Download or read book Extravagant Rescues written by Brett Foster and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far from our imperfect human selves have we traveled? How shall we recover what is left, live within our man-made technologies built to be more powerful than us, and still keep a sense of humor? Extravagant Rescues, a sublime collection of poetry, lays bare the human and poetic brilliance of a man immersed in capturing human beings’ mortal splendor and frailty within their own technology and flaws. The poems ask questions with hymnlike couplets, in a language of the gospel of empathy. We are allowed to rethink our choices, question and be wary of our machinery, and, in the end, with metaphors that channel feelings of loss, humor, and compassion, we are reminded “to come, and dream, with eyes wide open / and set within the vessels of our waking selves, / of ever more intricate schemes, extravagant rescues.”
Download or read book Extravagant Rescues written by Brett Foster and published by TriQuarterly Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extravagant Rescues is the final collection of poems by the beloved poet and teacher Brett Foster, author of The Garbarge Eaters. It explores how people can maintain or recover their humanity in an increasingly mechanized world.
Download or read book The Garbage Eater written by Brett Foster and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Garbage Eater” of the title poem in Brett Foster’s provocative collection is a member of a religious sect (some would say cult) in the Bay Area who lives an ascetic life eating scraps from dumpsters. Just as this simple way of life exists within the most technologically advanced region in the world, Foster’s poems are likewise animated by the constant tension between material reality and an unabashed yearning for transcendence. The titles of Foster’s poems—“Like as a ship, that through the Ocean wyde,” “Meditation in an Olive Garden,” “Little Flowers of Dan Quisenberry” —nod to the poems of the classical, medieval, and Renaissance masters he studies as a scholar. In Foster’s vivid imagination, however, they point to the surprises hidden in the quotidian: a trip to the DMV, a visit to a chain restaurant, and the saintly reflections of the Kansas City Royals’ best closer. A lesser, more faddish writer would then tend toward ironic distance, but Foster fearlessly raises such unfashionable subjects as joy, doubt, gratitude, and grief without losing a sly sense of humor, even (as the sample poem shows) about poetry itself. Given its ambition, The Garbage Eater hardly seems a debut work. Foster’s universal subject matter and approachable style will win fans among both the most experienced poetry readers and those easily intimidated by contemporary verse.
Download or read book The Beekeeper Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq written by Dunya Mikhail and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from Daesh Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won’t convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women. The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women—who’ve lost their families and loved ones, who’ve been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons—and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a beekeeper, who uses his knowledge of the local terrain, along with a wide network of transporters, helpers, and former cigarette smugglers, to bring these women, one by one, through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, back into safety. In the face of inhuman suffering, this powerful work of nonfiction offers a counterpoint to Daesh’s genocidal extremism: hope, as ordinary people risk their own lives to save those of others.
Download or read book The Billionaire s Gentle Rescue written by Elizabeth Lennox and published by Elizabeth Lennox Books (www.ElizabethLennox.com). This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe can't believe her eyes when she opens the monthly envelope containing her bank statement. All her money, everything she needed to pay her vendors, her staff and suppliers, was gone. The negative balance simply couldn't be accurate! After a visit to her bank, her absent accountant and finally the police, she accepted the fact that she'd been robbed. The only person she knows who can help her get through this mess is the one man she'd been trying to forget for ten years! They'd shared one kiss all that time ago and no man had ever been able to generate the same sense of excitement. Unfortunately, he'd walked away the day after that mind-boggling kiss, flirting with another woman and laughing as she watched in painful silence. Marco DiAngelo had to earn Zoe's trust. He'd hurt her ten years ago, but it had been for her safety. His father, a Mafia boss, was still trying to drag him into the family business and didn't mind hurting Zoe, the only woman he'd ever cared about, to accomplish that goal. Now she needed his help, and he was going to use everything he had at his disposal to regain her trust and show her how good they could be together.
