In this contemplative short narrative, the artist and writer charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to live as an artist
Handiwork explores the relationship between writing and torture the ways poetry can wound us, and the ways it wrestles with language itself. Combining constraint-based writing with fragmented lyricism, the book considers the social and cultural role of the writer with respect to history and memory, and what gets lost in the transmission of trauma from one generation to the next.
“One of the most beautiful novels I have ever read.” —New York Times Book Review A stunning, powerful novel about a couple that pushes against traditional expectations, moving with their dogs to the Irish countryside where they embed themselves in nature and make attempts to disappear from society. It is the winter following the summer they met. A couple, Bell and Sigh, move into a remote house in the Irish countryside with their dogs. Both solitary with misanthropic tendencies, they leave the conventional lives stretched out before them to build another—one embedded in ritual, and away from the friends and family from whom they’ve drifted. They arrive at their new home on a clear January day and look up to appraise the view. A mountain gently and unspectacularly ascends from the Atlantic, “as if it had accumulated stature over centuries. As if, over centuries, it had steadily flattened itself upwards.” They make a promise to climb the mountain, but—over the course of the next seven years—it remains unclimbed. We move through the seasons with Bell and Sigh as they come to understand more about the small world around them, and as their interest in the wider world recedes. Seven Steeples is a beautiful and profound meditation on the nature of love and the resilience of nature. Through Bell and Sigh, and the life they create for themselves, Sara Baume explores what it means to escape the traditional paths laid out before us—and what it means to evolve in devotion to another person, and to the landscape.
At 28 years old, Eli "Berg" Koenigsberg has never encountered a challenge he couldn't push through, until a head injury leaves him with lingering headaches and a weakness for opiates. Berg moves to a remote Northern California town, seeking space and time to recover, but soon finds himself breaking into homes in search of pills. Addled by addiction and chronic pain, Berg meets Alejandro, a reclusive, master boatbuilder, and begins to see a path forward. Alejandro offers Berg honest labor, but more than this, he offers him a new approach to his suffering, a template for survival amid intense pain. Nurtured by his friendship with Alejandro and aided, too, by the comradeship of many in Talinas, Berg begins to return to himself. Written in gleaming prose, this is a story about resilience, community, and what it takes to win back your soul.
"a must-read for students and scientists unfamiliar with recent advances in cellular molecular biology." -Tom Breuer, Ph.D., Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Making the right choice. With almost fifty years working in medical and biochemical sciences, publishing more than 140 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and currently serving as director of 25 reference and research laboratories, Jim Pirkle certainly understands and advances science. He also has faith in God-a belief bolstered by scientific findings. "The more we know from science, the more God is revealed especially as we examine the complexity and interdependencies of creation at the molecular level." Though some believe that faith in Jesus and science can conflict, Dr. Pirkle contends that the opposite is the case-scientific findings consistently reveal God's handiwork. This revelation of God at the molecular level keeps expanding as we see more and more complexity and interdependency in protein function, the roles of nucleic acids, gene interactions, glycobiology, lipidomics, protein interactions (the Interactome) and molecular feedback and control loops. He reviews two important areas of current discussion: Neo-Darwinism and the fine-tuning of the universe for life on Earth. His weight-of-evidence evaluation of Neo-Darwinism includes: life originating from non-life, within-kind adaptation (microevolution), and between-kind adaptation (macroevolution). His review of the fine-tuning of the universe examines multiple extreme requirements for the nature of matter, galaxy clusters, the Milky Way, our solar system, the sun, and the Earth in order for life to exist on Earth. Further, Dr. Pirkle explains how we are the best evidence for God. God explains what our lives will be like if we choose to follow Him or if we do not. Pirkle maintains that we can look at our own lives and find a close match to what God says. Jim Pirkle MD, PhD, received his medical degree with a specialty in clinical pathology and his PhD in physical chemistry from Emory University and has spent 47 post-collegiate years working on hundreds of studies in medical and biochemical sciences. He is currently director of 25 reference and research laboratories addressing disease and harmful exposures in populations. During his career in public health, Pirkle has authored or coauthored more than 140 publications in peer-reviewed, scientific journals focusing on the diagnosis and prevention of disease and harmful exposures in populations. "Anyone struggling with the reasons for human life as portrayed by science and a belief in a Creator God will find this a remarkable volume which builds faith in God and purpose for life." -Donald G. Patterson Jr, PhD Organic Chemistry Arizona State University; PhD Environmental Science "honoris cavsa" Stockholm University