Bidden Unbidden

Bidden Unbidden
Author: Jennie Lee Boyden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2007-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780687650989

Rusty Edwards and Jenni Lee Boyden are true modern-day psalmists in that their hymns speak of our common earth-bound conditions with all its joys and pains, but they inevitably address God's unending presence and our words of praise. Additional texts and tunes are provided by Helen Cummings, Hal Hopson (who also authored the Foreword), Amanda Husberg, Mark Miller, Juanita Sabochick, and Russell Schulz-Widmar. Each hymn is presented first as text only, so that it can be read unencumbered by music. The second presentation is a "full music" version with interlined in standard hymn format. Finally, the hymn is set in "tune line" version, suitable for duplication in a bulletin. Part of the Abingdon Press Hymn Series.

The Calling

The Calling
Author: Bruce Bond
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2020-01-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1643171534

Midway through The Calling this appears: “I am learning to be two people, as voices are both voices /and the music in them.” There is no contemporary poet more aware of this fact as opportunity than Bruce Bond, whose music, whose severe and certain music, powerfully compels all the voices at his disposal throughout this book—all those journalists, children, and parents whose voicings became the poet’s. The politics of this book is an esthetic as glorious as the politics of the era in which it arises is debased: “I was looking back from a time / where I too would be speechless. / The earth green. No. Greener.” The Calling succeeds in making beauty where there had been pain, which is the great gift of poetry. —Bin Ramke Bruce Bond’s remarkable book-length sequence manages to be many things at once—a searing indictment of the Trump imperium, a bittersweet elegy for the author’s father, a tractate, a lamentation, a prayer. It is a vexed book for our vexing times. The collection’s stance—in the tradition of contemporary masters such as Milosz and Geoffrey Hill—is an admixture of sorrow, rage, and wonder. This is a book of hard-won consolation, a talisman against our bewilderment. —David Wojahn

The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation

The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 701
Release: 2016-03-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191645435

This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronunication (OP), enabling practitioners to deal with any queries about the pronunciation of individual words. It includes all the words in the First Folio, transcribed using IPA, and the accompanying website hosts sound files as a further aid to pronunciation. It also includes the main sources of evidence in the texts, notably all spelling variants (along with a frequency count for each variant) and all rhymes (including those occurring elsewhere in the canon, such as the Sonnets and long poems). An extensive introduction provides a full account of the aims, evidence, history, and current use of OP in relation to Shakespeare productions, as well as indicating the wider use of OP in relation to other Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, composers from the period, the King James Bible, and those involved in reconstructing heritage centres. It will be an invaluable resource for producers, directors, actors, and others wishing to mount a Shakespeare production or present Shakespeare's poetry in original pronunciation, as well as for students and academics in the fields of literary criticism and Shakespeare studies more generally.

The Roots of Power

The Roots of Power
Author: Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Total Pages: 460
Release: 1994
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780812692587

Sheets-Johnstone critically examines the work of contemporary theorists, including Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jacques Derrida, in an effort to recover the lived body and its impact on gendered existence and power relations. Deeply critical of feminist writers who minimize biological experience, she argues that theorists must thoroughly consider the evolutionary body in order to understand its cultural reworkings.. -- Choice review.

Phallos

Phallos
Author: Eugene Monick
Publisher: Inner City Books
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1987
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780919123267

Through close examination of the physical, physhological and mythological aspects of phallos, the author differentiates masculinity from patriarchy and discovers a mysterious, divine reality coequal with the maternal principle as an originating force in the psyche.