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I Am Arachne
Fifteen Greek and Roman Myths
Häftad, 2009
198 kr
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Inspiring and timeless Greek and Roman tales told in first person accounts of dramatic events with art from Caldecott Medal winner, Mordicai Gerstein.
Worldling
Häftad, 1995
288 kr
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Winner of a 1996 Whiting Award. In her fourth collection of poems Elizabeth Spires addresses the elemental subjects of life and of literature: birth, death, creation, and intimations of immortality. The first section focuses on the experiences of conception, pregnancy, and childbirth from the …
Now the Green Blade Rises
Poems
Häftad, 2004
238 kr
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Opening with a powerful sequence of poems about her mother's death, Elizabeth Spires writes about the life-and-death matters of midlife: the separation of parent from child, the loss of family and friends, the evolving nature of our closest friendships. These poems find hope in the seasonal and …
Wave-Maker
Poems
Häftad, 2010
255 kr
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In Elizabeth Spires's sixth collection of poetry, the pilgrim soul, in its various guises, meditates on its own slow becoming, finding humble companions in creatures as unlikely as a lowly snail, a prehistoric coelacanth, or a tiny Japanese netsuke of a badger disguised as a monk. For Spires, life …
Memory of the Future
Poems
Häftad, 2020
196 kr
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In A Memory of the Future, critically acclaimed poet Elizabeth Spires reflects on selfhood and the search for a core identity. Inspired by the tradition of poetic interest in Zen, Spires explores the noisy space of the mind, interrogating the necessary divide between the social persona that …
Memory of the Future
Poems
Inbunden, 2018
301 kr
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In A Memory of the Future, critically acclaimed poet Elizabeth Spires reflects on selfhood and the search for a core identity. Inspired by the tradition of poetic interest in Zen, Spires explores the noisy space of the mind, interrogating the necessary divide between the social persona that …
Instant of Knowing
Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose
Av Josephine Jacobsen, Elizabeth Spires
Häftad, 2002
321 kr
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Josephine Jacobsen, born in 1908, had her first poem published when she was just ten years old. Though Jacobsen has been writing and publishing for almost eighty years, she remained outside the literary world until she was named Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971. She has since …
Instant of Knowing
Lectures, Criticism, and Occasional Prose
Av Josephine Jacobsen, Elizabeth Spires
Inbunden, 1997
664 kr
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Josephine Jacobsen, born in 1908, had her first poem published when she was just ten years old. Though Jacobsen has been writing and publishing for almost eighty years, she remained outside the literary world until she was named Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1971. She has since …
