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The Veggiecational Book: A Book About Numbers, Colors, Shapes And Letters! (VeggieTales)

The Veggiecational Book from Big Idea's "VeggieTales" cast of characters. This 4-in-1 volume includes the full text of Bob & Larry's ABC's, How Many Veggies?, Pa Grape's Shapes, and Junior's Colors.

Veil and Burn

Concerned with physical experience, pain, and disability, Veil and Burn illuminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body. In poems about animals, artifacts, and monsters, Lambeth displays a fascination for all bodies while exploring their pain, common fate, alienation, and abilities. Hovering between poem and prose fragment, between the self and fellow creatures, Laurie Clements Lambeth celebrates physical sensation, imbuing it with lyric shape, however broken, however imprisoned the shape may be.

Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society

Updated Edition With a New Preface Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But her analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of a system of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the relationship between ideology and human experience.

The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems

Beginning with the impassioned, never-before-published title poem, here is the poet. Agha Shahid Ali died in 2001, mourned by myriad lovers of poetry and devoted students. This volume, his shining legacy, moves from playful early poems to themes of mourning and loss, culminating in the ghazals of Call Me Ishmael Tonight. The title poem appears in print for the first time. from "The Veiled Suite" I wait for him to look straight into my eyesThis is our only chance for magnificence.If he, carefully, upon this hour of ice,will let us almost completely crystallize,tell me, who but I could chill his dreaming night.Where he turns, what will not appear but my eyes?Wherever he looks, the sky is only eyes.Whatever news he has, it is of the sea.

Veinte gramos de luz

La luz es una llaga que no se cierra nunca... En este segundo poemario, después de Tierra escondida, Juan García Callejas nos desvela el valor irrenunciable de la poesía como recurso para alumbrar el discurrir de la existencia cotidiana. Inspirándose en una cita de Christian Bobin y en sintonía con el imaginario de Eloy Sánchez Rosillo, entre otros escritores que laten de forma implícita en su propuesta, nos confirma que la experiencia poética es un acceso posible, y necesario, a la certeza de que la luz pesa siempre más que la sombra. Veinte gramos de luz sigue siendo un canto confiado en que el deseo de ver hace posible el don de la iluminación.

Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion de desesperada y cien sonetos de amor

Premio Nobel de Literatura “El más grande poeta del siglo xx en cualquier idioma”. —Gabriel García Márquez Un gran éxito desde el mismo momento de su publicación en 1924 cuando el autor contaba con tan solo diecinueve años, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada causó un fuerte revuelo en la conservadora sociedad chilena debido a su franco retrato de la relación del autor con dos mujeres. Se convirtió inmediatamente en una de las colecciones de poesía más leídas, estableciendo a Neruda como una de las más singulares voces de la poesía en español del siglo XX. Incluso leído hoy, sigue sorprendiendo por su sincera descripción del amor y el sexo. Tan pasional y hermosa como Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, Cien sonetos de amor incluye algunos de los más sensuales e intensos poemas de Pablo Neruda. Aunque publicada treinta y cinco años más tarde, retiene la ingenuidad y la intensa pasión del joven Neruda, mezclada con la sagaz mirada de un hombre que lo ha visto todo.

Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada: Twenty Poems Of Love And One Song Of Desperation (Biblioteca Edaf Ser. #Vol. 4)

Una de las obras más célebres del poeta Pablo Neruda. «Me gusta cuando callas porque estás como ausente.Distante y dolorosa como si hubieras muerto.Una palabra entonces, una sonrisa bastan.Y estoy alegre, alegre de que no sea cierto.» Reseña:«Neruda significa un hombre nuevo en la América, una sensibilidad con la cual abre todo capítulo emocional americano. Su alta categoría arranca de su rotunda diferenciación.»Gabriela Mistral

Veinte toneladas de lluvia

Poesía urbana, poemas que arañan. Poesía urbana, poemas que arañan. <P><P>Por estos poemas vagan amores muertos, perdedores sin esperanza, vagamundos, guerreras con causa, enamorados sin armadura, arañas en la nevera, tumbos, entrañas, oscuridad, alcohol, nostalgia, canciones, anarquía, rebeldes en la ciudad ... y veinte toneladas de lluvia que lo inundan todo. <P>Atraviesa los versos mientras escuchas a tu grupo de rock favorito.

