| Author | : Alan Lightman |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 2010-06-15 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1439865477 |
In Alan Lightman's new book, a verse narrative, we meet a man who has lost his faith in all things following a mysterious personal tragedy. After decades of living "hung like a dried fly," emptied and haunted by his past, the narrator awakens one morning revitalized and begins a Dante-like journey to find something to believe in, first turning to t
| Author | : Yehoshua November |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780990691792 |
Finalist for the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry Yehoshua November's second poetry collection, ''Two Worlds Exist,'' movingly examines the harmonies and dissonances involved in practicing an ancient religious tradition in contemporary America. November's beautiful and profound meditations on work and family life, and the intersections of the sacred and the secular, invite the reader--regardless of background--to imaginatively inhabit a life of religious devotion in the midst of our society's commotion.
| Author | : Frederick Morgan |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : American poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780252006043 |
| Author | : Diane Glancy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
The book transcends the dead end topic of 'race'--an issue that necessarily invites conflict--and concentrates instead upon culture, in all its nebulous, universal and unmistakable influence.--Pacific Reader
| Author | : David Ward |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2015-12-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317304594 |
The basis of this critical examination of Eliot’s work, first published in 1973, is the investigation of his transmutation of this and other philosophical, mythological and religious motives into the textures of his verse. This book focuses on Eliot’s peculiar eclectic approach to what he described as ‘the Tradition’. It also recognises the fact that Eliot, for all his attempts at universality, was a product of time and place, and gives an account of the way in which his education and experience shaped his most important interests. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
| Author | : Robert Bly |
| Publisher | : Harper Perennial |
| Total Pages | : 106 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Pat Mora |
| Publisher | : Arte Publico Press |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2000-01-01 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781558856769 |
More than sixty poems, some with Spanish translations, include such titles as "The Young Sor Juana", "Graduation Morning", "Border Town 1938", "Legal Alien", "Abuelita Magic", and "In the Blood".
| Author | : Isabelle Eberhardt |
| Publisher | : Peter Owen Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 147 |
| Release | : 2014-06-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0720616697 |
An extraordinary evocation of the desert and its people by a woman who dressed as a man in order to travel alone and unimpeded throughout North Africa In 1897 Isabelle Eberhardt, at the age of 20, left an already unconventional life in Geneva for the Morroccan frontier. Gripped by spiritual restlessness and the desire to break free from the confinements of her society she traveled into the desert, and into the heart of Islam. Her experiences inspired a profound self-examination, and a book that today is regarded as one of the true classics of travel writing. In the current political climate, it is also a book uncannily current in its treatment of the culture of Islam in North Africa. One of the most astonishing travel documents of all time, this book is also a feminist classic in its own right.
| Author | : Derek Walcott |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 94 |
| Release | : 2014-09-09 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1466880341 |
Derek Walcott was one of the most accomplished and resourceful poets who wrote in English, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. The volume of his work in The Fortunate Traveller, which contains such poems as "Olde New England" and "Piano Practice," cements his reputation as a poet who "handles English with a closer understanding of its inner magic than most, if not any, of his contemporaries" - Robert Graves
