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Bad Dreams Burn
by Julie KølleThis is a collection of my blood spilled intentionally inside these pages. I think it has dried by now. I hope it has so you can use these pages to start a fire and make bad dreams burn.
Bad Man Blues: A Portable George Garrett
by George P. GarrettA new collection of stories, anecdotes, and personal essays, with a few poems added for good measure, by the writer whose first collection of short fiction was published to high praise some 40 years ago.
Badiou and American Modernist Poetics (Pivotal Studies In The Global American Literary Imagination Ser.)
by Cameron MacKenzieBadiou and American Modernist Poetics explores the correspondence between Alain Badiou's thinking on art and that of the canonical modernists T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the text engages with themes of the void, mastery, and place present in both modernist poetry and in Badiou’s philosophy. Through an examination of classic modernist texts, Cameron MacKenzie reveals that where Badiou hopes to go, the modernists have already been.
Badlat Geleli Sahi FYBA - SPPU: बदलत गेलेली सही एफ.वाय.बी.ए. - सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे यूनिवर्सिटी
by Anjali Kulkarniसही म्हणजे स्वओळख. 'बदलत गेलेली सही' हा कवितासंग्रह म्हणजे माणसांच्या, हरवत चाललेल्या स्वओळखीच्या शोधाचा प्रवास. एका बाजूला माणसांच्या जगण्याभोवती गरगरणारा आधुनिक काळातला, जागतिकीकरण, संगणकीकरण, युद्धखोरी आणि बाजारीकरणाचा भोवरा, त्यात हरवून गेलेली माणसाची व्यक्तीविशिष्टता, ऐहिक लोलुपतेच्या एकाच साच्यातून जगणाऱ्या माणसांचे यांत्रिकीकरण, त्याचे ताणतणाव आणि दुसऱ्या बाजूला यासकट आणि याशिवाय पुरुषी सनातनत्वाचे चटके-फटके सोसणारी, तरीही स्वतःची ओळख शोधू-जपू मागणारी स्त्री. नात्यांचे ताणतणाव पेलणारी सारं जग एका थक्क करणाऱ्या ऐहिक विकासाच्या परमोच्च बिंदूवर गतीमानतेनं पोचत असताना, जुन्याच परिघावर अडखळून उभी असलेली. अद्याप चेहराच न मिळालेली. अंजली कुलकर्णी यांनी या आधुनिक काळात वावरणाऱ्या माणसांच्या आणि विशेषकरून स्त्रीच्या दुखःची दुखरी नस नेमकेपणानं पकडली आहे. एकाच वेळी एकतानता आणि आलीप्तता, खोल विचारशीलता आणि उत्कट भावनाशीलता यांनी या कवितेच्या पैठणीवस्त्राला झळझळीत फिरता रंग बहाल केला आहे.
Baghdad: The City in Verse
by Roger Allen Reuven Snir Abdul Kader El JanabiBaghdad: The City in Verse captures the essence of life lived in one of the world's great enduring metropolises. In this unusual anthology, Reuven Snir offers original translations of more than 170 Arabic poems--most of them appearing for the first time in English--which represent a cross-section of genres and styles from the time of Baghdad's founding in the eighth century to the present day. The diversity of the fabled city is reflected in the Bedouin, Muslim, Christian, Kurdish, and Jewish poets featured here, including writers of great renown and others whose work has survived but whose names are lost to history. Through the prism of these poems, readers glimpse many different Baghdads: the city built on ancient Sumerian ruins, the epicenter of Arab culture and Islam's Golden Age under the enlightened rule of Harun al-Rashid, the bombed-out capital of Saddam Hussein's fallen regime, the American occupation, and life in a new but unstable Iraq. With poets as our guides, we visit bazaars, gardens, wine parties, love scenes (worldly and mystical), brothels, prisons, and palaces. Startling contrasts emerge as the day-to-day cacophony of urban life is juxtaposed with eternal cycles of the Tigris, and hellish winds, mosquitoes, rain, floods, snow, and earthquakes are accompanied by somber reflections on invasions and other catastrophes. Documenting the city's 1,250-year history, Baghdad: The City in Verse shows why poetry has been aptly called the public register of the Arabs.
Baita hondakinak ere
by Iñigo AstizBaita hondakinak ere, Iñigo Astiz: Ez dakit nor den, baina norbaitek denbora bat kalkulatu dit hemen. Eskaileretako argiari sakatu eta bertan gelditu naiz ikustera noiz suposatzen nauten kanpoan, noiz behar nukeen beste inon, agian beste inorekin, edo behintzat ez hemen: bakarrik, geldi, isilik. Ezertan ez. Bataz besteko presentzia bat dut munduaren leku zehatz honetan, eta nire ausazko existentziaren denbora agortzea erabaki dut gaur, beste inori eszedenterik utzi gabe. Norentzat dira nire segundoak ni ez nagoenean? Ordezkatzen al naute? Bigarrenez sakatu diot argiari, geldi, ezin asmatuz zer beste unerengatik sakrifikatu behar nukeen une hau, zer beste lekutan pentsatu nauten, eta zer beste bizitza amestu didaten.
