Time Song Of The River Man

Author : John Chinaka Onyeche
Publisher : Warrioress Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9798869102775

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Time & Song of the River Man by John Chinaka Onyeche Pdf

"Time & Songs of The River Men" is a profound and evocative collection of poetry that takes readers on a captivating journey through the lives and experiences of the River Men, a community deeply connected to the rhythms of the river and the passage of time. The poems in this collection explore a wide range of themes, from personal introspection to communal history, and they are bound together by the river's constant presence, symbolizing the flow of life itself. The collection begins with the theme of wandering and a wanderer, setting the stage for a contemplative exploration of life's mysteries. "For Gift Ugochi" and "Gift is dead" pay tribute to the memory of Gift Ugochi, encapsulating the grief and loss felt by the River Men. "We are all fishermen with broken nets" is a metaphorical reflection on the challenges and imperfections inherent in the human condition, while "For the boys who left home early (a requiem)" commemorates the lives of those who departed prematurely. "Our tales" and "Gin and ship" delve into the community's shared stories and traditions, offering a glimpse into the unique culture of the River Men. "Slavery" and "The place of gods and our cultures" confront the historical and cultural complexities that have shaped their world. "Motherhood" and "Home calls" celebrate the enduring bonds of family and the significance of home, while "Watching the river flow" and "At the riverbank" capture the eternal presence of the river in their lives. The collection also explores themes of love, longing, and resilience, as seen in "Marriage 1&2," "My woman," and "Hope." It contemplates the passage of time and the inevitability of change in "Time and songs" and "Staring at self in portrait of time." "Time & Songs of The River Men" culminates with a reflection on spirituality and existence, posing questions about the divine in "Is God a poet" and contemplating the never-ending journey of life in "Journeying." This collection of poems weaves a rich tapestry of emotions, experiences, and cultural insights, inviting readers to immerse themselves in the world of the River Men and reflect on their own journeys through the ever-flowing river of time. It is a lyrical and thought-provoking exploration of the human condition and the enduring power of storytelling and song.

Author : Aaron Starmer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780374363109

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The Riverman by Aaron Starmer Pdf

Alistair Cleary is the kid who everyone trusts. Fiona Loomis is not the typical girl next door. Alistair hasn't really thought of her since they were little kids until she shows up at his doorstep with a proposition: she wants him to write her biography. What begins as an odd vanity project gradually turns into a frightening glimpse into the mind of a potentially troubled girl. Fiona says that in her basement, there's a portal that leads to a magical world where a creature called the Riverman is stealing the souls of children. And Fiona's soul could be next. If Fiona really believes what she's saying, Alistair fears she may be crazy. But if it's true, her life could be at risk. In this novel from Aaron Starmer, it's up to Alistair to separate fact from fiction, fantasy from reality.

Author : S Pavithra Ram
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649839879

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A Ride with the River Man by S Pavithra Ram Pdf

A fiction based on two South Indian Brahmin families, documenting their journey as they bridge a generation of the past, the values and culture around it, with that of the contemporary. A peek into their everyday lives, the conversations, their minds and menus, their traits and traditions. What are the promises and compromises along the way? It is the story of the young protagonist who breezily anchors the generational shift, with an egoless mind, a selfless approach, as he conspires and inspires their way into the future, drawing into his path as many lives, as many dreams as his compassionate heart could embrace, with an undying urge to make all their lives brighter and their smiles bigger. Where does his strength lie? What does his future hold? How does his journey feel like? A beautiful love story couched in the heart of this journey, caught between many a battle of emotions, fought fair and square! The book takes you through a piercing journey into their minds, traversing layers and layers of their concerns, follies, dreams and desires. What remains at the end—is it the beginning or the end? Read on to explore!

Author : Kristopher Triana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1961758032

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Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana Pdf

Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers.These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be they rock stars, actor, or authors. Or even serial killers.Lori's obsession is with Edmund Cox, who was convicted of butchering more than twenty women. She will do anything to get close to him, so when he gives her a task, she accepts.She has no idea of the horror that awaits her.Edmund says she must go to his cabin in the woods and retrieve a key to deliver to a mysterious figure known only as The River Man.She brings along her sister, and the trip becomes a surreal nightmare, one that digs up Lori's personal demons, the ones she feels bonds her to Edmund. Soon she will learn The River Man is not quite fact or folklore, and definitely not human . . . at least not anymore.

