Dear Specimen

Dear Specimen
Author: W.J. Herbert
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0807007609

A National Poetry Series winner, selected and with a foreword by Kwame Dawes. A 5-part series of interwoven poems from a dying parent to her daughter, examining the human capacity for grief, culpability, and love, asking: do we as a species deserve to survive? Dear Specimen opens with both its speaker and her planet in peril. In “Speak to Me,” she puzzles over a millipede, as if the blue rune of its body could help her understand her impending death and the crisis her species has created. Throughout the collection, poems addressed to specimens echo the speaker’s concern and amplify her wonderment. A catalog of our climate transgressions, Dear Specimen’s final poem foretells a future in which climate refugees overrun one of our planet’s last habitable places. The collection’s lifeblood is a series of poems in which the speaker and her daughter express their concern for, and devotion to, one another. The daughter’s questions mirror the ones her mother asks of specimens: what are we meant to do with so much hazard and wonder? When the speaker hints at the climate crisis in a bedtime story she tells her grandson, we, too, feel the peril he may face. Juxtaposing a profound sense of intimacy with the vastness of geological time, the collection offers a climate-conscious critique of the human species—our search for meaning and intimacy, our capacity for greed and destruction. Dear Specimen is an extended love letter and dire warning, not only to the daughter its speaker leaves behind but to all of us.

Specimens

Specimens
Author: Norwood Press
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1894
Genre: Printing
ISBN:

Reunion

Reunion
Author: Paul John Hausleben
Publisher: God Bless the Keg Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2023-04-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Reunion is the sequel to Mr. Paul John Hausleben’s famous novel The Night Always Comes. The Night Always Comes leaves the reader breathless and wondering as to what happens next to our two favorite characters. Reunion is where the story continues. As is consistent with the author’s work, it is still full of spoofs, humor, unusual characters, and heartwarming, as well as hilarious situations, but underneath it all, the power of the emotions shines through the words. We see the world of Harry and Paul through the eyes and the mind and the words of the character of Paul John Henson, as the first-person narrator and his memories of the events form the basis of the journey. Many of your favorite characters have returned once more, as Harry and Paul continue through life together as only friends and families can! Together, Harry and Paul charge off together into life’s battles with their battle flags unfurled. Along the way, they face more challenges and learn that above all; hope, faith, friendship, love, and staying positive despite the odds, are all the tools you need to succeed in life. This novel is really about what it means to regain your spirit, to renew lost faith and your purpose, and that at one time in all of our lives; we all require renewal and reunion. No author presents the emotions of life, the power of love, and the vicissitudes of daily life as does Paul John Hausleben and Reunion shines with those attributes. Here is a hint without spoilers. If a reader enjoys happy conclusions, then Reunion will leave a reader happy, smiling, and ready to enjoy the next Adventure of Harry and Paul.

Plays

Plays
Author: Thomas Otway
Publisher:
Total Pages: 668
Release: 1678
Genre:
ISBN:

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: United States National Museum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 582
Release: 1907
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Epoch

Epoch
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 720
Release: 1893
Genre:
ISBN: