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22) 77 love sonnets
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English
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When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 29, When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state' for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet...
24) On love
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216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us"--Amazon.com.
27) Blowout
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vi, 92 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"In Blowout, Denise Duhamel asks the same question that Frankie Lyman & the Teenagers asked back in 1954--'Why Do Fools Fall in Love?' Duhamel's poems readily admit that she is a love-struck fool, but also embrace the 'crazy wisdom' of the Fool of the Tarot deck and the fool as entertainer or jester. From a kindergarten crush to a failed marriage and beyond, Duhamel explores the nature of romantic love and her own limitations. She also examines love...
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201 pages ; 19 cm.
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Español
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"Este libro reúne los mejores poemas de amor escritos por Mario Benedetti, uno de los poetas más innovadores, divertidos, ambiciosos y modernos de la literatura en español. El amor, las mujeres y la vida recoge una selección de poemas aclamados por varias generaciones, aquellos en los que Benedetti vuelca su concepción de la vida: el amor como compensación de la muerte se levanta en sus versos lleno de fe, como fuerza principal que mueve al...
31) Possession
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte. Roland contacts Maud, an expert on LaMotte's life and work. Despite her skepticism, the two begin to investigate,...
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Following the success of his National Book Award nomination, Alberto Ríos' new book is filled with magic, marvel, and emotional truth. Set along the elusive southern border, his poems trace the lives and loves of an elderly couple through their childhood and courtship to marriage, maturity, old age, and death. Like the best of storytellers, Ríos charms his readers, making us care deeply-even love-these people we read. From "The Chair She Sits In":...
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l, 284 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition in accurate and poetic original translations. At a time when the association of Islam with violence dominates headlines, this beautiful collection offers us a chance to see a radically different face of the Islamic tradition. It traces a soaring, poetic, popular tradition that celebrates love for both humanity and the Divine as the ultimate...
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151 pages; 23 cm
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"The Infinite Loop/El lazo infinito is a book about pain, love, and hope. The poetic voice bets on an inalienable will to strive for better. Gonzalez chooses the symbol of the infinite loop that, through a dynamic of cause and effect, makes her aware of her own journey. With the agility of her compelling poetic forms, The Infinite Lopp is built from an intimacy that expands toward universal inquiries. Gonzales has said that the publication of this...
36) I am loved
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21 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Hand-selected by Newbery honoree Ashley Bryan, he has, with his masterful flourish of color, shape, and movement, added a visual layering that drums the most important message of all to young, old, parent, child, grandparent, and friend alike: You are loved. You are loved. You are loved. As a bonus, one page is mirrored, so children reading the book can see exactly who is loved -- themselves!
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