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  As I Ascend - Poems by Sina Hilbert

  Sina Hilbert

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  As I Ascend is an unforgettable collection of poems about love, race, and all things in between from Sina Hilbert in her book debut. 
  In As I Ascend, Sina not only gives readers an intimate, unfiltered look into her own experiences with romantic love and heartbreak; she also explores self-love and love for her culture – Black culture. She examines the lunacy of what it means to be Black in America in the poem "The Evolution of Woke" while also celebrating the unmatched characteristics of her people in poems such as "Sunflowers" and "Superheroes". 
  Succinct, refreshing and provocative, the poems in As I Ascend penetrate the heart, unlock the mind, and nourish the soul. 

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  Big Sexy Lunch

  Roxy Dunn

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  Big Sexy Lunch is an irreverent, entertaining account of millennial philosophy and relationships. Roxy Dunn's observational wit and reflective self-doubt muse on sex, singledom, and falling in and out of love. There's a directness and an honesty to these poems which humorously scrutinises the conflicts and contradictions of being attached to someone and our ongoing appetite for fulfilment.

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  The Canterbury Tales (NHB Modern...

  Geoffrey Chaucer

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  A landmark dramatisation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of one of the foundation stones of English literature. This two-play adaptation of Chaucer'sCanterbury Tales encompasses all 23 stories. All the famous characters are here - as well as many less well-known but equally full of life. Each of the stories has its own style - heroic verse for the Knight's Tale, vernacular rhymes for the Miller's Tale etc. - echoing the many narrative voices employed by Chaucer himself. The plays can be performed either together or separately. 'Rumbustious and passionate ... this is quite simply a glorious compendium of stories and poetry' -Daily Mail 'Scintillating ... Poulton's admirable version ... what takes one's breath away is the range of styles and emotions on display' -Guardian 'Mike Poulton's superb adaptation is both faithful and accessible, comfortably inhabiting the middle ground between Middle English and the modern vernacular' -The Times

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  John Donne

  John Donne

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  Sophisticated wit and intense emotion, religious fervour and erotic sensuality, delight in life’s pleasures and fascination with death, are all to be found in the paradoxical poetry of John Donne. One of the foremost metaphysical poets, Donne’s ingenious metaphors and inspired use of language has earned him affection and reverence in near equal measure to Shakespeare. This collection of his finest poetry showcases the diverse range of his work, and includes Death Be Not Proud, A Hymn to God the Father, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Go Catch a Falling Star, The Flea and To His Mistress Going to Bed.

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  I Am Love: Looking for Love

  Raymond Sturgis

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  I AM LOVE, series, helps marriage partners understand and reaffirm their vows and love for one another by helping them fall in love again, stay in love and respect one another. In the dating world, one must believe in the possibility of love, by opening their hearts and see people for what they try to conceal. Love does not mean being blind or ignorant, but one must open their hearts so love can find them and change their thinking.

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  The Poetry of Cats

  William Wordsworth, Rainer Maria...

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  The cat. Independent when it wants and making us dependent on its whims when it deems.  Cats are first thought of as being domesticated in the Near East in about 7500 BC.  A few thousand years later in Ancient Egypt they are worshipped as gods.  From a domestic cat’s point of view this is pretty much the life they want and that some cats lead right now.    
    
  Their larger cousins whether in forest, savannah, mountains or desert were fated for their speed, strength, beauty, feline powers and prowess.  They now live in a finely balanced world between freedom and declining numbers as their habitats are destroyed or taken from them.  
   
  Across the centuries poets have written verse that captures all manner of thoughts on our complex relationship with all cats, though mainly the humble moggy, on whose whims we slave over, eager for a look of recognition, the nod of thanks or the purr of gratitude.   
  1 - The Poetry of Cats  - An Introduction 
  2 - The Cat and the Moon by William Butler Yeats 
  3 - The Cat by Charles Baudelaire 
  4 - The Lions by Joseph Mary Plunkett 
  5 - The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear 
  6 - An Appeal to Cats in the Business of Love by Thomas Flatman 
  7 - To My Cat by Rosamund Marriott Watson 
  8 - Verses on a Cat by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  9 - Milk For the Cat by Harold Munro 
  10 - The Cats Have Come To Tea by Kate Greenaway 
  11 - St Jerome's Cat by Anonymous 
  12 - The Lazy Pussy by Palmer Cox 
  13 - Sad Memories by Charles Calverly 
  14 - Mrs Reynold's Cat by John Keats 
  15 - Mujer by William Carlos Williams 
  16 - Black Cat by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  17 - The Cats Will Know by Cesare Pavese 
  18 - A Cat by Edward Thomas 
  19 - The Cat of the House by Ford Madox Ford 
  20 - To Winky by Amy Lowell 
  21 - The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  22 - Jaguar by Lola Ridge 
  23 - Julbilate Agno by Christopher Smart 
  24 - Little Tiger by H P Lovecraft 
  25 - The Tiger by William Blake 
  26 - Sonnet XIX - Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws by William Shakespeare 
  27 - The Lion Who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox by Rumi 
  28 - The Eagle, The Sow and the Cat by Anne Kingsmill Finch 
  29 - The Vain Cat by Ambrose Bierce 
  30 - To A Cat by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  31 - The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat by Eugene Field 
  32 - How the Feud Started by Arthur Guiterman 
  33 - The Old Cat and the Young Mouse by Jean De La Fontaine 
  34 - The Cat and the Old Rat by Jean de la Fontaine 
  35 - The Rat-Catcher and Cats by John Gay 
  36 - Two Little Kittens by Anonymous 
  37 - Familiarity Dangerous by William Cowper 
  38 - The Kitten and the Falling Leaves by William Wordsworth 
  39 - The First Cat by Arthur Guiterman 
  40 - Had Tiberius Been a Cat by Matthew Arnold 
  41 - An Oxford Don Curses his Cat by Thomas Master 
  42 - Pangur Ban - The Scholar and His Cat by Anonymous 
  43 - Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat - Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes by Thomas Gray 
  44 - On the Death of a Cat by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  45 - Epitaph on a Pet Cat by Joachim Du Bellay 
  46 - Last Words To A Dumb Friend by Thomas Hardy

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