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Book The Flower of Anarchy

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  • Author : Meir Wieseltier
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2003-10-16
  • ISBN : 052093668X
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book The Flower of Anarchy written by Meir Wieseltier and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meir Wieseltier's verbal power, historical awareness, and passionate engagement have placed him in the first rank of contemporary Hebrew poetry. The Flower of Anarchy, a selection of Wieseltier's poems spanning almost forty years, collects in one volume, for the first time, English translations of some of his finest work. Superbly translated by the award-winning American-Israeli poet-translator Shirley Kaufman—who has worked with the poet on these translations for close to thirty years—this book brings together some of the most praised and admired early poems published in several small books during the 1960s, along with poems from six subsequent collections, including Wieseltier's most recent, Slow Poems, published in 2000. Born in Moscow in 1941, Wieseltier spent the first years of his life, during the war, as a refugee in Siberia, then again in Europe. He settled in Tel-Aviv a few years after coming to Israel in 1949 and has lived there ever since. A master of both comedy and irony, Wieseltier has written powerful poems of social and political protest in Israel, poems that are painfully timeless. His voice is alternately anarchic and involved, angry and caring, trenchant and lyric.

Book The Flower of Anarchy

Download or read book The Flower of Anarchy written by Meir Wieseltier and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Flower of Anarchy contains some of Meir Wieseltier’s most fierce, angry, and beautiful poems. Wieseltier is the savage yet compassionate poet of Tel Aviv: a bold, tormented and playful poet of a bold, tortured and sexy city."—Amos Oz "The distinguished and gifted poet-translator Shirley Kaufman gives us Meir Wieseltier's poems as poetry. The vibrancy and momentum of these versions are extraordinary."—Adrienne Rich "We almost don’t have this kind of poetry in America—erotic, political, audacious, wise, brutal. I die that I can’t share the Hebrew, but what the music is comes through, as well as the voice, the immense resonant voice. This book is a great gift."—Gerald Stern "A master-draftsman of Tel Aviv’s bleaker landscapes, Meir Wieseltier is also a brutal observer of his society and its dominant myths. This gathering of the poet’s work by Shirley Kaufman takes us into the dark heart of Wieseltier’s verse—from the peeling plaster and seamy sweatshops of Tel Aviv to the ‘dull khaki light’ of the country’s larger cultural prospect. All is here, in translations that faithfully convey both the harshness and clarity that have made Wieseltier one of the most influential Israeli poets of his time."—Peter Cole, translator of Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol and author of Hymns & Qualms "Layered and nuanced in his poetic expression, and exceptionally gifted in his vivid, self-reflexive metaphors, Wieseltier is a poet of great poetic vision and verbal power. Working closely with the poet, Shirley Kaufman has turned this book into an authoritative volume of the work of Israel's leading living poet."—Chana Kronfeld, author of On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics, and co-translator (with Naomi Seidman) of "The First Day" and Other Stories by Dvora Baron

Book Flowers of Anarchy

Download or read book Flowers of Anarchy written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U S  Culture

Download or read book The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U S Culture written by Amy Kaplan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously impracticable in our own global era, has been illusory at least since the war with Mexico in the mid-nineteenth century and the later wars against Spain, Cuba, and the Philippines. In this book, Amy Kaplan shows how U.S. imperialism--from "Manifest Destiny" to the "American Century"--has profoundly shaped key elements of American culture at home, and how the struggle for power over foreign peoples and places has disrupted the quest for domestic order. The neatly ordered kitchen in Catherine Beecher's household manual may seem remote from the battlefields of Mexico in 1846, just as Mark Twain's Mississippi may seem distant from Honolulu in 1866, or W. E. B. Du Bois's reports of the East St. Louis Race Riot from the colonization of Africa in 1917. But, as this book reveals, such apparently disparate locations are cast into jarring proximity by imperial expansion. In literature, journalism, film, political speeches, and legal documents, Kaplan traces the undeniable connections between American efforts to quell anarchy abroad and the eruption of such anarchy at the heart of the empire.

