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Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories is a book of short stories published in 1991 by the Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros. The collection reflects Cisneros's experience of being surrounded by American influences while still being familially bound to her Mexican heritage as she grew up north of the Mexico-US border .
The World's Wife is Carol Ann Duffy's fifth collection of poetry. Her previous collection, Standing Female Nude, is tied to romantic and amorous themes, while her collection The Other Country takes a more indifferent approach to love; The World's Wife continues this progression in that it critiques male figures, masculinity, and heterosexual love to instead focus on forgotten or neglected ...
Bustle named the book to a list of the best 15 young adult books appearing in October 2017 [23] and it was a finalist for the National Book Award for young people's literature. [24] It also won the 2018 Tomás Rivera Award. [25] The novel has also appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers list and Time's Best 100 YA Books of All Time. [26] [27]
Lucy Larcom (1824–1893), American mill girl, contributor to Lowell Offering, publishing four books of poetry; Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), American poet and abolitionist; Eliza F. Morris (1821–1874), English hymnwriter; Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1828–1878), Serbian poet; Emma Tatham (1829–1855), English poet widely admired in ...
The six best-known English male authors are, [citation needed] in order of birth and with an example of their work: William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; William Wordsworth – The Prelude
Rapture follows the narrator through a love story. It begins with falling in love. “Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head, so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name, like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables, like a charm, like a spell.” [2] Later on, the tone of the book shifts from head over heels in love to brokenhearted.
Her first book, At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), was a collection of literary charades. Her next publications were The Jingle Book and The Story of Betty (1899), followed by a book of verse entitled Idle Idyls (1900). After 1900, Wells wrote numerous novels and collections of poetry. Carolyn Wells wrote a total 170 books.
Parker gave her first public poetry reading in 1963 in Oakland. In 1968, she began to read her poetry to women's groups at women's bookstores, coffeehouses and feminist events. [18] Judy Grahn, a fellow poet and a personal friend, identifies Pat Parker's poetry as a part of the "continuing Black tradition of radical poetry". [19]