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Abortion is a cross between war and surgery, hence: WARGERY. This dystopian political satire begins in the remote New Mexico mountains and sandscapes where the atom bomb was developed and tested, forever leaving innocence behind. Journalist Gretta Marlboro launches her career chasing stories with eerie parallels to biblical history and prophecy. The bizarre figure she encounters wandering blindly in the desert morphs into a master political operative who schemes the ascent of Ransom Swain to the Presidency, while secretly plotting vengeance for personal vendettas, and massive manipulation of both broadcast news and Gretta’s professional and private life. Blithe festivities of a beauty quee...
This anthology of contemporary poetry celebrates the 200th birth anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849). The volume presents 123 poems by 92 poets, including: Sharon Chmielarz, T. S. Eliot, Charles Ades Fishman, Linda Nemec Foster, Emily Fragos, John Z. Guzlowski, Lola Haskins, Oriana Ivy, Lois P. Jones, Leonard Kress, Emma Lazarus, Marie Lecrivain, Jeffrey Levine, Amy Lowell, Rick Lupert, Mira N. Mataric, Elisabeth Murawski, Ruth Nolan, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, William Pillin, Russell Salamon, Katrin Talbot, Mark Tardi, Devi Walders, Kath Abela Wilson, and others. The book is illustrated with vintage Chopin postcards and includes one translation - of "Chopin's Piano" by Norwid. The editor, Dr. Maja Trochimczyk, is a Polish-American poet, music historian, photographer, and translator. She published four books on music, two books of poetry, and hundreds of articles and poems.
"Strange Antlers is an homage to wisdom poets Sappho to Jane Hirshfield, particularly the Classical Chinese masters, whose verse comments are woven into the text as if in real time conversation on a mapless journey of healing from infancy to death and beyond"--
A former WWII pilot, battling a grave illness, teaches his son 9 unforgettable lessons about transforming all our adversities, setbacks and losses into wealth of every kind.
Four anthropologists argue the relevance of bodily experiences and conditions for the understanding of social processes in Egypt today. Based on current ethnography that describes beliefs and practices concerning spiritual health, physical beauty, infertility, and physical health, the authors engage with the creation of identity in both urban and rural Egyptian settings. Each study attempts to transcend the limitations of health and ill-health as simple physical experiences and to make explicit the social and political significance of such conditions and processes. Throughout the studies, Egyptian citizens express their locations, cultures, identity, and beliefs through their enactment of ph...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Translated by Terry Ehret, John Johnson,and Nancy J. Morales. Bilingual Spanish Edition. Poet, essayist, and translator Ulalume Gonz�lez de Le�n believed that "Everything has already been said," and, thus, that each act of creation is a rewriting, reshuffling, and reconstructing of one great work. For this reason, she chose the title Plagios (Plagiarisms) for her book of collected poems. Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz called Ulalume Gonz�lez de Le�n "the best Mexicana poet since Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz," recognizing the visionary quality of her work. This first of three bilingual volumes presents several short collections of poems Gonz�lez de Le�n produced from 1968 to 1971, each of which explores the ephemeral nature of identity and its dependence on the ever-shifting ground of language and memory.
This book is based on a series of Pathways articles that illustrate effective instructional methods to help students gain conceptual understanding in ecology. It presents a philosophy of scientific teaching based on pedagogical principles designed to improve learning.
Egypt has changed enormously in the last half century, and nowhere more so than in the villages of the Nile Valley. Electrification, radio, and television have brought the larger world into the houses. Government schools have increased educational horizons for the children. Opportunities to work in other areas of the Arab world have been extended to peasants as well as to young artisans from the towns. Urbanization has brought many families to live in the belts of substandard housing around the major cities. But the conservative and traditional world of unremitting labor that characterizes the lives of the Egyptian peasants, or fellaheen, also survives, and nowhere has it been better describ...
The "poet-broker" Ed Rosenthal was inspired by surviving alone in the Mojave Desert for six and a half days. The lyrical result of his ordeal, "The Desert Hat," consist of 36 poems illustrated with 12 photographs of his hat and Salvation Canyon where he spent most of his time. Rosenthal's poetry does not recount his experience in detail; it is not replete with maps, photographs, and a day-by-day account of his adventures. Instead, we gain an insight into what it means to be truly lost and found, to survive the strangest of desert nights and return to the heart of the city... with a newly found wisdom and zest for life. With an introduction by Ruth Nolan and photos by Maja Trochimczyk, and Ken and Wendy Sims.