Hominis Aurora
Hominis Aurora is a collection of poems in three parts (sacred numerology of the beginning, evolution and end or the triangle as exemplification of the birth of knowledge) manifested in the metaphoric subtitles of Tempus, Ritualis and Communitas. The book embarks on a journey toward the telluric and the mystical, specifically within the transition between the prehistoric eras known as the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. This time initiates the beginning of everything: the creation of language, the aura of thought, poetry in its ethereal stage, ferocious individualism, the formation of social groups, the beginning of human mythology, artistic expression, bellicose conflicts, the emergence of agriculture, immigration, man vs. nature, the seeds of ingenuity, and man facing his own existential reality and that of all others. Since no written history exists from which to construct that poetic world of human genesis, one must rely on investigation of the disciplines of archeology, fine arts and anthropology, These disciplines, especially art, were crucial in the elaboration of the book; which, to a great extent, is a love letter to the fine arts, as stated in the epigraph of the English poet William Wordsworth. Hominis aurora es un poemario en tres partes (numerolog穩a sacra de comienzo, evoluci籀n y final o el tri獺ngulo como ejemplificaci籀n del nacimiento del conocimiento) manifestado en los subt穩tulos metaf籀ricos de Tempus, Ritualis y Communitas. El libro emprende un viaje hacia lo tel繳rico y lo m穩stico, espec穩ficamente dentro de la transici籀n de las eras de la prehistoria conocidas como el periodo paleol穩tico y neol穩tico. All穩 se da el comienzo a todo: creaci籀n de la lengua, el aura del pensamiento, la poes穩a en su estado et矇reo, el individualismo aferrador, formaci籀n de los grupos sociales, inicio de la mitolog穩a humana, la expresi籀n art穩stica, los conflictos b矇licos, el surgimiento de la agricultura, la inmigraci籀n, hombre versus naturaleza, brote del ingenio y la realidad existencial del hombre ante s穩 mismo y los dem獺s. Al no existir una historia escrita para construir aquel mundo po矇tico de la g矇nesis humana, se ha recurrido a investigar a trav矇s de las disciplinas de la arqueolog穩a, las artes pl獺sticas y la antropolog穩a. Estas disciplinas, en especial el arte, fueron cruciales en la revelaci籀n del libro. El libro, en gran medida, es una carta de amor a las bellas artes, como queda expresado en el ep穩grafe del poeta ingl矇s William Wordsworth
Apartados
"Apartados", publicado por primera vez en castellano y portugues el 2011, es un libro que pinta un escenario dist籀pico, abstracto y surreal para describir el desgarro cultural que ha ocurrido en Chile. En este libro las palabras se vuelven sombras, creciendo, tomando formas aterradoras que en un principio parecen irreconocibles. "Apartados", first published jointly in Spanish and Portuguese in 2011, is a book that paints a dystopian setting, surreal and abstract to describe the cultural tear that has occured in Chile. In this book the words become shadows on the page, growing, taking frightening forms that at first seem unrecognizable.
Toxin
Dwayne Hollingswell became a rare commodity in Memphis. Intelligent, young, black, handsome, a steady income, and the makings of a successful financier in Memphis. If you met him you felt honored to be in his presence because it was like watching a unicorn drink rainbow colored water out of a rambling stream flowing peacefully through the hood. Different to the point that you'd instill fantasy by naming him the 8th wonder of the world.He'd known he was different since the age of fifteen. None of his thoughts and questions were ever satisfied and his mind was far ahead of other boys his age, neither bothered him. While they hid, and drooled over a magazine's big butt beauty of the week, Dwayne was making candlelit dates with money.As a spiritual man, he knew better than to love money. His grandmother had drilled it in to him, but he hadn't realized he could get lost in its Toxins as he gave money his utmost respect. With no love interest in sight, Dwayne made his nuptials with his financial portfolio. With all the mistakes he'd made with women in the past, it was the freest option...Nivea Bowen was on the hunt to have it all. She didn't mind sweating for it or even shedding tears. After years of fighting her way to the top of her class at an Ivy League school, she had her heart set on IPO-ing her company before its fifth anniversary. She was losing the battle against time and needed to focus on building her dynasty.Growing up with a single mother on the west coast had taught her some important things. Specifically, what she didn't want in life. And depending on her mother's mood on that Sunday, it was touched with a little religion too.Once she realized that her king would come to her, she slept with success until her king came knocking. However, she didn't realize how thick the Toxins that lingered from getting her feet wet, would be. What queen really needs a king to rule, anyways...When Dwayne and Nivea finally decide it's safe to take off their masks to get a whiff of love, can they handle the small inhalations of each other's Toxins, or will the Toxic fumes they inhale be them getting whiffs of their own?
The Complete Frances Harper
The Complete Frances Harper (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Harper, the first African American woman to publish a novel, gained a reputation as a popular poet and impassioned abolitionist in the decades leading up to the American Civil War. Much of her work was rediscovered in the twentieth century and preserved for its significance to some of the leading social movements of the nineteenth century, including temperance, abolition, and women's suffrage. As an artist for whom the personal was always political, Frances Harper served in a leadership role at the Women's Christian Temperance Union and worked to establish the National Association of Colored Women, serving for a time as vice president of the organization. Included in this volume are her early poetry volumes, such as Forest Leaves (1845) and Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854). In "Bury Me in Free Land," an influential poem published in an 1858 edition of abolitionist newspaper The Anti-Slavery Bugle, Harper expresses her commitment to the cause of freedom in life or death terms: "I ask no monument, proud and high, / To arrest the gaze of the passers-by; / All that my yearning spirit craves, / Is bury me not in a land of slaves." She reflects on the theme of freedom throughout her body of work, often examining her own identity or experiences as a free Black woman alongside the lives of her enslaved countrymen. The Complete Frances Harper also includes her four groundbreaking novels. Minnie's Sacrifice (1869), originally serialized in the Christian Recorder, addresses such themes as miscegenation, passing, and the institutionalized rape of enslaved women using the story of Moses as inspiration. Sowing and Reaping (1876) is a novel concerned with the cause of temperance in a time when Black families were frequently torn apart by alcoholism. Trial and Triumph (1888-1889) is a politically conscious novel concerned with an African American community doing its best to overcome hardship with love and solidarity. Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) is a story of liberation set during the American Civil War that deals with such themes as abolition, miscegenation, and passing. In these novels, poems, speeches from across her lengthy career as an artist and activist, Harper not only dedicates herself to her suffering people, but imagines a time "When men of diverse sects and creeds / Are clasping hand in hand." With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Complete Frances Harper is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
still blooming
From the poem Bitter truthWhile jumpingmaybe fellinstead of mountaininto wellit may happen when keep goingmany experiencestry to tellingobsessing pushes usall to sellaccelerate on the waytoward dellmind in palacebady in cellchoose freely!Paradise or hellserenity startswhen no bellmuch bitter truthwho will tell?In Turkish language expression, they said: The one who says the truth will be kicked out from nine cities, so who will tell the truth.From The poem Me and wallMe and wallare eternal companionsit glances mebutmostly stares intentlywatchfullyI know by hearteach it's stainspotsometimes tempts meto embrace it intimatelybutit is flatI should be flatlike everybodywho wantsthe others change themselvestoward their-esteemsometimesI am through of itso boringso annoyanceI turn awaybutagain on the face of the wallone timeI hurled a cup on itfirst, it hurled me backsome piecesthen we laughedface to facesorenessI felt itit pointed melike Trumpyou, you, youthank youyou are innocentI knewtwo folded boredomFrom the poem To peep throughI had chased bluethe night took from meI chased silentguardians destroyed itheaven giggled at my struggleI am hearingit is rainingI pick pinkish-yellow breezeduring twenty-four hoursloneliness in celldeeply in my imaginationit prevents mefrom an adverse feelingI found a crack in the iron doorto peep throughnothing-shaped-panoramaI want to grill emptinessto become more delicious-likewhen snuffed beyond all myblue-shaped-strivea fain puddle of greenstruts help likeinner colors surroundon all virginitywith endless jollityfor ending mournfulnessanddoomI'll smash all bloomsinto thin patience chimneyto flam sole Jupiter everlasting-greenattitude is in all my mirage auraandpick up the pipes diligentlytrembling of existence gleebydiligently-shaped-willFrom the poem Reborn cubicMy eyes become cubicmy heart becomes cubicwallscementcellingironwallscementceilingironI'll be cubicfor their satisfactionmayI'm pressedto not rollbutI'll be volumeandconceive, pregnantreborn myself cubiccubic wombcubic babycubic lifebutrolling volumeFrom the poem Like Van GhogLike Van Ghogwho cut his earandsent to his loveI want to send youfrom my partthe vitality of Brahmanthe creativity of Billgatethe wealth of VishnuSolomonandZauruswithout strugglefor survivalthe wisdom of SaraswatiBergesenand Raselthe shrine honored AyappaManiand Nightingalethe glory of mother Terezathe persistence of TolstoyMozart and Bramskithe unconditional love of BuddhaJesusand Kazemwonder of childspring supreme happiness of birdswhen they love with each otheron the top of treeson the top of pinesandchirping loudlylovelyand sensitivelyproductivity of earthtranquility of sagesthe radiant nature of leaveswonder beauty of naturelevitation of chelebiperpetually of phoenixallto lead your gridssadnesslazinessto utter joy, bliss,
Buckman Journal 006
The folx from Black Feast set a new table celebrating Black artists and writers. The concrete poet employs the computer generated but holds a tight leash. The oracle bones have their say. Total captivation in the detail of ink drawings. During the pandemic, time worked differently.How about these apples! Buckmxn Journal, the nationally acclaimed literary and art anthology, returns with another feisty installment. Writers include Kesha Ajose-Fisher, winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, Jennifer Perrine, Chanel Heart, and many others. Art by Anya Roberts-Toney, Lara Rouse, Samantha Wall, to name a few. Also, the crew from Black Feast graced the cover and supplied a section of striking imagery and strong words of affirmation.Contributors: Cover by Black Feast & Lyudmila ZotovaKesha Ajose-Fisher, Samantha Wall, Jennifer Perrine, Michael Lee, Casey Carpenter, Jeremy Le Grand, Avvy Mar, Isis Fisher, Nathan Wade Carter, Lara Rouse, Salimatu Amabebe, Annika Hansteen-Izora, Chanel Heart, Dan Bothwell, Jordan Hernandez, Benjamin Chan, Max Forstag, Sylvie Huhn, Steven Bieler, Hannah Johnson, S Cearley, Kristin Walrod, Anya Roberts-Toney, Rich Perin, Lara Rouse, Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito, Tenya Rodriguez
Everything Worth Fighting For
Everything Worth Fighting For: An exploration of being Black in America takes the reader on a journey of discovery into the many layers of Black life. From coming to understand the value in elder wisdom to struggling with the dangers facing Black youth, the book paints a picture of a multi- faceted existence. It is a resistance to narrowing perceptions and a call for society to never forget that there is so much more to any Black person than meets the eye. Ahanu writes in the introduction, "There is magic in our own experiences. Lessons learned and insight gained. It is our responsibility to share that with others. We have to tell what we know. We have to act like we know. It may mean standing alone. It may mean facing the unsettling of every bit of comfort we have established. We have to understand that sometimes interruption can be glorious freedom. Think about all that we have faced and still face in this country. We continue to push on fully aware that regardless of the achievements, the strides, and the resilience there are still those who will never see the amazing for what it is. Yet here we are. Here we will be. Still magic." Everything Worth Fighting For: An exploration of being Black in America also looks at the role of the artist as an activist and at the creation of art as a radical means of expression. Ahanu shares his experiences and offers his perspective on arts activism as a way to frame this new work. This book not only intendeds to engage, it is also intended to inspire, affirm, challenge, and push people's thinking. It is recognition of the beauty of being Black, of the struggles of being Black, and a scathing rebuttal to those who see Black life as anything less than amazing.With this collection, Dasan Ahanu shows himself as a southern storyteller who uses his poetry as a tool for conveying messages and for giving voice to the lived experiences of those who find themselves at the center and in the margins.