Author : David Wingrove
Publisher : Random House
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448177578

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The Ocean of Time by David Wingrove Pdf

Part Two of The Roads to Moscow The War For Time Continues. From the frozen tundra of 13th Century Russia to the battle of Paltava in 1709 and beyond, Otto Behr has waged an unquestioning, unending war across time for his people. But now a third unidentified power has joined the game across the ocean of time, and everything Otto holds dear could be unmade...

Author : Tommi Alho,Jason Finch,Roger D. Sell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027262004

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Renaissance Man by Tommi Alho,Jason Finch,Roger D. Sell Pdf

Here friends of Anthony W. Johnson honour him as a re-embodiment of the polymathic artist-scholar figure once observable in Ben Jonson, on whom he has done some of his most distinctive work. Part I of the book reflects his strong grounding in English literature and culture of the seventeenth century, with essays, not only on Ben Jonson, but also on university drama, on grammar school drama, and on humanist literary taste. Part II responds to his pioneering flights of culture-imagological time-travel to other periods, with essays on riddles through the ages, on Matthew Arnold’s doubts about Homeric pictorialism, and on anciently comic elements in George Gissing’s urban fiction. Part III celebrates his importance, both as scholar and artist, for the present day, with essays extending imagological analysis to the singer Nick Drake, to the avant-garde Danish poet Morten Søkilde, and to Sean S. Baker’s film Tangerine, plus a climactic celebration of Johnson’s own performances on solo violin and guitar as augmented by self-recording.

Author : Guy Mankowski
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781789040296

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Albion's Secret History by Guy Mankowski Pdf

Albion's Secret History compiles snapshots of English pop culture’s rebels and outsiders, from Evelyn Waugh to PJ Harvey via The Long Blondes and The Libertines. By focusing on cultural figures who served to define England, Guy Mankowski looks at those who have really shaped Albion’s secret history, not just its oft-quoted official cultural history. He departs from the narrative that dutifully follows the Beatles, The Sex Pistols and Oasis, and, by instead penetrating the surface of England’s pop history (including the venues it was shaped in), throws new light on ideas of Englishness. As well as music, Mankowski draws from art, film, architecture and politics, showing the moments at which artists like Tricky and Goldfrapp altered our sense of a sometimes green but sometimes unpleasant land. 'The most illuminating odyssey through lost, hidden or forgotten English pop culture since Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine.' Rhian E. Jones, author of Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender

Author : Richard Morton Jack
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306834974

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Nick Drake by Richard Morton Jack Pdf

Experience the definitive biography of one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the twentieth century with this eye-opening book featuring a foreword by Gabrielle Drake and over 75 photos, many rare or previously unseen. In 1968, Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product of a loving, creative family and a privileged background, he was not only a handsome and popular Cambridge undergraduate, but also a new signing to the UK’s hippest record label, Island. Three years later, however—having made three well reviewed but low-selling albums—Nick had been overwhelmed by a mysterious mental illness. He returned to live in his family home in rural Warwickshire in 1971, and died in obscurity in 1974, aged just 26. In the decades since, Nick has become the subject of ever-growing fascination and speculation. Combined sales of his records now stand in the millions, his songs are frequently heard on TV and in films, and he has become one of the most widely known and admired singer-songwriters of his generation. Nick Drake: The Life is the only biography of Nick to be written with the blessing and involvement of his sister and estate. Drawing on copious original research and new interviews with his family, friends, and musical collaborators, as well as deeply personal archive material unavailable to previous writers—including his father’s diaries, his essays, and private correspondence—this is the most comprehensive and authoritative account possible of Nick’s short and enigmatic life.

Author : Pete Paphides
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473613195

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A Nick Drake Companion by Pete Paphides Pdf

This short book, taken from Remembered For A While, tells the stories and circumstances that surround every known recording in Nick Drake's canon (as well as a few unrecorded songs). The result is like a detailed, extended series of liner notes, something to read while sitting in your favourite chair, in your favourite room, listening to the imperishably beautiful music they describe. A Nick Drake companion.

