Download or read book Best of Barbara Baatz Hillman written by Barbara Baatz Hillman and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best of Barbara Baatz Hillman, -The 20 of the celebrated artist's timeless floral compositions and detailed depictions of everyday joys in cross stitch.
Download or read book Donna Kooler s Stocking Collection written by Donna Kooler and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First ed. published as: Donna Kooler's ultimate stocking collection: 15 of Donna's favorite cross stitch Christmas stockings.
Download or read book Crate Labels and Seed Packets written by Barbara Baatz and published by . This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water droplets highlight the freshness of pansies, lemons, nasturtiums, camellias, and more in this breathtaking leaflet. Paint a pretty box with blossoming artichokes or ripe olives, or let lovely forget-me-nots flourish on the cover of a memory album.
Download or read book My Mother s Body written by Marge Piercy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1985-03-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Mother's Body, Marge Piercy's tenth book of poetry, takes its title from one of her strongest and most moving poems, the climax of a powerful sequence of Poems to her mother. Rooted in an honest, harrowing, but ally ecstatic confrontation of the mother / daughter relationship in all its complexity and intimacy, it is at the same time an affirmation of continuity and identification. "The Chuppah" comprises poems actually used in her wedding ceremony with Ira Wood. This section sings with powerfully female love poetry. There is also a sustained and direct use of her Jewish identity and faith in these poems, as there is in a number of other poems throughout the volume. Readers of Piercy's previous collections will not be surprised to encounter her mixture of the personal and the political, her love of animals and the Cape landscape. There are poems about doing housework, about accidents, about dreaming, about bag ladies, about luggage, about children's fears of nuclear holocaust; about tomcats, insects in the rafters, the influence of a name, appleblossoms and blackberries, pollution, and some of the ways women objectify one another. In "Does the light fail us, or do we fail the light?" Piercy writes with lacerating honesty about our relationships with the elderly and about hers with her father. Some of the most moving poems are domestic, as in the final sequence, "Six underrated pleasures," which finds in daily women's tasks both pleasure and mystery, affirmation of serf and connection with the mother. In all, My Mother's Body is one of Piercy's most powerful and balanced collections.
Download or read book Stag s Leap written by Sharon Olds and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant sequence of poems traces the evolution of a divorce while exploring themes of love, sex, sorrow, memory and freedom as reflected by everyday familiarities and the poignancy of former lovers parting, in a collection by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Dead and the Living.
Download or read book Bad Time for Poetry written by Bertolt Brecht and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a selection of the best of Brecht's poems and songs, combining private and public poems from all stages of an intense and turbulent life as well as the most popular lyrics from plays such as Mahagonny and Mother Courage.
Download or read book Here Bullet written by Brian Turner and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-person account of the Iraq War by a solider-poet, winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award. Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James’ own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner writes power-fully affecting poetry of witness, exceptional for its beauty, honesty, and skill. Based on Turner’s yearlong tour in Iraq as an infantry team leader, the poems offer gracefully rendered, unflinching description but, remarkably, leave the reader to draw conclusions or moral lessons. Here, Bullet is a must-read for anyone who cares about the war, regardless of political affiliation.
Download or read book Rendered Into Paradise written by Jean Feraca and published by UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Feraca has a passion for finding spirit incarnate in present life. She uses elaborate metaphors to scrutinize the complexities of relationships, and the illness and death of her mother. Whether contemplating death or a ripe tomato, Feraca insists on being open to the meaning and possibilities of life and the capacity for happiness. She realizes that despite all of the pain, happiness is humming overhead, invisible. Feraca is an award winning poet, essayist, and public radio broadcaster. She has published two other books of poetry. --Parallel Press.
Download or read book Ultimate Cross Stitch Projects written by Maria Diaz and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 2011 in the United Kingdom by Future Publishing Limited in magazine form under the title 'The ultimate Maria Diaz collection'"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book 80 Cross Stitch Kind Thoughts written by Leisure Arts and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring together more than 80 cross stitch designs, which can be stitched on shirts, bags, pillows, towels, and more.
