Download or read book The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman written by Katie Manning and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman imagines a life for an interesting, unnamed biblical character: the bleeding woman who touches Jesus in three of the gospel accounts. The first half of this poetry collection is biblical/historical fiction; the second half, after the healing touch, moves into the realm of speculative fantasy (because faith is a strange, strange thing).
Download or read book Storm Toward Morning written by Malachi Black and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To be both visionary and accurate, true to physics and metaphysics at the same time, is rare and puts the poet in some rarefied company. Black, like a few other younger poets, is willing to include all the traditional effects of the lyric poem in his work, but he has set them going in new and lively ways, with the confidence of virtuosity and a belief in the ancient pleasures of pattern and repetition."—Mark Jarman, American Poet Lush and daring, Malachi Black's poems in Storm Toward Morning press all points along the spectrum of human positions, from sickness, isolation, and insomniac disarray to serenity, wonder, and spiritual yearning. Pulsing at the intersections of "eye and I," body and mind, physical and metaphysical, Black brings distinctive voice, vision, and music to matters of universal mortal concern. Query on Typography What is the light inside the opening of every letter: white behind the angles is a language bright because a curvature of space inside a line is visible is script a sign of what it does or does not occupy scripture the covenant of eye and I with word or what the word defines which is source and which is shrine the light of body or the light behind? Malachi Black holds a BA in literature from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers. His poems have appeared in AGNI, Boston Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. He currently teaches at the University of San Diego and lives in California.
Download or read book A History of Half Birds written by Caroline Harper New and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by Maggie Smith for the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, this debut collection of poems explores the aftermath of history’s most powerful forces: devotion, disaster, and us. Rooted in the Gulf Coast, A History of Half-Birds measures the line between love and ruin. Part poet, part anthropologist, Caroline Harper New digs into dark places—a cave, a womb, a hurricane—to trace how violence born of devotion manifests not only in our human relationships, but also in our connections to the natural and animal worlds. Everywhere in these pages, tenderness is coupled with brutality: a deer eats a baby bird, a lover restrains another. “I promised / a love poem,” New proclaims, then teaches us about the anglerfish, how it “attracts its mate / and prey with the same lure.” In New’s exceptional voice, familiar concepts take on a shade of the fantastic. A woman tastes the earth for acidity, buries lemons and pennies for balance. Limestone “sucks the sea / into little demitasse” and hyacinths “sip the sun / black.” A lone elephant wanders into the wilderness of rural Georgia, never to be seen again. But perhaps most arresting about New’s work are the truths told by its strangeness, like the ancient fish who “carved their shape” in a mountain’s peak, or a mother who wears a lifejacket in the bathtub. Crafted by New’s voracious mind and carried by her matchless lyricism, A History of Half-Birds is a stunning investigation of love’s beastly impulses—all it protects, and all it destroys.
Download or read book Poetic Medicine written by John Fox and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-10-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful and exciting, Poetic Medicine illustrates the unique role that poem-making can have in addressing the situations that lead us to renewal in our lives. John Fox's book is designed for readers wanting to tap their creative energy in order to make a difference in the world, including educators, therapists, parents and their children, writers, couples, and the infirm. As the author demonstrates, we all possess the ability to write. This gift enables us to access unlimited spiritual resources that restore our genuine voices and meaning in our lives, while healing and creatively satisfying us. Discussed are numerous stories of people from the author's workshops who exemplify how poetry has aided them I becoming more whole. Parents understand how to use poetry to foster their relationships with their children, recognizing magical bonds that they never knew existed; persons who are ill learn how to come to terms with their diseases; and those who feel helpless in the surrounding world discover the freedom to act and affect real change. With the poetic tools, instruction, and accounts the author supplies in Poetic Medicine, readers can start now to make their own poems while addressing, acknowledging, accepting, and taking charge of their lives.
Download or read book EVENING STREET REVIEW NUMBER 37 SPRING 2023 written by Barbara Bergmann and published by Evening Street Press. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evening Street Review is centered on the belief that all people are created equal, that they have a natural claim to certain inalienable rights, and that among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. With this center, and an emphasis on writing that has both clarity and depth, it practices the widest eclecticism. eveningstreetpress.com
Download or read book Holocaust Poetry written by Hilda Schiff and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of 119 poems by fifty-nine writers, including such notables as Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Stephen Spender, and Anne Sexton, captures the suffering, courage, and rage of the victims of the Holocaust.
Download or read book Dreaming with Mariposas written by Sonia Gutiérrez and published by Flowersong Press. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel embraces food as a communal practice with the ability to heal a family through storytelling.
Download or read book Fossils in the Making written by Kristin George Bagdanov and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. California Interest. Environmental Studies. In her debut collection, Kristin George Bagdanov offers a collection of poems that want to be bodies and bodies that want to be poems. This desire is never fulfilled, and the gap between language and world worries and shapes each poem. FOSSILS IN THE MAKING presents poems as feedback loops, wagers, and proofs that register and reflect upon the nature of ecological crisis. They are always in the making and never made. Together these poems echo word and world, becoming and being. This book ushers forward a powerful and engaged new voice dedicated to unraveling the logic of poetry as an act of making in a world that is being unmade.
Download or read book Three Women and the River written by William Harry Harding and published by Lymer & Hart. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening in the final months of World War I and ending with the prelude to World War II, the novel is set primarily in the flood plain of the Piave River, north of Venice, Italy. It also offers a glimpse of life in Royal Tunbridge Wells ¿ a city that once epitomized the British middle class.Actual historical figures, including Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemingway and Benito Mussolini, play dramatic roles in the life of Reginald Olcutt, Lance Corporal in the most celebrated unit of the WWI British Army, the 11th Battalion of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.The novel begins when Reg is wounded, separated from his unit and rescued by a local family. The second section retraces his two-year journey from enlistment to the opening scenes, through diary entries, letters home and dispatches. The third part picks up the story back in Italy, where Reg is nursed to health, only to be captured by the Germans, then set free during the Battle of the Piave in June, 1918. He is arrested for desertion by British Troops and he sent back to England to stand court martial, facing execution by firing squad.A fourth section chronicles Reg's difficulty with his British family and the pending court martial. Helped by Kipling, who has read the young soldier's letters home and diary entries, Reg is exonerated and promised a career as a writer, to be mentored by Kipling. Reg's heart pulls him back to Gabby, the woman he has fallen in love with.But Gabriella's husband has come home from the war, and by the time he reaches her in the fifth section, her husband has returned from the war and she is pregnant. As secrets of provincial families reveal themselves, death and greed threaten Reg and everyone he cares for, leading to another life and death confrontation at river's edge.In an epilogue, set in 1936, Reg hopes to convince his stepson about the real price and folly of war.
Download or read book Doxology 34 4 written by Frank C. Senn and published by OSL Publications. This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doxology: a journal of worship and the sacramental life, Volume 34.4 (Advent-Christmas 2023) Founded in 1984, Doxology: a journal of worship and the sacramental life is a quarterly, peer reviewed journal published by the Order of Saint Luke (OSL Publications). It focuses on emerging and historical theologies and practices of Christian worship. Print distribution is to the members of the Order globally, as well as to a number of theology departments and seminary libraries in the United States. Doxology also continues the tradition of the journal Sacramental Life, which merged with Doxology in 2020.
Download or read book A Prayer for Torn Stockings written by Suzanne O'Connell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding the memorable and the remarkable in the ordinary elements of everyday life, A Prayer for Torn Stockings presents 77 poems in a revealing first collection by Suzanne O'Connell.
Download or read book Poetic Expressions in Nursing written by Susan J. Felice-Farese and published by Vista Publishing (NJ). This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Last Psalm at Sea Level written by Meg Day and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. LGBT Studies. "Lovely does not suffice, nor does lyric. Eloquence is only a grasping in the space of ineffable air. There are few words or phrases that do justice to the soul singing its own revelations. That place is where LAST PSALM AT SEA LEVEL lives, where it is as solid as gold burning itself into light." Afaa Michael Weaver"
Download or read book Anuario de Poesia de San Diego 2022 23 San Diego Poetry Annual 2022 23 written by San Diego Entertainment And Arts Guild and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bilingual volume of the San Diego Poetry Annual for 2022-23: includes 42 poems written in Spanish, with English translations, from 74 poets and translators, plus an In Memoriam to Javier Raya (1985-2022).
Download or read book Times A Changin written by Nancy Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is 1969 and Joni Mitchell is on television, standing empty-handed in the middle of a circular stage that is adorned with psychedelic colors. She is wearing a long, hunter-green dress, surrounded by an audience sitting cross-legged on the floor. She waits for television host Dick Cavett to introduce her next performance. The show is filming on the day after the 1969 Woodstock music festival, an event that Mitchell was initially scheduled to attend but from which she was held back by her management to ensure she could perform on The Dick Cavett Show the next day. The host introduces Mitchell and jokes with her about singing a capella, wondering aloud if someone stole her guitar. The singer laughs politely in response, denies any theft, and then proceeds to her performance, explaining to the audience that she will be singing a "song for America" that she wrote "as a Canadian living in this country." With her hands clasped behind her back, she performs "The Fiddle and the Drum" with no accompaniment, channeling the folk performance tradition on which the song is based. This song about military participation is a rare political statement from Mitchell who, unlike her peers Bob Dylan and Buffy Sainte-Marie, had only released this one "protest song" by 1969. But the song's message was not a particularly risky proclamation. Her anti-war narrative echoed the opinions of the young Cavett Show audience that night, aligning with an established trend of resistance against the war in Vietnam. Similar to the way that Mitchell's song "Woodstock" would eventually capture the spirit of an event she did not attend, "The Fiddle and the Drum" characterizes a popular anti-war sentiment in the public consciousness of the late 1960s"--
Download or read book Episcopal Clerical Directory 2023 written by Church Publishing and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have for every search Committee. The Episcopal Clerical Directory is the biennial directory of all living clergy in good standing in the Episcopal Church--more than 18,000 deacons, priests, and bishops. It includes full biographical information and ministry history for each cleric.
Download or read book Beyond Power Transitions written by David C. Kang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions about the likelihood of conflict between the United States and China have dominated international policy discussion for years. But the leading theory of power transitions between a declining hegemon and a rising rival is based exclusively on European examples, such as the Peloponnesian War, as chronicled by Thucydides, as well as the rise of Germany under Bismarck and the Anglo-German rivalry of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What lessons does East Asian history offer, for both the power transitions debate and the future of U.S.-China relations? Examining the rise and fall of East Asian powers over 1,500 years, Beyond Power Transitions offers a new perspective on the forces that shape war and peace. Xinru Ma and David C. Kang argue that focusing on the East Asian experience underscores domestic risks and constraints on great powers, not relative rise and decline in international competition. They find that almost every regime transition before the twentieth century was instigated by internal challenges and even the exceptions deviated markedly from the predictions of power transition theory. Instead, East Asia was stable for a remarkably long time despite massive power differences because of common understandings about countries’ relative status. Provocative and incisive, this book challenges prevailing assumptions about the universality of power transition theory and shows why East Asian history has profound implications for international affairs today.
