My Self My Muse

Author : Patricia Boyle Haberstroh
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815629109

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My Self, My Muse by Patricia Boyle Haberstroh Pdf

A unique look into the minds and creative processes of contemporary Irish women poets, this book focuses on the transformation of their life experiences into poetry that blends personal identity with national identiry. It assembles many voices around common themes that are emerging to change Irish poetry permanently. Patricia Boyle Haberstroh, whose book Women Creating Women: Contemporary Irish Women Poets was a Choice Outstanding Academic book in 1996, shows in this new work how nine of the most prolific Irish women writers generate their poetry, broadening our understanding of the context of the poems. She pairs each author's verse with a companion (and often autobiographical) prose piece to illuminate the ways in which the poetry expresses the poet's personal experience. As women in a politically and religiously charged, male-dominated genre and country, these poets feel compelled to transcend daily life by articulating against the "norm." In this book, they describe the issues they confronted in their growth as poets and the strategies they developed to translate life into art. In linking these poets—drawn from Northern Ireland and England as well as the Republic of Ireland—Haberstroh throws into relief the characteristics that define their unique, individual subjects, themes, and styles.

Author : Jan Phillips
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780835630221

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Marry Your Muse by Jan Phillips Pdf

Working and would-be writers, photographers, painters, journal keepers, sculptors, musicians, poets, and creative folk in every field will find inspiration and practical suggestions in this joyous book. This complete course in creative expression is based on Jan Phillips' smash "Marry Your Muse" workshops, and was chosen a Ben Franklin Award gold medal winner for 1997. In Part One, the stirring affirmations of The Artist's Creed empower us to become more confident and productive. In Part Two, anecdotes, photographs, quotations to ponder, fun and effective exercises help us discover a deep and satisfying form of self-expression. In Part Three, the heartful stories of working artists inspire us to fall in love with the artist within

Author : Lodovico Ariosto,Massimo Ciavolella
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781442640870

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"My Muse Will Have a Story to Paint" by Lodovico Ariosto,Massimo Ciavolella Pdf

Ariosto's correspondence paints a detailed portrait of the world he lived and wrote in. While some letters illuminate his day-to-day life, including his work as a provincial commissioner for the ruling Este family of Ferrara, others shed light on the composition and production of his poems and plays, allowing a glimpse of the man in his creative workshop. Herbal Doctor, a parody of humanism in general and neoplatonic philosophy in particular, may mark a defense of Ariosto's decision to turn away from the philological world of his contemporaries in order to pursue a different kind of learning.

Author : Mary Schmich
Publisher : Agate Digital
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781572844124

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The Best of Mary Schmich by Mary Schmich Pdf

Over the last two decades, Mary Schmich’s biweekly column in the Chicago Tribune has offered advice, humor, and discerning commentary on a broad array of topics including family, milestones, mental illness, writing, and life in Chicago. Schmich won the 2012 Pulitzer for Commentary for “her down-to-earth columns that reflect the character and capture the culture of her famed city.” This book compiles her 10 Pulitzer-winning columns along with 154 others, creating a captivating collection that reflects Schmich’s thoughtful and insightful sensibility. Schmich’s 1997 “Wear Sunscreen” column (which has had a life of its own as a falsely attributed Kurt Vonnegut commencement speech) is included, as well as her columns focusing on the demolition of Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing project. One of the most moving sections is her 12-part series with US District Judge Joan Lefkow as the latter reflected on rebuilding her life after the horrific murders of her mother and husband. Throughout the book, Schmich reflects wisely and wryly on the world we live in, and her fond observances of Chicago life bring the city in all its varied character to warm, vivid life.

Author : Daniel (Author) Nettle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 1013291441

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Hanging on to the Edges by Daniel (Author) Nettle Pdf

What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges the reader to unpick such distinctions-biological versus social sciences, mind versus body, and nature versus nurture-and look instead for the for puzzles and anomalies, the points of connection and overlap. These essays, converted from often humorous, sometimes autobiographical blog posts, form an extended meditation on the possibilities and frustrations of the life scientific. Pragmatically arguing from the intersection between social and biological sciences, Nettle reappraises the virtues of policy initiatives such as Universal Basic Income and income redistribution, highlighting the traps researchers and politicians are liable to encounter. This provocative, intelligent and self-critical volume is a testament to the possibilities of interdisciplinary study-whose virtues Nettle stridently defends-drawing from and having implications for a wide cross-section of academic inquiry. This will appeal to anybody curious about the implications of social and biological sciences for increasingly topical political concerns. It comes particularly recommended to Sciences and Social Sciences students and to scholars seeking to extend the scope of their field in collaboration with other disciplines. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Gilda Joffe
Publisher : Exisle Pub
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1922539066

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Dancing with Your Muse by Gilda Joffe Pdf

Have you ever had a dream, but let it go because you were too afraid of failure to try? Dancing with Your Muse is a heartfelt, motivational guide to understanding this fear, realising that you are not alone in it, and working past it to achieve your goals without inhibition. Fear of failure is a universal issue that can hold even the most talented of people back from reaching their full potential. Dancing with Your Muse is a series of thirty essays which speak about the common and debilitating anxieties encountered on the path to creative expression. Sections include: "Fear In All Its Glory" - explains the origin and purpose of fear of failure, showing you how to transform inhibitors into positive outcomes. "Judgement and Criticism" - provides guidance on how to keep yourself in balance without succumbing to outside perceptions of your worth. "Success in Different Guises" - expands your notion of success by giving you a more personal, expansive understanding of what accomplishment really means to you. Written in a gentle, contemplative tone, this book will encourage you to determine and strive for success on your own terms. Performers, business people, students, and everyday dreamers alike will learn to courageously choose the most direct pathways to creative success and, more importantly, personal fulfillment, holding only a desire to contribute fully to their own life.

