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Author : Czesław Miłosz
Release : 1998
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 746/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Book of Luminous Things by : Czesław Miłosz
Download or read book A Book of Luminous Things written by Czesław Miłosz. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel laureate poet Czeslaw Milosz personal selection of 300 of the world's greatest poems written throughout the ages and around the world.
Author : Dawn Metcalf
Release : 2011-06-30
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 224/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Luminous by : Dawn Metcalf
Download or read book Luminous written by Dawn Metcalf. This book was released on 2011-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As reality slips and time stands still, Consuela finds herself thrust into the world of the Flow. Removed from all she loves into this shifting world overlapping our own, Consuela quickly discovers she has the power to step out of her earthly skin and cloak herself in new ones-skins made from the world around her, crafted from water, fire, air. She is joined by other teens with extraordinary abilities, bound together to safeguard a world they can affect, but where they no longer belong. When murder threatens to undo the Flow, the Watcher charges Consuela and elusive, attractive V to stop the killer. But the psychopath who threatens her new world may also hold the only key to Consuela's way home.
Author : Jean-Christophe Valtat
Release : 2013-10-15
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 428/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Luminous Chaos by : Jean-Christophe Valtat
Download or read book Luminous Chaos written by Jean-Christophe Valtat. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book two in The Mysteries of New Venice, the steampunk adventure series The Guardian called a "magnificent achievement" It's 1907 in the icily beautiful New Venice, and the hero of the city's liberation, Brentford Orsini, has been deposed by his arch-rival -- who immediately assigns Brentford and his friends on a dangerous diplomatic mission to Paris. So, Brentford recruits his old friend and louche counterpart, Gabriel d'Allier, underground chanteuse and suffragette Lillian Lake, and the mysterious Blankbate--former Foreign Legionnaire and leader of the Scavengers, the city's garbage collecting cult--and others, for the mission. But their mode of transportation--the untested "transaerian psychomotive"--proves faulty and they find themselves transported back in time to Paris 1895 ... before New Venice even existed. What's more, it's a Paris experiencing an unprecedented and crushingly harsh winter. They soon find themselves involved with some of the city's seediest, most fascinating inhabitants. But between attending soirees at Mallarmé's house, drinking absinthe with Proust, trying to wrestle secrets out of mesmerists, and making fun of the newly-constructed Eiffel Tower, they also find that Paris is a city full of intrigue, suspicion, and danger. For example, are the anarchists they encounter who are plotting to bomb the still-under construction Sacre Coeur church also the future founders of New Venice? And why are they trying to kill them? And, as Luminous Chaos turns into another lush adventure told in glorious prose rich in historical allusion, there's the biggest question of them all: How will they ever get home? ebook ISBN: 978-1-61219-142-3
Author : Czeslaw Milosz
Release : 2005-08-23
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 245/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Second Space by : Czeslaw Milosz
Download or read book Second Space written by Czeslaw Milosz. This book was released on 2005-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz's most recent collection Second Space marks a new stage in one of the great poetic pilgrimages of our time. Few poets have inhabited the land of old age as long or energetically as Milosz, for whom this territory holds both openings and closings, affirmations as well as losses. "Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, / I felt a door opening in me and I entered / the clarity of early morning," he writes in "Late Ripeness." Elsewhere he laments the loss of his voracious vision -- "My wondrously quick eyes, you saw many things, / Lands and cities, islands and oceans" -- only to discover a new light that defies the limits of physical sight: "Without eyes, my gaze is fixed on one bright point, / That grows large and takes me in." Second Space is typically capacious in the range of voices, forms, and subjects it embraces. It moves seamlessly from dramatic monologues to theological treatises, from philosophy and history to epigrams, elegies, and metaphysical meditations. It is unified by Milosz's ongoing quest to find the bond linking the things of this world with the order of a "second space," shaped not by necessity, but grace. Second Space invites us to accompany a self-proclaimed "apprentice" on this extraordinary quest. In "Treatise on Theology," Milosz calls himself "a one day's master." He is, of course, far more than this. Second Space reveals an artist peerless both in his capacity to confront the world's suffering and in his eagerness to embrace its joys: "Sun. And sky. And in the sky white clouds. / Only now everything cried to him: Eurydice! / How will I live without you, my consoling one! / But there was a fragrant scent of herbs, the low humming of bees, / And he fell asleep with his cheek on the sun-warmed earth."
Author : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Release : 1969
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 455/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Secret Meaning of Things by : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Download or read book The Secret Meaning of Things written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. This book was released on 1969. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Meaning of Things is Lawrence Ferlinghetti's fourth book of poems.
