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Book The Destroyer in the Glass

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  • Author : Noah Warren
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300217153
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book The Destroyer in the Glass written by Noah Warren and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Noah Warren's brilliant collection of poetry, The Destroyer in the Glass, is the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Warren explores universal themes of isolation and the desire for human connection in a series of tightly crystallized poems that question the damage we have done--to ourselves and to others--in the pursuit of knowledge and a stable idea of who we are. Balancing a tendency toward form, rhyme, and allusion with a freer, expressive style, this exceptional young poet charts the development of the self through, by, and in language. Since 1919, the Yale Series of Younger Poets has launched the careers of poets as esteemed and varied as Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, and Robert Hass. Judge Carl Phillips praises The Destroyer in the Glass for "its wedding of intellect, heart, sly humor, and formal dexterity, all in the service of negotiating those moments when an impulse toward communion with others competes with an instinct for a more isolated self."

Book The Complete Stories

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  • Author : Noah Warren
  • Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
  • Release : 2021-05-11
  • ISBN : 1619322412
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book The Complete Stories written by Noah Warren and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Stories announces its desire and its lie in the title; this is a book of shatter and loss. In his second collection, Noah Warren—previously selected by Carl Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets—unravels histories both personal and public, picking apart their ugliness, beauty, and irreducible singularity. Clothed in broken forms, these poems of grieving and tentative joy ask finally how we can go forward with our own mottled pasts, into the futures we can’t predict but for which we must bear responsibility.

Book I Praise My Destroyer

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  • Author : Diane Ackerman
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2011-07-27
  • ISBN : 0307763374
  • Pages : 127 pages

Download or read book I Praise My Destroyer written by Diane Ackerman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diane Ackerman's poems reveal her intense response to the several worlds of nature, science, and society. Her lyricism fuses wit and sobriety, meditation and activism, and she confronts us with figures both real and fantastic. As always, her strong connection with the natural world, the realms of language and literature, myth and imagination, combines with her deep understanding of the sciences to offer her readers a singular American voice. This is not a voice crying in the wilderness, but one that gives forth songs of joy and wonder. Organized into seven sections, including "Timed Talk," "By Atoms Moved," and "Tender Mercies," I Praise My Destroyer is less an assorted collection than an organically coherent whole, one that reveals Ackerman's true calling as a twentieth-century metaphysical poet of the highest order.

Book We Play a Game

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  • Author : Duy Doan
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2018-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300230877
  • Pages : 103 pages

Download or read book We Play a Game written by Duy Doan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 112th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets explores the Vietnamese-American experience

Book Thalaba the Destroyer

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  • Author : Robert Southey
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1801
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Thalaba the Destroyer written by Robert Southey and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ancient Stained and Painted Glass

Download or read book Ancient Stained and Painted Glass written by Frederick Sydney Eden and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blue Yodel

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  • Author : Ansel Elkins
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2015-03-01
  • ISBN : 0300213778
  • Pages : 87 pages

Download or read book Blue Yodel written by Ansel Elkins and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originated in 1919 to showcase the works of exceptional American poets under the age of forty, the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award presented in the United States. Ansel Elkins’s poetry collection, Blue Yodel, is the 109th volume to be so honored. Esteemed poet and competition judge Carl Phillips praises Elkins for her “arresting use of persona,” calling her poems “razor-edged in their intelligence, Southern Gothic in their sensibility.” In her imaginative and haunting debut collection, Elkins introduces readers to a multitude of characters whose “otherness” has condemned them to live on the margins of society. She weaves blues, ballads, folklore, and storytelling into an intricate tapestry that depicts the violence, poverty, and loneliness of the Deep South, as well as the compassion, generosity, and hope that brings light to people in their darkest times. The blue yodel heard throughout this diverse compilation is a raw, primal, deeply felt expression of the human experience, calling on us to reach out to the isolated and disenfranchised and to find the humanity in every person.

