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The long-awaited third poetry book by Vijay Seshadri, "one of the most respected poets working in...
Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer
Jessie Hartland and Diane Stanley
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From nonfiction stars Diane Stanley and Jessie Hartland comes a beautifully illustrated biography of...
Introducing George the Poet: Search Party: A Collection of Poems
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'The title is Search Party - the idea being that we're all out here looking for something, and my...
Connor Sheffield (293 KP) rated The Crow in Books
May 25, 2017
This is a story of love and loss, but mostly of vengeance and a sense of mental torment that no one, dead or alive, should suffer.
There's a belief that when someone dies, their soul is carried to heaven, hell or some form of afterlife, and then there's this graphic novel that suggests that if the soul was wronged in their life, they may return as an avenging angel, to seek vengeance on those who wronged them.
Eric and his Fiancé where murdered for no good reason, and so his soul is brought back from the dead, with some additional abilities, such as a healing factor, meaning that he cannot be killed (again) by mortals.
This book also contains poetry among its pages. Beautiful poems that really add to the emotion of the book and the story. I love comics, graphic novels etc. Anything Marvel or DC, and of course indie comics, but The Crow will forever remain my favourite one among them all, because it is poetic justice written beautifully and emotionally, unlike anything I have ever read before or after it.
The Political Space of Art: The Dardenne Brothers, Arundhati Roy, Ai Weiwei and Burial
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This book studies the tension between arts and politics in four contemporary artists from different...
The Solitudes
Alberto Manguel, Luis de Gongora and Edith Grossman
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An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one if the most...
Collected Poems
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The American Poets Project series continues with this stunning collection from a major--and...
Kaz (232 KP) rated The Diving-bell and the Butterfly in Books
May 15, 2019
Whilst this book doesn't have a linear story as such, this is a beautifully written novel about the writer's day to day experiences in the hospital he is being treated in and, in the most mundane or saddest moments, there is humour and insight. This is a very interesting and poetic novel.
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C. S. Lewis Signature Classic: Miracles
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'The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every...