Author: Kaja Weeks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948461627
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Mouth Quill's twenty-one poems narrate an intimate journey of universal themes-of ancestors, displacement, migration, longing, and connection. Drawn from the author's childhood familiarity with ancient poems of her heritage, the collection's title, "mouth quill," is inspired by Finno-Ugric runic verse and refers to the "singer's magical tool." The work unearths many such poetic concepts, creating organic metaphoric connections from the distant past to present; occasionally, the reader is invited into magical realism: becoming "the spirit of an egg, carried by the sea to Iberia" before plummeting below the Baltic Ice Lake to find the "land mother will call home." Other poems display tragedies of history (war and displacement) and the effect of ancient world views-cataclysms, music and sacred nature-upon the author's childhood and present in the 21st century, completing a tightly knit, lyrical arc of identity.
Mouth Quill
Author: Kaja Weeks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948461627
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Mouth Quill's twenty-one poems narrate an intimate journey of universal themes-of ancestors, displacement, migration, longing, and connection. Drawn from the author's childhood familiarity with ancient poems of her heritage, the collection's title, "mouth quill," is inspired by Finno-Ugric runic verse and refers to the "singer's magical tool." The work unearths many such poetic concepts, creating organic metaphoric connections from the distant past to present; occasionally, the reader is invited into magical realism: becoming "the spirit of an egg, carried by the sea to Iberia" before plummeting below the Baltic Ice Lake to find the "land mother will call home." Other poems display tragedies of history (war and displacement) and the effect of ancient world views-cataclysms, music and sacred nature-upon the author's childhood and present in the 21st century, completing a tightly knit, lyrical arc of identity.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948461627
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Mouth Quill's twenty-one poems narrate an intimate journey of universal themes-of ancestors, displacement, migration, longing, and connection. Drawn from the author's childhood familiarity with ancient poems of her heritage, the collection's title, "mouth quill," is inspired by Finno-Ugric runic verse and refers to the "singer's magical tool." The work unearths many such poetic concepts, creating organic metaphoric connections from the distant past to present; occasionally, the reader is invited into magical realism: becoming "the spirit of an egg, carried by the sea to Iberia" before plummeting below the Baltic Ice Lake to find the "land mother will call home." Other poems display tragedies of history (war and displacement) and the effect of ancient world views-cataclysms, music and sacred nature-upon the author's childhood and present in the 21st century, completing a tightly knit, lyrical arc of identity.
Relics of Ruin
Author: Erin M Evans
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316441147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
From a rising star in epic fantasy comes the captivating second novel in a trilogy featuring an unlikely team who must find a way to work together and solve an empire-spanning mystery to defend the last place they call home. Amadea Gintanas and her archivists solved a brutal murder, dispelling a grave conspiracy against the empire in the process. But danger still looms. When Quill and Richa discover the missing bones of a saint in a roadside shrine, the empire’s fragile equilibrium is put at risk. How this precious relic vanished from its sealed vault is a mystery. The threat posed by this theft is all too clear. The archivists must once again unearth the clues—and quickly. For an old enemy is gathering strength beyond the Salt Wall. And it will not hold him for long. "Detailed and mysterious, a place to explore and relish. Highly recommended!" ―R. A. Salvatore, author of "The Legends of Drizzt" For more from Erin M. Evans, check out: Empire of Exiles
Publisher: Orbit
ISBN: 0316441147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
From a rising star in epic fantasy comes the captivating second novel in a trilogy featuring an unlikely team who must find a way to work together and solve an empire-spanning mystery to defend the last place they call home. Amadea Gintanas and her archivists solved a brutal murder, dispelling a grave conspiracy against the empire in the process. But danger still looms. When Quill and Richa discover the missing bones of a saint in a roadside shrine, the empire’s fragile equilibrium is put at risk. How this precious relic vanished from its sealed vault is a mystery. The threat posed by this theft is all too clear. The archivists must once again unearth the clues—and quickly. For an old enemy is gathering strength beyond the Salt Wall. And it will not hold him for long. "Detailed and mysterious, a place to explore and relish. Highly recommended!" ―R. A. Salvatore, author of "The Legends of Drizzt" For more from Erin M. Evans, check out: Empire of Exiles
