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| Author | : WLLM |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 2018-01-08 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1387499939 |
As the title suggests & the intro expands on, these 42 pages contain new poetry written about the Moon & Her phases. I wrote about the 12 Full Moons & 8 phases as they happened, illuminated by both their outer & inner light. While there wasn't a Blue Moon in 2017, there was a Solar Eclipse, thus a Full Black Moon!
| Author | : Marc J. H. Linssen |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9789004124028 |
This publication provides new information about the temple ritual texts from ancient Mesopotamia, in particular from the cities Uruk and Babylon, and shows how important the public cults were in Hellenistic times, at least until the first century B.C.
| Author | : David R. Slavitt |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 105 |
| Release | : 2003-04-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0801876907 |
This unique translation of the Old Testament book, with reflections on Judaism’s mournful history, “not only allows but demands rereading” (Pleiades). Distinguished poet David R. Slavitt here provides a translation of and meditation upon the Book of Lamentations, the biblical account of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 587 B.C., on the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av—Tish’a b’Av. (Six centuries later the Romans destroyed the second Temple on the same day.) Most of the Jewish population was deported to Babylon, and the ensuing period came to be known as the Babylonian Captivity. According to tradition, the Book of Lamentations was written in response to this political, social, and religious crisis. The five poems composing the book express Israel’s sorrow, brokenness, and bewilderment before God. Tish’a b’Av is the day on which observant Jews fast and pray. And mourn. As Slavitt observes in his meditation: “It is forbidden on Tish’a b’Av even to study the Torah, except for the Book of Job and the Book of Lamentations. This is the day on which we grieve for every terrible thing that happens in this world. It is the worst day of the year.” Slavitt’s meditation provides a context for reading the scriptural text. Cast in the same style as the Hebrew poetry, his meditation recounts how sorrow and catastrophe have characterized so much of the history of the Jewish people, from their enslavement in Egypt to the Holocaust of Nazi Germany. Few translations of this remarkable book of the Bible attempt to reproduce in English, as Slavitt does here, the Hebrew acrostics. In the original, each verse begins with a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet in sequential order; Slavitt elegantly reproduces this effect using the first 22 letters of the English alphabet. More than a structural or mnemonic device, Slavitt argues, the acrostics are “a serious assertion that the language itself is speaking, that the speech is inspired, and that there is, beyond all the disaster and pain the book recounts, an intricacy and an orderly coherence.”
| Author | : WLLM |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2018-01-08 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1387499831 |
Welcome back to another issue ov NuShIt! As the title suggests, these 248 pages contain new poetry written & performed in 2017. If it happened in 2017, I probably wrote about it or took notes for later poems. I have continued trying as many poetic styles as I could (see Keywords), & even included a Glossary as the Special Supplement this year! NuShIt '18 is already in the works, & NuShIt will keep coming each new year until I'm dead!
| Author | : WLLM |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2019-01-02 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0359331076 |
Welcome back to another issue ov NuShIt! As the title suggests, these 336 pages contain new poetry written & performed in 2018. If it happened in 2018, I probably wrote about it or took notes for later poems. I have continued trying as many poetic styles as I can (see Keywords), & this year the Special Supplement has several illuminated poems! NuShIt ?19 is already in the works, & NuShIt will keep coming each new year until I?m dead!
| Author | : Kathleen M. O'Connor |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781570753992 |
Explores the book of Lamentations and its meaning for faith and ministry today. The five poems that comprise Lamentations tell of the community's pain in the aftermath of Jerusalem's destruction.
| Author | : Jun'Inchiro Tanizaki |
| Publisher | : Pushkin Press |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2023-09-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1782278109 |
Lavishly opulent stories of sensual obsession, cultural heritage, and mythological creatures—translated into English for the first time—from a classic Japanese writer Featuring “The Qilin,” “The Siren’s Lament,” and the novella Killing O-Tsuya, this gorgeous new edition of 3 classic works translated by Bryan Karetnyk distills the essence of Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's shorter fiction: the co-mingling of Japanese and Chinese mythologies, the chillingly dark side of desire, and the paper-thin line between the sublime and the depraved. “The Qilin”: The sage Confucius travels to a kingdom ruled by a struggling duke, whose pursuit of virtue is threatened by his consort's obsession desire for pleasure. Killing O-Tsuya: A naïve servant elopes with his master's daughter, only to be plunged headlong into a world of murder and corruption. “The Siren’s Lament”: Exhausted by a lifestyle of never-ending debauchery, a young prince finds himself in possession of a dazzling, beguiling mermaid. The essential short works of one of the most important and widely-read figured in modern Japanese literature, author of hugely popular works including In Praise of Shadows, The Makioka Sisters, and Naomi; renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity.
