Download or read book The Day of Shelly s Death written by Renato Rosaldo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had arrived in the northern Philippine village of Mungayang, where she and her husband Renato, both accomplished anthropologists, planned to conduct fieldwork. On October 11, Shelly died after losing her footing and falling some sixty feet from a cliff into a swollen river. Renato Rosaldo explored the relationship between bereavement and rage in his canonical essay, "Grief and a Headhunter's Rage," which first appeared in 1984 and is reprinted here. In the poems at the heart of this book, he returns to the trauma of Shelly's death through the medium of free verse, maintaining a tight focus on the events of October 11, 1981. He explores not only his own experience of Shelly's death but also the imagined perspectives of many others whose lives intersected with that tragic event and its immediate aftermath, from Shelly herself to the cliff from which she fell, from the two young boys who lost their mother to the strangers who carried and cared for them, from a tricycle taxi driver, to a soldier, to priests and nuns. Photographs taken years earlier, when Renato and Shelly were conducting research across the river valley from Mungayang, add a stark beauty. In a new essay, "Notes on Poetry and Ethnography," Rosaldo explains how and why he came to write the harrowing yet beautiful poems in The Day of Shelly's Death. More than anything else though, the essay is a manifesto in support of what he calls antropoesía, verse with an ethnographic sensibility. The essay clarifies how this book of rare humanity and insight challenges the limits of ethnography as it is usually practiced.
Download or read book Rage written by Jackie Morse Kessler and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackie Morse Kessler’s Riders of the Apocalypse series follows teens who are transformed into the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In the second book of the series, Rage, a teenage cutter becomes War, one of the Riders of the Apocalypse. Missy didn’t mean to cut so deep. But after the party where she was humiliated in front of practically everyone in school, who could blame her for wanting some comfort? Sure, most people don’t find comfort in the touch of a razor blade, but Missy always was . . . different. That’s why she was chosen to become one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War. Now Missy wields a new kind of blade—a big, brutal sword that can cut down anyone and anything in her path. But it’s with this weapon in her hand that Missy learns something that could help her triumph over her own pain: control. A unique approach to the topic of self-mutilation, Rage is the story of a young woman who discovers her own power and refuses to be defeated by the world. Rage includes a teaser chapter of the next book in the Riders of the Apocalypse series, Loss.
Download or read book An Honourable Death written by Iain Crichton Smith and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1870, a seventeen-year-old crofter's son turned his back on his apprenticeship with the Royal Clan and Tartan Warehouse in Inverness and signed up as a private in Queen Victoria's army. He joined the Gordons - the 92nd Highlanders - whose reputation was second to none as the fearsome cutting-edge of the British Army. Posted to India, Afghanistan, South Africa and the Sudan, he became a formidable soldier, rising up through the ranks to become the glorified and much-decorated Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald or, more commonly, 'Fighting Mac', the true hero of Omdurman. Then, in 1903, at the peak of his remarkable career, he was accused of homosexuality. Ordered to face court martial and unable to bear the disgrace, he ended his life. From this true story, with a poet's insight and precision, Iain Crichton Smith has crafted an exquisite novel: a tale of honour and elitism, equivocation and hierocracy, victory and despair.
Download or read book Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night written by Dylan Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry of Dylan Thomas has long been heralded as amongst the greatest of the Modern period, and along with his play, Under Milk Wood, his books are amongst the best-loved works in the literary canon. This new selection of his poetry contains all of his best-loved verse - including 'I See the Boys of Summer', 'And Death Shall Have No Dominion', 'The Hand that Signed the Paper' and, of course, 'Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night' - as well as some of his lesser-known lyrical pieces, and aims to show the great poet in a new light. '[Then] the greatest living poet in the English language.' (Observer) 'He is unique, for he distils an exquisite mysterious moving quality which defies analysis.' (Sunday Times)
Download or read book Fates Worse Than Death written by Brian St.Claire-King and published by . This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A role playing game of suspense, horror and hope in 2080 on the streets of Manhattan.
Download or read book Needled to Death written by Maggie Sefton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that she’s been knitting up a storm with the help of her new friends at House of Lambspun, Kelly Flynn can’t imagine ever leaving Fort Connor, Colorado. But there’s trouble in her adopted hometown—and not just with her new sweater project... When Kelly volunteers to take a troop of tourists to visit Vickie Claymore’s alpaca farm, she discovers Fort Connor isn’t as sedate as it seems. Instead of a warm welcome, they find Vickie splayed out on her original hand-woven rug, her blood seeping into the design. The police jump on the case, but Kelly can’t resist doing a little investigation work of her own—even if it means taking a break from the sweater she’s been knitting in the round. Because a murderer is lurking in Fort Connor—waiting for the right moment to strike again...
