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The Song Of The Captives: A Verse Adaptation Of Testimony Taken From Detainees At Abu Ghraib Prison
ISBN: 9781438221083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Limited resources, increasing populations, and unyielding political and religious systems have engendered conflicts around the world. As a consequence, commercial interests, established institutions, and government powers have threatened fundamental aspects of human rights. The poetry in this book interprets, in a metered format, sworn statements obtained at Baghdad Correctional Facility, Abu Ghraib, Iraq, January 16-21, 2004, and obtained by the Washington Post. It finds a dark music in the plain speech of men detained and manipulated by strangers: He said, If I give you some torture, What...
Limited resources, increasing populations, and unyielding political and religious systems have engendered conflicts around the world. As a consequence...
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57,19 zł |
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The Palimpsest Of Human Rights: Writings Of Thoreau, Gandhi, & King Arranged As A Choral Text-Weaving
ISBN: 9781438222585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Writings of Martin Luther King, Mohandas Gandhi, and Henry David Thoreau are here brought into a common format by paraphrasing the text into metered lines (iambic pentameter); the lines are arranged to create three-line stanzas in a single unified master document. The result is a long poem in which the successive lines are bound rhythmically but not always by meaning. In each stanza the first line is from Thoreau, the second line from Gandhi, and the third line from King, as shown here: I hold this saying close beside my heart: I am not a visionary person; You cannot deny we face a crisis...
Writings of Martin Luther King, Mohandas Gandhi, and Henry David Thoreau are here brought into a common format by paraphrasing the text into metered l...
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66,34 zł |
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The Song Of Luke: A Poetic Gospel
ISBN: 9781438226446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. To promote singing, and a stronger sense of community, THE SONG OF LUKE retells the gospel story as a poem arranged in stanzas of four lines with lines of four beats, rhyming every other line, a ballad form called long meter. The poem retains the meaning of conventional versions of the story of Jesus, while offering suitable texts for musical settings of the entire gospel or any passage of particular interest. The text does not include any of the false and sinful condemnations of Jews which have historically contributed to the practice of eliminationist anti-semitism. The crucifixion of Jesus...
To promote singing, and a stronger sense of community, THE SONG OF LUKE retells the gospel story as a poem arranged in stanzas of four lines with line...
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57,19 zł |
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Heaven On Earth
ISBN: 9781438225074 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This novel documents the idealistic passage of a young couple from WWII-era Brooklyn into a bleak terrain in upstate New York, where they establish a family farm. Within a span of twenty years, they raise five boys and watch them leave their dreams behind, one by one. As alcohol and disillusionment begin to cast their long shadows over the succeeding generation, each of the family's sons develops a suite of defensive behaviors; until, at last, the youngest son, Zeekie, finds redemption in becoming the family's storyteller.
This novel documents the idealistic passage of a young couple from WWII-era Brooklyn into a bleak terrain in upstate New York, where they establish a ...
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The Book Of Ashes: Poetry For Grieving And Meditations On The Book Of Job
ISBN: 9781438222714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. THE BOOK OF ASHES, (originally called Little Job, or Pety Job) is a meditative fifteenth century verse paraphrase of excerpts from the Book of Job; a passionate penitential monologue that uses as its meditative base the liturgical text intoned daily for the souls of the dead. The original author is unknown. Early manuscripts describe the work as follows: The nine lessons of the Dirge, which Job made in his tribulation lying on the dunghill, declaring more clearly to our understanding, in a solemn and worthy manner, that which will suffice to steer sinners towards compunction. This edition...
THE BOOK OF ASHES, (originally called Little Job, or Pety Job) is a meditative fifteenth century verse paraphrase of excerpts from the Book of Job; a ...
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57,19 zł |
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The Saxon Gospel: A Modern English Verse Retelling Of The Medieval Epic Life Of The Savior
ISBN: 9781438218809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first monument of real Christianity among the Saxons was the Heliand, an epic on the life of Christ in Old Saxon alliterative verse, dating from about 830. The original work attempted to make the newly imposed Christian religion intelligible to the warlike Saxons. The Heliand, extant in four manuscripts, and the fragmentary Old Saxon Genesis are all that remain of Old Saxon poetry. This poetic harmony of the Gospels employs modern English alliterative verse couplets, in a complex structure of 75 cantos, to generate a vigorous retelling of the story of the Christ as an epic tale...
The first monument of real Christianity among the Saxons was the Heliand, an epic on the life of Christ in Old Saxon alliterative verse, dating from a...
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66,34 zł |
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God Wears Many Skins: Myth And Folklore Of The Sami People
ISBN: 9781438221892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Traditional indigenous cultures in many parts of the world have displayed a profound appreciation of the relationship between human and ecosystem health, something global culture is trying to rediscover under the label of sustainability. A spiritual resource for sustainable living, this poem records the creation story of the Sami, a nomadic people of Northern Europe, and then retells several Scandinavian folk-tales derived from their playfully animistic world view. Their deep kinship with the wild is shown in their awe for bears: The bear is more like people are Than any other thinking...
Traditional indigenous cultures in many parts of the world have displayed a profound appreciation of the relationship between human and ecosystem heal...
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57,19 zł |
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Poena Omnipotenta, or The Triumph of Punishment: A Poetic Commentary on the Cautio Criminalis of Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld
ISBN: 9781451577556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the darkest hours of the 17th century German witch hunts, Spee, a Jesuit priest, meditated on the confessions of accused women and resolved to subject the church's torture practices to a rigorous logical analysis. The result is a cogent and persuasive argument against all torture, and a demonstration of the overarching power of the human spirit in a time of trial. This book combines poetic meditations on Spee's uniquely compassionate essays with starkly lit photographs (from a state collection in Toledo, Spain) of many of the torture instruments used by church functionaries.
In the darkest hours of the 17th century German witch hunts, Spee, a Jesuit priest, meditated on the confessions of accused women and resolved to subj...
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59,43 zł |
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It Rhymes With Breath: Five Stories Of Death
ISBN: 9781438228488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The late sixties and early seventies in America spawned all manner of idealistic dreams through which young people thought they could re-invent the notion of the modern. These five stories investigate the ways that avoidance of commitment, in both public and personal spheres, leads to critical choices for the reluctant protagonist Jack Lindsay. We see the sad force of a role model's suicide; the calculated betrayals of unsatisfied love; the hidden pathology behind a conspiracy; the hard-heartedness of raw personal preference; the vicious and circuitous powers of alcohol addiction. The voice...
The late sixties and early seventies in America spawned all manner of idealistic dreams through which young people thought they could re-invent the no...
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66,34 zł |
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The Song Of Mark: A Poetic Gospel
ISBN: 9781438225944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. To promote a stronger general sense of community, THE SONG OF MARK retells the gospel story as a poem arranged in rhymed couplets with four stressed syllables per line, a form called long meter. It retains the meaning of conventional versions of the story of Jesus, while offering suitable texts for musical settings of the entire gospel or any passage of particular interest. The text does not include any of the false and sinful condemnations of Jews which have historically contributed to the practice of eliminationist anti-semitism. The crucifixion of Jesus is shown as the assertion of Roman...
To promote a stronger general sense of community, THE SONG OF MARK retells the gospel story as a poem arranged in rhymed couplets with four stressed s...
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57,19 zł |
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Strength In Trembling: Four Poems From The Margin, Including The Song Of The Gospel Ofthomas
ISBN: 9781438223469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Traditional cultures in many parts of the world have displayed a profound appreciation of the need for human beings to understand each other, leaving aside religious partisanship in a search for common understanding of the worldly, the transcendent, and the divine. Treasures of truth can still be found in texts which were once discarded. In these poems there is a search for a deeper and more musical understanding of religious texts which have been marginalized by established powers: the mysterious wisdom of the Gospel of Thomas, a collection of the sayings of Jesus; the passionate power of...
Traditional cultures in many parts of the world have displayed a profound appreciation of the need for human beings to understand each other, leaving ...
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The Unstruck Drum: Mystical Poetry Of Kabir In A New Setting
ISBN: 9781438218250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Continuing in the grand tradition of Rumi and Kahlil Gibran, Kabir invites us to explore the light within our own sensuality. This incomparable 15th century poet, weaver, mystic and musician of Benares helps us to find the eternal goodness of pure sensation, without allegiance to any creed or cause. "Open the window to the west, / In the sky of love, now be lost; / Drink the sweeter honey that steeps / And imbues with heat, the petals / Of the lotus of the heart's lips. / Receive the waves in your body: / What splendor is in the warm sea / Hearken to the sounds of conches / And bells, rising...
Continuing in the grand tradition of Rumi and Kahlil Gibran, Kabir invites us to explore the light within our own sensuality. This incomparable 15th c...
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57,19 zł |
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The Song Of The Showing Of Love: A Poetic Interpretation Of The Revelations Of Julian Of Norwich
ISBN: 9781438221373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A flower of mystical insight from 14c. England, this book records the visions and prescient theological world-view of Julian, an anchoress at Norwich. Her unique and visceral retelling of both the birthing and the dying of Christ, the first book to be written in English by a woman, has never been excelled in the clarity and eloquence of its language. Here, preserving the humility of the original in a modern idiom, is a metered poetic version of her revelations: ...she who's Mother of our Savior Is mother of all who shall be saved; And our Savior our very Mother, In whom we are endlessly born...
A flower of mystical insight from 14c. England, this book records the visions and prescient theological world-view of Julian, an anchoress at Norwich....