Download or read book Death Song written by Thomas McGrath and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last years of his life, McGrath found it extremely difficult--often impossible--to write. Still he continued to write new poems, enlarging his work-in-progress, Death song, knowing the book would be finished only upon his own death. He died September 20, 1990 following a long illness, leaving the manuscript in the hands of his editor, Sam Hamill. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book In the Lake of the Woods written by Tim O'Brien and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A politician’s past war crimes are revealed in this psychologically haunting novel by the National Book Award–winning author of The Things They Carried. Vietnam veteran John Wade is running for senate when long-hidden secrets about his involvement in wartime atrocities come to light. But the loss of his political fortunes is only the beginning of John’s downfall. A retreat with his wife, Kathy, to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota only exacerbates the tensions rising between them. Then, within days of their arrival, Kathy mysteriously vanishes into the watery wilderness. When a police search fails to locate her, suspicion falls on the disgraced politician with a violent past. But when John himself disappears, the questions mount—with no answers in sight. In this contemplative thriller, acclaimed author Tim O’Brien examines America’s legacy of violence and warfare and its lasting impact both at home and abroad.
Download or read book Reflections on a Marine Venus written by Lawrence Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, an Englishman seeks peace on an ancient Greek island in this “remarkable” travel memoir (The New York Times). Islomania is a disease not yet classified by Western science, but to those afflicted its symptoms are all too recognizable. Men like Lawrence Durrell are struck by a powerful need to live on the ancient islands of the Mediterranean, where the clear blue Aegean is always within reach. After four tortuous wartime years in Egypt, Durrell finds a post on the island of Rhodes, where the British are attempting to return Greece to the sleepy peace it enjoyed in the ’30s. From his first morning, when a dip in the frigid sea jolts him awake for what feels like the first time in years, Durrell breathes in the fullest joys of island life, meeting villagers, eating exotic food, and throwing back endless bottles of ouzo, as though the war had never happened at all. The charms of his stay there still resonate today, for the pleasures of Greece are older than history itself.
Download or read book Conversations with Thoreau written by Alice D'Alessio and published by UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like her chapbook’s namesake, D’Alessio focuses her poetic attentions on nature and communion with the environment. Her celebration is also a lament for the lost world of Thoreau and the “star-crossed” space she finds between them. It is a brief cosmic moment, but no less isolating for the author: “Too bad we missed each other - / passing like aberrant comets / in a blip of eternity; I needed / your assurance...” Alice D'Alessio is a Middleton, Wisconsin, poet with a degree in English literature from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania and additional post-graduate course work at the Iowa Writers School, Split Rock,( U. of Minnesota), and the UW-Madison. She was Director of Communications for Marshall Erdman and Associates, Madison for 11 years, and Editor to the Dean of Letters and Science at UW-Madison from 1996-2000. She has attended classes at The Clearing in Ellison Bay, and teaches for Elderhostel at Green Lake. D'Alessio is the author of Uncommon Sense: the Life of Marshall Erdman (with Doug Moe, Trails Press, 2003). Her poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including the Wisconsin Academy Journal, Fox Cry, North Coast Review , The Kerf, and Earth's Daughters. She was winner of the Posner Prize in 2004 from the Council for Wisconsin Writers for her first book of poetry, A Blessing of Trees (Cross+Roads Press) and her second book , Days We Are Given, won first prize and publication from Earth's Daughters. She is currently contributing editor for Midwest Woodlands and Prairies magazine , and serves on the board of the Council for Wisconsin Writers.
Download or read book Hurricane Sisters written by Ginger Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Sisters, award-winning poet Ginger Andrews' second collection, contains poems of fierce candor and sharp, unique awareness from the perspective of Andrews herself, a cleaning woman in North Bend, Oregon. These Carver-esque insights into the everyday of the American working class balance grief, depression, lust, poverty, and, above all, faith; not in something beyond or higher than the living experience, but in a spirituality amidst the material truths of this world, even under the grimmest of circumstances. Hurricane Sisters stares into the holy, the barbaric, the beautiful and the hideous, the realities of blue-collar Americana, with the frankness and empathy of a survivor and a believer. It sees everything and never averts its eyes.
Download or read book The Charms of Christmas written by Leisure Arts, Inc and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capture the spirit of traditional Yuletide celebrations with the latest volume in the popular Christmas Remembered cross stitch series. Inspired by vintage art, it is filled with handsome, heirloom-quality stitched pieces, and features over 35 beautiful designs, including stockings, ornaments, afghans, framed pieces, and other appealing holiday projects. Easy-to-read full-color charts, helpful illustrations, and stitcher-tested instructions enable readers to create nostalgic holiday home decor items and gifts that will be cherished year after year.
Download or read book Nordic Angel written by Barbara Baatz and published by American School of Needlework/Asn Pub.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
