Download or read book An Inheritance of Stone written by Leslie J. Anderson and published by Alliteration Ink. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the introduction: Some poems in this book gallop and kick. Some swerve elegantly like an escape pod caught in a gravity well. Other roll quiet as a child’s blanket. The words in these pages won’t seem the same each time you read them. They will be just what you were looking for, but nothing that you expected. - Lucy A. Snyder, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning poetry collection Chimeric Machines Praise for An Inheritance of Stone The poems in An Inheritance of Stone ponder what it is to be human -- to be consciously conscious -- from diversely entertaining angles. Lava lamp chronicles, deluded horses, jaded rocketship captains, and a woman who turns into a diamond figure in this landscape of cheerful disillusionment. Leslie Anderson can be simultaneously candid and canny, moving and funny; her narratives take astonishing turns; her restless curiosity leads her to explore frontiers uncommonly broached in poetry. This book introduces a surprising and engaging new voice. - J Allyn Rosser, author of The New Criterion Poetry Prize-winning poetry collection Foiled Again Merging her fascination with images of the space age and cowboy/equine lore, Leslie Anderson gives a quirky personal vision of the contemporary world where "America is a boy with long hair/ Who holds cigarettes like a burden" and who tells us we can be anything we desire "but first you have to be sad for 200 years." - Diane Wakoski, author of the William Carlos Williams Award-winning book Emerald Ice. Many of Leslie Anderson's poems dramatize her discoveries of the frightening spaces between individuals who might be supposed to understand one another intimately. In "Locks" and "My High School Boyfriend is Gay" there are secrets within romance that threaten the agreed-upon definitions of the relationships; and within the family, too, there are silences between daughter and parents -- in "Portrait" and "An Inheritance of Stone" -- that reveal the limits of love even when it is strong. Leslie Anderson in such poems deftly and touchingly evokes the wary alertness of a young woman trying to figure out what in the world can be relied upon. - Mark Halliday, past winner of the Rome Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Foundation Writer’s Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship
Download or read book No Ruined Stone written by Shara McCallum and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Ruined Stone is a verse sequence rooted in the life of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1786, Burns arranged to migrate to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation, a plan he ultimately abandoned. Voiced by a fictive Burns and his fictional granddaughter, a "mulatta" passing for white, the book asks: what would have happened had he gone?
Download or read book Written in Stone written by Rosanne Parry and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosanne Parry, acclaimed author of A Wolf Called Wander and Heart of a Shepherd, shines a light on Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest in the 1920s, a time of critical cultural upheaval. Pearl has always dreamed of hunting whales, just like her father. Of taking to the sea in their eight-man canoe, standing at the prow with a harpoon, and waiting for a whale to lift its barnacle-speckled head as it offers its life for the life of the tribe. But now that can never be. Pearl's father was lost on the last hunt, and the whales hide from the great steam-powered ships carrying harpoon cannons, which harvest not one but dozens of whales from the ocean. With the whales gone, Pearl's people, the Makah, struggle to survive as Pearl searches for ways to preserve their stories and skills.
Download or read book Circles of Stone written by Joan Dahr Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evoking the narrative sweep of "The Clan of the Cave Bear" and the spiritual resonance of "The Celestine Prophecy", Lambert creates an extraordinary debut novel of prehistoric life. The story of three wise women--each called Zena, yet born thousands of generations apart--who live by the ways of love and compassion, and explore the evolution of the human body, mind, and soul.
Download or read book The American and English Annotated Cases written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annotated Cases written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annotated Cases American and English written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Inheritance of Ashes written by Leah Bobet and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and compelling epic fantasy with a touch of the strange, from the author of Above -- now in paperback! The strange war down south -- with its rumours of gods and monsters -- is over. And while 16-year-old Hallie and her sister wait to see who will return from the distant battlefield, they struggle to maintain their family farm. When Hallie hires a veteran to help them, the war comes home in ways no one could have imagined. Soon Hallie is taking dangerous risks -- and keeping desperate secrets. But even as she slowly learns more about the war and the men who fought it, ugly truths about Hallie's own family are emerging. And while monsters and armies are converging on the small farm, the greatest threat to Hallie's home may be Hallie herself.
Download or read book The Northwestern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 2308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Family and Inheritance in Transition written by Cicely Howell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Howell examines Kibworth Harcourt between the later Middle Ages and the early modern period where English rural society changes.
Download or read book Impersonal Power written by Heide Gerstenberger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-08-31 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The point of departure of Heide Gerstenberger’s path-breaking work is a critique of structural-functionalist theory of the state, in both its modernisation theory and materialist variants. Prof. Gerstenberger opposes to these a historical-theoretical explanation that proceeds from the long-term structuring effect of concrete social practice. This is elucidated by detailed investigation of the development of bourgeois state power in the two key examples of England and France. The different complexions that the bourgeois state assumed are presented as the results of processes of social and cultural formation, and thus irreducible to a simple function of capitalism. This approach culminates in the thesis that the bourgeois form of capitalist state power arose only where capitalist societies developed out of already rationalised structures of the Ancien Régime type.
Download or read book The Pacific Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Boophilus microplus written by J.L. Nunez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed tracing, from acceptable sources, of archaeological and paleontologi cal discoveries made up to the present time leads us to suppose that approximate ly in 8000 y B. C., in Southern Turkestan, man succeeded in domesticating the first cattle, which he later took with him as he migrated from this remote region of Central Asia. Step by step, Europe and Asia have been gradually inhabited by domesticated cattle which have been incorporated into man's economy, both as a source of food and work. The same happened in America and Australasia, continents where cattle were taken by the European colonizing groups during the course of the 16th to the 18th centuries. Possibly the common cattle tick also reached these continents at the same time, accompanying its most frequent host. The cattle tick, Boophilus microplus, parasitizes Asiatic cattle races (with spe cial reference to the zebu, Bos indicus), but generally the level of infestation is not high, only a few engorged females being detected, generally no more than ten. When cattle of European races are infested by Boophilus microplus, how ever, the level of parasitism is higher, sometimes reaching limits incompatible with the life of the host.
Download or read book An Awkward Inheritance written by A. K. Gentry and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allie Mitchell owns half of the Mitchell Farm. Her uncle, Lee Mitchell, owns the other half. Life is pleasant and predictable for Allie until her uncle dies suddenly. Grief turns to dismay and anger when she finds out that Lee left half of his share of the farm to his wife's nephew, Jacob Stone, who is a complete stranger to Allie. To make matters worse, Jacob is required to live on the farm for one year before he can sell his share to Allie. Awkward does not accurately describe how Jacob and Allie feel about their situation. Also, no one knew Jacob was bringing his six-year-old siblings, Mandy and Michael. Allie and Jacob find themselves in a whirlwind of tensions, misunderstandings, humor, friendship, and the possibility of romance. They must also overcome speculation and gossip in the small town of Whitlow and the interference of others who want to cause disharmony in their already uncomfortable situation.