Las veladas del tropero

Las veladas del tropero tells a series of stories set in Argentina's 19th century haciendas.

Vellum

Vellum, the exquisite debut collection from Matt Donovan, meditates on beauty, art, and the violence that is sometimes inherent in both. Here, he juxtaposes religious iconography with stories from history, biography, and personal narrative. In the poignant "Saint Catherine in an O," a knife bears unlikely duality-an object stirring with danger and grace. "A man plays slide guitar / with his pocketknife, accompanying the words of his songs-/ one about light, the Lord moving on water . . . / how blood, he knows, will make him whole. " In other poems, he reflects upon master artists, who captured similar themes in their art though in different mediums. Brimming with poems that are quietly powerful, Vellum marks the arrival of a commanding new voice.

Velocities: New and Selected Poems 1966-1992

"Stephen Dobyns is one of the very finest poets writing in America today. His poems are brave, ravenous, intensely moving, and utterly his own." - Thomas Lux

Venera: Poems

Praise for Jay Rogoff"[Rogoff's] poetry takes a visible art of movement and translates the feelings it evokes and the history it records into delicate words.... But Rogoff also has an amazing knack for the humor in humanity, as a slew of death-defying poems demonstrates." -- Andrew Burstein, The Baton Rouge Advocate"Quite simply, I love the gravitational, poetic pull of Rogoff 's work." -- Renée E. D'Aoust, Notre Dame ReviewThe poems in Jay Rogoff's Venera explore varieties of love, both sacred and profane, by drawing from the natural world, personal intimacy, and the human imagination as evoked in biblical narratives and art. Rogoff reveals how devotion's many guises collide to startle us: a husband consoles his wife after she is awakened by an imaginary child, a man daydreams of his kindergarten crush, Abraham's fear of God perplexes his love for Isaac, and the Virgin Mary, stunned by the angel Gabriel's inhuman beauty, contemplates the decades of purity that stretch ahead.In Venera's title sonnet sequence, inspired by visions of the feminine depicted in the works of Renaissance painter Jan van Eyck, such collisions evolve into collusions. As Rogoff weds elevated language to plainspokenness and sets the erotic alongside the miraculous, the beloved accumulates many identities -- everyone's mother and everyone's daughter, the laboring handmaid and the Queen of heaven, the fertile field and the elusive bride. Rogoff's poems allow us to ponder the contradictory human concoctions of love, detailing how they drive us to venerate the sacred while also submitting to the power of the sensuous.

La venganza de las palabras bonitas

A veces los corazonesse incendiany las palabras no encuentranuna salida de emergencia. <P><P> #LaVenganzadelasPalabrasBonitas Víctor Mengual, más conocido como @Bordelicado, se ha hecho conocido en las redes sociales por pintar sus versos sobre la piel. <P><P>Cada uno de sus versos es una declaración de intenciones, sus frases y sus palabras invitan al lector a dejarse llevar. Como el mismo autor dice: «Vivir no es coger aviones. Vivir es despegar.»

Venice: Poems

Ange Mlinko alchemizes art and life into a dazzling collection of poetry in VeniceIn Venice, Ange Mlinko dissolves the boundaries between the sublime and the ordinary, the mythic and the rational, the past and the present. She sees a Roman tablet, scratched with Greek script, in the waxen wings of a bouffant bee, and she thinks of the abyss between two airport terminals when considering Rodin’s Gates of Hell. From Naples, Italy, to its sister city on the Gulf of Mexico, or at home, in the glow of a computer screen (“I worry / that Zoom is ruled by djinn / that filter out the wavelength of love / and so I wear my evil eye jewelry, // as you advised, against being too /much in view . . .”), Mlinko probes the etymologies and eccentricities of all she encounters. As Dan Chiasson wrote in The New Yorker, “Her extraordinary wit, monitoring its own excesses, is her compass.”On her travels, Mlinko scrapes at the patina of the past and considers the line between destruction and preservation. Sparking with wit and intelligence, the poet’s own lines break down and remake language, myth, and time. Mlinko is a poet of art and of life, and Venice is a sumptuous exploration of poetry’s capacity to capture the miracles and ironies of our times.

Venus and Adonis

Adonis tragically chooses the excitement of the hunt over the charms of the beautiful Venus.

Venus and Adonis

Venus Trines at Midnight

Linda Goodman was born on an April day during a spring thunderstorm. In addition to her books on astrology, she published a book in 1990 called Croooerz, which is a brilliant, romantic, semi-autobiographical prose poem. Though she was the most highly-acclaimed astrology writer in the world, her greatest wish was to be known as a poet. With venus Trines at Midnight and the forthcoming Love Poems, she has made use of all her talents within the medium of poetry. And she hopes that people will enjoy these insightful poems and will remember her secret wish.

Un verano con Rimbaud

Sylvain Tesson nos receta los versos de Rimbaud y el caminar como antídotos esenciales contra el tedio.El viaje con el que arranca este maravilloso libro evoca la primera de tantas fugas de Arthur Rimbaud, en 1870, huyendo de su madre. Para el autor de Iluminaciones y Una temporada en el infierno, la vida se organiza en movimiento, el estado supremo de la poesía. Sylvain Tesson, que comparte con él la naturaleza inquieta del caminante, sigue los pasos del enfant terrible desde sus primeros versos en latín hasta las ansias de aventura que lo condujeron a Abisinia. Rimbaud se movió sin descanso, cambiando constantemente de puntode vista. Escapó de las Ardenas, pasó por salones parisinos de los que no quiso formar parte, persiguió el amor en Bélgica, vagó por Londres y se aventuró a morir en las pistas de tierra africanas. Un verano con Rimbaud recorre paisajes reales e imaginarios y se adentra en expresiones y versos del poeta como su conocido «yo es otro», que permite reflexionar sobre la escisión del sujeto moderno, o su famoso poema de las vocales. Tesson comprende como nadie sunecesidad de desplazarse, propone una interpretación sutil y elegante de sus versos y aviva en el lector el deseo de conocer o reencontrarse con una obra escasa pero salvaje. La crítica ha dicho:«Uno conquistó Europa y luego África; el otro atravesó Islandia, las estepas de Asia o incluso el Himalaya. Rimbaud y Tesson comparten la pasión por viajar y escribir».Radio Notre Dame «A contracorriente, con el brío que le caracteriza, el escritor viajero lanza aquí un alegato a favor de la poesía y contra el espíritu de nuestro tiempo. Combate los efectos perversos de la rimbauditis (enfermedad de la sociedad del espectáculo) y nos propone un ejercicio que, en su opinión, se ha vuelto poco común en nuestros días: leer la obra de Rimbaud».Le Devoir «Este libro propone a los lectores una experiencia total de Arthur Rimbaud, un poeta aquejado de dromomanía: el impulso patológico del desplazamiento, una enfermedad de la que Sylvain Tesson también parece presentar todos los síntomas».Radio Classique «Una voz única. Tesson es un escritor tremendamente interesante».Libération

The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry

The sixteen essays in this volume form a series of related focuses upon various levels and areas of literary criticism. W. K. Wimsatt's assumption is that practice and theory of both the past and the present are integrally related-that there is a continuity in the materials of criticism-that a person who studies poetry today has a critical concern, not merely a historical interest, in what Aristotle or Plato said about poetry. He regards the great perennial problems of criticism as arising not by the whim of a tolerantly pluralist choice, but from the nature of language and reality. With profound learning and insight, Wimsatt treats almost the whole range of literary criticism. The first group of essays deals with fallacies he believes are involved in prevalent approaches to the literary object. The next two groups face the responsibilities of the critic who defends literature as a form of knowledge; they treat various problems of structure and style. The last group undertakes to examine the relation of literature to other arts, the relation of evaluative criticism to historical studies, and the relation of literature not only to morals, but more broadly to the whole complex of the Christian religious tradition.

