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She Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning from girl to woman, the isolation of an untethered mind and the power and subjugation of the body.Charly captures the formative experiences of today's young women from the poignant to the prosaic in writing that is at once witty, wry and heartfelt. Wayward nights out that don't go as planned; the righteous anger at those men with no talent or skill...

Go on a journey to unknown, but strangely familiar, lands and then travel home again.

A illustrated collection of poems, including Browning's "Pied Piper of Hamelin" and Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat."

An illustrated version of the well-known poem about a wily spider who preys on the vanity and innocence of a little fly.

A collection of poems by Thom Gunn that describe how people are ruled by their desires.

Summary:\"This volume is the first anthology of poetic writings on slavery from America, Britain, and around the Atlantic during the Enlightenment - the crucial period that saw the height of the slave trade but also the origins of the anti-slavery movement. Bringing together more than four hundred poems and excerpts from longer works that were written by more than two hundred and fifty poets, both famous and unknown, the book charts the emergence...

The selections in this volume cover all of Wordsworth's career, but focus on the poems written between 1797 and 1807, the years considered to be the peak of his creative life.

Selected poems by the Nobel Prizewinning Irish poet are taken from Heaney's twelve previous collections and includes work published since 1987. This volume gathers the landmark poems from the poets twelve previous collections, & brings the reader up to date with the work published since 1987. Annotation. As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn...