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
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.
Inventory of the Objects forming the Collections of the Museum of Ornamental Art at South Kensington
Author: Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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
Popular Weaving and Embroidery in Spain
Author: Mildred Stapley Byne
Publisher:
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Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education
Author:
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Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Ground of All Being
Author: J. Philip Newell
Publisher: New Beginnings
ISBN: 9780981980003
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher: New Beginnings
ISBN: 9780981980003
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Five Years of Prayer, with the Answers
Author: Samuel Irenæus Prime
Publisher:
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Category : Prayer
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Prayer
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Architect
Author:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
Book Description
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
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.