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vii, 82 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A rat climbs onto the desk of a bored office worker. A family dog never stops coming back to life. Every prisoner on earth is freed. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him. A baby is born transparent. James Tate's work, filled with unexpected turns and deadpan exaggeration, 'fanciful and grave, mundane and transcendent' (New York Times), has been among the most defining and significant of our time. In his last collection, written...
8) The prophet
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"Written in 1923 by philosopher Kahlil Gibran, and translated into more than forty languages, The Prophet is as enduring as it is popular. The short yet profound discourses on aspects of life and the human condition, including love, children, work, laws, pain and death, are ever more fitting as our daily lives become increasingly cluttered and chaotic. This beautiful collector's eidtion is illustrated throughout with stunning images which capture...
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American poets continuum volume 90
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It's a scientific fact that anyone entering the distance will grow smaller as he proceeds. Eventually becoming so small he might only be found with a microscope, if indeed he is found at all. But there is a vanishing point, where anyone having entered the distance must disappear entirely without hope of his ever returning, leaving only the memory of his ever having been. But then there is fiction, so that one can never really be sure if one is remembering...
10) El profeta
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Español
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"El Profeta" es una obra maestra literaria escrita por Khalil Gibran, un poeta, filósofo y artista libanés-estadounidense. La obra aborda una amplia gama de temas fundamentales de la vida, el amor, la espiritualidad y la naturaleza humana.
Cada ensayo en "El Profeta" está presentado en forma de un discurso pronunciado por Almustafá, el Profeta, quien comparte sus sabias reflexiones con los habitantes de la ciudad de Orfalese antes de partir....
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Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air is a collection of poems wealthy with the speaker's intimacy with nature and with the philosophical and spiritual insights that emerge from a deep practice of close observation. In a manner that is wonderfully relaxed and conversational, Jacobson's poems enter into the most venerable and perennial of our human questions.
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"New Bad News is a collection of smart, cynical micro-fictions about falling out of love with America's Hollywood dream. Its deadpan humor and ironic touches will ring especially true to Gen-X and X-ennial readers. There's an undeniable "cool factor" to the collection; it's the sort of book that dares the reader to get all its pop-culture references. NBN is organized into five sections: "Echo Park" is a Calvino-Prize-winning series of micro-fictions...
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xiii, 106 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"From Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday, a collection of 100 new prose poems, rooted in Native American oral tradition, along with 5-7 pieces of art by the author"--
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