Author : Nicola M. Cameron
Publisher : Belaurient Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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To My Muse by Nicola M. Cameron Pdf

I’m in a fake relationship with my celebrity crush. How did I wind up in a real-life romance trope? When too much tequila and an enabling BFF put my newest and oh-so-spicy romance novel into the hands of its inspiration, sexy British actor Tom Morrison, I’m horrified (because hello complete stranger, I thought of you while writing these smexy scenes, now excuse me while I spontaneously combust from embarrassment). I need to get the book back before Tom takes out a restraining order on me—or worse, reads the book out loud on social media. Except that’s not what happens. Thanks to a strategic lie and an Oscar-winning knight I’m now pretending to be Tom’s girlfriend while we get his dream project made. Somehow, my screwball plan landed me in the middle of my very own Cinderella story, Hollywood style. Even better, I have a shot at a real life HEA with a gorgeous, hilarious man who thinks I’m amazing… …so why do I get the feeling that disaster is about to strike?

Author : Tabitha Beck
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781105873775

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Revenants by Tabitha Beck Pdf

Author : W.L. Hawkin
Publisher : Blue Haven Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781739059132

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Writing with your Muse by W.L. Hawkin Pdf

Writing with your Muse offers techniques, strategies, tools, tips, and stories to help you tap into creative inspiration. You don’t have to be psychic to be successful with these techniques, although that natural ability exists in all of us, and these techniques will help you develop your sixth sense. There’s even science to back it up. This book will help you if you hear words or see images but find it difficult to get the text on the page, you’ve written and published but are searching for something fresh and different, you have ideas but don’t know how or where to begin, you want to write but have no ideas, or you’re suffering from a bad case of writer's block. “This book is a must for writers searching for new ideas and methods to release their creative energy. Hawkin is refreshingly honest about her own experiences, establishing her expertise with gentle humor and humility. The book is packed with options and ideas to encourage writers to explore their own inner spiritual and creative sides. If writing is a journey, then Hawkin is the perfect guide to its unexplored and untamed reaches: inspiring, forthright, and inventive.” —Marie Powell, Last of the Gifted series “I’m so thankful Hawkin wrote this unique and beautiful writing book. It is, at once, a craft tool and a spiritual journey guided by a skillful, compassionate mentor. Hawkin’s gentle approach to teaching (she's a former academic and teacher) makes this stand out from other writing craft books.”—Sionnach Wintergreen, Men of the Shadows series

Author : John Calvin Batchelor
Publisher : Owl Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0805037896

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Walking the Cat, by Tommy "Tip" Paine by John Calvin Batchelor Pdf

Spy writer Tip Paine comes to the rescue of a neighbor who is being blackmailed by Seoul gangsters and becomes enmeshed in an Asian money war with global implications

Author : Lisa ColÑn DeLay
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506465098

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The Wild Land Within by Lisa ColÑn DeLay Pdf

The wilderness of the heart may be untamed, but you don't need to go there alone. In The Wild Land Within, spiritual companion and podcast host Lisa Colón DeLay offers a map to our often-bewildering inner terrain, inviting us to deepen and expand our encounters with God. Through specific spiritual practices from early desert monastics, as well as Latinx, Black, and Indigenous contemplatives, she guides us in cultivating lives of devotion. In opening ourselves up to God's healing, we will inevitably come across wounds we didn't even know we had. Colón DeLay uses theology and neuroscience to help us work through buried fear or pain and find embodied spiritual healing from trauma. A contemplative map to the wilderness of the heart, The Wild Land Within guides us through intimate geography in which God dwells.

Author : Judith Jones
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307498250

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The Tenth Muse by Judith Jones Pdf

From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishing-one of the food world's most admired figures-comes this evocative and inspiring memoir. Living in Paris after World War II, Jones broke free of bland American food and reveled in everyday French culinary delights. On returning to the States she published Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The rest is publishing and gastronomic history. A new world now opened up to Jones as she discovered, with her husband Evan, the delights of American food, publishing some of the premier culinary luminaries of the twentieth century: from Julia Child, James Beard, and M.F.K. Fisher to Claudia Roden, Edna Lewis, and Lidia Bastianich. Here also are fifty of Jones's favorite recipes collected over a lifetime of cooking-each with its own story and special tips. The Tenth Muse is an absolutely charming memoir by a woman who was present at the creation of the American food revolution and played a pivotal role in shaping it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Women's periodicals, English
ISBN : NYPL:33433081685590

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The Ladies' Companion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183015814838

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Macmillan's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Masson,George Grove,John Morley,Mowbray Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : English literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101076425642

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Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson,George Grove,John Morley,Mowbray Morris Pdf