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  Romeo and Juliet

  William Shakespeare

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  The immortal tale of star-crossed lovers in a newly updated eBook edition featuring hundreds of hypertext links, scene-by-scene summaries, and more. 
   
  In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud. In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this exquisitely poetic play has become the quintessential story of young love. 
   
  This authoritative eBook edition includes: 
   
  -The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference 
   
  -Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation 
   
  -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play 
   
  -Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently linked to the text of the play 
   
  -Scene-by-scene plot summaries 
   
  -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases 
   
  -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language 
   
  -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play 
   
  -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books 
   
  -An annotated guide to further reading 
   
  -And more

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  Make Me Rain - Poems & Prose

  Nikki Giovanni

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  An extraordinary listening experience! Hear Nikki Giovanni read from her newest collection of poems! 
  One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart. 
  For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has dazzled and inspired readers. As sharp and outspoken as ever, she returns with this profound book of poetry in which she continues to call attention to injustice and racism, celebrate Black culture and Black lives, and and give readers an unfiltered look into her own experiences. 
  In Make Me Rain, she celebrates her loved ones and unapologetically declares her pride in her Black heritage, while exploring the enduring impact of the twin sins of racism and white nationalism. Giovanni reaffirms her place as a uniquely vibrant and relevant American voice with poems such as “I Come from Athletes” and “Rainy Days”—calling out segregation and Donald Trump; as well as “Unloved (for Aunt Cleota)” and “”When I Could No Longer”—her personal elegy for the relatives who saved her from an abusive home life.  
  Stirring, provocative, and resonant, the poems in Make Me Rain pierce the heart and nourish the soul. 

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  Notes on The Sonnets

  Luke Kennard

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  Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021
  
  Longlisted for the Rathbones folio prize
  
  A Poetry Book society Recommendation
  Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party.
  A physicist explains dark matter in the kitchen. A crying man is consoled by a Sigmund Freud action figure. An out-of-hours doctor sells phials of dark red liquid from a briefcase. Someone takes out a guitar.
  Wry, insolent and self-eviscerating, Notes on the Sonnets riddles the Bard with the anxieties of the modern age, bringing Kennard's affectionate critique to subjects as various as love, marriage, God, metaphysics and a sad horse.
  'Luke Kennard has the uncanny genius of being able to stick a knife in your heart with such originality and verve that you start thinking "aren't knives fascinating... and hearts, my god!" whilst everything slowly goes black.'
  - Caroline Bird

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  The Joyce Carol Oates Collection

  Joyce Carol Oates

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  Eight highly diverse works from one of America’s most prolific and versatile authors, this collection includes an exclusive dramatization of Oates’ bestselling novel American Appetites, two comedic plays The Perfectionist and The Truth Teller, four short stories Gulf War, Black, The Key and Tone Clusters, as well as her libretto for Black Water: An American Opera, composed by John Duffy.American Appetites:The façade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal in this exclusive dramatization of Joyce Carol Oates’ best-selling novel.Cast: Lisa Akey, Keith Carradine, Alastair Duncan, Paul Eiding, Anna Gunn, Dan Lauria, Jean Louisa Kelly, Frank Muller, B.J. Ward, Elizabeth Ward Land Liza Weil and Tegan West.The Truth Teller:Joyce Carol Oates’ hilarious take-off on a classic Southern play begins when liberated Hedda arrives home to visit the family estate, ruled by the family’s tyrannical patriarch, “Tiny” Culligan.Cast: Charles Durning, Arthur Hanket, Gary Kroeger, Marsha Mason, Priscilla Pointer, William Schallert and JoBeth Williams.The Perfectionist:Joyce Carol Oates turns her satiric eye to Tobias Harte, a man obsessed with perfection in everything from ethics to egg salad. Rollicking comedy ensues as Harte struggles with his highly imperfect family and friends. Cast: Barbara Bosson, Annabeth Gish, Harold Gould, Valerie Landsburg, David Schwimmer and David Selby.Black (one-act play):In this evening of cocktails and dinner, a couple anxiously awaits the arrival of an ex-husband. As the wine glasses are drained, the evening becomes dark and intense, revealing the true colors of the characters in this eerie love triangle.Cast: Stephanie Dunnam, Rif Hutton and Joe Spano.Gulf War (one-act play):An affluent young couple, entertains an older couple for an evening of cocktails and politics during the Gulf War. But as the evening continues, the conversation take a bizarre and absurd tone.Cast: Edward Asner, Stephanie Dunnam, Nan Martin and Joe Spano.The Key (one-act play):A hilarious perverse encounter between Melissa, a vacationing suburban housewife, recently separated from her husband, and Edwin, a prosperous businessman.Cast: Edward Asner, Hector Elizondo, Don Reed, Joyce Van Patten and JoBeth Williams.Tone Clusters (one-act play):A chilling tragic-comedy that takes the form of an interview between a middle-aged, middle-class American couple and the media. Cast: Edward Asner, Hector Elizondo, Don Reed, Joyce Van Patten and JoBeth Williams.Black Water - An American Opera:A tragic and beautiful opera based on the Chappaquiddick scandal. Libretto by Joyce Carol Oates, with music by John Duffy.Cast: David Lee Brewer, Reid Bruton, Stephanie Buckley, Karen Burlingame, Kimberly Graham, Linda Kerns, Erin Langston, Patrick Mason, John Savarese and Rob Shacklett.

