LIBROS DEL AUTOR: laura klinkon

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  • Sonnets from Fatal Interview/Sonetti da Colloquio Fatale
    Edna St. Vincent Millay / Laura Klinkon
    Millay’s Fatal Interview love affair began in 1928 while at the University of Chicago on a reading tour. She immediately fell in love and began a relationship with the recently graduated, yet critically acclaimed poet who introduced her, George Dillon. She was 36, married, and living at her country estate in Austerlitz, New York, while George was 22 and working as the associate...
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  • The Silent Lyre/La Lira Silente
    Laura Klinkon
    These sonnets are among the most beautiful of her early compositions. While the novelist, architect, and poet Thomas Hardy equated Millay’s sonnets with America’s great skyscrapers, the American intelligentsia, no doubt influenced by her popularity, awarded her the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, at thirty-one years of age, the third woman to have won the award for poetry. Questi sonet...
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  • Looking Askance
    Laura Klinkon
    In how many ways can Americans or humans in general not communicate?  Looking Askance illustrates some ways from the standpoint of someone who is sorely offended by this common and persistent failing.Beginning with a sensitive individual who, in wanting to score a social success, is demoralized by "hypocrisy guilt," it moves to the person who withdraws from socializing due to u...
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  • Kitchen Abrasives
    Laura Klinkon
    Many of my poems reflect the effort to know or to build some structure around things or ideas that I haven’t yet figured out.  It’s like E.M. Forster who said, “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”  One could also ask, How do I know what I’ll say until I think it? or ...How do I know what I’ll say until I write it? Er...another place my poems may be coming from: ...
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    18,28 €