Watching the Spring Festival

Watching the Spring Festival
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Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
Total Pages : 82
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015076110223
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Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Watching the Spring Festival by : Frank Bidart

Mortality--imminent, not theoretical--forces the self to question the relation between the actual life lived and what was once the promise of transformation. This plays out against a broad landscape. The book opens with Marilyn Monroe, followed by the glamour of the eighth-century Chinese imperial court (seen through the eyes of one of China's greatest poets, Tu Fu). At the center of the book is an ambitious meditation on the Russian ballerina Ulanova, Giselle, and the nature of tragedy. All this gives new dimension and poignance to Bidart's recurring preoccupation with the human need to leave behind some record or emblem, a made thing that stands, in the face of death, for the possibilities of art. Mortality--imminent, not theoretical--forces the self to question the relation between the actual life lived and what was once the promise of transformation. This plays out against a broad landscape. The book opens with Marilyn Monroe, followed by the glamour of the eighth-century Chinese imperial court (seen through the eyes of one of China's greatest poets, Tu Fu). At the center of the book is an ambitious meditation on the Russian ballerina Ulanova, Giselle, and the nature of tragedy. All this gives new dimension and poignance to Bidart's recurring preoccupation with the human need to leave behind some record or emblem, a made thing that stands, in the face of death, for the possibilities of art.

Writers & Company

Writers & Company
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106011501944
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Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Writers & Company by : Eleanor Wachtel

Festival of Colors

Festival of Colors
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Publisher : Little Simon
Total Pages : 17
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ISBN-10 : 9781534478176
ISBN-13 : 1534478175
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Festival of Colors by : Surishtha Sehgal

Holi, Hai! Holi, Hai! It’s time to prepare for the Indian springtime Festival of Colors in this delightful Classic Board Book! It’s time for the Indian festival of Holi, a celebration of the start of spring, of new beginnings, and of good over evil. Friends, families, and neighbors wear white clothing and toss handfuls of brightly colored powders at one another until they’re all completely covered from head to toe! Young readers will love following the young siblings gathering flowers to make the colorful powders for the big day until—poof!—it’s time for the fun to begin.

Cute Wife Falls into Trap

Cute Wife Falls into Trap
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Publisher : Funstory
Total Pages : 969
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ISBN-10 : 9781649558077
ISBN-13 : 1649558074
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Cute Wife Falls into Trap by : Meng GuaiGuai

"Mengmeng ..."A young man's voice."Dream night ..."Another young man's voice.Who was calling her? Why did she feel so familiar? Xi Meng looked at her hands. Had she forgotten something?Who was the person ho had called him in his dreams?"Mengmeng, it's Ye Mu ..." Xi Meng was shocked. This person...

Half-light

Half-light
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 737
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ISBN-10 : 9780374715182
ISBN-13 : 0374715181
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Half-light by : Frank Bidart

The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it’s that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet’s own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites, the monsters, the misfits, the misunderstood among us and inside us. Few writers have so willingly ventured to the dark places of the human psyche and allowed themselves to be stripped bare on the page with such candor and vulnerability. Over the past half century, Bidart has done nothing less than invent a poetics commensurate with the chaos and appetites of our experience. Half-light encompasses all of Bidart’s previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst, in which the poet austerely surveys his life, laying it plain for us before venturing into something new and unknown. Here Bidart finds himself a “Creature coterminous with thirst,” still longing, still searching in himself, one of the “queers of the universe.” Visionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, Bidart’s Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2017 are a radical confrontation with human nature, a conflict eternally renewed and reframed, restless line by restless line.

Against Silence

Against Silence
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 51
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ISBN-10 : 9780374603526
ISBN-13 : 0374603529
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Against Silence by : Frank Bidart

An urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and “one of the undisputed master poets of our time” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR) Words, voices reek of the worlds from which they emerge: different worlds, each with its all but palpable aroma, its parameters, limitations, promise. Words—there is a gap, nonetheless always and forever, between words and the world— slip, slide, are imprecise, BLIND, perish. • Set up a situation,— . . . then reveal an abyss. For more than fifty years, Frank Bidart has given voice to the inner self, to the depths of his own psyche and the unforgettable characters that populate his poems. In Against Silence, the Pulitzer Prize winner’s eleventh collection of poetry, Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget. Our history is not a tabula rasa but a repeating, refining story of love and hate, of words spoken and old cruelties enacted. Moving among the dead and the living, the figures of his life and of his past, Bidart calls reality forth—with nothing settled and nothing forgotten, we must speak.

Eva's Treetop Festival: A Branches Book (Owl Diaries #1)

Eva's Treetop Festival: A Branches Book (Owl Diaries #1)
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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages : 84
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ISBN-10 : 9780545683784
ISBN-13 : 0545683785
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Eva's Treetop Festival: A Branches Book (Owl Diaries #1) by : Rebecca Elliott

This adorable New York Times bestselling early chapter book series is perfect for young girls who love friendship stories starring animal characters! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow! Eva Wingdale gets in over her head when she offers to organize a spring festival at school. Even with her best friend Lucy's help, there is NO way she will get everything done in time. Will Eva have to ask Sue (a.k.a. Meanie McMeanerson) for help? Or will the festival have to be cancelled? This book is written as Eva's diary -- with Rebecca Elliott's owl-dorable full-color illustrations throughout! Continue this book series with “Eva the Owlet,” an Apple TV+ original series!

Star Dust

Star Dust
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 101
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ISBN-10 : 9780374530334
ISBN-13 : 0374530335
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Star Dust by : Frank Bidart

In 2002, Frank Bidart published a sequence of poems, Music Like Dirt, the first chapbook ever to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From the beginning, he had conceived this sequence as the opening movement in a larger structure--now, with Star Dust, finally complete. In this profound and unforgettable new book, the dream beyond desire (which now seems to represent human destiny) is rooted in the drive to create, a drive tormented at every stage by failure, as the temporal being fights for its survival by making an eternal life. Bidart is a poet of passionate originality, and Star Dust shows that the forms of this originality continue to deepen and change as he constantly renews his contract with the idea of truth. Star Dust is a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.

Food and Festivals of China

Food and Festivals of China
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : 9781422294482
ISBN-13 : 142229448X
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Food and Festivals of China by : Yan Liao

Have you ever seen the boisterous lion dances or heard the multitude of firecrackers in Chinatown during the Chinese New Year? Did you ever wonder what kind of festivals and holidays the Chinese people celebrate? This book takes a look at the fascinating world of Chinese food and festivals. It introduces the most popular traditional festivals celebrated by Chinese people all over the globe, including the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and two "festivals of the dead." It also examines intriguing ethnic festivals celebrated by some of China's 55 officially recognized minority peoples. Discover the customs, legends, and traditional food and treats of these festivals. Share the excitement of the celebration with one-fifth of the world's population, and enjoy the liveliest component of a 4,000-year-old civilization!

I Love You So Much

I Love You So Much
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Publisher : Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 :
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Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis I Love You So Much by : Monologue Little Mary

They had a wonderful night.When they met again, she was married already. She didn't recognize him at all. When she recognized him, she was scared and hiding from him.Yet he couldn't give up. He tried everything to let her divorce and come back to his embrace."Mr. Gu, I'm married!" She said to him with tears in her eyes.He sneered, "What difference does it make to a woman who has only one man before and after her marriage?"He always showed up and saved her when she was in danger. In the face of her father's admonitions and her husband's reproaches, she finally discovered that she was pregnant with his child. This is Book 1 of I Love You So Much(10 books).