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Author
Publisher
Small Latin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's sonnets are the most famous and controversial love poems in the English language. This book is both an edition of these poems and a guide to how to read them. It provides an original-spelling text, and prints the poems as they appeared in the first edition.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for supposedly whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights...
48) Frank: sonnets
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
""The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without," Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss's working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again. With sheer virtuosity, Seuss moves nimbly across thought and time, poetry and punk, AIDS and addiction,...
Author
Publisher
Methuen Drama
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This revised edition of the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works includes the full text of Double Falsehood, which was published in the Arden Third series to critical acclaim in 2010. The play is an eighteenth century rewrite of Shakespeare's "lost" play Cardenio and as such is a fascinating testament to the original.
50) 1944 diary
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An account of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands from one of Europe's most powerful chroniclers of the Holocaust. In 2010, FSG published two novels set in World War II by the German Jewish psychoanalyst Hans Keilson: The Death of the Adversary (1959) and Comedy in a Minor Key (1944). With their Chekhovian sympathy for perpetrators and bystanders as much as for victims and resisters, they were, as Francine Prose raved on the front page of The New York...