Download or read book Snakedoctor written by Maurice Manning and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From church barn to apple orchard, from snow-covered pasture to secret moonshine cabin, Manning’s Snakedoctor reinvigorates the Kentucky pastoral through poems that find light in shadow, good in evil, love in a father’s stinging blow. Maurice Manning returns to the Kentucky countryside in his eighth collection, Snakedoctor. Existing between haunting memory and pastoral dreamscape, this quiet collection showcases Manning’s storytelling at its finest. Simple, four-beat lines hold epiphanies—“the barn is just an empty church”— and announce visits from seven-foot strangers named Mr. True. Here, God is reimagined as a “serious banjo player” who calls the world to sing. And sing Manning does. Through rhyme, blues, and haiku, Snakedoctor trains our ears to hear music in the mundane, to find beauty all around us: in the annotated margins of a well-read book, the flight of a father’s shadow puppet, the yellow centers of daisies. Punctuated by rain’s pitter-patter on a tin wash tub, and the “ring of lonely” in a farmer’s voice as he calls his cattle home, Snakedoctor is a collection that will leave you wanting to dog-ear its pages. From childhood to fatherhood, church barn to apple orchard, moonshine to moonbeam, we leave these poems understanding Manning’s wish: “I wanted to make a prayer and I did, / in half-sleep after the dream.”
Download or read book The Snake Doctor written by Odie Hawkins and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snake Doctor is a modern, African-American Faustian epic. The story is of a man who made a supernatural deal with a wizard in the Equatorial Rain Forest of Northern Ghana. The deal that was made guaranteed this man that he would receive the money he needed to make the break out film he yearned to make. The proper sacrifices were made, the money poured in and the filmmaker became an international success. But all does not remain sweetness n light. The shadow of the wizards influence remains a mental section that the filmakers son must deal with. It takes grit, determination and hard work to overcome the obstacles, but the deeds are done and we are led to believe that all will be well.
Download or read book Medical Anthropology written by Francis X. Grollig and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Snake Doctor written by Roy Lambert and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SNAKE DOCTOR TELLS OF THE WAYS OF THE BLACK CATS AND CHICKS THAT LIVES IN THE BLACK COMBAT ZONE, AND IT IS BASED ON THE TRUTH OF THE WAY OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO A STRONG BLACK BROTHER.
Download or read book Harrow County Volume 3 Snake Doctor written by Various and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Harrow County is a masterful creation that lingers in the small moments of terror in our daily lives.”—Bloody Disgusting The Skinless Boy seeks to understand the mysteries of his past, Emmy investigates a haunted house, and a malevolent serpent sows madness and malice in the minds of the Holler’s residents. Collects issues #9–#12 of the hit series! * Collecting the third arc of the chilling series from Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook (The Sixth Gun)!
Download or read book The Great Snake Doctor written by Teresa Rantao Ogle and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was once a King, whose three beautiful princesses' names had very special meaning in Setswana, the language of the Batswana peoples of Southern Africa.
Download or read book Snake Doctor and Other Stories written by C. Jerry Hale and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories ranging in time from the 1940’s to present and taking place in locales such as Memphis, Tennessee; Sheffield, Alabama; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and various other rural locations in the South. The stories chronicle the lives, life events, and conflicts of southern characters including the poor and rural; high school and college students; the elderly; children; the educated and uneducated; businesspeople; teachers and the working class. A rich thread of southern heritage, culture, and the human condition runs throughout the collection and brings to life the character’s motivations, mannerisms, eccentricities, persistence and resilience. Characters such as Uncle Lum; Uncle Caleb and Aunt Martha; Mitchell Murphy and Marsha Butler; Pack Jordan and Granville Graves; Nancy and Jack; Walter and Edna; and Paul and Davey evoke the intimate expanse of history, legend, truth, desperation, and textures of place: Southern places, Southern people, Southern conflicts and Southern relationships.
