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Maitines y Laudes es una biografía de Colette Perron, mi difunta madre. A partir de sus numerosas anotaciones escritas a lo largo de los años, el libro relata su infancia y su vida en Nédélec, Témiscamingue. Desde el comienzo de la colonización en 1900 hasta su matrimonio en 1952, cuenta su vida con toda sencillez...
La ilustración de la portada es obra de mi hermana Christine, acuarelista.
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Años después del cataclismo final, un contrabandista que se dedica a traficar objetos entre las ciudades en ruinas recibe el encargo de escoltar a una enigmática adolescente a través de una desolada geografía en la que imperan la deshumanización y la violencia. Pero esa huida no será más que el comienzo de una travesía signada al mismo tiempo por el horror y la esperanza. En esa intemperie hostil habitada por hordas bárbaras en la que cada...
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Diplomat, Asian scholar, author, polyglot, polymath, passionate lover of life in all its forms, Robert van Gulik researched and wrote prolifically on a wide range of Asian subects, such as Chinese scroll mounting, sexual life in China and the Chinese lute-an instrument that he was also mastered as a musician. In addition to his more esoteric writings, van Gulik achieved wide popular fame as the author of a series of mystery novels based on the life...
7) Vehicles
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A forty-five poem collection concerned with driving and the driven. The vehicles involved are mostly used and battered Chevrolets and Fords but there are appearances by other brands including Volkswagon, Pontiac, Plymouth, Buick, Studebaker and Cadillac. A dump truck and a couple of big rigs live here too. Speed, hitchhikers, accidents, fraud, reckless and irresponsible motoring are not strangers.
8) Poem Bale Four Me and Sophia at the Track and Other Poems regarding Horseplayer Luck and Lack of It
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Forty-three poems surrounding the Sport of Kings and the commoners it makes of many participants.
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Colaboración con la UNAM, Dirección General de Radio UNAM y Voz Viva. Demasiadas vidas en una misma-y demasiadas voces en una sola voz-que se inoculan y expanden también en los textos de variada índole que Aub publicó en la Revista de la Universidad de México casi desde que se instaló definitivamente en México, en 1948, y hasta poco antes de su muerte: su última colaboración data de 1971. Un espacio ideal, abierto y crítico, para continuar...
10) Burnt Promises
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Bo and Brooklyn's relationship is tested while Bo's soon-to-be-ex wife continues to try to hold on for dear life. Bo's ongoing divorce battle seems never-ending.Brooklyn acquires many valuable lessons about herself, not without making many costly mistakes along the way. Now that she has found what she considered, her "soul-mate" in Bo, she would have to defend herself against even her closest of friends, family members, and Bo's soon-to-be ex-wife,...
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Anna Mahlers Leben gleicht einem Geflecht aus Herkunft und Zeit. Der berühmte Vater Gustav Mahler und die übermächtigen Mutter Alma prägten ihr bildhauerisches Werk. Dem Studium der Malerei in Rom und in Paris folgte die Ausbildung zur Steinbildhauerei in Wien. In den 1930er-Jahren war ihr Wiener Atelier ein Zentrum der Begegnung, wo sich Literaten, Komponisten und Maler trafen (z. B. Elias Canetti, Fritz Wotruba). Anna Mahler begegnen wir als...
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Erwin Wurm steigt in den 1980ern zu einem der größten Stars der zeitgenössischen Kunst auf. Humor, Pop, Selbstironie und Gesellschaftskritik verschmelzen zu einem international gefragten Gesamtkunstwerk. Anhand zentraler Werke, von Wurm für dieses Buch selbst ausgewählt, führt Rainer Metzger durch Leben und Werk: Vom noch weitgehend unbekannten Frühwerk über die »One Minute Sculptures«, die seinen Aufstieg im weltweiten Kunstbetrieb markieren,...
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The originality of the study lies in the degree to which Ms Kelly has achieved something like a group biography... not a series of linked portraits, but the evocation of an entire emotional milieu. -- Richard Holmes, The Times.I have been reading with delight The Young Romantics. -- Graham GreeneA comples and exhilarating story... an analysis of an exceptional interesting gtroup of creative artists. -- The New StatesmanNo other book reveals so much...
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Thirty-five poems concerning my U.S. Navy days, Great Lakes Boot Camp, USS Mullinnix (DD-944) and SK "A" School, Newport, RI. Another batch is on deck covering my years at the Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, VA and aboard the USS Miller (DE/FF 1091).
15) Poetic Pearls
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A poetry anthology. a book for all ages. written by few best poets of the city.
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Hasta que el musgo está formado por registros y tonos de índoles diversas, como arbustos, esporas o musgo que avanza riguroso por las superficies. En él, la capacidad sensible de las palabras existe a través de un impulso de fuerza y tensión constantes; brinda un abanico de formas que va del instante poético a los glitches del lenguaje. La experiencia sensible crece en un artefacto que descompone las palabras frente a nosotros: a veces luz,...
18) Following Henry Williamson's Footsteps as He Walked the Coasts of North and South Devon in 1933 i
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Henry Williamson (1895-1977), nature writer and novelist, is perhaps best remembered today as the author of the much-loved classics 'Tarka the Otter' and 'Salar the Salmon', although he wrote over fifty books during a long life, including 'The Flax of Dream' tetralogy and his major work, the 15-volume novel sequence 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'. One of his less well-known books is 'On Foot in Devon', published in 1933: Williamson had been approached...
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Due to a mirade of mitigating circumstances Joe and Helen were forced to relocate to Spain/ Marbella, where having been privy to an accumulation of funds they lived the vida loca. Nice apartment, lovely car and enough money to see them through the years was the plan and all was going well until the arrival of a recession in 2008 and with it a slump in property prices. Despite a severe drop in their standard of living they created a situation whereupon...
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Keith Hale, editor of Friends & Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914, here examines the bowdlerization of Brooke in existing biographies and looks into the poet's self-proclaimed bisexual identity. Hale examines the same-sex relationships Brooke enjoyed with Michael Sadleir, Charles Lascelles, and Denham Russell-Smith as well as the poems Brooke may have written about these early loves. As with many boys of his...
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