A New Pleiade

A New Pleiade

Author: Seven American Poets

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 1998-10-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780807123300

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A New Plèiade is a celebration of close literary friendships among seven eminent American poets—Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, R. H. W. Dillard, Brendan Galvin, George Garrett, David R. Slavitt, and Henry Taylor. The affection, fun, and mutual respect of this happy association of poets have resulted in this anthology, in which the selection from the work of each was made by the contributor whose name precedes his or hers alphabetically. Endowed with great variety as well as delightful and unexpected connections of subjects and personae, A New Plèiade is exceptional not only because it unites in a single volume these seven accomplished poets: the real allure of this enchanting, broadly appealing collection is the diversity, the vast scope of their masterful voices. The bucolic musings of Fred Chappell greet the reader, followed by the searching, graceful lamentations of Kelly Cherry, the unconventional observations of R.H.W. Dillard, and the eccentric creations of Brendan Galvin. George Garrett’s precise, shining insights precede David R. Slavitt’s erudite, witty contemplations until, alas, Henry Taylor bids farewell by bringing us full circle, back to a pastoral world reminiscent of Chappell’s rural samplings. These poets have been delighting and entertaining one another—and their loyal readers—for decades. With A New Plèiade, these seven illustrious bards—and good friends—are able to settle comfortably between the covers of one extraordinary book.


Jacques Schiffrin

Jacques Schiffrin

Author: Amos Reichman

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0231548400

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Jacques Schiffrin changed the face of publishing in the twentieth century. As the founder of Les Éditions de la Pléiade in Paris and cofounder of Pantheon Books in New York, he helped define a lasting canon of Western literature while also promoting new authors who shaped transatlantic intellectual life. In this first biography of Schiffrin, Amos Reichman tells the poignant story of a remarkable publisher and his dramatic travails across two continents. Just as he influenced the literary trajectory of the twentieth century, Schiffrin’s life was affected by its tumultuous events. Born in Baku in 1892, he fled after the Bolsheviks came to power, eventually settling in Paris, where he founded the Pléiade, which published elegant and affordable editions of literary classics as well as leading contemporary writers. After Vichy France passed anti-Jewish laws, Schiffrin fled to New York, later establishing Pantheon Books with Kurt Wolff, a German exile. Following Schiffrin’s death in 1950, his son André continued in his father’s footsteps, preserving and continuing a remarkable intellectual and cultural legacy at Pantheon. In addition to recounting Schiffrin’s life and times, Reichman describes his complex friendships with prominent figures including André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Peggy Guggenheim, and Bernard Berenson. From the vantage point of Schiffrin’s extraordinary career, Reichman sheds new light on French and American literary culture, European exiles in the United States, and the transatlantic ties that transformed the world of publishing.


The Seventh Pleiade

The Seventh Pleiade

Author: Andrew J. Peters

Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1626390029

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Atlantis is besieged by violent storms, tremors, and a barbarian army. For sixteen-year-old Aerander, it's a calamitous backdrop to his Panegyris, where boys are feted for their passage to manhood. Amid a secret web of romances among the celebrants, Aerander's cousin Dam goes missing with two boys. With the kingdom in crisis, no one suspects the High Priest Zazamoukh, though Aerander uncovers a conspiracy to barter boys for dark spiritual power. Aerander's proofÑ an underground vault that disappears in the morningÑbrings shame on his family and charges of lunacy. The only way for Aerander to regain his honor is to prove what really happened to the missing boys. Tracking Dam leads Aerander on a terrifying and fantastical journey. He spots a star that hasn't been seen for centuries. He uncovers a legend about an ancient race of men who hid below the earth. And traveling to an underground world, he learns about matters even more urgent than the missing boys. The world aboveground is changing, and he will have to clear a path for the kingdom's survival.


The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades

The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades

Author: Munya Andrews

Publisher: Spinifex Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781876756451

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The seven sisters of the Pleiades are known throughout the world and appear again and again in stories from many cultures. Beginning with her grandmother's tale, Munya Andrews takes the reader to the stars, around and across the planet through Indigenous North America, Australia, Japan and the Pacific, and back through time to Ancient Egypt, India, Greece and South America. She explores the commonalities of legends to discover our common human origins. The Subaru from Japan share much with the young women depicted as birds in the stories from Greece and Indigenous Australia. The Pleiades have been the source of much mythology, wisdom and science over many millennia. The book is also an examination of culture and how culture is expressed through symbols and stories related to stars and other astronomical phenomena. Her work is distinguished from other studies in the field because she brings to it an Indigenous perspective which enriches its interpretative power. No other writer has captured the richness of this mysterious constellation.


Spaceships of the Pleiades

Spaceships of the Pleiades

Author: Kal K. Korff

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2010-08-05

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1615924418

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The case of Eduard "Billy" Meier has gained worldwide attention for his claims of being in "on-going contact" with aliens from the star cluster known as the Pleiades. Purported to be the most documented UFO account of all time, Meier''s files consist of 1,000 photographs and 12 motion picture films of the visiting spacecraft. Through thousands of pages of "contact notes," Meier claims to have "passed on" the wisdom and advanced technical knowledge from his conversations with these aliens, designed to help guide our evolution. In addition, he alleges that 40 independent eyewitnesses have also seen the alien ships and observed Meier''s contacts with them. The aliens also "left" numerous "landing tracks" in the ground, and gave Meier various rock, metal, mineral, and crystal samples as "proof" of their visitations.Author Kal Korff conducted the most thorough examination ever into the case of Billy Meier and all its alleged evidence, and reveals here how a Swiss farmer hatched and continues to maintain the most elaborate UFO hoax in history.


