One of the greatest poems of the classical world Virgil's Georgics is a glorious celebration of the eternal beauty of the natural world, now brought vividly to life in a powerful new translation. "Georgic" means "to work the earth," and this poetic guide to country living combines practical wisdom on tending the land with exuberant fantasy and eulogies to the rhythms of nature. It describes hills strewn with wild berries in 'vine-spread autumn'; recommends watching the stars to determine the right time to plant seeds; and gives guidance on making wine and keeping bees. Yet...
One of the greatest poems of the classical world Virgil's Georgics is a glorious celebration of the eternal beauty of the natural wo...
Imagine what would happen if our children were empowered from the earliest o ages to understand their emotions. What if they were taught positive words to use daily along with strategies to help them manage their emotions? What if all of these lessons could start as early as 2 years of age? The Adventures of BuLu is designed to give children life skills at the most impressionable time in their lives, early childhood. I believe by putting all the great thoughts in their minds as early as we can, we can empower them to be strong, thoughtful individuals who can understand that...
Imagine what would happen if our children were empowered from the earliest o ages to understand their emotions. What if they were taught positiv...
During the Reformation, the mystery of the Eucharist was the subject of contentious debate and a nexus of concerns over how the material might embody the sublime and how the absent might be made present. For Kimberly Johnson, the question of how exactly Christ can be present in bread and wine is fundamentally an issue of representation, and one that bears directly upon the mechanics of poetry. In Made Flesh, she explores the sacramental conjunction of text with materiality and word with flesh through the peculiar poetic strategies of the seventeenth-century English...
During the Reformation, the mystery of the Eucharist was the subject of contentious debate and a nexus of concerns over how the material might embo...
Uncommon Prayer is a book about desire, and about the ways in which desire can and cannot be expressed, contained, or controlled by language. Invoking the structural organization of the liturgical hours, the calendar, and the alphabet, Uncommon Prayer explores how external forms might compensate for the incommunicability of human want that is, how the parts of expression that aren t found in dictionary definitions might help to make up for what our words never quite manage to express. "
Uncommon Prayer is a book about desire, and about the ways in which desire can and cannot be expressed, contained, or controlled by language....
