CIURARU, CARMELA & ALICE QUINN

First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them

Scribner, 2000. Hardcover. ISBN: 068486438X. Tight unmarked book in crisp dust jacket. ; 6 X 1.25 X 8.75 inches; 272 pages. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 61745

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: 068486438x

CIURARU, CARMELA

Motherhood: Poems About Mothers

white gold yellow a5 less garage C, Everyman's Library. 2005. (ISBN: 9781400043569). Hardcover, 11.1 x 1.8 x 16.5 cm. Hardback with dust jacket in good condition. Celebrating mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, grandmothers and grandchildren, Motherhood is a glorious, wonderfully intimate tribute to the first love in every reader's life. From tenth-century Japan's Izumi Shikibu, colonial America's Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England's Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel's Yehuda Amichai, Ireland's Paul Muldoon, and Russia's Anna Akhmatova, poets across the centuries and around the world have immortalized this elemental relationship. Among the more than seventy poets in this anthology, Audre Lorde recalls "How the days went / While you were blooming within me"; Jorie Graham muses on her mother's sewing box; Allen Ginsberg says goodbye in "Kaddish"; and Langston Hughes invokes a mother's empowering example: "Don't you fall now-- / For I'se still goin', honey, / I'se still climbin', / And life for me ain't been no crystal stair." From Emily Brontë's "Upon Her Soothing Breast" and Seamus Heaney's "Mother of the Groom" to Sylvia Plath's "Morning Song" and Frank O'Hara's "Ave Maria," the more than one hundred poems collected here enshrine the miracle of motherhood and the richness of feeling and experience it inspires. Good.

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Book number: 29794

Catalogue: Love Poetry (Books)

Keywords: 9781400043569

Ciuraru, Carmela

Nom de plume: a (secret) history of pseudonyms / Carmela Ciuraru

New York: Harper 2011. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Description; xxiv. 343 p.; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-343). Contents; The Brontes and Currer. Acton. and Ellis Bell (1816-1855) -- George Sand and Aurore Dupin (1804-1876) -- George Eliot and Marian Evans (1819-1880) -- Lewis Carroll and Charles Dodgson (1832-1898) -- Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) -- O. Henry and William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) -- Fernando Pessoa and his heteronyms (1888-1935) -- George Orwell and Eric Blair (1903-1950) -- Isak Dinesen and Karen Blixen (1885-1962) -- Sylvia Plath and Victoria Lucas (1932-1963) -- Henry Green and Henry Yorke (1905-1973) -- Romain Gary and Emile Ajar (1914-1980) -- James Tiptree. Jr. and Alice Sheldon (1915-1987) -- Georges Simenon and Christian Brulls. et al. (1903-1989) -- Patricia Highsmith and Claire Morgan (1921-1995) -- Pauline Reage and Anne Desclos (1907-1998). Subjects; Anonyms and pseudonyms--History. LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

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Book number: 237417