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  2. Rebeka Njau - Wikipedia

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    Rebeka Njau was born in 1932 in the village of Kanyariri, in Kiambu County to the northwest of Nairobi. [1] [2] Her family was Christian and she recalled the division this created with those around them:

  3. Footprints on Sand - Wikipedia

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    Footprints on Sand: a Literary Sampler is a 1981 collection of writings by science fiction authors L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, illustrated by C. H. Burnett, published by Advent.

  4. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Wikipedia

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    The poem received mixed reviews from critics, and Coleridge was once told by the publisher that most of the book's sales were to sailors who thought it was a naval songbook. Coleridge made several modifications to the poem over the years. In the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, published in 1800, he replaced many of the archaic words.

  5. Lee Si-young (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Lee's poems from this period recall the fact the poet had made his literary debut with sijo or traditional Korean poetry characterized by highly restricted form. [4] Such evolution in Lee's poetic mode indicates that the urgency and the wrenching emotions of his early years have been replaced with psychological calm and contemplative leisure.

  6. The Second Jungle Book - Wikipedia

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    "A Ripple Song" (poem) "The King's Ankus ": Mowgli discovers a jewelled object beneath the Cold Lairs, which he later discards carelessly, not realising that men will kill each other to possess it. Note : The first edition of The Second Jungle Book inadvertently omits the final 500 words of this story, in which Mowgli returns the treasure to ...

  7. The Best American Poetry 1993 - Wikipedia

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    "Ripples on the Surface" Grand Street: Gerald Stern "Coleman Valley Road" Black Warrior Review: Ruth Stone "That Winter" American Poetry Review: Mark Strand: from "Dark Harbor" The New Republic: James Tate "In My Own Backyard" American Poetry Review: John Updike "To a Former Mistress, Now Dead" Poetry: Ellen Bryant Voigt "Song and Story" The ...

  8. Elaine Equi - Wikipedia

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    Widely published, her poems have appeared in Big Other, [3] The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and numerous volumes of The Best American Poetry. In April 2007 Coffee House Press published Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems. Also in 2007 she edited a special section for Jacket Magazine: The Holiday Album: Greeting Card Poems For All ...

  9. Onomatopoeia - Wikipedia

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    The words "followed" and "free" are not onomatopoeic in themselves, but in conjunction with "furrow" they reproduce the sound of ripples following in the wake of a speeding ship. Similarly, alliteration has been used in the line "as the surf surged up the sun swept shore ..." to recreate the sound of breaking waves in the poem "I, She and the Sea".