Author: Mihaela Moscaliuc
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882295784
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
"With exquisite lyricism Mihaela Moscaliuc recreates her childhood in Ceausescu's Romania. The narrative of hardship and loss is arresting and poignant but it's the flavors and smells, the rich evocation of folk medicines, the vivid descriptions of potions, ghosts, and ways to ward off demons that raise this first book to impressive heights."—Maxine Kumin MihaelaMoscaliuc's lyric debut unveils Communist and post-Communist Romanian life, recounting experiences and landscapes like a true wanderer. Romantic and spellbinding, her quest to understand language, origin, and country unites celebration with mourning, the sacred with the profane, apathy with compassion. From "Cold War Redux": I don't understand why history twists her own arm but I saw her do it: eyes squinted, lips thinned, she clipped our vocal chords, blew echoes into our gas stoves. We grew delirious with want behind the screeching Wall, dreamt stocks and bonds while dining on smoked plums. I don't understand why history scars her own body, but I know this: it could have been my own, gone insane, riding the skies, scything towers, and your own now on my land, pulverizing my parents' bodies. Born and raised in Romania, Mihaela Moscaliuc came to the United States in 1996 to complete graduate work in American literature. Her poems, reviews, translations, and articles have appeared in The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, New Letters, Poetry International, Arts & Letters, Pleiades, and Soundings. She teaches at Monmouth University and lives in Ocean, New Jersey. This courageous autobiographical collection disarms us, exposing cultural oppression and igniting compassion with honest, enchanting language.
Father Dirt
Author: Mihaela Moscaliuc
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882295784
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
"With exquisite lyricism Mihaela Moscaliuc recreates her childhood in Ceausescu's Romania. The narrative of hardship and loss is arresting and poignant but it's the flavors and smells, the rich evocation of folk medicines, the vivid descriptions of potions, ghosts, and ways to ward off demons that raise this first book to impressive heights."—Maxine Kumin MihaelaMoscaliuc's lyric debut unveils Communist and post-Communist Romanian life, recounting experiences and landscapes like a true wanderer. Romantic and spellbinding, her quest to understand language, origin, and country unites celebration with mourning, the sacred with the profane, apathy with compassion. From "Cold War Redux": I don't understand why history twists her own arm but I saw her do it: eyes squinted, lips thinned, she clipped our vocal chords, blew echoes into our gas stoves. We grew delirious with want behind the screeching Wall, dreamt stocks and bonds while dining on smoked plums. I don't understand why history scars her own body, but I know this: it could have been my own, gone insane, riding the skies, scything towers, and your own now on my land, pulverizing my parents' bodies. Born and raised in Romania, Mihaela Moscaliuc came to the United States in 1996 to complete graduate work in American literature. Her poems, reviews, translations, and articles have appeared in The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, New Letters, Poetry International, Arts & Letters, Pleiades, and Soundings. She teaches at Monmouth University and lives in Ocean, New Jersey. This courageous autobiographical collection disarms us, exposing cultural oppression and igniting compassion with honest, enchanting language.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882295784
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
"With exquisite lyricism Mihaela Moscaliuc recreates her childhood in Ceausescu's Romania. The narrative of hardship and loss is arresting and poignant but it's the flavors and smells, the rich evocation of folk medicines, the vivid descriptions of potions, ghosts, and ways to ward off demons that raise this first book to impressive heights."—Maxine Kumin MihaelaMoscaliuc's lyric debut unveils Communist and post-Communist Romanian life, recounting experiences and landscapes like a true wanderer. Romantic and spellbinding, her quest to understand language, origin, and country unites celebration with mourning, the sacred with the profane, apathy with compassion. From "Cold War Redux": I don't understand why history twists her own arm but I saw her do it: eyes squinted, lips thinned, she clipped our vocal chords, blew echoes into our gas stoves. We grew delirious with want behind the screeching Wall, dreamt stocks and bonds while dining on smoked plums. I don't understand why history scars her own body, but I know this: it could have been my own, gone insane, riding the skies, scything towers, and your own now on my land, pulverizing my parents' bodies. Born and raised in Romania, Mihaela Moscaliuc came to the United States in 1996 to complete graduate work in American literature. Her poems, reviews, translations, and articles have appeared in The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, New Letters, Poetry International, Arts & Letters, Pleiades, and Soundings. She teaches at Monmouth University and lives in Ocean, New Jersey. This courageous autobiographical collection disarms us, exposing cultural oppression and igniting compassion with honest, enchanting language.
