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O Cruel Alexis: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #76 by Virgil
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Category: Penguin Little Black Classics
'But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream, Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burning sun.' Virgil's lyrical, wistful and often witty pastoral poems. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of P ...Show more
Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults by Jerome Neu
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Category: Philosophy
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." This schoolyard rhyme projects an invulnerability to verbal insults that sounds good but rings false. Indeed, the need for such a verse belies its own claims. For most of us, feeling insulted is a distressing-and distressingly common-e ...Show more
Speaking of Siva by Akkamahādēvi
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Category: Penguin Little Black Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'To the utterly at-one with Sivathere's no dawn.' Meditative, deeply personal poems to the god Siva, from four major Hindu saints. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from ...Show more
The Rocky Shore by Jenny Bornholdt
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Category: Poetry
POETRY Category Winner A collection of longish poems. In these talky poems, Bornholdt ranges over a wide variety of territory - love, death, children, illness, bread-making and the garden. All the big themes. First published October 2008.
Man Who Takes Care of My Soul by LUCKWELL, SIGARI
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Category: Poetry
During Sigari Luckwell's fifth birthday party at home in Ickenham, England, the man who cared for her soul knocked on the door of her heart and invited her to dance. As she witnessed freedom from boundaries and merged with everything and everyone around her, Luckwell knew deep inside--even at such a you ...Show more
Out of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing by Lynne Segal
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Category: Poetry
A brave book with a polemical argument on the paradoxes, struggles and advantages of aging. "How old am I? Don't ask, don't tell." As the baby boomers approach their sixth or seventh decade, they are faced with new challenges and questions of politics and identity. In the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir ...Show more
The Told World by Angela Gardner
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Category: Poetry
"With this fine collection Gardner's work achieves what one poem describes as 'beauty itself / taut against the half-life rendering.' Human experience is the shadow cast by these poems, and not the other way around. 'A wholeness ghost-licked or absent / gets caught in the machinery,' Gardner observes, a ...Show more
Fire in the Belly by Sam Keen
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Category: Philosophy
A guide to establishing new personal ideals of heroism, strength, and potency for a fuller life examines the stereotypes, myths, and evolving roles of contemporary men, presenting an alternative vision of virtue and virility.
Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets by Edited Michael Farrell and Jill Jones
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Category: Poetry
The first contemporary book of its kind: poems by gay and lesbian poets writing now in the freedoms and dangers of the 21st century. Poems of the 21st century: sexy, sassy, innovative, and real. Poets in the anthology include David Malouf, Dorothy Porter, Peter Rose, Pam Brown, Chris Edwards, Lee Cat ...Show more
Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane
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Category: Poetry
Gerald Murnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarming poems that traverse the rich span of his life. I esteem / above all poems or passages of prose / those that put a lump in my throat. - Gerald Murnane, 'The Darkling Thrush' Gerald Murnane, now in his eightieth yea ...Show more
The Esoteric Aspect of the Social Question: The Individual and Society by Rudolf Steiner
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Category: Philosophy
Although recent years have seen major advances in science and technology, the social aspect of life still presents major problems for western societies. The general increase in destructive, antisocial behaviour over past decades has raised the profile of social issues, yet effective ideas to tackle the ...Show more
In-Gratitude and Other Poems by Neville Symington
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Category: Poetry
'Where does the creative act come from? No one knows. All the rash of literature in recent times from artists, scientists and theologians on the subject of consciousness finds its origin in this puzzle.Creating what has happened to one into an art form has one effect: it dissolves the barrier between th ...Show more