The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

Author	Jonathan Van Ness
ISBN	0062906402

Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey.

The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy.

Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing...

Author

Florence Nightingale

"My heart always sinks within me when I hear the good housewife, of every class, say, 'I assure you the bed has been well slept in,' and I can only hope it is not true. What? Is the bed already saturated with somebody else's damp before my patient comes to exhale in it his own damp? Has it not had a single chance...

Author	A.E. Housman
ISBN	0486264688

Few volumes of poetry in the English language have enjoyed as much success with both literary connoisseurs and the general reader as A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, first published in 1896. Scholars and critics have seen in these timeless poems an elegance of taste and perfection of form and feeling...

Author

Antonio Tabucchi

Resoconti di passioni, di stati affettivi, versati nel nulla e dintorni.
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«È vero, raccontare è un gioco e io, lo ammetto, amo molto giocare. Il gioco mi ha sempre tentato; ma in questo momento il gioco che più mi tenta è quello del Rovescio. E gli altri giochi che esso si porta appresso,...

Author	Alda Merini
ISBN	8806173774

La strazio che diventa genio.
L'amore e il dolore, la bellezza.
A seguire un componimento, LE OSTERIE

A me piacciono gli
anfratti bui
delle osterie
dormienti,
dove la gente culmina
nell'eccesso del canto,
a me piacciono le cose
bestemmiate e leggere,
e...