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In a small Michigan town on the eve of World War II, a young man and woman share a love that is shadowed by tragedy, yet lighted by powers beyond the real.
Birdlight: Freeing Your Authentic Creativity is a beacon for readers yearning to live lives of heart-centered, empowered creativity. It's for those seeking greater alignment with an expanding vision, and a core sense of purpose and authenticity. The book offers a unique perspective: the author released a "secure," successful, and conventional twenty-year teaching career in order to fulfill a long-held dream of writing full time. Living her dream has brought obstacles and discoveries. It's also brought gifts. Now, in addition to working as a writer, Robin is a coach in human potential and creativity, and a teacher of transformation. In this book, she shares her gifts with you! Compelling, unusual and at times deeply personal, Birdlight weaves memoir, fairy tale, poetry, drama and folk lore, along with relevant brain science; it offers practical guidance and simple, powerful exercises for the creative seeker. Seven birds grace these reflections. Each becomes the basis for a separate essay on key qualities freed by courage and trust. Designed to gently embolden and inspire not only vision, but vision-centered living, this is a must-read for artists at heart, innovators and change-makers in the wings, and in any walk of life.
"Elliott Carter was born four months after Orville Wright demonstrated the Wright Brothers' Flyer to the U.S. Army, and he died two months after the Voyager 1 spacecraft left the heliosphere at the threshold of interstellar space. Carter's remarkable longevity, and the unusual trajectory of his life and work through more than a century of disruptive change, has affected the reception history of his music in ways that we are only beginning to acknowledge. Over the course of a nearly eighty-year-long career, Carter leveraged his advantages and turned obstacles into opportunities with admirable persistence. He chose projects that not only interested him but also fit into the plans for artistic and professional development that he cultivated assiduously over decades. And he paid close attention to how his artistic objectives could be presented most effectively to the performers, listeners, and patrons on whom his career depended. Together with his wife Helen Frost-Jones Carter, he skillfully steered a course through the turbulent waters of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries with steadily increasing success. The story of Carter's artistic life, as he told it and as it was promoted by several generations of advocates, is one of independence, uncompromising vision, and technical progress. It was astutely tailored to the beliefs and values of its intended audience and, as autobiography, it reports selectively and glosses over or omits events and attitudes deemed unhelpful in building Carter's reputation and authority, and promoting his music"--
In celebration of the centenary of May Swenson’s birth, The Library of America presents a one-volume edition of all of the poems that Swenson published in her lifetime—from her first collection Another Animal (1954) to the innovative shaped poems of Iconographs (1970) to her final work In Other Words (1987)—as well as a selection of previously uncollected work. The collection reveals the sweeping compass of Swenson’s curiosity: nature poems display her keen observation of wildlife; exuberant and erotic love poems celebrate beauty and passion; place poems record her travels to the American Southwest, France, and Italy and her residence in New York City and Sea Cliff, Long Island; verse “analyses” investigate baseball, wave motion, the DNA molecule, bronco busting, James Bond movies, and the first walk on the moon. Swenson was an inveterate reviser: poems in earlier volumes were frequently reworked for inclusion in later volumes, such as To Mix with Time (1963) and New and Selected Things Taking Place (1978). While preserving the order of publication, this volume presents the author’s final or definitive version. Substantive textual variants and title changes are detailed in the notes to the volume.
Ghosts in the Glass and Other Stories by Lynda Collins,Jo Zebedee,M. Rush,Holly Ferres,Kerry Buchanan,Sarah McNeill,John-Henry Parker,Phil Deane,Neill W. G. Stringer,James Donnelly,Valerie Christie,Philip Henry,Ellie Rose McKee Pdf
Belfast Writers' Group presents a collection of seventeen tales of the supernatural, featuring ghosts, fiends, and an assortment of other monstrosities. This anthology will terrify and tease you with its feast of short stories full of fear, humour, and suspense.
“[A] gem . . . [Susan] provides a wealth of tips and examples for composing great photographs that have potential to make for lovely quilts.” —Piece, Love & Happiness! Fiber artist and designer Susan Brubaker Knapp teaches quilters how to compose and shoot dynamic digital photos from a quilter’s perspective. With fun, creative workshop-like exercises in art quilting, you’ll learn how to turn those photos into small art quilts, both realistic and abstract, combining traditional fabrics with innovative materials. Every quilter can succeed with Susan’s achievable designs and accessible techniques. 16 artful appliqué projects inspired by digital photographs Learn how to shoot better photos and turn them into art quilt designs Boost your creativity with new tools and techniques Use unique materials to achieve your vision, including Tyvek, foils, paints, and more “Shows how a photo can be a starting point for something truly artful . . . The focus is on creating good design, not on simply recreating a scene . . . anyone who ever made a piece inspired by a favorite photo can learn something from this beautiful book.” —And Sew It Goes . . . “I sat down and went through each page and gobbled it right up . . . Susan shares how to take great photos for translation into an art quilt.” —IHAN (I Have a Notion)
Author : David E. James Publisher : Indiana University Press Page : 265 pages File Size : 41,5 Mb Release : 2020-10-27 Category : History ISBN : 9780861969777
Like David James' earlier collection of essays, Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture (1996), the present volume, Power Misses II: Cinema, Asian and Modern is concerned with popular cultural activity that propose alternatives and opposition to capitalist media. Now with a wider frame of reference, it moves globally from west to east, beginning with films made during the Korean Democracy Movement, and then turning to socialist realism in China and Taiwan, and to Asian American film and poetry in Los Angeles. Several other avant-garde film movements in L.A. created communities resistant to the culture industries centered there, as did elements in the classic New York avant-garde, here instanced in the work of Ken Jacobs and Andy Warhol. The final chapter concerns little-known films about communal agriculture in the Nottinghamshire village of Laxton, the only one where the medieval open-field system never suffered enclosure. This survival of the commons anticipated resistance to the extreme and catastrophic forms of privatization, monetization, and theft of the public commonweal in the advanced form of capitalism we know as neoliberalism.
The Warrior Queen is a subversive, funny novel about modern middle-class marriage. Kate Wildburn is in trouble. She is an extrovert, a lateral thinker and a talented pianist. She is also a good wife and mother, and an attractive woman who enjoys being a woman. Richard, her surgeon husband, is balding, aggressive, hard on his children – and is he having an affair? The Warrior Queen is a subversive look at modern middle-class marriage, a guerrilla war of the sexes fought in well-heeled Auckland among the trendy homes and chic cafes of Remmers and Parnell. With her fine ear for male bluster and female bitchiness, and her subtle observations of family life, Barbara Else has created an elegant black comedy to entertain – and warn – readers from either of the warring camps.