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  Dream Drawings - Configurations...

  N. Scott Momaday

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  “Momaday must be ranked among the greatest of our contemporary writers.”—American Scholar 
  From Pulitzer Prize winner and revered literary master N. Scott Momaday, a beautiful and enchanting new poetry collection, at once a celebration of language, imagination, and the human spirit. 
  “Language and the imagination work hand in hand, and together they enable us to reveal us to ourselves in story. That is indeed a magical process. . . . We imagine and we dream, and we translate our dreams into language.” —from the Preface 
  A singular voice in American letters, Momaday’s love of language and storytelling are on full display in this brilliant new collection comprising one hundred sketches or “dream drawings”—furnishings of the mind—as he calls them. Influenced by his Native American heritage and its oral storytelling traditions, here are prose poems about nature, animals, warriors, and hunters, as well as meditations that explore themes of love, loss, time, and memory. Each piece, full of wisdom and wonder, showcases Momaday’s extraordinary lyrical talent, the breadth of his imagination, and the transformative power of his writing.  
  Poignant, inspired, and timeless, this is a collection that will nourish the soul.

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  Early Poetry of Conrad Aiken -...

  Conrad Aiken

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  In Charnel Rose, Conrad Aiken takes the plunge into a deeply metaphysical and surrealistic world, capturing the essence of one aspect of quintessential humanity: how we create and pursue a deeply personal, intensely idealistic, physically and emotionally draining search for love, and how some of us turn away from real love when we do find it, preferring instead to re-invent and re-amplify our idealistic vision of passionate perfection. He does this through an amazing combination of highly imaginative imagery conveyed through strikingly simple and beautiful poetry, musically complex and intensely rhythmic without empty literary gesture or hollow convention.The first part of the book is "Senlin," a study of the complex reality of a man who is part stonemason, part philosopher, and possibly part ancient deity.The second part of the book is "Variations," short, intense poems that ring the changes on intimate relationships.The third and last part of the book is "Charnel Rose," from which the book takes its name; this explores the passions and self-delusions we all go through in the name of love.Enjoy!

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  Moments of Vision and...

  Thomas Hardy

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  Hardy claimed poetry as his first love, and published collections until his death in 1928. Although not as well received by his contemporaries as his novels, Hardy's poetry has been applauded considerably in recent years. Most of his poems deal with themes of disappointment in love and life, and mankind's long struggle against indifference to human suffering. (Summary from Wikipedia).

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  The Poetry of November

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,...

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  NOVEMBER – The eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar; the land becomes bleaker, harsher but no less beautiful for that.  For our poets, including Hood, Arnold, Melville, Alford and Hardy there is much to write and comment on.  Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; November - An Introduction; A November Note By Alfred Austin; The Going Of The Battery (Wives Lament November 2nd 1899) By Thomas Hardy; November Findings, November 1862 By Janet Hamilton; Duponts Round Fight (November 1861) By Herman Melville; November By John Keble; In November By Archibald Lampman; In November (2) By Archibald Lampman; November Days In Ireland By Alice Guerin Crist; In November By Phillip Henry Savage; November By John Clare; November 1806 By William Wordsworth; November 1813 By William Wordsworth; A Calendar Of Sonnets - November By Helen Hunt Jackson; November 1847 By Henry Alford; Rugby Chapel, November 1857 By Matthew Arnold; November By Thomas Hood; A Thought On Death, November 1814 By Anna Laetitia Barbauld; On The Death Of Princess Borghese, At Rome, November 1840 By Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton; November By William Cullen Bryant; November Song By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; November By Amy Lowell; To A Robin In November By William Wilfred Campbell; November Blind By Phillip Henry Savage; A November Night By Sara Teasdale; November By John Payne; At Day Close In November By Thomas Hardy.

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  Dracula (dramatic reading)

  Bram Stoker

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  Bram Stoker did not invent the vampire story, but he popularized it with his classic 1897 novel.  In form Dracula is an epistolary novel, told through a series of journal entries, letters, newspaper articles, and telegrams.  It begins with lawyer Jonathan Harker's perilous journey to Castle Dracula in Transylvania, and chronicles the vampire's invasion of England, where he preys upon the lovely Lucy Westenra and Harker's fiancee, Mina.  Harker and Mina join forces with lunatic asylum proprieter Dr. Seward, Lucy's fiance Arthur Holmwood, Texas man of action Quincey Morris, and Dutch vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing to try and defeat their powerful adversary.  (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)Cast: 
  Jonathan Harker: mbMina Murray Harker: Elizabeth KlettLucy Westenra: Arielle LipshawDr. Seward: Denny SayersQuincey P. Morris: Eric ZetterlundArthur Holmwood: Brett W. DowneyCutting from The Dailygraph: Kara ShallenbergLog of the Demeter: Chuck BurkeSamuel F. Billington & Son: Katalina WattCarter, Patterson & Co: Robert B.Sister Agatha: AvailleAbraham Van Helsing: RismythThe Pall Mall Gazette: Lucy PerryPatrick Hennessey: Dee WyckoffThe Westminster Gazette: David LawrenceMitchell, Sons, & Candy: Robert B.Rufus Smith Telegrams: Nadine Eckert-BouletAudio edited by: Elizabeth Klett

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  Main Street and Other Poems

  Joyce Kilmer

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  This is a book of poems by Joyce Kilmer. It includes several of his religious poems and poems about World War I, in which the author himself lost his life in 1918. - Summary by Carolin

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