Midwest / Mid-East: March 2012 Poetry Tour

Midwest / Mid-East: March 2012 Poetry Tour
Author: Michael Dickel
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2012-03-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1105569136

The selected and new poems in Midwest / Mid-East begin with an invocation, visit the Midwest, travel to the Mid-East, then settle into contemporary times within global contexts. Ranging from the lyric to experimental, the poems' rich imagery and language express the complexity and multiplicity of contemporary perspectives of life, spirituality, love, politics, erotics and (mis)communication. The poetry here expresses a self-aware and questioning intellect emotionally engaged in the world which constructs the speaker's uncertain identity.

War Surrounds Us

War Surrounds Us
Author: Michael Dickel
Publisher: Is a Rose Press
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2015
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780989624527

This chapbook by Michael Dickel, chair of the Israel Association of Writers in English, collects poems written during and in response to the Israel-Gaza war in the summer of 2014. The poems come from a personal perspective that resists accepting the violence and observes the effects on family and daily life from the provocations before through the devastating loss of human life during attacks on Gaza and past the line of failed cease fires that eventually arrives at one that holds for the time being, as fall arrives. The incongruence of life going on as war rages so close, and the need to see and reach out to the humanity of the Other come through these poems as the poet watches his young son's response and considers the question of the future we want versus the one that seems to be coming."Michael Dickel's new book is an explosive tour de force. From Breaking News to all that shivers beneath the surface, it takes us on a visceral ride as the rockets are falling through screaming surfaces, tunnels cease fires and death tolls; rocketing all night through missiles, mortars, sensors, sirens, shadows and eclipses, shelters and hope. As night slopes through shivers of light, War Surrounds Us will rocket your world with an escalation of unprecedented gravity." -- Adeena Karasick

Herod

Herod
Author: Yehuda Shulewitz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781936068265

Herod: The Man Who Had to be King is the story of the conflict between Herod, Rome and the Jewish people. It is the story of a conflict that takes the reader from the Land of Israel and Jerusalem to the bustle of Rome and the wide, colorful thoroughfares of Alexandria, from Syria to the heart of the Parthian empire, to Babylonia, Idumea and Antioch. It presents a vast panorama of the Mediterranean region of some two thousand years ago, bringing to life the great Sages, the High Priest and the Temple service, Antony and Cleopatra, Cassius and Sextus Caesar, Alexandra, the proud Hasmonean and her children, Aristobulus and Mariamne, and Antigonus, another Hasmonean, contender for the throne of Judea and a bitter enemy of Herod. The peaceful Jewish farmers of Emmaus meanwhile tend their fields, living under the heavy burden of Roman taxation. And Herod is always there the devoted family man of malevolent moods for whom no challenge is too great or bloody to reach his goal: He had to be King.

Dancing at the Shame Prom

Dancing at the Shame Prom
Author: Amy Ferris
Publisher: Seal Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1580054161

Presents a collection of autobiographical essays in which the authors reveal intensely private events in their lives which had a life-changing impact, including such authors as Nina Burleigh, Victoris Zackheim, Marcia Yerman, and Colleen Haggerty.

2012 Guide to Writer's Conferences

2012 Guide to Writer's Conferences
Author: Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2012-12-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1599636042

Want to know what writer's conferences and workshops are happening where? Want to know how to register and make the most of your time there? The 2012 Guide to Writer's Conference provides details on more than 100 conferences and workshops throughout the United States. You'll find information on how much they cost, who to contact, how to register, what you'll learn, and what to expect!

Nothing Remembers

Nothing Remembers
Author: Michael Dickel
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2019-08-23
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781646620128

The powerful lyrical language of Nothing Remembers explores fallibility of memory, inevitability of loss, and reconciliation of both through landscape and relationship.

Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two

Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two
Author: Philip A. Greasley
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 1074
Release: 2016-08-08
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0253021162

The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film, comic strips, graphic novels, and environmental writing. Prepared by a team of scholars, this second volume of the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature is a comprehensive resource that demonstrates the Midwest's continuing cultural vitality and the stature and distinctiveness of its literature.

An Introduction to Population Geographies

An Introduction to Population Geographies
Author: Holly R. Barcus
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135146004

An Introduction to Population Geographies provides a foundation to the incredibly diverse, topical and interesting field of twenty-first-century population geography. It establishes the substantive concerns of the subdiscipline, acknowledges the sheer diversity of its approaches, key concepts and theories and engages with the resulting major areas of academic debate that stem from this richness. Written in an accessible style and assuming little prior knowledge of topics covered, yet drawing on a wide range of diverse academic literature, the book’s particular originality comes from its extended definition of population geography that locates it firmly within the multiple geographies of the life course. Consequently, issues such as childhood and adulthood, family dynamics, ageing, everyday mobilities, morbidity and differential ability assume a prominent place alongside the classic population geography triumvirate of births, migrations and deaths. This broader framing of the field allows the book to address more holistically aspects of lives across space often provided little attention in current textbooks. Particular note is given to how these lives are shaped though hybrid social, biological and individual arenas of differential life course experience. By engaging with traditional quantitative perspectives and newer qualitative insights, the authors engage students from the quantitative macro scale of population to the micro individual scale. Aimed at higher-level undergraduate and graduate students, this introductory text provides a well-developed pedagogy, including case studies that illustrate theory, concepts and issues.