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You may think you know Vergil’s epic poem, The Aeneid - the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, prophesized to found Rome. Or maybe you’ve heard of the fearsome Cyclopes, the tragic queen Dido, the Trojan horse, the River Styx and the three headed dog who guards the underworld. But what of the man who wrote it and why? This is that story.

"I’ve grown old– now my own name rings a bell." In each of the short poems in Billy Collins’s Musical Tables, the former United States Poet Laureate tempers his characteristically jocular voice with what he calls the “thrill of mortality” – flashes of profundity amongst the mundane...

A e ancora A, la lettera e lettura dell'inizio, scrittura che spende i suoi fiati cercando un linguaggio interiore mai fermo, sempre un lavoro sull'inizio e lo riporta dal buio alla luce in un respiro, una continua tessitura della memoria che vive non di tempo ma di aperture al presente all'ora che non ha lance o lancette ma è la barca, l'arca-per-dono con cui la vita ci offre di attraversare ogni cosmo, dentro e introno a noi.

Emily came to Los Angeles, like everyone else, with a hope and a dream. She left Los Angeles 15 years later with a new husband and two beautiful children, and headed to Boise, Idaho. The contents of this audiobook are glimpses into what transpired in the in-between time. From her first apartment in Beverly Hills, to her rented room in West Hollywood and finally her bungalow apartment on Ridgeley Drive, when she met her love and began a new life.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the former United States Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love, a collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, and each a thought or observation compressed to its emotional essence “Whenever I pick up a new book of poems...

DewDrops Musical is a collection of eight selected poems that have been rendered to music.

And the Band Plays On is characterized by various instruments in a band as it symbolically portrays personalities, conflicts, and circumstances in a person's life.