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Shiv Khera is an Indian author, activist and motivational speaker, best known for his book, You Can Win. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He launched a movement against caste -based reservation in India, founded an organization called Country First Foundation.
The Go-Between is a novel by L. P. Hartley published in 1953. His best-known work, it has been adapted several times for stage and screen. The book gives a critical view of society at the end of the Victorian era through the eyes of a naïve schoolboy outsider.
They placed fourth in the 2004 National Poetry Slam and third in the 2006 and 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam. [42] Gibson was the first person to win the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2008. [43] Andrea has also been appointed as Colorado’s Poet Laureate by Governor Jared Polis. [44]
Collected Poems 1988: An Arundel Tomb: 1956-02-20: The Whitsun Weddings: And now the leaves suddenly lose strength... 1961-11-03: Collected Poems 1988: And the wave sings because it is moving... 1946-09-14: Collected Poems 1988: Annus Mirabilis: 1967-06-16: High Windows: Ape Experiment Room: 1965-02-24: Collected Poems 1988: Arrival: 1950 (best ...
In a review for The New York Times, O’Donoghue called Field Work: “a superb book, the most eloquent and far-reaching book he has written, a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have despaired of seeing such a thing." [1] Field Work is notably less political than North.
Wystan Hugh Auden (/ ˈ w ɪ s t ən ˈ h juː ˈ ɔː d ən /; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973), who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, later an American citizen, and is regarded by many critics as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
From The New York Times Book Review: "Sorokin's pyrotechnics are often craftily twinned with Soviet-era references and conventions. The title and 24-hour frame of Day of the Oprichnik bring to mind Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), an exposé of a Gulag camp that depicts an Everyman-victim who finds dignity in labor, almost like a Socialist Realist hero.
Burke's poetry (which has drawn little critical attention and seldom been anthologized) appears in three collections: Book of Moments (1955), Collected Poems 1915–1967 (1968), and the posthumously published Late Poems: 1968-1993 Attitudinizings Verse-wise, While Fending for One's Selph, and in a Style Somewhat Artificially Colloquial (2005).