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  Christmas Poetry and Hymn...

  Various Authors

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  This collection includes 40 different Christmas carols collected and read by Douglas D. Anderson, the creator of The Hymns and Carols of Christmas website, a public-domain collection of Christmas music containing over 2,600 hymns, carols and songs.

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  The Poetry of Hafiz

  Hafiz

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  Khw? ja Shams-ud-D?n Mu?ammad ??fe?-e Sh?r?z? is commonly known to us as Hafiz, the Persian poet who was born in Shiraz, Iran in either 1315 or 1317.  The facts of much of his early life are unknown to us but it is said that, at an early age, he memorized many passages of the Quran and was therefore given the title of Hafiz, which means 'the memorizer or the safe keeper.'  
   
  Hafiz mainly wrote lyric poetry or ghazals - an ideal form for expressing the ecstasy of the divine and the intoxicating mystical union with God.  He was also outspoken on society’s hypocrisy but was supported by patronage during his lifetime from the court of Abu Ishak and succeeding regimes until, towards the end of his life, when he resided at the Court of Timur, more usually known to us as Tamerlane, the conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in modern day Iran and Central Asia. 
   
  Certainly that support enabled Hafiz to devote himself to his writings. Surprisingly there is no definitive version of his collected works (or D?v?n); some editions run to a mere 573 poems others to just shy of a thousand.  However, their beauty and wordplay illuminate why Hafiz was admired so much throughout the Islamic world even during his own lifetime.  He remains one of the most celebrated of the Persian poets and his influence through poems, proverbs and, sayings can be felt to this day.  On various holidays, including 12th October in Iran, Hafiz Day is celebrated: Families will open his D?v?n at random and read aloud that poem, using it as a guide to what may happen next in their lives. 
   
  Hafiz died in 1390. His mausoleum, H?fezieh, is located in the Musalla Gardens in Shiraz.

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  Mary Stuart - Two Queens One Empire

  Friedrich von Schiller

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  Elizabeth I of England is threatened by the survival of her Catholic cousin, Mary Stuart. Wrestling with her own conscience, the Queen agonizes over Mary's fate, amidst fears for her own life. Court intrigue has never been more gripping than in this "acute study in the art of double-dealing politics." (The New York Times)
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Sheelagh Cullen, Kenneth Danziger, Seamus Dever, Jill Gascoine, Matt Gaydos, Martin Jarvis, Alex Kingston, Christopher Neame, Alan Shearman, W. Morgan Sheppard and Simon Templeman.
  A new translation by Peter Oswald.
  
  (P)2007 L.A. Theater Works

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  Whiteout - Poems

  George Murray

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  Named after the surface condition in which no object casts a shadow, the horizon cannot be seen, and only dark objects are discernible, this collection of poems explores how accidental voyeurism can force reconsideration and reconciliation. The featured pieces delve into the concept of daily life's heavy weather, illustrating how it establishes measure and how the predatory nature of the accidental conjures unexpected things. This sixth compilation, a decade in the making, is at once taut, tender, and terrifying, shattering convention in the collision of order and rage, formlessness and hard-won serenity.

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  We Anchor in Hope (NHB Modern...

  Anna Jordan

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  "This is a locals pub. And what's the problem with locals?
  They die."
  "Inconsiderate bastards."
  All over London public houses become private flats. Tomorrow The Anchor closes for good. It's the end of an era, but Kenny and the gang are going out with a bang. There's a blow-up sheep, karaoke and a lot of Campari. There's secrets and grudges and forgotten dreams. As the front doors are locked and the bar is drunk dry, there's a lot more to lose than just a pub.
  Anna Jordan's play We Anchor in Hope was premiered at The Bunker, London, in September 2019.

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  Canopy - Poems

  Linda Gregerson

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  A long-awaited yet startlingly urgent new collection from “a contemporary master”*—a fierce, big-hearted eye on our last, tumultuous decade, and our fragile environment *Los Angeles Review of Books Linda Gregerson’s long-awaited new collection is a tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the radical fragility of the planet and, ultimately, the endless astonishment and paradox of being human within the larger ecosystem, “in a world where every breath I take is luck.” From the Syrian refugee and ecological crises, to police brutality and COVID, to the Global Seed Vault buried under permafrost, the poems ask: How does consciousness relate to the individual body, the individual to the communal, the community to our environment? How do we mourn a loved one, and how do we mourn strangers? The magnificent poems in Canopy catalogue and reckon with humanity and the natural world, mortality, rage, love, grief, and survival.

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