| Author | : Earl Swift |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2014-12-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813937205 |
Go where the story is--that’s one tenet of journalism Earl Swift has had little trouble living up to. In two decades of covering the commonwealth, Swift has hiked, canoed--even spelunked--a singular path through Virginia. He has also stopped and listened. This collection brings together some twenty Virginia tales wherein hardship is revealed as tragedy, and humor appears as uncanny, illuminating strangeness. The Pulitzer-nominated title story takes us to the Chesapeake island of Tangier, home to a Methodist enclave over two hundred years old, with an economy almost wholly dependent on the blue crab. The gradual exodus of the island’s young people and the dwindling crab hauls point to an inevitable extinction that finds a dramatic metaphor in the erosion of the island itself, which is literally disappearing beneath its inhabitants’ feet. An epic piece of reporting, "When the Rain Came" revisits the August night in 1969 when Hurricane Camille descended on Nelson and Rockbridge counties, bringing with it a deluge of nearly Biblical proportions that killed 151 people. It was later characterized by the Department of the Interior as "one of the all-time meteorological anomalies in the United States." Swift looks beyond the extraordinary numbers to find the individual stories, told to him by the people who still remember the trembling floorboards and rain too heavy to see, or even breathe, through. Other stories include a nerve-wracking inside look at the Pentagon on the morning of 9/11, the travails of a failed novelist turned folk-art demigod, an account of a 1929 Scott County tornado (deemed the deadliest in Virginia history), and a profile of Nelson County swami Master Charles, who boasts a corps of meditative followers, a mountain retreat in Nellysford, and an incomplete resume. Each piece reconfirms Virginia as a land uncommonly rich in stories--and Earl Swift as one of its most perceptive and tireless chroniclers.
| Author | : Susan Taubes |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2023-06-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1681376954 |
A celestial overseer observes—and is continually confounded by—a young woman’s path into adulthood in this uncanny and darkly humorous novel, unpublished until now and accompanied by a selection of the author’s stories. Susan Taubes’s novella “Lament for Julia” is the story of a young woman coming of age in the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of a sexless spirit who supposes himself to be charged with her oversight. What is this spirit? An operator from on high (though hardly holy), a narrative I, and a guiding presence that is more than a bit of a voyeur, who remains entirely unknown to Julia herself. About her, the spirit knows both a good deal and very little, since Julia’s emotional and physical and sexual being are all baffling, if also fascinating, to an entity that is pure mind. The I and Julia are a mismatched couple, set up for failure from the start, it seems, even if they do somehow manage to deal in their different ways with childhood and Mother and Father Klopps and ugly pink outfits and dances and crushes for a while. After which come love and marriage, not necessarily in that order, at which point things really start to go wrong. Unpublished during Taubes’s lifetime, “Lament for Julia” appears here with a selection of her stories. A brilliant metaphorical exploration of a woman’s double consciousness that is also a masterpiece of the grotesque, it is a novel like no other, a book, as Samuel Beckett wrote to his French publisher, “full of erotic touches of an emphatic sort [and] raw language,” the product of an “authentic talent,” adding, “I shall reread it.”
| Author | : Victor H. Mair |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2024-05-02 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1350337226 |
Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique. Composed and celebrated over 3000 years, they are central to the Chinese literary tradition but have been largely unknown to English readers. Including over 100 major pieces by leading literary figures from 800 BCE 1800, this is the first English anthology of classic Chinese poems of mourning and texts of sacrificial offering. With annotated translations by leading scholars and reading guides accompanying each piece, this book reveals a powerful literary heritage to students and serious readers of Chinese literature, history and civilization.
