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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration...
Language
English
Description
Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, high school student Jim Carroll seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach, his mom, and school seem to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart.
5) The prophet
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together they must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It is the story of a poet who is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles. The disgruntled, cantankerous, semi-famous poet Ted Wallace is hired to investigate strange doings at Lord and Lady Logan's country manor, Swafford Hall.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning poet CK Williams's TAR collection, a poetic expression of his life, written and directed by twelve filmmakers from New York University. The film takes a journey through several decades of American life, from CK's childhood and adolescence in Detroit in the 1940s and '50s to the early 1980s. CK and his wife Catherine are married with a son. CK spends his nights struggling to write new poems and haunted by memories of...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Victimized by a government that banned his books and jailed him for a crime he didn't commit, [poet] Reinaldo [Arenas] endured unspeakable persecution in a courageous stand against censorship and oppression. Without a country, but not without integrity, he fled to America where he continued to fight for personal expression and produced a stirring body of work."--Container.
10) Lost illusions
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In the southwest of 19th-century France, the cleverness of young aspiring poet Lucien Chardon (Benjamin Voisin) won him a patron and clandestine lover in the wealthy Madame de Bargeton (Cécile de France). Their sojourn to Paris, however, found him struggling and settling for a newspaper critic's life... and the ultimate corruption of his personal ideals.
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