Terrible beauty

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days 'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...' By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice. Features Summary By turns joyful and despairing, this title presents some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice. Author W. B Yeats Publisher Penguin Classics Release date 20160303 Pages 64 ISBN 0-241-25151-6 ISBN 13 978-0-241-25151-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 20 - 25 working days Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition one of history's greatest epics of survival. And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure was never before published comprehensively. Together, text and image re-create the terrible beauty of Antarctica, the awful destruction of the ship, and the crew's heroic daily struggle to stay alive, a miracle achieved largely through Shackleton's inspiring leadership. The survival of Hurley's remarkable images is scarcely less miraculous: The original glass plate negatives, from which most of the book's illustrations are superbly reproduced, were stored in hermetically sealed canisters that survived months on the ice floes, a week in an open boat on the polar seas, and several more months buried in the snows of a rocky outcrop called Elephant Island. Finally, Hurley was forced to abandon his professional equipment; thereafter he captured some of the most unforgettable images of the struggle with a pocket camera and three rolls of Kodak film. Features Summary One of the best survival stories illustrated with Frank Hurley s superb expedition photographs Author Caroline Alexander Publisher Seaforth Publishing Release date 20171030 Pages 224 ISBN 1-5267-0878-7 ISBN 13 978-1-5267-0878-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days A mediation on life and death, being and non-being, and the intense mystery and beauty of existence, Maso s new novel follows a mother and child as they roam through wondrous and increasingly dangerous psychic and physical terrain A great wind comes, an ancient tree splits in half and a bat, or is it an angel, enters the house where the mother and child sleep, and in an instant a world of relentless change, of spectacular consequences, of submerged memory, and uncanny intimations is set into motion. It is as if a veil has lifted, and what was once hidden is now in plain sight in all its splendor and terror as the mother and child are asked to bear enormous transformations and a terrible wisdom almost impossible to fathom. As the outside can no longer be separated from the inside, nor dream from reality, the mother and child continue, encountering along the way all kinds of characters and creatures as they move through a surreal world of grace and dread to the end. The bond between Mother and Child is untouchable, unrealizable until it is lost, and this meditation pushes the envelope, inching ever closer to touching it, to realizing it." Features Summary A mediation on life and death, being and non-being, and the intense mystery and beauty of existence, Maso s new novel follows a mother and child as they roam through wondrous and increasingly dangerous psychic and physical terrain A great wind comes... Author Carole Maso Publisher Counterpoint Release date 20130607 Pages 297 ISBN 1-61902-164-1 ISBN 13 978-1-61902-164-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Hayden Carruth, one of the most acclaimed poets of our age, lives his music-finding the perfect low tones of terrible loss and high riffs of family and friendship. "Carruth keeps getting better."-"The New Yorker" "Carruth's new poems are, essentially, songs of praise and celebrations of beauty; for all the real anguish and pain they record, they remain enactments of a fundamental attitude of faith and wonder."-"Times Literary Supplement "(London) "The elegiac gravity of 'Dearest M-, ' on a daughter's death, refuses to release us until its final syllable."-"Library Journal "(starred review) Features Summary Now in paperback Carruth's most recent, prize-winning book. Author Hayden Carruth Publisher Copper Canyon Press Release date 20030801 Pages 135 ISBN 1-55659-193-4 ISBN 13 978-1-55659-193-8