independently published jan 2017 (229 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The name O'Shaughnessy is easily recognisable as a quintessential Irish name whereas the surname of its lineal cousins, Hynes, the anglicised rendition of Ui hEidhne, looks more Saxon than Gaelic. The name O 'Cleary is also obviously Irish as indeed it is because that family shares the same ancestry as the Hynes and O'Shaughnessy and has the added distinction of being one of the earliest recorded hereditary names ever. This book, the 'O'Shaughnessys', is a companion book to 'The Hynes of Ireland' so ideally it should be read shortly after the other because the two families share their earliest ancestors and history. Between them the two books present vivid accounts of the battles, murders, duels, conflicts, love stories, poems, castles, monasteries and miracles involving these ancient families and their kinsfolk, other descendants of King Guaire, the O'Clearys, O'Cahans, O'Cahills, Killikellys, . Their ancient friends and foes are mentioned too, among them - the Burkes, Comerfords, Gregorys, Martins, O'Briens, O'Connors, O'Donovans, O'Kellys, O'Loughlins, Ludlow, O'Neills, Prendergasts and Taylors. Researchers into family history will find a wealth of intriguing information about these families which has hitherto been hidden away in obscure papers and documents.Where most of the narrative of The Hynes of Ireland centres on the seaside town of Kinvara on the edge of Galway bay, Ireland, The O'Shaughnessys centres on the market town of Gort, a few miles inland.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The work of the poet is to bear witness and tell truths, to report and document the beautiful and the strange, the twisted and the sweet. Because this is the work, being a poet means coming to terms with the joys and burden of saying, 'I am here. This is the story.' Sometimes that work comes at expense of comfort and sometimes it comes at the expense of the pained expectation to remain silent, to tow the line. In this raw, wondrous, and heartbreaking debut, Kathryn Leland's body is given in full to the work, and that body is hammered into wood, into bedroom doors slammed shut, into dented car hoods, into a garden of bruised soil purpling to blooms of Aster and Dahlia. These are not flowers of melodrama. This garden is the reality of wreckage, the salvaged self of a girl becoming a woman. This is Leland learning if she can make a body for herself, 'they can burn it, tear it, throw it away,' but through the work there comes the toughened spirit of a poet and the resolve to say, no matter what, 'This happened.'-Bryan Borland & Seth Pennington (Sibling Rivalry Press).

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Sarah Caulfield's work is inspired-in the antique sense of the verb inspirare, to impart, to instill, to breathe life into. Fully inhabiting the fragility and messiness of ailing bodies and anxious minds, Caulfield probes with surgical ruthlessness and hard-earned empathy into the meat of something that might be called (if this collection did not resist the clichés of universality) the human condition. 'Your spine is made of beach glass,' a time-traveling woman, speaking 'To The Girl I Was,' informs her past self. 'It will withstand.' The same is true of the seventeen spoken-word poems that make up the vertebrae of SPINE. These are stories about pain and compassion, despair and endurance, doubt and faith, that will not 'fade in the telling.' They will withstand.-Samantha Pious, Finalist for the 2015 Charlotte Mew Prize SPINE stitches together a mythology of sickness, without romanticising it-this is vital, visceral work, grounded in the realities of blood and bone. Glittering fragments of imagery repeat and refract throughout the collection, weaving through a world of sterile hospital walls and incense-rich catholic churches. Here, religion, sex, illness, and death all bleed into each other: themes not isolated but mutually entrenched, and foundational to Caulfield's voice. This complex self-portrait is an assured debut that overwhelms the senses and improves on every reading.-Hel Robin Gurney, nominee for the Rhysling Poetry Award, spoken word performer and scholar (The Sleeping Princess, EdFringe, 2016) Sarah Caulfield's writing is contemporary and engaging. Honest and important. I'm really happy to have a writer like Sarah creating LGBT work that is likely to be read forever; she makes the new writers' landscape much more exciting.-Remilyn Browne Oshibanjo, member of London-based creative collective SXWKS, author of these are the most terrifying thoughts.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In Farrell Greenwald Brenner's playful, cutting Diatribe from the Library, books are toxins, grenades, they have bones. Books are typed on cigarette papers and smoked outside of the library. Farrell writes of the burning of books, reminds us that 'witch-burning is still in vogue,' and hints at the smoldering fires of the Holocaust. All of this feels even more palpable as we enter an era with a president-elect who states that the burning of the U.S. flag should be punishable by the loss of citizenship. What is citizenship What happens 'when your family crosses an ocean' What is displacement and diaspora-for Jews, Palestinians, African-Americans Can the library, can the book, heal wounds-'this/is mine/the word/the page/the book' Farrell's book itself is a kind of antidote: 'I wish for you the megaphone into which you can spit that fire/and become a dragon of your own.'