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Le Québec en contes et légendes
Par Michel Savage. 2007
"[...] Écrit de manière simple et accessible, [ce livre] raconte l'histoire romancée du Québec depuis ses débuts. Il parle de…
loups-garous, de feux follets, de diables, de revenants et de fantômes. Il répond aussi à des questions comme "D'où vient l'hiver ?", "Qui est le Bonhomme Sept-heures ?" ou "Comment a-t-on découvert le sirop d'érable?". Le Québec en contes et légendes est un heureux mélange d'histoires les plus connues de la tradition orale, de contes inédits et de faits historiques relégués aux oubliettes. Plusieurs textes connus ont été réécrits par les auteurs pour mieux captiver les lecteurs d'aujourd'hui, pour leur faire peur, pour les faire pleurer ou pour les faire rire. [...]" -- 4e de couvDisowned by memory: Wordsworth's poetry of the 1790s
Par David Bromwich. 1998
A critical interpretation of the first decade of Wordsworth's poetry. Combines biography, history, and psychology to provide a context for…
such pieces as "Tintern Abbey" and "The Old Cumberland Beggar." 1998La raison du plus faible
Par Jean-Marie Pelt. 2009
"[...] Ce nouvel essai de Jean-Marie Pelt s'emploie à récuser la fameuse "loi de la jungle" qui, dans une nature…
réputée "cruelle", serait le seul moteur de l'évolution. Il montre qu'il existe une raison du plus faible : tout au long de l'histoire de la vie sur terre, des premières bactéries jusqu'à l'homme, là où les plus gros et les plus forts n'ont pas su résister aux grands cataclysmes et aux changements climatiques, ce sont souvent les créatures les plus humbles qui ont survécu. C'est aussi parmi les plus faibles que sont nées les plus belles histoires de solidarité, par la symbiose. C'est enfin chez les plus vulnérables que l'ingéniosité adaptative a développé ses plus belles inventions [...]. Dans cet ouvrage fourmillant d'anecdotes puisées au coeur du monde végétal et animal, Jean-Marie Pelt s'en donne à coeur joie pour nous raconter l'extraordinaire énergie des petits, réputés faibles..." -- 4e de couvFrom the devotions: poems
Par Carl Phillips. 1998
Alive together: new and selected poems
Par Lisel Mueller. 1996
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Includes works published over almost four decades as well as newer works. The…
poems celebrate the human capacity for love and joy, and the experience of family, music, and languageMusic minus one: poems
Par Jane Shore. 1996
The condor's shadow: the loss and recovery of wildlife in America
Par David Wilcove. 1994
An ecologist discusses the state of America's wildlife including the loss of species and habitats. Provides an overview of how…
humans have altered the landscape, beginning with Native Americans in pre-colonial times. Describes the destruction of ecosystems and the environmental movement's conservation efforts. 1999Seventy-five articles selected from the popular magazine's 109-year existence. Although heavily illustrated, the periodical contains scholarly articles about the planet…
and its people. Contributors include Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Lindberg, Maya Angelou, Tad Szulc, and Shelby FooteOut of silence: selected poems
Par Muriel Rukeyser. 1992
Selections from previously published collections spanning the years from 1935 to 1978. The editors chose pieces representative of Rukeyser's complete…
body of work; many celebrate "the strengths and vision of women."Effort at speech: new and selected poems
Par William Meredith. 1997
Meredith presents selections from his eight previously published collections spanning 1944 to 1987 and twelve new poems. Michael Collier explains…
in the introduction that the title Effort at Speech is more than apt because in 1983 a stroke left Meredith with expressive aphasia--a struggle for speech. National Book Award winnerWithout: poems
Par Donald Hall. 1998
Hall recalls in poems the illness and death from leukemia of his wife, the well-known poet Jane Kenyon. He details…
their emotions during her struggle at forty-six to stay alive. The last section expresses his grief from missing herCollection of twenty-two poems describing personal reactions to objects and events such as birds, pebbles, a first kiss, and the…
death of a loved one. The second section provides background information on each poem with an invitation to the reader to write about suggested topics. For junior and senior high readersA working girl can't win and other poems
Par Deborah Garrison. 1998
Twenty-eight poems expressing a young woman's views on the office world and its male inhabitants, and revealing her private thoughts…
and fantasies. Many of these pieces first appeared in the New Yorker, where Garrison is a senior editor. Some strong languageOn the bus with Rosa Parks: poems
Par Rita Dove. 1999
Over forty new poems by the former Poet Laureate celebrating personal freedoms. Several sections explore the African American experience in…
a historical context, while others convey an individual reaction. "Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967" describes the pleasures of voracious readingThe essential Rumi
Par Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī. 1995
Contemporary translation of spiritual poetry by the Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). These poems were created during Rumi's work with…
a dervish learning community that was "exploring the mystery of union with the divine." Some descriptions of sexColumns from the New York Times weekly science section dealing with natural catastrophes including volcanoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes. Discusses disasters…
from the past, such as the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, as well as future threats like asteroids hitting the earth. For senior high and older readers. 2000The mercy: poems
Par Philip Levine. 1999
Thirty-seven poems in free verse celebrate human dignity and the value of work on the journey from youth to old…
age, innocence to knowledge, defeat to triumph, and inevitably from life to death. In the title poem, the author's mother arrives in the United States; the final work describes her funeral. 1999A sample of Native North American song-poems, including an Inuit's song about the first airplane he ever saw, Navajo chantaways,…
hunting songs, and lullabies. The introduction and notes provide background information and sourcesRecueil agréablement présenté, comprenant plus d'une centaine de textes répondant au titre. On y retrouve sous cinq divisions tant Verlaine…
que Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Corbière mais aussi Chénier, Hugo sans oublier Pétrarque, Shakespeare et Goethe. Un livre de chevet. [SDM