Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America's finest book designers and printers. The initial letters that begin each chapter were designed especially for this book and christened "Leviathan." The illustrations, of places, creatures,...
663) Gitanjali
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
When W.B. Yeats discovered Rabindranath Tagore's work in translation, he felt an intense kinship with a man, whose work was similarly grounded in spirituality and opposition to the British Empire. For the Irish poet, Tagore's poems were at once deeply personal and essentially universal, like a secret kept by all and shared regardless: "I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
33 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. + 1 sound disc (30 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
A collection of nursery rhymes in English and Chinese, some originating from each tradition, interspersed with facts about Chinese culture and traditions.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**. *"Nick Broomfield's riveting documentary gives us a vivid snapshot of the early 1960s and a complicated, mysterious love story." - Peter Bradshaw, **Guardian***
669) William S. Burroughs
Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, junkie, genius, influential postmodern author and subject of films, biographies and stage performances is the star of his own convoluted life.
670) To Be Heard
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Three Bronx teens search for their voices and an answer to the question: Can language change lives? Karina, Pearl, and Anthony are precariously balanced on the edge. Inspired by three teachers in a radical poetry workshop, can they write their own life stories, imagining a future where fathers aren't in jail, mothers aren't abusive and college is a place where you awake every morning instead of just dreaming about it every night? A dedicated filmmaking...
Publisher
Johan Grimonprez
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Arabic
Description
When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that don’t allow me to write about love.” In TWO TRAVELERS TO A RIVER Palestinian actress Manal Khader recites such a poem by Mahmoud Darwish: a concise reflection on how things could have been.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Rex Ogle's companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother's legacy. In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on-to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him...
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Pub. Date
p2000
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (2 hr., 32 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Here are 65 poems by leading American authors, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and E.E. Cummings, as well as famous anonymous works such as "Frankie and Johnny." Arranged in chronological order by poet from Anne Bradstreet to Alice Walker.
675) Fábulas literarias
Author
Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
Español
Description
Tomás de Iriarte, un erudito y escritor español del siglo XVIII, es recordado por su colección de poesía, Fábulas literarias, publicada por primera vez en 1782. Este trabajo apareció un año después de las famosas fábulas de su contemporáneo, Félix María Samaniego. Sin embargo, las obras de Iriarte diferían significativamente en estilo y tono.
Las Fábulas literarias de Iriarte son una colección de poemas satíricos y morales, caracterizados...
676) Poems of Sentiment
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Synopsis currently unavailable.
677) Poems of Passion
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Poems of Passion.
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland" by Abigail Stanley Hanna. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world...
680) Fugitive Poetry
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Synopsis currently unavailable.
In CLOVER Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by VOKAL can be requested from other CLOVER Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Make a purchase suggestion
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request