Dirt
Author: Bill Buford
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385353197
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) move to Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. But what was meant to be six months in a new and very foreign city turns into a wild five-year digression from normal life, as Buford apprentices at Lyon’s best boulangerie, studies at a legendary culinary school, and cooks at a storied Michelin-starred restaurant, where he discovers the exacting (and incomprehensibly punishing) rigueur of the professional kitchen. With his signature humor, sense of adventure, and masterful ability to bring an exotic and unknown world to life, Buford has written the definitive insider story of a city and its great culinary culture.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385353197
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) move to Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. But what was meant to be six months in a new and very foreign city turns into a wild five-year digression from normal life, as Buford apprentices at Lyon’s best boulangerie, studies at a legendary culinary school, and cooks at a storied Michelin-starred restaurant, where he discovers the exacting (and incomprehensibly punishing) rigueur of the professional kitchen. With his signature humor, sense of adventure, and masterful ability to bring an exotic and unknown world to life, Buford has written the definitive insider story of a city and its great culinary culture.
Dirt
Author: Denise Gosliner Orenstein
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545925878
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A Horse in the House? Things are hard for eleven-year-old Yonder. Her mother died and her father has sunk into sadness. She doesn't have a friend to her name . . . except for Dirt, the Shetland pony next door.Dirt has problems of his own. He's overweight, he's always in trouble, and his owner is the mean Miss Enid, who doesn't have the patience for a pony's natural curiosity. His only friend is Yonder, the scrawny girl next door.So when Miss Enid decides to sell Dirt for horsemeat, Yonder knows she has to find a way to rescue him. Even if that means stealing Dirt away and sneaking him into her own house. What follows will make you worry, will make you cry, and will ultimately fill you with hope, love, and an unshakable belief in the power of friendship. Especially the four-legged kind.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545925878
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A Horse in the House? Things are hard for eleven-year-old Yonder. Her mother died and her father has sunk into sadness. She doesn't have a friend to her name . . . except for Dirt, the Shetland pony next door.Dirt has problems of his own. He's overweight, he's always in trouble, and his owner is the mean Miss Enid, who doesn't have the patience for a pony's natural curiosity. His only friend is Yonder, the scrawny girl next door.So when Miss Enid decides to sell Dirt for horsemeat, Yonder knows she has to find a way to rescue him. Even if that means stealing Dirt away and sneaking him into her own house. What follows will make you worry, will make you cry, and will ultimately fill you with hope, love, and an unshakable belief in the power of friendship. Especially the four-legged kind.
My Father's Quest
Author: Carmen Corrales Konneker
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1604942177
Category : Immigrant children
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"In the early 1900s in rural Mexico, a father and mother are taken from their children in a tragic accident. The four small children lose everything--their home, their friends, and all their belongings--and are placed in an orphanage by an uncaring distant relative. The oldest child, Daniel, is only eight years old, but he is determined to protect his younger brother and two sisters as he promised by his father's grave. When the siblings are separated, Daniel begins a quest to reunite his family that spans years and borders, trying to bring them together once more. This is the story as told to his daughter Carmen, who wrote it with love."--Back cover.
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1604942177
Category : Immigrant children
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
"In the early 1900s in rural Mexico, a father and mother are taken from their children in a tragic accident. The four small children lose everything--their home, their friends, and all their belongings--and are placed in an orphanage by an uncaring distant relative. The oldest child, Daniel, is only eight years old, but he is determined to protect his younger brother and two sisters as he promised by his father's grave. When the siblings are separated, Daniel begins a quest to reunite his family that spans years and borders, trying to bring them together once more. This is the story as told to his daughter Carmen, who wrote it with love."--Back cover.
