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From 1997 to 2003 Molloy directed workshops in UCD and began to submit her poetry for publication. Her first volume of poems, Hare soup was published in 2004 by Faber and Faber. The book was critically acclaimed and won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award in 2005. [1] [6] [2] [7] [4] [8] [5]
First edition Cover art by Fritz Eichenberg. The Long Loneliness is the autobiography of Dorothy Day, published in 1952 by Harper & Brothers.In the book, Day chronicles her involvement in socialist groups along with her eventual conversion to Catholicism in 1927, and the beginning of her newspaper the Catholic Worker in 1933.
The chimney sweeps. Talk to the sword. Shut up, you got a big mouth! Please help me up, Henry. Max, come over here. French-Canadian bean soup. I want to pay. Let them leave me alone." [36] [157] — Dutch Schultz, American mobster (24 October 1935), speaking in stream-of-consciousness babble after being shot "Give me the glasses." [158] ("Dá ...
"A shy, devout girl with an inner passion for nature and began writing short poems at an early age." [7] She married the actor Gerald Gurney in 1897; he was the son of Archer Thompson Gurney (1820–1887), a Church of England clergyman and hymnodist. In 1904 her husband was ordained a priest of the Church of England. [8]
Dorothy Livesay, 1929. Livesay's first collection of poetry, Green Pitcher, was published in 1928, when she was only nineteen.The Encyclopedia of Literature says, "these were well-crafted poems that not only showed skilled use of the imagist technique but prefigured Margaret Atwood's condemnations of exploitative and fearful attitudes to the Canadian landscape."
Dorothy Law Nolte was born in Los Angeles, California, January 12, 1924. She wrote a poem on childrearing, "Children Learn What They Live", for a weekly family column for The Torrance Herald in 1954. The poem was widely circulated by readers as well as distributed to millions of new parents by a maker of baby formula.
The Platonic Blow, by Miss Oral" (sometimes known as "A Day for a Lay" or "The Gobble Poem") is an erotic poem by W. H. Auden. Thought to have been written in 1948, the poem gleefully describes in graphic detail a homosexual encounter involving an act of fellatio .
The song is referenced in the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup, when Groucho Marx's character Rufus T. Firefly says, "My father was a little headstrong, my mother was a little armstrong. The Headstrongs married the Armstrongs, and that's why darkies were born". [ 5 ]