Book Poets on the Edge

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  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 0791477142
  • Pages : 379 pages

Download or read book Poets on the Edge written by and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets on the Edge introduces four decades of Israel's most vigorous poetic voices. Selected and translated by author Tsipi Keller, the collection showcases a generous sampling of work from twenty-seven established and emerging poets, bringing many to readers of English for the first time. Thematically and stylistically innovative, the poems chart the evolution of new currents in Hebrew poetry that emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s and, in breaking from traditional structures of line, rhyme, and meter, have become as liberated as any contemporary American verse. Writing on politics, sexual identity, skepticism, intellectualism, community, country, love, fear, and death, these poets are daring, original, and direct, and their poems are matched by the freshness and precision of Keller's translations.

Book Pitch Dark Anarchy

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  • Author : Randall Horton
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2013-02-28
  • ISBN : 0810152274
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book Pitch Dark Anarchy written by Randall Horton and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pitch Dark Anarchy, Randall Horton returns with renewed intensity to the themes that animated his acclaimed collections The Definition of Place and The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street. An extended meditation on the legacy of slavery and the Amistad rebellion serves as a kind of prefatory note, while the body of the text confronts contemporary issues of racial identity and urban decay.

Book The Flower Chronicles

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  • Author : Pravir Malik
  • Publisher : Deep Order Technologies
  • Release : 2021-07-09
  • ISBN : 0990357406
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book The Flower Chronicles written by Pravir Malik and published by Deep Order Technologies. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Einstein has stated – “When the Solution is Simple, God is Answering.” There is in fact a simple answer staring at us from all facets and corners of life, regardless of the question, regardless of the problem. This answer is summarized by a flower and captured in the journey that a seed makes in becoming a flower. In this journey there are 3 stages – the seed or physical state, the stalk or vital state, and the flower or mental state. Any sustainable organization or system will be found to have traversed these stages. Any organization or system that is floundering or facing challenges, will be found to be stuck in one of these stages. Hence, the state of an organization or system can be understood by chronicling the stages of the flower journey it may have gone through. Its road to fulfillment can be envisaged by foreseeing the stages of the flower journey it has yet to go through. This simple truth is true regardless of the scale or complexity of the organization or system. Hence it is true of the person, of a team, of a corporation, of a market, of a country, or of a global system. The Flower Chronicles will elaborate this simple approach through reflecting on many classes of practical organizational and system problems we are confronted with daily. These reflections will be from the realms of personal development, organizational development, industry development, market and financial development, political development, and global development. The book consists of 8 parts. In Part 1 – The Flower Philosophy, the radical approach to organization and system development will be simply laid out. In Part 2 – Individual Development, the key role that an individual has in bringing about ground-breaking change will be explored. In Part 3, Organizational Design & Development, some organizational basics will be laid out, an interesting case-study on the 500-yr old architectural masterpiece, Machu Picchu, will be explored, and some experiments over the course of three years in the application of the Flower Chronicles conducted by the author at Stanford University Medical Center will be discussed. Part 4, Industry Development, will explore the future of key industries such as Food & Agriculture, Energy, Retail, Internet, Software, Healthcare, and Consulting, from a Flower Chronicles perspective. Part 5, Financial Rebirth, will look at how to shift our global financial environment by changing the way markets function, again by the application of the Flower Chronicles paradigm. Part 6, Global Political Development, will in look at some global lessons from the 2012 Presidential Election in the USA, and study some of the issues discussed from a Flower Chronicles perspective. Suggestions for creating a safer, more peaceful world will naturally emerge from also looking at macro- and micro-level developments that need to take place in various regions of the world. Part 7, The Nth + 1 Wave of Sustainability, will examine the deepest drivers of sustainability and provide some insight into how to promote these. The role that Human Resources can play in making this real will be examined. Finally, Part 8, Paradigms for the Future, will examine a flower-based framework of future development, some paradigms to move us along the phases of this framework, and a possible future were the journey to the heart of the flower to be successfully completed. The answers are simple, and are always staring at us in the face. The real issue is whether we have the courage and will to execute what is being suggested. This too is a certainty, but like every other journey, has to go through stages before it culminates in the reality of a flower.