A Canadian Calendar
Discover the enchanting world of **A Canadian Calendar: XII Lyrics**, a timeless poetry collection by the esteemed **Francis Sherman**. This beautifully restored edition, brought back to life by **Alpha Editions**, invites you to immerse yourself in the lyrical beauty of **Canadian poetry** that has been out of print for decades. In this captivating work, Sherman masterfully weaves together themes of nature, love, and the essence of **Canadian culture**, creating a tapestry of emotions that resonates with both the heart and the mind. Each lyric serves as a window into the soul of the land, celebrating the breathtaking landscapes and the rich tapestry of life that defines Canada. Whether you are a seasoned poetry enthusiast or a curious newcomer, this collection offers a profound exploration of **Canadian literature** that will inspire and uplift. What sets this edition apart is not just its revival but its significance as a **cultural treasure**. Carefully restored for today's and future generations, this is not merely a reprint; it's a collector's item that honors the legacy of one of Canada's cherished **literary works**. With its elegant prose and evocative imagery, **A Canadian Calendar** stands as a testament to the enduring power of **lyrical poetry** and the voices of **Canadian authors**. Join the ranks of those who appreciate the beauty of classic poetry and the depth of human experience. This edition is perfect for anyone seeking to enrich their library with authentic **online poetry resources** or for those who wish to delve into the heart of **nature poetry** that speaks to the spirit of a nation. Don't miss your chance to own this exquisite piece of literary history. Embrace the magic of **Francis Sherman**'s words and let them transport you to the serene landscapes of Canada. Order your copy of **A Canadian Calendar: XII Lyrics** today and celebrate the beauty of **Canadian poetry**!
Canada, My Land; And Other Compositions In Verse
Discover the heart and soul of a nation through the evocative verses of ""Canada, My Land; And Other Compositions In Verse"" by M. MacKeracher. This remarkable collection of Canada poetry invites readers on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes, rich history, and vibrant culture of Canada, capturing the essence of what it means to call this land home. Originally published decades ago, this cherished work has been out of print for far too long. Now, thanks to Alpha Editions, it has been meticulously restored for today's and future generations, ensuring that the beauty of MacKeracher's words continues to resonate. This edition is not just a reprint; it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure that celebrates the legacy of Canadian literature. In this Canadian poetry collection, MacKeracher weaves together nature poetry that reflects the stunning vistas of the Great White North, alongside historical poetry that pays homage to the events and figures that have shaped Canada. Each verse composition is a testament to the enduring spirit of Canadian poets, making it a must-have for poetry lovers in Canada and beyond. Whether you are a casual reader seeking inspiration or a dedicated collector of classic literature, ""Canada, My Land"" offers something for everyone. The themes of love, nature, and national pride resonate deeply, inviting readers to reflect on their own connections to this vast and beautiful land. Join the ranks of those who appreciate the power of words to evoke emotion and inspire action. Dive into the world of M. MacKeracher's poetry about Canada and experience the profound beauty of Canadian verse. Don't miss your chance to own this restored gem-perfect for your bookshelf or as a thoughtful gift for fellow poetry enthusiasts. Embrace the cultural poetry of Canada and celebrate the timeless legacy of one of its finest voices.
Good Cop/Bad Cop
George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Eric Garner. Sandra Bland. Tamir Rice.So many others for so many years. In 2010 police killed over a thousand people in the U.S. Black people are 3x more likely to be killed by police than white people. 99% of killings by police from 2013 - 2019 have not resulted in officers being charged with a crime. The names of the murdered will not be forgotten. We call on poets, writers, and artists to submit work for an anthology that addresses the continuing problem of police violence in this country and around the world.Your much appreciated purchase allows FlowerSong to continue putting out important anthologies and publications.
Canadian Battlefields And Other Poems
Discover the poignant echoes of history in ""Canadian Battlefields And Other Poems,"" a remarkable collection by R. Wilkinson that brings to life the spirit of 19th-century Canada. This stirring anthology, long out of print, has been lovingly restored by Alpha Editions for today's readers and future generations, making it not just a reprint, but a true collector's item and cultural treasure. Dive into the heart of Canadian poetry as Wilkinson masterfully weaves together themes of bravery, sacrifice, and the haunting beauty of the Canadian landscape. His war poems resonate with emotional depth, capturing the essence of Canadian battlefields and the stories of those who fought upon them. This collection stands as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, offering a unique lens into the historical context of Canadian war literature. ""Canadian Battlefields And Other Poems"" is more than just a poetry collection; it is a vital piece of Canadian literature that invites readers to reflect on the past while appreciating the artistry of classic Canadian poems. Whether you are a casual reader seeking to explore the rich tapestry of Canadian poetry or a dedicated collector of literary works, this edition promises to enrich your understanding of historical poetry and the cultural narratives that shape our identity. With its engaging verses and profound insights, this book is perfect for anyone interested in literary analysis of Canadian poetry or those who wish to connect with the emotional landscape of Canada's history. Don't miss your chance to own this beautifully restored edition, a celebration of R. Wilkinson's legacy and a tribute to the enduring power of poetry about Canada. Embrace the past and inspire your present with this essential addition to your literary collection.
Frances Harper
Frances Harper: Poems, Prose, and Sketches (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Harper. Harper, the first African American woman to publish a novel, gained a reputation as a popular poet and impassioned abolitionist in the decades leading up to the American Civil War. Much of her work was rediscovered in the twentieth century and preserved for its significance to some of the leading social movements of the nineteenth century, including temperance, abolition, and women's suffrage. As an artist for whom the personal was always political, Frances Harper served in a leadership role at the Women's Christian Temperance Union and worked to establish the National Association of Colored Women, serving for a time as vice president of the organization. Included in this volume are extracts of her early poetry volumes, including Forest Leaves (1845) and Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854). In "Bury Me in Free Land," an influential poem published in an 1858 edition of abolitionist newspaper The Anti-Slavery Bugle, Harper expresses her commitment to the cause of freedom in life or death terms: "I ask no monument, proud and high, / To arrest the gaze of the passers-by; / All that my yearning spirit craves, / Is bury me not in a land of slaves." She reflects on the theme of freedom throughout her body of work, often examining her own identity or experiences as a free Black woman alongside the lives of her enslaved countrymen. In "Free Work," she looks to something as simple as her own clothing and examines its connection-or lack thereof-to the institution of slavery: "I wear an easy garment, / O'er it no toiling slave / Wept tears of hopeless anguish, / In his passage to the grave." Reflecting on the horrors of slavery through the lens of the everyday, Harper refuses to take for granted the significance of freedom in all of its manifestations, a reality which is sometimes as simple as the clothes on her back. In these poems and speeches from across her lengthy career as an artist and activist, Harper not only dedicates herself to her suffering people, but imagines a time "When men of diverse sects and creeds / Are clasping hand in hand." With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Frances Harper's Frances Harper: Poems, Prose, and Sketches is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
The Hat and Other Poems and Prose
The writing in *The Hat And Other Poems And Prose* - poems, essays, stories - addresses empty spaces, silences, and evasions of one kind or another. It seems to the author, in retrospect, that they were mostly written out of inner necessity, and he hopes that you will consider them given their crucial intentions.