The Beginnings of the Modern Philosophy of Music in England
Author: Jamie C. Kassler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351894110
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In 1677 a slim quarto volume was published anonymously as A Philosophical Essay of Musick. Written by Francis North (1637-85), chief justice of the Common Pleas, the Essay is in the form of a legal case argued from an hypothesis. Utilising the pendulum as his hypothesis, North provided a rationale from mechanics for the emerging new musical practice we now call 'tonality'. He also made auditory resonance the connecting link between acoustical events in the external world and the musical meanings the mind makes on the basis of sensory perception. Thus began the modern philosophy of music that culminated with the work of Hermann von Helmholtz. As a step towards understanding this tradition, Jamie C. Kassler examines the 1677 Essay in its historical context. After assessing three seventeenth-century criticisms of it and outlining how one critic developed some implications in the Essay, she summarises the basic principles that have guided the modern philosophy of music from its beginnings in the 1677 Essay. The book includes an annotated edition of the Essay as well as the comments of the three critics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351894110
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In 1677 a slim quarto volume was published anonymously as A Philosophical Essay of Musick. Written by Francis North (1637-85), chief justice of the Common Pleas, the Essay is in the form of a legal case argued from an hypothesis. Utilising the pendulum as his hypothesis, North provided a rationale from mechanics for the emerging new musical practice we now call 'tonality'. He also made auditory resonance the connecting link between acoustical events in the external world and the musical meanings the mind makes on the basis of sensory perception. Thus began the modern philosophy of music that culminated with the work of Hermann von Helmholtz. As a step towards understanding this tradition, Jamie C. Kassler examines the 1677 Essay in its historical context. After assessing three seventeenth-century criticisms of it and outlining how one critic developed some implications in the Essay, she summarises the basic principles that have guided the modern philosophy of music from its beginnings in the 1677 Essay. The book includes an annotated edition of the Essay as well as the comments of the three critics.
Quill and Beadwork of the Western Sioux
Author: Carrie Alberta Lyford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bead embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
"...we have tried here to present designs known to be Sioux, for use in Sioux schools. The purpose of the book is a practical one. Though we have striven for accuracy, our aim has not been an exhaustive scientific study. Rather, it has been to bring together a representative collection of designs and to explain them, so that practical workers, both students and teachers, may be able to recognize the bead and quillwork of the western Sioux and to make it for themselves. The art has changed in the past and those who understand its style and uses may use their imaginations to develop it still more, while keeping it Indian and Sioux."--Introduction, page 9.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bead embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
"...we have tried here to present designs known to be Sioux, for use in Sioux schools. The purpose of the book is a practical one. Though we have striven for accuracy, our aim has not been an exhaustive scientific study. Rather, it has been to bring together a representative collection of designs and to explain them, so that practical workers, both students and teachers, may be able to recognize the bead and quillwork of the western Sioux and to make it for themselves. The art has changed in the past and those who understand its style and uses may use their imaginations to develop it still more, while keeping it Indian and Sioux."--Introduction, page 9.
The Little Boy's Own Book of Sports, Pastimes and Amusements, Etc. [With Illustrations.]
Author: Boy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Little Boy's Own Book of Sports, Pastimes, and Amusements
Author: William Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Boy's Own Book
Author: William Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The Boy's Own Book; a Complete Encyclopedia of All the Diversions ... of Boyhood and Youth ...
Author: Boy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The Boy's Own Book; a Complete Encyclopædia of All the Diversions ... of Boyhood and Youth. By William Clarke
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Contributions to Canadian Biology and Fisheries
Author: Biological Board of Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description