Download or read book Cicada Dreams written by Roger E. Carrier and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a midsummer night’s dream that lingers during the day Arkansas 1935. Rarely, and always in summer, a strange carnival will come to a town. The town is never too large or too small and never a city. Furthermore, it is always a place isolated in space and time. Never today but fifty or a hundred years ago when things were as different from today as they are the same. The owner of this particular carnival is a black woman and devotee of voodoo. But Lady Priscilla conceals this fact, allowing everyone to believe that Wildcat, who runs the carnival’s wrestling and boxing show, is the owner. In the South, it is not wise to antagonize the Klan by letting it be known that a black woman has money or power. When the carnival sets up in a pasture outside Redmond, Arkansas, Priscilla drinks a cup of belladonna tea and soon finds herself in the land of the dead, where she is given a vision. A dark-hearted man lives in the area and has killed six young women. They are all blondes. And when Birdie, the carnival’s beautiful blond trapeze artist, disappears and is held as a sex slave, a mystery begins to unfold. The midway lies before us, and it is into this “carnival of dreams” that we now tread.
Download or read book Full Cicada Moon written by Marilyn Hilton and published by Dial Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
Download or read book And Dreams Are Dreams written by Vassilis Vassilikos and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greece's most acclaimed living novelist gives us a magical realist portrait of contemporary Europe and contemporary Europeans. Here are seven tales that explore the themes of materialism, post Cold War politics, love, religious faith, and the power of imagination. In the tradition of Gabriel García Márquez and Luigi Pirandello, Vassilikos writes of the fantasies within reality, the spirit in existence, and the art within life.
Download or read book Cicada written by Phoebe Giannisi and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi explores connections between language, life, and the natural world By one of Greece’s foremost contemporary poets, Cicada is Phoebe Giannisi’s second collection in English. The cicada signifies metamorphosis in this breathtaking, lyrical book, which evokes the spirits of Archilochus, Plato, Empedocles, and Heraclitus. As the translator Brian Sneeden remarks: “The ‘I’ in Giannisi’s poetry is never static, never a fixed point, but part of a process of rebodying the ambient.” Yet, despite the fluid, mythic nature of Giannisi’s poems, they are also exquisitely rooted in the everyday: the sea heard through a window, the murmur of a distant mechanical crane, a damp wind, a photo of John and Yoko. Giannisi is a poet internationally known for her idiosyncratic eco-poetics, as well as her poetic multimedia works and performances, and most of all for her brilliant vision glowing at the borders of language, voice, place, and memory.
Download or read book Bartholomew and the Morning Monsters written by Sophie Berger and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mornings are never easy - especially when the monsters from last night's dreams want to stay and play! Bartholomew struggles to get himself ready as the monsters from last night's dreams sabotage the most simple of morning routines. A vast purple monster sits on his chest, making it hard to get up. A slug monster slimes his clothes, so he can't get dressed. Brushing teeth, eating breakfast, and even going to the toilet all present challenges as the monsters mess around at Bartholomew's expense. Will Bartholomew's dad ever manage to get him out the door? Hilarious illustrations bring Bartholomew's frustration and befuddlement alive in this deceptively simple story that anyone who is not a morning person is bound to relate to.
Download or read book Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China written by The Arthur Waley Estate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1939. This book consists chiefly of extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius and Han Fei Tzu. Chuang Tzu's appeal is to the imagination; the appeal of mencius is to the moral feelings; realism, as expounded by Han Fei Tzu, finds a close parallel in modern Totalitarianism and as a result these extracts from a book of the third century B.C. nonetheless have a very contemporary connection.
Download or read book Bread of Dreams written by Piero Camporesi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piero Camporesi is one of the most original and exciting cultural historians in Europe today. In this remarkable book he examines the imaginative world of poor and ordinary people in pre-industrial Europe, exploring their everyday preoccupations, fears and fantasies. Camporesi develops the startling claim that many people in early modern Europe lived in a state of almost permanent hallucination, drugged by their hunger or by bread adulterated with hallucinogenic herbs. The use of opiate products, administered even to children and infants, was widespread and was linked to a popular mythology in which herbalists and exorcists were important cultural figures. Through a careful reconstruction of the everyday imaginative life of peasants, beggars and the poor, Camporesi presents a vivid and disconcerting image of early modern Europe as a vast laboratory of dreams. Bread of Dreams is a rich and engaging book which provides a fresh insight into the everyday life and attitudes of people in pre-industrial Europe. Camporesi's vision is breathtaking and his work will be much discussed among social and cultural historians. This edition includes a Preface by Roy Porter, Professor of the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
Download or read book Dream Breaks One Day written by Tao Yaoyao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The female owner, Li, had transmigrated into the body of the ugly daughter of the Prime Minister of the Great Phoenix Empire. Her survival was not easy and she had unintentionally become involved in the power struggle.
