My Self, My Muse

My Self, My Muse
Author: Patricia Boyle Haberstroh
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2001-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780815629108

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A unique look into the minds and creative processes of contemporary Irish women poets, this book focuses on the transformation of their life experiences into poetry that blends personal identity with national identiry. It assembles many voices around common themes that are emerging to change Irish poetry permanently. Patricia Boyle Haberstroh, whose book Women Creating Women: Contemporary Irish Women Poets was a Choice Outstanding Academic book in 1996, shows in this new work how nine of the most prolific Irish women writers generate their poetry, broadening our understanding of the context of the poems. She pairs each author's verse with a companion (and often autobiographical) prose piece to illuminate the ways in which the poetry expresses the poet's personal experience. As women in a politically and religiously charged, male-dominated genre and country, these poets feel compelled to transcend daily life by articulating against the "norm." In this book, they describe the issues they confronted in their growth as poets and the strategies they developed to translate life into art. In linking these poets—drawn from Northern Ireland and England as well as the Republic of Ireland—Haberstroh throws into relief the characteristics that define their unique, individual subjects, themes, and styles.

To My Muse

To My Muse
Author: Nicola M. Cameron
Publisher: Belaurient Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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I’m in a fake relationship with my celebrity crush. How did I wind up in a real-life romance trope? When too much tequila and an enabling BFF put my newest and oh-so-spicy romance novel into the hands of its inspiration, sexy British actor Tom Morrison, I’m horrified (because hello complete stranger, I thought of you while writing these smexy scenes, now excuse me while I spontaneously combust from embarrassment). I need to get the book back before Tom takes out a restraining order on me—or worse, reads the book out loud on social media. Except that’s not what happens. Thanks to a strategic lie and an Oscar-winning knight I’m now pretending to be Tom’s girlfriend while we get his dream project made. Somehow, my screwball plan landed me in the middle of my very own Cinderella story, Hollywood style. Even better, I have a shot at a real life HEA with a gorgeous, hilarious man who thinks I’m amazing… …so why do I get the feeling that disaster is about to strike?

Marry Your Muse

Marry Your Muse
Author: Jan Phillips
Publisher: Quest Books
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-12-16
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0835630226

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Working and would-be writers, photographers, painters, journal keepers, sculptors, musicians, poets, and creative folk in every field will find inspiration and practical suggestions in this joyous book. This complete course in creative expression is based on Jan Phillips' smash "Marry Your Muse" workshops, and was chosen a Ben Franklin Award gold medal winner for 1997. In Part One, the stirring affirmations of The Artist's Creed empower us to become more confident and productive. In Part Two, anecdotes, photographs, quotations to ponder, fun and effective exercises help us discover a deep and satisfying form of self-expression. In Part Three, the heartful stories of working artists inspire us to fall in love with the artist within

"My Muse Will Have a Story to Paint"

Author: Lodovico Ariosto
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1442640871

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Ariosto's correspondence paints a detailed portrait of the world he lived and wrote in. While some letters illuminate his day-to-day life, including his work as a provincial commissioner for the ruling Este family of Ferrara, others shed light on the composition and production of his poems and plays, allowing a glimpse of the man in his creative workshop. Herbal Doctor, a parody of humanism in general and neoplatonic philosophy in particular, may mark a defense of Ariosto's decision to turn away from the philological world of his contemporaries in order to pursue a different kind of learning.

Revenants

Revenants
Author: Tabitha Beck
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2012-06-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1105873773

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Bits And Pieces Fiction and Non-Fiction From Over The YearsOriginally, there was a blog that I called my creative notebook. I answered prompts, responded to questions, dug deep into my own psyche, and I put it all out onto this blog.I eventually closed that blog.I didn't want to lose all of this writing I had done for so many years. I collected it all together.These writings are the result of belonging to different writing groups, responding to various prompts, and journaling groups.You will find a mix of both fiction and non-fiction in this volume.This volume is volume one of a two volume set. The second volume is called Remnants.

The Best of Mary Schmich

The Best of Mary Schmich
Author: Mary Schmich
Publisher: Agate Digital
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2012-09-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1572844124

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Over the last two decades, Mary Schmich’s biweekly column in the Chicago Tribune has offered advice, humor, and discerning commentary on a broad array of topics including family, milestones, mental illness, writing, and life in Chicago. Schmich won the 2012 Pulitzer for Commentary for “her down-to-earth columns that reflect the character and capture the culture of her famed city.” This book compiles her 10 Pulitzer-winning columns along with 154 others, creating a captivating collection that reflects Schmich’s thoughtful and insightful sensibility. Schmich’s 1997 “Wear Sunscreen” column (which has had a life of its own as a falsely attributed Kurt Vonnegut commencement speech) is included, as well as her columns focusing on the demolition of Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing project. One of the most moving sections is her 12-part series with US District Judge Joan Lefkow as the latter reflected on rebuilding her life after the horrific murders of her mother and husband. Throughout the book, Schmich reflects wisely and wryly on the world we live in, and her fond observances of Chicago life bring the city in all its varied character to warm, vivid life.

Walking the Cat, by Tommy "Tip" Paine

Walking the Cat, by Tommy
Author: John Calvin Batchelor
Publisher: Owl Books
Total Pages: 301
Release: 1995-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780805037890

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Spy writer Tip Paine comes to the rescue of a neighbor who is being blackmailed by Seoul gangsters and becomes enmeshed in an Asian money war with global implications

The Tenth Muse

The Tenth Muse
Author: Judith Jones
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2008-12-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307498255

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A memoir by the legendary cookbook editor who was present at the creation of the American food revolution and played a pivotal role in shaping it • “Engrossing. . . . The Tenth Muse lets you pull up a chair at the table where American gastronomic history took place.”—O, The Oprah Magazine Living in Paris after World War II, Jones broke free of bland American food and reveled in everyday French culinary delights. On returning to the States she published Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The rest is publishing and gastronomic history. A new world now opened up to Jones as she discovered, with her husband Evan, the delights of American food, publishing some of the premier culinary luminaries of the twentieth century: from Julia Child, James Beard, and M.F.K. Fisher to Claudia Roden, Edna Lewis, and Lidia Bastianich. Also included are fifty of Jones's favorite recipes collected over a lifetime of cooking-each with its own story and special tips. “Lovely. . . . A rare glimpse into the roots of the modern culinary world.”—Chicago Tribune

Tracking the White Rabbit

Tracking the White Rabbit
Author: Lyn Cowan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2005-07-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135453756

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Since its beginning, depth psychology has attempted to change the status quo of individual and cultural life by probing beneath surface appearances. Lyn Cowan explores a number of subjects, considering what possible meanings and implications for change might lie behind the conventional attitudes toward such subjects as: * Abortion * Gender and sexuality * Language * Memory * Melancholy The author puts forward the argument that, although "psychology" and "subversion" are not usually thought of as belonging together, they should be. Such a view, presented clearly with humour and insight, offers a way to think differently about usual things, and yield fresh meaning to some of the pressing dilemmas of our time and how we as individuals may respond to them.

The Works of Cowper and Thomson

The Works of Cowper and Thomson
Author: William Cowper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 614
Release: 1834
Genre: English poetry
ISBN:

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