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The Griffin and Other Poems

By: Alice M. Baskous

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The Griffin and Other Poems is the author’s latest and fourth poetic endeavor, written to shed light on current events from a feminist’s perspective, using symbolism as well as empathy in traditional as well as modern ways. The author tries to evaluate precisely what is happening in the world scene, from crime to terrorism, and gives voice to what often goes voiceless: the misery, anxiety, and tumultuous of the human condition. For the first time, the poet has included a comic play, Since Cocks Don’t lay Eggs, in verse at the end of her compilation which is over seventy pages long, and plans to write more plays in the near future - God willing, she would like to add.

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1460260104

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9781460260104

The Secret Key

A Collection of Poems

By: Alice Miaolian Baskous

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The Secret Key

A Collection of Poems

By: Alice Miaolian Baskous

The Secret Key is a collection of poems in many different styles and forms, on a variety of topics, from love to nature to science; it’s very thorough and dense, and should probably be good reading for every season - a work for people of every age! Poetry is about celebration, and so is The Secret Key, employing ways that are traditional to tactics that are more free and modern in order to convey a gamut of sentiments and theories, meant to be both intimate and public. This book is intended to provide nourishment for the senses and for the soul likewise; it holds meaning as well as any diary; and it should entertain and please all those approaching it with a pure poetry-loving mind, as well as an open, appreciative, and interested spirit.

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520

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1460224248

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9781460224243

Two Novels

The Marvelously Twisted Tale of Lucas Fico and Gato Pech and The Morning Lark

By: Alice Miaolian Baskous

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Two Novels

The Marvelously Twisted Tale of Lucas Fico and Gato Pech and The Morning Lark

By: Alice Miaolian Baskous

Two Novels includes The Marvelously Twisted Tale of Lucas Fico and Gato Pech and The Morning Lark. The first novel is a dark thriller set in Northern Germany about a promiscuous cafe waiter turned psycho killer. Lucas Fico heads down the path of murder after encountering an impish geezer with mysteriously magical and psychic qualities named Gato Pech. Pech promises Lucas all the luck in the world in return for a few criminal favors: the seduction of a local married woman with the intent of making her commit suicide, a massacre of stray cats, and the poisoning of some of the township's homeless. Lucas agrees, hoping to gain the woman of his dreams as his mistress and become filthy rich through the unique enchantments of Gato Pech. He does, but his gains are short-lived. After several months, feeling he will be apprehended and brought to trial, the nerve-wracked waiter kills both his mistress and himself in a fiery murder-suicide. The Morning Lark is an urban drama set in New York about the decline of CEO William O'Henry's marriage. His betrayal begins when he shows more affection for his sultry Swedish coworker, Arvid Jonasonn, than for his wife, Catherine, or their kids. After coming home late from a night on the town, Catherine perceives the cheap perfume smell on William's lapels and opts to divorce him. However, Catherine's cousin, Eric Jonson, who is also O'Henry's underling, is already in love with Catherine. The two cousins manage to find love together in spite of O'Henry's jealousy.

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385

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146026696X

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9781460266960

Behind These Doors Chanting Hare Krishna

By: Alice Miaolian Baskous

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Behind These Doors Chanting Hare Krishna

By: Alice Miaolian Baskous

This is the author's third volume of collected poetry and falls under the category of religious verse, yet many poems talk about the fate of women in society and what happens when innocent girls fall by the wayside. The last narrative poem, entitled "The Monks of Saint Mark's Street", is actually inspired by Keats' fragment by the name of "St. Mark's Eve", which he did not finish before his death. She wrote these poems with strong misgivings about the ethical state of societies today, superficial media culture and materialism, pornography, and female sexual harassment. Other poems are meant to praise God and Creation, and a number of them are about friendship....

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511

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1460242211

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9781460242216

In The Garden of All Things Fair

By: Alice Miaolian Baskous

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In The Garden of All Things Fair

By: Alice Miaolian Baskous

This book of collected verse was written as two books and then conjoined into one larger volume: harmoniously, I hope, since most of the poems regardless were composed on the common and well-loved subjects of love, beauty, equality, and nature. There is a better place of loveliness is what I'm propounding, attainable through true sentiment, attentiveness, imagination, and empathy for others; and In The Garden of All Things Fair, though a literary endeavor surely, is also an attempt to spread this more subliminal feeling around as one spreads marmalade on toast at breakfast. A student wrote these poems intending to share her profound happiness in the existence of poetry as well as her zest for detail, description, fineness of opinion, and introspection. The language was meant to be thick and substantial, which the author tells the reader, now, with neither chagrin nor presumptuousness, but as a true friend of quality literature as it has been and shall remain through the ages.

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1460235541

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9781460235546

Book's by Alice M. Baskous

The Griffin and Other Poems

The Griffin and Other Poems

The Secret Key

The Secret Key

Two Novels

Two Novels

Behind These Doors Chanting Hare Krishna

Behind These Doors Chanting Hare Krishna

In The Garden of All Things Fair

In The Garden of All Things Fair

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