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A stylistically innovative volume of short stories from the groundbreaking author of Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando. First presented as one volume in 1921, Monday or Tuesday was the only collection of stories Virginia Woolf published in her lifetime. Written in her experimental, stream-of-consciousness style, these eight unconventional stories eschew traditional plot and character development in favor of interior thoughts, emotions,...
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LIGHTS is a new, possibly annual, space for a variety of local and Pleasure Boat Studio talents.
Behind the name: When first coming up with the name for this collective way to publish more people, I was thinking of one word possibilities, starting with boat related ideas to pair the theme with 'Pleasure Boat': mast, anchor, waves, skiff, oar, etc. Then, 'lights' came to me, simple as that and I liked it and stuck with it. The feeling of it felt warm,...
3) Essentia
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El recorrido del alma enamorada de su Señor, como cantaba Santa Teresa de Ávila o el atrevimiento de los místicos que rompían los límites del lenguaje para dejar en vilo la profundidad de la metáfora religiosa; con esa libertad y atrevimiento Ingrid nos conduce a la embriaguez del alma seducida por su Amado. En sus poemas, el símbolo traduce lo inefable de lo sagrado en un abanico de emociones que oscilan entre la alegría, la tristeza y el...
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A Year of Plague is a sprawling story of survival and heart that winds its way across the world, from the streets of downtown Minneapolis during the #BLM protests to the plundered streets of Mombasa in the midst of the worst locust plague in over a century. Follow Elizabeth and Roland as they struggle to survive the most trying of circumstances in the most tumultuous of times. This is a story of perseverance, of plague, and most importantly, of self-discovery....
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For over sixty years, I have crept into the soul of the Fool. This traditional stock character in folklore is imbued with a certain sense of power, wisdom and magic. He can raise the dead as in the Saint George Mummers Plays, follows with authority as the last dancer in the Abbot's Bromley Horn Dance. He laughs, protects, projects warmth and kindness and mystery. These stories and poems based on fun, frivolity and sorrow, come from his bag of tricks....
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This is a book about emotions...Ours...theirs...maybe yours...but without a doubt, Cornell Hurley Jr.'s emotions. This is a book about how at the age of twenty-five, he was sentenced to serve twenty-five years in prison. Not willing to accept defeat, he found a way to truly rehabilitate himself. With nothing but time standing between his family, friends, dreams, and freedom, he began to write. While confined within "The Concrete Jungle", he began...
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Indelible Ink is a collection of prose and poetry by the author of Bitter Comes the Storm.
Varied in style and subject matter the sixteen stories, fifteen poems and three articles have all gained major awards or commendations in competitions or been published in magazines or anthologies.
8) Rabaab
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Navkiran' and 'O Charam' are two books of a poetry collection by Seemaant Sohal that have been published under the aegis of Rajasthan Sahitya Akademi, Udaipur. He (along with Mayamriga and Pramod Kumar Sharma) has edited the short stories and poetry collection book 'Sahitya Prasav.' Rajasthan Sahitya Akademi's book of collection of poetry of poets from Rajasthan, 'Ret Par Nange Paanv,' contains Seemaant Sohal's poetry. He has also done Punjabi to...
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¿Qué es el ruido? ¿Qué sucede cuando se mete dentro de la cabeza? En esta divertida historia marcada por el patetismo de unas Reflexiones sobre el Sonido, James Lawless retrata con su peculiar humor algunos de los efectos del sonido en la sociedad actual, seguido del decadente poema Ruido, cuyos versos incansables exploran la devastación que produce en las personas sensibles una cacofonía fuera de control.
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This small work is a window into the life of one simple woman. The poetry portion reflects heart related turmoil. While its short fiction section contains stories about pet sitting adventures and brief imaginative romantic interludes. Most of all this book shows how to find joy in the moment no matter how brief it might be.
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Son poesías e historias reales y a veces fantásticas que sorprenden al lector por la fuerza de la imagen y del sentimiento. Encontramos hilos que van tejiendo el sentido de este libro que satisface al más ávido buscador de emociones. Desde la ternura de una joven pareja a la dramática percepción de mundos paralelos nos encontraremos con que la vida es mucho más de lo que percibimos. María Raquel Bonifacino ha sorprendido a escritores y lectores...
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Hijos del Manantial es una recopilación de relatos y poesías de temas variados; pero con el común denominador del compromiso de su autora con la realidad de su tiempo. Los cuentos aquí presentados suelen ser de tinte realista así como también fantástico; al abordar temas históricos o simbologías metafóricas de una delicadeza evidente. En cuanto a los poemas, el verso libre y la métrica cuidada enmarcan distintos sentimientos como la soledad,...
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Los límites del infinito es un ejercicio de liberación creativa, de retomar sin juicios o pretensiones la creación literaria. Crear destinos arbitrarios a cada uno de los extraños personajes, algunas veces fatales y perversos, y otras tantas redimirlos y elevarlos. Son relatos contradictorios que funcionan como sencillas reflexiones de las emociones cotidianas, sin tener un hilo conductual este libro recoge las experiencias a veces melancólicas...
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What noise? What will happen when it gets into our heads? In Thoughts of sounds, a hilarious history marked by pathos, James Lawless sends his typical humorous way some of the effects of noise on contemporary society. This news is followed by noise, a decidedly dark poem that explores the devastation that uncontrolled cacophony can inflict on sentient beings.
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"I want to stay on a remote unknown island, not for the sake of sagacity, but to accompany my loneliness. On that full moon night, Mozart played the first symphony he ever composed on violin for me on the crystal-white terrace of Salzburg Castle.
After that, I started believing in the melody of God.
However, I know they will never award my residence the status of a World Heritage Site. No issues, but they still don't know that it is that place which...
18) Sueña despierta
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Sueña Despierta son historias propias, sueños, vistas desde a fuera y creadas en forma de poesias. Te invito a sentirte identificada/o y soñar conmigo.
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A local basketball hero comes to a sad end. An aging movie legend's power ebbs. A once promising artist reaches out to an old friend with astonishing results. A long-divorced couple meet for the last time. When his brother dies, his only sibling considers their life-long relationship. The author wonders who will remember his long-dead beloved grandfather and muses about his own mortality.
These short stories and poems explore the human heart...
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In this compendium, you will find poems that are not too long, that will encourage you to read and enjoy poetry.
Delightfully entertaining, humorous short stories.
Quirky, innovative and thought-provoking observational prose.
And, a set of five pieces of written work that the author — so far — has not been able to, or does not want to classify, for want of a superlative title.
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