Archie (2015-) #16

Archie (2015-) #16
Author: Mark Waid
Publisher: Archie Comic Publications
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2017-01-18
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1682551091

Dilton Doiley, Riverdale’s smartest kid, is in the spotlight—but Reggie Mantle has a vested interest in taking him out! Meanwhile, Cheryl Blossom plans her ultimate revenge against Veronica!

World of Betty & Veronica Digest #16

World of Betty & Veronica Digest #16
Author: Archie Superstars
Publisher: Archie Comic Publications
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2022-06-22
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1645766802

TWO BRAND NEW STORIES: First, in “Put a Cork in it!” Betty and Veronica discover a bottle that washes up on the beach. Thinking there may a note inside, they open it... and a beautiful genie emerges! She doesn’t offer to grant them any wishes but just wants to have a good time after being bottled up for ages. It would be a lot of fun... until she sets her sights on Archie! Can Betty & Veronica successfully get the genie BACK into her bottle? Then, in “Cheers and Jeers,” Bingo becomes the new critic for the school newspaper, including the student film festival. However, when he gives an anonymous scathing review to a romantic flick that was entered, he finds out it was Samantha’s film! Will she find out who burned her artistic effort, and will Bingo be able to make it up to her without giving away his identity?

Archie & Friends Double Digest #16

Archie & Friends Double Digest #16
Author: Archie Superstars
Publisher: Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
Total Pages: 151
Release:
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1619882949

Evilheart and Pureheart may have met their match when they take on The Dude! With a trick cane and a cunning criminal mind to his advantage, The Dude keeps the duo at bay until he has them right where he wants them! Will the super teens manage to bring the jewel thief to justice or will they fall prey to the dastardly evil-doer? Find out in "Chaos in a Common Cane!"

Cherry Blossom Epiphany -- The Poetry and Philosophy of a Flowering Tree

Cherry Blossom Epiphany -- The Poetry and Philosophy of a Flowering Tree
Author: Robin D. Gill
Publisher: Paraverse Press
Total Pages: 738
Release: 2006-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0974261866

Cherry Blossom Epiphany - the poetry and philosophy of a flowering tree - a selection, translation and lengthy explication of 3000 haiku, waka, senryû and kyôka about a major theme from I.P.O.O.H. (In Praise Of Olde Haiku)by robin d. gill 1. Haiku -Translation from Japanese to English 2. Japanese poetry - 8c-20c - waka, haiku and senryû 3. Natural History - flowering cherries 4. Japan - Culture - Edo Era 5. Nonfiction - Literature 6. Translation - applied 7. You tell me! If the solemn yet happy New Year's is the most important celebration of Japanese (Yamato) ethnic culture, and the quiet aesthetic practice of Moon-viewing in the fall the most elegant expression of Pan-Asian Buddhism=religion, the subject of this book, Blossom-viewing - which generally means sitting down together in vast crowds to drink, dance, sing and otherwise enjoy the flowering cherry in full-bloom - is less a rite than a riot (a word originally meaning an 'uproar'). The major carnival of the year, it is unusual for being held on a date that is not determined by astronomy, astrology or the accidents of history as most such events are in literate cultures. It takes place whenever the cherry trees are good and ready. Enjoyed in the flesh, the blossom-viewing, or hanami, is also of the mind, so much so, in fact, that poetry is often credited with the spread of the practice over the centuries from the Imperial courts to the maids of Edo. Nobles enjoyed link-verse contests presided over by famous poet-judges. Hermits hung poems feting this flower of flowers (to say the generic "flower" = hana in Japanese connotes "cherry!") on strips of paper from the branches of lone trees where only the wind would read them. In the Occident, too, flowers embody beauty and serve as reminders of mortality, but there is no flower that, like the cherry blossom, stands for all flowers. Even the rose, by any name, cannot compare with the sakura in depth and breadth of poetic trope or viewing practice. In Cherry Blossom Epiphany, Robin D. Gill hopes to help readers experience, metaphysically, some of this alternative world. Haiku is a hyper-short (17-syllabet or 7-beat) Japanese poem directly or indirectly touching upon seasonal phenomena, natural or cultural. Literally millions of these ku have been written, some, perhaps, many times, about the flowering cherry (sakura), and the human activity associated with it, blossom-viewing (hanami). As the most popular theme in traditional haiku (haikai), cherry-blossom ku tend to be overlooked by modern critics more interested in creativity expressed with fresh subjects; but this embarrassment of riches has much to offer the poet who is pushed to come up with something, anything, different from the rest and allows the editor to select from what is, for all practical purposes, an infinite number of ku. Literary critics, take note: Like Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! (2003) and Fly-ku! (2004), this book not only explores new ways to anthologize poetry but demonstrates the practice of multiple readings (an average of two per ku) as part of a composite translation turned into an object of art by innovative clustering. Book-collectors might further note that while Cherry Blossom Epiphany may not be hardback, it takes advantage of the many symbols included with Japanese font to introduce design ornamentation (the circle within the circle, the reverse (Buddhist) swastika, etc.) hitherto not found in English language print. It is a one-of-a-kind work of design by the author.