Dears, Beloveds
Dears, Beloveds

Author: Kevin Phan

Publisher: Center for Literary Publishing Colorado State University

Published: 2020-11

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781885635761

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The prose poetry in Kevin Phan's first collection, Dears, Beloveds, offers a fine-grained meditation on grief--personal, familial, ecological, and political. Informed by the author's engagement with Buddhism & mindfulness, the poems address looming absences: in our vanishing earth, the scraps of a haunting voicemail, or waiting at hospice with little to do. In these pages, the poet fights his way out of isolation, to establish filigrees of connectedness with himself, other humans, and the natural world. Whether meditating on the bodily loss of his cancer-stricken mother, the Black Lives Matter movement, or a shadow falling from a speck of dust in the kitchen, these lines are notable for their crisp and surprising movements, lucid imagery, aching tenderness, & humanity. Dears, Beloveds reminds us of the ironies, beauty, and complexity of our time on earth, as beings in time. Where we hurt. Where we heal each other.

Farewell My Beloved, Goodbye Dear Leader
Farewell My Beloved, Goodbye Dear Leader

Author: Brigitte M. Wareham

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2024-04-26

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1398496545

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The only certainty in life is death. Even the most powerful leaders throughout history were unable to cheat the Grim Reaper. World leaders, whether revered or reviled, are rarely allowed to exit gracefully from life but instead receive a state funeral, a major international event incorporating splendid symbols and messages, religious faith, and tradition. The body of Tsar Alexander III was carried across half of Russia before finally being buried in St. Petersburg. People paid obscene amounts of money for a room that gave a glimpse of Queen Victoria’s fascinating State funeral. The cortège for China’s Empress-Dowager Cixi was not to be photographed – nevertheless photos showed up a century later. For political reasons Generalissimo Franco’s body was exhumed decades after his death. The world became acquainted with a rather unusual ancient Roman Catholic ritual, when Pope John Paul I died. The body of India’s Indira Gandhi was confined to sacred flames. The last journey of Marshal Tito turned into an event of “Funeral Diplomacy”, whilst Khomeini’s funeral ended in frenzy and tumult. In 2021 the massive restrictions imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic meant a rigid downsizing of Prince Philip’s funeral, hardly any guests were allowed to attend. This revealing and entertaining book provides an insight into unique obsequies from across the world, seen as both a celebration of life and the honouring of death.

Dear Beloved Son
Dear Beloved Son

Author: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

Publisher: Claritas Books

Published: 2022-03-13

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0953758222

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Dear Beloved Son is an excellent compilation of extremely valuable pieces of advice based not only on theory but on the practical experience and insight of Imam al-Ghazali. Since he presented his disciple with these pieces of advice at a stage in life where he had studied and excelled in all major sciences of Islam, it holds extra significance. He covers topics such as sincerity, knowledge, action, death, da’wah, hypocrisy, time, dhikr and Shari’ah, with delicacy and coherency, so that one is able to grasp clearly the multidimensional facets of a comprehensive Islam.

The Dearly Beloved
The Dearly Beloved

Author: Cara Wall

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1982104546

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“This gentle, gorgeously written book may be one of my favorites ever.” —Jenna Bush Hager (A Today show “Read with Jenna” Book Club Selection!) This “moving portrait of love and friendship set against a backdrop of social change” (The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice) traces two married couples whose lives become entangled when the husbands become copastors at a famed New York city congregation in the 1960s. Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily—fiercely intellectual, elegantly stern—after she tells him with certainty that she will never believe in God? And yet, how can he not? James, the youngest son in a hardscrabble Chicago family, spent much of his youth angry at his alcoholic father and avoiding his anxious mother. Nan grew up in Mississippi, the devout and beloved daughter of a minister and a debutante. James’s escape from his desperate circumstances leads him to Nan and, despite his skepticism of hope in all its forms, her gentle, constant faith changes the course of his life. In The Dearly Beloved, Cara wall reminds us of “the power of the novel in its simplest, richest form: bearing intimate witness to human beings grappling with their faith and falling in love,” (Entertainment Weekly, A-) as we follow these two couples through decades of love and friendship, jealousy and understanding, forgiveness and commitment. Against the backdrop of turbulent changes facing the city and the church’s congregation, Wall offers a poignant meditation on faith and reason, marriage and children, and the ways we find meaning in our lives. The Dearly Beloved is a gorgeous, wise, and provocative novel that is destined to become a classic.

Dear Beloved Stranger
Dear Beloved Stranger

Author: Dino Pai

Publisher: Top Shelf Productions

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781603092715

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Clueless, naive, full of dreams... and unemployed. Fresh out of art school, our hero Dino is ready to start a new chapter in his life, but can't figure out how, and struggles to find his identity as an artist. With a little encouragement from a classmate, he sets out on a fantastic inner journey to wipe the dust off his teenage obsessions and reignite his passion. Blending fact and fiction, past and present, pencil and paint, debut author Dino Pai brings a wide range of voices and influences to bear on the most intimate story in his heart, in this Xeric Award-winning graphic novel.