My Spiritual Journey, A Symbiotic Relationship with my Ancestors
Experiencing a relationship with our Ancestors is a blessing and a privilege. I feel compelled to share my story and personal journey concerning relationships and encounters I have had with my Ancestors- our vivid interactions, their words of wisdom, inspiration, guidance, tough love, protection, and so much more. This book presents my recollections of actual encounters, whether visions, dreams, thoughts or various other mediums through which my Ancestors choose to communicate. I hope you will enjoy reading this book as much as have I enjoyed telling my story. My Spiritual Journey, A Symbiotic Relationship with my Ancestors has manifested!
Writers by the River
The Highland Summer Writing Conference (HSC), held each summer along the banks of the ancient New River at Radford University's Selu Conservancy, brings together and inspires writers as they participate in the communal art of creating and sharing. Over the years, many prestigious Appalachian authors have taught workshops to like-minded students, many of whom became published authors in their own right. This book, a celebration of the HSC, is a collection of reflective essays, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction contributed by 41 authors and student-authors who have taken part in the conference over a span of 43 years.
Walloon Writers Review
An unforgettable collection of creative writing and nature photography.Walloon Writers Review Edition Six offers a stunning anthology of creative writing and nature photography that pays homage to the beauty of northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula.Each page features exciting new and established Michigan authors, poets and photographers, as well as writers who have spent time in the area. In words and pictures, each contributor lends their authentic voice to capture nature in all of its realms-its purity, brutality, and its power to nurture and restore the human spirit.
The Essential Pauline E. Hopkins
The Essential Pauline E. Hopkins (2021) compiles several iconic works of fiction by a pioneering figure in American literature. Contending Forces was Hopkins' first major publication as a leading African American author of the early twentieth century. Originally published in The Colored American Magazine, America's first monthly periodical covering African American arts and culture, Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest is a groundbreaking novel that addresses themes of race and colonization from the perspective of a young girl of mixed descent. Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice is thought to be the first detective novel written by an African American author. Also included in this collection is "Talma Gordon," an influential short story, and Of One Blood, Hopkins' final novel. Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest opens on an island in the middle of Lake Erie, where White Eagle-recently displaced after the dissolution of the Buffalo Creek reservation-has built a home for himself and his African American wife. Adopting her son Judah, White Eagle establishes a life for his family apart from the prejudices and violence of American life. Their daughter Winona grows to be proud of her rich cultural heritage. Set just before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice takes place on the outskirts of Baltimore. When Hagar Sargeant returns home after four years of study at a seminary in the North, she meets Ellis Enson, an older gentleman and self-made man who resides at the stately Enson Hall. After a brief courtship, the pair are engaged to be married. As the wedding approaches, Hagar's mother dies unexpectedly, leaving Hagar the family estate. When a man from the deep south arrives claiming the young woman was born a slave, their lives are changed forever. Contending Forces is the story of Charles Montfort, a planter from Bermuda who moves with his family and slaves to North Carolina. There, he plans to free his slaves, drawing condemnation from his neighbors and risking violent retaliation. When a rumor spreads regarding his wife's ancestry, Montfort suspects Anson Pollack, a former friend, of planning to dispossess him. In these wide-ranging tales of race, class, and social convention, Hopkins proves herself as a true pioneer of American literature, a woman whose talent and principles afforded her the vision necessary for illuminating the injustices of life in a nation founded on slavery and genocide. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Essential Pauline E. Hopkins is a classic work of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
North Carolina Originals
You might remember the pie-throwing antics of comedian Soupy Sales, or Shirley Owens of The Shirelles and their top-of-the-charts hit "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow," or maybe Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Eliot Green and his enduring "Lost Colony," or perhaps pioneering director Cecil B. DeMille and his 1957 cinema epic "The Ten Commandments." They are but a few of the luminaries whose names can be mentioned in the same breath's as North Carolina's. They all have roots here and in the past few years wound up on the pages of "27587 Magazine - "A North Carolina Original," an award-winning quarterly that takes its name from a zip code in one of the state's fastest-growing towns, namely the old college town of Wake Forest. "Who needs 90210, when we have 27587," wrote one of the magazine's admirers while invoking, tongue-in-cheek, a 1990s television show aligned with Beverly Hills, Calif. Well, they've said we're "entertaining as well as informative," so much so that we decided to bring you a selection of some two-dozen of our most beloved stories. Of course, North Carolina's being a place that since 1993 has been among the Top 10 destination states, there's no shortage of stories about transplants, captured in such features as "Native New Yorkers. Not quite in that N.Y. state of mind anymore," "From California, here they come," "Brits in our midst," and "Jersey girls in the Piedmont." Sprinkle in some stories of a perhaps peculiar nature -- "Tales of the Tags" and "Giddy up, cowboy" - and there are plenty of openings to engage our current and future North Carolina neighbors! So, we hope you enjoy your journey through the pages of "North Carolina Originals."
Distant Drums
Our gift of creativity and mastery of the written and spoken word binds Us by duty to share with the world what GOD inspires in Us. After an overlong hiatus, David L. Weeks has returned with a new book of original poetry, entitled DISTANT DRUMS! This collection spans his over thirty-five-year writing career and represents the culmination of a poetry writing journey. Unlike his first book, David leaves everything on the table. Conscious poems, inspirational poems, spiritual poems, love poems, erotic poems--raw, explicit, unfiltered, uncensored. The book features never-before-shared poems like, Bring Back The Old Days, Make Love To You, When The Sun Sets...And fan favorites such as Jazz, Back To The Still Waters, Purple, Light Your Fire, Feel My Nature Rise, ?bano Latina, You Cannot Wear My Crown and many more. When we said David left everything on the table, there was no exception concerning the design of the book's cover. His goal and vision were to evoke, through artistry, memories of his days as a youth growing up in the Virgin Islands. And reminisce on the artistic designs of many of the reggae albums of the '70s and '80s. Albums like Journey To Addis, Uprising, The Harder They Come, and Man In The Hills, to name a few. To bring his vision to reality, David turned to his best friend, artist, and illustrator, Wesley Richards, to design the cover for his book. Imagine "Distant Drums" lying on your coffee table, not just a book, but also a visual work of art...a poster on your wall, a t-shirt on your chest.Distant Drums. This Is One Book; You Can Judge By Its Cover!Conquering Lion Enterprise, Publishing.2021
All Purpose
All Purpose by Apostolos Peter TolyAK Kouroumalis is a unique collection of short stories that explore a diverse set of themes and ideas: life, family, relationships and more. In the book, the author presents an intimate look at fragments of life, inviting the reader into a wide range of encounters and experiences. In the book, the author's writing is blunt and graphic. He does not hold back in sharing his emotions, thoughts and feelings, and it is clear the book has been written for a mature audience.Overall, All Purpose is an open and honest compilation of aspects of daily life. - Review by the Book Excellence Awards
Poems that Speak to Us
An anthology of 82 poems from 11 collections, spanning 40 years, featuring some of STEVE KOWIT's best-known work and several previously uncollected gems.