Author : Sue Harrison
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480411944

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Song of the River by Sue Harrison Pdf

DIVDIVTwo ancient tribes on the verge of making peace become foes once more when a double murder jeopardizes a storyteller’s mission /divDIV Eighty centuries ago, in the frozen land that is now Alaska, a clubfooted male child had been left to die, when a woman named K’os rescued him. Twenty years later and no longer a child, Chakliux occupies the revered role as his tribe’s storyteller. In the neighboring village of the Near River people, where Chakliux will attempt to make peace by wedding the shaman’s daughter, a double murder occurs that sends him on a harsh, enthralling journey in search of the truth about the tragic losses his people have suffered, and into the arms of a woman he was never meant to love./divDIV /divDIVSong of the River is the first book of the Storyteller Trilogy, which also includes Cry of the Wind and Call Down the Stars./div/div

Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781725239609

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Oral Poetry by Ruth Finnegan Pdf

This classic study is an introduction to "oral poetry," a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature, the heroic poems of Homer, and recent epic compositions in Asia or the Pacific. The book employs a broad comparative perspective and considers oral poetry from Africa, Asia, and Oceania as well as Europe and America. The results of Finnegan's vast research illuminate and suggest fresh conclusions to many current controversies: the nature of oral tradition and oral composition; the notion of a special oral style; possible connection between types of poetry and types of society; the differences between oral and written communication; and the role of poets in non-literate societies. Drawing on insights from anthropology and literary scholarship, Oral Poetry attempts to create a greater appreciation of the literary aspects of this fascinating form of poetry. Finnegan quotes extensively from a wide variety of sources, mainly in translation. The discussion is presented in non-technical language and will be of interest not only to sociologists and social anthropologists, but also to all those interested in comparative literature and in folk poetry from cultures around the world. The re-issue of this text, widely used in folklore, anthropology, and comparative literature courses, comes at an appropriate juncture in interdisciplinary scholarship, which is witnessing the breakdown of traditional disciplinary boundaries and an increase in the comparative study of oral poetry. For this volume Ruth Finnegan has provided a new foreword relating the text to more recent developments.

Author : Patrick Humphries
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408841440

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Nick Drake by Patrick Humphries Pdf

'An exquisite portrait' MOJO 'A riveting account of the golden-boy genius' EVENING STANDARD Nick Drake was barely twenty-six years old when he died in 1974, but in his short lifetime he recorded three albums that are now recognised as classics: Five Leaves Left, Bryter Later and Pink Moon. Several decades after his death, he has amassed a huge following; his haunting songs cast a pervasive influence over the contemporary music scene, and many of today's most successful songwriters cite him as a major inspiration. In this unrivalled biography, Patrick Humphries offers real insight into the man behind the legend, through extensive interviews with family, friends and the musicians who knew and worked alongside him. This portrait of Nick Drake is an essential and uniquely personal account of his life and career. 'A rich, moving account of a troubled spirit, a mature biography of a briefly flickering talent unable to come to terms with the adult world ... The writing is zestful and intelligent and the text illuminating ... A literary memorial fit to stand alongside the songs' UNCUT

Author : Joy Cowley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9781776572533

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Song of the River by Joy Cowley Pdf

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Author : William Seale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Jasper County (Tex.)
ISBN : UCAL:B4469623

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Texas Riverman by William Seale Pdf

Author : Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316052870

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The Edge of the World by Kevin J. Anderson Pdf

Terra Incognita -- the blank spaces on the map, past the edge of the world, marked only by the words "here be monsters." Two nations at war, fighting for dominion over the known, and undiscovered, world, pin their last hopes at ultimate victory on finding a land out of legend. Each will send their ships to brave the untamed seas, wild storms, sea serpents, and darker dangers unknown to any man. It is a perilous undertaking, but there will always be the impetuous, the brave and the mad who are willing to leave their homes to explore the unknown. Even unto the edge of the world. . . Kevin J. Anderson's spectacular fantasy debut is a sweeping tale of adventure on the high seas, as two warring kingdoms vie for the greatest treasure of them all.