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The poems in this book are published in the poet's native language and American English. The collection's theme is wind: The wind is one of the classic four elements, meaning comprehensive movement. It gives us the feeling of space and shows us life's core. For poets, the wind doesn't just mean an element but opens spaces for metaphorical excursions, like in one line of the lovely song "Wind of Change" by The Scorpions when they sing: "The wind of change blows straight into the face of time." This collection features 60 poets from 22 countries and four continents, giving us the idea of the songs from the wind.
A national bestseller, The Class is a riveting and personal book from Ken Dryden. On Tuesday, September 6, 1960, the day after Labour Day, class 9G at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in a suburb of Toronto assembled for the first time. Its thirty-five students, having written special exams, came to be known as the “Selected Class.” They would stay together through high school, with few exceptions. They would spend more than two hundred days a year together. Few had known each other before. Few have been in other than accidental contact in all the decades since. Their ancestors were almost all from working-class backgrounds. Their parents had lived their formative years through depression ...
"One of the most important developments in medieval English literary studies since the 1980s has been the growth of manuscript studies. The thirteen essays in this volume discuss aspects of the design and distribution of manuscripts in late medieval England, focusing particularly on vernacular manuscripts of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries." "This binary focus on secular and devotional texts illuminates shared networks of production and dissemination, and considerably expands current knowledge of regional and metropolitan book production in the period before printing."--BOOK JACKET.
Die bewährte Dokumentation der zeitgenössischen deutschsprachigen Literaturszene umfasst über 9.000 Einträge lebender Verfasserinnen und Verfasser schöngeistiger Literatur in deutscher Sprache: Adressen, Lebensdaten, Mitgliedschaften, Auszeichnungen sowie 140.000 Veröffentlichungen; im Anhang u. a.: Übersetzer, Verlage, Literaturpreise, Fachverbände, Literaturhäuser, Zeitschriften, Agenturen; Festkalender, Nekrolog, geographische Übersicht.
Bin ich Schuld am Rechtsradikalismus? Auf diese Frage finden 37 Autorinnen und Autoren in diesem Lesebuch eine Antwort. Mit einem Geleitwort des Hamburger Kultursenators Dr. Carsten Brosda.