Download or read book Word works written by Patricia Harrison and published by Folens Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book akes the 50 most relevant Word functions and provides detailed step-by-step instructions on how to develop the skill of using each function"--Cover.

Download or read book A Vertigo Book written by Carolyn Guinzio and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Winner of the 2020 Tenth Gate Prize for Poetry. "Carolyn Guinzio's A VERTIGO BOOK reads like a condensed novel in three parts. We have 'V' a woman alone at the end of a life, her 'light skeleton' nearly lifting 'right up off the earth.' V's loneliness is our loneliness, yet Guinzio describes her with such care, we find ourselves mesmerized, keeping intimate company with the details of her almost-not life: snow, deer, apple, mirror, lake. It 'hurts us to see,' but we want to see, to find out how it is there at the very edge of being. When we leave her, it's to draw even closer to Guinzio's impeccably observant eye. She enters the natural world with all the passionate attention of a lover, and we follow. In a final staccato section, we find Jenny Mentink, a settler somewhere in America's prairie. How is Jenny's story also V's? How might their lostness be America's lostness? 'What ground is this?' they ask, we ask, as we enter the long American story of un-belonging to this land that holds us only briefly."--Julie Carr

Download or read book Glass Factory written by Marilyn J. McCabe and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Environmental Studies. Chemically speaking, glass is neither a liquid nor a solid; it has properties of both states of being. It is precisely these kinds of ambiguities of experience, internal and external, that McCabe's crisp yet sonically adroit poems seek to reveal. In a world in which all matter is destined for ruin, we find a speaker who again and again not only holds the elusive present in her fierce attention but also praises the very processes that, while ushering new fruit from the trees, erase all that has been, including the familiar self, which is at every moment already "turning, turning" into something other.

Download or read book Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories and poems come from the mind of one of the earliest masters of macabre literature. From the mysterious to the macabre, the works of Edgar Allan Poe have the power to evoke readers’ deepest emotions. Poe’s stories and poems explore the darker side of life and still offer lessons and insight into human behavior today. This Word Cloud edition presents many of Poe’s best-known works, including “The Raven,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” along with dozens of other short stories and poems.

Download or read book The World Book Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

Download or read book Proverbs written by Ray Ortlund and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How exactly does one become wise? Pastor and teacher Ray Ortlund points out that the wisdom of God does not stand aloof, as if it were unattainable. Instead, he shows that wisdom graciously moves toward us, into our real world where we live and struggle day by day. Wisdom offers us her very best, if only we will listen. After all, "Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice," and, if wisdom troubles herself to yell, there must be a reason to listen and a means to hear. Ortlund unpacks the book of Proverbs in twenty-one straightforward sermons, providing a biblical worldview that opens up the higher meaning of money, sex, and power, as well as that of the daily routines of an average life. Drawing relevant parallels from ancient culture to present day, he helps the reader understand how the book of Proverbs is practical help for normal people going through everyday life. Most importantly, Ortlund shows how the Proverbs point to Jesus and his counsel for the perplexed, his strength for the defeated, his warning to the proud, his mercy for the broken. With careful treatment of the Scriptures and uncomplicated language, Proverbs: Wisdom that Works fills the vacuum between the layman's experience and the exegetical depth of many commentaries. Part of the Preaching the Word series.

Download or read book Hen God written by Amber West and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Women's Studies. Tearing into our ugliness to find beauty, tearing open the known to find mystery, the new and muscular voice of poet Amber West exposes our contemporary madness and looks for the cure. West's first book HEN & GOD explores the world where poetry is God, where God's cock crows lightning, and the poem itself declares, I am God and my ears / are the wings of the world. The scope of suffering that West addresses will take the reader's breath away, but her linguistic skill makes this an exhilarating rather than a depressing experience. Again and again she reminds us that consciousness--art--is larger than suffering, is our redemption. In persona poems from a dizzying array of characters, West's collection becomes a portrait of life in America now, unflinching and loving and bold. Themes of gender, poverty, and family enrich the collection but by no means sum up the depth of its contents. Amber West offers so many pleasures here: wise-ass speeches by the gods, feminist animal fables, pirate sonnets, and blues songs for the gorgeously gone-wrong. This poet hears Las Vegas speaking with the voice of a gangster-drunk craving water; she hears the sounds little boys don't make when their moms' boyfriends lock them out of the house; she's captured the theatrical rage of Black Friday crowds that can crush a man. Whip-smart, angry, and tender by turns, West's poems aren't afraid to call on some of the oldest traditions in English verse to electrify the dramas of 21st century urban life. --V. Penelope Pelizzon The many voices in HEN & GOD sound out the broken-down reality that is these United States of America. West traces histories of America's misery across coasts and cultures towards a resistant present and future joy. --Modesto Jimenez

