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Breathing, you invisible poem!
World-space in pure continuous interchange
with my own being. Equipose
in which I rhythmically transpire.
Written only four years before Rilke's death, this sequence of sonnets, varied in form yet consistently structured, stands as the poet's final masterwork. In these meditations on the constant flux of our world and the ephemerality of experience, Rilke envisions death not only as one among many of life's transformations...
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Writers On... Death' illustrates the ability of this most universal (and least understood) subject to produce some of literature's most moving and profound work. It encompasses inspirational poems about death, quotes about death, extracts from private diaries and classic literary scenes, and contains some of history's most touching, consoling and inspiring meditations on fatality. Moving between a fear of death, love and death, coming to terms with...
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"Les Fleurs du Mal" de Charles Baudelaire est un roman passionnant qui explore les thèmes de l'amour, de la passion et de la folie. Le livre raconte l'histoire de Julien Sorel, un jeune homme ambitieux et passionné qui se lance dans une quête éperdue pour réaliser ses rêves et conquérir l'amour de la belle Madame de Rênal. Mais alors qu'il se rapproche de son but, il est confronté à des obstacles impitoyables, notamment les rivalités et...
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"What was Takako Konishi really doing in North Dakota, and why did she end up dead? Did she get lost and freeze to death, as the police concluded, while searching for the fictional treasure buried in a snowbank in the Coen brothers' film Fargo? Or was it something else that brought her there: unrequited love, ritual suicide, a meteor shower, a far-flung search for purpose? The seed of an obsession took root in struggling film student Jana Larson when...
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Gerald Stern, National Book Award-winning poet, creates a powerful new prose book in his ninth decade, as he contemplates mortality. In his characteristic audacious, uncompromising, funny, and iconoclastic style, Stern looks back at his life and forward to how he will end his days. Will he be cremated-against the tenets of Judaism-or buried, and, if buried, where? He visits synagogues to find answers to questions that are unanswerable. He examines...
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Real stories and real feedback on what should be said, what should be kept to yourself, and what can be done when trying to support someone you care about as they navigate loss. Breaking Sad helps us start conversations through its pages of personal stories and suggestions from everyday survivors-bringing us all to a place where we can more comfortably offer support and caring to
people when they need it most.
Featuring stories from Montel Williams,...
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En los albores del siglo XXI, la eutanasia se ha impuesto en algunos países como una solución éticamente aceptable para poner fin a situaciones de gran sufrimiento. Holanda (2001), Bélgica (2002) y Luxemburgo (2009) han despenalizado esta práctica. Actualmente, ningún otro país se ha lanzado por esta vía.
La eutanasia continúa siendo origen de discusiones tanto en el Benelux como en muchos otros Estados que sienten la tentación de dar...
8) The Ocean
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A collection of short essays and poems written by journalist Warwick McFadyen on the subject of death, grief and loss in the first years after the death of his son in 2019, describing with heartbreaking acuity his emotional responses to everyday life and the ever-present nature of his family's enormous loss.
9) Grief Map
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"Maybe my map will help a little. If only to comfort, to say: someone else visited this place; someone else survived to make this map."
When Sarah Hahn Campbell learned of the sudden and inexplicable death of her partner, Lia, she was thousands of miles away from the Alaska town where they made a life together. Lia's mental deterioration had forced her to flee to protect her daughter's safety and her own emotional well-being-but she never stopped...
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In support of tribal efforts to protect the Bears Ears, Native writers bear testimony to the fragile and essential nature of this sacred landscape in America's remote red rock country. Through poem and essay, these often-ignored voices explore the ways many native people derive tradition, sustenance, and cultural history from the Bears Ears.
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Tony Kushner: "This is an odd assemblage of plays, for which gathering-together there is no overarching thematic justification. Because several of the plays deal with death, and one of the death-plays deals as well with money, and the last play deals with taxation, we're calling the book Death & Taxes. But all plays, directly or indirectly, are about death and taxes, so this title explains little..." What is clear, is that all of the plays in this...
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Telepathic hospice workers... a Danish prince haunted by his immortality... a naked mercenary with the ultimate bioweapon... a ghostly gunslinger in a showdown with the Devil's bandits... a writer losing his dog and his mind... a wormhole with a cure to every human ill...
Slippery When Metastasized.
Sixteen pieces of prose and poetry inspired by the author's wife and her struggles to live with, and overcome, cancer. The genres of horror, science fiction,...
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"Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN America" "Ottilie Mulzet, Winner of the Tibor Déry Prize, Tibor Déry Foundation" Szilárd Borbély (1963–2014) wrote in a wide variety of genres. His books include the novel The Dispossessed and the poetry collection Berlin-Hamlet. Ottilie Mulzet is a literary critic and the translator of The Dispossessed and Berlin-Hamlet, among other books. Her translation of the novel Seiobo There Below...
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Benarroch nació en 1959 en Tetuan/Marruecos, entre Tangier y Gibraltar. Creció dentro de una mezcla de culturas e idiomas, siendo el español su lengua materna, asistiendo a una escuela francesa, escuchando el árabe en las calles y orando en hebreo. En 1972 emigró a Israel y vive desde entonces en Jerusalén. Ha publicado 40 libros de poesía y prosa en hebreo y uno en Español. Setenta traducciones de sus libros han sido publicados en portugués,...
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Featuring poetry and prose by established and emerging writers, Capsule Stories Winter 2020 Edition explores the theme Bare Bones. Read wintry writings that tell of loss and heartbreak in the coldest season of your life. These stories and poems are open and vulnerable as writers lay bare their grief, sadness, and tiredness. Allow yourself to feel those feelings and be vulnerable as you read this 200-page literary magazine. But, remember that it gets...
17) Falling Leaves
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Falling Leaves is a short story anthology where the author mixes fiction with stories from his own life. The themes range from sweet contemplation during a Southern rain to grappling with a life spent on a Roman battlefield, wondering when the end will come. You'll also visit Pompeii during Mount Vesuvius' eruption, and spend a couple days trying to connect with a hard scrabble depression era grandparent. You'll also visit a sandlot where football...
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Balam y Lluvia son dos hermanos que se la pasan brinco y brinco en la casa, persiguiendo palabras, recuperando historias, enfrentándose a sus aventuras de todos los días.
La infancia de estos dos pequeños es resultado de haberle preguntado a muchos adultos "cuéntame algo de tu infancia que nunca le has contado a nadie" y voilá, la poesía se convirtió en el camino más generoso para hablar de aquello que nos cuesta decir, de los peliagudos momentos...
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Les Contemplations sont un recueil de poèmes, écrit par Victor Hugo, publié en 1856. Il est composé de 158 poèmes rassemblés en six livres. La plupart de ces poèmes ont été écrits entre 1841 et 1855, mais les poèmes les plus anciens de ce recueil datent de 1830.
Les Contemplations sont un recueil du souvenir, de l'amour, de la joie mais aussi de la mort, du deuil et même d'une certaine foi mystique. Le souvenir, surtout, y prend une place...
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Three Minus One: Parents' Stories of Love and Loss is a collection of intimate, soul-baring stories and artwork by parents who have lost a child to stillbirth, miscarriage, or neonatal death, inspired by the film Return to Zero.
The loss of a child is unlike any other, and the impact that it has on the mother, the father, their family, and their friends is devastating-a shockwave of pain and guilt that spreads through their entire community. But...
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