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5) Pluviophile
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Language
English
Description
Pluviophile is a poetic rumination on where language originates and what value it retains to unearth the sacred in postmodernity, among other subjects. The opening poem, "The Place Where Words Go to Die," winner of the Malahat Review's 2016 Far Horizons Poetry Award, imagines an underworld where words are killed and reborn, shedding their signifiers like skin to re-enter the symbiotic relationship with the human, where "saxum [is] sacrificed and born...
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Français
Description
À l'occasion du cinquantenaire de cet événement unique et majeur de notre vie et parce que la littérature fait partie prenante de la lutte par ses engagements, les éditions Chihab, sur un projet de Nourredine Saadi qui a coordonné l'ouvrage, ont réuni ici dans un recueil collectif, des textes inédits d'écrivains sur le thème de Ce jour-là - écrits et récits de création, donc distincts de tout traité à caractère historique ou de toute...
Author
Series
Marya Khan volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marya loves fall. Every year, her family goes to the town's fall festival and picks out the best pumpkin. But this year, after she sees her frenemy Alexa winning a big, cool pumpkin-shaped trophy, Marya knows she's got to win a trophy for something. It just so happens that her school is going to hold its own fall festival, with games and food and even a hayride. All the ticket sales will go to an animal shelter, and the person who sells the most...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Français
Description
Focuses on the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in caf^aes. The French win the battle, but ultimately...
17) 13 tzameti
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Français
Description
A young man follows instructions left for a dead drug user and finds himself in a dangerous world where a gambling syndicate places bets on games of Russian roulette.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Saadi Youssef is considered one of the most important living Iraqi intellectuals and one of the country's greatest modern poets. From his exile in the suburbs of London, his writings have varied from angry invectives in essay forms attacking the US-led occupation of Iraq, to tender poems recollecting Iraq's shards from memory. His poetic eye peers into New Orleans after it is devastated by Hurricane Katrina; it observes a homeless man in New York...