Boomerang Bride

Matilda Geoffrey had risked it all for love. She'd left Australia to be with Barry-the man who had swept her off her virtual feet. Now, wearing a wedding dress, she's alone on Main Street in small-tow

「那不是迴力鏢，而是一束金屬捆綁線，這就是在養牛田裡，有時候我們用來相互表達關愛的方式。」 《迴力鏢》（Boomerang）是一本中英文對照詩選，內含譯者詳盡的評述和七十首選自詩人教授柯瑞．布朗（Cory Brown）的五本英文詩集，以及新近尚未結集的詩稿，提供國內外讀者一個雙語並置的閱讀櫥窗。詩人評論家竇兒惕（Edward A. Dougherty）說：「布朗用形式這個籠子來關鎖內容這頭動物，創造詩的張力來表達日常或嚴肅的題材，是美國詩壇少有的成就。」 布朗熟稔並善用各類詩體。面對嚴肅題材，他不忌援用古典十四行體，仿但丁《神曲》的〈地獄〉、〈煉獄〉、〈天堂〉三階段結構，創作了新冠疫情年代的詩章《漫長的向上慢爬：新冠病毒年》（A Long Slow Climb: The Year of COVID），謂唯有「愛」才是人類面對自然逆境和生死時的處方。至於日常生活主題，他適情採用「即席率性」章法、後現代的「漫遊和講話」風格和「一視野，多焦點」的敘述，搭配美式俳句與散文的形式，以揶揄或批判的口吻，呈現知性的觀察與人文的關懷，並以「反芻過程」的方法來挖掘記憶礦脈。 布朗教授曾任紐約綺色佳學院（Ithaca College）寫作系主任，與詩人亞蒙斯（Archie Ammons）、摩根（Robert Morgan）及詩壇祭酒艾敘伯里（John Ashbery）時相過從。1988年布朗以詩集《一道暖流》（A Warm Trend）獲 Swallow’s Tale Poetry Award，2025年以《我母親的雙手》（My Mother’s Hands）入選 Finishing Line Press 詩歌賽，前後近四十年創作不懈，見證了他詩藝精湛的持續與詩思深入的細微。“It is not a boomerang but a bundle of baling wire and it’s how we send our love to one another sometimes in the field.” This collection represents over forty years of Cory Brown’s poetry, in a bilingual edition translated by Taiwanese poet Ruey-shan Sandy

Real life and fairy tales collide in book two of this funny and exciting middle grade series from #1 New York Times–bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz.Filomena Jefferson-Cho of nothing-ever-happens North Pasadena teams up with dashing Jack, adorable Alistair, and glamorous Gretel for another adventure in the land of Never After, this time to get the glass slipper back from Cinderella!Neither heroine nor victim, Cinderella is manipulative and cunning, doing anything to be Princess of Eastphalia. Her twin stepsisters, Hortense and Beatrice―Hori and Bea―have been maligned in reputation, their lives upended by Cinderella. For one, Prince Charming has been in love with Hori since they were children, but when King Gregor forces his son to throw a ball to pick a bride, Cinderella steals the spotlight and her happily ever after.While attempting to help her sister, bookish Bea is captured by a terrible beast. Spells abound, and evil will reign . . . or will it?

★本書榮獲1992年西班牙加泰隆尼亞國際插畫雙年展大獎★朗朗上口的生動民間故事×處處埋藏玄機的精緻細膩圖繪，讓歷久彌新的經典繪本，啟動孩子的觀察力與想像力，增進中英雙語閱讀素養！ 一月一，年初一。一月二，年初二。年初三，早上床，今夜老鼠娶新娘。 大小老鼠來幫忙，抬花轎，搬嫁妝，新郎新娘早拜堂。一拜堂，二拜堂， 三拜堂來入洞房。 這是一則流傳在臺灣的民間故事。老鼠村長的女兒要拋繡球選新郎，不料，一隻黑貓衝進來攪亂了局面。為了女兒的幸福，老鼠村長決定找一個比貓還強、全世界最強的女婿。左思右想，他覺得太陽是全世界最強的，於是跑去找太陽。可是，烏雲遮住了太陽，風吹散了烏雲，牆擋住了風……，到底誰才是老鼠村長最理想的女婿呢？ 故事中的老鼠村就位在人類家園的牆角下，繪者劉宗慧在一開始的三幅畫，就巧妙運用微觀與巨觀的對比，透過鏡頭的連續推近，從人類的視野慢慢壓低到老鼠的視野，讓老鼠的國度與人類的世界構成了有趣的畫面。全書充滿豐富細節的圖像，不僅有許多地方讓人莞爾一笑，也發展出文本之外的另一種敘事角度。 The wise old head of a small mouse village has a big problem. It is time for his beautiful young daughter to get married. But the old mouse wants to find her the most powerful husband in the world, to protect her from the vicious cat that is terrorizing his village. Setting off on a long journey, the old mouse leader intends to ask the Sun to marry his daughter. But he soon finds the Cloud is stronger. He then asks the Cloud, but to his surprise sees that the Wind is even greater. The Wind

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