Download or read book The Heart Asks Pleasure First written by Karuna Ezara Parikh and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A luminous, hypnotic novel, as much about the beauty of language as it is about the struggles of life’ – ANN PATCHETT An extraordinary tale of love in a world being torn asunder. It's a sunny day in 2001 and Daya, a ballet student, is sitting in a park in Wales far away from her home in India. Unbeknownst to her, she is about to meet Aaftab, a young Muslim lawyer from Pakistan, and fall inexplicably in love. Even as Aaftab battles his heart, their relationship transcends the divides of religion, nationality and language. They forge profound bonds but the cataclysmic events of the year will have dangerous ramifications and push them to confront the most difficult complexities of their lives. Set in a world of students but breathtaking in its expansiveness, The Heart Asks Pleasure First is a spellbinding first novel that speaks urgently to the frailties of our times. Karuna Ezara Parikh humanizes the big themes of friendship and family, migration and xenophobia, with the deftness of a poet and the magic of a born storyteller.
Download or read book Michael Nyman The Piano Collection written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2005-10-19 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nyman is one of the most commercially successful composers of the 20th century and his music has struck a chord with audiences the world over. His award-winning scores have graced countless significant films including The Piano, Detroit: Ruin Of A City and Gattaca. This special collection of Nyman's Piano music includes previously unpublished works from Nyman's 2005 CD The Piano Sings. All works have been transcribed and restored to solo Piano arrangements, offering his most successful and best-loved pieces in one superb volume. Songlist: - All Imperfect Things - The Attraction Of The Pedalling Ankle - Big My Secret - Candlefire - Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds - Chatterbox Waltz - The Departure - Diary Of Love - The Embrace - The Exchange - Franklyn - Goodbye Moortie - The Heart Asks Pleasure First - Here To There - If - Jack - Lost And Found - The Mood That Passes Through You - The Morrow - Odessa Beach - The Schoolroom - Sheep ’n’ Tides - Silver-Fingered Fling - Time Lapse - Why?
Download or read book Where Stories Gather written by Karuna Ezara Parikh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Stories Gather, Karuna Ezara Parikh's first volume of poetry, presents a curation of her most popular work alongside new material where she delves into a deeply personal realm, asking and answering questions of identity, memory, womanhood, and the heart. Her poem Pray for the World, published on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in 2015, echoed around a bruised, grieving world, speaking directly to those bewildered and outraged by the moral contradictions of international politics. Again and again since then, Karuna's subtle commentary has garnered wide readership. The collection marks her as a poet of the fragile human condition, with poetry that is urgent and lyrical, intimate and fiery, empathetic and hopeful.
Download or read book The Unnamed written by Joshua Ferris and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2010-01-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unnamed is a dazzling novel about a marriage, family, and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both. He was going to lose the house and everything in it. The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose his family. He stood inside the house and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again? He had promised himself not to take anything for granted and now he couldn't recall the moment that promise had given way to the everyday. Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife Jane still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Despite long hours at the office, he remains passionate about his work, and his partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm means that the work he does is important. And, even as his daughter Becka retreats behind her guitar, her dreadlocks and her puppy fat, he offers her every one of a father's honest lies about her being the most beautiful girl in the world. He loves his wife, his family, his work, his home. He loves his kitchen. And then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking. The Unnamed is a heartbreaking story of a life taken for granted -- and what happens when that life is abruptly and irrevocably taken away.
Download or read book Bastien piano for adults written by Jane Smisor Bastien and published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Rock Guitarist s Gate Way to Jazz written by Glen Rose and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study shows rock and folk guitarist's how to make the most useful jazz chords and jazz progressions in the easiest way possible without reading music.
Download or read book Structure Surprise written by Michael Theune and published by Teachers & Writers Collaborative. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns offers a road map for analyzing poetry through examination of poems' structure, rather than their forms or genres. Michael Theune's breakthrough concept encourages students, teachers, and writers to use structure as a tool to see the fundamental affinities between strikingly different kinds of poetry and radically different literary eras. The book includes examination of the mid-course turn and the elegy, as well as the ironic, concessional, emblem, and retrospective-prospective structures, among others. In addition, 14 contemporary poets provide an example of and commentary on their own work.
