The Secret Rapture   “His writing, as always, is smart, and this time, glorious. The characters are unhackneyed and complex; the insights are tough and hard to ignore.” —New York Newsday

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  Rooms

  Wilson Sherman

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  Introducing ROOMS, the first, and one of a kind...rock novel! Come along on a visionary voyage into the imagination, traveling mystical rooms leading to the end of time... and a heavenly grand awakening. ROOMS, poetry novel, is the second book in the poetry novel trilogy by Wilson Sherman, that also includes EXIT and PSALM. Like the other books in the trilogy, a musical version of ROOMS was recorded by POETRY BAND, poetryband.com, now to be introduced as an audiobook... rock novel! "By means of sounds of spiritual music, and its accompanying expressions of spiritual speech is a bold, and daring, and most masterly conception that the public has embraced and approved with avidity." - William Blake ROOMS video and movie versions are slated for release. Former President Clinton wrote the band, "the new album is great!" http://www.poetryband.com/Clinton_Letter_2007.htm "The best art is novel and new..." William Blake

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  Classic Erotic Verse

  Various Authors

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  A witty, bawdy, erotic but classic collection of poetry designed to celebrate the most sensual of human pleasures. Over the ages many poets have put pen to paper in celebration of that most raw and yet most beautiful of human instincts – erotic love. This anthology includes verse by Herrick, Marlowe, Jonson, Byron, Verlaine, Whitman, Yeats, Cummings and, from our own time, John Betjeman. All aspects of erotic love are to be found in these poems – from the bawdy to the sensuous and tender.

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  Ghostwriters in the Sky - Poems...

  Rachel Lawson

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  poems and short stories from the dark side for adults

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  Anatomic

  Adam Dickinson

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  The poems of Anatomic have emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to examine the way the outside writes the inside, whether we like it or not. Adam Dickinson drew blood, collected urine, swabbed bacteria, and tested his feces to measure the precise chemical and microbial diversity of his body. To his horror, he discovered that our "petroculture" has infiltrated our very bodies with pesticides, flame retardants, and other substances. He discovered shifting communities of microbes that reflect his dependence on the sugar, salt, and fat of the Western diet, and he discovered how we rely on nonhuman organisms to make us human, to regulate our moods and personalities. Structured like the hormones some of these synthetic chemicals mimic in our bodies, this sequence of poems links the author’s biographical details (diet, lifestyle, geography) with historical details (spills, poisonings, military applications) to show how permeable our bodies are to the environment. As Dickinson becomes obsessed with limiting the rampant contamination of his own biochemistry, he turns this chemical-microbial autobiography into an anxious plea for us to consider what we’re doing to our world -- and to our own bodies.

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  Poems of the Orient

  Khayyam

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  The Rubá’iyát of Omar Khayyam, in the famous translation by Edward FitzGerald, remains one of the most popular poems. It expressed the fascination of Victorian England with the Orient. Here, it forms the main work in the first half, along with other shorter poems by other leading Persian and Indian figures, including Rumi, Sa’di and Rabindranath Tagore. The second half is devoted to works written by Western poets on the theme of the East with The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, an excerpt from Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh – one of the best-sellers of the early nineteenth century.

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