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New Physiognomy
Samuel Roberts Wells
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R1,217
Discovery Miles 12 170
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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The Farm
Samuel Robert Wells
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R1,321
Discovery Miles 13 210
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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World War I drama, based on the Broadway play by Earl Derr Biggers.
Includes a selection of photographs from the play.
The title poem of this collection, Robert Wells's first since the
Collected Poems and Translations of 2009, revisits in memory the
site of the once great Etruscan city of Veii. There as a child the
poet discovered an incised potsherd: 'Was that the day when
antiquity / - The place where all is over and done - / Took
ineluctable hold of me?' The poems return to familiar places and
themes from a later 'now', a revised perspective: memories are
real, perhaps more vivid than before, but further off, measuring
time and age. Ancient coins abound. In 'The Coin Cabinet' they are
conjured in their variety by means of a series of epithetic
evocations, so that one does not doubt their reality, or the
complex mythology they evoke and the economy rooted in long
traditions and rich in known, shared narratives. 'Robert Wells's
language is exact, the experience of the poem is deeply gone
through,' Thom Gunn wrote, 'there is a constant desire to adhere to
the truth as he apprehended it rather than to glamorize it. The
inexpressible becomes expressed.'
Introduces the concepts of very large numbers, up to a googol, and multiples of ten.
Provides a simple introduction to the use of levers, pulleys, and wheels to move heavy objects.
Developing and expanding the explorations of previous works, this
mature collection invokes shepherds and farm laborers, lakes and
swimmers, and the changes of the seasons amid a play of light and
shade, abandon and reserve. Suffused with the scents and colors of
the Mediterranean landscape, these quietly thoughtful poems choose
subtle over obvious effects yet convey an astounding force and
beauty. Meditating upon erotic and rural themes, these poems reveal
an affirmation of the unending power of language through short love
lyrics, portrait poems, anecdotes, satirical epigrams, and
beautifully crafted narratives of travel and memory.
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The Farm
Samuel Robert Wells
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R929
Discovery Miles 9 290
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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New Physiognomy
Samuel Roberts Wells
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R960
Discovery Miles 9 600
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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