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Eighteenth Century Shakespeare Volume 9 2 Volumes.
An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveller and unrivalled
observer of nature and culture, Barry Lopez died after a long
illness on Christmas Day in 2020. The previous summer, a wildfire
had consumed much of what was dear to him in his home and the
community around it - a tragic reminder of the climate change of
which he'd long warned. At once a cri de Coeur and a memoir of both
pain and wonder, this remarkable collection of essays adds
indelibly to Lopez's legacy, and includes previously unpublished
works, some written in the months before his death. They unspool
memories, both personal and political, among them tender, sometimes
painful stories of his childhood in New York and California,
reports from expeditions to study animals and sea life,
recollections of travels to Antarctica and other extraordinary
places on earth, and mediations on finding oneself amid vast,
dramatic landscapes. He reflects on those who taught him, including
Indigenous elders and scientific mentors who sharpened his eye for
the natural world. We witness poignant returns from his travels to
the sanctuary of his Oregon backyard and in prose of searing
candour, he reckons with the cycle of life, including own and - as
he has done throughout his career - with the dangers the earth and
its people are facing. With an introduction by Rebecca Solnit that
speaks to Lopez's keen attention to the world, including its
spiritual dimensions, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World opens
our minds and sounds to the important of being wholly present to
the beauty and complexity of life.
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT
BOOK OF POETRY FROM LANA DEL REY, VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE
GRASS 'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of
the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to
me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some
that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the
perfect poem. They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be
anything other than what they are and for that reason I'm proud of
them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was
very authentic. Lana Del Rey Lana's breathtaking first book
solidifies her further as 'the essential writer of her times' (The
Atlantic). The collection features more than thirty poems, many
exclusive to the book: Never to Heaven, The Land of 1,000 Fires,
Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving, LA Who Am I to Love You?, Tessa
DiPietro, Happy, Paradise Is Very Fragile, Bare Feet on Linoleum
and many more. This beautiful hardcover edition showcases Lana's
typewritten manuscript pages alongside her original photography.
The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the
unguarded spirit of its creator. Violet Bent Backwards Over the
Grass is also brought to life in an unprecedented spoken word
audiobook which features Lana Del Rey reading fourteen select poems
from the book accompanied by music from Grammy Award-winning
musician Jack Antonoff.
An Inspector Calls, first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before belong to Priestley’s ‘time’plays, in which he explores the idea of precognition and pits fate against free will. The Linden Tree also challenges preconceived ideas of history when Professor Linden comes into conflict with his family about how life should be lived after the war.
Over the course of two decades and six books, Peter Markus has been
making fiction out of a lexicon shaped by the words brother and
fish and mud. In an essay on Markus's work, Brian Evenson writes,
""If it's not clear by now, Markus's use of English is quite
unique. It is instead a sort of ritual speech, an almost religious
invocation in which words themselves, through repetition, acquire a
magic or power that revives the simpler, blunter world of
childhood."" Now, in his debut book of poems, When Our Fathers
Return to Us as Birds, Markus tunes his eye and ear toward a new
world, a world where father is the new brother, a world where the
father's slow dying and eventual death leads Markus, the son, to
take a walk outside to ""meet my shadow in the deepening shade.""
In this collection, a son is simultaneously caring for his father,
losing his father, and finding his dead father in the trees and the
water and the sky. He finds solace in the birds and in the river
that runs between his house and his parents' house, with its view
of the shut-down steel mill on the river's other side, now in the
process of being torn down. The book is steadily punctuated by this
recurring sentence that the son wakes up to each day: My father is
dying in a house across the river. The rhythmic and recursive
nature to these poems places the reader right alongside the son as
he navigates his journey of mourning. These are poems written in
conversation with the poems of Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg, Jim
Harrison, Jane Kenyon, Raymond Carver, Theodore Roethke too-poets
whose poems at times taught Markus how to speak. ""In a dark time .
. .,"" we often hear it said, ""there are no words."" But the truth
is, there are always words. Sometimes our words are all we have to
hold onto, to help us see through the darkened woods and muddy
waters, times when the ear begins to listen, the eye begins to see,
and the mouth, the body, and the heart, in chorus, begin to speak.
Fans of Markus's work and all of those who are caring for dying
parents or grieving their loss will find comfort, kinship, and
appreciation in this honest and beautiful collection.
This fun and interactive Reader s Theater book will help students
build fluency while learning all about Colorado. The engaging
script covers Colorado s continental divide, important landmarks
such as Pikes Peak, examples of civic responsibilities in action,
and much more. Make learning about Colorado s history, economy,
government, and geography exciting with this book.The book includes
a glossary, song and poem, and color-coded script. Go on an
adventurous camping trip in the Rocky Mountains with this fun
Reader s Theater book.
