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Read Gibran's masterpiece in print! Set in the mythic city of Orphalese, The Prophet is a poetic treatise on all facets of life, from the daily realities of clothes and houses, to questions of love, beauty, and self-knowledge. Featuring 12 original illustrations by the author, Gibran's lyric exploration of the human condition is as relevant today as it was nearly a century ago.

Nineteen stories on the battle of the sexes. Included are Gertrude Talks Back, a monologue by Hamlet's mother, The Little Red Hen Tells All, which is on male chauvinism, and Happy Endings, a series of scenarios for finding love.

A collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. The author describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In a spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth.

Newly discovered writings from the author of the classic bestseller, The Prophet and the Prophet Said is a new complete gift edition of Gibran's classic text with over 150 newly discovered poems, aphorisms, and epigrams. Originally published in 1923 by Knopf, The Prophet is a teaching fable that has been cherished by millions for nearly 100 years. It is a book of wisdom that to live, provides guidance for readers on how to live a life imbued with...

Fred Ferraris's Jesaru Durango joins a long line of wild western philologers, including William Burrough's Intolerable Kid, the dogs of Ed Dorn's Westward Haut, Slinger too, behind each of whose burlesque is an ABSOLUTE stone cold dead seriousness that deep thinkers, vajrayana practitioners, and beatnik readers still dig today. His new Spaghetti Western, THE DURANGO CHRONICLES, and much of Ferraris's last book, OLDER THAN RAIN, reflect the eye of...

Presents a collection of prose poems by American authors, arranged chronologically, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jenny Boully, and including an explanation of the origins and characteristics of a prose poems

A picture book about American money and its value and uses.

A book that has touched many people very deeply since it was published in 1923, La profeta captures the teachings of Kahlil Gibran in a comforting story that succinctly touches on everyday topics like love, joy, sorrow, freedom, pain, and beauty. These two stories, which are recognized as the authors masterpiece, invites us to reflect on essential themes of humanity. This contemplative style of the narration will captivate the reader. Kahlil Gibrán,...

Michel Delville's book is the first full-length work to provide a critical and historical survey of the American prose poem from the early years of the twentieth century to the 1990s. Delville reassesses the work of established prose poets in relation to the history of modern poetry and introduces writings by some whose work in the form has so far escaped mainstream critical attention (Sherwood Anderson, Kenneth Patchen, Russell Edson). He describes...

Describes a baby falling asleep as sailing out in a silver moon boat.