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Book The Poetry Anthology

Download or read book The Poetry Anthology written by Stephen Young and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This bountiful collection from Poetry magazine offers the greatest poems of the last century and its greatest poets... The Poetry Anthology is an American keepsake." -- back cover.

Book The Poetry Anthology  1912 2002

Download or read book The Poetry Anthology 1912 2002 written by Joseph Parisi and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2002 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ninetieth-anniversary anthology way be the most bountiful collection of American poems ever published.

Book The Poetry Anthology  1912 1977

Download or read book The Poetry Anthology 1912 1977 written by Daryl Hine and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important work by nearly every modern poet of stature, from Pound, Eliot, and Stevens to Plath, Ashbery, and Wright, provides a summary of twentieth-century poetry in English

Book The Poetry Anthology

Download or read book The Poetry Anthology written by Stephen Young and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This bountiful collection from Poetry magazine offers the greatest poems of the last century and its greatest poets ... The Poetry Anthology is an American keepsake."--P. [4] of cover.

Book The Work of the Dead

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas W. Laqueur
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2018-05-08
  • ISBN : 0691180938
  • Pages : 736 pages

Download or read book The Work of the Dead written by Thomas W. Laqueur and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth century The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters—for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century. The book draws on a vast range of sources—from mortuary archaeology, medical tracts, letters, songs, poems, and novels to painting and landscapes in order to recover the work that the dead do for the living: making human communities that connect the past and the future. Laqueur shows how the churchyard became the dominant resting place of the dead during the Middle Ages and why the cemetery largely supplanted it during the modern period. He traces how and why since the nineteenth century we have come to gather the names of the dead on great lists and memorials and why being buried without a name has become so disturbing. And finally, he tells how modern cremation, begun as a fantasy of stripping death of its history, ultimately failed—and how even the ashes of the victims of the Holocaust have been preserved in culture. A fascinating chronicle of how we shape the dead and are in turn shaped by them, this is a landmark work of cultural history.

Book Body   Soul

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allison Crawford
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2011-11-26
  • ISBN : 1442696079
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Body Soul written by Allison Crawford and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-11-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illness affects us all; we are called on to support and care for loved ones who face health challenges, and in turn, we encounter our own physical and emotional frailties when our health declines. Body & Soul features inspiring and award-winning fiction, essays, memoirs, poetry, photography, and visual art on the universal themes of wellness, treatment, and healing. Told from the points of view of patients, practitioners, caregivers, families, and friends, Body & Soul provides a powerful literary perspective on how we are challenged, bewildered, changed, and uplifted by our encounters with change, illness, and disease. Readers will appreciate the richness, depth, and diversity of these healing stories and will become motivated to generate and share their own transformative narratives. Together with the online discussion guide (providing questions relating to selected pieces in the anthology), Body & Soul is an ideal text for courses and support groups as well as individual reflection. Students and practitioners from all clinical disciplines and scholars in the humanities and social sciences will find this text invaluable.

Book Dear Editor

Download or read book Dear Editor written by Joseph Parisi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects more than six hundred letters to and from the editors of "Poetry" that were written about and by such figures as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Wallace Stevens.

Book Chicago Portraits

Download or read book Chicago Portraits written by June Skinner Sawyers and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous, the infamous, and the unjustly forgotten—all receive their due in this biographical dictionary of the people who have made Chicago one of the world’s great cities. Here are the life stories—provided in short, entertaining capsules—of Chicago’s cultural giants as well as the industrialists, architects, and politicians who literally gave shape to the city. Jane Addams, Al Capone, Willie Dixon, Harriet Monroe, Louis Sullivan, Bill Veeck, Harold Washington, and new additions Saul Bellow, Harry Caray, Del Close, Ann Landers, Walter Payton, Koko Taylor, and Studs Terkel—Chicago Portraits tells you why their names are inseparable from the city they called home.

Book Salmon

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Salmon Publishing
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Salmon written by and published by Salmon Publishing. This book was released on with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Study Guide for Maxine Kumin s  Nurture

Download or read book A Study Guide for Maxine Kumin s Nurture written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 100 Essential Modern Poems

Download or read book 100 Essential Modern Poems written by and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects one hundred poems from the past century that reflect modern culture, including works by William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, Wallace Stevens, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Book Dear Editor

Download or read book Dear Editor written by Joseph Parisi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects more than six hundred letters to and from the editors of "Poetry" that were written about and by such figures as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Wallace Stevens.

Book George Scarbrough  Appalachian Poet

Download or read book George Scarbrough Appalachian Poet written by Randy Mackin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A writer's writer, East Tennessee poet and novelist George Scarbrough enjoyed a career that spanned eight decades and included numerous awards. This biography makes use of Scarbrough's personal journals to tie his literature to his life and presents previously unpublished poetry, letters, and prose pieces. Somewhat overlooked during his lifetime, he is, as this book demonstrates, among the best poets of the 20th century.

Book Finding Jesus  Discovering Self

Download or read book Finding Jesus Discovering Self written by Caren Goldman and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we meet Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospel narratives, we come face-to-face with our own deepest selves. Finding Jesus, Discovering Self invites readers to see Jesus with new eyes and then explore, know, experience, and live questions about how 2000-year-old stories and events happen in the world and in our lives today. Each chapter focuses upon a passage from the Gospels. A narrative by one of the authors recalls a personal experience reflecting the ancient text. Questions to which there are no "right" answers offer multi-dimensional opportunities to explore the stories and wonder. Contemporary poetry and prose open new doors to meeting Jesus as a first century Jew and discovering creative, compelling, and challenging possibilities for one's own story, self, and relationship to God. Written by a Jewish author and an Episcopal priest, Finding Jesus, Discovering Self is a perfect volume for personal reflection or group study, and a unique resource for the Lenten season.

Book Sea of Faith

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Brehm
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780299202040
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book Sea of Faith written by John Brehm and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a masterful blending of lyric and narrative, Sea of Faith ranges across interior states and external worlds. From the Sierra Nevadas to New York City subways, from an imagined friendship with Lao Tzu to a meditation on Coney Island, from a comic and poignant classroom discussion to a sexual fantasy, John Brehm's poems explore the human predicament with tenderness, compassion, and humor.

Book The Heart of Things

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Holloway
  • Publisher : Canongate Books
  • Release : 2021-11-04
  • ISBN : 1838854967
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book The Heart of Things written by Richard Holloway and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life’s challenges. Now he shares those poems and words which have been his own guide, offered in the hope they will help us too. This is a book to turn to for inspiration, guidance and comfort. It offers lessons from those who, in Richard’s words, ‘know best how to listen and teach us to listen’, all united by ‘the sensual appeal of words, the pain and pleasure they impart’. It is a book to treasure.