Poetry: life unscripted reality

Poetry: life unscripted reality
Author: Chanele TheRockStar
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2013-05-19
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1304050246

Life is a roller-coaster ride as depicted in this poetry book. However, everyone can do just one little thing to make a random persons day a little sunnier. Or one little thing, to help heal our planet.

The Art of Confession

The Art of Confession
Author: Christopher Grobe
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1479882089

"The Art of Confession tells the history of this cultural shift and of the movement it created in American art: confessionalism. Like realism or romanticism, confessionalism began in one art form, but soon pervaded them all: poetry and comedy in the 1950s and '60s, performance art in the '70s, theater in the '80s, television in the '90s, and online video and social media in the 2000s. Everywhere confessionalism went, it stood against autobiography, the art of the closed book. Instead of just publishing, these artists performed--with, around, and against the text of their lives." --

The Wilds of Poetry

The Wilds of Poetry
Author: David Hinton
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0834840960

An exploration of the emerging Western consciousness of how deeply we belong to the wild Cosmos, as seen through the lineage of modern America's great avant-garde poets --a thrilling journey with today's premier translator of the Chinese classics. Henry David Thoreau, in The Maine Woods, describes a moment on Mount Ktaadin when all explanations and assumptions fell away for him and he was confronted with the wonderful, inexplicable thusness of things. David Hinton takes that moment as the starting point for his account of a rewilding of consciousness in the West: a dawning awareness of our essential oneness with the world around us. Because there was no Western vocabulary for this perception, it fell to poets to make the first efforts at articulation, and those efforts were largely driven by Taoist and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhist ideas imported from ancient China. Hinton chronicles this rewilding through the lineage of avant-garde poetry in twentieth-century America—from Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound and Robinson Jeffers to Gary Snyder, W. S. Merwin, and beyond—including generous selections of poems that together form a compelling anthology of ecopoetry. In his much-admired translations, Hinton has re-created ancient Chinese rivers-and-mountains poetry as modern American poetry; here, he reenvisions modern American poetry as an extension of that ancient Chinese tradition: an ecopoetry that weaves consciousness into the Cosmos in radical and fundamental ways.

Our Insolvency

Our Insolvency
Author: Jeremy Hoevenaar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2021-06-20
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780999431368

Poetry. With dystopian clarity and a submerged; fugitive generosity; the poems in OUR INSOLVENCY register the seismic distortions that the regime of financialization has had on poetic activity and on daily life. Working in an exploratory but anxiously denatured lyric mode--"wedding;" as the critic Thom Donovan puts it; "semiotic overcodification to a vertiginous; aphoristic meditation on the accelerating present"--Hoevenaar guides us in a pilgrim's progress of interlinked serial poems through the banalized and continuously renegotiated opacity of our technological reality. The exhilaration of idiom here is co-implicated with relentless redevelopment; where leisure is the continuation of work by other means; and where language comes prepacified by democratized corporatese. Of this shrewd austerity Ann Lauterbach writes; "The spare economy of these lines hides a linguistic trove;" repackaging insolvency into a poetic derivative "fueled by a kind of furious condensation." If 'dichten' once equaled 'condensare;' it must now vie alongside tactics of downsizing; cost savings; efficiency; and optimization--and while poetry says more by saying less; the currency of a word such as 'gig' shades; "just in time;" into 'gag' or even 'gulag.' Hoevenaar's poems; pieced together with equal parts irony; love; borrowing; and outright theft; embrace their inability to pay their debts. They are not "good for it." But the hope is that; being good for something; they pay possibilities forward into an as yet unscripted future.

Regional Integration, Identity & Citizenship in the Greater Horn of Africa

Regional Integration, Identity & Citizenship in the Greater Horn of Africa
Author: Kidane Mengisteab
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012
Genre: Law
ISBN: 184701058X

Examines how regional integration can resolve the crises of the Greater Horn of Africa, exploring how it can be used as a mechanism for conflict resolution, promoting the economy and tackling issues of identity and citizenship. The Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) is engulfed by three interrelated crises: various inter-state wars, civil wars, and inter-communal conflicts; an economic crisis manifested in widespread debilitating poverty, chronic food insecurity and famines; and environmental degradation that is ravaging the region. While it is apparent that the countries of the region are unlikely to be able to deal with the crises individually, there is consensus that their chances of doing so improve markedly with collective regional action. The contributors to this volume address the need for regional integration in the GHA. They identify those factors that can foster integration, such as the proper management of equitable citizenship rights, as well as examining those that impede it, including the region's largely ineffective integration scheme, IGAD, and explore how the former can be strengthened and the latter transformed; explain how regional integration can mitigate the conflicts; and examine how integration can help to energise the region's economy. Kidane Mengisteab is Professor of African Studies and Political Science at Penn State University; Redie Bereketeab is a researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden.

Giver of Life

Giver of Life
Author: Fr. John W. Oliver
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1557259135

Presents the Orthodox perspective on who the Holy Spirit is, where the mystery of God comes alive. Delving deep and subtly into Orthodox tradition and theology, The Giver of Life articulates the identity of the Holy Spirit as the third Person of the Trinity as well as the role of the Holy Spirit in the salvation of the world. Written with a poetic sensibility, Fr. Oliver begins with Pentecost, an event uniquely celebrated in Orthodoxy as a time when greenery of all kinds is brought into churches. "The splash of green foliage calls to mind not just life, but a special kind of life. It is the life that transcends biological existence and flows from the very Godhead Itself; it is life that's a state of being—immortal, everlasting, changeless. Ferns and flowers fade and die, but souls filled with this ‘life from above' flourish forever." Reflecting on the relationship of the Holy Spirit to the Church, to the world, and to the human person, Giver of Life looks to the impressive biblical and liturgical tradition of Orthodox Christianity. This is a book weighty in content but accessible in tone, not an academic study of the mind, but a lived experience of the heart.

Life and Narrative

Life and Narrative
Author: Brian Schiff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2017
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190256656

Life and Narrative examines the perennial mystery of how people encounter, manage, and inhabit a self and a world of their own - and others' - creation and the ramifications of these creations. From both literary and social science perspectives, this volume grapples with the process of how life and narrative interact with each other.

Media Semiotics

Media Semiotics
Author: Jonathan Bignell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2002-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780719062056

Using examples such as the Wonderbra advertisements and the film Waterworld, Bignell presents an investigation of the critical approach to contemporary media studies and discusses the challenges posed by post-structuralist theory and postmodernism.

Keatyn Unscripted

Keatyn Unscripted
Author: Jillian Dodd
Publisher: Jillian Dodd
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2016-11-22
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1940652804