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109,81 zł |
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Wisdom: A Poetic Interpretation of The Kitab Al-Hikam of Ibn Atallah
ISBN: 9781442125308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is a book of aphorisms written by Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309), here called Ibn Atallah, the third sheikh of the Shadhili Sufi order. He was born and grew up in Alexandria, then lived and died in Cairo. Ibn Atallah is well known for compressing large thoughts into a small space. The shape of the thought is smooth, small, dense, and hard. He chose the form of aphorisms to express himself because he wanted above all to spread the word of what he believed in, and indeed, many of these statements could be likened to a pebble that one might carry in one's pocket.
This is a book of aphorisms written by Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309), here called Ibn Atallah, the third sheikh of the Shadh...
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77,55 zł |
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Painkillers: Adventures In Dystopia: Poems About Sadness And Lassitude
ISBN: 9781438229744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The theory behind writing these poems is that if you are feeling miserable, and you write about how you are feeling, with as much precision and thoroughness as you can muster, you will induce in yourself a kind of satisfaction that you are able to make something worthwhile emerge from the misery. " "The theory behind publishing these poems is that if someone else with similar feelings to your own comes along and reads about these painful states of mind, that person may also come to feel a little better, either from a better understanding or from a general sense of companionship."
"The theory behind writing these poems is that if you are feeling miserable, and you write about how you are feeling, with as much precision and thoro...
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57,19 zł |
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The Song Of John: A Poetic Gospel
ISBN: 9781438226408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. To promote a stronger general sense of community, THE SONG OF JOHN retells the gospel story as a poem arranged in stanzas of four lines with lines of four beats and three beats alternating, a ballad form called common meter. The poem retains the meaning of conventional versions of the Johannine story of Jesus, while offering suitable texts for musical settings of the entire gospel or any passage of particular interest. The text does not include any of the false and sinful condemnations of Jews which have historically contributed to the practice of eliminationist anti-semitism. The crucifixion...
To promote a stronger general sense of community, THE SONG OF JOHN retells the gospel story as a poem arranged in stanzas of four lines with lines of ...
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57,19 zł |
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The Tawasin Of Mansur Al-Hallaj, In Verse: A Mystical Treatise On Knowing God, & Invitation To The Dance
ISBN: 9781438224930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here a medieval Muslim mystic records his living meditation on becoming one with God, where he likens himself to a moth leaping into flame: In that bright instant, wings aflame, Reduced to fragments of his name, The moth-ash shows his body's form Where no mark will distinguish him. Rumi wrote three centuries later on Al-Hallaj's words, 'I am God, ': "People imagine that it is a presumptive claim, whereas I find it is really a presumptive claim to say 'I am the slave of God'; for, 'I am God' is an expression of great humility. The man who says 'I am the slave of God' affirms two existences,...
Here a medieval Muslim mystic records his living meditation on becoming one with God, where he likens himself to a moth leaping into flame: In that br...
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All Is Beautiful: The Navajo Creation Story In Verse
ISBN: 9781438206332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Traditional indigenous cultures in many parts of the world have displayed a profound appreciation of the relationship between human and ecosystem health, something global culture is trying to rediscover under the label of sustainability. Since the beginning of time, human beings have told the story of their own beginning, and of the origins of the four directions, the heavens, the God-People, the earth, and all its creatures. The Navajo People tell a story of great psychological power and depth. First recorded by 19th century ethnographers, the Navajo Creation story is here interpreted as an...
Traditional indigenous cultures in many parts of the world have displayed a profound appreciation of the relationship between human and ecosystem heal...
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57,19 zł |
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The Song Of The Cloud Of Unknowing: A Manual In Verse For Teaching The Contemplative Life, And A Help For Guided Meditation
ISBN: 9781438219905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This anonymous work was originally written as a manual for teaching meditation and the contemplative life to medieval monks and nuns. Recent interest in meditation practice and centering prayer have led to a re-appraisal, discovering the possibility of psychotherapeutic benefits from studying the medieval text, by helping readers to understand pride as a distortion of truth and an impediment to wholistic living, and "meekness" as a path to health. Now for the first time this influential text has been rewritten in rhymed, measured poetry for use in guided meditation and other forms of self-...
This anonymous work was originally written as a manual for teaching meditation and the contemplative life to medieval monks and nuns. Recent interest ...
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75,50 zł |
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Common Sense In Verse: A Poetic Interpretation Of The Inflammatory Broadside Of Mr. Thomas Paine
ISBN: 9781440435539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Thomas Paine claims the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet he anonymously published on January 10, 1776; the work quickly spread among the literate, and, in three months, sold 120,000 copies throughout the American colonies (with only two million free inhabitants), making it a best-selling work in eighteenth-century America. It is here given a concise metered form suitable for theatrical adaptation and public performance.
Thomas Paine claims the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet he anonymously pu...
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57,19 zł |
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