Beyond Silent Cadence

Beyond Silent Cadence
Author: Leisley M. Lantram
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1491740035

In the spring of 1980, Christa Fonteneau has reached a breaking point. A stay-at-home mother transplanted from Nashville to Houston by the promotion of her husband, Damon, she is entirely dependent on him for interaction with the world outside her home. Their two daughters are now school age, and Christa is left at home alone with her anxieties, created by their troubled marriage. Damon is out all hours of the night, and when hes home, he is violent. Christa decides it is time to make a change. She sees a way out through renewing her teaching certificate and finding a job. Meanwhile, she struggles to keep the abusive behavior of her husband a secret, maintaining the faade of a happy family for years. Although she longs to escape from Damon, that desire is held in check by her deep insecurity. Can she find the strength to leave behind the life she knows for a world that she also fears? This suspenseful novel details the experiences of one woman who, after years of hiding her guilt and shame behind closed doors, fights to find her way out and back to herself. ***** I highly recommend Beyond Silent Cadence, an emotional narrative that reveals one persons venture through trauma and joy. This unfolding story exposes relationship patterns of vulnerability that are universal. Leisley Lantram will clearly make a difference with this intriguing, suspenseful tale! Judith Martin, M.Ed, Education Specialist, Clinton, MS

Beyond Silence

Beyond Silence
Author: Nish Sehgal
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2021-09-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9354903789

Every soul keeps humming its song, secretly wishing for another soul to understand, but not all words can be expressed and neither every ear is here to hear. When the moments standstill and the hours remain silent, the vibrant unconfined soul unleashes a creative spell. Beyond Silence is the galaxy of such magic at work. A collection of snippets of eternity, truths, and metaphors, a bundle of unspoken curiosity paving the way to mystical chaos witnessing and emoting life as we know. What started with impressions seeking expressions, Beyond Silence is now a book that takes a journey to the author's deep insight about life and collects the contemporary culture within the frame of spiritual curiosity, capturing the enigma of modernity with a transcendent twist. The book is about an unrequited love that might be looming at the horizon and is like a long- overdue te?te-a?-te?te with yourself. Go on an adventure within yourself and discover a wonderland of mystical musings narrated through deep metaphors poetry. Keep your eyes up - Descend with grace Remember the royalty you are By this I mean lift your head And for goodness� sake, smile..!

Beyond Silence

Beyond Silence
Author: Daniel Hoffman
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780807128619

Accepting an award for poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Daniel Hoffman wrote, "Amid private sufferings and outrage at the brutalities of public life, it is gaiety that sustains us, and love, and the imagination's power to create from both deprivation and delight." This collection embodies those emotions and that imaginative power. Hoffman's verse has always exulted in the resources of language, as sensuous in sound as in response to the natural world. Beyond Silence, to be published on Hoffman's eightieth birthday, presents his shorter poems culled from eight previous collections, plus several new poems. Here, rather than in chronological order, they appear thematically and invite the reader to partake of the pleasures that characterize this distinguished poet's verse: "clarity, grace where desired, accuracy of visual detail and dialogue, and a formal mastery so deft that playfulness comes easily" (Fred Chappell). Arriving at last. It has stumbled across the harshStones, the black marshes. True to itself, by what craftAnd strength it has, it has comeAs a sole survivor returns. From the steep pass.Carved on memory's staffThe legend is nearly decipherable.It has lived up to its vowsIf it enduresThe journey through the dark placesTo bear witness,Casting is messageIn a sort of singing. -- "The Poem"

Beyond The Limbo Silence

Beyond The Limbo Silence
Author: Elizabeth Nunez
Publisher: One World
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2003-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345451082

“[A] haunting story . . . Bears witness to the struggles of an African Caribbean woman as she seeks to find her place in America without selling her soul.” –BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL, Author of Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine When Sara Edgehill is given a scholarship to leave Trinidad and attend a college in Wisconsin, she is thrilled. America, the one she has seen in the movies, is a land of dreams, prosperity, and equality. Not like Trinidad, where her parents cast disappointed glances her way because she wasn’t born with lighter-colored skin. But when Sara leaves her island’s brilliant green fields and warm sparkling waters for the pale cornfields of the Midwest, the ties to her home and her past grip her as strongly as America’s cold, winter winds. For as soon as Sara sets foot in her new home, she must make tough decisions. Wanting desperately to fit in, she begins to understand that in America, the color lines run deeper than they did even in Trinidad. And as Sara forms ties with two other West Indian students–the beguiling, haunted Courtney and the passionate, vivacious Sam–she is irrevocably pulled into the very center of America’s exploding civil rights movement.

