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“volker drees”

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  • Trees

    An Anthology of Writings and Paintings

    by Hermann Hesse ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    *Winner of the American Translators Association Frederick Ungar Award*An elegant collection of Hermann Hesse’s essays, poems, and passages on the subject of trees and nature, accompanied by thirty-one of his watercolor illustrations.Hermann Hesse understood trees to be symbols of transcendence and rebirth, of instinctive growth present in all natural life. This elegant collection of his essays, ... Read more

    $25.19 CAD

  • The Tree Habit in Land Plants

    A Functional Comparison of Trunk Constructions with a Brief Introduction into the Biomechanics of Trees

    by Volker Mosbrugger ...
    Series Book 28 - Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
    The present study will help answer questions of tree type evolution, function, optimum, and tree construction types, using the approach of constructional morphology which to date has been widely neglected in palaeobotany and botany. First, the evolution pattern of the earliest Devonian trees is analyzed and explained, including a brief introduction of tree biomechanics. Then fossil and recent ... Read more

    $106.29 CAD

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  • Poems 1962-2012

    by Louise Glück ...
    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prize–winning poetIt is the astonishment of Louise Glück's poetry that it resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce, the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Winter Hours

    Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

    by Mary Oliver ...
    "On the subject of writing poetry, Oliver is the most enlightened and enlightening author I have read." —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award comes Winter Hours, Mary Oliver's most personal book yet. And never more so than in this extraordinary and engaging gathering of nine essays, a work of reflective memoir accompanied by a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Time and Materials

    Poems 1997-2005

    by Robert Hass ...
    The poems in Robert Hass's new collection—his first to appear in a decade—are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.His familiar landscapes are here—San Francisco, the Northern California coast, the Sierra high country—in addition to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Collected Poems

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive, The Colossus, as well as from posthumous collections Ariel, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees.The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems. There is ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • The Tennis Court Oath

    A Book of Poems

    by John Ashbery ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Program
    John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • A Book of Simple Living

    Brief Notes from the Hills

    by Ruskin Bond ...
    'Mist fills the Himalayan valleys, and monsoon rain sweeps across the hills. Sometimes, during the day, a bird visits me-a deep purple whistling thrush. She perches on the window sill, and looks out with me at the rain.' This personal diary records the many small moments that constitute a life of harmony-with the self, the natural world, and friends, family and passersby. In these pages, we watch ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • No Flower Blooms Without Wavering

    흔들리며 피는 꽃

    by Do Jong-Hwan ...
    An English rendition of a collection of poetry by Do Jong-hwan, one of Korea’s most beloved poets. Do’s literary career started in 1984, when he released Age of Division while teaching Korean language and literature to high-school students. His second poetry collection, You the Hollyhock, sold over a million copies and was made into a film, and he became one of Korea’s most influential poets ... Read more

    $8.23 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collected Poems

    1950-2012

    by Adrienne Rich ...
    The collected works of Adrienne Rich, whose poetry is "distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity" (New York Times). A Finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation and one of our most important American poets. She brought discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse, ... Read more

    $75.29 CAD

  • The Apple Trees at Olema

    New and Selected Poems

    by Robert Hass ...
    “No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.”—Atlantic MonthlyThe National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With The Apple Trees at Olema, the former Poet Laureate and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize offers twenty new and selected poems grounded in the beauty of the physical world. As with all of the collections ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Of Gravity & Angels

    by Jane Hirshfield ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    JANE HIRSHFIELD's first book, Alaya, received the Quarterly Review Of Literature Prize in 1982. In 1986, OF Gravity Angels receive d the Joseph Henry Jackson Award from the San Francisco Foundation for a book in progress; in 1989, it was awarded the Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal. Hirshfield's third book The October Palace, published in 1994, received the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, the ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD