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The Fischer-dieskau Book of Lieder: The original text of over seven hundred and fifty songs
by Dietrich Fischer-DieskauThis book presents German original texts with English translations in line-by-line format of over 750 German Lieder, including texts for Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte and Six Gellert Lieder; Brahms's Die schöne Magelone, Four Serious Songs and Gypsy Songs; Paul Hindemith's Life of Mary; Mahler's Song of the Earth, Kindertotenlieder and Song of a Wayfarer; Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, Die Winterreise and Schwanengesang; Schumann's Dichterliebe, Liederkreis collections and Frauenliebe und -leben; Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs; Hugo Wolf's Italian and Spanish songbooks; Boris Blacher's 3 Psalms in Martin Luther's German; Richard Wagner's Five Poems for a Woman's Voice; Schönberg's Fifteen Poems from "The Book of the Hanging Gardens"; Alban Berg's Seven Early Lieder; Peter Cornelius's Trauer und Trost and Weihnachtslieder. Added to these song collections are nearly 500 texts for individual songs set by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Richard Strauss, Zemlinsky and others. Fischer-Dieskau introduces the collection with an essay and individual song texts are in alphabetical order. The Index of titles and first lines at the back of the book serves as the table of contents. DAISY markup makes perusing this book easy and electronic searching makes it an excellent companion for anyone who has recordings of these songs or who would like to sing them. Dieskau does not include the text for Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder.
Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On
by Lois EhlertBrightly colored fish introduce young children to counting and basic addition in this fun and simple concept book.
Fish Song
by Caitlin MalingMaling's new work is rich and diverse, exploring physical landscapes as well as historical and socio-cultural aspects of place. In her latest, deeply personal, collection Maling travels the coast of Western Australia writing about what the ocean provides—fish, livelihoods, sand and the ever-present sea breeze. In doing so she questions what poetry might offer by way of solace and reconnection in an age of climate change.
The Fish Who Cried Wolf
by Julia DonaldsonTiddler is the smallest fish in the ocean, but he tells the TALLEST tales: "Sorry I'm late, Miss. I set off really early But on my way to school I was captured by a squid. I wriggled and I struggled till a turtle came and rescued me." "Oh no he didn't." "Oh yes he did." But then one day on the way to school, Tiddler gets caught in a fisherman's net. How can the little fish with the big mouth talk his way out of this one?
Five Little Bunnies
by Dan Yaccarino“A sturdy addition to the Easter basket.” —KirkusGet ready for spring with these five little bunnies as they hide brightly colored Easter eggs for all to find.Toddlers will want to chant along with this fun take on a classic rhyme. With Dan Yaccarino’s vibrant and bold illustrations bringing these little bunnies to life, this sturdy board book is sure to captivate your littlest Easter cutie.Five little bunnies went hippity hop. The first bunny said, “We’re here! Let’s stop!”
Five Little Ducks
by Penny IvesAll children love this traditional rhyme and singing along will help to develop number skills. Limited picture descriptions present.
Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car
by Eileen ChristelowThe five little monkeys and Mama are eager to get a new car. The five little monkeys clean and paint their old car until it sparkles like new. But who will buy it? Perhaps those clever monkeys can convince their cranky crocodile neighbors that what they really need is ... yes, a car!
Five Little Pumpkins
by Public DomainCome roll with the pumpkins and their friends as they get into some spirited fun!
Five Middle English Arthurian Romances (Routledge Library Editions: Arthurian Literature #6)
by Valerie KrishnaThe poems in this collection will give the reader an appreciation of both the distinctiveness and the variety of the medieval English Arthurian tradition and highlight some of this important chapter in Arthurian legend literature.
The Five Quintets
by Micheal O'SiadhailThe Five Quintets is both poetry and cultural history. It offers a sustained reflection on modernity--people and movements--in poetic meter. Just as Dante, in his Divine Comedy, summed up the Middle Ages on the cusp of modernity, The Five Quintets takes stock of a late modern world on the cusp of the first-ever global century. <p><p> Celebrated Irish poet Micheal O'Siadhail structures his Quintets to echo the Comedy. Where Dante had a tripartite structure ( Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso), O'Siadhail has a five-part structure, with each quintet devoted to a discipline--the arts; economics; politics; science; and philosophy and theology. Each quintet is also marked by a different form: sonnets interspersed by haikus ("saikus"), iambic pentameter, terza rima, and two other invented forms. <p> The Five Quintets captivates even as it instructs, exploring the ever-changing flow of ideas and the individuals whose contributions elicited change and reflected their times. The artists, economists, politicians, scientists, and philosophers O'Siadhail features lived complex lives, often full of contradictions. Others, though deeply rooted in their context, transcended their time and place and pointed beyond themselves--even to us and to a time after modernity's reign. <p> The ancient Horace commended literature that delivered "profit with delight." In The Five Quintets, Micheal O'Siadhail has done just that: he delights us in the present with his artistry, even as he reveals hidden treasures of our past and compels us toward the future.
