Escape Into Life

Author : Andrea Potos
Publisher : Kelsay Books
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949229831

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Mothershell by Andrea Potos Pdf

Think of a mother cupping a child's face in her hands, and you have the shell of Mothershell, Andrea Potos' tender and luminous new collection. Yes, these are poems of loss: her mother's cancer and treatments, her death and the grief that follows, but these are also poems that celebrate the chord, "the unseen thread" that binds mothers and daughters forever. Potos imagines heaven as an eternal breakfast, mother and daughter drinking our coffee/black and filled to the top. Coffee without bitterness or sweet / but somewhere in the perfection / of the middle. Here are poems that celebrate the power of presence, poems of travel: Ireland, France, Italy, ekphrastic poems that illuminate paintings. In "What the Poem Did," Potos writes It became a spine/walked me upright/ into the day, and this is what this book does, walks with each of us and sustains us in the long journey of all of our ordinary days. Barbara Crooker, author of Some Glad Morning, and others In this stunning, new collection by Andrea Potos, we find beautiful windows into the life of abiding love-each poem steeped in elegant imagery and story. A simple moment of sharing eggs over-easy with her mother, or witnessing her daughter's essence igniting in the Italian light, is all we need, to know the deep connection this poet has to others. Potos offers up these poems as prayer and healing. This collection is a love letter to memory, hope, and presence. She brings memories to life so vividly, that we, too, can hear her mother's voice through glittering veins of stone. Gentle in their touch, these beautifully sculpted poems pay tribute to the quiet strength needed for the loss you know is coming and the spaces left behind. Cristina M. R. Norcross, editor of Blue Heron Review; author of Beauty in the Broken Places, Amnesia and Awakenings, and others In Mothershell, Andrea Potos uses light and color and sound as expertly as she did in her recent chapbook, Arrows of Light. In this new collection, visual and tactile arts expand metaphors even further, weaving rich phrases such as all of them spun and still spinning / with filaments of unstoppable light into a glorious, whole cloth that not only honors memories but recreates tangible moments with her mother and other loved ones. Potos explores relationships in deftly conveyed, universal allegories that touch our innermost understanding. As so aptly expressed in "Writing My Mother," Potos does her writing on the top of light, her hands passing / across brightness and slanting shadows. Every bit of light and shadow in Mothershell reflects a gifted writer's heart and mind. C. Ann Kodra, author of Under an Adirondack Moon

Author : Gahan Wilson
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606994542

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Nuts by Gahan Wilson Pdf

Remember how baffling, terrifying, and sad childhood really was? Now you can laugh at it. In this thematically and narratively linked series of one-page stories originally published in the National Lampoon’s “Funny Pages” section throughout the 1970s, the master of the macabre eschewed his usual ghouls, vampires, and end-of-the-world scenarios for a wry, pointed look at growing up normal in the real, yet endlessly weird world. This is essentially a lost Gahan Wilson graphic novel from the 1970s and '80s. Watch as our stoic, hunting-cap-wearing protagonist (known only as “The Kid”) copes with illness, disappointment, strange old relatives, the disappointment of Christmas, life-threatening escapades, death, school, the awfulness of camp, and much more ― all delineated in Wilson’s roly-poly, sensual, delicately hatched line.

Author : Daniel M. Shapiro
Publisher : bd-studios.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781950231973

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(This Is Not A) Mixtape for the End of the World by Daniel M. Shapiro Pdf

Daniel M. Shapiro’s (This Is Not A) Mixtape for the End of the World is a collection of prose poems inspired by the heyday of MTV pop music videos. The poems distill the juxtaposition of sunny materialism and Cold War trepidation that define so many music videos of the 1980s. Shapiro chips away at nostalgia while clinging to what makes his source material so catchy. A series of artworks by Stephen Tornero accompanies the poems. Much like the period’s music, the bold excess, bright colors, and festive abstractions stand in contrast to the decade’s underbelly.

