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From Hollywood starlets to downtown taxi dancers, and from Central Avenue speakeasies to clapboard Venice Beach shacks to Depression-era hobos riding the rails, this volume brings you the masters of the genre penning tales of love, lust, and loss in the City of Angels.Includes classic stories by: Raymond Chandler, Paul Cain, James Ellroy, Leigh Brackett, James M. Cain, Chester Himes, Ross MacDonald, Walter Mosley, Naomi Hirahara, Margaret Millar, Joseph Hansen, William Campbell Gault, Jervey...
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This haiku book provides an invaluable guide to developing your own haiku-writing skills, with clear explanations, brilliant examples, and innovative writing exercises.It also offers an introduction to related Japanese poetic forms including: Senryu—commentaries on human nature that are often humorous or ironicHaibun—short, autobiographical narratives accompanied by a haikuTanka—imaginative poems full of highly personal, emotional expressionsHaiga—drawings...
| Автор | Bruce Ross |
Hotel is a wonderful debut pamphlet from 2018 Eric Gregory award¬winning poet Ali Lewis. In short, intricate verse, his poems tackle the complexities of modern relationships and city living with great self-deprecation, not a little lightheartedness, and dashes of the surreal. But there is depth here too. In this connected century, with so many eyes on you, with so many opinions and agendas being made vocal, with so many opinions, what is the best way to be, as a partner, a friend, a colleague?...
| Автор | Ali Lewis |
This vintage book contains Percy Bysshe Shelley's seminal 1819 poem, «Masque of Anarchy». The poem, though written in a relaxed and familiar manner, is highly characteristic of Shelly's other works. It has the usual ardour of his tone, the unbounded sensibility by which he combines the most domestic with the most remote and fanciful images, as well as his signature patience. This volume is highly recommended for all poetry-lovers, and is a must-read for fans of Shelley's work. It...
| Автор | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
DO YOU A) Know a human? B) Love a human? C) Have trouble dealing with humans? IF YOU'VE ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THE ABOVE, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU Whether you are planning a high level of human interaction or just a casual visit to the planet, this user-guide to the human race will help you translate their sayings, understand exotic concepts such as 'democracy' and 'sofas', and make sense of their habits and bizarre customs. A phrase book, a dictionary and a...
| Автор | Мэтт Хейг |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZES FOR POETRY 2020 and a Poetry Book Society Choice: Magnolia, 木蘭, Nina Mingya Powles’ first full collection, dwells within the tender, shifting borderland between languages, and between poetic forms, to examine the shape and texture of memories, of myths, and of a mixed-race girlhood. Abundant with multiplicities, these poems find profound, distinctive joy in sensory nourishment – in the sharing of food, in the recounting of memoir, or vividly within nature....
| Автор | Nina Mingya Powles |
Amusing and thought-provoking, this A-to-Z compendium outlines common oral and written gaffes. Ambrose Bierce, a celebrated literary wit, assembled his informative compilation in 1909 from many years of observations and notes. He advocates precision in language, offering alternatives to grammatical lapses and inaccurate word choices.Moneyed for Wealthy: «The moneyed men of New York.» One might as sensibly say, «The cattled men of Texas,» or, «The lobstered men of the fish...
| Автор | Ambrose Bierce |
What would Christmas be without such charming and heartwarming poems as «A Visit from St. Nicholas»? That famous poem, also known as «The Night Before Christmas,» is only one of the many sparkling highlights of this festive collection, a rich and varied compilation of yuletide verse that will enchant readers of all ages.These poems range from serious seasonal reflections by Martin Luther («From Heaven Above to Earth I Come») and John Milton («On the Morning of Christ's Nativity») to flights...
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"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."«When in doubt, tell the truth.»"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."One of America's greatest storytellers, Samuel Clemens had something witty and wise to say on just about every topic....
| Автор | Mark Twain |
