Poems and Songs The Cosmo's Garrison

Poems and Songs The Cosmo's Garrison

Author: Roland E. McLean

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2024-01-29

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13:

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Life in the ghettos is a struggle everyday, and youths around the world are trapped in garrisons, music dances, songs and poetry are the only escape for the children of the ghetto. This book is livicated to all the youthman of the world living in the garrison, we pray for more love in the cosmos garrison.


That Time of Year

That Time of Year

Author: Garrison Keillor

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-12-01

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1951627709

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With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”


Songs of the Universe

Songs of the Universe

Author: Melody Mestemacher

Publisher: Gatekeeper Press

Published: 2022-06-02

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1662925964

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This collection of poems documents a journey—one that the author has taken, and maybe you have too. On that journey she broke down, fought through, and was willing to lay it all on the line for what was right. Your own journey may include helping others, easing suffering, or building connections. By putting words to a path and allowing for imperfections, you foster true communion with other individuals, and reflect on staying real and alive in the moment.


The Sign of the Dragon

The Sign of the Dragon

Author: Mary Soon Lee

Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 959

ISBN-13: 1625674902

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Drawing on Chinese and Mongolian elements, award-winning poet Mary Soon Lee has penned an epic tale of politics, intrigue, and dragons perfect for fans of Game of Thrones and Beowulf. As the fourth-born prince of Meqing, Xau was never supposed to be king. But when his three older brothers are all deemed unfit to rule and eaten by a dragon, as is the custom, Xau suddenly finds himself on the Meqinese throne. The early years of his reign are marred by brutal earthquakes and floods, and the long-simmering tension with the neighboring country of Innis finally erupts into war. Worst of all, a demon thought long-dead walks the realm again, leaving death and destruction in its wake. In a desperate gamble, Xau must broker an uneasy peace with his former enemies and hope their combined strength is enough to vanquish the demon before it destroys them all. The Sign of the Dragon is comprised of over 300 individual poems, including the Rhysling-winning "Interregnum." The first 60 poems appeared in the 2015 Dark Renaissance Books publication Crowned, which won the 2016 Elgin Award, and many individual poems have appeared in award-winning literary magazines such as Fantasy & Science Fiction, Spillway, and Strange Horizons. Collected together in its entirety for the very first time, with over 200 never-before-published poems, readers can finally enjoy King Xau's story of sacrifice and war and dragons from beginning to end. Mary Soon Lee is a poet and storyteller who has won the Elgin and the Rhysling awards. Her work has appeared in Analog, Asimov's, Daily Science Fiction, F&SF, Fireside, Science, and American Scholar. She is also the author of Elemental Haiku: Poems to honor the periodic table three lines at a time. Born and raised in London, she now lives in Pennsylvania with her family.


The Music of Leaving

The Music of Leaving

Author: Tricia McCallum

Publisher: Demeter Press

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 1926452585

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There is a music of leaving, as surely as there is that of arriving. And it is this distinct soulful music that we often hear, however faintly, in the background of our lives. McCallum’s poems are about elephants being traipsed through the Queens Midtown Tunnel, an unstable child’s slide, and roaming island dogs. About a visit to a family home before it is sold, a late night conversation in a plane above an ocean, and shrewd Irish falcons. About eloquent gravestones, da Vinci’s unfinished joke book, the elegant legs of a heron, and landing on the moon. About a jackknife dive at dusk, a young girl’s sleepover, and a memory instantly evoked by brushing against a stand of lavender. McCallum’s hope for her new book The Music of Leaving is that it delivers to her readers those “magical moments of understanding” that a good poem can.


In Search of Lake Wobegon

In Search of Lake Wobegon

Author: Garrison Keillor

Publisher: Studio

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13:

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"This book combines text and image to reveal the real-life origins of the place where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children above average." Keillor meditates on the enduring culture of the county and on the years he spent there as a young writer and an outsider. And a short story of Lake Wobegon, "October," appears here for the first time in print."--BOOK JACKET.


O, What a Luxury

O, What a Luxury

Author: Garrison Keillor

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0802121616

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The celebrated radio host of A Prairie Home Companion presents his first collection of poetry, featuring his reflections on daily life, love, politics and religion in verse that reflects his characteristic humor and insight.