Selected Poems

10 best books like Selected Poems (Zbigniew Herbert): The Two Princesses of Bamarre, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, The Hollow Kingdom, View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems, Poems of Paul Celan, Janis: Her Life and Music, Simone Weil: An Anthology, Gift, The Faerie Queene, Book Two, Brutal Imagination

The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Author	Gail Carson Levine
ISBN	0060575808

Twelve-year-old Addie admires her older sister Meryl, who aspires to rid the kingdom of Bamarre of gryphons, specters, and ogres. Addie, on the other hand, is fearful even of spiders and depends on Meryl for courage and protection. Waving her sword Bloodbiter, the older girl declaims in the garden...

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Author

Marisha Pessl

Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs),...

The Hollow Kingdom

Author	Clare B. Dunkle
ISBN	0805081089

This book is exactly the type of fairy tale that I love the most. Now, I know that I have been outspoken in the past about my dislike of fantasies featuring caveman, bad-boy type hero characters. However, I think that I know and respect dozens of women who melt in the presence of these guys. Do I look down on...

View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

Author	Wisława Szymborska
ISBN	0156002167

Nobel poetry! This got under my skin!

I think I owe it partly to this collection that I started loving modern poetry and sharing this love with the next generation.

I remember a class when we read Szymborska's "Some Like Poetry". We took it apart, and wrote our own poems following the...

Poems of Paul Celan

Author	Paul Celan
ISBN	0856462659

"In the writing of Paul Celan even we readers who can hear poetry only dimly in German can sense the greatness of his invention: the cadences of a music tilted against music's complacency; words punished for their plausibility by being reinvented and fused together and broken apart; syntax chopped...

Janis: Her Life and Music

Author	Holly George-Warren
ISBN	1508296367

Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.

Janis Joplin’s first transgressive...

Simone Weil: An Anthology

Author	Simone Weil
ISBN	0802137296

Philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist, political activist -- Simone Weil was among the foremost thinkers of our time. Best known in this country for her theological writing, Weil wrote on a great variety of subjects ranging from classical philosophy and poetry, to modern labor, to the language...

Gift

Author

Tove Ditlevsen

I sin tredje erindringsbog vender Tove Ditlevsen tilbage til sin ungdom og fortæller om det kærlighedsløse ægteskab med Viggo F., om forelskelsen i den sværmeriske Ebbe, som hun får sit første barn med, og om lægen Carl, som hun gifter sig med.

Romanen er en usminket fortælling om...

The Faerie Queene, Book Two

Author	Edmund Spenser
ISBN	0872208478

From its opening scenes--in which the hero refrains from fighting a duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolen--Book Two of The Faerie Queene redefines the nature of heroism and of chivalry. Its hero is Sir Guyon, the knight of Temperance, whose challenges frequently take the form of temptations....

Brutal Imagination

Author	Cornelius Eady
ISBN	0399147209

Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry

Brutal Imagination is the work of a poet at the peak of his considerable powers, confronting a crucial subject: the black man in America.

"A hymn to all the sons this country has stolen from her African-American families."--The Village...

Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue

Author	Quiara Alegría Hudes
ISBN	0822221942

Drama

Full Length


Cast: 3 men, 1 woman: 4 total

Setting: EXTERIOR

THE STORY: Tracing the legacy of war through three generations of a Puerto Rican family, the play focuses on nineteen-year-old Elliot, a recently anointed hometown hero who returns from Iraq...

Prelude to Bruise

Author	Saeed Jones
ISBN	1566893747

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i need to say, first off, that poetry in english is really hard for me. i can do poetry in italian, but poetry in english, tough, man.

but a friend of mine agreed to read this with me, and the experience...