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Explores how people of faith and goodwill might mark the midwinter season and the Christmas festival with integrity and simplicity.
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Islandia is a masterful, mixed-genre (prose-poetry and verse) literary work, alternating passages that tell of an island race of exiled, conquering, Nordic heroes, who have landed on and settled an island (presumably Iceland) and remained there for generations, self-enthralled by their own identities as sung in their own Sagas; and the sophisticated and complexly ironical, lyrical verses of the author's own persona, herself isolated, self-reflective, and exiled -- in present-day New York City. Themes from the two aspects of the work seem to approach each other without ever quite touching, across a chasm of mutually re-enforcing but sharply distinct senses of absence. The work is brilliantly translated from the Spanish by Anne Twitty and is presented here in a bi-lingual edition....an extraordinary cycle of poems written in two very different and contrasting forms-the Nordic, masculine, epic style of the prose poems, and the Mediterranean, feminine, mannered, lyric style, of the others. Anne Twitty's translation of this masterful cycle has itself been carried out with great mastery.-Esther Allen
Adapted from the Charpentier "Te Deum in D Major" with an original school-friendly text, this is an accessible and positive way to ease your students into singing timeless choral music. An optional trumpet adds to the classic character. Majestic!
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR POETRY The Tradition by Jericho Brown, is a cutting and necessary collection, relentless in its quest for survival while revelling in a celebration of contradiction. A Poetry Book Society Choice 'To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating genius.' Claudia Rankine Jericho Brown’s daring poetry collection The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation? Where does freedom truly lie? Poems of fatherhood, legacy, blackness, queerness, worship, and trauma are propelled into stunning clarity by Brown’s mastery, and his invention of the duplex – a combination of the sonnet, the ghazal, and the blues – testament to his formal skill.
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A comienzos de la década de los años sesenta del siglo XX, la vida socio-política de Colombia estaba agitada, porque coincidían en el panorama el reciente acuerdo del Frente Nacional celebrado entre los dos partidos tradicionales para alternarse el poder durante 16 años continuos entre 1958 y 1974, como mecanismo de proyección gubernamental, luego de que la junta militar retornara el poder político central, al estamento civil, como corolario del gobierno militar del general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla; el inusitado crecimiento del Partido Comunista y sus guerrillas terroristas, los rezagos de la violencia entre liberales y conservadores en las zonas rurales; las ambiciones egocéntricas de ...
"This title was first published in 2003. Reading the European Commission's statement on the future of agriculture indicates the importance of multifunctionality to European Agriculture as a matter of principle. This title investigates what such a reorientation would mean in practical terms."--Provided by publisher.