The Rotarian
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Memories of My Father Watching TV
Author: Curtis White
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564781895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
For the boy narrator of this tale, to be a man one must kill one's father. He plays out the fantasy as he watches a war movie with him on TV. "My father was a German pontoon bridge ... he had to be taken out."
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564781895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
For the boy narrator of this tale, to be a man one must kill one's father. He plays out the fantasy as he watches a war movie with him on TV. "My father was a German pontoon bridge ... he had to be taken out."
There's a Hair in My Dirt!
Author: Gary Larson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781435242272
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A story about an earthworm family, a comely maiden, and what really goes on in the natural world.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781435242272
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A story about an earthworm family, a comely maiden, and what really goes on in the natural world.
In My Father's Generation
Author: James Martin Rhodes
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1583483241
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
In My Father's Generation is the story of the American South, struggling to rebuild and reinvent itself between the Civil War and World War I. It is also the story of John Warren, Corey Strokes, and their families-one black, one white-and the roles they play in the building of the southern timber industry and in breaking the racial barriers of the past. It tells the reader of the loves and losses they share and the fighting spirit that empowers them to prevail in life. As you come to know John Warren and Corey Stokes, their journey through life will inspire you . Begin now to live In My Father's Generation. "A powerful book on powerful themes, with an authentic modern, Southern voice." Rob Meltzler, MetroWest Daily News, Boston
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1583483241
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
In My Father's Generation is the story of the American South, struggling to rebuild and reinvent itself between the Civil War and World War I. It is also the story of John Warren, Corey Strokes, and their families-one black, one white-and the roles they play in the building of the southern timber industry and in breaking the racial barriers of the past. It tells the reader of the loves and losses they share and the fighting spirit that empowers them to prevail in life. As you come to know John Warren and Corey Stokes, their journey through life will inspire you . Begin now to live In My Father's Generation. "A powerful book on powerful themes, with an authentic modern, Southern voice." Rob Meltzler, MetroWest Daily News, Boston
I Am the Decisions That I’Ve Made
Author: Ritchie Mcphee
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 154345898X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
In writing this book, I was imagining myself living in a free World. This book was not written for anyone to subscribe to. The thoughts and expressions are just that, my thoughts and expressions, yes they belong to me. Ive always thought out of the box, and I mean out of the box without any confinements. Ive heard the expression out of the box on many occasions, but how far individuals are willing to venture out, is almost always limited. We should all have the freedom to think, we should all have the freedom to express ourselves, and we should all have the freedom to be free. How is it that we dont want to know who are enemies are, and how is it that we want others to think for us? I am right, but Im not afraid to be wrong. In essence everything is a matter of opinion. There is no right, and there is no wrong, for we are all right, and we are all wrong. It is just our interpretation of the truth, and for a lot of us, its what we want the truth to be.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 154345898X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
In writing this book, I was imagining myself living in a free World. This book was not written for anyone to subscribe to. The thoughts and expressions are just that, my thoughts and expressions, yes they belong to me. Ive always thought out of the box, and I mean out of the box without any confinements. Ive heard the expression out of the box on many occasions, but how far individuals are willing to venture out, is almost always limited. We should all have the freedom to think, we should all have the freedom to express ourselves, and we should all have the freedom to be free. How is it that we dont want to know who are enemies are, and how is it that we want others to think for us? I am right, but Im not afraid to be wrong. In essence everything is a matter of opinion. There is no right, and there is no wrong, for we are all right, and we are all wrong. It is just our interpretation of the truth, and for a lot of us, its what we want the truth to be.
God, His Prophets and His Children
Author: M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Publisher: The Fellowship Press
ISBN: 9780914390091
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher: The Fellowship Press
ISBN: 9780914390091
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description