State Blues
The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers - writing that comes from the heart, and that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth. www.prisonarts.org
woman, depose
After two years of fighting a sexual harassment lawsuit based on her gender and sexual orientation, the case was ultimately tossed based on evidence being "hearsay" and a filing technicality. This court case forced her to analyze past and present experiences with sex and sexuality, both personally and on a larger societal scale. She worked to examine sexual abuse, trauma, harassment, as well as sexual power and desire from an individual woman's perspective and those placed upon her as it made sense to her to describe.
Tales from the Joe Zone
Inside are sixteen entertaining short stories that I've written over the past few years. You'll find the stories teeming with delight and among the most original short stories you'll ever read: someone being blackmailed, a teenage girl digging a tunnel, a boy and a girl on a school bus, a man renting a . . . well, you'll see. Although I'm an avid reader, I read mostly nonfiction, which has helped me immensely in weaving my fiction stories together. After reading my stories, you'll agree I am quirky.
Zyzzyva #120
ZYZZYVA #120: The Technology Issue, Stories, Dreams and Nightmares examines the various ways technology has shaped us, and imagines how it might do so in the near future. Noted reporter and author John Markoff shares an essay on the conflicted legacy of Stewart Brand. UC Berkeley doctoral student and technologist Xiaowei Wang discusses blockchain, the incorporation of tech in rural China, and asks, "What does it mean to live, to be human right now?" Fiction by Lee Conell, Juhea Kim, and Kate Reed Petty considers the impacts of technology and a changing environment upon communication and connection, and our sense of identity. In Troy Jollimore's essay, a rumination on the films of the Coen Brothers dovetails with urgent questions about how personal and cultural narratives are shaped by the media and technology with which they are told-and how the disastrous proliferation of conspiracy theories fostered by internet culture has deep roots in American history. Also includes fiction from Andrew Tonkovich and Kate Reed Petty; poetry from Sheryl Luna, Benjamin Voigt, Amanda Moore, William Brewer, art by Dave McClinton; and many others.
Landscape
This bilingual edition presents a selection of poetry by Manuel Jos矇 Oth籀n (1858-1906), Mexico's most renowned poet of nature and landscape, along with a new verse translation in facing-page format. Inspired by Horatian odes, Virgilian eclogues, and the Spanish classics (Garcilaso, Cervantes, Fray Luis de Le籀n), Oth籀n harnessed the passion of the Romantics with his poetic craft. The result is a verbal portrait of Mexico's north central highlands, balancing the naturalist's eye for detail with the painter's sweeping vistas and sense of the sublime.
Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895
This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture. With an unprecedented and comprehensive 60,000-word introduction that places the speeches, letters, poetry and images printed here into context, the sources provide extraordinary insight into the myriad performative techniques Douglass used to win support for the causes of emancipation and human rights. Editors examine how Douglass employed various media - letters, speeches, interviews and his autobiographies - to convince the transatlantic public not only that his works were worth reading and his voice worth hearing, but also that the fight against racism would continue after his death.
Dead Woman’s City
Leyenda: Este libro se realiz籀 con el apoyo del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes a trav矇s del programa J籀venes Creadores 2016- 2017.Cuarta de forros: "Dead Woman's City", de Esther M. Garc穩a, est獺 vinculado con la tradici籀n "dantesca", pues toma el nombre de la Beatriz de la Divina Comedia, as穩 como la idea de los nueve c穩rculos del infierno. Retomando la idea de los c穩rculos, y las pol穩ticas del cuerpo femenino como espacio, los poemas conceptualizan zonas arquitect籀nicas, y geom矇tricas, donde han sido encontrados los cuerpos sin vida: lotes bald穩os, naves industriales abandonadas. Los versos se construyen a partir de recursos ling羹穩sticos del spanglish, propio de las ciudades fronterizas.
Tabanka (paperback)
In "Tutulbay", Maya was looking for the man of her dreams. Turning thirty isn't exactly the best time to realize that all the princes you've kissed are only frogs. She embarks on a journey wrath with problems as she tries to escape the pain of her ex, Dax, amid a sea of suitors whom are all bad fits. She finds Lucky, a dashing, if not wholly desirable distraction. He is everything on her list and much more. Except...he turns out to be a lot more TROUBLE than she had even bargained for. In this 2021 follow-up to last year's darkest erotic novel, Richards offers further insight into Maya's world, as she recovers from the damage of these stilted love affairs. Maya is tested again in "Tabanka". This Trinidadian novel moves its setting to New York, where we find out just how enraptured love and lust can be. Be careful, Reader. This story will keep you captive up to the very...last...page.