Five Silly Ghosts
by Clarion BooksA playful peek-a-boo cover reveals five glittery ghosts for preschoolers to count in every silly scene of this ebook. Five silly ghosts floating by a gate. The first one said, &“Oh my, it&’s getting late.&” This ebook features a classic rhyming read-aloud text with the five silly glittery ghosts in Halloween costumes. Each page turn provides a playfully ghoulish reveal. Join five silly ghosts in this fun counting caper!
The Flag of Childhood
by Naomi Shihab NyeIn this stirring anthology of sixty poems from the Middle East, honored anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye welcomes us to this lush, vivid world and beckons us to explore. Eloquent pieces from Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, and elsewhere open windows into the hearts and souls of people we usually meet only on the nightly news. What we see when we look through these windows is the love of family, friends, and for the Earth, the daily occurrences of life that touch us forever, the longing for a sense of place. What we learn is that beneath the veil of stereotypes, our human connections are stronger than our cultural differences.
The Flame: Poems, Notebooks, Lyrics, Drawings
by Leonard CohenA Stirring Mosaic of Leonard Cohen: Poet, Lyricist and ArtistDive into The Flame, a profound exploration of the celebrated poet and musician, Leonard Cohen. This final work, hailed as a top read by Vogue, TIME, and The Washington Post, offers a rich blend of his life's work, sure to ignite the imagination of Cohen's enduring fans and newcomers alike.With his works spanning generations and continents, Cohen is a remarkable figure who continues to captivate audiences—his ground trodden upon by “very, very few” (Bono).The Flame provides a deeply personal view of Cohen, weaving a vivid tapestry of poems, diary excerpts, lyrics, and intimate hand-drawn self-portraits. This trailblazing collection presents a multi-faceted view of a life lived passionately.“This volume contains my father’s final efforts as a poet,” writes Cohen’s son, Adam Cohen, in his foreword. “It was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end.”Whether you’re a lyricist, musician, or a Cohen devotee, The Flame is a glowing tribute to Leonard Cohen that’s sure to inspire and captivate.
Flare, Corona (American Poets Continuum Series #201)
by Jeannine Hall GaileyAgainst a constellation of solar weather events and evolving pandemic, Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Flare, Corona paints a self-portrait of the layered ways that we prevail and persevere through illness and natural disaster.Gailey deftly juxtaposes odd solar and weather events with the medical disasters occurring inside her own brain and body— we follow her through a false-alarm terminal cancer diagnosis, a real diagnosis of MS, and finally the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. The solar flare and corona of an eclipse becomes the neural lesions in her own personal “flare,” which she probes with both honesty and humor. While the collection features harbingers of calamity, visitations of wolves, blood moons, apocalypses, and plagues, at the center of it all are the poet’s attempts to navigate a fraught medical system, dealing with a series of challenging medical revelations, some of which are mirages and others that are all too real. In Flare, Corona, Jeannine Hall Gailey is incandescent and tender-hearted, gracefully insistent on teaching us all of the ways that we can live, all of the ways in which we can refuse to do anything but to brilliantly and stubbornly survive.
The Flared Black Skirt: Selected Poems
by Mary JosephIn this insightful and thought-provoking selection of poems, the reader is taken on a journey through life and death, love and heartbreak, joy and hardship: in other words, human existence in its myriad aspects. Written in deceptively simple language and often in the form of homilies and riddles, these poems cast the familiar in an unfamiliar light. Skilfully employing repeating patterns, personification and metaphor, the author offers a compelling reflection on who we are and how we navigate the world around us.
The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
by Charles BukowskiThe second of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great, Charles Bukowski, America's most imitated and influential poet -- 143 never-before-seen works of gritty, amusing, and inspiring verse.
Fleas, Flies, and Friars: Children's Poetry from the Middle Ages
by Nicholas OrmeMedieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twisters, and nonsensical verses. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems were composed to teach them how to behave, eat at meals, hunt game, and even learn Latin and French. In Fleas, Flies, and Friars, Nicholas Orme, an expert on childhood in the Middle Ages, has gathered a wide variety of children's verse that circulated in England beginning in the 1400s, providing a way for modern readers of all ages to experience the medieval world through the eyes of its children. In his delightful treasury of medieval children's verse, Orme does a masterful job of recovering a lively and largely unknown tradition, preserving the playfulness of the originals while clearly explaining their meaning, significance, or context. Poems written in Latin or French have been translated into English, and Middle English has been modernized. Fleas, Flies, and Friars has five parts. The first two contain short lyrical pieces and fragments, together with excerpts from essays in verse that address childhood or were written for children. The third part presents poems for young people about behavior. The fourth contains three long stories and the fifth brings together verse relating to education and school life.
The Fleece Era
by Joanna LilleyThe Fleece Era is Yukon-based, UK-born Joanna Lilley's first book of poems: a wry and eloquent testament to the intricacies of our various relationships. From the shattered pieces of our environmental puzzles to the labyrinth of family dynamics, Lilley makes these dilemmas come alive. Chillingly sparse, attractively odd and refreshingly frank, The Fleece Era embraces the complexities of human life with an unsettling mix of the sardonic and the compassionate.
