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  Chasing Down the Dawn - Stories...

  Jewel

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  AIready a legendary performer in the music industry, Jewel has been writing poetry, short stories, and prose since she was young. She's also a bestselling author, poet, and actress. Now this uniquely talented artist opens the pages of her most intimate journals to give readers, fans, and friends a glimpse of her magical, turbulent life.Drawn from life on the road during her Spirit World Tour, Jewel captures unforgettable moments from her childhood in Alaska, her beginnings as a struggling artist, and her challenges as a daughter, sister, and woman. With acutely observed, eloquent depictions of the musicians, lovers, bikers, strangers, celebrities, and characters that inhabit her world -- and illustrated throughout with candid, never-before-seen photos of Jewel and her own photojournalism and drawings -- Chasing Down the Dawn is more than a collection of vignettes, observations, and stories. It is a finely wrought mosaic in prose and poetry, set to the rhythms of life.

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  The Poetry of Alan Seeger -...

  Alan Seeger

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  Alan Seeger was born on 22nd June 1888 in New York.  When he was one the family moved to Staten Island and nine years later onwards to Mexico for two years.   
   
  After attending several elite preparatory schools he enrolled at Harvard in 1906, where he also edited and wrote for the Harvard Monthly. 
   
  He graduated in 1910 and went to live the life of a bohemian in New York’s Greenwich Village, and thereafter moved to Paris to continue his poetry writing in the Latin quarter.  
   
  War’s looming dark shadow was to have a transformative effect on the young poet and on 24th August 24th 1914 he joined the French Foreign Legion so he could fight for the Allies. 
   
  On American Independence day, 4th July 1917 whilst urging on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge at Belloy-en-Santerre he was hit several times by machine gun fire and died. 
   
  His poetry was published posthumously later that year, it although not a great success his poem ‘I Have a Rendezvous with Death . . .’ is now regarded as a classic. 
   
  On the sixth anniversary of his death a memorial to the American volunteers was unveiled in the Place des Etats-Unis.   
   
  The memorial was created by Jean Boucher who had used a photograph of Seeger as his inspiration.   
   
  Also inscribed upon it are Seeger’s moving words: “They did not pursue worldly rewards; they wanted nothing more than to live without regret, brothers pledged to the honour implicit in living one's own life and dying one's own death. Hail, brothers! Goodbye to you, the exalted dead! To you, we owe two debts of gratitude forever: the glory of having died for France, and the homage due to you in our memories.” 
  1 - The Poetry of Alan Seeger - An Introduction 
  2 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger 
  3 - Resurgam by Alan Seeger 
  4 - The Hosts by Alan Seeger 
  5 - Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France by Alan Seeger 
  6 - Maktoob by Alan Seeger 
  7 - On a Theme in the Greek Anthology by Alan Seeger 
  8 - Sonnet I by Alan Seeger 
  9 - Sonnet 3 by Alan Seeger 
  10 - Sonnet 5 by Alan Seeger 
  11 - Sonnet 6 by Alan Seeger 
  12 - Sonnet 8 by Alan Seeger 
  13 - Sonnet 10 by Alan Seeger 
  14 - Sonnet 11 by Alan Seeger 
  15 - Sonnet 12 by Alan Seeger 
  16 - Sonnet 14 by Alan Seeger 
  17 - With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College by Alan Seeger 
  18 - Juvenilia, An Ode to Natural Beauty by Alan Seeger 
  19 - Tezcotzinco by Alan Seeger 
  20 - On The Cliffs Newport by Alan Seeger 
  21 - Do You Remember by Alan Seeger 
  22 - All Thats Not Love by Alan Seeger 
  23 - I Loved.... by Alan Seeger 
  24 - Fragments by Alan Seeger 
  25 - The Need To Love by Alan Seeger 
  26 - Champagne 1914-1915 by Alan Seeger 
  27 - Paris by Alan Seeger 
  28 - Introduction and Conclusion of a Long Poem by Alan Seeger

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  Mouthpiece

  Norah Sadava, Amy Nostbakken

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  Winner of the 2017 Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Canadian PlayWinner of three Dora Mavor Moore AwardsStage Award for Best Performance, 2017 Edinburgh Festival FringeMouthpiece follows one woman, for one day, as she tries to find her voice. Two performers express the inner conflict that exists within a modern woman's head: the push and pull, the past and the present, the progress and the regression. Interweaving a cappella harmony, dissonance, text, and physicality, Mouthpiece is a harrowing, humorous, and heart-wrenching journey into the female psyche.

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  Crestfall (NHB Modern Plays)

  Mark O'Rowe

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  Three women trapped between nightmares and waking. Crestfall is a play so dark that all but the tiniest glimmer of light has been extinguished.
  Published in the volume Mark O'Rowe Plays: One

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  The Milk Hours - Poems

  John James

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  Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize: A “luminous [and] memorable” debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state of loss (Publishers Weekly). “We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery.” So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed histories. Like a cemetery, too, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami, Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations, which never stray far from an engagement with science, geography, art, and aesthetics, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant investigations. While John James begins with the biographical—the haunting loss of a father in childhood, the exhausted hours of early fatherhood—the questions that emerge from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: What is it to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live in a time of political and environmental upheaval, of both personal and public loss? How do we make meaning, and to whom—or what—do we turn, when such boundaries so radically collapse? “A poet of staggering lyricism, intricate without ever obscuring his intent. Quite simply, The Milk Hours announces the arrival of a great new talent in American poetry.” —Shelf Awareness

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  I Married an Ex-Wise Guy

  Selia Sunshine

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  The book is written in a series of memory lane vignettes depicting memories of Selia’s life with an ex-wise guy. The book starts at the end of the story and through the vignettes of the ups and downs of living with him and how a person’s past can follow them wherever they go. The story ends where it started. The love story between the couple who met late in life is dramatic and quite heated. The depiction of how hospice helped Selia through her husband’s dying process was a dramatic life-learning situation.

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