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  The Poetry of Richard Le Gallienne

  Richard Le Gallienne

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  Richard Thomas Gallienne was born in Liverpool on 20th January, 1866. 
   
  His first job was in an accountant's office, but this was quickly abandoned to pursue his first love as a professional writer. His first work, My Ladies’ Sonnets, was published in 1887.  
   
  In 1889 he became, for a brief time, literary secretary to Wilson Barrett the manager, actor, and playwright. Barrett enjoyed immense success with the staging of melodramas, which would later reach a peak with the historical tragedy The Sign of the Cross (1895). 
   
  Le Gallienne joined the staff of The Star newspaper in 1891, and also wrote for various other papers under the pseudonym ‘Logroller’. He contributed to the short-lived but influential quarterly periodical The Yellow Book, published between 1894 and 1897. 
   
  His first wife, Mildred Lee, died in 1894 leaving their daughter, Hesper, in his care.  
   
  In 1897 he married the Danish journalist Julie Norregard. However, the marriage would not be a success. She left him in 1903 and took their daughter Eva to live in Paris. They were eventually divorced in June 1911. 
   
  Le Gallienne now moved to the United States and became resident there.  
   
  On 27th October 1911, he married Mrs. Irma Perry, whose marriage to her first cousin, the painter and sculptor Roland Hinton Perry, had been dissolved in 1904. Le Gallienne and Irma had known each other for many years and had written an article together a few years earlier in 1906.  
   
  Le Gallienne and Irma lived in Paris from the late 1920s, where Irma’s daughter Gwen was by then an established figure in the expatriate bohème.  Le Gallienne also added a regular newspaper column to the frequent publication of his poems, essays and other articles. 
   
  By 1930 Le Gallienne’s book publishing career had virtually ceased. During the latter years of that decade Le Gallienne lived in Menton on the French Riviera and, during the war years, in nearby Monaco. His house was commandeered by German troops and his handsome library was nearly sent back to Germany as bounty. Le Gallienne managed a successful appeal to a German officer in Monaco which allowed him to return to Menton to collect his books.  
   
  To his credit Le Gallienne refused to write propaganda for the local German and Italian authorities, and financially was often in dire need.  On one occasion he collapsed in the street due to hunger. 
   
  Richard Thomas Gallienne died on 15th September 1947.  He is buried in Menton 
  1 - The Poetry of Richard Le Gallienne - An Introduction 
  2 - Man, the Destroyer by Richard Le Gallienne 
  3 - Tree Worship by Richard Le Gallienne 
  4 - A Ballad of the Kind Little Creatures by Richard Le Gallienne 
  5 - Ballade of Running Away with Life by Richard Le Gallienne 
  6 - I Meant to Do My Work Today by Richard Le Gallienne 
  7 - Sunset in the City by Richard Le Gallienne 
  8 - A Ballad of London by Richard Le Gallienne 
  9 - The Second Crucifixation by Richard Le Gallienne 
  10 - My Books by Richard Le Gallienne 
  11 - The Passionate Reader to His Poet by Richard Le Gallienne 
  12 - On the Morals of Poets by Richard Le Gallienne 
  13 - Ballade of the Making of Songs by Richard Le Gallienne 
  14 - Satan - 1920 by Richard Le Gallienne 
  15 - The Illusion of War by Richard Le Gallienne 
  16 - To Belgium by Richard Le Gallienne 
  17 - After the War by Richard Le Gallienne 
  18 - The Long Purposes of God by Richard Le Gallienne 
  19 - Sore in Need Was I of a Faithful Friend by Richard Le Gallienne 
  20 - The Afternoon is Lonely For Your Face by Richard Le Gallienne 
  21 - A Lover's Universe by Richard Le Gallienne 
  22 - Rest by Richard Le Gallienne 
  23 - Reliquiae by Richard Le Gallienne 
  24 - The Ro

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  (Un)Tethered - A Collection of...

  S.V. Segal

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  You bit me,And when you lost your tooth,You blamed me.I guess self-awarenessIs for people with caninesInstead of fangs.S. V. Segal’s debut poetry compilation, (Un)Tethered, pulls us into moments of conflict—both internal and external—and self-reflection as it explores universal themes of love, loss, death, growth, fear, and self-realization. But despite the timelessness of these themes, the poems are also distinctively Segal’s, conveying their unique experiences, depth of feeling, and struggles with identity and relationships. A striking collection that will embed in your memory.

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