Book John Waters

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  • Author : Kristen Hileman
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2018-10-16
  • ISBN : 0520300475
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book John Waters written by Kristen Hileman and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents’ Baltimore home. Over the following decades, Waters has developed a reputation as an uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema, but also in visual art, writing, and performance. This major retrospective examines the artist’s influential career through more than 160 photographs, sculptures, soundworks, and videos he has made since the early 1990s. These works deploy Waters’s renegade humor to reveal the ways that mass media and celebrity embody cultural attitudes, moral codes, and shared tragedy. Waters has broadened our understanding of American individualism, particularly as it relates to queer identity, racial equality, and freedom of expression. In bringing “bad taste” to the walls of galleries and museums, he tugs at the curtain of exclusivity that can divide art from human experience. Waters freely manipulates an image bank of less-than-sacred, low-brow references—Elizabeth Taylor’s hairstyles, his own self-portraits, and pictures of individuals brought into the limelight through his films, including his counterculture muse Divine—to entice viewers to engage with his astute and provocative observations about society. This richly illustrated book explores themes including the artist’s childhood and identity; Pop culture and the movie business; Waters’s satirical take on the contemporary art world; and the transgressive power of images. The catalogue features essays by BMA Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Kristen Hileman; art historian and activist Jonathan David Katz; critic, curator, and artist Robert Storr; as well as an interview with Waters by photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. Published in association with the Baltimore Museum of Art. Exhibition dates: The Baltimore Museum of Art: October 7, 2018–January 6, 2019 Wexner Center for the Arts: February 2–April 28, 2019

Book The Lost City of Z

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  • Author : David Grann
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2010-01-26
  • ISBN : 1400078458
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book The Lost City of Z written by David Grann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century—the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned. “Suspenseful…rollicking.” —The New York Times In 1925, Percy Fawcett went into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle. Look for David Grann’s new book, The Wager, coming in April 2023!

Book The Rhizome and the Flower

Download or read book The Rhizome and the Flower written by James Olney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Book Anarchism

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  • Author : Alan Ritter
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1980-12-04
  • ISBN : 0521233240
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Anarchism written by Alan Ritter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-12-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1980 book aims to vindicate the central argument of anarchism as presented by leading anarchists.

Book Mapplethorpe and the Flower

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  • Author : Derek Conrad Murray
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-06-11
  • ISBN : 1350108782
  • Pages : 247 pages

Download or read book Mapplethorpe and the Flower written by Derek Conrad Murray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control is the first dedicated book-length critical study of the late artist Robert Mapplethorpe's flower photographs. The book is an interdisciplinary investigation into the symbolism of the flower as envisioned by a photographer whose production was mired in controversy – triggered in large part by his thematic exploration of radical sexuality and queer subcultural life. Mapplethorpe came into international prominence due to the public response to his polarizing retrospective exhibition, The Perfect Moment (1989-1990), a ground breaking collection of images exploring three largely traditional genres of photography: the still life, the portrait, and the human figure. If there is one characteristic that unifies the artist's approach to these genres, however, it is his meticulous attention to the materiality of the photograph as object. Mapplethorpe was a dedicated formalist, committed to locating what is most beautiful about his chosen subject-producing work under carefully controlled studio conditions that enabled the development of a unique and singular aesthetic vision. Bearing this in mind, Mapplethorpe and the Flower is dedicated to unpacking how the artist's unique brand of formal sophistication and discipline, combined with his conceptual bravado, interpenetrates all of his photographs – and reaches its formal and conceptual maturation in his flower images. There has been significant critical attention paid to the artist's more notorious photographs, namely the S&M imagery, and his now infamous persona as provocateur and sexual renegade. Fixation on this dimension of the artist's mythology overshadows the formal details and interlocking representational and political commitments crosscutting the artist's oeuvre. Mapplethorpe and the Flower is a recuperative effort: one that seeks to locate persistent threads running through the artist's seemingly disparate aesthetic and conceptual investigations.

