A Silence of Words

A Silence of Words
Author: Olivia Dresher
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2019-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781098940393

In A Silence of Words, Olivia Dresher's poetic aphorisms and other brevities, taken from her first few years at Twitter beginning in 2009, express her devotion to short forms that she also explored in her book In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing. Ten years later, in 2019, she has a significant following at Twitter and has written over 58,000 tweets, of which 874 appear in this book. As one of her followers noted, "You write as you breathe, shaping everything with some sort of second nature." Published by Impassio Press, www.impassio.com

Silence Speaks a Thousand Words

Silence Speaks a Thousand Words
Author: Harshita Das
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2018-04-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1642497258

These are a collection of poems. From raging hiccups that destroy worlds to feeling the silence of nature. When you open this book, you will visit beautiful sunrises in the sky and travel to the surface of the ocean, visiting dreams, unfolding the future. Difference in having friends and being alone, as we grow older. Observing the life of a seed, and feeling hope even when all seems to be lost. Travelling from generation to generation, summer to winter and seeing the beauty of nature. Delve into this colourful world, all here in black and white.

Words for Silence

Words for Silence
Author: Gregory Fruehwirth
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Church year meditations
ISBN: 9781557256010

Originating from weekly talks given to a contemplative community of monks and nuns, the meditations in this book aim to help people surrender their lives to God.

Silence, the Word and the Sacred

Silence, the Word and the Sacred
Author: E.D. Blodgett
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-10-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0889205248

The result of a dialogue between poets and scholars on the meaning and making of the sacred, this book endeavours to determine how the sacred emerges in sacred script as well as in poetic discourse. It ranges through scholarship in areas as apparently disparate as postmodernism and Buddhism. The perspectives developed are various and without closure, locating the sacred in modes as diverse as patristic traditions, feminist retranslations of biblical texts, and oral and written versions of documents from the world’s religions. The essays cohere in their preoccupation with the crucial role language plays in the creation of the sacred, particularly in the relation that language bears to silence. In their interplay, language does not silence silence by, rather, calls the other as sacred into articulate existence.

Vocabulary of Silence

Vocabulary of Silence
Author: Veronica Golos
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781597094986

Poet Veronica Golos has created a conundrum--a vocabulary of silence that acts as a kind of Zen koan for the reader: a negative space, an echo chamber, a mirror. Witnessing from afar the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conducted by the country in which she lives, the poet also witnesses herself, and struggles to find words to carry the weight of her felt responsibility. Ms. Golos then empties her beautifully wrought poems into the vast silence, filling it with the names of the dead and the living.

The Silence of Our Friends

The Silence of Our Friends
Author: Mark Long
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-01-17
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1596436182

A black family and a white family in 1960s Texas find common ground during the Civil Rights Movement.

Your Silence Will Not Protect You

Your Silence Will Not Protect You
Author: Audre Lorde
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: African American women
ISBN: 9780995716223

Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time, including the classic 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House'. A trailblazer in intersectional feminism, Lorde's luminous writings have inspired a new generation of thinkers and writers charged by the Black Lives Matter movement. Her lyrical and incisive prose takes on sexism, racism, homophobia, and class; reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope that remain ever-more trenchant today. Also a celebrated poet, Lorde was New York State Poet Laureate until her death; her poetry and prose together produced an aphoristic and incomparably quotable style, as evidenced by her constant presence on many Women's Marches against Trump across the world. This beautiful edition honours the ways in which Lorde's work resonates more than ever thirty years after they were first published.

He Speaks in the Silence

He Speaks in the Silence
Author: Diane Comer
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310341787

He Speaks in the Silence is about Diane Comer’s search for the kind of intimacy with God every woman longs for. It is a story of trying to be a good girl, of following the rules, of longing for a satisfaction that eludes us. Disappointed with all Diane had been told was supposed to fulfill her, she begged God in desperation to give her more. And He did. But first He took her through a trial so debilitating it almost destroyed what little faith she had. He let her go deaf. Using vivid parallels between her deafness and every woman’s struggle to hear God, this book shows women not only how Diane, as a deaf woman, hears in everyday life, but also how she can learn to listen to God in the midst of her own loud life, finding intimacy with God and the deep soul satisfaction she longs for.

Messages to Me

Messages to Me
Author: Margaret Coyle Irsay
Publisher: Margaret Coyle Irsay
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2007
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780978946807

Words Out of Silence

Words Out of Silence
Author: Kip "Bok" Wood
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2014-12-16
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1626257027

No TV, no cell phone, no social media, no family or friends. Just alone in silence for sixty days. Written from a small cabin in the mountains above Santa Cruz, California, Bok's diary recounts his retreat into solitude and his search for a return to the simplicity of pure being. Without distraction, he has no choice but to face whatever comes—whether it's the incessant chatter of the mind, the arising of overwhelming emotions, or the simple observations of running water and birdsong. We say it's Bok's diary, but he draws us in so intimately that these sixty days become our own. Through this intense and immersive process, both for Bok and the reader, a deeper place is found within, a place of stillness and well being. You may be surprised what Bok finds, or more importantly, what he doesn't find. Alexandra Burda’s illustrations are a perfect compliment to the sparseness, sensitivity and beauty of the text.