Walt Whitman's Backward Glances
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Love Has Two Moons And Other Stories
Love Has Two Moons is a novella followed by Other Stories, the first collection by Franklin Mohan.The central theme of the four stories in this collection is about racial attitudes affecting peoples of Caribbean origin in settings in Canada and the West Indies. The common thread among them: prejudice is fed by ignorance of the humanity of other races, and when the characters become intimately familiar with one another, they realize that differences among tribes are but superficial and can pave the way for mutual respect and acceptance. Although fictional, the stories draw upon the author's observance of events witnessed when he lived, studied and worked in various localities in Canada and the USA, and in the Caribbean islands of Jamaica, Barbados, and in Trinidad where he spent his childhood and early teenage years. The author uses humour to illustrate subtleties in racial differences and similarities with instances that engender emotional responses from the reader. NOVELLA: Love Has Two Moons It's been ten years since his wife passed away, and now Ram, tells his son Charlie that his first love on the island of Trinidad was not Charlie's mother! To add to Charlie's consternation, he finds out that his father has now made contact with the woman, Jing, and even though it's decades later, they are planning to meet again in Miami. The perplexed Charlie insists on hearing the full story of his father's first love. How Charlie reacts on hearing the story and how the planned reunion between Ram and Jing turns out, proves to be a captivating story for all ages.SHORT STORY: Bonobo The BeaterEarning an education in the islands was never easy in colonial times when the entire system was predicated on a method of Do as I say. Teachers, like Bonobo The Beater were specialists in the art of physical intervention on students to ensure they saw the error of their ways. On one particular day, Charlie Bhat and his erstwhile pal, Goady, will find out what it's like when they come under Bonobo's scrutiny for a minor transgression. The effects of this encounter will be long-lasting.SHORT STORY: Oh God, I'm BlackByron McQueen, an avowed racist in a small island in the Caribbean where Whites dominate the economy and are still at the top in the hierarchy, has to come to terms with his prejudices when he is subjected to a forced chemical change. How he responds during this time and how others react to him, will leave the reader either jumping for joy or apoplectic. SHORT STORY: The VisitA couple-he of East Indian background from Trinidad-nervously await the arrival of the wife's father, a farmer from rural Saskatchewan, whose perceptions of coloured people comes mainly from National Geographic documentaries, and who was violently opposed to the marriage in the first place. This is the father's first visit to celebrate the birthday of the mixed couple's daughter whom he has never seen. How it has played out over the past eleven years of their marriage and how it ends on The Visit forms the basis for this enchanting tale of racism and cultural divide.
Washed in the Water
President's Award for Best Published Book, 2014, Awarded by the Ozarks Writers LeagueWashed in the Water: Tales from the South offers vignettes of folks living the best they know how as they reach out for redemption. Set between 1950 and 1980, each tale stares at an individual as unique as the humid landscape of the South. Hard lives, daily survival, and lessons about getting on with the business of living reverberate among the characters.". . . compelling, wide-ranging stories. Hartney brings to mind both Caldwell and Allison, but her voice at last is her own. 'Last Love' is both gritty and warm, and 'The Fig Trees' is deftly nuanced." Robert Cochran, Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, University of Arkansas"This brief collection of stories deals with such diverse experiences as a river baptism and coon hunting while it embraces emotions of love, jealousy, and altruism. The seven southern tales contain some real gems." Pat Carr, author of One Page at a Time and The Radiance of Fossils"No better voice of the south can be found than Nancy Hartney, with her touching stories of life looked at in a most extraordinary way. Hartney writes about people we can love or despise, but most of all sympathize with and enjoy." WILLA Award-winning author Velda Brotherton
Our Color Our Kind
Deeply affected by the African Diaspora and Pan African Dispersal, this Vietnam Veteran yearns for the day when we begin to look honestly at the development of skills that will increase positive interactions among peoples of all colors. To do less, devalues the spirit of the Earth and its inhabitants. This notion drove him to study Psychology as a baccalaureate (California State University, Northridge, 1970). He spent the years after Viet Nam, 1968 to 2002 working in non-profit organizations. More than twenty-five years of that service was applied in various management capacities. In recent years Wallace has headed up his own consulting company, Wallace & Associates, and has recently received an MBA from the University of Phoenix. Our Color, Our Kind: A Male Bedside Reader, is a reflection of those years and experiences. More deeply, it is a compilation of the spirit of humankind as told in story form, and to satisfy the tad of voyeurism we all maintain inside.
What's On Your Mind? Fort Love Poetry Collection... Volume 1
A distant sun
These are my molecules. Dreams. They've scored a trough the breadth of mind; Nile of white matter, Ganges of grey. Motes arise. Bulbs of inner levity. They pulse. Burst. Quake by their own right. In the morning I stand inert by the pane, see the white and the dim and the going slant. I haven't been sound for some time. I've been portioned. Timber sheared, gone to other places. Countless hours (these persistent infinities) won't touch my viscera or the hum of me, and the minutes pull apart; ash drifting into the air. Ash, the wake of ash, of heat...How do we transform? Emit? Unfold? A mortal heart. A spacetime condition. These moments become every answer.
Carrying a Torch
Christopher Lukas arranges his wonderful short stories into three sections: "Lust and Love," "Love and Loss," and "At Close of Day." Although the stories are not linked by character or by action leading a progress, the sections suggest such a progression for human experience. We lust for what we wish to have, and, in the process discover love. And, having found love, we find also loss. The separation from love, both tragic and heroic, prepares us for our own "close of day." Lukas shows us through his fiction how we make the journey in human, sensitive, personal terms. There is much that is beautiful about these stories, and warmly comforting. Where, "as things are now, this is definitely the place for me to be" ("Angels of Mercy").
Musepaper
MUSEPAPER, VOLUME I Prize-Winning Poems, Stories, and Essays of 1,000 words or less.5 Prize-Winning Poems 7 Prize-Winning Stories 12 Prize-Winning Essays -- This collection is brilliant, funny, and deep, each work a beautiful little masterpiece. -- Laura Maynard Apples Jonathan Segol Taking Our Time M.K. Sturdevant Ice Lessons Michele Flynn From the Garden Laura Rose Folie ? Deux Molly Seale Perfection Adrienne Garrison The One That Got Away Jude Brewer Jordan & Karyn Annie Dawid Icarus Joanna Koch President Marilyn Monroe Devours Her Young Brian Feehan Treats G.L. Connors The Wolf In Me Kirk McDavitt Tastes Jeanne Wilkinson A Tale of Two Concerts Sally Lipton Derringer Whatever Gets You Through the Night Cezanne Alexander Advent Calendar Constance Campana Little House Susan Maeder SALT: A Homecoming Natalie Mucker Ensō Hana Rowan-Seddon Expat Keith Mark Gaboury Beginnings Terri Trespicio The Cripple Makes a Wish Nina Gaby The Sum of its Parts Kathryn Gahl FortyNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS FOR WRITERS MUSEPAPER explores the possibilities of monthly writing practices, the gift of deadlines, and the novelty unleashed when we dare to write outside our comfort zones, push the envelope, and follow our Muse. The secret behind watershed moments of creative genius is the exponential growth and discovery catalyzed by small, continuous improvement. The Japanese call it kaizen.Musepaper is kaizen writing: a small, monthly writing practice of 1,000 words or less, compelled by deadline, motivated with awards and publication, set in motion by ever-changing writing prompts, and inspired by one's Muse. Designed to support new, emerging, and established writers alike, who are ready to enrich their voice, refine their style, and follow their Muse (wherever it may go).There are many valuable tools for a writer's toolbox, but kaizen writing is the keystone, upon which all other tools, books, classes, and workshops actually depend.MUSEPAPER, VOLUME 1 is a collection of some of the best literary discoveries thus far, featuring the works of five Musepaper Poem Prizes, seven Musepaper Story Prizes, and twelve Musepaper Essay Prizes. This collection is brilliant, funny, and deep, each work a beautiful little masterpiece.Each Copy of Musepaper Sold = One (1) tree planted in the Amazon Rainforest* MUSEPAPER is an imprint of New Millennium Writings, home to the award-winning literary journal of the same name and creator of Sunshot Press & Book Awards. *