Book We Do Not Fear Anarchy   We Invoke It

Download or read book We Do Not Fear Anarchy We Invoke It written by Robert Graham and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1864 to 1880, socialists, communists, trade unionists, and anarchists synthesized a growing body of anticapitalist thought through participation in the First International—a body devoted to uniting left-wing radical tendencies of the time. Often remembered for the historic fights between Karl Marx and Michael Bakunin, the debates and experimentation during the International helped to refine and focus anarchist ideas into a doctrine of international working class self-liberation. An unprecedented analysis of an often misunderstood history.

Book Conceptual Anarchy

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  • Author : Peter Payack/The First Poet Populist of Cambridge
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010-01-03
  • ISBN : 9780982440803
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Conceptual Anarchy written by Peter Payack/The First Poet Populist of Cambridge and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Payack is a unique talent and Cambridge Massachusetts' first Poet Populist (2007-2009). This seminal selection of poems, prose poems, epigrams, collages, short play and short story showcase Payack's style combining humor and philosophy, science and everyday observations. Payack calls this blend ¿Conceptual Anarchy.¿ Payack has published more then 1,000 poems including four appearances in The Paris Review, ten poems in Rolling Stone, over thirty poems in The New York Times, and three dozen appearances in Asimov¿s Science Fiction Magazine. His poem, ¿The Migration of Darkness¿, won 1980¿s Rhysling Award for best Science Fiction poem. Payack was the founding editor of Phone-A-Poem, The Cambridge/Boston Poetry hotline (1976-2006), and the creator of The Edible Anthology of Poetry, now in its fifth baking (see Poet Populist Peter Payack¿s Poetry Cookies ISBN 978-0-9824408-2-7) including poets Robert Pinsky, Sam Cornish and Gail Mazur.Payack is the inventor of the world renowned Stonehenge Watch¿ (www.stonehengewatch.com), an infinitesimal replica of the megaliths at Stonehenge inside an old-fashioned pocket watch, which has been featured on BBC-TV, in Astronomy and Playboy magazines. The Watch and Payack¿s accompanying booklet, Stonehenge Unraveled ISBN 978-0-9824408-3-4 is part of the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics permanent Database.Payack has published six nationally distributed books, the latest, Blanket Knowledge (ISBN 0-944072-83-6, Zoland Books) is available from the poet.A Sky Artist, Payack has been commissioned to do poetry projects for New York Avant Garde Festival, MIT¿s International Sky Art Conference at Cambridge, Athens, and The European Cultural Centre in Delphi, Greece, and The Harvard 350 Celebration.

Book Anarchism

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  • Author : Ernst Viktor Zenker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1897
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Anarchism written by Ernst Viktor Zenker and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collected works by Emma Goldman  Essays on Anarchism  Feminism  Socialism  and Communism  Illustrated

Download or read book Collected works by Emma Goldman Essays on Anarchism Feminism Socialism and Communism Illustrated written by Emma Goldman and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma Goldman played a key role in developing the political philosophy of anarchism as a writer and political activist. She was influential in North America and Europe during the first half of the twentieth century. Officials frequently arrested and imprisoned Goldman for the illegal distribution of birth control materials and for "inciting disorder". Red Emma Speaks is a collection of her scandalous writings and speeches that she produced during her struggle for women’s rights. Anarchy and the Sex Question Anarchy Defended by Anarchists What I Believe A New Declaration of Independence The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation Anarchism: What it Really Stands For Woman Suffrage Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty The Psychology of Political Violence Vaillant! The Philosophy of Atheism Minorities versus Majorities Speech Against Conscription and War Address To The Jury The Truth About the Boylsheviki Samuel Gompers Socialism: Caught in the Political Trap Sacco and Vanzetti "An Anarchist Looks at Life" Was My Life Worth Living? There Is No Communism in Russia Durruti Is Dead, Yet Living Address to the International Working Men's Association Congress Trotsky Protests Too Much Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School The Hypocrisy of Puritanism The Traffic in Women Marriage and Love The Modern Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought

Book The School Journal

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 898 pages

Download or read book The School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: