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  Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip

  Lisa Robertson

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  Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995–2007. Collected by Elisa Sampedrin.
   
  Lisa Robertson writes poems that mine the past – its ideas, its personages, its syntax – to construct a lexicon of the future. Her poems both court and cuckold subjectivity by unmasking its fundament of sex and hesitancy, the coil of doubt in its certitude. Reading her laments and utopias, we realize that language – whiplike – casts ahead of itself a fortuitous form. The form brims here pleasurably with dogs, movie stars, broths, painting's detritus, Latin and pillage. Erudite and startling, the poems in Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip, occasional works written over the past fifteen years, turn vestige into architecture, chagrin into resplendence. In them, we recognize our grand, saddened century.
   
  'Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry couldturn swooning into a critical gesture.'
   
  – The Village Voice
   
  'Here as in six earlier glittering books, Robertson proves hard to explain but easy to enjoy ... Dauntlessly and resourcefully intellectual, Robertson can also be playful or blunt ... Though she wields ... language expertly, even beautifully, she also shows an almost pagan delight in embodiment.'
   
  – New York Times
   
  'Robertson is one of our most crisply intelligent writers, and the poems and prose pieces in Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip ... continually knock readers off their conventional responses, asking that they follow the curlicues of thought-in-motion the writing displays.'
   
  – Canadian Literature
   
  'Magenta Soul Whip manages to exist in a universe of its own making, in which Baudelaire and Lucretius both make appearances, as do Jesus Christ and the adulteress he saved from stoning, a conversational dog, and contemporary Canadian visual artist Lucy Hogg. The book teaches us how to read it as it unfolds for us page by page.'
   
  – Jerry Magazine
   
  '[Robertson's] preoccupations are as much lyrical and communicative … as they are intellectual.'
   
  – Quill & Quire

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  #Wuhan2 - Empowering poems and...

  Sophia Behal

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  The book is the second part of #Wuhan. It is called #Wuhan2 and it deals with feelings the pandemic might invoke. Most certainly are all of us scared from an epidemy. Find some alarming and soothing words in this book of poetry.

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  Favourite Scenes From Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare

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  In 2012, the World Shakespeare Festival surveyed Britons as to their favourite plays by Shakespeare.  This collection consists of 21 scenes from the most popular plays written by arguably the greatest writer in the English language, possibly any language.  It is an homage to the Bard in celebration of the 400th anniversary of his death in 1616 -- the Shakespeare Quadricentennial. - Summary by John Burlinson Roles performed by: Beth Thomas, Michele Eaton, Sonia, Tony Addison and John BurlinsonEditing done mainly by Michele Eaton and John Burlinson

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  I Smile When It Hurts & Other Poems

  Denise Moyo

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  This is a collection of 61 poems that were selected from poetry books written by Denise Moyo. The poems read are from books titled This Love is Like the Gitmo: Poems from My Spirit, No Longer Prodigal: A Collection Of Poetry, Pregnant with Words; A Collection of Poetry and Out of the Water: A Collection of Poetry. The audiobook is divided into 11 chapters. The poems presented address a variety of topics to include God, fear, shame, emotional pain, trauma and relationships. The poems are meant to encourage conversations and reflection regarding challenging life experiences to allow for growth, resilience and healing. Denise Moyo presents her poems in a way that is transformative.

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  Beowulf

  Francis Barton Gummere

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  The great drinking hall, Heorot, provides merriment for warriors and wenches alike. But it provokes only avenging rage from swamp creature Grendel. Now, in sixth-century Denmark’s darkest hour, a light of hope comes in the warrior Beowulf of the Geats. With his quest to defeat Grendel and his vengeful demon mother, Beowulf embarks on a journey from the murky lagoon to the throne of the Geats. 
  Beowulf, the Old English epic poem published anonymously centuries ago, remains one of the most influential pieces of English literature, inspiring generations of writers from J. R. R. Tolkien to George R. R. Martin.

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  Solitude (Wilcox)

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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  Laugh, and the world laughs with you;. . Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,. . But has trouble enough of its own.Librivox volunteers bring you sixteen readings of Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the weekly poetry project for November 2, 2014.

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