Download or read book The 12 Alchemists and Other Poems written by Kevin McWha Steele and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Bacardi's company, OddFellows Playhouse, commissioned Mr. Steele to write the following pages of poetry for the 2007 Longhouse Gala in honor of Yoko Ono. The gala celebrated the founder, Jack Lenor Larsen's, 80th year, and Longhouse Reserve's 15th anniversary. Yoko Ono was presented a medal for her efforts at promoting peace. The poems were written over a two week period by Mr. Steele on retreat at the Surf Hotel in Block Island, RI. The end result was three separate works of poetry, represented here: "The 12 Alchemists," "Four Narratives," and "Your Wait in Gold." At Oddfellows' request, these poems were written to be performed by both children and adults. The original concept was that "The 12 Alchemists" were represented by 12 separate orators reciting the poems, accompanied by dancers interpreting the words. These performers were placed in strategic locations around the Longhouse grounds to entertain guests. "Your Wait in Gold" was orated and performed by the same dancers on Ono's life-size white chessboard sculpture, "Play it by Trust," also located on the Longhouse Reserve's grounds. Due to time constraints, only "Your Wait in Gold" was performed (see photograph printed on the back jacket of this book). The theme for each poem was "alchemy" and loosely inspired by the traditional Japanese "Tanka" form. Note from the Preface: ... I had just finished writing for ten consecutive days at the Surf Hotel on Block Island, the outcome of which was over three-hundred Tanka-inspired poems. Most of the work was on the topic of alchemy, or the obscure idea of transmuting a substance or an experience "into gold." The poems focused heavily on twelve alchemists, historical or fictional, that I knew very little of beforehand. The format (Tanka) and the alchemists were assigned to me by the company commissioning the work, Oddfellows Playhouse. It was a daunting task for any number of reasons, but I especially didn't want to presume that I knew anything about "alchemy," let alone have the authority to accurately parlay the the lives or inspirations of those attributed to such miracles of magic, science and discovery. And even achieving that for each of the twelve, there was the equally daunting task of having the poems accessible to both children and adults, as I was told they would be performed by members of Oddfellows Playhouse at the Longhouse Reserve gala in Long Island, NY. That said, I learned that upon writing for each alchemist, there were word choices that became clear by intuition. In a roundabout way, I was experiencing a kind of alchemy, or magic, through the act of writing about their lives and drawing inspiration from them to compose the work. My desire is that you experience some of this magic in reading these poems, and that they convey a trace of the magnificence of their contributions, in both the physical application of science and the more esoteric territory of metaphysics. - Kevin McWha Steele
Download or read book Alchemical Poetry 1575 1700 written by Robert M. Schuler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are verse translations of works from earlier periods in the development of alchemy. Each has a textual and historical introduction and explanatory note by the Editor. Renaissance alchemy is acknowledged as an important element in the histories of early modern science and medicine. This book emphasises these poems’ expression of and shaping influence on religious, social and political values and institutions of their time too and is a useful reference work with much to offer for cultural studies and literary studies as well as science and history.
Download or read book Alchemy and Other Poems written by Marjorie Felkner Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Alchemist and the Other Poems written by James R. Bagley and published by . This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hocus pocus of the Universe written by Laura Gilpin and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1977 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love s Alchemy written by and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working from the original Persian sources, translators and scholars David and Sabrineh Fideler offer faithful, elegant translations that represent the full scope of Sufi poetry. These concise, tightly focused meditations span only a few lines but reveal worlds of meaning. The poems explore many aspects of human life and the spiritual path, but they center on the liberating power of love.
Download or read book The Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasures found within.
Download or read book The Alchemy and Other Poems written by Marjorie Felkner Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library written by Mercantile Library Association (San Francisco, Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Mercantile Library Association of San Francisco written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-17 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book The Knickerbacker written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne Volume 2 written by John Donne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscript and print history of Donne's poetry, this edition presents newly edited critical texts of the poems and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time forward. Textual introductions briefly locate the poems in the context of Donne's life or poetic development, outline the 17th-century textual history of the poems, and sketch the treatment of the text by modern editors. A detailed textual apparatus presents variants collated from many sources and traces the lines of textual transmission"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature written by Curtis Runstedler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines the foundation of this relationship between alchemical narrative and exemplum in the poetry of Gower and Chaucer in the fourteenth century before exploring its diffusion in lesser-known anonymous poems and recipes in the fifteenth century, namely alchemical dialogues between Morienus and Merlin, Albertus Magnus and the Queen of Elves, and an alchemical version of John Lydgate’s poem The Churl and the Bird. It investigates how this exemplarity can be read as inherent to understanding poetic narratives containing alchemy, as well as enabling the reader to reassess the understanding and expectations of science and narrative within medieval English poetry.
Download or read book General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit Mich Supplement written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: 1. 1889-1893.--2. 1894-1898.--3. 1899-1903.
Download or read book CS12 2 Natural Alchemy Evolution of Religion written by C. C. Zain and published by light.org. This book was released on 2014-04-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is Part II of Course 12 in the 21 Brotherhood of Light Course series by C. C. Zain on the Hermetic Sciences, Astrology, Alchemy, Tarot, Kabbalah and the Occult. Evolution of Religion explores how contemporary religious beliefs and rituals have evolved from a more ancient past. The book traces the origins of the most primitive religions and shows how these and their cultures gradually developed into today’s more complex systems of belief. This book offers a comparative analysis of several present-day religions such as Native American, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity as well as the ancient stellar religions. It then sets forth the basic tenets of “The Religion of the Stars” and the importance of astrology in religion’s road map.
Download or read book John Gower Trilingual Poet written by Elisabeth M. Dutton and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays demonstrate John Gower's mastery of the three languages of medieval England - Latin, French and English. They examine the cultural re-definitions which his translations of literary traditions and languages achieved.
Download or read book A Modern Alchemist and Other Poems written by Lee Wilson Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
