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Poetry. Art. Drawings by Cheryl De Ciantis. WHATEVER NAKEDNESS ALLOWS is a small collection of 228 erotic haiku by Bill Wolak, with 16 complementary erotic drawings by Cheryl De Ciantis. "Bill Wolak has given us a cornucopia of sexual delights, some sweet, others mouth-watering, and many more that titillate our veiled fantasies. His haiku are flashes of sexual arousal distilled to metaphor. Cheryl De Ciantis creates a balance of the evocative and the provocative. Her line drawings transmit the intensity of sexual pleasure providing a complementary counterweight to the poems."—John Digby
Poetry. With artwork by Tushar Shinde. "In these poems the heart pours out longing as a mingling of dream and arousal. The erotic potency of Wolak's love poems evokes a condition that is most profoundly human." Joan Digby"
John DigbyÕs fourteen tales in Me and Mr Jiggs are riveting, risquZ, and hilarious. The setting is the bombed-out London that Digby had known as a child growing up in the aftermath of World War II. These tales are told in Cockney rhyming slang, which gives the writing a unique verve, freshness, and charm. Mr. Jiggs, the silent friend of the narrator, paradoxically prompts the telling of scandalous anecdotes about people passing by. Despite the unique place and time, the experiences are timeless expressions of human nature. DigbyÕs stories are seductive; they lure you into an enticing world where at every turn the marvelous is revealed through seemingly ordinary lives.
Can't sleep? Climbing hills in the dark? Exposing yourself to the moon? This issue of Peculiar Mormyrid is for all the insomniacs, lunatics, and noctambulants out there roaming the streets. Submitting anonymously, surrealists from around the world dive deep into the collective darkness to share their Night-thoughts; what keeps them awake; the blacker side of their lives; what they meet and hear and see, or think they see, when they step out under the stars. The night life of surrealists... Sharing secrets. Nocturnal games, creatures, confessions and visions, including a very special lunar ceremony, are among the many different late-night encounters to be met within.
The poems in this book are published in the poet's native language and American English. The collection's theme is wind: The wind is one of the classic four elements, meaning comprehensive movement. It gives us the feeling of space and shows us life's core. For poets, the wind doesn't just mean an element but opens spaces for metaphorical excursions, like in one line of the lovely song "Wind of Change" by The Scorpions when they sing: "The wind of change blows straight into the face of time." This collection features 60 poets from 22 countries and four continents, giving us the idea of the songs from the wind.
Shakespeare in Tehran is a personal history of Iran through the eyes of an award-winning Iranian American artist. Drawing on parallels between life and the stage, it uses A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a roadmap to explore social, political, economic, and cultural aspects of Iran before and after the revolution of 1979. Through first-person accounts, interspersed with emotional reflections of the universal human experience, it delves into the historical and sociological context of a divided country. Storytelling, flashbacks, and flashforwards paint an intimate picture of public life in Iran in a time of uncertainty. Accessible, engaging, and nuanced, this volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of politics, history, theater and performance studies, and West Asian studies.
With case table.
"A collection of lyric poetry"--
The result of collaborative research from noteworthy dramatists and scholars, this volume investigates the dynamic relationship between culture, performance and theatre in Iran. The studies gathered here examine how various forms of performances, especially theatre, have and continue to undergo change in response to shifting political and social settings from the antiquity to the present day. The analysis in this book focuses on performance practices, examining drama, texts, rituals, plays, music, cinema and drama technologies. This is done in order to show how Iran has been imagined through enactments and representations, and reproduced through these performative actions. The book uses a wider definition of the concept of 'performance', offering analysis of a wide range of phenomena, including indigenous rituals – such as the naqqali and taziyeh – and online performances by diaspora communities.