Author: Faraj Bayrakdar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937357009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 2002-just after 9/11 and prior to the US invasion of Iraq-a group inspired by Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury's seminar on Arab prison literature decided to collectively translate Syrian poet Faraj Bayrakdar's collection A Dove in Free Flight. Smuggled out of prison, the poems were published in Beirut without his knowledge, as a means of publicizing the poet's plight as a political prisoner, and exerting pressure on public opinion to pay attention to his case. A French version, translated by the great Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laabi, himself a former political prisoner, followed. More than fourteen years after initial completion of the project, UpSet Press presents this extraordinary poetic, human, and historical document, featuring an introduction by editors Ammiel Alcalay and Shareah Taleghani, a preface by Elias Khoury, and a lengthy interview with the poet himself following his release on November 16, 2000, after thirteen years, seven months, and seventeen days in the Syrian carceral archipelago.
A Dove in Free Flight
Author: Faraj Bayrakdar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937357009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 2002-just after 9/11 and prior to the US invasion of Iraq-a group inspired by Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury's seminar on Arab prison literature decided to collectively translate Syrian poet Faraj Bayrakdar's collection A Dove in Free Flight. Smuggled out of prison, the poems were published in Beirut without his knowledge, as a means of publicizing the poet's plight as a political prisoner, and exerting pressure on public opinion to pay attention to his case. A French version, translated by the great Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laabi, himself a former political prisoner, followed. More than fourteen years after initial completion of the project, UpSet Press presents this extraordinary poetic, human, and historical document, featuring an introduction by editors Ammiel Alcalay and Shareah Taleghani, a preface by Elias Khoury, and a lengthy interview with the poet himself following his release on November 16, 2000, after thirteen years, seven months, and seventeen days in the Syrian carceral archipelago.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937357009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 2002-just after 9/11 and prior to the US invasion of Iraq-a group inspired by Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury's seminar on Arab prison literature decided to collectively translate Syrian poet Faraj Bayrakdar's collection A Dove in Free Flight. Smuggled out of prison, the poems were published in Beirut without his knowledge, as a means of publicizing the poet's plight as a political prisoner, and exerting pressure on public opinion to pay attention to his case. A French version, translated by the great Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laabi, himself a former political prisoner, followed. More than fourteen years after initial completion of the project, UpSet Press presents this extraordinary poetic, human, and historical document, featuring an introduction by editors Ammiel Alcalay and Shareah Taleghani, a preface by Elias Khoury, and a lengthy interview with the poet himself following his release on November 16, 2000, after thirteen years, seven months, and seventeen days in the Syrian carceral archipelago.
Flight of the Doves
Author: Walter Macken
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330397872
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Orphans Finn and Dervla run away from the London home of their violent uncle to seek the safety of their granny's cottage in Ireland. Pursued by their uncle all the way, they are also helped by the motley crew they meet on their journey.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330397872
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Orphans Finn and Dervla run away from the London home of their violent uncle to seek the safety of their granny's cottage in Ireland. Pursued by their uncle all the way, they are also helped by the motley crew they meet on their journey.
Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove
Author: Michael Novak
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412817552
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The essence of Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove remains intact: its vision of religious studies as sustained refl ection on our lifelong voyage to discover who we are. The story we choose for ourselves, the story we live, can sacralize or secularize our lives and our world by the way in which we choose to relate to it. With this awareness of the story dimension of life, Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove opens us to awe, reverence, and wonder at the risks and possibilities of human freedom. This book is even more important than it was thirty years ago. We need religion to strike deeply into the self, away from public glare. Unless Americans become more sophisticated about the language of the self, inner life will shrivel. In addition, our people will continue to be vulnerable to fundamentalist movements. Such movements take over too many innocents. Th ey promise, and sometimes deliver, a touching happiness. But they do so by closing the spirit in a powerful and dangerous way. Families and schools do not provide a large and critical vocabulary by which to express the inner longings of the spirit. The souls of many are parched and they gladly accept water, any water, from those who off er it. Th e liberation of the religious spirit from trivial, closed, and simplistic systems of thought can only be achieved through the development of a critical language, exercises, and disciplines that open rather than close the mind, that lead to higher viewpoints, breakthroughs, and new syntheses, in a constant enlargement of spirit. Novak's book leads us to that place.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412817552
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The essence of Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove remains intact: its vision of religious studies as sustained refl ection on our lifelong voyage to discover who we are. The story we choose for ourselves, the story we live, can sacralize or secularize our lives and our world by the way in which we choose to relate to it. With this awareness of the story dimension of life, Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove opens us to awe, reverence, and wonder at the risks and possibilities of human freedom. This book is even more important than it was thirty years ago. We need religion to strike deeply into the self, away from public glare. Unless Americans become more sophisticated about the language of the self, inner life will shrivel. In addition, our people will continue to be vulnerable to fundamentalist movements. Such movements take over too many innocents. Th ey promise, and sometimes deliver, a touching happiness. But they do so by closing the spirit in a powerful and dangerous way. Families and schools do not provide a large and critical vocabulary by which to express the inner longings of the spirit. The souls of many are parched and they gladly accept water, any water, from those who off er it. Th e liberation of the religious spirit from trivial, closed, and simplistic systems of thought can only be achieved through the development of a critical language, exercises, and disciplines that open rather than close the mind, that lead to higher viewpoints, breakthroughs, and new syntheses, in a constant enlargement of spirit. Novak's book leads us to that place.