-Becca Shaw Glaser, co-author of Mindful Occupation: Rising Up Without Burning OutBursting with playful repetition, Farrell Greenwald Brenner's Diatribe from the Library is a storm of lyrical verse. Her collection serves as treatise on the millennial college experience-both in and outside the library-with unconventional odes to the 'red solo cup,' a sly 'Psalm' to '.dark roast, merciful be / Thine earthen beans divine,' and a hat's off to the 'fairy godmothers,' of 'JSTOR / and SAGE.' Often abandoning traditional form and punctuation, Brenner surprises us often with this smart and charming debut.-Christina Quintana, author of The Heart Wants.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - \*Finalist for Lambda Literary Award! These poems are brilliant and dangerous. The opening poem, 'Invisible Woman, Dancing,' is the best protest poem of the decade. The speaker attends a party full of casual, good-intentioned racists and ableists. The ending of the poem is explosive. Constance Merritt shows incredible range - erotic poems to a wayward lover; blues lyrics so rhythmic I can nearly hear the guitar; and devotional poems that offer 'this, you know, is love, is all, the end.' Blind Girl Grunt is a major work by a major poet.-Jillian Weise Merritt's latest collection is a back in bend-bend in love, bend in prayer, and bend in anger. A Blues infiltrates these lines and stanzas, ready to sing and stay (as any devoted lover) through the long haul. And the haul here is a woman, her myriad contents, in medias res.-CM Burroughs Beyond their shared-and dazzling-immunity to taboos, the poems in Constance Merritt's fourth book are very different from each other. Different in form, from stern villanelles to get-drunk-on-them blues poems to wandering narratives. And they are different in their tones, with ruthless self-awareness next to sexy lullaby next to persuasive rage at being 'unmoored and vanishing' beyond 'the flag of whiteness.' Even within single poems, tone is protean. 'The Less Than Greater Than Blues' is goofily playful and also as blunt as blunt gets about the roots of the suffering we cause each other. The penultimate poem 'Advent' shifts between a longing that intends to wreck and a longing that intends to redeem. In fact the book as a whole shifts between these longings. As do we. Merritt implicates us gently but without hesitation, wrapping us into the 'brilliant skin, the ruinous eyes, / the body poised in transit' that opens the collection and that judges and blesses, throughout it. Blind Girl Grunt is supple, and rigorous, and so surprising. It is vital.-Taije Silverman.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In this comedy of four acts: The President of the nation is locked out of his office. The janitor has the only known key. He refuses to unlock the door. But why A war is in the offing. The war plans are inside. What will the nation do to persuade the janitor to open the door What will the loyal opposition do What will the court do What will the mistress do What will the twin brother do How can a janitor clean up the nation's mess Isn't that's the job of a janitor, to clean things up Follow these four acts of mayhem and no murder to the exciting and unexpected conclusion. The nation must be unified!We guarantee: If you don't laugh, the government will somehow refund your money.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Hogan, Corina Ilustrador. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Enclosed are the storiesOf lovers and terrorOf killers and cricketsOf wives and of friends.Just like the bakerWho grants you one extraHere are twelve givenAnd one more to end.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Twins separated at birth. Neither aware the other exists. If, years later, their paths should cross, would they know The unaccountable working of blind fate, can it be that kind, that cruel, that serendipitous.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Can a common man do uncommon things With an artist, all things are possible, including the extraordinary. Art, being that chore which is a gift, requires of men both patience and luck. Stanley Fair got lucky, and he also found beauty in a beast.Stanley Fair's life was fulfillment of the aphorism: There be success, then there be art; the first needs luck, the second, heart.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This is the first in the series of Political History Texts, texts that have had major impact on how we think and our social and political environment. Chairman Mao's Little Red book continues to influence a generations of Chinese Communists and the repercussions of this man's leadership have unimaginable far reaching impact. How the book has influenced modern thinking in the west I will leave to modern pundits to comment on but you cannot deny the impact that the 5bn copies printed had on the Chinese nation. References have been added to explain historical context, translation of foreign phrases and definitions of uncommon words.