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  • Acta Historiae Neerlandicae/Studies on the History of the Netherlands VI

    by W. Brulez, A. C. F. Koch, E. H. Kossman, F. C. Spits, Joh. de Vries, P. L. Geschiere, Alice. C. Carter, J. Dhondt ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The five previous volumes of the Acta Historiae Neerlandicae appeared under the auspices of the Netherlands Committee for Historical Sciences. When in 1970 this Committee merged with the Historical Society to form the Dutch Historical Society (Nederlands Historisch Genootschap) an opportunity arose to rethink the aims of the Acta's original promotors. Also this sixth and succeeding volumes became ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Cockroach Soup and Other Poems for Kids

    by Nina Kossman ...
    Step into a world where animals talk in rhymes, spiders ponder philosophy, and soup is never what it seems. In this curious collection of nonsense poetry, you'll meet a monkey obsessed with yellow pants, a centipede with too many bleeding feet, and a lion whose royal dreams are nibbled away by mice. And just when you think it can't get any stranger, someone's serving glue soup and cockroach soup ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Gods and Mortals

    Modern Poems on Classical Myths

    Edited by Nina Kossman ...
    For centuries, poets have looked into the mirror of classical myth to show us the many ways our emotional lives are still reflected in the ancient stories of heroism, hubris, transformation, and loss that myths so eloquently tell. Now, in Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths, we have the first anthology to gather the great 20th century myth-inspired poems from around the world. ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • No One Talks About the War

    Travels in Ukraine During the War

    by Nina Kossman ...
    A powerful, offbeat narrative of encounters with ordinary Ukrainians living through war.In the tradition of Anna Funder's Stasiland, No One Talks About the War is built on everyday conversations between the author and the people she meets. It is written from an extraordinary place at a crucial inflection point: Ukraine in the midst of a protracted fight for its very existence. These conversations ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Other Shepherds

    by Nina Kossman, Marina Tsvetaeva ...
    Original poetry by Nina Kossman, accompanied by a selection of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated from the Russian by Kossman."The sea is a postcard," writes Nina Kossman. There is both something elemental in this vision and -- iron-tough. Kossman's poetics are very much in conversation with Tsvetaeva's dictum "To live as I write: tersely." ...We need, Kossman tells us, to "learn to see / ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Behind the Border

    by Nina Kossman ...
    A Glimpse at Growing Up Behind the Iron CurtainIn a baker's dozen of charming and poignant vignettes, Nina Kossman tells of her childhood in the Soviet Union. Nina wants to become a heroine by awakening Grandfather Lenin during a class trip to his tomb, or by painting Red Square really red. But she is also increasingly fascinated with life in the forbidden world "behind the border," fed by ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • In the Inmost Hour of the Soul

    by Marina Tsvetayeva, Nina Kossman ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    " .. .1 have no love for life as such; for me it begins to have significance, i.e., to acquire meaning and weight, only when it is transformed, i.e., in art. If I were taken beyond the sea into paradise-and forbidden to write, I would refuse the sea and paradise. I don't need life as a thing in itself." This, written by Tsvetayeva in a letter to her Czech friend, Teskova, in 1925, could stand as ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Bewilderment

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    by David Ferry ...
    Series series Phoenix Poets
    Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. "This is one of the great books of poetry of this young century."—Dan Chiasson, The New YorkerTo read David Ferry's Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry's prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath away. In poem ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems of Stephen Spender

    by Stephen Spender ...
    Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909. He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he met, among others, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNeice, with whom he was to develop a poetics of engagement, writing powerfully of the confusion and alarm of 1930s Europe. He visited Spain during the Civil War, in 1937, where he assisted the Republican ... Read more

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  • Cosmos

    by Ernest McGaffey ...
    CosmosIGo search the æons an you willWhere withered leaves of Doubt are whirled,And who hath solved this riddle, Life,Or Death - that moves with sails unfurled,Beyond the straining eyes of manMarooned upon an unknown world.IINor tongue hath told, nor vision caughtThat paradox. Primeval Cause;Each age has had some parableEach age succeeding marked the flaws;While shifted, with the calendar,... ... Read more

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  • Poetry of the Gods

    by H.P. Lovecraft ...
    Poetry and the Gods is a short story by horror writer and poet H.P. Lovecraft in collaboration with writer Anna Helen Crofts. The story is very different from the vast majority of Lovecraft's other work and collaborations. It does, however, bear similar themes regarding dreams as a doorway to magic realms, and slumbering gods. The narrative follows the dream-voyage of Marcia, a young woman filled ... Read more

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  • Sensational Poems of Valu Helu from Tonga

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    by 'Anaseini Fale-'o-valu ' Aisea ...
    My compact book of poetries, the first version of which is with you now, has been originally written in December of 2003, but there are many lost poems that I had written when I was still in high school, starting in 1997. I started writing poetries as a way of trying to escape the deep feelings of happiness and calmness so that I would not have hysteria or hyper and, of course, not forgetting ... Read more

    $4.99 USD