Assorted Plumerias is an Anthology of Poems revolving around ten different themes viz, Love and Friendship, Life and Death, Krishna Consciousness, Women Power, Nature and Environment, War and Technology, Relationships, Social Ailments, Adventure and five Bio Poems dedicated to five public figures whom the Poetess ardently admires. The readers can enjoy the Poetess’ spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions, recollected in solitude as she attempts to convey an exhilarating human experience through a range of themes. She has crafted some memorable verses through her choice of poignant words and meaningful expressions. The collection is bound to touch the readers’ hearts and leave an indelible impact on their minds.
कविता कवि की कल्पना की उड़ान होती है, उसकी संवेदनाओं की जुबान होती है| जिसका मस्तिष्क में मंथन हो और जो दिल से कही जाए वो ही कागज़ पर उतरकर कवि की पहचान बनती है!’ ‘शजर की छाँव तले – The Poets Scribble’, कुछ ऐसे ही भावों को लेकर अपने पाठकों के सम्मुख उपस्थित है, जिसमें देश और दुनिया के अगल-अलग हिस्सों के कवियों ने अपनी भावनाओं को कविता का स्वरूप देकर प्रस्तुत किया है| कहीं जीवन की सच्चाई है तो कहीं कल्पना की उड़ान है, कहीं भौतिकता है तो कहीं आध्यात्मिकता का पुट है, कहीं प्रेम है तो कहीं विषाद है – मानव जीवन के सभी पहलुओं और सभी रसों का इस संकलन में एक मनोरम संगम है| इस संकलन का द्विभाषीय (हिन्दी व अंग्रेज़ी) होना इसे अनूठा बना रहा है और कविता प्रेमियों के समक्ष कविताओं का एक खूबसूरत इंद्रधनुष प्रस्तुत कर रहा है|
Love comes in all shapes and sizes. The beauty of love is that, you can fall into it with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time. Sometimes two people find each other with both broken foundations, and they build together as a team to make a foundation that is indestructible. Love can be found in unexpected places. This is the very reason why this Anthology is called “Permutations and Combinations of Love.” Discourses: A Centre of English Language and Literature has today blossomed into a thriving, constantly evolving, and expanding community of poets, writers, intellectual thinkers from all across the globe. Poetess, Research Oriented Academic Writer and Foundress of Discourses, Dr. Purnima Kulkarni has contributed more than 30 Poems to this Anthology herself and compiled poetic verses penned by 7 International Poets. She has introduced her student and budding poetess, Janhavi Kokaje (From Discourses, Pune, India) to participate in the Anthology and represent the Institute at the International level.
"Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times." — Milwaukee Sentinel "There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. Kingsolver's critically acclaimed writings always entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans. In High Tide in Tucson, she returns to her familiar themes of family, community, the common good, and the natural world. The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver's return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth—one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom. Beautifully packaged, with original illustrations by illustrator Paul Mirocha, these wise lessons on the urgent business of being alive make it a perfect gift for Kingsolver's many fans.
Twenty-one writers answer the call for literature that addresses who we are by understanding where we are--where, for each of them, being in some way part of academia. In personal essays, they imaginatively delineate and engage the diverse, occasionally unexpected play of place in shaping them, writers and teachers in varied environments, with unique experiences and distinctive world views, and reconfiguring for them conjunctions of identity and setting, here, there, everywhere, and in between. Contents I Introduction Writing Place, Jennifer Sinor II Here Six Kinds of Rain: Searching for a Place in the Academy, Kathleen Dean Moore and Erin E. Moore The Work the Landscape Calls Us To, Michael Sowder Valley Language, Diana Garcia What I Learned from the Campus Plumber, Charles Bergman M-I-Crooked Letter-Crooked Letter, Katherine Fischer On Frogs, Poems, and Teaching at a Rural Community College, Sean W. Henne III There Levittown Breeds Anarchists Film at 11:00, Kathryn T. Flannery Living in a Transformed Desert, Mitsuye Yamada A More Fortunate Destiny, Jayne Brim Box Imagined Vietnams, Charles Waugh IV Everywhere Teaching on Stolen Ground, Deborah A. Miranda The Blind Teaching the Blind: The Academic as Naturalist, or Not, Robert Michael Pyle Where Are You From? Lee Torda V In Between Going Away to Think, Scott Slovic Fronteriza Consciousness: The Site and Language of the Academy and of Life, Norma Elia Cantu Bones of Summer, Mary Clearman Blew Singing, Speaking, and Seeing a World, Janice M. Gould Making Places Work: Felt Sense, Identity, and Teaching, Jeffrey M. Buchanan VI Coda Running in Place: The Personal at Work, in Motion, on Campus, and in the Neighborhood, Rona Kaufman