Enoch and the Pleiades

Enoch and the Pleiades

Author: Leif Strom

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2014-05-30

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781499676433

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It is the scholarly view that the Book of Enoch is written from about 300 BC to 50 BC. Thus, if they are right, the Book of Enoch must be a forgery, as it itself says that it is written by the preflood patriarch Enoch, thus making it the oldest book in the world. As a Bible believing christian, you must consider why then the brother of Jesus, the apostle Jude, did quote this "forgery". Either he and the whole bunch of apostles (because they too, were in�fluenced by the Book of Enoch) were foolish enough to buy this false book - or it must be older than what the scholars say, and written by the one it says is the author: Enoch himself. What if it could be proved that the Book of Enoch IS older than what the scholars say? What if this book in itself can prove it? Because if it was written 5000 years ago, wouldn't there be some traces in it (geographical, or astronomical), perhaps hidden to people in the centuries before Christ, but possible for us in our technological time, to discover? I believe that I have found such evidence - evidence that proves 'beyond doubt', that the Book of Enoch IS 5000 years old, and I'm going to tell about it in this book, and how I discovered it. In this book, you will learn, 1. How Enoch was taken by the angels of God to Antarctica, and from there to the Pleiades, to see the place were the 7 primeval angels are imprisoned, and where the corrupted watchers were to be bound. 2. The location of Tartarus, the bottomless pit - not in the earth, but UNDER the earth. 3. The dividing in Peleg's days, which was not the break up of the continents, but the division of the nations under a new group of angelic, corrupted watchers. 4. How Gilgal Refaim in the Golan Heights fits the description in the Book of Enoch of the burial place of Azazel. 5. What the key to the Abyss is, and where its opening is located. 6. How archeology and the Book of Enoch agree about when and where humanity learned to read and write. 7. How the Book of Enoch has been the instrument of God in three points in time, and how these three correspond to the three transitions between the ages of Taurus, Aries, and Pisces. 8. How the Gilgal Refaim astronomical "clock" is set to exactly the time when, according to Enoch and Noah, Azazel and the 200 watchers were gathered and buried under stone mounds.


Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Author: Derek Walcott

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2014-09-09

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1466880457

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Drawing from every stage of his career, this volume collects selected poems from Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott's lifetime of work. Walcott's Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his early volumes, including "A Far Cry from Africa" and "A City's Death by Fire," with passages from the celebrated Omeros and selections from his later major works, which extend his contributions to reenergizing the contemporary long poem. Here we find all of Walcott's essential themes, from grappling with the Caribbean's colonial legacy to his conflicted love of home and of Western literary tradition; from the wisdom-making pain of time and mortality to the strange wonder of love, the natural world, and what it means to be human. We see his lifelong labor at poetic crafts, his broadening of the possibilities of rhyme and meter, stanza forms, language, and metaphor. Edited and with an introduction by the Jamaican poet and critic Edward Baugh, this volume is a perfect representation of Walcott's breadth of work, spanning almost half a century.


The Lost Pleiades

The Lost Pleiades

Author: Rosella Testa

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-23

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781735718309

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"If the implication of knowing the truth means that we have to be someone other than who we are comfortable with, then so be it."Eli Tesani doesn't believe in faerie tales.A young realist living in the fantasyland of Los Angeles, she lives a predictable life, carefully maintaining the balance between family, friends, and her demanding dream job. When a mystery illness starts affecting her well-being, and her grandmother's declining health sends her on an urgent trip back to her native Italy, Eli is faced with a family secret that may be the missing link she desperately needs. But with a family who's unwilling to provide any logical answers, Eli is forced to pursue the truth on her own, and is met with much more than she bargains for.With an influx of religious mysteries, historical bombshells, a world of supernatural characters, and even a love interest that is more cryptic than the secrets she's fighting to uncover, Eli is forced to make a difficult decision: whether to go back to LA and live in ignorant bliss, or to possibly risk everything in order to pursue the truth that will change her and her family's lives, forever.


Louder Birds

Louder Birds

Author: Angela Voras-Hills

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2020-02-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0807172995

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Angela Voras­-Hills’s Louder Birds, her debut collection of poetry, is a beautiful study of the natural world, motherhood, and the inherent desire for meaning. This collection of complex lyric poems holds a haunting absence at its center, an absence that is “impossible to navigate.” Yet Voras-Hills presses on, untangling the distinctions that surround her (human and animal, domestic and wild) with both bravery and respect. She writes, “The boundaries between home and the road / are insecure: it’s impossible to navigate this landscape. / We’ve all been in the presence of something dark / and have chosen not to seek shelter.” As the poet hones in on naming the void, her surroundings grow more threatening—but not once does she surrender or turn back. Voras-Hills’s poems are smart enough to know the distinctions themselves are tenuous at best, and wise enough to know that we must always pay our dues to the world beyond our door. Wondrous, ruminative, and revelatory, Louder Birds is a collection that is not to be missed.