Author : T.C. Boyle
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408826164

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When the Killing's Done by T.C. Boyle Pdf

'How can you talk about being civil when innocent animals are being tortured to death? Civil? I'll be civil when the killing's done.' The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue of the National Park Service is the spokesperson for a campaign to exterminate these man-introduced rodents once and for all. Alma, highly self-disciplined with a stubborn streak, speaks as a conservationist, though the fact that her grandmother was once stranded on Anacapa for three weeks with nothing but thousands of crawling rats for company might explain some of her zeal. With days to go before the aerial rat-poisoning, Alma's plan is in danger of sabotage. Dave LaJoy and Anise Reed, a pair of notorious environmental activists, are recognisable from a distance by his knotted dreadlocks and her flame-red cyclone of hair. Dave is an electronics salesman with barely-controlled rages, for whom the plight of the rats is yet another of life's many injustices, along with lazy tramps and second-rate wine. Anise is a struggling folk singer with her own, terrible reasons for getting involved in 'the cause'. From the outset, Alma, Dave and Anise are at ideological loggerheads. But when Alma's sights turn to the infestation of non-native pigs on Santa Cruz - where Anise was brought up by her single mother and a clan of ranchers - the stakes are raised, and the debate threatens to boil over into something much more real... When the Killing's Done is T.C. Boyle's blistering new novel, a sweeping epic of family, ecology and the right to life - no matter what the fallout.

Author : Lois Walfrid Johnson
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780802486516

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Escape Into the Night by Lois Walfrid Johnson Pdf

One choice will change Libby’s life forever. Libby Norstad’s life has changed to anything but ordinary. In 1857, when she comes to live on the Christina, her father’s steamboat, Libby’s curiosity ensnares her in a mystery. What is the closely held secret of Caleb, the cabin boy who seems determined to make her life miserable? And how can Jordan, a fugitive slave, possibly reach safety and freedom? The night is dark. As three men race to the riverfront, bloodhounds follow their tracks. Through her journey to compassion, will Libby become a freedom seeker? From the golden age of steamboats, the rush of immigrants to new lands, and the dangers of the Underground Railroad come true-to-life stories of courage, integrity, and suspense in the Freedom Seekers series.

Author : carson mccullers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1131246200

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the heart is a lonely hunter by carson mccullers Pdf

Author : Evan Puschak
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982163969

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Escape Into Meaning by Evan Puschak Pdf

"Escape Into Meaning is the debut essay collection by the creator of the highly addictive, deeply informative, always unconventional Nerdwriter channel, which has 3 million subscribers on YouTube. In this debut collection of eleven incisive, engaging, and humorous essays, readers are immersed in a fascinating and multifaceted montage of subjects-from the origins of Superman to the future of the city of Venice to the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson to the oeuvre of Quentin Tarantino"--

Author : Pheather Johnson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595355396

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Escape Into Life by Pheather Johnson Pdf

Escape Into Life by Pheather Johnson An episode of domestic violence motivates victim of verbal abuse and dominance to escape to an independent life, enabled by interaction with five special women. Characters and the men in their lives: Beth, age 30, has endured escalating domestic abuse during her marriage. Husband: Frank, postal service employee. Norma, age 50, Beth's next-door neighbor Widowed three times. Current friends: Stanley, Jim Alice, age 40, mother of 16-year-old Ernie. Beth's sister-in-law George Schroeder, truck driver husband Theresa, age 65, mother of Frank and Alice. Beth's mother-in-law Eddie, works his Mom/Pop grocery store with his wife Miss Stellar, age 40, successful realtor, Beth's employer Bryan McCaughley, real estate entrepreneur Marsha Collins, age 50, lives in the Stony Creek house. Beth's landlady Lawrence Landers, international traveler

Author : Dr. H. lincoln Douglas
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781669805762

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Escape into Life by Dr. H. lincoln Douglas Pdf

this is a book of stories and poetry about my life my beliefs and about my actions I also have a recorded version of this book and in that version in the middle of the recording the talking and the drumming fades to one minute of silence the idea was to slowly stop and reflect so if you disagree or even if you agree with me take a little time stop and reflect on life and whatever little change you can make make it because the world is changing i certainly hope my stories and poetry in some small way will remind you of your possibilities will assist you in revealing the meaning of your life and help you find a way of escape not a running away from but a form of securing a key for total fulfillment one of my many metaphors for life is a game of cards you have no choice of the cards you’re dealt but by god you better learn to play play your best game and enjoy yourself while yuh playing

