Author: Teresa J. Scollon
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336213
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A beautiful meditation on grief, memory, and the seasons of life. To Embroider the Ground with Prayer is a portrait of poet Teresa J. Scollon’s several worlds, as she accompanies her father through his illness and death and records the richness of family and community life in her Michigan town. These poems enjoy reverence and irreverence in equal measure as grief appears side by side with playfulness and humor. Scollon employs a wide range of poetic styles and voices: elegies, narratives, and persona poems are organized in recursive circles that evoke family, village, local characters, and the author’s adult life beyond her hometown. The collection begins with personal history and is rooted in a regional voice and focus, but Scollon skillfully transforms her experiences into larger concerns that resonate deeply and universally. Readers will get to know Scollon’s father, in fragile health but still so vital to those around him; trace Scollon’s many paths into and out of grief; and follow her travels as she confronts the pull of memory and once again forges her way in the external world. Throughout, Scollon records her understanding with fidelity, clarity, and reverence for story, and finds beauty in small everyday acts of devotion, patience, and humility. As Scollon writes, "To capture story is one way of giving thanks, of paying attention, to know where we are." Although this is her first full-length collection, Scollon’s stirring work is situated in the tradition of American poetry that includes the likes of Ruth Stone, Wendell Berry, Ted Kooser, James Wright, Carl Sandberg, and Edgar Lee Masters. Readers interested in contemporary poetry will be grateful for this profound collection.
To Embroider the Ground with Prayer
Author: Teresa J. Scollon
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336213
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A beautiful meditation on grief, memory, and the seasons of life. To Embroider the Ground with Prayer is a portrait of poet Teresa J. Scollon’s several worlds, as she accompanies her father through his illness and death and records the richness of family and community life in her Michigan town. These poems enjoy reverence and irreverence in equal measure as grief appears side by side with playfulness and humor. Scollon employs a wide range of poetic styles and voices: elegies, narratives, and persona poems are organized in recursive circles that evoke family, village, local characters, and the author’s adult life beyond her hometown. The collection begins with personal history and is rooted in a regional voice and focus, but Scollon skillfully transforms her experiences into larger concerns that resonate deeply and universally. Readers will get to know Scollon’s father, in fragile health but still so vital to those around him; trace Scollon’s many paths into and out of grief; and follow her travels as she confronts the pull of memory and once again forges her way in the external world. Throughout, Scollon records her understanding with fidelity, clarity, and reverence for story, and finds beauty in small everyday acts of devotion, patience, and humility. As Scollon writes, "To capture story is one way of giving thanks, of paying attention, to know where we are." Although this is her first full-length collection, Scollon’s stirring work is situated in the tradition of American poetry that includes the likes of Ruth Stone, Wendell Berry, Ted Kooser, James Wright, Carl Sandberg, and Edgar Lee Masters. Readers interested in contemporary poetry will be grateful for this profound collection.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814336213
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A beautiful meditation on grief, memory, and the seasons of life. To Embroider the Ground with Prayer is a portrait of poet Teresa J. Scollon’s several worlds, as she accompanies her father through his illness and death and records the richness of family and community life in her Michigan town. These poems enjoy reverence and irreverence in equal measure as grief appears side by side with playfulness and humor. Scollon employs a wide range of poetic styles and voices: elegies, narratives, and persona poems are organized in recursive circles that evoke family, village, local characters, and the author’s adult life beyond her hometown. The collection begins with personal history and is rooted in a regional voice and focus, but Scollon skillfully transforms her experiences into larger concerns that resonate deeply and universally. Readers will get to know Scollon’s father, in fragile health but still so vital to those around him; trace Scollon’s many paths into and out of grief; and follow her travels as she confronts the pull of memory and once again forges her way in the external world. Throughout, Scollon records her understanding with fidelity, clarity, and reverence for story, and finds beauty in small everyday acts of devotion, patience, and humility. As Scollon writes, "To capture story is one way of giving thanks, of paying attention, to know where we are." Although this is her first full-length collection, Scollon’s stirring work is situated in the tradition of American poetry that includes the likes of Ruth Stone, Wendell Berry, Ted Kooser, James Wright, Carl Sandberg, and Edgar Lee Masters. Readers interested in contemporary poetry will be grateful for this profound collection.
Elemental
Author: Anne-Marie Oomen
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814345689
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Fans of nonfiction that reads as beautifully as fiction will love this collection.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814345689
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Fans of nonfiction that reads as beautifully as fiction will love this collection.
Upon Our Own Ground: 1965 to 1972
Author: Gémino H. Abad
Publisher: UP Press
ISBN: 9715425852
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Publisher: UP Press
ISBN: 9715425852
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
A Method for Prayer
Author: Matthew Henry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prayer
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prayer
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Art of Gold Embroidery from Uzbekistan
Author: Suzanne Pennell
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0992303737
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Since ancient times Samarkand and Bukhara, have been thriving centres of craft production due to their location on the main routes of the ancient 'Silk Road.' The commercial, religious and political experience of these oasis cities had major lasting influences on craft production. Gold embroidery was no exception. Detailed examination of historical sources related to gold embroidery or zarduzi, showed that, until the Bolshevic Revolution in 1917, consumption of gold embroidery was restricted to the wealthy middle class and court elites. It was most spectacularly employed in displays of power and wealth among the courts of the Emirs before the Russian invasion in1868 and was produced by ustos, or masters in court ateliers. Follow zarduzi to the present day.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0992303737
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Since ancient times Samarkand and Bukhara, have been thriving centres of craft production due to their location on the main routes of the ancient 'Silk Road.' The commercial, religious and political experience of these oasis cities had major lasting influences on craft production. Gold embroidery was no exception. Detailed examination of historical sources related to gold embroidery or zarduzi, showed that, until the Bolshevic Revolution in 1917, consumption of gold embroidery was restricted to the wealthy middle class and court elites. It was most spectacularly employed in displays of power and wealth among the courts of the Emirs before the Russian invasion in1868 and was produced by ustos, or masters in court ateliers. Follow zarduzi to the present day.