Bakkhai
by Anne Carson EuripidesA stunning, new translation by the poet and classicist Anne Carson, first performed in 2015 at the Almeida Theatre in London Anne Carson writes, “Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His plays broke all the rules, upended convention and outraged conservative critics. The Bakkhai is his most subversive play, telling the story of a man who cannot admit he would rather live in the skin of a woman, and a god who seems to combine all sexualities into a single ruinous demand for adoration. Dionysos is the god of intoxication. Once you fall under his influence, there is no telling where you will end up.”
Balancing Bernie
by Ellie SandallBernie is a dog with a very special talent - he can balance absolutely anything! One day he gets a very unusual request from a furry friend - can Bernie balance this little dog, too? Soon, dogs from all over the park are hurrying up with a woof and a bark to join in Bernie's brilliant balancing act! But don't worry, Bernie would NEVER let them all fall . . .A playful, bouncing read-aloud story, full of dogs of all shapes and sizes, from the creator of the Everybunny series!
Ballad of Reading Gaol
by Oscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest.
Ballad of a Happy Immigrant
by Leo Boix'It isn't often that one encounters a sensibility so interested in our world - and so compelling in its powers of attentiveness. Leo Boix's poetry has a wide tilt and scope. It sings the doors open' Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic'They are sailors from another century, stalwart / captured on daguerrotype, casually masculine, tender of heart.'In the middle of the last century, the SS General Pueyrredón from Buenos Aires deposits Leo Boix's paternal grandfather on English soil for the first time. In the two years he spends there, he acquires a taste for his new homeland: from taking his tea white - muy blanco - to plunging into unfamiliar sensual worlds.So begins the poet's own journey, arriving in the United Kingdom as a young queer man. Ballad of a Happy Immigrant tells of the life he makes there: a dazzling collection of what it means to live, love and write between two cultures and traditions. Effortlessly moving between the English imagination and Spanish language, it is a boundless exploration of otherness and home, and the personal transformation that follows between 'loss / and a life / that starts anew.'*A Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice*
Ballads
by William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair (1847), a panoramic portrait of English society. Thackeray began as a satirist and parodist, with a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts like Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, Barry Lyndon in Barry Lyndon (1844) and Catherine in Catherine (1839). In his earliest works, writing under such pseudonyms as Charles James Yellowplush, Michael Angelo Titmarsh and George Savage Fitz-Boodle, he tended towards the savage in his attacks on high society, military prowess, the institution of marriage and hypocrisy. His writing career really began with a series of satirical sketches now usually known as The Yellowplush Papers, which appeared in Fraser's Magazine beginning in 1837. Between May 1839 and February 1840, Fraser's published the work sometimes considered Thackeray's first novel, Catherine also notable among the later novels are The Fitz-Boodle Papers (1842), Men's Wives (1842), The History of Pendennis (1848), The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., (1852), The Newcomes (1853) and The Rose and the Ring (1855) .
Ballads in Blue China
by Andrew LangAndrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic (1893); a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns (1899), with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age (1906). He also wrote Ballades in Blue China (1880) and Rhymes la Mode (1884).
Ballads, Lyrics, and Poems of Old France
by Andrew LangAndrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic (1893); a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns (1899), with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age (1906). He also wrote Ballades in Blue China (1880) and Rhymes la Mode (1884).
Ballet
by Laura SassiThis little ballerina loves to dance in her tutu, especially when her daddy joins her! Have you ever tried to dance ballet?
Ballistics: Poems
by Billy CollinsIn this moving and playful collection, Billy Collins touches on an array of subjects--love, death, solitude, youth, and aging--delving deeper than ever before into the intricate folds of life.
Ballyhoo (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)
by Hastings HenselA poetry collection that grapples with the tragicomic nature of language, memory, love, work, and the performative self.Though at times whimsical and witty, the poems in Hastings Hensel's Ballyhoo inhabit the world beyond and between the punchline. In tightly controlled meditations on language's limits and its necessity, as well as on the many forms that humor takes—comedy, laughter, farce, clowning, parody, and more—Hensel navigates fine lines between joy and sadness, jokes and cruelty, reality and illusion, and irony and sincerity. Universal in scope, the 47 poems in Ballyhoo are richly idiomatic and evocative. They are also frequently grounded in the southern Atlantic coast with its particular ecology, characters, history, and myth. The pleasure in reading these poems comes from the original connections Hensel makes between the literary and the gritty: an elegy set in a bait shop, Twelfth Night's Feste delivering a monologue in a bar, a villanelle about a murder on a cruise ship. These intelligent, insightful poems remind us of the frail but important relationships between comedy, memory, and identity. Ballyhoo offers a sobering examination of the tragicomic nature of the world.