Download or read book An Epitomy of Ecclesiastical History Containing I The life and death of Jesus Christ with the lives of the apostles and holy evangelists By J S Gent i e John Shirley The second edition enlarged etc written by J. S. (Gent.) and published by . This book was released on 1706 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poems of Dylan Thomas written by Dylan Thomas and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete and current edition of Dylan Thomas' collected poetry in a beautiful gift edition celebrating the centenary of his birth The reputation of Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century has not waned in the fifty years since his death. A Welshman with a passion for the English language, Thomas’s singular poetic voice has been admired and imitated, but never matched. This exciting, newly edited annotated edition offers a more complete and representative collection of Dylan Thomas’s poetic works than any previous edition. Edited by leading Dylan Thomas scholar John Goodby from the University of Swansea, The Poems of Dylan Thomas contains all the poems that appeared in Collected Poems 1934-1952, edited by Dylan Thomas himself, as well as poems from the 1930-1934 notebooks and poems from letters, amatory verses, occasional poems, the verse film script for “Our Country,” and poems that appear in his “radio play for voices,” Under Milk Wood. Showing the broad range of Dylan Thomas’s oeuvre as never before, this new edition places Thomas in the twenty-first century, with an up-to-date introduction by Goodby whose notes and annotations take a pluralistic approach.
Download or read book The Christian s Defence Against the Fears of Death written by Charles Drelincourt and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Christian s Defence Against the Fears of Death Translated by Marius D Assigny The Twelfth Edition Newly Corrected with an Account of the Author Etc With A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe written by Charles DRELINCOURT (the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Industry of Death written by Jason Thornton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the zombie apocalypse people learned how to harness zombies for power. Zombies became their own unit of energy, providing power and electricity for a recovering world. The D-Tec Corporation builds, powers, and services zombie-powered devices; from power plants, to factories, to 'single-zombie' portable generators. They are rebuilding that which was lost in the zombie apocalypse with the very agents that destroyed it.Tired of the isolation of living in the wilds, Tyler allowed himself to be recruited by the Corporation. Bringing a lifetime of knowledge in dealing with the undead, he became a star employee as a stoker in the Corporation's Fargo power plant. A stoker's job was to maintain the proper level of zombie aggression. Too little anger and the city's lights would dim. Too much anger and the zombies would fall apart too quickly, a costly resource. Tyler was good at his work and life was good in Fargo, until he became bored and asked for change.
Download or read book Now I Walk on Death Row written by Dale S. Recinella and published by Chosen Books. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most influential finance lawyers in the country, Dale Recinella was living the American dream. With prestige, power, and unthinkable paychecks at his fingertips, his life was perfect... at least on paper. But on the heels of closing a huge deal for the Miami Dolphins, Dale's life took an unfathomable turn. He heard--and heeded--Jesus's call to sell everything he owned and follow him. Thus began a radical quest to live out the words of Jesus--no matter what the cost. In this quick-paced, well-written story, Recinella shares his amazing journey from growing up in the slums of Detroit to racing through "the good life" on Wall Street to finally walking the humble path of God--the path of ministry on death row.
Download or read book Ceremony in Death written by J. D. Robb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb presents the fifth thrilling novel in her futuristic In Death series—where even in an age of cutting-edge technology, old beliefs die hard. Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, Eve takes the warnning personally. With her husband, Roarke, watching her every move, Eve is drawn into the most dangerous case of her career. Every step she takes makes her question her own beliefs of right and wrong—and brings her closer to a confrontation with humanity's most seductive form of evil...
Download or read book The Death of the Novel and Other Stories written by Ronald Sukenick and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969, The Death of the Novel and Other Stories remains among the most memorable creations of an unforgettable age. Irrepressibly experimental in both content and form, these anti-fictions set out to rescue experience from its containment within artistic convention and bourgeois morality. Equal parts high modernist aesthete and borscht belt comedian, Sukenick joins avant-garde art with street slang and cartoons, expressing his generation's anxieties by simultaneously mocking and validating them. These are original works by a writer who will try absolutely anything.
Download or read book The Christian s Consolations against the fears of Death Translated into English from the last edition of the original by J Bromwich etc An account of Mrs Veal s appearance to Mrs Bargrave By the Rev Mr Payne etc An account of the life and writings of C Drelincourt etc written by Charles DRELINCOURT (the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Good Death written by Marilyn Webb and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Good Death is the first full-scale examination of one of today's most complex issues: the profound change in the way Americans think about and confront death. Drawing on more than six years of firsthand research and reporting, noted journalist Marilyn Webb builds her account around intimate portraits of the dying themselves. She explains why some deaths become shockingly difficult--and needlessly painful--and how the struggles over end-of-life decisions can pit patient and family against hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, religious groups, and the law. But there is good news as well. Webb describes many extraordinary programs and individuals who are changing the face of dying. An abundant source of comfort and hope, The Good Death shows how the essential elements of humane--even uplifted--death are available to all of us, if we know what is possible, where to go for help, and how to prepare.
Download or read book Death in Albert Park written by Leo Bruce and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a gloomy London suburb, a modern Jack the Ripper stalks at night, killing at random with brutal knife thrusts from behind. Three women fall victim, and the terrorized residents wait to see who will be next.
