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“eric langley”

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  • Raking Light

    by Eric Langley ...
    A debut poetry collection exploring language, loss, and the art of perception. Eric Langley's Raking Light draws inspiration from art conservation, using oblique light to reveal hidden textures and abandoned intentions. These poems delve into miscommunication, lost meanings, and the uncertainties of human interaction, testing the efficacy and authenticity of language itself.Attentive to resonance ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare's Contagious Sympathies

    Ill Communications

    by Eric Langley ...
    Understanding the early-modern subject to be constituted, as Shakespeare's Ulysses explains, by its communications with others, this study considers what happens when these conceptions of compassionate communication and sympathetic exchange are comprehensively undermined by period anxieties concerning contagion and the transmission of disease. Allowing that 'no man is . . . any thing' until he has ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Narcissism and Suicide in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

    by Eric Langley ...
    The subjects of this book are the subjects whose subjects are themselves.Narcissus so himself himself forsook,And died to kiss his shadow in the brook.In accusing the introspective Adonis of narcissistic self-absorption, Shakespeare's Venus employs a geminative construction - 'himself himself' - that provides a keynote for this study of Renaissance reflexive subjectivity. Through close analysis of ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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  • Woods etc.

    by Alice Oswald ...
    Woods etc. is Alice Oswald's third collection of poems, and follows the success of her widely acclaimed river-poem Dart, which was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Extending the concerns of Dart and written over a period of several years, these poems combine abrupt honesty with an exuberant rhetorical confidence, at times recalling the oral and anonymous tradition with which they share such ... Read more

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  • Interferon Psalms

    by Luke Davies ...
    The ravaging effects of illness, the breakup of a relationship and the disturbing nature of relocation. These are the subjects under award-winning Luke Davies' meditative eye. Luke Davies' Totem was a grand love poem, a hymn to life; Interferon Psalms is a song of the brutality of time, a song of death, yet equally as beautiful. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Airstream Land Yacht

    by Ken Babstock ...
    In his brilliant third collection, award-winning and critically-acclaimed poet Ken Babstock finds momentary stays against our gathering darknesses in the irrepressible, acrobatic, free play of the mind. Poems of conscience collide with the problems of consciousness, the concrete and the conceptual find equal footing, and formal beauty mixes with imagistic brinksmanship as the speaker attempts to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 6-Letter Word Puzzles

    Maintain Your Brain, #17

    by Ted Summerfield ...
    Series Book 17 - Maintain Your Brain
    Maintain your brain with these 320 fun ways to test your vocabulary knowledge and perhaps discover new words.You are given a word like CARPORT or a series of words like DONALD DUCK, and you make as many 6-letter words as you can from that word or series of words using each letter only once.Sound simple? Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.Great fun and a great way to maintain your brain. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marston Meadows

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    by John Fuller ...
    A walk is like a knot that gets undone,And yet it keeps us closer.In Marston Meadows, John Fuller celebrates the rewards of a life lived in rich attentiveness to the world. The book opens with the extraordinary title sequence, a corona of fifteen intertwining sonnets written for the poet’s wife on their diamond wedding anniversary. At once magisterial and delicate, they build into a moving ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems David Harsent

    by David Harsent ...
    In an illustrious career, David Harsent has published eight collections of poetry, from A Violent County in 1969, to Legion, winner of the Forward Prize in 2005. This selection, made by the author himself, draws upon the full arc of his career and offers an outstanding concentration of, and introduction to, the full range and powers of this distinguished poet. ... Read more

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  • In Secret

    Versions of Yannis Ritsos

    by David Harsent, Yannis Ritsos ...
    The Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation for the Winter Quarter, 2012.Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990) is one of Greece's finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. Louis Aragon called him 'the greatest poet of our age'. He wrote in the face of ill health, personal tragedy and the systematic persecution by successive hard-line, right-wing regimes that led to ... Read more

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