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  Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Love

  Kahlil Gibran

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  Kahlil Gibran’s aphorisms, stories, and poetry on a theme remain among some of those best known to Western readers. His views, however, extend beyond the most-quoted “greeting card” sayings to a wide realm of human emotions and relationships—passion, desire, idealized love, justice, friendship, and the challenges of dealing with strangers, neighbors, and enemies. This little book captures love and life in all of their complexities and nuances.This little volume includes over 90 selections from Gibran’s writings and is divided into four sections:Love’s InitiationThe Veils of LoveAll of Our RelationshipsA Love BeyondThis book, ideal for all gift-giving occasions, is informative, illuminating, and inspirational.Whom Do We Love?When I stood, a clear mirror before you,  you gazed into me and saw your image.  Then you said, “I love you.” But in truth you loved yourself in me.  Love is the veil between lover and lover.

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  Probably Inevitable

  Matthew Tierney

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  Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2013)
   
  If it were necessary to tell someone where I am, I’d say the spheres of Kepler resonate like icicles.I’d say I have loved.
   
  These are high-energy poems, riddled with wit and legerdemain and jolted by the philosophy and science of time. 'Time's not the market, it's the bustle; / not the price but worth,'he muses, sailing through the rhythms and algorithms of a world made concrete by Samuel Johnson, before it was undone by Niels Bohr. Tierney's narrators grapple with the gap between what's seen and what's experienced, their minds tuned to one (probably) inevitable truth: the more I understand, the more I understand I'm alone.
   
  What continues to set Matthew Tierney's poems apart is their uncanny ability to find within the nomenclature of science not mere novelty but a new pathto human frailty, a renewed assertion of individuality, and a genuine awe at existence.
   
  'It smothers us with normal,' Matthew Tierney writes in his spangled third collection, 'though we cleave to standard deviations.' Deviant, yes; normal and standard, no. These poems are all quantum fluctuation and collapse, language folding in on itself in the gorgeous vacuum of contemporary culture. 'Every p-brane sweeps out a (p+1)-dimensional world volume as it propagates through spacetime,' says Wikipedia. I have no idea what that means, but Matthew Tierney does. Let him school you.' – Michael Robbins

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  Damon Runyon Theater - Romance...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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  William Shakespeare - A Tribute...

  Ben Jonson, John Milton, Matthew...

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  William Shakespeare was born in Stratford upon Avon in late April 1565 and baptized there on 26th April. He was one of eight children. Little is known about his life but what is evident is the enormous contribution he has made to World Literature.  His writing was progressive, magnificent in scope, and breathtaking in execution.  His plays and sonnets helped enable the English language to speak with a voice unmatched by any other. 
   
  William Shakespeare died on the 23rd April 1616, survived by his wife and two daughters.  He was buried two days after his death in the chancel of the Holy Trinity church. 
   
  Poets rarely praise another of their kind but Shakespeare deserved all their praise – and more.  And our poets down the centuries have been lavish and fulsome with him. Or to paraphrase the great Bard himself:—‘If words shall be the food of love, read on….’

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  The Sweet Science of Bruising...

  Joy Wilkinson

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  London, 1869. Four very different Victorian women are drawn into the dark underground world of female boxing by the eccentric Professor Sharp. Controlled by men and constrained by corsets, each finds an unexpected freedom in the boxing ring.
  As their lives begin to intertwine, their journey takes us through grand drawing rooms, bustling theatres and rowdy Southwark pubs, where the women fight inequality as well as each other. But with the final showdown approaching, only one can become the Lady Boxing Champion of the World…
  Joy Wilkinson's play The Sweet Science of Bruising is an epic tale of passion, politics and pugilism. It premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2018, in a production by Troupe.

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  Born in the USA - The New...

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...

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  1 - Born in the USA - The New England Poets - An Introduction 
  2 - June by Horatio Alger Jr 
  3 - On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, January 14th 1807 by Joel Barlow 
  4 - America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates 
  5 - If You Could Come by Katharine Lee Bates 
  6 - Above the Battle by Katherine Lee Bates 
  7 - Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves by William Stanley Braithwaite 
  8 - A Hymn of the Sea by William Cullen Bryant 
  9 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant 
  10 - November by William Cullen Bryant 
  11 - I Would Not Paint a Picture by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - I Have a Bird in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  13 - The Name of it is Autumn by Emily Dickinson 
  14 - Some Too Fragile for Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson 
  15 - I Went to Heaven by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - Credo by W E B Du Bois 
  17 - Teach Me I Am Forgotten by the Dead by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  18 - Waves by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  19 - Culture by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  20 - Berrying by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  21 - Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  22 - Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  23 - The Black Finger by Angelina Weld Grimke 
  24 - The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  25 - In the Reading Room of the British Museum by Louise Imogen Guiney 
  26 - Address to the Moon by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  27 - The Ocean by Nathamiel Hawthorne 
  28 - Go to the Grave by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  29 - The Old Man of the Sea by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  30 - Prologue by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  31 - Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  32 - A Calender of Sonnets - December by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  33 - A Calender of Sonnets - January by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  34 - A Calendar of Sonnets - September by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  35 - Octobers Bright Blue Weather by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  36 - In London Town by Walter Learned 
  37 - The Slave's Singing at Midnight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  38 - Song of Haiwatha (Extract) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  39 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  40 - Loss and Gain by Henry Wadswoth Longfellow 
  41 - A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  42 - Despair by H P Lovecraft 
  43 - Sunset by H P Lovecraft 
  44 - Ode for July 4th 1917 by H P Lovecraft 
  45 - Pacifist War Song - 1917 by H P Lovecraft 
  46 - Providence by H P Lovecraft 
  47 - In a Garden by Amy Lowell 
  48 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell 
  49 - Monadnock in Early Spring by Amy Lowell 
  50 - The Crescent Moon by Amy Lowell 
  51 - March Evening by Amy Lowell 
  52 - The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell 
  53 - Above and Below by James Russell Lowell 
  54 - Of the Dawn of Freedom by James Russell Lowell 
  55 - To H W L on His Birthday 27th February 1867 by James Russell Lowell 
  56 - Slaves by James Russell Lowell 
  57 - The Red Cross Nurses by Thomas L Masson 
  58 - A December Day by Robert Fuller Murray 
  59 - Warren's Address by John Pierpoint 
  60 - The Economy of Slavery by John Pierpoint 
  61 - Hymn for the First of August by John Pierpoint 
  62 - Prayer for the Slave by John Pierpoint 
  63 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato 
  64 - Reflections, Written on Visiting the Grave of a Venerated Friend by Ann Plato 
  65 - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe 
  66 - Dreamland by Edgar Allan Poe 
  67 - The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe 
  68 - Sonnet - Silence by Edgar Allan Poe 
  69 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe 
  70 - Luke Havergal by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  71 - Mr Flood's Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  72 - The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  73 - The Flying Dutchman by Edwin Arlington Robinson 
  74 - In No

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