Verbolario

Rodrigo Cortés regresa a las librerías con Verbolario: diccionario satírico, humorístico y poético, que, con sus más de dos mil definiciones y siete años de trabajo a la espalda, se atreve a enmendarle la plana al diccionario. «Verbolario es un milagro sostenido».Manuel Jabois Toda palabra tiene su significado oculto —su significado verdadero— acechante entre sus pliegues con la astucia del salteador de caminos; se desvela sólo con el uso y sólo ante la perspicacia y el oído, que son el mismo sentido. Rodrigo Cortés reinventa el lenguaje y hace confesar a cada voz su auténtico propósito. Verbolario no define las palabras: las desnuda. La crítica ha dicho:«Selvático y misterioso antidiccionario en que las palabras vuelven a ser territorios a la espera de ser explorados».Laura Fernández «Verbolario es el saloncillo antes de la obra, los camerinos llenos de secretos del diccionario».José Luis Garci «Cortés desvela una realidad que nadie había visto en el lenguaje: las palabras también juegan con nosotros».Jesús García Calero, ABC Cultural «¿Puede un libro ser a la vez diccionario, manual de humor, tratado filosófico y poemario? En manos de Rodrigo Cortés puede».Juan Gómez-Jurado «Con talento y picardía, Rodrigo Cortés logra ponerle a cada palabra de este Verbolario la espina precisa para que el pinchazo nos resulte puñeteramente gozoso».Fernando Aramburu «Enciclopedia ilustrada que mira el mundo con la sabiduría del viejo y la inocencia del niño».Ana Iris Simón «Carcajadas, sonrisas y la leve incomodidad que produce la verdad cuando anda desnuda».Sergio del Molino

Verdades a medias

La gran artista India Martínez nos muestra en su primer libro sus emociones más íntimas a través un precioso conjunto de textos relatados con sensibilidad y emoción y acompañados de sus propias ilustraciones. «La verdad es muy subjetiva, depende de la piel que la percibe». Bellamente ilustrado por la propia artista, Verdades a medias es una colección de textos poéticos y dibujos en los que la cantante India Martínez indaga en lo más profundo de sí misma y de sus vivencias, transportándonos a su universo más personal. Nostalgia, dolor, amor, fantasía y hondura llenan las páginas de esta declaración de intenciones, de esta rasgadura de alma de la artista, que se desnuda de canción para vestirse de letras y ofrecernos su faceta más transparente y cercana. «Iré dando una de cal y otra arena. Una de voz y otra de música, una de India y otra de Jenny».

Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans

The Epicurean teacher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BC) exercised significant literary and philosophical influence on Roman writers of the Augustan Age, most notably the poets Vergil and Horace. <P><P>Yet a modern appreciation for Philodemus' place in Roman intellectual history has had to wait on the decipherment of the charred remains of Philodemus' library, which was buried in Herculaneum by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. As improved texts and translations of Philodemus' writings have become available since the 1970s, scholars have taken a keen interest in his relations with leading Latin poets.

Vergil's Aeneid: Selected Readings From Books 1, 2, 4, And 6

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Vergil's Aeneid: Selections from Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, and 12

The Verging Cities (Mountain West Poetry Series)

From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s gripping debut collection, The Verging Cities, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the US-México border in the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, these poems give a brave new voice to the ways in which international politics affect the individual. Composed in a variety of forms, from sonnet and epithalamium to endnotes and field notes, each poem distills violent stories of narcos, undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and the people who fall in love with each other and their traumas. The border in Scenters-Zapico’s The Verging Cities exists in a visceral place where the real is (sur)real. In these poems mouths speak suspended from ceilings, numbered metal poles mark the border and lovers’ spines, and cities scream to each other at night through fences that “ooze only silt.” This bold new vision of border life between what has been named the safest city in the United States and the murder capital of the world is in deep conversation with other border poets—Benjamin Alire Saenz, Gloria Anzaldúa, Alberto Ríos, and Luis Alberto Urrea—while establishing itself as a new and haunting interpretation of the border as a verge, the beginning of one thing and the end of another in constant cycle.