Book The Destroyer

Download or read book The Destroyer written by Henry Knott and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Destroyer and the Lamb

Download or read book The Destroyer and the Lamb written by Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann identifies an angelomorphic portrait of Christ in certain passages of Revelation and provides possible reasons for the inclusion of an angelomorphic Christology: Angelomorphic Christology is not regarded as an isolated christological concept. In turn, the author compares angelomorphic Christology with the prominent Lamb Christology of Revelation. A comparison of these concepts reveals that both Lamb and angelomorphic Christology serve the purpose of contrasting different functions of Christ. The functions correspond with the implied perception of Christ by his followers on the one hand and his opponents on the other. Accordingly, Christ appears to be an eschatological juridical figure (described in angelomorphic patterns) to his opposition, while he is perceived as salvific redeemer (in form of the Lamb) by those who believe in him. Such a christological perspective draws on traditions from the Exodus narrative, namely the features of the Passover Lamb and the Destroying Angel. Further, equality between God and Christ is established despite an angelomorphic portrait of Christ: especially those passages describing Christ as the Lamb put him on par with God. But also within visions with an angelomorphic description of Christ, his status as superior to angels and as an equal to God is displayed.

Book Death Check

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  • Author : Warren Murphy
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2023-09-01
  • ISBN : 1035998459
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Death Check written by Warren Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone is taking a special interest in the Brewster Forum think tank: compromising photos have been taken; their security officer is dead under suspicious circumstances; information about its members is being traded in shadowy places by shadowy figures. This wouldn’t normally be a job for America’s most deniable covert agency, but the Forum has recently devised what it calls a ‘simple little plan to conquer the world’. National security is at risk, and there’s only one man tough enough to take on the threat. Remo Williams is The Destroyer, an ex-cop who should be dead, but instead fights for the secret government law-enforcement organization, CURE. Trained in the esoteric martial art of by his aged mentor, Chiun, Remo is America’s last line of defence. Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.

Book Destroyer Angel

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  • Author : Nevada Barr
  • Publisher : Minotaur Books
  • Release : 2014-04-01
  • ISBN : 1466841680
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Destroyer Angel written by Nevada Barr and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation—an autumn canoe trip in the to the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath's fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter, Katie, who is thirteen. For Heath and Leah, this is a shakedown cruise to test a new cutting edge line of camping equipment. The equipment, designed by Leah, will make camping and canoeing more accessible to disabled outdoorsmen. On their second night out, Anna goes off on her own for a solo evening float on the Fox River. When she comes back, she finds that four thugs, armed with rifles, pistols, and knives, have taken the two women and their teenaged daughters captive. With limited resources and no access to the outside world, Anna has only two days to rescue them before her friends are either killed or flown out of the country, in Destroyer Angel, the New York Times bestseller by Nevada Barr.

Book Deceiver s Game

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  • Author : Tim F. LaHaye
  • Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1414334869
  • Pages : 714 pages

Download or read book Deceiver s Game written by Tim F. LaHaye and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LaHaye and Jenkins' bestselling Left Behind series is now available in a four-volume Collectors Edition. This volume includes "Soul Harvest, Apollyon," and "Assassins."

Book A history of design in painted glass

Download or read book A history of design in painted glass written by N. H. J. Westlake and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rise and Float

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  • Author : Brian Tierney
  • Publisher : Milkweed Editions
  • Release : 2022-02-08
  • ISBN : 1571317724
  • Pages : 63 pages

Download or read book Rise and Float written by Brian Tierney and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float depicts the journey of a poet working—remarkably, miraculously—to make our most profound, private wounds visible on the page. With the “corpse of Frost” under his heel, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness, a struggle with disordered eating, a father’s death from cancer, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide—all of these compound to “month after / month” and “dream / after dream” of struck-through lines. Still, Tierney commands poetry’s cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like “wrist skin when a grater slips,” a “laugh as good as a scream,” pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome, but to release. The course of Rise and Float is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to “trying, these days, to believe again / in people,” another concedes that “defeat / sometimes is defeat / without purpose.” Look: the chair is just a chair.” But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices, we see something alluringly, openly human. Between a boy “torn open” by dogs and a suicide, “two beautiful teenagers are kissing.” Between screams, something intimate—hope, however difficult it may be.