Author : Eckart Goebel,Sigrid Weigel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110258684

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"Escape to Life" by Eckart Goebel,Sigrid Weigel Pdf

After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. Stripped of their German citizenship by the Nazi-regime, these public figures either stayed in the New York area or moved on to California and other places. This compendium, adopting the title of a famous volume published by Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals’ thinking when it was translated into another language and addressed to an American audience. Among the individuals presented in this volume, are such prominent names as T.W. Adorno, H. Arendt, W. Benjamin, E. Bloch, B. Brecht, S. Kracauer, the Mann family, S. Morgenstern, and E. Panofsky. The authors of the essays in this compendium were free to choose the angle (biography, theory, politics) or aspect (a single work, a personal constellation) deemed best to illuminate the given intellectual’s work. Acclaimed NYC photographer Fred Stein, a German-Jewish refugee from Dresden, produced numerous portraits of exiled intellectuals and artists. A selection of these compelling portraits is reproduced in this book for the first time.

Author : Mali Karl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798615142086

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Escape to Life by Mali Karl Pdf

This book, written by Mali Karl, is the true and moving story of her life. From her experiences in her home in Lwów, Poland, from which she was brutally snatched away into the whirlwind of events that resulted in the darkest era of humanity, the Holocaust.With a broken heart, with no more tears to cry or ire to calm, this heroic woman emerges as an overwhelming force whose faith and courage has guided her eagerness to ESCAPE TO LIFE.This book reflects her internal struggle, between the events that she feels reluctant to remember, and her imperative need to relate them in order to make sure that this will happen never again.

Author : Ramona Jones
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780008458799

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Escape Into Cottagecore: Embrace Cosy Countryside Comfort in Your Everyday by Ramona Jones Pdf

Find happiness in the natural world, be fully present where you are and free yourself from the expectations of others.

Author : Karen Craigo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1939675782

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Passing Through Humansville by Karen Craigo Pdf

Passing Through Humansville offers alliance by way of a deep human lineage. These poems are filled with a wisdom that is expressly for sharing, an argument meant "to see how all things/are connected by barely a breath."

Author : Sven Lindqvist
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847085863

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The Myth of Wu Tao-tzu by Sven Lindqvist Pdf

'During the Tang dynasty, the Chinese artist Wu Tao-tzu was one day standing looking at a mural he had just completed. Suddenly, he clapped his hands and the temple gate opened. He went into his work and the gates closed behind him.' Thus begins Sven Lindqvist's profound meditation on art and its relationship with life, first published in 1967, and a classic in his home country - it has never been out of print. As a young man, Sven Lindqvist was fascinated by the myth of Wu Tao-tzu, and by the possibility of entering a work of art and making it a way of life. He was drawn to artists and writers who shared this vision, especially Hermann Hesse, in his novel Glass Bead Game. Partly inspired by Hesse's work, Lindqvist lived in China for two years, learning classical calligraphy from a master teacher. There he was drawn deeper into the idea of a life of artistic perfectionism and retreat from the world. But when he left China for India and then Afghanistan, and saw the grotesque effects of poverty and extreme inequality, Lindqvist suffered a crisis of confidence and started to question his ideas about complete immersion in art at the expense of a proper engagement with life. The Myth of Wu Tao-tzu takes us on a fascinating journey through a young man's moral awakening and his grappling with profound questions of aesthetics. It contains the bracing moral anger, and poetic, intensely atmospheric travel writing Lindqvist's readers have come to love.

Author : Yvonne Zipter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947896296

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Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound by Yvonne Zipter Pdf

If you've been combing the bookshops for a new collection of poetry that's likely to stimulate the intellect, fine-tune the senses, and simultaneously break the heart, Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound is the volume you're after. Here, the gifted poet Yvonne Zipter exhibits an astonishing vocabulary, offering insights that perhaps we never realized we'd missed. One stunning example: in an elegiac poem for her beloved dog, she recalls the "sweet slenderness of that languorous / lick of calcium, like an ivory flute." Another: an ekphrastic take on discarded pencils, noting "how quick they are to deny their own musings"-a notion which suggests that virtually all writers and readers of poetry will savor this book. -Marilyn L. Taylor, Poet Laureate of Wisconsin, 2009-2010