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  Swansdown

  Donald Platt

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  In Swansdown, Donald Platt makes a study of life' s inevitable transitions, from love' s astonishing evolutions, to aging and its attendant losses. With the poem " Cloud Study" Platt brings his own mortality into view. Returning to a painting by Constable, he considers his own perspective, sitting by the Liffey, tending an injured knee. Young mothers, lovers, and runners pass, reminding the poet of who he once was and how quickly life, like weather, shifts. " Two minutes later, // The clouds would have taken on a different cast of light and shape / just like the thunderheads / now piling up above the Liffey."
  
  Platt advises: " To approach old age, one needs a new harsher style." And yet these poems are proof of the softness that may follow life' s harshest reckonings, like the wisps of hair on his beloved brother' s head as he lies dying, " fine / as milkweed silk. / His head a split / dried pod whose seeds / wind will scatter." The poems of Swansdown point us to a " larger landscape," they are the clouds " that scud across the blue escutcheon of sky. . . Sun' s blazon through rain rampant."

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  Billy in Bunbury

  Royal Baking Powder Company

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  This 1924 poem/recipe book, designed as promotional material for the Royal Baking Powder Company, is set in the Oz community of Bunbury. Little Billy, who won't eat, is taken to the delicious kingdom Bunbury by King Hun Bun to help whet his appetite. Meanwhile, the King leaves the boy's mother with a recipe book for treats, made easy by the use of Price's Baking Powder.Written by Ruth Plumly Thompson, though neither her name, nor the illustrator’s (Gertrude Kay) appears on the book. (Summary by P. Cunningham)

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  Dubliners

  James Joyce

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  Fifteen stories. One city. Countless lives caught between hope and paralysis.
  In this unforgettable collection, James Joyce reveals Dublin through the eyes of ordinary men and women—children discovering harsh truths, lovers facing disappointment, workers dreaming of escape, and families weighed down by duty. Each story is intimate, honest, and quietly devastating, capturing the emotional struggles hidden beneath everyday routines.
  
  Celebrated as "a cornerstone of modern literature," Dubliners blends precise prose with deep humanity, illuminating the fears, desires, and small rebellions that shape a life. Its realism and emotional resonance continue to captivate readers around the world.
  
  If you love character-driven fiction, lyrical writing, and stories that reveal meaning in the smallest moments, this classic is essential reading.
  
  Open the book—and walk the streets of Dublin, where every life holds a story worth hearing.

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  Dirt Girl - Poems

  Sarah McMahon

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  "Poetry for people who hate reading poems." 
  This book of poetry explores the divide between urban and rural America from the perspective of someone who has lived in and loved both. It is for anyone who has experienced the dissonance of feeling at home in two very different places at once, or who has felt caught in between cultures, ideologies, religions, morals, values, or ideas.

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  The Legend of Heinz von Stein

  Charles Godfrey Leland

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Legend of Heinz von Stein by Charles Godfrey Leland. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 11, 2012.Charles Godfrey Leland was an American humorist who traveled extensively throughout Europe and the US.  Leland worked in journalism, and became interested in folklore and folk linguistics, publishing books and articles on American and European languages and folk traditions. He worked in a wide variety of trades, achieved recognition as the author of the comic Hans Breitmann’s Ballads, fought in two conflicts, and wrote what was to become a primary source text for Neopaganism half a century later, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches. ( Summary from Wikipedia )

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  Secret Lives Hurt

  Tricia Holbrook

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  A phone call can change a life. An old letter can change it more and nobody understands a broken heart like another broken heart.Wendy moved to Spain for a career opportunity and a chance to travel. But in reality she was running away from her boss, who she thought would leave his wife for her.During her travels she meets Alejandro, a kindred spirit. He has his own heartbreak. But something in Wendy opens up his heart again.After the phone rings Wendy’s life starts to unravel. Her mother is seriously ill, her brother needs her home. She is reunited with her mother who informs her of the letters. She must find them, read them, understand them. But most of all, she must forgive her mother.When Wendy reads the letters, a new story unfolds. Her dead father was not her father at all. She reads of a father she never knew – Nick Jones - alive and well and living in the West of Ireland. Wendy uncovers her mother’s secret life. A phone call to Nick, telling him of her mother’s illness, unites them in a gathering that brings comfort and intrigue.However, their emotional reunion is short lived as Wendy’s mother suffers another heart attack and dies. Alejandro arrives from Spain. Having recently found Wendy he is not about to let her go. He comforts her through her pain and shields her from the unwanted attention of her boss. Then her new found father gets a devastating phone call of his own. His wife has had a stroke and he must go to her. Wendy must cope with being abandoned again.Wendy and Nick are reunited at another funeral. Wendy supports her father and meets her half brother. Further revelations and erupting emotions follow, but this time they must remain secret forever.

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