Body, Sound and Space in Music and Beyond: Multimodal Explorations

Body, Sound and Space in Music and Beyond: Multimodal Explorations
Author: Clemens Wöllner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2017-04-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317173473

Body and space refer to vital and interrelated dimensions in the experience of sounds and music. Sounds have an overwhelming impact on feelings of bodily presence and inform us about the space we experience. Even in situations where visual information is artificial or blurred, such as in virtual environments or certain genres of film and computer games, sounds may shape our perceptions and lead to surprising new experiences. This book discusses recent developments in a range of interdisciplinary fields, taking into account the rapidly changing ways of experiencing sounds and music, the consequences for how we engage with sonic events in daily life and the technological advancements that offer insights into state-of-the-art methods and future perspectives. Topics range from the pleasures of being locked into the beat of the music, perception–action coupling and bodily resonance, and affordances of musical instruments, to neural processing and cross-modal experiences of space and pitch. Applications of these findings are discussed for movement sonification, room acoustics, networked performance, and for the spatial coordination of movements in dance, computer gaming and interactive artistic installations.

Beyond Fingal's Cave

Beyond Fingal's Cave
Author: James Porter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2019
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1580469450

Demonstrates the profound impact of The Poems of Ossian on composers of the Romantic Era and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Massenet, and many others. Beyond Fingal's Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination is the first study in English of musical compositions inspired by the poems published in the 1760s and attributed to a purported ancient Scottish bard named Ossian. From around 1780 onwards, the poems stimulated poets, artists, and composers in Europe as well as North America to break away from the formality of the Enlightenment. The admiration for Ossian's poems -shared by Napoleon, Goethe, and Thomas Jefferson - was an important stimulus in the development of Romanticism and the music that was a central part of it. More important still was the view of the German cultural philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, who saw past the controversy over the poems' authenticity to the traditional elements in these heroic poems and their mood of lament. James Porter's long-awaited book traces the traditional sources used by James Macpherson for his epoch-making prose poems and examines crucial works by composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Massenet. Many other relatively unknown composers were also moved to write operas, cantatas, songs, and instrumental pieces, some of which have proven to be powerfully evocative and well worth performing and recording.

Color, Space, and Creativity

Color, Space, and Creativity
Author: Jack Stewart
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780838641651

"This study of Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Joyce Cary, Lawrence Durrell, and A. S. Byatt focuses on color, space, and creativity in selected novels, stories, travel texts, essays, and letters." "Stewart highlights a nexus of color, space, and creativity that takes on ontological dimensions in the writing of five writers who are linked by stylistic affinities and correspondingly calibrated sensibilities. They engage writing with painting and their acts of attention converge in a zone where color, space, and creativity sustain the imaginative life-world of their characters. This study should lead to ongoing reflections on the roles of color and space in modernist and postmodernist texts and direct attention to the subtle and pervasive interactions of literature with painting."--BOOK JACKET.

Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth

Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth
Author: Walter Brueggemann
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2002-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451419542

A collection of startlingly fresh and meaningful prayers, from Walter Brueggemann, a leading Christian thinker and scholar.

The Golden Window of Silence

The Golden Window of Silence
Author: Christopher Bear Beam
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2008-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1425743617

The Golden Window of Silence integrates the use of silence as spiritual discipline and its abusive use by systemic structures. Silence may be used as a lifegiving practice or in a destructive way at all levels of societal systems. One of the contentions of The Golden Window of Silence is that when one uses silence to listen to all levels, one may find the source of all non-violent communication. It is by this means that silence becomes one of the most powerful means of social justice. "Proceeds from book sales go to Sunbear Community Alliance, a Texas Non-Profit Corporation."

Beyond Legend

Beyond Legend
Author: Heather McLaren
Publisher: Zumaya Embraces
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612713114

Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad… Humans and mers have reinstated an alliance long abandoned, and the sea demons no longer threaten the Bahamas. The underwater civilizations are at peace for the first time in millennia. Then a devastating plague returns to devastate the submerged cities, turning mers into insane, ravening beasts. A plague that invariably ends in death. Legend says a cure lies hidden somewhere in a secret cave, and newlyweds David and Faryn set off with their friends to find it. Only then is the true source of the disease revealed—an evil being as old as time whose hatred of the mers will only be satisfied when their entire civilization has been destroyed.