chianti_cimex_reads rated North: Poems: 4 stars

Montreal - looking for the catharsis that comes from reading finely crafted sentences, and to get in closer touch with a higher power of my understanding
"For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Yes, indeed." - Mary Oliver
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Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping (1989, Bantam Books)
Marilynne Robinson's first novel.
Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping (1989, Bantam Books)
Marilynne Robinson's first novel.
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians …
Cien años de soledad es una novela del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en …
Les Fleurs du mal est un recueil de poèmes de Charles Baudelaire, reprenant la quasi-totalité de sa production en vers …
Dentro de su brevedad - determinada por el rigor y la concentración expresiva - Pedro Páramo sintetiza la mayor parte …
Twenty-two-year-old Rabbit Angstrom is a salesman in a local department store, father of a preschool-age son, and husband to an …