New Poetries VII
New Poetries VII

Author: Michael Schmidt

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd

Published: 2018-04-26

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1784105597

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From the first New Poetries anthology, published in 1994, through to this seventh volume, the series has showcased some of the most engaging and inventive new poets writing in English from around the world. Many have gone on to achieve notable success: Kei Miller, Sinéad Morrissey, Caroline Bird, Sophie Hannah, Tara Bergin and Vahni Capildeo among them. The New Poetries anthologies have never sought to identify a 'school', much less a 'generation': the poets included employ a wide range of styles, forms and approaches, and 'new' need not be taken to imply 'young'. Many of the poets in the anthology have arrived via the pages of PN Review. FEATURING Luke Allan, Zohar Atkins, Rowland Bagnall, Sumita Chakraborty, Mary Jean Chan, Helen Charman, Rebecca Cullen, Ned Denny, Neil Fleming , Isabel Galleymore, Katherine Horrex, Lisa Kelly, Theophilus Kwek, Andrew Latimer, Toby Litt, Rachel Mann, James Leo McAskill, Jamie Osborn, Andrew Wynn Owen, Phoebe Power, Laura Scott, and Vala Thorodds.

Arrow
Arrow

Author: Sumita Chakraborty

Publisher: Alice James Books

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 1948579677

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Contemplative poems write a contentious love letter to a flawed world. “In poems that focus on gender and race-based violence, environmental destruction, and grief, Chakraborty investigates the unknown, unexpected, and unexplained.” —Publishers Weekly "About a quarter of the way through Sumita Chakraborty’s Arrow, the reader encounters an impossible poem called 'Dear, beloved.' It’s impossible because who could write it? It’s as large, in its way, as any epic, but as compressed as any lyric, and as beautiful as any lyric, but as foundational as any epic, but it seems to come after all things, though it seems, also, diurnal. And it’s impossible also because it’s a highlight, not the highlight, of Arrow, a debut as assured as any first or last book, as compelling as any, as well-made." —Shane A. McCrae "I stand in awe of Sumita Chakraborty’s visionary collection, by turns epic and compressed in scope, weighty in its tapestry-like materiality and sleekly dynamic as an arrow. The mythic and literary, here, are invigorated by seeming autobiography, which in turn gains collective energy and heft from the poems’ timeless tropes and themes. Seamless and diverse in form, cosmic in subject and image, one feels in the presence of an oracular intelligence and an abiding lyric imagination." —Diane Seuss “This powerful and endlessly mysterious collection of poems is a book of fables, of spells, of revised narratives, and of realigned songs, brightly lifted above our bodies by music that is as unpredictable as it is marvelous. The lyricism is everywhere apparent as Sumita Chakraborty addresses us, our bodies and their stories, our planet, and our sense of time itself. How does she do it? Mad Ireland hurt him into poetry, W. H. Auden wrote about Yeats, and as the hurt enters Chakraborty’s language, we see that in speech violated, sounds and meanings—and even the oldest of human mysteries, like ‘the etymology of love’—are redefined. All one can do is repeat: this is an endlessly compelling book. Bravo.” —Ilya Kaminsky

The Most Beloved Children's Books of E. Nesbit
The Most Beloved Children's Books of E. Nesbit

Author: Edith Nesbit

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-05-17

Total Pages: 3144

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this unique and meticulously edited E.Nesbit collection: The Bastable Trilogy_x000D_ The Story of the Treasure Seekers_x000D_ The Wouldbegoods_x000D_ The New Treasure Seekers_x000D_ The Psammead Trilogy_x000D_ Five Children and It_x000D_ The Phoenix and the Carpet_x000D_ The Story of the Amulet_x000D_ The Mouldiwarp Chronicles_x000D_ The House of Arden_x000D_ Harding's Luck_x000D_ Other Novels_x000D_ The Railway Children_x000D_ The Enchanted Castle_x000D_ The Magic City_x000D_ The Wonderful Garden_x000D_ Wet Magic_x000D_ Short Story Collections_x000D_ The Book of Dragons:_x000D_ The Book of Beasts_x000D_ Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger_x000D_ The Deliverers of Their Country_x000D_ The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told_x000D_ The Island of the Nine Whirlpools_x000D_ The Dragon Tamers_x000D_ The Fiery Dragon, or The Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold_x000D_ Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice_x000D_ Royal Children of English History:_x000D_ Alfred the Great_x000D_ Prince Arthur_x000D_ Henry the Third_x000D_ The First Prince of Wales_x000D_ Edward the Black Prince_x000D_ Henry the Fifth and the Baby King_x000D_ Pussy and Doggy Tales:_x000D_ Too Clever by Half_x000D_ The White Persian_x000D_ A Powerful Friend_x000D_ A Silly Question_x000D_ The Selfish Pussy_x000D_ Meddlesome Pussy_x000D_ Nine Lives_x000D_ The Magic World_x000D_ The Cat-hood of Maurice_x000D_ The Mixed Mine_x000D_ Accidental Magic_x000D_ The Princess and the Hedge-pig_x000D_ Septimus Septimusson_x000D_ The White Cat_x000D_ Belinda and Bellamant_x000D_ Justnowland_x000D_ The Related Muff_x000D_ The Aunt and Amabel_x000D_ Kenneth and the Carp_x000D_ The Magician's Heart_x000D_ Nine Unlikely Tales_x000D_ The Cockatoucan_x000D_ Whereyouwanttogoto_x000D_ The Blue Mountain_x000D_ The Prince, Two, Mice, and some Kitchen Maids_x000D_ Melisande_x000D_ Fortunatus Rex and Co._x000D_ The Sums That Came Right_x000D_ The Town in the Library, in the Town in the Library_x000D_ The Plush Usurpe_x000D_ Oswald Bastable and Others_x000D_ ..._x000D_ Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was the author of world famous books for children - the tales of fantastical adventures, jou