Veil and Burn


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Concerned with physical experience, pain, and disability, Veil and Burn illuminates an intense desire to feel through the Other, embrace it, become it, and in the transformation, to understand the suffering body. In poems about animals, artifacts, and monsters, Lambeth displays a fascination for all bodies while exploring their pain, common fate, alienation, and abilities. Hovering between poem and prose fragment, between the self and fellow creatures, Laurie Clements Lambeth celebrates physical sensation, imbuing it with lyric shape, however broken, however imprisoned the shape may be.




Veil


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A few weeks after her father's death, linguist and educator, Lisa Smartt, heard his voice asking that she transcribe poems from beyond the veil for his beloved, Susan, wife of of 54 years. Was it truly the spirit of her father or merely her imagination? Lisa is not sure, but the poems inspired by his voice are beautiful, so she gathered them together into this collection in celebration and memory of his life and love. Those who read the poems agree that they have a vision about them, as if from a perspective much greater than ours and offer an expanded appreciation of all we are. Rafael Gonzalez, Poet Laureate of Berkeley, Ca, writes, "And whose poems are they? Lisa's? Her father Morton's from beyond the threshold? It matters not. What matters are the poems themselves, celebrations of life and of love, lyrical, tender and passionate..."




Behind the Veil


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Behind the Veil


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This book is a poetic version of my experiences and imaginations. I have tried to portray the ongoing to and fro in the circumference of my mental radar in the form of words and divided them into three basic sections, which are Happiness? Sadness and Thoughtfulness. Even lots of minute, unnoticeable emotions are also diligently condensed and incorporated along with some of my sketches in each section to let the reader enjoy their exact mood.




The Painted Veil


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Kitty Fane's affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Townsend is interrupted when she is taken from Hong Kong by her vengeful bacteriologist husband to work in a cholera epidemic.







Science and Other Poems


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These poems imbue everything, from the microscopic to the stellar, with wonder. Each instant of illumination, like poetry itself, brings the world alive with "a faithfulness deeper than seeing."







One Train


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In this volume, the themes and variations of One Train May Hide Another, the poems by ships at sea, and the post-Apollinaire couplets of A Time Zone, for example, reveal Kenneth Koch's interest in new forms, directions and kinds of writing.