Download or read book Identifying the Body written by JoAnne McFarland and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. JoAnne McFarland asks, if we are our bodies, what do we do when they betray us? When the life leaves them? When we cannot convince them to reach for what we want to become? Says Leslie McGrath, "Duality runs through the collection; the poems read as conversations between the conscious and unconscious, the personal versus the public. JoAnne McFarland offers the body in thrall, in love, the body etched by ritual, by shame, the Black body, the female body, the body fully human. This collection is a revelation." Janet Kaplan calls this book "a moving picture--text in cinematographic jump cut, close up, and chiaroscuro--of a Black woman as she embodies herself and those she loves and mourns--lives cut down way too soon, stricken, murdered, silenced. For McFarland, identifying the body also means identifying the soul that longs for release and the passions that yearn for fulfillment right here: love and justice embodied, in full measure."

Download or read book Dead Letter Office written by Annie Kim and published by Washington Prize. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Translated by Andrea Jurjević. DEAD LETTER OFFICE is, in the words of its translator, Andrea Jurjević, "sharp-witted with a kind of punk-rock sensibility." Pogačar reminds us that god(s) don't exist, that we have to find our individual paths in life, and take responsibility for it. His poems tell us to declare a war on those in power who act like god(s), to uproot from the plague of patriotism, nationalism, and opportunism. He also tells us to learn how to accept mortality, our own and that of others, and to try to love, in all possible and impossible ways. "Pogačar's incisive poetry finds new life in Jurjević's dexterously colloquial translations. At times witty, at times ironic, at times remarkably moving, this collection is a welcome introduction to one of Croatian literature's brightest stars."--Kareem James Abu-Zeid "'What used to be borders is now you,' writes Marko Pogačar in this beautiful, inimitable collection of poems, giving us a world of post-war Yugoslavia where 'TV shows start with familiar scenes.' What is the poet to do in this world? The poet demands the 'green skull of an apple.' It is a world where eggs chirp, newspapers rustle, and the dead are near. What is it, this syntax of seeing one's country with full honesty, without any lyric filters? How does it become so dazzlingly lyrical, nevertheless? 'I dislike walking on a person's left side,' the poet admits. 'I shove the night into an evil e-mail / and send it to the entire nation.' And behind him we see the world, 'beautiful, like a burning guillotine.' It is blessed, this strangeness of abandon, after all is lost. And yet, not all is lost. What is happening here? Real poetry is happening. Lyric fire. I know it when instead of writing a comment on the book, I just want to keep quoting. For poetry is a mystery that is communicated before it is understood. Marko Pogačar is the real thing, and I am especially grateful to Andrea Jurjević for these crisp, beautiful translations."--Ilya Kaminsky "Marko Pogačar's poems dig in their heels on their way to us through Andrea Jurjević--there's something tenacious about them. Gutsy. Physical. Furious. Ethereal. Laughing. Desperate and joyous. Small moves. Reading these lines is like eating roasted chestnuts from a newspaper cone on a street in a red and white country: messy and gorgeous."--Ellen Elias-Bursac

Download or read book Camera Works written by Michael North and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. With examples from the avant-garde of the little magazine and from classic authors like Fitzgerald and Hemingway, it argues that literature and art become modern by responding to these new means of representation.

Download or read book Encountering Jesus in Word Sacraments and Works of Charity written by Peter J. Vaghi and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the first homilies after his election, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said: “There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ.” In his newest book, Encountering Jesus in Word, Sacraments, and Works of Charity, popular DC-based pastor and teacher Msgr. Peter J. Vaghi connects this vision to everyday life, drawing on gospel passages that portray Christ’s power and his important teaching in parables. He also offers challenging reflections that show readers how they can draw near to Christ: by studying scripture, celebrating the sacraments, and exercising the ministry of charity. This essential resource is perfect for those fostering the New Evangelization, the newly baptized, during the mystagogy phase of RCIA, catechist formation, and adult education. Msgr. Peter Vaghi presents a fresh and challenging look at how to encounter and grow close to Jesus through scripture, the sacraments, and acts of charity. Prayers and reflection questions at the end of each chapter make this an ideal guide for small groups and other settings of adult faith formation.

