1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451077303321

Autore

Weiss Adrienne <1973->

Titolo

Awful gestures [[electronic resource] /] / by Adrienne Weiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, : Insomniac Press, c2001

ISBN

1-280-91087-9

9786610910878

1-4593-0940-5

1-897414-79-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (60 p.)

Disciplina

811/.6

Soggetti

Poetry - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Poems.

Nota di contenuto

Awful Gestures; Rain is no ordinary miracle; Subterranean; Scar; A Pretty Mistake; Stand Behind the Yellow Line; Queen Bee; Sweetheart Roland; Dead Flies; Road Kill: leaving you in a suburban restaurant; I watch you, real hard; Pop Art; Timeless; A Heart Like Yours; Itinerant Job; Unwavering, linoleum rain pelts on; A Deep Shade of Remedy; Beyond the Flurry; Stay; Dextrarum Iunctio (The Joining of Right Hands); Careful Where You Tread; In my heat you disappear; Night Comes For Sleep; The Myth of Tantalus; Glitter and Waste; Chance Operations; Smoking is Sexy

Ballad for a Bartender at the RivoliIsis, 925.13.42, Roman Gallery, ROM; American Windows; Male Figure Reclining; We are at carnival and I am in chartreuse; Malabar; At the Anne Frankhuis; Auvers-sur-Oise, June 1890; Night Healers; Notes; Previously Published

Sommario/riassunto

Wallace Stevens' torrid words serve as both epigraph and incantation for Adrienne Weiss's powerful debut collection. Like Stevens, the poet acts as an intuitive observer and an almost violently acute mystic throughout these extravagant poems.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830124503321

Autore

Belshaw Christopher

Titolo

10 good questions about life and death [[electronic resource] /] / Christopher Belshaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005

ISBN

1-280-19849-4

9781405143835

9786610198498

0-470-76130-X

0-470-77503-3

1-4051-4383-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Disciplina

128.5

Soggetti

Life

Values

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-172) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Where can I find answers? -- Is life sacred? -- Is it bad to die? -- Which deaths are worse? -- Might I live on? -- Should I take the elixir of life? -- Who's who? -- Is it all meaningless? -- Should there be more, and better, people? -- Does reality matter?

Sommario/riassunto

10 Good Questions about Life and Death makes us think again about some of the most important issues we ever have to face.Addresses the fundamental questions that many of us ask about life and death.Written in an engaging and straightforward style, ideal for those with no formal background in philosophy.Focuses on commonly pondered issues, such as: Is life sacred? Is it bad to die? Is there life after death? Does life have meaning? And which life is best?Encourages readers to think about and respond to the human condition.Features case studies, thought-experiments



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00048122

Titolo

Vzainootnosenie razvitija nacional'nyx jazykov i nacional'nyz kul'tur / otv. red. Junus D. Deseriev, E.G. Tumanjan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Moskva, : Izd. Nauka, 1980

Descrizione fisica

318 p. ; 20 cm

Classificazione

INT II

Soggetti

LINGUISTICA - UNIONE SOVIETICA

Lingua di pubblicazione

Russo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia