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  The Wrecking Light - Poems

  Robin Robertson

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  Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Scottish poet’s fourth collection shimmers with “an oneiric charge and intensity” (Guardian, UK). 
   
  The Wrecking Light is an intense, moving, bleakly lyrical, and at times shocking book. These poems are written with the authority of classical myth, yet sound utterly contemporary. The poet’s gaze—whether on the natural world or the details of his own life—is unflinching and clear, its utter seriousness leavened by a wry, dry, and disarming humor. 
   
  Alongside fine translations from Neruda and Montale and dynamic retellings of stories from Ovid, the poems here pitch the power and wonder of nature against the frailty and failure of human beings. This is a book of considerable grandeur and sweep that confirms Robertson as one of the most arresting and powerful poets at work today.

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  Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in...

  Michel Tremblay

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  A bold, quirky play from the renowned Quebecois writer, translated by Martin Bowman & Bill Findlay into a robust earthy Scots.
  On six moonlit Montreal balconies on a sultry summer's evening, eleven people tell their stories of love. Isabelle and Yannick are alive and ecstatic with the thrill of first love. Jeannine and Louise are in torment that their love may be dying. Rose and her son, Mathieu, are suspended in silent complicity, fearful of the other's pain. Gaston and his daughter, Mireille, are caught in a trap of need and blame. Yvon and Gérard are bound to one another through longing and guilt. The Widow sits alone with the memory of a perfect love...
  Inspired by the discovery of a lost mass by Berlioz, Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer dispenses with religion but keeps the ritual to lay its characters bare.
  'Like nothing seen on the Scottish stage before. It is a quirky work that none the less hits home with its classic themes of love, loss and redemption' Mail on Sunday

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  Dailies & Rushes - Poems

  Susan Kinsolving

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  A National Book Critic’s Circle Award-finalist: the “late but brilliant debut” volume that rocketed the acclaimed poet to prominence (The New York Times).   In her first full-length volume of poems, Susan Kinsolving demonstrates an elegant mastery of craft that can only be achieved through decades of refinement. Dailies and Rushes is both a debut collection and a major work by an accomplished poet. Indeed, as Carol Muske points out in her review of this book for The New York Times, “each poem here seems an accomplishment, in the sense of a realized expression as well as structural finality.”   With disarming insight, brutal irony, and playful half-buried puns that hit both the eye and the ear, “Kinsolving’s poems skate with a dark elegance on the thin ice between the upper air and a deepening sorrow, between the day’s figures and memory’s pattern. But she’s headed towards love: the distant shore, the beckoning warmth; and by the end of Dailies & Rushes she has gotten herself—and, to our delight and gratitude, brought us as well—triumphantly there” (J. D. McClatchy).

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  A Pinch of Salt

  Robert Graves

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 different recordings of A Pinch of Salt by Robert Graves.    Perhaps now best known as the author whose book of the same name inspired the Masterpiece Theater series I, Claudius, Robert Graves wrote prolifically throughout his 90 years, concentrating on myth in a scholarly vein. Many of his works were academically controversial. And yet, first and foremost, he considered himself a poet. This poem, which first appeared in 1920, shows Graves to be not only a careful and cautious man, but also exceedingly passionate (Summary by Alan Davis-Drake).    This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 3rd, 2007.

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  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

  Lord Byron

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  Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a fascinating portrait of 19th-century Europe, disillusioned and ravaged by the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.The protagonist, whose breathtaking journey echoes Byron’s own life story, plunges into the exciting unknown: the nature of humanity and the trans-formative effects of travel burst through the pages in four powerful cantos of Spenserian stanzas.Here is the poem that set Byron on his meteoric rise to fame in London society.

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  A Birthday

  Christina Rossetti

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Birthday by Christina Rossetti. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 13th, 2010.

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