DescriptionNOTE: This audiobook is in Portuguese. A collection of several poems written by Olavo Bilac, including: "Panopllias", "Via-Lactea", "Sarcas de fogo", "Alma Inquieta", "As Viagens", "O Cacador de Esmeraldas", and "Tarde". "Ora, direis ouvir estrelas..." N?o, n?o perdeste o senso. Ainda uma vez ouca a musica estranha que ressoa do corac?o deste principe dos poetas brasileiros, Olavo Bilac, Alma Inquieta, alma que canta a dor, o amor, o sonho. A mais pura musica, verdadeiro balsamo para ouvidos sensiveis.
DescriptionIn this collection of over 70 poems, Steve Turner takes a roller-coaster ride from the crazy corners of dreams to the big questions of life, using all the wit and insight that has characterised his best-selling books of adult poetry.
DescriptionOne of the most stunning literary debuts of our time, these energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories introduced an astonishing talent. In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation from his rabbi to see a prostitute. "The Wig" takes an aging wigmaker and makes her, for a single moment, beautiful. In "The Tumblers", Englander envisions a group of Polish Jews herded toward a train bound for the death camps and, in a deft, imaginative twist, turns them into acrobats tumbling out of harm's way. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges is a work of startling authority and imagination; a collection that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad. It's the work of a remarkable storyteller.
DescriptionTake your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women, and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear. In these 22 short stories from the author of Holy Fools and…
DescriptionOrson Scott Card, the author of Ender's Game, Lost Boys, and the Alvin Maker series, did not originally plan to write fiction. He spent his journeyman years as a playwright. Before that, however, it was poetry that engaged his pen. An Open Book, his first published collection, is selected from 35 years of poems. The title reflects his attitude that this book and all the poems in it remain works in progress. It also reflects Card's commitment to clarity, especially in poetry. As he says in his afterword: "To be clear and yet also say something worth saying is what I believe poetry should strive for."…
DescriptionThe extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful and painful. The texts are taken from his recent omnibus, The Early Stories, 1953-1975 . In describing how he wrote these stories in a small, rented, smoke-filled office in Ipswich, Massachusetts, he says, "I felt that I was packaging something as delicately pervasive as smoke, one box after another, in that room, where my only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me, to give the mundane its beautiful due."…
