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  The Rake

  Tristram Fane Saunders

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  Tristram Fane Saunders lives in London and works as a journalist. The Rake lives in lavish squalor and has never worked in his life. Laura lives nowhere – she's dead, for now – but she is working on a way to solve that problem.
  These sly, untrustworthy poems tell the story of a nameless, ageless dandy – his slow decline, and his well-deserved fall. Take a ride in the Rake's carriage, but keep an eye on your purse.

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  The Poetry of Edna St Vincent...

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

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  Elinor Morton Hoyt was born on 7th September, 1885 in Somerville, New Jersey and from age 12 grew up in Washington D C where her father served as assistant attorney general and later solicitor general.  Her early education together with her renowned beauty suggests she was being trained for life as a debutante but her life quickly found another route as she became absorbed in the world of books. 
   
  An early marriage following her graduation ended when, after being pursued by Horace Wylie, 17 years her senior and a married Washington lawyer with three children, she eloped to England with him.  His wife would not divorce him and the subsequent scandal was widely publicised further fueled by the suicide in 1912 of her abandoned husband. 
   
  With Wylie's encouragement she published in 1912, ‘Incidental Number’, assembled from poems of the previous decade. 
   
  Despite a child from her first marriage Elinor subsequently endured miscarriages, a stillbirth and a premature child who lived for only one week.  When Wylie’s deserted wife agreed to a divorce, the couple returned to the United States and married but they were already drawing apart. 
   
  In 1921, Elinor’s ‘Nets to Catch the Wind’, was published. It was an immediate success and a prize-winner.  In New York’s literary circles she found her next husband who acted as her agent – the poer William Rose Benét, brother of the famed Stephen. They married in 1923 and that same year ‘Black Armor’, was published. The New York Times said "There is not a misplaced word or cadence in it."  She also published her first of four novels, ‘Jennifer Lom’, to excellent reviews. 
   
  She worked for a time as the poetry editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of Literary Guild, and a contributing editor of The New Republic.  Her third book of poetry, ‘Trivial Breath’ arrived in 1928 as did the failure of her marriage with Benét.  
   
  She moved again to England and fell in love with a friend’s husband, to whom she wrote, and later published a series of 19 sonnets; ‘Angels and Earthly Creatures’. 
   
  Elinor Wylie suffered high blood pressure all her adult life and this eventually led to her death at Benet’s New York apartment on 16th December, 1928 where she suffered a stroke. She was 43. 
   
  1 - The Poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay - An Introduction 
  2 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  3 - Dirge Without Music by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  4 - Renascence by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  5 - If Still Your Orchards Bear by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  6 - My Heart Being Hungry by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  7 - First Fig by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  8 - Feast by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  9 - Second Fig by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  10 - No Rose That in a Garden Ever Grew by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  11 - Three Songs of Shattering by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  12 - Rosemary by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  13 - I Too Beneath Your Moon by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  14 - Sonnet XLIII - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  15 - Sorrow by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  16 - Departure by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  17 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  18 - Journey by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  19 - Mist in the Valley by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  20 - Tavern by Edna St Vinent Millay 
  21 - Exiled by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  22 - A Visit to the Asylum by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  23 - Recuerdo by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  24 - The Philosopher by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  25 - Sonnet XXX -  Love is Not All by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  26 - Sonnet XVIII - I, Being Born a Woman by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  27 - The Betrothal by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  28 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Fa

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  Limbic Limbo - Dumpster Fire Poetry

  Rachel Rash

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  This collection of contemporary, free verse poetry was borne out of the 2020s. It was plucked from the dumpster fire and, like a lotus flower, blossomed out of the muck and mire. Rachel Rash is a contemporary American poet. Limbic Limbo is her first published anthology; consisting of ethereal, feminist, and abstract poems.

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  aka bpNichol - A Preliminary...

  Frank Davey

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  Reflecting on the career of a prominent poet, this biography focuses on Canadian wordsmith Barrie Nichol — more commonly known by his pen name, bpNichol — who was a practicing lay psychoanalyst and vice president of one the largest and long-lasting North American communes for more than a decade. Recognizing his international influence as both a visual and sound poet, Nichol's literary achievements are reviewed, including The Martyrology, a renowned, seven-volume poem, four novels, two musical comedies, six children's books, hundreds of hand-drawn visual poems, and even 10 episodes of Jim Henson's hit television series Fraggle Rock. Penned by one of Nichol's numerous literary collaborators, this account reveals the close connections among the writer's various activities, particularly how the autobiographical inquiries and Freudian dream theory linked with the young poet's biographical self-awareness. The book demonstrates how the Subject's main psychoanalytic client was his own writing, following Nichol as he explored its slips, accidental puns, and unintended meanings and implications for the communal future of the human species, both in high literature and comical prime time television.

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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― The Stars - 12...

  John Keats, A E Housman, James...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - The Stars - An Introduction 
  2 - Bright Star by John Keats 
  3 - Sonnet 14 - Not From the Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck by William Shakespeare 
  4 - Falling Stars by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  5 - Stars by A E Housman 
  6 - Evening Star by Edgar Allan Poe 
  7 - From Sunset to Star Rise by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  8 - Stars by Sara Teasdale 
  9 - The Light of Stars by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  10 - Places Among the Stars by Stephen Crane 
  11 - Star of Ethiopia by Lucian B Watkins 
  12 - When the Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven by James Joyce 
  13 - Hymn To The North Star by William Cullen Bryant

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  Othello

  William Shakespeare

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  Othello is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the short story "Moor of Venice" by Cinthio, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio, and his trusted advisor Iago. Attesting to its enduring popularity, the play appeared in 7 editions between 1622 and 1705. Because of its varied themes — racism, love, jealousy and betrayal — it remains relevant to the present day and is often performed in professional and community theatres alike. The play has also been the basis for numerous operatic, film and literary adaptations.
  Othello, suspicious and jealous military general, listened to a malicious gossip from his secret hater Iago and now believes that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful. Passionate nature of the Moor can't bear the shame and in a burst of temper he kills the innocent Desdemona…
  Among the most significant works William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Orpheus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, The Tempest, Venus and Adonis, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale and many more.

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