Claudia: 2015 books

A poem dedicated to my husband Etienne, who captured my heart the very first moment I saw him.

Questions about immigration and social welfare programs raise the central issues of who belongs to a society and what its members deserve. Yet the opinions of the American public about these important issues seem contradictory and confused. Claudia Strauss explains why: public opinion on these issues...

The use of psychoanalytic ideas to explore social and political questions is not new. Freud began this work himself and social research has consistently drawn on his ideas. This makes perfect sense. Social and political theory must find ways to conceptualise the relation between human subjects and...

Giotto è il primo artista del Medioevo ad avere di fatto attraversato l'Italia; partendo da Colle di Vespignano presso Vicchio nel Mugello, dove secondo la tradizione ebbe i natali intorno al 1266/67, e trasferendosi ben presto nella vicina Firenze, dove compì i primi passi nella pittura, egli lasciò...

This Red Door Reads First Chapter Sampler contains: CONTEMPORARY Devil to Pay ~ Renee Bernard Valentine Wishes ~ Jane Charles Simply Irresistible ~ Deborah Cooke Kick Start ~ Caren Crane Learing to Live ~ Jerrica Knight-Catania A Soldier's Promise ~...

Did you know there are angels tied to your astrological sign that are waiting to help change your life? Your Astrological Angels, Tarot and Numerology is a spellbinding read that introduces readers to the genre bending concept that an angel is assigned specifically to you and all the people born under...

In Claude before Time and Space, her final collection, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Claudia Emerson quietly but fiercely explores the themes of mortality and time. In the first section of this book, “The Wheel,” Emerson uses a rural southern setting in poems that reflect on memory, the...

Um livro de poesia pode ser a reunião da produção literária de um determinado período. No caso de Claudia Schroeder, "Leia-me toda" ultrapassa essa classificação: representa o estado de espírito da autora, trazendo observações, sentimentos, relacionamentos e traduções do seu...

Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood—now available in paperback—constituted the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary career. As they discuss Walker’s work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People...

La malattia di un figlio rappresenta l’evento più devastante nella vita di un genitore. Le forti emozioni di questo libro raccontano che a volte i grandi traumi emotivi generano coraggio e forza, risorse insospettabili, capaci di illuminare un cammino scuro e insidioso e di trovare sensi diversi,...

We can live without being aware of them and this fact is not considered a serious mistake. But then we have to accept that things surrounding us happen in a chaotic manner and that we do not understand why sometimes we get “luck” and other times when we most need it we only get “bad-luck”;...

Daringly realistic and artfully mediated by past and present, Claudia Emerson's Secure the Shadow contains historical pieces as well as poems centering on the deaths of the poet's brother and father. Emerson covers all aspects of the tragedies that, as Keats believed, contribute to our human collective...

With graceful lines swooping like a bird in flight, Claudia Emerson's newest collection explores the harsh realities of aging and the limitations of the human body, as well as the loneliness, fear, and anger that can accompany us as we live. Keenly observed and beautifully executed, these poems...

Claudia Carroll is already a major bestselling author in her native Ireland, and now she’s ready to take America by storm with her poignantly hilarious new novel, I Never Fancied Him Anyway. Like her fellow countrywoman, New York Times bestselling novelist Marian Keyes, Carroll mixes outrageous...