Jacinth Henry-Martin delivers a compelling series of poems in A Piece of My Mind. Composed with great zest and conviction, the book is a literary tribute to all who have succeeded in discarding physical , mental and emotional shackles to metaphorically dance and celebrate life in the face of all its challenges. The poems are liberating and vindicating, and paint pictures with words about all aspects of life.
Return to the zombie apocalypse wasteland that is the Rot & Ruin in this short story collection from Jonathan Maberry. Benny Imura’s zombie-infested adventures are well-chronicled in the gripping novels Rot & Ruin, Dust & Decay, Flesh & Bone, and Fire & Ash. But what else was happening while he was on his quest? Who were the others navigating the ravaged landscape full of zombies? Bits & Pieces fills in the gaps about what we know about First Night, surviving the plague, and traveling the land of Rot & Ruin. Eleven all-new short stories from Nix’s journal and eleven previously published stories, including “Dead & Gone” and “Tooth & Nail,” are now together and in print for the first time, along with the first-ever script for the Rot & Ruin comic books.
Sir Frank Kermode has been writing peerless literary criticism for more than a half-century. Pieces of My Mind includes his own choice of his major essays since 1958, beginning with his extraordinary study of "Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev" and ending with a marvelous consideration of Shakespeare's Othello and Verdi-Boito's Otello. Important essays on Hawthorne, on Wallace Stevens, on problems in literary theory and analysis, on Auden, on "Secrets and Narrative Sequence," and three previously unpublished essays (including one on "Memory" and one on "Forgetting") fill out this rich and rewarding volume. Pieces of My Mind also contains recent considerations of the work of major modern writers--Don DeLillo, Raymond Carver, Tom Paulin, and others. Of Kermode's last book, Shakespeare's Language, Richard Howard wrote that it was "a triumph of inauguration and the crowning action of his splendid career of criticism. It is, and will doubtless remain, the first book one should read about Shakespeare's plays, and with those plays." Pieces of My Mind has equal authority and power, and it will be equally praised.
I was sexually abused as a young child and spent many years trying to remember and then trying to forget, while dealing with the aftermath. I struggled with relationships and intimacy, had multiple psychiatric ward stays, several different diagnoses, suicide attempts and periodic unprofessional psychiatric care. How could I become an authentic whole woman? I spent close to 30 years as a counselor facilitating both small and large groups. I also volunteered as a Peer Support Worker, both at the Canadian Mental Health Association at their Clubhouse and on the In-Patient Psychiatric Unit. For most of those years I was part of the "walking wounded." I came out to to Vancouver after college, and fell in love with the West Coast. From the age of 21 I never lived anywhere else. I currently live on scenic Vancouver Island with my tortoiseshell cat among my book shelves and piles of books.
If you have ever read a book with no title, or sung a song you never heard before, watched an hourglass gracefully give up its body to the needy below, then this book is for you. The writer is just a tool afforded you which will unlock your imagination ... your personal journey deep within the depths of your mind; The spark needed to start an engine you never knew existed; the flame of an unlit candle that will guide you on your way.
Ayrshire born Robert Sheerins, artist, poet and traditional fiddle player, encapsulates his thoughts in his first book of poetry. All the imagery of his paintings, expressed through word.
Travel with Richard who flies all over the United States when he goes to sleep at night. During his waking hours, he places himself in danger as he struggles to keep up with his extraordinary dreams. Richard had always been just a regular kid who did regular kid stuff like going to school and church and playing baseball. He hung out with his friends, rode his bike, and ate pizza and ice cream. His life changes abruptly when he begins to fly in his dreams, and he can see things that are happening in real time but in far-away places. When he wakes up in the morning, he knows he has to do something about the potential tragedies he has found out about while he was dreaming. He desperately tries to convince others to help him save lives. But who is going to believe a boy who says he has dreamed it all? Even Richard does not understand his special powers. He learns about the kidnapping of a little girl, and he scrambles to enlist help to rescue her. Richard saves the day when he dreams about the San Diego Zoo, the Ferris wheel on the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, and a visit to Washington, D.C. by a Russian dissident.