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This is a brief overview of Christian German poetry. Treated are Martin Luther, Paul Gerhardt, Paul Speratus, Nikolaus Herman, Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, Cyriacus Schneegass, Philipp Nicolai, Martin Opitz, Joachim Neander, Philipp Jakob Spener, Johann Heermann, Gerhard Tersteegen, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, Joseph Mohr, C. F. W. Walther, Carl Johann Hermann Fick, and many others. Included are a few of my own original...
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Red Red Shoes was commissioned by the Unicorn Theatre for Children and The Place. Based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale, this play uses dance, music and drama to explore the inner world of a traumatised child fleeing from war in Eastern Europe. (Ages 9+) Eye of the Storm offers a contemporary version of Shakespeare's The Tempest, exploring father/daughter relationships and the need for independence. (Ages 12+) Playing From the Heart, commissioned...
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"Doomed to Bloom" is a unique combination of a narrative and a poetic collection. Sequences of events and rhythmic variations are blended harmoniously, revealing a gothic romance between two young individuals.A girl – the main character of this poetic narration - lives in a "nightmare" from which she cannot escape. She attributes her troubles to a powerful witch, who entertains herself by setting traps to unsuspecting victims. The helpless girl...
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The complete playtext for use in schools and youth theatres. Imagine swapping places with a monster for the day. Ben has a BIG problem. His mum is acting grumpy, his best friend Vince has stolen his precious binoculars and his Dad is far, far away… Oh, and there's a monster under his bed. But when Ben swaps places with the underbed monster, Ben's life – and his school – is turned inside out and upside down. A funny and thrilling play for children...
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Luego del éxito de Corazón de miel, llega a nosotros La rosa que te viste. Un libro de poemas de amor que estremecerá a todos aquellos que viven apasionados.Contiene intensas y refrescantes poesías de amor cuya lectura te conducirán a un estado positivo e inspirador, a un estado donde la emoción dulce que habita en tu interior te transformará.Descubre el recorrido de un poeta enamorado y sus más profundas emociones."El amor verdadero de una...
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"I desire a lot of women, almost all of them, really. It's my way of hating them, because they give me reason to. They won't have anything to do with me."In the séance that forms the backdrop to Italo Svevo's _The Broken Triangle_, a fantasy in one act, the spirit of the prematurely dead Clelia is summoned from the hereafter by her husband and by her lover. She appears in nebulous form to the two men to mediate a dispute between them, but their requests--one...
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"Winner of the 1993 Translation Prize, American-Scandinavian Foundation" Göran Sonnevi has written twelve books of poems and assembled and revised collections of his poems (most of which are in print in Sweden in mass-market paperback editions). Rika Lesser is a poet and has translated numerous works of poetry, including a selection of the poems of Rilke, Rilke: Between Roots (Princeton). For a group of poems from A Child Is Not a Knife, she received...
9) Identidad
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Identidad es un poemario de claros y oscuros, de creación y destrucción, de personajes que se despiden y de otros que llegan, de sombras que se alejan y de espejos que se unen. Mientras que el telón del día cae y la escena de la noche estrellada se prepara, aparece el anciano que camina lento, las primeras luces de los farolitos, el sonido de las campanadas.El poemario es además el reflejo de un tiempo. Mientras recorres este maravilloso camino,...
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Set against the backdrop of true, world events, "Dallas" and "I Claudius" unite, resulting in a deeply engaging and richly entertaining experience. The protagonists in this passion-fuelled saga of our times are members of two rival banking dynasties – the Villon Family in Europe and the Ravenscroft Family in the U.S.A. – who are arch-enemies. But it was not always so. Around the mid-nineteenth century, both families were members of a secret cabal,...
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Five women, four forty years old, and one matron of sixty-one take a holiday to France anxious to escape their robotic lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.Wendy, the travel agent, Penny, owner of a needlework shop, Sarah, accomplished artist, Vernie, executive director of the Portland Symphony, and Rose, who is a recent widow all wind their way through Provence with adventures conflicts, and a generous portion of food and wine.Each evening they gather...
12) El Amor Eterno
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El Amor Eterno (the eternal love) is a collection of poems in Spanish by Cassandra Tribe. This collection includes: The Demon of Providence, Angel, Monster, Baucis, Filemon, the dreams of bees and the Map of Your Heart. Cassandra Tribe is a performance poet, her videos and performances have been featured worldwide and she is the author of the blog, loveandwords.Translated by Clarissa Gentinetta.
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***For a limited time, you can get THREE THRILLERS - FREE - click here to find out more > ow.ly/t6L4R (just copy and paste the bold text link into your browser)***The Abba-like cleanness of Stockholm was getting to him. He wanted to piss against a wall.With plenty of drugs, sex and rock and roll; The Ice Boat is a modern pop-culture odyssey.Dave has almost got it all; with a rock star lifestyle, romance and a nice flat in London, he almost has the...
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When night descends who knows what spirits walk abroad?Fleeing his scandalous past, Scully seeks refuge in a remote Spanish village. When he meets innocent young Marisa, he dreams of starting a new life. But beneath the village's placid surface lurk dark and sinister forces, a maelstrom of fierce hatreds and primitive passions.And Easter approaches, heralding a chilling climax...
15) La oportunidad
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La moralidad puede esconder secretos inconfesables que pueden aflorar en cualquier momento y terminar de la manera más inesperada.
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In "Secrets of Mary and the Trainbabies", we follow my grandparents lives from the point they met in America, through their bitter sweet trip back to their homeland, Poland. The story carries through my mother's life, secrets she carried with her whole life, Mary's life through the war, but we also follow my grandfather and the fictionalized lives of several other families and an Austrian WWI hero through the war.
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From the mountainous hinterlands of Catalonia comes the harrowing tale of a veteran of the Carlist Wars who survives his own execution by firing squad. When he returns from his journey to the hereafter, he is a changed man, known to all of his acquaintances as L'Afusellat--the man who was shot.Translated from Catalan by Juan LePuenGenre: short storyLength: 12,000 wordsDate of English translation: 2012
19) New Poems
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The formative work of the legendary poet who sought to write "not feelings but things I had felt"
When Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris for the first time in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin, he was twenty-seven and already the author of nine books of poems. His early work had been accomplished, but belonged tonally to the impressionistic, feeling-centered world of a late-nineteenth-century aesthetic.
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»Genau so reden sie, die Eltern, der Opa, die Erwachsenen«, notierte Bruno Epple über die alemannischen Gedichte von Manfred Bosch. Einem Seismografen gleich erfasst Bosch »Volkes Stimme« zwischen Bodensee und Hegau.
Knapp einhundert Gedichte enthält die Auswahl »Wa witt no meh«, die überwiegend in den 1970/80er-Jahren entstanden sind und in vier Bändchen publiziert wurden. Neben den bereits veröffentlichten Texten enthält dieser Band...
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