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Flying Carpets, Hedy Habra
Flying Carpets, Hedy Habra
Hedy Habra
Surveying what appears as familiar ground, Hedy Habra's Flying Carpets plunge deep into the bygone and the irrecoverable. Steeped in childhood memories of Egypt and Lebanon, and intensified in the act of fictional recollection, Habra's stories are at once joyous and tragic, witty and profound. In Habra we have a Shehrazad of our times, not one trying to save her life, but one intent to bring enchantment, gravitas, and sensitivity to ours. This is a book full of marvels, beautifully written. --Khaled Mattawa, author of Amorisco and Tocqueville
Hedy Habra's Flying Carpets is a collection of enchantments and wonders charmingly …
The Apocalyptic Adventures Of Private Winfred Scott Biegle, Clifford Davidson
The Apocalyptic Adventures Of Private Winfred Scott Biegle, Clifford Davidson
Clifford Davidson
A modernist novel, describing a dystopian military in the imaginary dictatorship of Atlantis, written more than a half century ago when the author was a conscript in the army during the Cold War. As editor of the post newspaper at the Granite City Engineer Depot, Clifford Davidson was in a privileged position for observing the military mentality of the time, in particular the propensity for bullying intended to turn men into mindless killing machines. From other soldiers he was also able to hear disturbing stories at first hand about World War II and the very recent Korean War, only concluded …
Violence And Beauty: Jacques Lacan's 'Antigone', Andrew Slade
Violence And Beauty: Jacques Lacan's 'Antigone', Andrew Slade
Andrew R. Slade
If Jean-Luc Nancy was able to write in "The Sublime Offering," in 1993, that the sublime was fashionable (25), then academic and theoretical tastes have changed, and beauty has come back in style. Throughout the late 1990s, cultural critics and theorists undertook a return to beauty against the fashion for the sublime that returned in twentieth-century theory and philosophy of art in works by Jean-François Lyotard and Theodor Adorno, among others. The interest in the sublime has been grounded in violent historical experience. Not that violence was new, or that the kinds of violence that the twentieth century bequeathed us …
Screenplay: Mark Of The Apprentice, Meredith Doench, Nancy Zafris
Screenplay: Mark Of The Apprentice, Meredith Doench, Nancy Zafris
Meredith Doench
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Father's Philosophy : Poems, Patrick Randolph
Father's Philosophy : Poems, Patrick Randolph
Patrick T. Randolph
In this collection of poems, Patrick T. Randolph achieves something all too few writers are able accomplish: He conveys honest joy, and he does so deeply, convincingly, and sustainedly. The book is a true pleasure to read. Lester Smith, president, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets has said: "If I could bequeath one book of poetry to my grandchildren and great grandchildren, it would be Father "s Philosophy by Patrick T. Randolph. Randolph's poems are written with such love and sunshine that more than one generation should have the pleasure and privilege of reading them. ” Joanne Flemming, editor of Irish Stew.
Empty Shoes: Poems On The Hungry And The Homeless, Patrick Randolph
Empty Shoes: Poems On The Hungry And The Homeless, Patrick Randolph
Patrick T. Randolph
151 poems about hunger and homelessness, from 80 poets, many with direct experience, such as: Dori Appel, a Red Cross disaster volunteer; Mary L. Downs, a volunteer at LEAVEN; Barbara Flaherty, former treatment center supervisor; Nancy Gauquier, formerly homeless in NY; Randall Horton, a Ph.D. candidate who advocates for the homeless and prison reform, having been homeless and in prison; Michele Leavitt, a teenage runaway in the 1970s, who later worked as a public defender; John J. Quirk, a member of Chicago's Homeless Action Committee; Nancy Scott, a social worker who helps find housing; and Julian I. Taber, who treated …
Creative Work, Annadora Khan
Harley "Hog" Hill, Pamela Herron
Writing In Two Tongues, Wang Ping
North Of Kowloon, Pamela Herron
42 Days, Pamela Herron
42 Days, Pamela Herron
Pamela Herron
Flash fiction "42 Days" by Pamela Herron was shortlisted for the 2015 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award and published in their Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual 2015.
Local Memory And Karma (The Buddha Correspondence, Vol. 2), Frank Pommersheim
Local Memory And Karma (The Buddha Correspondence, Vol. 2), Frank Pommersheim
Frank Pommersheim
'Objectless Love': The Vagabondage Of Colette And Katherine Mansfield, Deborah Pike
'Objectless Love': The Vagabondage Of Colette And Katherine Mansfield, Deborah Pike
Deborah Pike