Download or read book The Works of Irvin S Cobb Snake doctor written by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harrow County Vol 3 Snake Doctor written by Cullen Bunn and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2016 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collects issues #9-#12 of the southern-gothic fairy tale Harrow County"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Snake Doctor written by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb and published by Classic Publishers. This book was released on 1923 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High quality reprint of Snake Doctor, and Other Stories by Irvin S. Cobb.
Download or read book Gazelle written by Alison Armstrong and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five of my narrating voices are male, middle aged to elderly. Their accents varyan East Coast American professor in Driving, Oxbridge is British with a tinge of Irish in Hippo Club, Mose Konen, and The Man in the Apple-Green Tie. And for the narrator of Ostraneni, the reader may imagine the dialect of a member of the elite of ancient fifth century BC Athens. Four of these monologues are in a female voice: the elderly womans aggressive/defensive voice of Gazelle came to me in a dream shortly after I had moved to New York City to live in the early 1980s, the naive voice of a Midwestern girl recounts a childhood trauma in Snakedoctors, a subdued young woman tells of her relationship to her parents in At the Lake House, and Bronze Age Greek accents of Ismenethe lonely, hysteric, forgotten princess of Thebes and sister to Antigonein the eponymous tragedy by Sophocles, again, invite imagination. That is how I hear them.
Download or read book Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina written by Wayland D. Hand and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Negro Traditions written by Thomas Washington Talley and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of previously unpublished tales is a major contribution to the annals of African-American folk narrative. Ranging from fables to historical narratives, these tales contain a rich variety of information on folk customs, speech, and songs, providing the reader with a deeper understanding of and appreciation for nineteenth-century African-American culture. Negro Traditions offers wonderful descriptions of all manner of rural African-American folk customs, including valuable insights into post-Civil War life in rural Middle Tennessee - from riddles to dances - and how former slaves and their children felt about their lives. At times the movement of these tales toward tragedy is reminiscent of Faulkner; their humor suggests Sut Lovingood; their occasional dark surrealism has overtones of Cormac McCarthy. But the overriding reality of these tales as a representation of a people and their culture gives them a power that moves the reader beyond fiction and into factuality. Here are no banjo-plunking renditions of "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"; these tales are full of the realities of life: violence, work, the power of the supernatural, family life, racial tension, and an intense burning resentment against slavery.
Download or read book Dream Boats and Other Stories Portraits and Histories of Fauns Fairies Fishes and Other Pleasant Creatures Illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker written by Dugald Stewart Walker and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dugald Stewart Walker's 1918 collection of short children's stories, “Dream Boats and Other Stories” presents a fantastic collection of charming and magical tales concerning fauns, fairies, and other mystical creatures. This timeless volume is ideal bedtime material and is not to be missed by lovers of fairy tales and folklore. Contents include: “The Magic Dewdrop”, “Cold Porridge”, “Out of Doors”, “Waiting Dreams”, “A Fairy Ring to Valentine”, “On June Winds”, “To My Grown-Up Self”, “Snapdragons”, “As Posted by Legal Authority”, “Sweet April”, “Alone”, “A Little Dream That Wandered”, “Summer Breezes”, “Autumn's Colour”, “Little Birds”, and “Dream Boats—Play”. These tales are accompanied by the beautiful and intricate illustrations of Dugald Stewart Walker who was one of the most highly-celebrated illustrators of children's books during the early twentieth century and are best remembered for the lavish, magical realm that they frequently describe. He is perhaps best known for his illustrated edition of “Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen” (1914), but also illustrated books such as “The Boy who Knew what the Birds Said” and “Rainbow Gold - Poems Old and New”. Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s classics and fairy tales – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.
Download or read book Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Irvin S Cobb Back home 2 The escape of Mr Trimm 3 From place to place 4 Local color 5 Myself to date 6 Old Judge Priest 7 Snake doctor 8 Speaking of operations 9 Sundry accounts 10 Those times and these written by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
