Download or read book Shadows Speak In Riddles written by Sami Gjoka and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gjoka’s first book of poems in English offers readers a rare chance to see the small moments of life through another’s eyes. This latest offering from Gjoka contains poems that cover such topics as birth, death,lovemaking and what it means to be human. While readers may not connect to every poem, most will fi nd something that resonates with them. The author offers a supreme command of language,image and metaphor, and readers will find themselves lost in those poems that touch them deeply. He is versatile in his poetic structure, alternating between moments of breeziness and brutality without sacrificing the beauty of language or the intensity of his images. Though translated from the original Albanian (with the original text appearing on adjacent pages), Gjoka’s poems retain much of their lyrical and rhythmic qualities; “The old stems, / Old and dying / Have burst into new flowers, / Vanished stars that left space / Long ago” (“Love the Scents of Every Flower”). Readers of foreign literature will understand the changes that take place during translation, since poetry contains many idioms and difficult to convey allusions. However, most of these poems seem to retain their power in English, and allow readers to view the world through the lens of a different culture; “Some say there is a snake / We must slay / Filled with venom of religion / Of some other distant lands, / Of some poor, unhappy people / Scattered through some oil fields” (“Here So Close to the Capitol”). Readers may be turned off initially by the fact that these poems are translated, but a taste of what the author offers should help them over their hesitation and allow them to embrace these lines. Poetry buffs will likely find something to treasure in this collection and readers who find themselves drawn to its rhythms and images should welcome this work into their library. Sometimes gentle, sometimes harsh and often insightful,Gjoka’s poems take readers on a journey, leading them to new insights and helping them see the world through a unique perspective.
Download or read book What the Shadows Say written by Fred Melden and published by FRM Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within these pages, you will meet women and men who encounter life in unexpected ways. Their responses to a world that is sometimes humorous, sometimes stressful, lead them to unexpected resolutions. Fred Melden is the author of the novel Counterbalance, two short story collections, and several poetry chapbooks
Download or read book Shadow Work written by Craig Lambert and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound transformation in the nature of work that is significantly altering lives: the incoming tidal wave of shadow work. Shadow work includes all the unpaid tasks we do on behalf of businesses and organizations. It has slipped into our routines stealthily; most of us do not realize how much of it we are already doing, even as we pump our own gas, scan and bag our own groceries, execute our own stock trades, and build our own unassembled furniture. But its presence is unmistakable, and its effects far–reaching. Fueled by the twin forces of technology and skyrocketing personnel costs, shadow work has taken a foothold in our society. Lambert terms its prevalence as "middle–class serfdom," and examines its sources in the invasion of robotics, the democratization of expertise, and new demands on individuals at all levels of society. The end result? A more personalized form of consumption, a great social leveling (pedigrees don't help with shadow work!), and the weakening of communities as robotics reduce daily human interaction. Shadow Work offers a field guide to this new phenomenon. It shines a light on these trends now so prevalent in our daily lives and, more importantly, offers valuable insight into how to counter their effects. It will be essential reading to anyone seeking to understand how their day got so full—and how to deal with the ubiquitous shadow work that surrounds them.
Download or read book Talking to Shadows written by Ron Houchin and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolves howl in the hollow of night, cats yowl from crags and forests, but people describe sunsets, address their dead, pray to what they feel may lie beyond the stars, and perhaps even take note of mysterious figures lurking in alleys. In Talking to Shadows, his latest collection of poems, Ron Houchin replies with sensitivity and wit to things noticed or sensed, offering a celebration of sights, sounds, and objects that elicit responses through the phenomena of their being. Whether evoking the presage of a coming ice age, a photo of an unknown ancestor in a family album, or the presence of nature during a lone walk across a night field, Houchin’s poems converse with the shadows of existence that permeate a world filled with beauty and mystery.
Download or read book Sweep Book of Shadows the Coven and Blood Witch written by Cate Tiernan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of The Secret Circle, The Vampire Diaries, and The Witches of East End series. The first three Sweep books bound into one gorgeous edition at a fabulous price! Morgan Rowlands never thought she was anything other than a typical sixteen-year-old girl. But when she meets Cal, a captivatingly handsome coven leader, she makes a discovery that turns her whole world upside down: she is a witch, descended from an ancient and powerful line. And so is Cal. Their connection is immediate and unbreakable; Cal teases out Morgan's power, her love, her magick. But Morgan discovers too soon that her powers are strong, almost too powerful to control. And she begins to suspect that Cal may be keeping secrets from her . . . secrets that could destroy them both.
Download or read book When Shadows Speak written by Valerie Fowler and published by . This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Figures in the Shadows written by Bart Huelsenbeck and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of the elder Seneca assembles quotations from scores of declaimers over a period spanning sixty years, from the Augustan Age through the early decades of the empire. A view is offered onto a literary scene, for this critical period of Roman letters, that is numerously populated, highly interactive, and less dominated by just a few canonical authors. Despite this potential, modern readings have often lumped declaimers together en masse and organizational principles basic to Seneca’s collection remain overlooked. This volume attempts to ‘hear’ the individual speech of declaimers by focusing on two speakers—Arellius Fuscus, rhetor to Ovid, and Papirius Fabianus, teacher of the younger Seneca. A key organizing principle, informing both the collection and the practice of declamation, was the ‘shared locus’—a short passage, defined by verbal and argumentative ingredients, that gained currency among declaimers. Study of the operation of the shared locus carries several advantages: (1) we appreciate distinctions between declaimers; (2) we recognize shared passages as a medium of communication; and (3) the shared locus emerges as a community resource, explaining deep-seated connections between declamation and literary works.