Download or read book Breaking Entering New and Selected Poems written by Barbara Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lifetime of prize-winning work, a poet invents many selves and voices. Barbara Goldberg doubles that by calling upon such a wide range of subject matter, from Medieval history, to her family of origin, to fairy tales, to current events. Women and men from throughout the ages dance, rage, and practice their genius and trickery upon one another throughout these rich and generous pages. Says Stephen Dunn, Barbara Goldberg likens the body to the earth's crust, and adds, '...the deeper / the fault, the more it can hold.' It's a line typical of her capacity for deep sympathy in poems that also manage to be ferocious with precise honesties. Goldberg turns away from nothing, and never separates herself from what's unattractive in us. Throughout I felt in the presence of embodied truth. Lucille Clifton exclaimed that her vivid imagery, her direct and forceful telling, help warn and counsel her readers. One envies her good eye and celebrates the voice that in its 'hunger for clarity' speaks. While Naomi Shahib Nye calls Goldberg's work a deep, indelible tonic to the soul, Stanley Kunitz praised the inventiveness of her mind and the brilliant assurance of her craft. David St. John concludes that Goldberg shows us how we sometimes choose to devour--over and over again, often relishing their texture--those very wounds that have made us who we are and what we have come to believe. Jewish Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Women's Studies. Fairy Tales. History. Gender Studies. WW2.

Download or read book Immortal Medusa written by Barbara Ungar and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Women's Studies. Jewish Studies. Always original, intelligent, hilarious, Ungar serves us another chapter in the on- going saga of life-on- Earth. Her deft and inventive mixtures of science, family, history, pop-culture, philosophy, and art keep the reader swimming deeper and deeper into the human experience, amazed at the landmarks both familiar and surprising. "This poetry collection is like a bowl of fruit and cream: it's so delicious, and it all goes down so easily, that you forget how much nutrition is there." Kirkus, starred review "A very elegiac mood courses through these lines, enlivening them with wisdom. Like any great seeker, Ungar pursues the truth beneath surfaces available to the naked eye. Reading these poems, we are seized by the worlds she reveals. It is the feeling we call ravishment." Greg Pardlo "Ungar paints unforgettable images water-spider shoes, sepia knickers and a shining white shirt, the near-endangered Waccamaw fatmucket and Ozark hellbender that leave us 'chanting to the sky' then diving to see what we 'can retrieve / from the deep floor where / pearls are formed in secret.'" Meg Kearney"

Download or read book How Fiction Works written by Oakley Hall and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think of your fiction like a clock, a marvel of mainsprings and wheels, pinions and pendulums. It's an extraordinary organization of diverse elements, channeling energy and tension into the regular coordination of action and reaction, rotating gears and moving hands. &break;&break;Oakley Hall, writing teacher emeritus, invites you as his apprentice to study fiction's inner workings, the pegs and screws upon which a good story depends. You'll find the elements of fiction examined and illuminated, with insights into how they must interact to create a distinctive story. &break;&break;In sharing lessons taught by years of experience and by citing examples from dozens of esteemed writers, Hall makes working alongside a master thoroughly pleasurable, as well as an invaluable opportunity to craft fiction that is tuned like a precision timepiece.

Download or read book Word Hustle written by LaMonda Horton-Stallings and published by Black Classic Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word Hustle is the first scholarly treatment of writer Donald Goines and thereby the first serious consideration of "street literature." Black Power politics, rape and racialized sexuality, and the prison industrial complex are among the topics addressed in Goines's writings to examine the economic and literary politics of street literature.

Download or read book Spinster for Hire written by Julia Story and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Funny and fiery, this second collection will restore your faith in the power of small stories to shift our minds to bigger knowing. Says Emily Kendal Frey, "The voice here is friends with its sadness and yet we are yanked, with fierce exultance, up and through joy, too. Mashed and battered, held and protected, these words are life, and a life that asks, 'What harms us more than our hope?'" "Cinematic, darkly funny, & seductively sad--watching Julia Story cut these twisty, glinting shapes out of silence is like watching a kirigami artist summon a life-size funnel cloud out of a single sheet of paper. SPINSTER FOR HIRE is sublime--so full of finely-tuned truth, it practically levitates."--Karyna McGlynn "SPINSTER FOR HIRE is an antidote to modern noise--a long, late-night walk that leaves us wondering how we got here. Against a backdrop of existential isolation, Story points out constellations. Maybe they mean something, and if not, these poems shepherd us through the mystery."--Rob McDonald

Download or read book The Word Works written by Mark Ward Sr. and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever given out a gospel tract and wondered if it did any good? Now you can find out! This book is an amazing collection of 151 stories of men and women from 70 countries who found Christ by reading gospel literature. These fascinating stories will encourage and challenge you to share the gospel with others. This book also addresses such vital questions as what tract distribution methods are most effective and what types of gospel literature generate the most response.