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Kashmiri Marsiya (Elegy) Manuscripts: The Valuable Sources For The Dissemination, Reconstruction And Safeguarding The History And Culture-Ii, Tawfeeq Nazir

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Manuscripts are the links to the historical facts that will otherwise remain unknown to the world. They contain authentic information and facts about the social, political and cultural aspects of a nation. Therefore their intellectual value cannot be over emphasized. Many countries and nations are joining hands towards preserving such cultural assets by way of taking conservation and preservation measures including digitization and documentation.

Marsiya or Elegy has gained more importance after the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain (a.s) and his companions and household in Karbala. Marsiya has been since written and recited in order to mourning the tragic events of …

Reincarnation, Goodbye: 1992, Constance Urdang

Ontario Review

Constance Urdang is the author of a number of books, including Alternative Lives, poems (Pittsburgh), and The Woman Who Reads Novels and Peacetime, novellas (Coffee House Press). She lives in St. Louis.

Making Money, The Ugly Step Sister, Denise Duhamel

Ontario Review

Denise Duhamel of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, has poems in current issues of The Harvard Review and Westbranch, and her work will be represented in Best American Poetry 1993.

Bible Studies, By Huron, John R. Reed

Ontario Review

John R. Reed has published two books of poetry, as well as several scholarly books. His poems and short stories have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry, Paris Review, and many other journals. A contributing editor to OR, he is a Distinguished Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Outing, Such A State, Eamon Grennan

Ontario Review

Eamon Grennan's most recent book of poems, As If It Matters, appeared from Greywolf in 1992. A former OR contributor, he teaches at Vassar College.

Pace, Stones And Soil, Walking To An Eight O'Clock Class, Gray Jacobik

Ontario Review

Gray Jacobik has new poems in the Connecticut Review, Louisiana Literature, and Wisconsin Review. A recipient this year of an NEA Fellowship, she teaches at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Among The Stars, Eidolons, The Meeting, The Shopper, William Heyen

Ontario Review

William Heyen, a frequent OR contributor, published Ribbons: The Gulf War last year. The Host: Selected Poems 1965-1990 will appear next spring from Time Being Books. He teaches at SUNY Brockport.

From Oh How Can I Keep On Singing?, Jana Harris

Ontario Review

Jana Harris has published several books of poetry, including The Sourlands (OR Press, 1989), and a novel Alaska (1980). OR Press will be bringing out Oh How Can I Keep on Singing? in November. Raised in the Pacific Northwest, she lives with her husband in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains where they raise horses.

Last Request, Greg Johnson

Ontario Review

Greg Johnson's most recent books are Pagan Babies, a. novel (Dutton, 1993), and Aid and Comfort, poems (Univ. Press of Florida, 1993). He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Cornelia Street: 6 A.M., Railroad Bridge, Far From Home, Bees, Nicholas Chistropher

Ontario Review

Nicholas Christopher has published four books of poems, most recendy In the Year of the Comet (Viking Penguin, 1992). Viking will bring out his fifth book, 5° and Other Poems in 1994. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry for 1993-94, he lives in New York City.

Folk Song: On The Road Again, Swept, Hayden Carruth

Ontario Review

Hayden Carruth has published 28 books, chiefly poetry but including also a novel, four books of criticism, and two anthologies. His most recent books are Suicides and Jazzers (1992) and The Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-91 (1992), the latter winning this year's National Book Critics Circle Award.

Mark Rothko: Three Paintings, Woodland Spring, Alicia Ostriker

Ontario Review

Alicia Ostriker is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Green Age (Pittsburgh, 1989). Her Feminist Revision and the Bible was published earlier this year in the Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory series by Blackwell. A contributing editor to OR, she teaches at Rutgers University.

Homage To N. (After Chekhov), Daniel Halpern

Ontario Review

Daniel Halpern is the author of seven collections, most recently Foreign Neon (Knopf, 1991) and Tango (Viking Penguin, 1987). He has edited numerous volumes, including The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories. Knopf will release his Selected Poems in April 1994. Publisher of the Ecco Press and Antaeus, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

The Muse And The Poet, The Naturalist At Large On The Delaware River, An Acquaintance In The Heavens, I Think Continually Of Those Who Went Truly Ape, Free Fall, Annie Dillard

Ontario Review

Annie Dillard's most recent book is her novel The Living (HarperCollins, 1992). Her poetry has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper's, Poetry, and many other journals. She lives in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

Wild Life, Jordan Abel

The Goose

Poetry by Jordan Abel. This poem is composed from 91 public domain Western novels that are freely available on Project Gutenberg. In total, the source text is over 10,000 pages long and is authored by 20 different writers. When all of the novels were searched simultaneously, there were 41 instances of the phrase "wild life." The resulting poem provides a contextual space where the language of a single word or phrase can be read.

The Math Of Achilles, Geoffrey A. Landis

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

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Contributors, Westview Staff

Westview

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The Smooth Path, Audrey Lentz

Westview

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Tail, Robert Rothman

Westview

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Funding, James Nicola

Westview

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Strands, Ashley Underwood

Westview

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Pŭ Tōng Huà, Tonya Ward Singer

Westview

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Two Minutes In The Spotlight: Singing At The Sunshine Theater When I Was Five Years Old, Ann Applegarth

Westview

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Kansas Sonneteer, Lora K. Reiter

Westview

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Into Paradise, David Wyatt

Westview

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He Still Dances, John Nizalowski

Westview

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The Books Of The Dead, Ben Myers

Westview

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Not Enough, Mary Soon Lee

Westview

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The Shattered Image, Lynn Hoggard

Westview

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Hard Wine, Lynn Hoggard

Westview

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