Download or read book The Music of Michael Nyman written by Pwyll ap Siôn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nyman's rise to international prominence during the last three decades has made him one of the world's most successful living composers. His music has nevertheless been criticized for its parasitic borrowing of other composers' ideas and for its relentless self-borrowing. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Si laces Nyman's writings within the general context of Anglo-American experimentalism, minimalism and post-minimalism, and provides a series of useful contexts from which controversial aspects of Nyman's musical language can be more clearly understood and appreciated. Drawing upon terms informed by intertextual theory in general, appropriation and borrowing are first introduced within the context of twentieth-century art music and theory. Intertextual concepts are explained and their terms defined before Nyman's musical language is considered in relation to a series of intertextual classifications and types. These types then form the basis of a more in-depth study of his works during the second half of the book, ranging from opera and chamber music to film. Rather than restricting style and technique, Nyman's intertextual approach, on the contrary, is shown to provide his music with an almost infinite amount of variety, flexibility and diversity, and this has been used to illustrate a wide range of technical, aesthetic and expressive forms. He composes with his ear towards the past as if it were a rich quarry to mine, working like a musical archaeologist, uncovering artefacts and chiselling fresh and vibrant sonic edifices out of them.
Download or read book The Top Ten Film Themes To Play On Piano written by Wise Publications and published by Wise Publications. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emily Dickinson s Approving God written by Patrick J. Keane and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focusing on Emily Dickinson's poem "Apparently with no surprise," Keane explores the poet's embattled relationship with the deity of her Calvinist tradition, reflecting on literature and religion, faith and skepticism, theology and science in light of continuing confrontations between Darwinism and design, science and literal conceptions of a divine Creator"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Piano Lessons written by Felicity Coombs and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the film "The Piano".
Download or read book The Complete Poetry of Emily Dickinson written by Emily Dickinson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-arnow presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the complete poems bu Emily Dickinson, including the extensive illustrated biography of the author: Poems—First Series: Book I.—Life: Success Our share of night to bear Rouge et Noir Rouge gagne Glee! the storm is over If I can stop one heart from breaking Almost A wounded deer leaps highest The heart asks pleasure first In a Library Much madness is divinest sense I asked no other thing Exclusion The Secret The Lonely House To fight aloud is very brave Dawn The Book of Martyrs The Mystery of Pain I taste a liquor never brewed A Book I had no time to hate, because Unreturning Whether my bark went down at sea Belshazzar had a letter The brain within its groove Book II.—Love: Mine Bequest Alter? When the hills do Suspense Surrender If you were coming in the fall With a Flower Proof Have you got a brook in your little heart? Transplanted The Outlet In Vain Renunciation Love's Baptism Resurrection Apocalypse The Wife Apotheosis Book III.—Nature: New feet within my garden go May-Flower Why? Perhaps you 'd like to buy a flower The pedigree of honey A Service of Song The bee is not afraid of me Summer's Armies The Grass A little road not made of man Summer Shower Psalm of the Day The Sea of Sunset Purple Clover The Bee Presentiment is that long shadow As children bid the guest good-night Angels in the early morning So bashful when I spied her Two Worlds The Mountain A Day The butterfly's assumption-gown The Wind Death and Life 'T was later when the summer went Indian Summer Autumn Beclouded The Hemlock There's a certain slant of light Book IV.—Time and Eternity: One dignity delays for all Too late Astra Castra Safe in their alabaster chambers On this long storm the rainbow rose From the Chrysalis Setting Sail Look back on time with kindly eyes A train went through a burial gate I died for beauty, but was scarce Troubled about many things Real The Funeral I went to thank her I've seen a dying eye... Poems—Second Series (160+ poems) Poems—Third Series (160+ poems) The Single Hound (140+ verses) The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