"Come to A Raisin in the Sun as you would to any classic. It speaks
to us today as it did almost half a century ago." Bonnie Greer In
south side Chicago, Walter Lee, a Black chauffeur, dreams of a
better life, and hopes to use his father's life insurance money to
open a liquor store. His mother, who rejects the liquor business,
uses some of the money to secure a proper house for the family. Mr
Lindner, a representative of the all-white neighbourhood, tries to
buy them out. Walter sinks the rest of the money into his business
scheme, only to have it stolen by one of his partners. In despair
Walter contacts Lindner, and almost begs to buy them out, but with
the help of his wife, Walter finally finds a way to assert his
dignity. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a Black
woman to be produced on Broadway and won the New York Drama Critics
Circle Award. Hansberry was the youngest and the first Black writer
to receive this award. Deeply committed to the Black struggle for
equality and human rights, Lorraine Hansberry's brilliant career as
a writer was cut short by her death when she was only 34. This new,
updated edition in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series includes
the full, definitive text and a brand new introduction by Soyica
Diggs Colbert.
Honestly the best science I've ever done and - frankly the best
science in the history of humankind - has started with the same
thought experiment: find the ways in which humanity thinks it is
special... and assume that we're not. How do you plan for a
catastrophe? Virologist Nathan Wolfe, named one of TIME's 100 Most
Influential People in the World for his work tracking viral
pandemic outbreaks, proposed pandemic insurance years before the
novel coronavirus outbreak. No one bought it. Now, in a post-COVID
world, we hear his story. A time-jumping tale based on the life and
work of Nathan Wolfe (who also happens to be the playwright's
husband). Though not a play about COVID19, it is a true story of a
pandemic expert. A deep dive into the profundities of scientific
exploration and modern Judaism, the lengths one goes for love and
family, the bracing truths of fatherhood and discovery, and the
harrowing realities of facing your own mortality, The Catastrophist
is also a story of a main character battling the story he's in...
and who is writing it.
Die ontnugtering en nostalgie van die middeljare word hier in alle erns met humor en trefsekere taalgevoel verwoord.
Ryk aan intertekstualiteit en slim woordspeling, is hierdie bundel vars en toeganklik vir alle oopkop lesers. Ou vrese word besweer en nuwes sinies en liries besing.
Die toneelstuk ontgin nie net Andre Huguenet se lewe as mens en
akteur tot met sy tragiese einde nie maar ook die ironiese spel
tussen toneel en werklikheid. Ondanks die hoe eise wat hierdie
tweekuns aan ’n dramaturg stel, bevestig Fourie opnuut sy vermoe om
boeiende, menslike toneel te skep wat toeganklik is vir die
gespesialiseerde sowel as die minder ingewyde teaterganger.
In Moerstaāl word oorsprong in oënskyn geneem: perspektiewe word
gebied op geskiedenis en erfenis en hoe dit met taal saamhang. ’n
Skryfwyse wat deur Khoekhoegowab geïnspireer is, veral wat die
gebruik van die makron op klinkers betref, word ingespan tesame met
Sols se kenmerkende Ghoema-Afrikaans. ’n Respek vir byna
uitgestorwe kennis word oorgedra en in dié opsig is die gedigte ’n
kreet van verlies en ’n bewuste poging tot ’n daad van bestendiging.
Die lewe-gewende moederfiguur tree hier na vore – die vrou wat
verguising en ontkenning moes deurleef en wie se bydrae en plek,
soos ook dié van die taal, in en deur die bundel herstel, of ten minste
openbaar gemaak, wil word.
Die musikaliteit van Sōls se vorige twee bundels is weer hier
teenwoordig. Só ook sy vlymskerp kommentaar en ironie, en sy
digterlike gebruik van spreektaal. Sols se terugkeer na geskrewe
poësie – die eerste bundel in sestien jaar – is beslis ’n groot aanwins
vir die Afrikaanse letterkunde.
Met die skerp waarnemingsvermoe eie aan sy skryfwerk bring Pirow
Bekker met die bundel alledaagse gegewens opnuut onder die leser se
aandag. Benewens die satiriese gedigte oor die aktuele werklikheid
waarvoor Bekker ook bekend geword het, bevat die ses afdelings van
die bundel ook mooi liefdesverse, gedigte oor die ouderdom en
gedigte oor die verlange van ouers na hul kinders in die vreemde.
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