Download or read book Shadows of Granada written by Manal Elkady and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a historical novel, speaking about a critical period in the sixteenth century, connecting Granada to Egypt. Dorra, a carpet weaver, her grandson Maa-alzahab, and her sister Sahar are the main characters that represent Granada. Ibrahem, the son of the head of merchants of Cairo, is the main character that represents Egypt. Through the sequence of events, Ibrahem travels to Granada and meets Dorra, her grandson, and her sister, and there they exchange their tales, joys, fears, hopes. As you turn the pages, you will be oriented of the struggle between exclusion, seclusion due to ideological differences from one side and open minds from the other side, represented by the great Arabian philosophers, Sufis who were stated in the novel as Averroes, Ibn-Arabi and Ibn-Tofail. It is a story about human beings who loved life, were eager for every drop of it, yet were oppressed. That period was critical. The author sets a question: "Who would have the upper hand life or oppression?" The answer isnt easy.
Download or read book Through the Shadows of Forever written by James Patrick Krach and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Shadows of Forever is a supernaturally dark commentary on society, and the world in which we live. Follow one man's horrifying journey to survive in a world he chooses to live apart from. Follow another man's twisted journey through madness, as he searches for the answers to his own life forgotten. Watch as the two collide in an enlightenment of insanity. Welcome to the shadows.
Download or read book Tracing Bommi s Shadow written by Sarankumar Prakash and published by JEC PUBLICATION. This book was released on with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing Bommi’s Shadow is a gripping tale of love, loss, and the relentless pursuit of truth. Set against the backdrop of a small, tight-knit community, the story follows Bommi, a woman shrouded in mystery, whose sudden disappearance leaves more questions than answers. As those close to her begin to unravel the secrets she left behind, they must confront their own buried truths and pasts. Told through multiple perspectives, Tracing Bommi’s Shadow explores the complex dynamics of human relationships, the consequences of deception, and the lengths one will go to uncover the truth. Rich with suspense and emotional depth, this novel is perfect for readers who love heart-pounding mysteries, well-developed characters, and thought-provoking themes. With unexpected twists and a narrative that pulls you in from the first page, Tracing Bommi’s Shadow will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew—until the final, stunning revelation.
Download or read book The Cinema and Its Shadow written by Alice Maurice and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cinema and Its Shadow argues that race has defined the cinematic apparatus since the earliest motion pictures, especially at times of technological transition. In particular, this work explores how racial difference became central to the resolving of cinematic problems: the stationary camera, narrative form, realism, the synchronization of image and sound, and, perhaps most fundamentally, the immaterial image—the cinema’s “shadow,” which figures both the material reality of the screen image and its racist past. Discussing early “race subjects,” Alice Maurice demonstrates that these films influenced cinematic narrative in lasting ways by helping to determine the relation between stillness and motion, spectacle and narrative drive. The book examines how motion picture technology related to race, embodiment, and authenticity at specific junctures in cinema’s development, including the advent of narratives, feature films, and sound. In close readings of such films as The Cheat, Shadows, and Hallelujah!, Maurice reveals how the rhetoric of race repeatedly embodies film technology, endowing it with a powerful mix of authenticity and magic. In this way, the racialized subject became the perfect medium for showing off, shoring up, and reintroducing the cinematic apparatus at various points in the history of American film. Moving beyond analyzing race in purely thematic or ideological terms, Maurice traces how it shaped the formal and technological means of the cinema.
Download or read book Path of Shadows Flickering Light written by Cordell Strug and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one pastor’s story of the touch of death on life: how he first learned of it and what it brings upon us, how he met its coming to those he served as pastor, and how he awaits its coming to him as he ages. The book is marked by shifting perspectives, beginning with a child experiencing the deaths of others and ending with an elderly person acutely aware of frailty and loss. But those common stages of life are themselves seen from the perspective of a Christian pastor who served in older communities. The heart of the book is a ground-level description of how a working pastor deals with the approach of death and the shaping of the funeral experience; another perspective is provided by some of the sermons given in the wake of the deaths described. The book ends with a brief epilogue continuing these meditations during the coronavirus outbreak, pondering the power death has to isolate and obsess us, both physically and spiritually.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital written by Johns Hopkins Hospital and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bound with v. 52-55, 1933-34, is the hospital's supplement: Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, v. 1-2.
Download or read book Shadows of Humanity written by J. Armand and published by J. Armand. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dark Shadows from Within written by Amard Efil and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When good guy Carlos Rios, bank president of Wind Ridge National Bank in Fort Worth, Texas, can no longer hold on to his family, his whole world suddenly becomes clouded with intrigue. A cryptic figure enters into his life, and gradually starts to kill the people that are close to him. As the body count continues to rise around him, Carlos and his best friend Frank must determine who the killer is, and what their motive for murder could be. While trying to get past the heartache of his wife leaving and taking his kids, being surrounded by death, and trying to possibly build a new relationship with new girlfriend Janna, he encounters a strange woman that seems to be watching his every move, an obvious serial killer in his path, and a big secret that involves a society of priests and doctors that may be out to get him.
Download or read book Afterglow written by Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Last Poems written by Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1913 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
