The Poets Daughters

Author : Katie Waldegrave
Publisher : Random House
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Daughters
ISBN : 9780099537342

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The Poets' Daughters by Katie Waldegrave Pdf

Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge, were life-long friends. They were also the daughters of best friends: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the two poetic geniuses who shaped the Romantic Age. Living in the shadow of their fathersâe(tm) extraordinary fame brought Sara and Dora great privilege, but at a terrible cost. In different ways, each father almost destroyed his daughter. Growing up in the shadow of genius, each girl made it her lifeâe(tm)s ambition to dedicate herself to her fatherâe(tm)s writing and reputation. Anorexia, drug addiction and depression were part of the legacy of fame, but so too were great friendship and love. Drawing on a host of new sources, Katie Waldegrave tells the never-before-told story of how two young women, born into greatness, shaped their own legacies.

Author : Jack Prelutsky
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983-09-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780394850108

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The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky Pdf

The most accessible and joyous introduction to the world of poetry! The Random House Book of Poetry for Children offers both funny and illuminating poems for kids personally selected by the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate, Jack Prelutsky. Featuring a wealth of beloved classic poems from the past and modern glittering gems, every child who opens this treasury will finda world of surprises and delights which will instill a lifelong love of poetry. Featuring 572 unforgettable poems, and over 400 one-of-a-kind illustrations from the Caldecott-winning illustrator of the Frog and Toad series, Arnold Lobel, this collection is, quite simply, the perfect way to introduce children to the world of poetry.

Author : Parvānah Bahār,Joan Aghevli
Publisher : Larson Publication
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 193601257X

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The Poet's Daughter by Parvānah Bahār,Joan Aghevli Pdf

Written by his daughter, this autobiography of the man considered Iran's “King of Poets” describes his contributions as a highly regarded champion of democratic values and how his values influenced her own experiences as an activist in the United States.

Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789390287826

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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Pdf

A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.

Author : Maureen Honey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813570808

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Aphrodite's Daughters by Maureen Honey Pdf

The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodite’s Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic forms of female self-expression. Maureen Honey paints a vivid portrait of three African American women—Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery—who came from very different backgrounds but converged in late 1920s Harlem to leave a major mark on the literary landscape. She examines the varied ways these poets articulated female sexual desire, ranging from Grimké’s invocation of a Sapphic goddess figure to Cowdery’s frank depiction of bisexual erotics to Bennett’s risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain. Yet Honey also considers how they were united in their commitment to the female body as a primary source of meaning, strength, and transcendence. The product of extensive archival research, Aphrodite’s Daughters draws from Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery’s published and unpublished poetry, along with rare periodicals and biographical materials, to immerse us in the lives of these remarkable women and the world in which they lived. It thus not only shows us how their artistic contributions and cultural interventions were vital to their own era, but also demonstrates how the poetic heart of their work keeps on beating.

Author : Elise Paschen
Publisher : Sourcebooks MediaFusion
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000063399417

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Poetry Speaks to Children by Elise Paschen Pdf

A collection of 95 remarkable poems by the poets and a few close friends.

Author : James Cargill Guthrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026270272

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Rowena; or, The poet's daughter, a poem by James Cargill Guthrie Pdf

Author : Debora Greger
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0140587748

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Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters by Debora Greger Pdf

Offers a poetic meditation on the legacy of the atomic bomb and how those who played a minor role in its creation can come to terms with the past

Author : Michael Schmidt
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375706042

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Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt Pdf

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language. Schmidt reveals how each poet has transformed "a common language of poetry" into the rustic rhythms and elegiac ballads, love sonnets, and experimental postmodern verse that make up our lyrical canon. A comprehensive guided tour that is lively and always accessible, Lives of the Poets illuminates our most transcendent literary tradition.

Author : Jenny Boychuk
Publisher : Signal Editions
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1550655817

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Antonyms for Daughter by Jenny Boychuk Pdf

Antonyms for Daughter, Jenny Boychuk's poetry debut, addresses a harrowing subject: the loss of the poet's mother to addiction. Deploying a range of forms and techniques astonishing in a first collection, Boychuk creates unsparing scenes of their complicated life together. Poem after poem attempts to wring clarity from memories ripe with trauma and love, as Boychuk questions whether it is possible for a child to ever extricate herself from an abusive parent--to become, as it were, a living "antonym" of a painful family legacy. A booklength loss-lyric of vivid beauty, Antonyms for Daughter is a singular example of grief transformed into art.

Author : Nikita Gill
Publisher : Thought Catalog Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1949759032

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Your Soul Is a River by Nikita Gill Pdf

This is a book about the journey of healing from trauma and becoming whole again.Directions: apply to your soul gently, whilst sitting under the stars.

Author : Nicola Davies
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781536215939

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The Day War Came by Nicola Davies Pdf

A moving, poetic narrative and child-friendly illustrations follow the heartbreaking, ultimately hopeful journey of a little girl who is forced to become a refugee. The day war came there were flowers on the windowsill and my father sang my baby brother back to sleep. Imagine if, on an ordinary day, after a morning of studying tadpoles and drawing birds at school, war came to your town and turned it to rubble. Imagine if you lost everything and everyone, and you had to make a dangerous journey all alone. Imagine that there was no welcome at the end, and no room for you to even take a seat at school. And then a child, just like you, gave you something ordinary but so very, very precious. In lyrical, deeply affecting language, Nicola Davies’s text combines with Rebecca Cobb’s expressive illustrations to evoke the experience of a child who sees war take away all that she knows.

Author : Gianna Patriarca
Publisher : Guernica Editions
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1550710451

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Daughters for Sale by Gianna Patriarca Pdf

Daughters for Sale continues the author's journey begun in Italian Women and Other Tragedies, Gianna Patriarca's successful first collection of poems. Here is a compassionate search for understanding lives dislocated by the immigrant experience. Through humour, irony, anger, and reconciliation, Gianna Patriarca reveals the fragility and intensity of the unforgettable characters she meets. Their 'songs in dialect' arise from voices not accustomed to being heard in any official culture. These poetic snapshots of women and men will leave no reader indifferent.

Author : Warsan Shire
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780735239814

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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire Pdf

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire. “The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger Mama, I made it/out of your home/alive, raised by the/voices in my head. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way towards womanhood. Drawing from her own life, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women, and teenage girls. In Shire's hands, lives spring into fullness. This is noisy life: full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds. This is fragrant life: full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. This is polychrome life: full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl. The long-awaited collection from one of our most exciting contemporary poets, this book is a blessing, an incantatory celebration of resilience and survival. Each reader will come away changed.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780744037371

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A World Full of Poems by DK Pdf

A gorgeously illustrated introduction to poetry for children, featuring poems about everything from science, sports, and space, to friendship, family, and feelings. This thoughtfully crafted anthology is perfect for children new to verse and for young poetry fans seeking out new favorites. Explore poetry from a diverse selection of contemporary and historical poets, covering a broad range of topics—from personal subjects like emotions and family, to the wonders of the natural environment. Carefully selected works encourage children to see the poetry in everything and to embrace the beauty of their everyday lives. Prompts and activities inspire children to create their own poetry, and devices like rhyme, repetition, and alliteration are introduced and explained in a fun and accessible manner.