Download or read book An Extravagant Mercy written by M. Craig Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Extravagant Mercy is a collection of thought-provoking and prayer-inducing reflections on Scripture. Readers will appreciate the fresh and unexpected biblical perspectives that pastor, theologian, and author M. Craig Barnes brings to the ordinary things of life. The immeasurable and unbounded grace of God is the theme that winds through these diverse meditations.
Download or read book The Rescue written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Myth of Rescue written by W.D. Rubinstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been argued that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews. Arguing that this has been consistently misinterpreted, The Myth of Rescue states that few Jews who perished could have been saved by any action of the Allies. In his new introduction to the paperback edition, Willliam Rubinstein responds to the controversy caused by his challenging views, and considers further the question of bombing Auschwitz, which remains perhaps the most widely discussed alleged lost opportunity for saving Jews available to the Allies.
Download or read book Liminal Zones written by Kim Trevathan and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of his paddling companion, a German shepherd–labrador retriever mix named Jasper, Kim Trevathan began a series of solitary upstream kayaking quests in search of what he calls “liminal zones,” transitional areas where dammed reservoirs give way to the current of the rivers that feed them. For four years he scoured the rivers and lakes of America, where environmentally damaging, and now decaying, man-made structures have transformed the waterways. In this thoughtful work, he details his upriver adventures, describing the ecological and aesthetic differences between a dammed river and a free-flowing river and exploring the implications of what liminal zones represent—a reassertion of pure, unadulterated nature over engineered bodies of water. Trevathan began by exploring the rivers and creeks of his childhood: the Blood River and Clarks River in western Kentucky. He soon ventured out to the Wolf River, the Big South Fork of the Cumberland, and other waterways in Tennessee. In 2008, he looped around the country with trips to Indiana’s Tippecanoe River, Montana’s Clearwater River, Oregon’s Deschutes and Rogue Rivers, and Colorado’s Dolores River, as well as adventures on such southeastern rivers as the Edisto, the Tellico, and the Nantahala. To Trevathan, paddling upstream became a sort of religion, with a vaporous deity that kept him searching. Each excursion yielded something unexpected, from a near-drowning in the Rogue River to a mysterious fog bank that arose across the Nantahala at midday. Throughout Liminal Zones, Trevathan considers what makes certain places special, why some are set aside and protected, why others are not, and how free-flowing streams remain valuable to our culture, our history, and our physical and spiritual health. This contemplative chronicle of his journeys by water reveals discoveries as varied and complex as the rivers themselves.
Download or read book Album Rescue Series written by Tim Dalton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This album rescue series book evolved from long debates with friends, family, and colleagues as to the merits of various unloved and mistreated albums. These discussions lead to committing our thoughts to paper and resucing various albums that the press and general public considered to be far from exemplary of a particular artist. This book rights those wrongs. The album rescue series book is a contributive piece of work by music and media scholars, each of whom take a unique approach to rescuing an album they love." -- Taken from back cover.
Download or read book Apocalypse Then written by Rick DeMarinis and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the world’s insecurities, the most common drama of all is not of apocalypse now, but of apocalypse deferred; the pain of living is having to wait it out. In Apocalypse Then, DeMarinis’s characters try alcohol, they try travel, and (most of all) they try off-limits love. They find themselves in harm’s way, or put themselves there—but in life, as the title story states, "sometimes the worst doesn’t happen."
Download or read book My Strange Rescue written by J. Macdonald Oxley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: My Strange Rescue by J. Macdonald Oxley
Download or read book Rescued from Egypt written by A. L. O. E. and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christmas Baby Rescue written by Jordyn Redwood and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An infant on his doorstep… And enemies closing in. Liam Knight’s solitary plans for Christmas Eve fall apart when he discovers a baby left outside his cabin—and bloody footprints leading to his injured pen pal. Suffering from PTSD, the former navy SEAL thinks he’s the wrong choice to protect Ashlyn Sutton and her infant niece. But with contract killers on their trail, he must overcome his fear…and stop the criminal behind the threats. From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.
Download or read book Eve to the Rescue written by Ethel Hueston and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Juonesia Or Women Rescued written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rescue of Cuba written by Andrew Sloan Draper and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
