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  The Importance of being earnest

  Oscar Wilde

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  The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde that mocks the culture and manners of Victorian society. It is a farcical comedy that relies on satire and a comic resolution to make that mockery more palatable to viewers. The play is about friends Jack and Algernon's double-lives interfering with their romantic pursuits. It is considered Wilde’s greatest dramatic achievement and a satire of Victorian social hypocrisy.Robin

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  Unsun

  Andrew Zawacki

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  In his fifth poetry volume, American poet Andrew Zawacki expands his inquiry into the possibilities and dangers of a ‘global pastoral,’ exploring geographies alternately enhanced and flattened out by digital networks, international transit, the uneven and invisible movements of capital, and the unrelenting feedback loops of data surveillance, weather disaster, war. Wheeling interference patterns of systems of meaning, from radio signals and runway signage to foreign phrases and babytalk, interact with the ‘langscape’ of English, while punctuation is retrofitted as coding. In creating a politically committed lyric form that opens all the dimensions of language – sonic and semantic, syntactic and graphic – Unsun sustains an oblique conversation with Paul Celan’s Fadensonnen, Chris Marker’s Sans soleil, and Michael Palmer’s Sun. Loosely structured by the settings of analog photography, the book features a suite of the author’s black-and-white, large format images alongside an adaptation of Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei and a series of fractured sonnets for – and from – his young daughter.

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  Europe Love Me Back

  Rakhshan Rizwan

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  Europe, Love Me Back is a collection of relentlessly questing, sharply satirical poems about the continent, and the poet's fraught relationship with it. Hurting yet clear-eyed, Rizwan explores and exposes what it means to be a small brown woman in Dutch suburbs, hospitals and academia
  
  This is an angry love letter, to a place left behind yet always there, continuing to matter and hurt and shape the poet's identity.
  "But no one was interested in eliciting my testimony;
  after all I wasn't dead – I wasn't ill – and hadn't this
  country treated me so well?
  For it is not a human right to be much more than Agamben's bare life,
  to exist in the hallowed halls of the academe,
  because there comes a point when our wanting
  is simply too much, obscene –"

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  God of All Flying Things:...

  Rachel Devenish Ford

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  God of All Flying Things is a gentle companion for those seeking God in the midst of lives full of beauty, longing, and mystery. 
  In this intimate collection of prayers and poems, Rachel Devenish Ford writes from the quiet spaces of her devotion to Christ. These are the words of someone who has sat quietly in sorrow, who has shouted prayers into the dark, and who keeps looking for the presence of God in birdsong, breath, and daily bread. 
  Alongside her poems, Rachel shares original paintings made during times of meditation. These are visual prayers that speak of reaching, belonging, and finding a dwelling place within the soul. 
  Whether you are feeling full or empty, certain or in the whirl of mystery, this book is an invitation to connection with the Divine Presence. 
  From the Author: 
  “I want this book to be kind and fierce. I want it to breathe. I want it to be human. I want it to reflect God's goodness, warmth, and love. 
  We, looking at God, have so many voices. We reflect the brilliance of God in our cells. 
  I am one voice, one of so many. So many people, alive or long passed, have encouraged me when my heart needed it. My voice also sings, and I want to show you my songs. 
  These are the poems of my attachment, the long, wandering relationship I have had with Christ. These are the poems of my wrestling. There are so, so many poems of love. Adoration. Longing. Resilience. Wisdom. Justice. Worship. These are the prayers I needed to shout. Dear friend, these poems are for you.”

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  Said Like Reeds or Things

  Mark Truscott

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  Warning: this book may encourage a series of ungrammatical thoughts! 
  Welcome to the poetic landscape of Mark Truscott, where less is more than you bargained for. Said Like Reeds or Things is a book of micropoetic and linguistic koans. With a quirky, off-centre sense of humour, these poems uncover a language that has malfunctioned only to find itself in the form of a gesture. 
  Minimalist in form, these small gatherings of words, a.k.a. 'poems', seek strangeness in familiar language; their effect is harmonic dissonance within the mind – like an overturned toy box in your path to the television set, these poems are a fresh and amusing diversion from the everyday from which they are derived. Mysteriously entertaining and precise, these succinct, visual lyrics say as much about the world as they do about their own status as objects for reading, and they persist in the hilarity and contemplation of their own enigmatic possibilities. 
  'Mark Truscott's Said Like Reeds or Things is the work of a mischievous conservationist with a shadow of Basho in the mix. It's sometimes snappy, sometimes calm, and always an exhilarating tease. This is the place where little pieces of perfection ride along a sublime horizon line.' 
   – Lisa Jarnot

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  The Complete Works of William...

  William Shakespeare

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  Own the Entire Spectrum of Human Emotion.
  
  No writer in history has captured the complexity of the human soul quite like William Shakespeare. From the heights of royal ambition to the depths of tragic despair, his words have shaped the English language and defined the art of storytelling for over four centuries. This comprehensive volume brings together every play, every sonnet, and every poem ever penned by the "Bard of Avon."
  
  This collection invites you to explore the pillars of his genius:
  
  The Master of Tragedy: Experience the profound investigations into power, jealousy, and fate that have become the universal standard for dramatic excellence.
  
  The Architecture of Comedy: Delight in the timeless wit of mistaken identities, forest-bound fantasies, and the chaotic nature of love.
  
  The Chronicles of History: Journey through the rise and fall of kings in sweeping epic narratives that blend political intrigue with personal drama.
  
  Lyrical Perfection: Immerse yourself in the most famous sequence of sonnets ever written—a masterclass in rhythm, metaphor, and the exploration of beauty and time.
  
  Whether you are a student of literature, a lover of the stage, or simply someone seeking to understand the roots of modern storytelling, Shakespeare remains the essential voice. His ability to create characters that feel as real today as they did in the 16th century is why he remains the most published author of all time.
  
  Walk the boards with the masters. Buy "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" today and own the foundation of the English language.

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