Download or read book Dreams of Falling written by Karen White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of PureWow's "Best Beach Reads of Summer 2018" New York Times bestselling author Karen White crafts evocative relationships in this contemporary women's fiction novel, set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, about lifelong friends who share a devastating secret. On the banks of the North Santee River stands a moss-draped oak that was once entrusted with the dreams of three young girls. Into the tree's trunk, they placed their greatest hopes, written on ribbons, for safekeeping—including the most important one: Friends forever, come what may. But life can waylay the best of intentions.... Nine years ago, a humiliated Larkin Lanier fled Georgetown, South Carolina, knowing she could never go back. But when she finds out that her mother has disappeared, she realizes she has no choice but to return to the place she both loves and dreads—and to the family and friends who never stopped wishing for her to come home. Ivy, Larkin's mother, is discovered badly injured and unconscious in the burned-out wreckage of her ancestral plantation home. No one knows why Ivy was there, but as Larkin digs for answers, she uncovers secrets kept for nearly fifty years—whispers of love, sacrifice, and betrayal—that lead back to three girls on the brink of womanhood who found their friendship tested in the most heartbreaking ways.
Download or read book Studies in Chinese Poetry written by James R. Hightower and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of seventeen essays by James R. Hightower and Florence Chia-ying Yeh contains three chapters on shih poetry, ten chapters on Sung tz'u, and four chapters on the works of Wang Kuo-wei. It includes ten previously unpublished works, including Hightower's now classic work on T'ao Ch'ien and Yeh's studies of Subg tz'u, as well as seven important additions to the literature on Chinese poetry. The essays treat individual poets, particular poetic techniques (for example, allusion), and general issues of period style and poetry criticism. The previoulsy published items have been updated to include the Chinese texts of all poems presented in translation. Although authored separately by Professors Hightower and Yeh, the essays presented here are the result of theor thirty years of collaboration in working on Chinese poetry. Through close readings of individual texts, the two authors explicate the stylistic and psychological components of the work of the poets they study and present compelling interpretations of their poems.
Download or read book Studies in Chinese Literary Genres written by Cyril Birch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 408 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 1974.
Download or read book THE INEXPLICACIONES and BIBI S DREAMS written by John M Bennett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet John M. Bennett interprets, deinterprets, inexplains, and generally expands upon the dreams of Fluxus artist Bibiana Padilla Maltos. The poems are surreal, resonant, and full of unexpected connections, like dreams themselves, and, in fact, like poetry itself. Bibiana's original dreams are included in a special section. Some of the Dreams, as well as some of the Inexplicaciones, are in Spanish. If you want to know what your dreams "mean", this is a good place to start figuring them out! Includes some reinexplicaciones of Bennett's poems by Ivan Argüelles.
Download or read book A Mosaic of Wings Dreams of India written by Kimberly Duffy and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1885, and all Nora Shipley wants, now that she's graduating from Cornell University as valedictorian of the entomology program, is to follow in her late father's footsteps by getting her master's degree and taking over the scientific journal he started. The only way to uphold her father's legacy is to win a scholarship, so she joins a research expedition in Kodaikanal, India, to prove herself in the field. India isn't what she expects, though, and neither is the rival classmate who accompanies her, Owen Epps. As her preconceptions of India--and of Owen--fall away, she finds both far more captivating than she expected. Forced by the expedition leader to stay at camp and illustrate exotic butterflies the men of the team find without her, Nora befriends Sita, a young Indian girl who has been dedicated to a goddess against her will. In this spellbinding new land, Nora is soon faced with impossible choices--between saving Sita and saving her career, and between what she's always thought she wanted and the man she's come to love.
Download or read book Dreams of a Sleeping God written by M. William Wythe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a conspiracy afoot meant to deprive us of our most basic human right, the freedom to think for ourselves, and it's being marketed as the greatest invention since language. It all begins with Dr. Will Sneed when he creates a software program he calls Dream Catcher, which visualizes, records and plays dreams in real time. His pride at such an achievement, however, quickly turns to dread when images foreshadowing his wife's murder are planted into his unconscious mind. Unaware that his own program has been adapted for uses he never intended, Will must overcome the invasion of his mind and, to do so, he must take a quantum leap in consciousness. However, with legions of brain scanners using Will's own program against him, it won't be easy to discern the truth. When his own DNA is discovered under his dead wife's fingernails, he begins to doubt his own innocence. Get ready to enter a brave new world of electronic telepathy and join Will as he battles to preserve the right of every person to think their own thoughts in Dreams of a Sleeping God.
Download or read book Paper Kites and Day Lit Dreams written by William Burkholder and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected poetry of William Burkholder, Author, Poet and founder of 5 Acre Press.
Download or read book Dream Trippers written by David A. Palmer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler explore the globalization of Daoism: the interactions between international spiritual tourists, traditional Chinese monks, and American scholar-practitioners at the sacred Daoist mountain of Huashan, China. Palmer and Siegler show how the spiritual and religious histories of China and the West intersect, collide, and interpenetrate, revealing the paradoxes and dilemmas of the search for spiritual authenticity in a globalized world.--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Cicada written by Shaun Tan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE CBCA PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 Cicada work in tall building. Data entry clerk. Seventeen year. No sick day. No mistake. Tok Tok Tok! Cicada works in an office, dutifully toiling day after day for unappreciative bosses and being bullied by his coworkers. But one day, cicada goes to the roof of the building, and something truly extraordinary happens ... A story for anyone who has ever felt unappreciated, overlooked or overworked, from Australia's most acclaimed picture book creator.