Prayer for the 21st Century
Author: John Marsden
Publisher: Lothian Children's Books
ISBN: 9780850918144
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
International best-selling author John Marsden's heartfelt and compelling text speaks to young and old, expressing deeply held hopes and fears that we all recognise. This is a beautiful and provocative book with a universal message.
Publisher: Lothian Children's Books
ISBN: 9780850918144
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
International best-selling author John Marsden's heartfelt and compelling text speaks to young and old, expressing deeply held hopes and fears that we all recognise. This is a beautiful and provocative book with a universal message.
Inside Out & Back Again
Author: Thanhha Lai
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702251178
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702251178
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
Poetry in Michigan in Poetry
Author: William Olsen
Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose
ISBN: 9781936970162
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This anthology gathers an intriguing range of poets, their visions and voices. The poems as a whole, in one way or another, explore the variances in Michigan landscape; shoreline; lives lived in the city, town, and countryside; our uncommon diversity of cultures, points of view, concerns, celebrations, losses, and histories. This book also features artwork that focuses on Michigan. The poems and art are mingled in a way that will not reduce the art to illustration, nor the poetry to commentary. Each piece, poem and artwork, stands alone in its presentation. Includes poetry from: Tom Andrews James Armstrong Cullen Bailey Burns Jackie Bartley Elinor Benedict Terry Blackhawk Gladys Cardiff Susanna Childress Patricia Clark David Cope Jim Daniels Mike Delp Toi Derricotte Chris Dombrowski Jack Driscoll Stuart Dybek Nancy Eimers Robert Fanning Mary Jo Firth Gillett Lisa Fishman Linda Nemec Foster Matthew Gavin Frank Joy Gaines-Friedler Dan Gerber Linda Gregerson Mariela Griffor Robert Haight francine j. harris Jim Harrison Bob Hicok Conrad Hilberry Dennis Hinrichsen Amorak Huey Austin Hummell Lizzie Hutton David L. James D. R. James Rhoda Janzen Jonathan Johnson Laura Kasischke Josie Kearns Elizabeth Kerlikowske Judith Kerman L.S. Klatt David Dodd Lee Phil Levine M.L. Liebler Thomas Lynch Naomi Long Madgett Corey Marks Peter Markus Gail Martin Kathleen McGookey Judith Minty Ander Monson Julie Moulds Amy Newday William Olsen Anne-Marie Oomen Miriam Pederson Susan Blackwell Ramsey Greg Rappleye Josh Rathkamp Christine Rhein Jack Ridl John Rybicki Mary Ann Samyn Teresa Scollon Herb Scott Heather Sellers Diane Seuss Patty Seyburn Faith Shearin Marc Sheehan Don Stap Phillip Sterling Alison Swan Keith Taylor Matthew Thorburn Russell Thorburn Richard Tillinghast Rodney Torreson Robert VanderMolen Diane
Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose
ISBN: 9781936970162
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This anthology gathers an intriguing range of poets, their visions and voices. The poems as a whole, in one way or another, explore the variances in Michigan landscape; shoreline; lives lived in the city, town, and countryside; our uncommon diversity of cultures, points of view, concerns, celebrations, losses, and histories. This book also features artwork that focuses on Michigan. The poems and art are mingled in a way that will not reduce the art to illustration, nor the poetry to commentary. Each piece, poem and artwork, stands alone in its presentation. Includes poetry from: Tom Andrews James Armstrong Cullen Bailey Burns Jackie Bartley Elinor Benedict Terry Blackhawk Gladys Cardiff Susanna Childress Patricia Clark David Cope Jim Daniels Mike Delp Toi Derricotte Chris Dombrowski Jack Driscoll Stuart Dybek Nancy Eimers Robert Fanning Mary Jo Firth Gillett Lisa Fishman Linda Nemec Foster Matthew Gavin Frank Joy Gaines-Friedler Dan Gerber Linda Gregerson Mariela Griffor Robert Haight francine j. harris Jim Harrison Bob Hicok Conrad Hilberry Dennis Hinrichsen Amorak Huey Austin Hummell Lizzie Hutton David L. James D. R. James Rhoda Janzen Jonathan Johnson Laura Kasischke Josie Kearns Elizabeth Kerlikowske Judith Kerman L.S. Klatt David Dodd Lee Phil Levine M.L. Liebler Thomas Lynch Naomi Long Madgett Corey Marks Peter Markus Gail Martin Kathleen McGookey Judith Minty Ander Monson Julie Moulds Amy Newday William Olsen Anne-Marie Oomen Miriam Pederson Susan Blackwell Ramsey Greg Rappleye Josh Rathkamp Christine Rhein Jack Ridl John Rybicki Mary Ann Samyn Teresa Scollon Herb Scott Heather Sellers Diane Seuss Patty Seyburn Faith Shearin Marc Sheehan Don Stap Phillip Sterling Alison Swan Keith Taylor Matthew Thorburn Russell Thorburn Richard Tillinghast Rodney Torreson Robert VanderMolen Diane
Trees and Other Creatures
Author: Teresa Scollon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935770237
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Poetry Chapbook
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935770237
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Poetry Chapbook
In the Land of the Lion and Sun, Or: Modern Persia
Author: Charles J. Wills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description