Flesh To Bone
by Ire'Ne SilvaRooted in a Chicana/Latina/indigenous geographic and cultural sensibility, the stories in flesh to bone are concerned with borders of all kinds and the potential for transformation and healing. The nine stories write and rewrite "myth" from a woman's of view, as they tell stories of women and children whose lives are shaped by the social, political, ecological, and economic disruption and violence of the borderlands. <p><p> A poet and fiction writer, ire'ne lara silva has been an active participant in the literary culture of Austin, Texas, for many years. Her first collection of poetry, furia, was published by Mouthfeel Press in 2010. She is the recipient of the Gloria Anzaldúa Milagro Award and a 2010 Cantomundo Inaugural Fellowship.
Flicker Flash
by Joan Bransfield GrahamA collection of poems celebrating light in its various forms, from candles and lamps to lightning and fireflies.
Flickering (Penguin Poets)
by Pattiann RogersA new collection from a poet whose &“celebrations of science and approachable yet profound spiritual connection to the Earth delight, entertain, and elevate&” (The Poetry Foundation)Denise Levertov has called the poet Pattiann Rogers &“a visionary of reality, perceiving the material world with such intensity of response that impulse, intention, meaning, interconnections beyond the skin of appearance are revealed.&” The consistent theme In Flickering, her new collection, is the very breadth and prodigiousness of the universe itself. These wise poems, many inspired by various kinds of flickering actions in plants, animals, and natural processes, move nimbly between inner and outer worlds as Rogers addresses themes ranging from beauty, resilience and creation to the tensions and relationships between humans and wildness.
Flies
by Michael Dickman"Hilarity transfiguring all that dread, manic overflow of powerful feeling, zero at the bone-Flies renders its desolation with singular invention and focus and figuration: the making of these poems makes them exhilarating."-James Laughlin Award citation"Reading Michael [Dickman] is like stepping out of an overheated apartment building to be met, unexpectedly, by an exhilaratingly chill gust of wind."-The New Yorker"These are lithe, seemingly effortless poems, poems whose strange affective power remains even after several readings."-The BelieverWinner of the James Laughlin Award for the best second book by an American poet, Flies presents an uncompromising vision of joy and devastating loss through a strict economy of language and an exuberant surrealism. Michael Dickman's poems bring us back to the wonder and violence of childhood, and the desire to connect with a power greater than ourselves.What you want to rememberof the earthand what you end uprememberingare often twodifferent thingsMichael Dickman was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. His first book of poems, The End of the West, appeared in 2009 and became the best-selling debut in the history of Copper Canyon Press. His poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, and he teaches poetry at Princeton University.
Flight: New and Selected Poems
by Linda BierdsFrom this critically acclaimed and award-winning poet, a stunning volume of new and selected works that display her signature intelligence, depth, and vigorous originality. Hailed as ?visionary? by The New Yorker and ?radiant? by The New York Times Book Review, Linda Bierds returns with a collection that gives us the best of her astonishing work, and then gives us more: the gift of fifteen new poems. As a poet, she has always shied away from the easy indulgences of confessional poetry, turning her attention instead to the things that unite us in our common humanity? art, science, music, history?and bringing alive people (some famous, some little-known) who have made contributions to these spheres. The new poems are no less vital, transporting the reader from medieval to modern-day Venice to the moon; from anatomical sketches to primitive mapping and early naturalism? returning always to the empathy that guides her work. These tightly woven poems are linked organically through repeating imagery, reflected and refracted through the prism of Bierds?s singularly rich imagination. Her language itself communicates just as much as this visuality; as Stanley Plumly has said, ?The autobiography of her imagination would only be half as intense were the writing itself less beautiful and clear, less perfect to pitch. ? .
Flight: New and Selected Poems
by Linda BierdsFrom this critically acclaimed and award-winning poet, a stunning volume of new and selected works that display her signature intelligence, depth, and vigorous originality. Hailed as ?visionary? by The New Yorker and ?radiant? by The New York Times Book Review, Linda Bierds returns with a collection that gives us the best of her astonishing work, and then gives us more: the gift of fifteen new poems. As a poet, she has always shied away from the easy indulgences of confessional poetry, turning her attention instead to the things that unite us in our common humanity? art, science, music, history?and bringing alive people (some famous, some little-known) who have made contributions to these spheres. The new poems are no less vital, transporting the reader from medieval to modern-day Venice to the moon; from anatomical sketches to primitive mapping and early naturalism? returning always to the empathy that guides her work. These tightly woven poems are linked organically through repeating imagery, reflected and refracted through the prism of Bierds?s singularly rich imagination. Her language itself communicates just as much as this visuality; as Stanley Plumly has said, ?The autobiography of her imagination would only be half as intense were the writing itself less beautiful and clear, less perfect to pitch.?