Download or read book Dickinson The Complete Works written by Emily Dickinson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Dickinson is the iconic American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends, and also explore aesthetics, society, nature and spirituality. This meticulously edited poetry collection includes her complete poetical works, as well as her letters and the biography of this powerful author: The Life and Legacy of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated Biography) Poems—First Series: Book I.—Life: Success Our share of night to bear Rouge et Noir Rouge gagne Glee! the storm is over If I can stop one heart from breaking Almost A wounded deer leaps highest The heart asks pleasure first In a Library Much madness is divinest sense I asked no other thing Exclusion The Secret The Lonely House To fight aloud is very brave Dawn The Book of Martyrs The Mystery of Pain I taste a liquor never brewed A Book I had no time to hate, because Unreturning Whether my bark went down at sea Belshazzar had a letter The brain within its groove Book II.—Love: Mine Bequest Alter? When the hills do Suspense Surrender If you were coming in the fall With a Flower Proof Have you got a brook in your little heart? Transplanted The Outlet In Vain Renunciation Love's Baptism Resurrection Apocalypse The Wife Apotheosis Book III.—Nature: New feet within my garden go May-Flower Why? Perhaps you 'd like to buy a flower The pedigree of honey A Service of Song The bee is not afraid of me Summer's Armies The Grass A little road not made of man Summer Shower Psalm of the Day The Sea of Sunset Purple Clover The Bee Presentiment is that long shadow As children bid the guest good-night Angels in the early morning So bashful when I spied her Two Worlds The Mountain A Day The butterfly's assumption-gown The Wind Death and Life 'T was later when the summer went Indian Summer Autumn Beclouded The Hemlock There's a certain slant of light Book IV.—Time and Eternity: One dignity delays for all Too late Astra Castra Safe in their alabaster chambers On this long storm the rainbow rose From the Chrysalis Setting Sail Look back on time with kindly eyes A train went through a burial gate I died for beauty, but was scarce Troubled about many things Real The Funeral I went to thank her I've seen a dying eye... Poems—Second Series (160+ poems) Poems—Third Series (160+ poems) The Single Hound (140+ verses) The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
Download or read book Poets Thinking written by Helen Vendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument. With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.
Download or read book CliffsNotes on Emily Dickinson s Poems written by Mordecai Marcus and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1982-05-03 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enormously popular since the early piecemeal publication of her poems, Emily Dickinson has enjoyed an everincreasing critical reputation, and she is now widely regarded as one of America's best poets. These Notes focus on clarification of some eighty-five of her poems, chosen and emphasized largely according to the frequency of their appearance in eight standard anthologies, where the average number of her poems is fifty. These poems also seem to offer an excellent representation of her themes and power. In a final section to these Notes, additional poems are commented on briefly.
Download or read book All Things Dickinson 2 volumes written by Wendy Martin Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting new reference work that illuminates the beliefs, customs, events, material culture, and institutions that made up Emily Dickinson's world, giving users a glance at both Dickinson's life and times and the social history of America in the 19th century. While Emily Dickinson is one of the most widely studied American poets, some dimensions of her life and work are largely under-appreciated. This book provides the wider context necessary for a more complete understanding of Dickinson, presenting Dickinson's life and times as well as discussion of her poetry and letters. Prolific author and Dickinson expert Wendy Martin and 59 contributors address the relationship between Emily Dickinson's life and work and the larger world in which she lived. Examination of topics such as the history of Amherst, MA, and the Dickinson family's place in it; and the cultural, financial, political, legal, and religious practices of the day illuminate important dimensions of Dickinson's experiences and world for students, scholars, and general readers of this iconic poet's work.
Download or read book Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory written by Elsie Walker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks. Walker includes sustained analyses of particular films according to a range of theoretical approaches: psychoanalysis, feminism, genre studies, post-colonialism, and queer theory. The films come from disparate temporal and industrial contexts: from Classical Hollywood Gothic melodrama (Rebecca) to contemporary, critically-acclaimed science fiction (Gravity). Along with sound tracks from canonical American films including The Searchers and To Have and Have Not, Walker analyzes independent Australasian films: examples include Heavenly Creatures, a New Zealand film that uses music to empower its queer female protagonists; and Ten Canoes, the first Australian feature film with a script entirely in Aboriginal languages. Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory thus not only calls new attention to the significance of sound tracks, but also focuses on the sonic power of characters representing those whose voices have all too often been drowned out. Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory is both rigorous and accessible to all students and scholars with a grasp of cinematic and musical structures. Moreover, the book brings together film studies, musicology, history, politics, and culture and therefore resonates across the liberal arts.