The New Negro
The New Negro (1925) is an anthology by Alain Locke. Expanded from a March issue of Survey Graphic magazine, The New Negro compiles writing from such figures as Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, and Locke himself. Recognized as a foundational text of the Harlem Renaissance, the collection is organized around Locke's writing on the function of art in reorganizing the conception of African American life and culture. Through self-understanding, creation, and independence, Locke's New Negro came to represent a break from an inhumane past, a means toward meaningful change for a people held down for far too long. "[F]or generations in the mind of America, the Negro has been more of a formula than a human being-a something to be argued about, condemned or defended, to be 'kept down, ' or 'in his place, ' or 'helped up, ' to be worried with or worried over, harassed or patronized, a social bogey or a social burden." Identifying the representation of black Americans in the national imaginary as oppressive in nature, Locke suggests a way forward through his theory of the New Negro, who "wishes to be known for what he is, even in his faults and shortcomings, and scorns a craven and precarious survival at the price of seeming to be what he is not." Throughout The New Negro, leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance offer their unique visions of who and what they are; voicing their concerns, portraying injustice, and illuminating the black experience, they provide a holistic vision of self-expression in all of its colors and forms. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alain Locke's The New Negro is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Grim Honey
The hardest sweet is sharp to the tongue, painful, cutting, and often divine. The poems in Jessica Barksdale's collection Grim Honey follow thin paths of grief, up through steep switchbacks and down the rocky declines into the meadows, where for a moment, we can pause and remember before moving on. The speakers in these poems open to their sorrows and passions and then push forward into stories that-while understood-are still evolving. Barksdale moves through issues of family, love, and death, delving into what is beautiful as completely as what is not to show the fullness of life.
Narratives
Narratives is the first book of the upcoming 'Ma'riine' novel series which dives into the history of racism and slavery. The author covers many types of narratives that are built from age-old stereotypes and auto-judgments or mischaracterizations of people of color specifically in America. Narratives shows an in-depth review of how false information can leave undesirable results.
Canadian Wonder Tales
Canadian Wonder Tales is a collection of classic Canadian folklore stories by Cyrus MacMillan. The tales in this collection have been gathered in various parts of Canada. They have been selected from a larger collection of folk-tales and folk-songs made by the writer for more academic and scientific purposes. They are not the product of the writer's imagination; they are the common possession of the folk. Many of them are still reverently believed by the Canadian Indians, and all are still told with seriousness around camp fires in forests and on plains, upon the sea and by cottage hearths.This is the book of a soldier-student. Captain Macmillan interrupted his teaching work in Montreal to go overseas with one of our McGill Batteries, and from Somewhere in France he has asked me to stand sponsor for his volume.The author's method resembles that followed by the brothers Grimm a century ago. He has taken down from the lips of living people, pretty much as they were given to him, a series of stories which obviously contain many elements that have been handed down by oral tradition from some far-off past. They are mostly animal stories, with all the usual features of magic and transformation, articulate speech on the part of the animals, and interchange of more or less kindly offices between man and beast.The result is a collection of fables which--especially as illustrated by an eminent artist--will prove a very acceptable Christmas book for children, and will give their elders also some food for reflection. Not that there is, so far as I have been able to discover, any moral about some at least of the tales. They are not stories with a purpose. But they suggest to the adult reader the essential identity of many of the methods by which in a more or less remote antiquity the human race expressed itself in various parts of the world.
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
In this collection of thirty-four essays and short stories, Washington Irving explores the personality of his pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, while providing a study on human behavior. Rip Van Winkle introduces the famed literacy title character, an unmotivated, care-free man who drinks and parties with strangers in the mountains, falls asleep, and wakes up twenty years later in post-revolution America. Also among this collection are tales of sentiment, such as The Broken Heart, which follows a young woman who grieves the death of her lover. Often described as a tear-jerking narrative, The Widow and Her Son depicts an old Englishwoman as she cares for her dying son after his return from his military service at sea. Switching moods, A Sunday in London provides a vivid portrait of a day in London, focusing on the ways the Church influenced the day's events. In a similar observant lens, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon includes a five-part narrative on Christmas celebrations, starting with a refection on the holiday and concluding with a description of Christmas dinner. Finally, the collection ends with the famous and beloved tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horsemen in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Featuring ghost stories, anthropological essays, and emotional narratives, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon includes the best works of Washington Irving. Originally published as a serial publication starting 1819, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon was released in seven highly anticipated installments. With sentiment, elegance, and beautiful prose that excites the imagination, Irving sought to eliminate the animosity between English and American literature with this collection of work. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon impressed both Americans and the British, capturing the attention of many other influential writers such as Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron. With classic stories, characters, and a privileged look into historical events and traditions, Washington Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon continues to excite and satiate readers, even two-hundred years later. Sinceour inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation atthe forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all whilemaintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands oftitles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works tohelp them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literaryworks, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers aroundthe globe. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
Calumet Theatre Plays
