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  How to Tame a Wild Tempest

  Helle Gade

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  This new edition contains an award-winning collection of poems will draw you in with their beauty and elegance. Encourage self-reflection and help you on your journey to find yourself. Deeply felt and from the heart this collection showcases the authors immense talent as she celebrates the true emotions in each of us.

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  Homespun Mercies

  D. J. Hill

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  “My aunt once told me she dreamed her house/ Had a secret room, one which held everything/ She loved most,” poet DJ Hill writes. This debut collection throws open a door to the “secret room” all of us keep inside ourselves. Hill examines “what life requires” of us, along with the ways real lives work, in an arresting juxtaposition of visual art and poetry. The result is honest, joyful, and direct, but make no mistake: Hill also has an edge. Like the poem “Slip” where a woman plans her life exhaustively only to drive to work and realize she’s forgotten to put on her dress, these poems are revealing, humorous, and wise about the complexities and contradictions of human hearts.— Katrina Vandenberg, author of The Alphabet Not Unlike the World and Atlas

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  Premonition - Selected poems by...

  Plamen Sivov

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  Plamen Sivov was born in Bulgaria in 1970. He is a recognised singer-songwriter, poet and journalist, holding a number of national poetry awards and recognitions. His poetry has been translated in English, Russian and Polish. This book presents 17 of his poems, translated by Diana Stefanova. 
  Sivov manages to convey the singularity of an individual experience, while giving it universal resonance and scope, so that it speaks to the Everyday Man, with poetry that has the savage, unforgiving beauty of Nature. Sivov is cataclysmic, demolishing and cathartic - in equal measure! If you are brave enough to withstand the impact of his writing, you will emerge from the experience slightly bloodied, perhaps, but measurably revitalized, enriched – and, dare we hope - more humane.  
  The bard, whose words wound and transform the way faith does ("God's fingernail, scratching at the human soul," as Anthony Hopkins once put it), has allowed us to search and examine our own inner darkness and light. And Sivov's poetic country, unfolding from pages filled with exquisite, striking imagery, ripe with purpose and meaning, bestows upon its visitor a rare gift: the choice to earn his or her permanent passport to the Soul's awakening.  
  Diana Stefanova, translator

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  Kevin Goes to Japan 2 - Stories...

  Miwako Kiritani

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  "Kevin Goes to Japan 2 Stories for Japanese Learners JLPT N5 to N3" is the sequel of my first book as well as Japanese learning materials, "Kevin Goes to Japan 1". This one also comes with 495 sample reading comprehension questions of JLPT from N5 to N3. These questions are from the story, including what each character thinks/feels. You can understand deeply about the story via reading comprehension. For N3 level questions, the last reading comprehensions are more like articles explaining Japanese culture and languages. 
  Besides, I used more complex words and expressions than in Kevin 1 as a Japanese light novel. You can enjoy love romance stories weaved by Kevin, Yumiko, Yukio, and Tomoko on Valentine's and White Day that is the original even related to Valentine's Day. Regardless of age, Japanese Valentine's Day is one of the most significant events of the year. Yukio and Kevin are pretty thrilled about whether they can get chocolate from Yumiko and Tomoko or not, but......? I hope you enjoy reading Kevin 2 as a bilingual love romance novel as well! 
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  1. Next Week and This Week  
  2. Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds  
  3. It's a Shame for a Man Not To Eat  
  4. Two-Shot Photos  
  5. An Ideal Lover  
  6. Didn't Connect Next Move?  
  7. Kevin's Vain Struggle  
  8. Thousand and Ten Thousand  
  9. St. Valentine's Day  
  10. The Chocolates with Love and the Friendship Chocolates  
  11. Did You Make the Next Move?

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  You can’t bury them all

  Patrick Woodcock

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  Patrick Woodcock has spent the past seven years engaging with and being shaped by the people, politics, and landscapes of the Kurdish north of Iraq, Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories, and Azerbaijan. His powerful new collection offers a poetry that simultaneously explores hope and horror while documenting the transformative processes of coping. You can’t bury them all follows the narratives we construct to survive the tragic failures of our humanity to their very end: everything that’s buried by snow, dirt, and ash, just like everything that’s buried by politics, homophobia, sexism, racism, religion, and history is resurrected, demanding to be heard and addressed.
   
  In Woodcock’s poetry, how we deal with what resurfaces is the key. What do those who suffer really mean to those who have abandoned them to small, conscience-soothing charitable donations or the occasional tweet? How can the poet, or anyone else, sleep at night knowing homosexuals are being thrown off building tops, after one steps into a hole and finds an abandoned corpse in an Azeri cemetery, or after the elders of an Aboriginal community are left helpless against those who only want to exploit them? Still, You can’t bury them all demonstrates that the world is not just the horrific place the media often portrays. In each of the worlds he touches, Woodcock discovers a spirit and strength to celebrate.

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  Dynamics of Distancing in...

  Nadia Anwar

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  Nadia Anwar presents a compelling reading framework for the study and analysis of selected post-independence Nigerian dramas, using the conceptual parameters of metatheatre, a theatrical strategy which foregrounds the process of play-making by breaking the dramatic illusion. She argues that distancing, as a function of metatheatre, creates a balanced theatrical experience and environment in terms of the emotive and cognitive levels of reception of a particular performance. 
  
  Anwar's book is the first in-depth study of the concept of metatheatre with reference to Nigerian drama including Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman (1975) and King Baabu (2002), Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi (1971) and Hopes of the Living Dead (1988), Femi Osofisan's The Chattering and the Song (1977) and Women of Owu (2006), Esiaba Irobi's Hangmen Also Die (1989), and Stella 'Dia Oyedepo's A Play That Was Never to Be (1998). 
  
  The perspectives of Bertolt Brecht (1936), Thomas J. Scheff (1963), and other theoreticians of dramatic distancing and metatheatre are used in the analyses and, where required, challenged through appropriate contextual and theoretical adjustments. 
  
  The book is the first attempt to illustrate how Brechtian approach to the display and generation of emotions can be revised through Scheff's model of emotional balance.

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