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A 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 languageI, too, sing America: three centuries of African-American poetry
Par Catherine Clinton. 1998
On 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 readingRisking
Par David Viscott. 1977
A psychiatrist underscores the need to take risks in order to grow and change in all areas of life. He…
demonstrates why people should make choices and decisions based on their own goals rather than the desires of othersThe 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 sexThe 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. [SDMOn a voiceless shore: Byron in Greece
Par Stephen Minta. 1998
Retraces Byron's journeys in Greece, providing insight on how the country and its people influenced the poet. Explores his love…
for the Mediterranean area and his reasons for remaining in Mesolongi, where he died in April 1824Pourquoi l'amour ne suffit pas: aider l'enfant à se construire
Par Claude Halmos. 2006
[...] Claude Halmos, à la lumière de son expérience de psychanalyste, démontre que la vision d'un amour parental réduit aux…
sentiments a des conséquences graves pour les enfants, pour leurs parents, mais aussi pour toute la société. Elle pose, dans le langage clair qu'on lui connaît, les bases d'une véritable réflexion sur l'amour parental. Et donne ainsi à tous les parents les moyens de comprendre ce qu'aimer un enfant veut dire. -- 4e de couvHeroin
Par Geraldine Woods. 1994
Discusses the history and usage of the powerful narcotic drug derived from opium poppies. Explains various aspects of addiction and…
describes treatments used to kick the habit. For junior and senior high readersBlues legacies and Black feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Par Angela Davis. 1998
A feminist interpretation of the lives and lyrics of three African American blues musicians of the 1930s. Also includes the…
complete lyrics of some of Ma Rainey's and Bessie Smith's songsVice: new and selected poems
Par Ai. 1999
Fifty-eight selections from five books published between 1973 and 1993 and eighteen new poems. In dramatic monologs, the speakers explore…
terror, desperation, and other raw emotions on topics such as abortion, beatings, child and wife abuse, politics, and race. National Book Award--Poetry. 1999Wooroloo: poems
Par Frieda Hughes. 1998
The daughter of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath expresses herself in forty-six poems. Describes Australian landscapes, animals dead and…
alive, feelings about incidents in her personal life, and women's issuesBirthday letters
Par Ted Hughes. 1998
Thirty-five years after Sylvia Plath's suicide, her husband, Ted Hughes, responds with eighty-eight poems. Arranged chronologically, the poems depict their…
courtship, marriage, and an imagined sixtieth birthday reunion in her honor. BestsellerPourquoi moi?: réponses possibles à des questions impossibles (Parcours)
Par Robin Norwood. 1994
Une psychothérapeute propose des réflexions pratiques pour la guérison des problèmes intérieurs. Elle évoque des cas rencontrés, pour illustrer sa…
méthode. Celle-ci est basée sur le développement personnel, sur le changement des attitudes, sur l'évolution de la conscience. De plus, les principes de base de sa thérapie se fondent sur une "vision ésotérique de l'existence humaine"; il y est aussi question de "perspectives planétaires", de réincarnation, de karma, d'expériences paranormales. [SDMLa mémoire est une corde de bois d'allumage
Par Benoit Pinette. 2021
Avec bonté et résilience, Benoit Pinette retourne à son enfance - un pays en soi, une trajectoire - et pose…
le doigt sur ses instants douloureux, étudie l'équilibre des époques. Il construit de là sa compréhension des glissements du passé et sa volonté à faire mieux, à offrir le meilleur aux siens. Ce texte lance l'allumette dans le foin sec ; il carbonise des histoires anciennes, des angoisses, des corps pourris. La mémoire est une corde de bois d'allumage représente un chantier d'inquiétudes et de certitudes éphémères, mais parions que l'amour l'emportera sur la tâche à accomplir.Hollander and an eleven-member advisory committee selected favorite poems for memorization or, at least, careful reading. The poems--generally short, rhythmic,…
and with intense imagery--are categorized as sonnets, songs, counsels, tales, and meditations. They include works by poets ranging from Shakespeare to Yeats to FrostOtherwise: new and selected poems
Par Jane Kenyon. 1996
Kenyon made these selections to be included in her last book shortly before her death. They include twenty of her…
more recent poems and favorite choices from four earlier collections. She imparts a special meaning to the everyday objects and events she describes. Donald Hall, her husband, writes an afterwordHoly hunger: a memoir of desire
Par Margaret Bullitt-Jonas. 1999
An Episcopal priest describes her addiction to food and her struggle to overcome it. Growing up with an alcoholic father…
and an emotionally reclusive mother, Bullitt-Jonas became a compulsive overeater. She eventually recovered with the help of Overeaters Anonymous