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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
You might expect the fact of dying-the dying of a beloved wife and fellow poet-to make for a bleak and lonely tale. But Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry, facing that dread fact, involves us all: the magnificent, humorous, and gifted woman, Jane Kenyon, who suffered and died, the doctors and nurses who tried but failed to save her, the neighbors, friends, and relatives who grieved for her, the husband who sat by her while she lived and...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"[A] collection of poems that explores the peeves and pleasures of a long marriage ... and what lies beyond. Judith Viorst began publishing poetry in the 1960s in New York magazine, and since then, her works have celebrated life's milestones with wit and poignancy. Married for fifty-five years, she now casts a rueful, experienced eye on the amusing annoyances and deep satisfactions of a long marriage ... and what a couple must inevitably confront...
Publisher
Macmillan Collector's Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Offering indispensable inspiration for wedding readings, this gorgeous compilation of writing on love and marriage is also the perfect gift for couples and wedding guests alike. This beautiful anthology is filled with readings to light up every kind of wedding ceremony. There are poems about falling in love, joyful prose celebrating marriage and wise words about commitment from some of our greatest writers and poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning,...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021.
Language
English
Description
"Let's face it, adulthood is rough. From career struggles to astronomical student debt to climate change angst, there's a lot to worry about. Look I Bought Plants: And Other Poems about Life and Stuff distills the millennial experience into more than 200 short and funny poems, dreamt up by two twenty-somethings who love jokes and sex, in that order. From silly slices of life to R-rated encounters, Victor and Garron's irreverent and cheeky poems touch...
17) Bone songs
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"A poetic meditation on the nature of time and the importance of human relationships, Bone Songs is a kaleidoscopic whirlwind of stories, soliloquies, scenes and songs. Five characters on a vertiginous descent into a psychic twilight zone: a young couple on a freezing honeymoon in the icy wastes of Antarctica; an old widower crazed with grief; a middle-aged married couple oppressed by a frozen marriage, forced by the onslaught of illness to confront...