Landscape/Heartbreak

Landscape/Heartbreak
Author: Michelle Penaloza
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2015-01-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692354841

landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias Press, 2015) is poet Michelle Penaloza's first book. Praise For landscape/heartbreak: Peñaloza's poignantly beautiful landscape/heartbreak is more than a suite of breakup poems, its own veritable tradition in American poetry. Hers is a sequence that plumbs the meaning of what it means to love, sacrificing to secret away bits and pieces of one's self whose other parts remain scattered on corners, in parks, and bridges. This collection is about the business of reconciling memories and ghosts, the toughness in learning how to breathe again. -Major Jackson I've been in love with landscape/heartbreak since before it was written, from the moment I first learned of Michelle Peñaloza's wild idea: to map heartbreak. What if strangers told their stories while wandering the avenues and backstreets of a city? What if trauma could be healed one footfall at a time? Peñaloza enacts an urban alchemy, transforming the walkers' personal struggles into art and thereby coming closer to her own persistent ghosts. A collection for anyone who has ever had her (or his) heart stomped on. This means most of us. A powerful and exciting debut. -Susan Rich The question-"What hurt you into poetry?"-lies at the center of Michelle Peñaloza's landscape/heartbreak. And her poems urge us to seek the answer, following Peñaloza's speaker on her sojourn where walking and breathing create the meditative cadence to lull the body into the ecstatic state necessary for conjuration. From the beauty of these poems emerge the ghosts of those loves that have splintered us into jagged pieces. As we traverse Peñaloza's lyrical landscape, the "sueded/beads of unopened wild poppies" and "renegade ferns/growing upon the stumps of old docks" smooth over the serrated edges of what cuts us deep. This is a marvelous and haunting collection. -Oliver de la Paz As you read this remarkable collection, you might think that each poem begins with two people walking through a city. But then, dear reader, you realize that it's no longer two people in the distance, for you've been invited on the journey as well. These poems will transport you like that, and then they'll walk beside you through a landscape of heartache and longing. While there, "You can look back," Peñaloza writes, "remember the stories beneath all this shine." And these stories do shine. And you will remember them. -Matthew Olzmann

Yearning Wild

Yearning Wild
Author: R. Glendon Brunk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Alaska
ISBN: 9781931229067

Tells how the author, who moved to Alaska to pursue his childhood dream of living in the wilds of the last American frontier, became committed to the cause of wilderness preservation after witnessing environmental depredation there and in his subsequent travels around the world.

Handbook for the Heartbroken

Handbook for the Heartbroken
Author: Sara Avant Stover
Publisher: Sounds True
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2024-05-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1649632371

In a heartbreak-illiterate world, Handbook for the Heartbroken offers solace and support through personal and collective losses of all kinds—including the end of a relationship or a job, death of a loved one, a natural disaster, infertility, abortion, a financial crisis, or any other form of loss. Heartbreak sends us reeling—we can feel alone and adrift. After her own experience of serial heartbreaks over the span of five years, Sara Avant Stover felt deeply impacted by our culture’s dysfunctional relationship with loss—especially for women. “We’re encouraged at every turn to hurry up and get on with it,” she says. “But by trying to power through these messier seasons of life, we’re denying ourselves the very answers to our healing and growth.” With Handbook for the Heartbroken, Sara offers the grounded guidance she needed during her own falls from grace to help you navigate loss and turmoil. Blending her expertise in Internal Family Systems and various wisdom traditions, she examines the three main phases of heartbreak: devastation, transformation, and rebirth. With each phase, she shares gentle lessons and supportive practices for anyone experiencing the unthinkable, including: • An exploration of nuanced emotions associated with heartbreak and grief—ranging from early stages of shock, anger, and pain to healing spaces of forgiveness and restoring trust • Relevant and relatable stories from the author and her clients, creating a road map for your unique healing journey • Practices and journal prompts to create a safe container to digest your experiences of heartbreak, both past and present, more fully • An invitation for finding a way forward both as individuals and as members of a community to draw on support of trusted friends and family “Heartbreak is an inevitable part of everyone’s life journey,” says Sara. “It’s by returning to our essential qualities like patience, openheartedness, and trust that we can truly heal.” Handbook for the Heartbroken can be your trustworthy friend through the hardest seasons of life, helping you embrace change and “become a fully wise, mature, integrated human being.”

Landscapes, Identities and Development

Landscapes, Identities and Development
Author: Zoran Roca
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351923447

Bringing together theoretical and empirical research from 22 countries in Europe, North America, Australia, South America and Japan, this book offers a state-of-the-art survey of conceptual and methodological research and planning issues relating to landscape, heritage, [and] development. It has 30 chapters grouped in four main thematic sections: landscapes as a constitutive dimension of territorial identities; landscape history and landscape heritage; landscapes as development assets and resources; and landscape research and development planning. The contributors are scholars from a wide range of cultural and professional backgrounds, experienced in fundamental and applied research, planning and policy design. They were invited by the co-editors to write chapters for this book on the basis of the theoretical frameworks, case-study research findings and related policy concerns they presented at the 23rd Session of PECSRL - The Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape, organized by TERCUD - Territory, Culture and Development Research Centre, Universidade Lusófona, in Lisbon and Óbidos, Portugal, 1 - 5 September 2008. With such broad inter-disciplinary relevance and international scope, this book provides a valuable overview, highlighting recent findings and interpretations on historical, current and prospective linkages between changing landscapes and natural, economic, cultural and other identity features of places and regions; landscape-related identities as local and regional development assets and resources in the era of globalized economy and culture; the role of landscape history and heritage as platforms of landscape research and management in European contexts, including the implementation of The European Landscape Convention; and, the strengthening of the landscape perspective as a constitutive element of sustainable development.

Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey

Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
Author: Florence Williams
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1324003499

Winner of the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A Five Books "Best Literary Science Writing" Book of 2023 • A Smithsonian Best Science Book of 2022 • A Prospect Magazine Top Memoir of 2022 • A KCRW Life Examined Best Book of 2022 "Keen observer [and] deft writer" (David Quammen) Florence Williams explores the fascinating, cutting-edge science of heartbreak while seeking creative ways to mend her own. When her twenty-five-year marriage suddenly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. But when she starts feeling physically sick, losing weight and sleep, she sets out in pursuit of rational explanation. She travels to the frontiers of the science of "social pain" to learn why heartbreak hurts so much—and why so much of the conventional wisdom about it is wrong. Soon Williams finds herself on a surprising path that leads her from neurogenomic research laboratories to trying MDMA in a Portland therapist’s living room, from divorce workshops to the mountains and rivers that restore her. She tests her blood for genetic markers of grief, undergoes electrical shocks while looking at pictures of her ex, and discovers that our immune cells listen to loneliness. Searching for insight as well as personal strategies to game her way back to health, she seeks out new relationships and ventures into the wilderness in search of an extraordinary antidote: awe. With warmth, daring, wit, and candor, Williams offers a gripping account of grief and healing. Heartbreak is a remarkable merging of science and self-discovery that will change the way we think about loneliness, health, and what it means to fall in and out of love.

Poignant Landscapes

Poignant Landscapes
Author: Van Thi Diep
Publisher: A Flourishing Commons
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2024-01-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1738103307

More than language, more than material, and ever ambiguous, landscapes span two, three, and four dimensions, morphing to become whatever impression the world needs to be for us to feel emplaced. With the power to move us to tears, calm our souls, and awaken our sense of wonder, poignant landscapes unconceal hidden gateways to our sense of ontological belonging. In the journey back to the undivided self that knows no separation between nature and culture, landscapes also reveal the conflicts of our human-world relationship. In the disharmony of our internal and external natures, the legacy of placelessness persists in our physical and psychological human landscapes and in the narratives we use to describe ourselves and the world. In the wisdom of poignant landscapes is the permission to feel the pain of being human, to be loved exactly as we are without conditions, and to be inspired by the sacredness of life. This collection of short essays, poetry, and photographs mirrors the fluidity of landscapes by transcending the human binaries of intellectualism and emotionality, inner and outer world experiences, and individual and collective existence, to return to the gift of being in a powerful landscape—the knowing that true belonging does not exist outside of us, but instead, is found intuitively within.

Glamour, Gangsters, and Garland A Modern Mafia Affair

Glamour, Gangsters, and Garland A Modern Mafia Affair
Author: SIKANDAR ADNAN
Publisher: Pencil
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2024-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9358833440

Glamour, Gangsters, and Garland: A Modern Mafia Affair" weaves a riveting tale that transcends the boundaries of conventional genres, inviting readers into a world where love, crime, and the unexpected collide in a dance of intrigue and suspense. Authored by the emerging talent Sikandar Adnan, this novel unfolds against the backdrop of a modern cityscape, blurring the lines between the glamorous and the dangerous. Set in the vibrant metropolis of Delhi, India, the story introduces readers to a captivating narrative that explores the intersection of the seemingly disparate worlds of organized crime and the allure of a clandestine affair.

Welcome to the Writer's Life

Welcome to the Writer's Life
Author: Paulette Perhach
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1632171538

Learn how to take your work to the next level with this informative guide on the craft, business, and lifestyle of writing With warmth and humor, Paulette Perhach welcomes you into the writer’s life as someone who has once been on the outside looking in. Like a freshman orientation for writers, this book includes an in-depth exploration of all the elements of being a writer—from your writing practice to your reading practice, from your writing craft to the all-important and often-overlooked business of writing. In Welcome to the Writer’s Life, you will learn how to tap into the powers of crowdsourcing and social media to grow your writing career. Perhach also unpacks the latest research on success, gamification, and lifestyle design, demonstrating how you can use these findings to further improve your writing projects. Complete with exercises, tools, checklists, infographics, and behind-the-scenes tips from working writers of all types, this book offers everything you need to jump-start a successful writing life.

After the Gold

After the Gold
Author: Erin McRae
Publisher: Avian30
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1536502340

Love is the biggest prize of all. For over a decade, world-champion figure skaters Katie Nowacki and Brendan Reid have been partners in every way but one. But now that their electric on-ice chemistry has led them to Olympic gold, they're retiring from competition. As they cross America on an exhibition tour with their fellow athletes, Katie and Brendan's always volatile relationship becomes more turbulent than ever as they face down the media, their fans, and their increasingly nosy teammates. When Katie realizes she wants to go back to the farm she grew up on, leaving Brendan behind in the city where they trained, their fairy tale seems destined to end. But will Brendan be able to convince her to trust him with the off-ice intimacy that only spelled disaster in their past?

In the Heart of a Fool

In the Heart of a Fool
Author: William Allen White
Publisher:
Total Pages: 644
Release: 1918
Genre: African American women
ISBN:

Fortunes and descendants of a pioneer family, from the close of the Civil War to 1914. A study in idealism.