A White Bird Flying
Author: Bess Streeter Aldrich
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Published in 1931, Bess Streeter Aldrich's novel 'A White Bird Flying' is about Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, who has died at the beginning of the story. She left her china and heavy furniture to others, and to her granddaughter Laura - the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's literary aspirations had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura vows that nothing, no one, will deter her from a successful writing career. Childhood passes, and the more she repeats her vow the more life intervenes.
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Published in 1931, Bess Streeter Aldrich's novel 'A White Bird Flying' is about Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, who has died at the beginning of the story. She left her china and heavy furniture to others, and to her granddaughter Laura - the secret of her dream of finer things. Grandma Deal's literary aspirations had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura vows that nothing, no one, will deter her from a successful writing career. Childhood passes, and the more she repeats her vow the more life intervenes.
Flight of the Dove, the Story of Jeannette Rankin
Author: Kevin S. Giles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Spirit of Flight
Author:
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 144130679X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Enchanting images by popular fantasy artist Josephine Wall are combined with an uplifting feast for eye and soul. ''Fantasy gives me the opportunity to portray the world as I would like it to be,'' says Jo, who has a wish ''to inspire in her audience a personal journey into the magical world of their own imagination.'' This little book of beauty and inspiring wisdom will help readers—especially those with a fondness for fairies and fantasy—fly as far as their wings will take them.
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 144130679X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Enchanting images by popular fantasy artist Josephine Wall are combined with an uplifting feast for eye and soul. ''Fantasy gives me the opportunity to portray the world as I would like it to be,'' says Jo, who has a wish ''to inspire in her audience a personal journey into the magical world of their own imagination.'' This little book of beauty and inspiring wisdom will help readers—especially those with a fondness for fairies and fantasy—fly as far as their wings will take them.
In Hovering Flight
Author: Joyce Hinnefeld
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741757584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
When artistic Addie Sturmer enrols in Tom Kavanagh's Biology of the Birds class, Tom recognises in Addie a mirrored image of his own passion. Their life together promises to be ideal. But over the years, Addie becomes not only a famous bird artist but an even more infamous environmental activist, and their shared lives change.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741757584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
When artistic Addie Sturmer enrols in Tom Kavanagh's Biology of the Birds class, Tom recognises in Addie a mirrored image of his own passion. Their life together promises to be ideal. But over the years, Addie becomes not only a famous bird artist but an even more infamous environmental activist, and their shared lives change.
Jacques Derrida
Author: Zeynep Direk
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415235846
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415235846
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Flight of the Eagle
Author: J Krishnamurti
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473503280
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) rose from humble beginnings to become a leading spiritual and philosophical thinker. His works continue to influence thousands of people around the world; Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts, Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra have all been indebted to him. And yet he belonged to no religion, sect or country. Nor did he subscribe to any school of political or ideological thought. On the contrary, Krishnamurti maintained that these are the very factors that divide human beings and bring about conflict and war – an approach that makes his teachings particularly appealing in our own times. The Flight of the Eagle is regarded as one of Krishnamurti’s key works, grappling with themes such as freedom, change, peace, violence and – finally – the transcendental and the unknown.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473503280
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) rose from humble beginnings to become a leading spiritual and philosophical thinker. His works continue to influence thousands of people around the world; Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts, Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra have all been indebted to him. And yet he belonged to no religion, sect or country. Nor did he subscribe to any school of political or ideological thought. On the contrary, Krishnamurti maintained that these are the very factors that divide human beings and bring about conflict and war – an approach that makes his teachings particularly appealing in our own times. The Flight of the Eagle is regarded as one of Krishnamurti’s key works, grappling with themes such as freedom, change, peace, violence and – finally – the transcendental and the unknown.
The Mourning Dove Takes Flight
Author: Christine M Gordon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578618777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
How do you bridge the gap between the life you remember as a child and a new life that circumstances have thrust upon you? Can the gap between living on one continent and adapting to life on another ever be fully embraced? Young Sammy is uprooted from his home in Zimbabwe and all that he has held dear. Some relationships are made stronger by the move. His aunt Maggie and the African, Morris who was born in the same province of Matabeleland, become his support. New friendships are forged. The deep compassion given by Jeffery, in California, helps him break through old resistance, especially with the troubling relationship with Maggie's friend, Peter. The path of finding peace and acceptance is the journey Sammy faces, that brings him full circle back to the home he was forced to leave. The heartfelt story of moving to South Africa and then to the United States--of finding forgiveness and learning to love--is one that many can relate to. Many, like Sammy, Maggie, and Morris, have chosen or been forced to leave the countries of their birth. Both sweet and painful memories carve the path to embracing what has been, while striving forward to create a brighter future.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578618777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
How do you bridge the gap between the life you remember as a child and a new life that circumstances have thrust upon you? Can the gap between living on one continent and adapting to life on another ever be fully embraced? Young Sammy is uprooted from his home in Zimbabwe and all that he has held dear. Some relationships are made stronger by the move. His aunt Maggie and the African, Morris who was born in the same province of Matabeleland, become his support. New friendships are forged. The deep compassion given by Jeffery, in California, helps him break through old resistance, especially with the troubling relationship with Maggie's friend, Peter. The path of finding peace and acceptance is the journey Sammy faces, that brings him full circle back to the home he was forced to leave. The heartfelt story of moving to South Africa and then to the United States--of finding forgiveness and learning to love--is one that many can relate to. Many, like Sammy, Maggie, and Morris, have chosen or been forced to leave the countries of their birth. Both sweet and painful memories carve the path to embracing what has been, while striving forward to create a brighter future.