The Complete Old English Poems
Craig Williamson and Tom Shippey
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From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom to the thrilling...
University of Hunger: Collected Poems & Selected Prose
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The Guyanese poet Martin Carter (1927-97) was one of the foremost Caribbean writers of the 20th...
Hart Crane's 'The Bridge': An Annotated Edition
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Hart Crane's long poem The Bridge has steadily grown in stature since it was published in 1930. At...
The Divine Comedy
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Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, tracing Dante's journey from...
Becs (244 KP) rated You Are Not Here in Books
Oct 25, 2018 (Updated Oct 25, 2018)
I have only ever read a novel like You Are Not Here one other time. This is a novel yet in poetry form and I loved every second of it. I felt like I was Annaleah, living with the grief of losing a boyfriend right alongside her. I shed a few tears as parts were just heartbreaking and I laughed at others that were meant to be funny. This little novel is definitely one that I will be holding quite dear for the rest of my life and I can imagine myself reading it when I lost someone as dear to me as Brian was to Annaleah.
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Ross (3284 KP) rated Before Watchmen: Rorschach in Books
Nov 22, 2019
The book demonstrates his determination to seek justice, despite everything thrown at him, which we see later in the Watchmen book proper.
Rorschach is determined to try and clean up the streets and seeks out the pimps and drug dealers he feels are responsible for the state of New York. This is in the midst of The Bard, a serial killer preying on women and writing poetry on their bodies. Interestingly, these two stories work in parallel, Rorschach only catching up to deal out justice in the final pages. This goes against the reader's expectations and was a nice contra-twist.
Becs (244 KP) rated You Are Not Here in Books
Jan 2, 2020
I have only ever read a novel like You Are Not Here one other time. This is a novel yet in poetry form and I loved every second of it. I felt like I was Annaleah, living with the grief of losing a boyfriend right alongside her. I shed a few tears as parts were just heartbreaking and I laughed at others that were meant to be funny. This little novel is definitely one that I will be holding quite dear for the rest of my life and I can imagine myself reading it when I lost someone as dear to me as Brian was to Annaleah.
You can read more of this review over on my blog: <a href="http://bookingwayreads.wordpress.com">Bookingway Reads</a>
Picking Up the Flute: A Memoir with Music
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Picking Up the Flute sets to music a former professors musings on retirement, marriage, literature,...
Letter to My Daughter
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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to my Daughter reveals Maya...
River of Grace: Creative Passages Through Difficult Times
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In just a few years' time, Bailey experienced one challenge after another: the deaths of her father...