Black and White version of Calumet Theatre Plays. It's 1900. On the tiny Keweenaw Peninsula jutting into Lake Superior there is a vibrant copper mining town with a rich social and cultural life. The owners of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company live far away in Boston, Massachusetts. But they have imported miners from Cornwall, England, farmers from Finland, and immigrants from many other European countries to work deep underground in hot, dangerous copper mines in the secluded Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In 1900 Red Jacket, soon to be called Calumet, is not a frontier town of rough bachelors. The Bostonian mine owners have brought workers' wives and children, built churches and social halls for each national group, constructed a handsome library containing bath house and swimming pool. They've built schools, a hospital, low rent houses for miners' families. Calumet has Culture! The town has handsome buildings. The architecture would fit into Beacon Hill or Back Bay! It has a large park, stores, restaurants, social clubs, taverns, cultural societies, sports teams. How is it possible for such a rich cultural and social center to have blossomed in a forest on the way to nowhere? It's on the railroad. In the age of railroads. (Bostonians also have shares in railroads.) Calumet's copper mines are making people rich. Those behind it all are not only from Boston itself. Some are from across the river from Boston - Cambridge. Harvard University. Alexander Agassiz, manager of the Calumet and Hecla mine is the son of Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born naturalist, friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Longfellow, founder of Harvard's Museum of Natural History. Alexander Agassiz is a marine biologist and oceanographer, who gives vast sums of his own money to Harvard to enlarge the zoological museum his father founded. He also uses his income from managing Calumet and Hecla Mining Company to go on research voyages to the Caribbean and South Pacific. The Harvard/Boston inventors of Calumet were highly educated humanitarians with a feeling of noblesse oblige. Yes, as some have complained they got rich off the hard, dangerous work of the miners and their attitude toward them was "paternalistic." But it's a fact, the miners in Calumet probably lived richer lives than miners anywhere else in the world, before or since. In 1900 Calumet's town government has just completed a gorgeous new theater. The famous Shakespearean actress "MADAME" HELENA MODJESKA will appear as Lady Macbeth. Everyone is thrilled. In coming years all the famous stars of the era will travel to Calumet Theatre: John Philip Sousa's band, Lillian Russell, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Lon Chaney, Sr., Jason Robards, Sr., James O'Neill, William S. Hart, Wallace and Noah Beery. In 1911 SARAH BERNHARDT will come to Calumet Theatre. She travels not just in a private train car as Madame Modjeska's troupe did, she hires a whole train! "The Divine Sarah" tours the world with her players from the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt in Paris. In Calumet they will perform the most popular play of the era "Camille" -- in French! She always performed in French. You could buy a program with the translation. All the above is history. Besides Madame Modjeska and Sarah Bernhardt the characters in these plays are, of course, invented. Between these two short plays is an "optional interim act" that takes place at the local FINN HALL, the social hall for immigrants from Finland. It calls for Finnish folk music and dancing. Even if you know nothing about Finland or folk dancing this optional act is worth putting on. It carries on the story from "Calumet 1900." The music will make you happy! Your actors and audience will have FUN! (Remember fun?)
The Nature of Self
From the standpoint of natural science, the concept of Self as primordial to subjectivity offers a biological model for what constitutes humanity on Earth as Beings of nature or of historical culture thereto. Yet, the reality of Self is both psychic and somatic-either consciously objective or unconscious to its own objective necessities or contingent desires. Existence as a concrete fact or abstraction to the understanding, leads one to the observation that Being is something that may not exclusively be categorized one way or the other. In the Nature of Self, Jeffrey B. Holl examines what is changeable to the causality of our natures from phenomenal, empirical, phenomenological and existential horizons-exploring human experience from landscapes of what is identified as the field of actuality-constituted by teleological and historical cultural objects. In this way we are identifiable as a Self-more adept at becoming of our own natures-or liberally constrained within our identifications as signifiers of historical or emergent cultural development. The latitudes and longitudes where we realize the synthesis of life's purposes, are constituted both naturally and transcendentally, thus-positing a concretion of the Self as one of transcendental nature. The discourse of this age must either become a reality to enlightenment, or a deification of our existences that will become inexorably determinative of the controlled effects that are environmentally destructive to both society and nature. Herein, an argument is made for the authenticity of the nature-self-a determinative Self as subject, in reification of the naturalization of the ego-toward an articulation of a necessary ethical universality of genus, as a transmutable existent to the critical understanding of a self-conscious Being of Self. As a glimpse into the world of Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Marx, Husserl and Sartre, this piece is restorative to the philosophical project of what is expressive to the dimensions underscoring a purposive meaning for the twenty-first century and beyond-where the horizons of transcendental nature echo upon the landscapes of humanity's raison-d'礙tre.
The Eye You See with
The definitive collection of nonfiction--from war reporting to literary criticism to the sharpest political writing--from the "legend of American letters" (Vanity Fair) Robert Stone was a singular American writer, a visionary whose award-winning novels--including Dog Soldiers, Outerbridge Reach, and Damascus Gate--earned him comparisons to literary lions ranging from Samuel Beckett to Ernest Hemingway to Graham Greene. Stone had an almost prophetic grasp of the spirit of his age, which he captured with crystalline clarity in each of his novels. Of course, he was also a sharp and brilliant observer of American life, and his nonfiction writing is revelatory. The Eye You See With--the first and only collection of Robert Stone's nonfiction--was carefully selected by award-winning novelist and Stone biographer Madison Smartt Bell. Divided into three sections, the collection includes the best of Stone's war reporting, his writing on social change, and his reflections on the art of fiction. This is an extraordinary volume that offers up a clear-eyed look at the twentieth century and secures Robert Stone's place as one of the most original figures in all of American letters.
The Gulf South
The first collection of environmental writing about the Gulf South region, this volume features a diverse array of voices from the past 100 years. The work of these writers and artists enriches how we understand and represent the relationship between people and the rapidly changing ecology of the Gulf.Reaching from Texas to Florida, this anthology presents pieces from a variety of genres, from journalism to poetry to memoir to a graphic nonfiction book. It comprises renowned authors such as Natasha Trethewey, Jesmyn Ward, and E. O. Wilson alongside lesser-known writers and emerging writers. The subjects include natural and human-made disasters, the impact of industry, influential historical events, personal encounters with the environment, and a deep love for the land and water by the people who live there.Reflecting a range of different landscapes and their inhabitants, and emphasizing the human voice and condition throughout, The Gulf South brings to light a region whose influence on American commerce and culture reaches far beyond its geographical boundaries. This volume encourages readers to consider how we choose to characterize the environment and its degradation through language, and how these accounts affect our thinking and planning for the future. Contributors: E. L. Corthell Catherine Cole Lafcadio Hearn John Muir Jovita Gonz獺lez Zora Neale Hurston William Faulkner Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjory Stoneman Douglas Theodore Rosengarten Eastern Creek Indians Joy Harjo John McPhee Eddy Harris Robert Bullard John Barry Susan Orlean Roger Emile Stouff Mike Tidwell Steve Lerner Diane Wilson Michael Grunwald Cynthia Barnett Oliver Houck Bob Marshall Josh Neufeld Natasha Trethewey Jesmyn Ward David Gessner Moira Crone Kate Galbraith and Asher Price Peggy Frankland Richard Mizelle Bob Marshall Antonia Juhasz Arlie Hochschild Neena Satija Edward Wilson Justin Nobel Jack Davis
