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  Catastrophic Molting

  Amy Shimshon-Santo

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  CATASTROPHIC MOLTING (FlowerSong Press) Amy Shimshon-Santo uses the tools of language to remind readers there is power in repudiation, comfort in collective mourning, and possibility in reimagining. The book title is inspired by the molting ritual of sea elephants (Mirounga Angustirostris) along the California coast. The mirounga rest together on the shore as social protection from violence when they are the most vulnerable. Only through these periods of dramatic change can they grow sleek new coats. The book’s journey begins with “Contagion,” revealing a world split in half like a calabash by a virus. “Beating, trembling,” a woman pleads for mercy while the poems confront the liminality of profound change. “A new cycle had begun / I would never be the same again.” The second section, Sangue, gives voice to mourning and rage. “when you murder the future of music / you are conjuring extinction.” Dysfunction on planet Earth reverberates from the street into the expansive galaxy. Refusing to normalize violence, the poet gathers war inside her own body to detonate it, then blows “tsunami-wind / to rattle clear the desks.” With the verve of Oya, the goddess of ancestral and radical change, the book claims ground for empathy and inter-being. The collection asks readers to imagine: “what if we were a part of a whole / that loved us without ceasing?” Catastrophic Molting breaks from inertia and seeks new ground. Our “foremothers greet the unborn” and are “betrothed to a story that doesn’t wish us dead.” Shimshon-Santo suggests that “stepping off might actually be, stepping in / turning away might actually be, turning toward.”

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  The Complete Poetical Works of...

  John John

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  John Milton was a poet of many interests and he wrote on various topics, but he was the most famous for his poems on Christian themes. His poetic style was a highly influential poetic structure and his influence is largely grounded in his later poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. 
  Contents: 
  Introduction
  Paradise Lost 
  Paradise Regain'd     
  Samson Agonistes      
  Of That Sort of Dramatic Poem Which Is Call'd Tragedy  
  The Argument  
  The Scene Before the Prison in Gaza  
  On Time  
  Miscellaneous Poems: 
  On the Morning of Christs Nativity   
  The Passion   
  On Time   
  Upon the Circumcision   
  At a Solemn Musick   
  An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester   
  Song on May Morning   
  On Shakespear. 1630   
  On the University Carrier Who Sickn'd in the Time of His Vacancy, Being Forbid to Go to London, by Reason of the Plague   
  Another on the Same   
  L'allegro   
  Il Penseroso   
  Sonnets   
  Arcades   
  Lycidas   
  A Mask Presented at Ludlow-castle, 1634. &c.    
  On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough   
  At a Vacation Exercise in the Colledge   
  The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I.   
  Sonnets:
  On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament   
  On the Lord Gen. Fairfax at the Seige of Colchester   
  To the Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652   
  To Sr Henry Vane the Younger   
  To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness.   
  Psalms:
  Psal. I. Done Into Verse, 1653   
  Psal. II Done Aug. 8. 1653. Terzetti.   
  Psal. III. Aug. 9. 1653   
  Psal. IV. Aug. 10.1653   
  Psal. V. Aug. 12.1653   
  Psal. VI Aug. 13. 1653   
  Psal. VII. Aug. 14. 1653   
  Psal. VIII. Aug. 14. 1653   
  Psal. LXX 
  Psal. LXXXI  
  Psal. LXXXII   
  Psal. LXXXIV   
  Psal  LXXXV  
  Psal. LXXXVI   
  Psal. LXXXVII  
  Psal. LXXXVIII 
  Prose Writings:
  From of Reformation in England, 1641   
  From Reason of Church Government, 1641   
  From Apology for Smectymnuus, 1642   
  From Areopagitica, 1644   
  From Tetrachordon, 1645   
  From the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, 1649   
  From History of Britain, 1670

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  Saying Yes (NHB Modern Plays)

  Griselda Gambaro

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  A short play by a leading Argentine playwright, telling the shocking story of an everyday trip to the hairdressers.
  Taken from the collection, Latin American Plays, an essential introduction to the fascinating but largely unexplored theatre of Latin America, Saying Yes by Griselda Gambaro is a grotesque comedy about man's inhumanity to man.
  The full collection features new translations of five contemporary plays written by some of the region's most exciting writers. Each play is accompanied by an illuminating interview with its author conducted by the theatre director, Sebastian Doggart, who has also selected and translated the plays and provided an introductory history of Latin American drama.
  The collection also includes:
  Rappaccini's Daughter by Octavio Paz
  A play by the Mexican Nobel laureate.
  Night of the Assassins by José Triana
  A controversial Cuban play in which three siblings plot the murder of their parents.
  Orchids in the Moonlight by Carlos Fuentes
  A dream play about two Mexican women exiled in Hollywood's maze of mirrors.
  Mistress of Desires by Mario Vargas Llosa
  Peru's most acclaimed writer interweaves reality and fantasy in an erotically charged tale.

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  Seamus Heaney II Collected Poems...

  Seamus Heaney

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  Volume Two of the definitive collection of Seamus Heaney reading his own work, recorded in 2009 by RTE. Volume Two contains four collections published between 1979 and 1991: Field Work, Station Island, The Haw Lantern and Seeing Things.

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  Unexhausted Time

  Emily Berry

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  Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us 'like soft rain', and all the elements are brought closer in.
  
  Feelings, messages, symbols, visions . . . Emily Berry's latest collection takes shape in the half-light between the real and the imagined, where everything is lost and yet 'nothing goes away'. Here life's innumerable impressions, moods, seasons and déjà vus collect and disarrange themselves, while a glowing, companionable 'I' travels the mind's landscapes in hope of refuge and transformation amid these displaced moments in time. Whether one reads Unexhausted Time as a long poem to step into or a series of titled and untitled fragments to pick up and cherish, the work is healing and inspiring, always asking how we might harness the power of naming without losing life's 'magic unknownness'. By offering these intangible encounters, Emily Berry more truly presents 'what being alive is'.
  
  'Emily Berry has a refreshingly free, not to say incendiary, approach to poetry.' Observer

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  Selections from Ballads of a...

  Robert W. Service

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  These twelve poems are taken from Ballads of a Cheechako which was Robert W. Service's third book of Yukon poems, published in 1909. The word Cheechako, from Chinook Jargon, originated in the United States (Alaska) and Canada (Yukon) and was imported into local English during the Yukon gold rush that began in 1896. Cheechako, is a non derogatory word meaning "newcomer" or "tenderfoot." The derivation looks something like this: chee new cha come ko home. (summary by Heidi Preuss)

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