Book The Fortress of Glass

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  • Author : David Drake
  • Publisher : Tor Books
  • Release : 2007-04-03
  • ISBN : 1429911743
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book The Fortress of Glass written by David Drake and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fortress of Glass by David Drake is the first in the Crown of the Isles trilogy, which will conclude the epic Lord of the Isles series. A true trilogy, the action extends over the whole three-book arc. The Fortress of Glass begins the story of how the new kingdom of the Isles is finally brought into being by the group of heroes and heroines who have been central to all the books in the series. The group includes Prince Garric, heir to the throne of the Isles, his consort Liane, his sister Sharina, her herculean sweetheart Cashel, his sister Ilna, with her adopted child Merota and piratical Chalcus. On giant triremes filled with soldiers and diplomats, they journey to the small kingdoms of the Isles to confirm the succession of Garric and to subdue, if necessary, any local rulers too fond of their own kingship to pledge fealty to Garric. All this is being done in a time when the powers of magic in the Isles have flooded to a thousand-year peak, and even local magicians can perform powerful spells normally beyond their control. Fantastic forces from all angles try to keep them apart and unable to continue the reunification of the Isles. So separately and together, they must fight their way back to the same time and place to combat the mysterious and supernatural menace of The Green Woman in her Fortress of Glass. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Created the Destroyer

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  • Author : Warren Murphy
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-07
  • ISBN : 9781944073213
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Created the Destroyer written by Warren Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you're on death row, minutes from the electric chair, and a hook-handed monk offers to save your life if you'll just swallow a simple little pill...what've you got to lose? You take the pill. Then you wake up, officially "dead," in the back of an ambulance, headed for an undisclosed location. Welcome to your new life, working for CURE, the most secret, most deniable, most extra-judicial government agency ever to exist. Only the President knows about it, and even he doesn't control it. ABOUT THE SERIES: Sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit, ex-cop Remo Williams is rescued from the electric chair and recruited by a secret government organization as an assassin, targeting criminals who are beyond the law. Remo's trainer is a curmudgeonly old Korean named Chiun, whose mastery of the terrifyingly powerful martial art of Sinanju makes him the deadliest man alive. The winning combination of action, humor, and mysticism has made the Destroyer one of the best-selling series of all time. With more than 150 books and over 50 million copies sold worldwide, the Destroyer has been praised by the LA Times as "flights of hilarious satire," and gave birth to the mythology of the brash young Westerner taught by an ancient, inscrutable master.

Book 200 000 Miles Aboard the Destroyer Cotten

Download or read book 200 000 Miles Aboard the Destroyer Cotten written by Charles Snelling Robinson and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Fitting Out -- 2. Shakedown Cruise -- 3. To Pearl Harbor and the Pacific Fleet -- 4. Tarawa: Operation Galvanic -- 5. Independent Duties in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands -- 6. Operation Flintlock -- 7. To Espiritu Santo -- 8. Fifth Fleet Operations in the Southwest Pacific -- 9. Majuro -- 10. Personnel Changes -- 11. Operation Forager and the Battle of the Philippine Sea -- 12. Task Force 58 Returns to Saipan -- 13. The Cotten and Destroyer Squadron 50 Screen the Battle Line -- 14. Command Changes -- 15. Admiral Halsey Trains the Battle Line -- 16. Third Fleet Operations Prior to the Battle of Leyte Gulf -- 17. The Battle of Leyte Gulf -- 18. Action off Cape Engafio -- 19. Kamikazes Enter the Pacific War -- 20. Kamikazes: Midget Subs and More Planes -- 21. The Great Pacific Typhoon, December 1944 -- 22. In the South China Sea -- 23. Air Strikes against Tokyo: Iwo lima D Day -- 24. A Second Strike against the Tokyo Area -- 25. Iwo Jima: March 5-13, 1945 -- 26. Encounter with Japanese Patrol Vessels -- 27. Iwo Jima Secured -- 28. Shore Leave -- 29. Hunters Point -- 30. Stateside Duty Comes to an End -- 31. The War Ends -- 32. Transition -- 33. The Tokyo Bay Occupation Force -- 34. Tokyo -- 35. The Cotten Acquires a Kamikaze Speedboat -- 36. The Tokyo Bay Roadstead -- 37. Atami -- 38. The House of the Golden Wave -- 39. Squadron 50 Leaves the Occupation Force -- Epilogue -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.