The Fire That Breaks

The Fire That Breaks
Author: Daniel Westover
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2020
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1942954360

In terms of literary history, Gerard Manley Hopkins has been difficult to pin down. Many of his concerns - industrialism, religious faith and doubt, science, language - were common among Victorian writers, but he is often championed as a proto-modernist despite that he avoids the self-conscious allusiveness and indirectness that typify much high modernist poetry. It is partly because Hopkins cannot be pigeonholed that his influence remains relevant. The Fire that Breaks brings together an international team of scholars to explore for the first time Hopkins's extended influence on the poets and novelist who defined Anglo-American literature throughout the past century.

Straw for the Fire

Straw for the Fire
Author: Theodore Roethke
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1972
Genre:
ISBN:

Fire Break

Fire Break
Author: George Albon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2013
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781937658137

A brilliant new poetic sequence from a leading innovative American poet

This Is the Fire

This Is the Fire
Author: Don Lemon
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 031625777X

In this "vital book for these times" (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America’s systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them. Beginning with a letter to one of his Black nephews, he proceeds with reporting and reflections on his slave ancestors, his upbringing in the shadows of segregation, and his adult confrontations with politicians, activists, and scholars. In doing so, Lemon offers a searing and poetic ultimatum to America. He visits the slave port where a direct ancestor was shackled and shipped to America. He recalls a slave uprising in Louisiana, just a few miles from his birthplace. And he takes us to the heart of the 2020 protests in New York City. As he writes to his young nephew: We must resist racism every single day. We must resist it with love.

The Big Burn

The Big Burn
Author: Timothy Egan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2009-10-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0547416865

National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men to fight the fires, but no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan recreates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, and the larger story of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, that follows is equally resonant. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. Even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by his rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service in ways we can still witness today. This e-book includes a sample chapter of SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER.

Fire Break: Opposites attract, short and steamy, standalone, curvy girl romance

Fire Break: Opposites attract, short and steamy, standalone, curvy girl romance
Author: Hope Malone
Publisher: Bad Birds
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2023-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Short and steamy, standalone curvy girl, grumpy sunshine romance, with a guaranteed HEA, no cheating, and no cliffhangers. She’s all about body positivity, refusing to hide her curves any longer. He’s all about hiding from the world, his past, and especially his future. MANDY I’m the queen of voice-over, something that often finds me locked in a sound-proof room. I’m sure it’s where smoking hot but grumpy, Logan Young would prefer I stay. But, I’m burning to show him the error of his ways, plus a few other things, meaning this songbird is about to break the bars on her self-imposed cage and fly the coop. I’m about to be confronted as never before, and by someone I didn’t see coming; especially not, when I was naked. LOGAN I like my own company all while protecting the forest, people’s homes, and even myself. I’m starting to think that where my body is concerned Mandy Gibson, might be a bigger threat than fire. I prefer to keep away from the world, with any amount of solitude better than having my heart ripped out of my chest and stomped on again. Unfortunately, fate and an intimate glade in the forest, have other ideas, tempting me as never before. If you love a steamy read with a healthy dose of instalove, then welcome to Coogan's Break, where the girls are curvy, and the guys hotter than hell. The books in the Coogan's Break world can be read as standalones and a perfect for fans of Sophie Sparks, C.L. Cruz, and Lena Little. This is a HOT opposites attract, romantic story with a guaranteed happily ever after and no cheating. It also has sexy times aplenty. Enjoy!

To Build a Fire

To Build a Fire
Author: Jack London
Publisher: The Creative Company
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781583415870

Describes the experiences of a newcomer to the Yukon when he attempts to hike through the snow to reach a mining claim.

Four Quartets

Four Quartets
Author: T. S. Eliot
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0547539703

The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.