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Book The Last Words of a Dying Muse

Download or read book The Last Words of a Dying Muse written by Eric T. Shortridge and published by Eric Thomas Shortridge. This book was released on 2019-10-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your breath cradled my soul inside the candles flame I waited for you But you never came Not the way I thought or imagined Time passed with a cold brutality I gnawed my frost-bitten hands Until they bled again I thought I saw you in each and every shadow And I loved them all just a little bit Peering over the wall I tried to coax them over But none of them had a rope long enough And I wasn’t willing to throw one over

Book The Last Words of a Dying Muse

Download or read book The Last Words of a Dying Muse written by Eric Shortridge and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Landon's Cry" and "Follow the Leader" - A beautiful book of poetry painting every emotion and color. From the light of truth to the reds of love to the blackest of nights; where monsters fluff your pillows and wish you a good night. Peek into the soul of a muse and listen to the rhythm of its fire before it's blown out. Make a wish

Book Amused to Death

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Thomas Shortridge
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-10-31
  • ISBN : 9781704365619
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Amused to Death written by Eric Thomas Shortridge and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Landon's Cry, Follow the Leader, and The last words of a dying muse; comes a brand new book of original poetry.

Book Amused to Death

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric T. Shortridge
  • Publisher : Eric Thomas Shortridge
  • Release : 2019-11-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book Amused to Death written by Eric T. Shortridge and published by Eric Thomas Shortridge. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of poetry from the author of Landon's Cry, Follow the Leader, and The Last Words of a Dying Muse.

Book A Playful Path

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernard De Koven
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2013-12-18
  • ISBN : 1304351823
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book A Playful Path written by Bernard De Koven and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Playful Path, the new book by games guru and fun theorist Bernard De Koven, serves as a collection of ideas and tools to help us bring our playfulness back into the open. When we find ourselves forgetting the life of the game or the game of life, the joy of form or the content, the play of brain or mind, body or spirit, this book can help us return to that which our soul is heir.

Book Mortality s Muse

    Book Details:
  • Author : D. T. Siebert
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2013-10-10
  • ISBN : 1611494559
  • Pages : 155 pages

Download or read book Mortality s Muse written by D. T. Siebert and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inevitability of death—that of others and our own—is surely among our greatest anxieties. Mortality’s Muse: The Fine Art of Dying explores how art, mainly literary art, addresses that troubling reality. While religion and philosophy offer important consolations for life’s end, art responds in ways that are perhaps more complete and certainly more deeply human. Among subjects treated: the ars moriendi or “art of dying” tradition; the contrast between past and more recent cultural values; the religious consolation’s value but shortcoming for some people; the role of art in offering a secular consolation; dying as a performing art; the philosophic ideal of good death; the lively appeal of carpe diem or living for the present moment; the elegiac sense of life; and the two opposite parts Mortality’s Muse has played in dealing with war, the most senseless and unnecessary cause of death. The idea of an aesthetic sense of life forms the basis of these discussions. Human beings are makers in the largest sense of the word, and art represents everything they make—civilization itself with all its greatness and failings. Our civilization may ultimately be nothing but an evanescent blip in the cosmos. Even so, the creation of beauty, meaning, and purpose from disorder and suffering defines us as human beings. In the words of Robinson Jeffers, even if monuments eventually crumble and all art perish, yet for thousands of years carved stones have stood and “pained thoughts found the honey of peace in old poems.”

Book English Hymns  Their Authors and History

Download or read book English Hymns Their Authors and History written by Samuel Willoughby Duffield and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Hymns

Download or read book English Hymns written by Samuel Willoughby Duffield and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth written by Timothy Parrish and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment that his debut book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), won him the National Book Award, Philip Roth has been among the most influential and controversial writers of our age. Now the author of more than twenty novels, numerous stories, two memoirs, and two books of literary criticism, Roth has used his writing to continually reinvent himself and in doing so to remake the American literary landscape. This Companion provides the most comprehensive introduction to his works and thought in a collection of newly commissioned essays from distinguished scholars. Beginning with the urgency of Roth's early fiction and extending to the vitality of his most recent novels, these essays trace Roth's artistic engagement with questions about ethnic identity, postmodernism, Israel, the Holocaust, sexuality, and the human psyche itself. With its chronology and guide to further reading, this Companion will be essential for new and returning Roth readers, students and scholars.

Book The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women

Download or read book The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women written by Frederic Rowland Marvin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women by Frederic Rowland Marvin

Book Short Wonders

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  • Author : Rob Vagle
  • Publisher : Dog Copilot Press
  • Release : 2021-01-05
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 67 pages

Download or read book Short Wonders written by Rob Vagle and published by Dog Copilot Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape your own world into these wondrous and imaginative places in these seven short science fiction tales by Rob Vagle. Glimpse future cities, witness a relationship between a dog and an AI, read about humorous aliens, and more. No story is too short for a sense of wonder.

Book The Bookseller

Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edgar Allan Poe  Wallace Stevens  and the Poetics of American Privacy

Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of American Privacy written by Louis A. Renza and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of the United States, a commitment to both democratic political ideals and to capitalist realities has made privacy a persistently controversial issue. Only rarely, however, has privacy attracted the attention of American literary criticism. In his ingeniously argued new study, Louis A. Renza extends the idea of privacy beyond the received wisdom of its popular legal and psychological conceptions and, iconoclastically, beyond its conception in postmodern literary theory to show that the public-private paradigm has import for American literary texts past and present. It is a truism of cultural studies that the interior space of imagination is socially constructed and thus that the private is ineluctably political. But Renza shows, through a brilliantly original analysis of works by Edgar Allan Poe and Wallace Stevens, that as an effect of reading and writing, a real or “radical” privacy continually resists appropriation. In admirably close readings of Poe’s tales, his long essay Eureka, and Stevens’s Harmonium poems, Renza demonstrates that both writers ground the concept of privacy in the possibility of multiple interpretations of their texts. Neither Poe nor Stevens resists meaning or sense, but by thematically engaging in their work the inescapable public/private dichotomy of artistic creation, they create a highly personal idiom that, like Poe’s “purloined letter,” allows them to “hide in plain sight” and in that way to finesse public constructions of meaning. Thus, surprisingly, privacy can always be conceived as something more than what current social-cultural codes urge us to believe. The poetics Renza compellingly elucidates does not deny the insights of current theory but offers a refreshing alternative that allows for the “radical” autonomy of authorship without resorting to vague elitist claims of individual genius. His thoughtful readings are a major contribution to traditional Poe and Stevens scholarship, and his challenging thesis will provoke new investigations into the privacy issue in American literature as a whole.

Book Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination

Download or read book Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination written by David M Rosen and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we hear the term “child soldiers,” most Americans imagine innocent victims roped into bloody conflicts in distant war-torn lands like Sudan and Sierra Leone. Yet our own history is filled with examples of children involved in warfare—from adolescent prisoner of war Andrew Jackson to Civil War drummer boys—who were once viewed as symbols of national pride rather than signs of human degradation. In this daring new study, anthropologist David M. Rosen investigates why our cultural perception of the child soldier has changed so radically over the past two centuries. Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination reveals how Western conceptions of childhood as a uniquely vulnerable and innocent state are a relatively recent invention. Furthermore, Rosen offers an illuminating history of how human rights organizations drew upon these sentiments to create the very term “child soldier,” which they presented as the embodiment of war’s human cost. Filled with shocking historical accounts and facts—and revealing the reasons why one cannot spell “infantry” without “infant”—Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination seeks to shake us out of our pervasive historical amnesia. It challenges us to stop looking at child soldiers through a biased set of idealized assumptions about childhood, so that we can better address the realities of adolescents and pre-adolescents in combat. Presenting informative facts while examining fictional representations of the child soldier in popular culture, this book is both eye-opening and thought-provoking.

Book Leonard and Dennis  or  The soldier s life

Download or read book Leonard and Dennis or The soldier s life written by Edward Monro and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Devonshires

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  • Author : Roy Hattersley
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2013-05-09
  • ISBN : 1448182271
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book The Devonshires written by Roy Hattersley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away from the throne of England and their grandson, the Lord General of the North, fought to save the crown for Charles I. With the help of previously unpublished material from the Chatsworth archives, The Devonshires reveals how the dynasty made and lost fortunes, fought and fornicated, built great houses, patronised the arts and pioneered the railways, made great scientific discoveries, and, in the end, came to terms with changing times.

Book Old Friends  Being Literary Recollections of Other Days

Download or read book Old Friends Being Literary Recollections of Other Days written by William Winter and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: