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  Do I love thee… …let me count…

  Various Authors

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  Are you in love? Have you ever been in love? Do you wish you were in love? Or perhaps you wish you weren't in love? For everyone who loves, who ever loved, who searches for love, who suffers from love, who rejoices in love, this set of 70 poems is for you. It ranges in time from classical Greece to the early 20th century. It includes voices from Sappho to Shakespeare to Edgar Lee Masters. From Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Sara Teasdale. It includes some poets you might not expect: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Rainer Maria Rilke, John Donne, Walt Whitman. It speaks of love gained, of love sought, of love accepted, of love rejected, of love in hate, of love beyond the grave, of love exalted, and of love refused. Every mode and color of love is here, as spoken by great poets of all ages, men and women alike. Enjoy these poems with someone you love, and let their messages sink into your hearts.The poets whose work is included here are:Sara Teasdale, William Shakespeare, Edgar Lee Masters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, "anonymous", John Greenleaf Whittier, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rainier Maria Rilke, Richard Lovelace, Robert Frost, Robert Herrick, Sappho, Walt Whitman, Andrew Marvell, Anne Bronte, Christopher Marlowe, Coventry Patmore, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Dowson, Lord Byron, George Gordon, John Donne, John Lyly, Oscar Wilde, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sir Walter Raleigh, and William Butler Yeats.

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  Born in the USA - Exploring...

  Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce,...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. 
   
  The United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. 
   
  Little wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art.  Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.   
   
  In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in the Mid-West. This huge and mythic landscape that stretches from Chicago and the Great Lakes to the deserts of Texas contains a wealth of poets that could summon theme and words to describe and reveal both nature and humanity in sprawling yet intimate detail.  Among their number are Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Vachel Lindsay, Alice Corbin and Ambrose Bierce, brilliant wordsmiths one and all.

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  Playing the Game (NHB Modern Plays)

  Bola Agbaje

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  Election time. The Students' Association needs a new President, and Akousa's achingly cool flatmates are certain she is perfect for the position. How can they persuade her, and how much is she willing to compromise?
  From the author of Gone Too Far!, Playing the Game was first staged at the Traverse Theatre, in 2010 as part of the Women, Power & Politics season.

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  The Balcony - A Play

  Jean Genet

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  A masterpiece of twentieth-century drama by the iconic author of Our Lady of the Flowers: “ingenious, intellectually exciting, and, yes, still quite shocking” (The New York Times).   In the midst of a city ravaged by violent rebellion, a brothel caters to the elaborate role-playing fantasies of men from all walks of life. A gas company worker pretends to be a bishop while, in the next room, another customer dons a judge’s robe to savor the erotic pleasures of meting out justice—and punishment. These perverse costumed masquerades parody the larger, more violent dramas of the outside world. But as the anarchic political struggle threatens to topple society, even the revolutionaries come to believe that illusions are preferable to reality.   A poet, novelist, playwright, and outlaw, Jean Genet helped define French existential theater of the mid-twentieth century. Deeply influential and widely acclaimed, Genet’s The Balcony presents an unrelentingly profound and critical reflection of contemporary society.

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  Casey at the Bat - A Poem

  Ernest Lawrence Thayer

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  Considered the greatest baseball poem of all time, "Casey at the Bat" is the beloved tale of the Mudville Nine, a hapless baseball club entering the ninth inning of a ballgame down two runs and with little hope of succeeding...unless their star slugger Casey can manage to get a turn at the plate. With two outs, the outlook is grim but...when the two players preceding Casey manage to get on base, the stage is set for a grand finale, giving the citizens of Mudville hope that their hero can save the day! Ernest Lawrence Thayer originally wrote this poem for the San Francisco Examiner and it would go on to become what Baseball Almanac called "the single most famous baseball poem ever written." It is here presented in its original and unabridged form and enhanced with music and sound effects to bring the listener right into the ballpark!

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  Edgar Allan Poe's: The Tell-Tale...

  Edgar Allan Poe, Jason Markiewitz

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  Markiewitz Audioworks Presents Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart."  This production is a full audio dramatization (with incredible original music and magnificent sound effects) of one of the most popular horror stories of the past 200 years.  In this story, a man (Edward) is afforded a place to stay in exchange for doing chores around the house.  However, his landlord (Mr. Graves), a friendly and gracious old man, has one characteristic which drives Edward to the brink of madness; a pale blue eye.  Eventually, Edward decides that he can't take the eye any longer, and despite his generally cordial relationship with Mr. Graves, is determined to kill him, thus ridding himself of the eye forever.  Come with us as we descend into madness with this original adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's: The Tell-Tale Heart.Cast:Jason Markiewitz as Edward Valentine, Officer Kent, Officer WallaceBrennan Villados as Mr. Graves, Sgt O'TooleLia Rose as Homeless Woman in the BarnMusic by: Hayden FolkerCover Art by: Jon MarkiewitzScript by: Jason MarkiewitzDirected by: Jason Markiewitz

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