Love in the Garden
Love in the Garden

Author: Jean Pierre Otte

Publisher: George Braziller Publishers

Published: 2000-05-30

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13:

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A garden is a peaceful, beautiful sanctuary, but beneath its serene appearance is a seething hive of sex, violence, and treachery--among its flowers and insects, that is. Based on years of voyeuristic observation, Love in the Garden reveals intricate, humorous, and often horrifying intimate details about the frenzied sexual lives of garden flowers and insects. Written with a poetic fancy and with wit, and from a shamelessly anthropomorphic viewpoint, Love in the Garden delights in the ingenuity and variety of the sexual tactics of insects and flowers. The bee orchid, for instance, attracts male bees by duplicating the scent emitted by female bees during mating season. A gullible male arrives and searches excitedly for the non-existent female opening. Then, a second male arrives, mistakes the first male for a female, and, as they wrestle and wiggle furiously, the bee orchid is pollinated. In the realm of insects, sex is often accompanied with violence and in some cases, even cannibalism. Take the notorious female praying mantis: in the midst of the sexual act, she beheads her enraptured male partner, who carries on though headless, while she devours him bite by bite. Love in the Garden does not aim to enrich the scientific knowledge of its reader. Instead, it hopes to involve the reader, through sexuality and all forms of sensation, in the turbulence of life.

 Lemons In The Garden of Love
 Lemons In The Garden of Love

Author: Ames Sheldon

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1647420490

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It’s 1977 and Cassie Lyman, a graduate student in women’s history, is struggling to find a topic for her doctoral dissertation. When she discovers a trove of drawings, suffrage cartoons, letters, and diaries at Smith College belonging to Kate Easton, founder of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts in 1916, she believes she has located her subject. Digging deeper into Kate’s life, Cassie learns that she and Kate are related—closely. Driven to understand why her family has never spoken of Kate, Cassie travels to Cape Ann to attend her sister’s shotgun wedding, where she questions her female relatives about Kate—only to find herself soon afterward in the same challenging situation Kate faced.

The Nightingale in the Garden of Love
The Nightingale in the Garden of Love

Author: Mehmet Muhyiddin Üftâde

Publisher: Anqa Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0953451380

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A detailed overview of the life and teachings of one of the great Ottoman Sufi masters, Mehmed Muhyiddin Uftade, is accompanied by an English translation of a collection of his religious poetry in this tribute to the Turkish and Persian spiritual traditions. Uftade's prominent role in the founding of the Jelvetiyye, one of the main dervish orders, his influence on Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, and his instruction of renowned disciple 'Aziz Mahmud Hudayi, are carefully described alongside the faithfully rendered tenets of his spiritual teachings, augmented by firsthand accounts of his views translated from the journal of a disciple. Uftade's poetry employs simple, direct, and wonderfully human language to express the human yearning for the divine and the ups and downs of the spiritual path.

Unveiling the Garden of Love
Unveiling the Garden of Love

Author: Lalita Sinha

Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1933316632

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Epic love poems often share common thematic elements -love in union, love in separation, and love in reunion. This book investigates common threads and shared symbolism between the literary masterpieces The Story of Layla Majnun (written by Nizami in the Islamic Sufi tradition) and Gita Govinda (written by Jayadeva in the Hindu Bhaktic tradition). Book jacket.

The Garden of Love in Tuscan Art of the Early Renaissance
The Garden of Love in Tuscan Art of the Early Renaissance

Author: Paul F. Watson

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13:

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"The Garden of Love is an important subject in secular art of the fifteenth century, both in Italy and in northern Europe. The chief Italian examples were all painted in Tuscany in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. They depict a landscape consisting of a flowery meadow, a grove, and a great marble fountain, where lovers gather to sing, dance, and make love. Allied to the Garden of Love are variations on a horticultural theme--gardens for lovers celebrated in history, fountains of love, hunts set in a forest that conclude alongside a fountain. Sometimes, too, the Garden of Love becomes the setting for narratives and romances. In all these instances the Garden is more than a pleasing tapestry like backdrop: it serves as a visible symbol of the nature of love itself. This book illustrated with 97 excellent photographs, attempts to do two things ; to chart the history of the Garden of Love, and explain the significance it once had." -- Book jacket.

Garden of Love
Garden of Love

Author: Champa Ramcharran

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-01-16

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 146915093X

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A Garden Full of Love
A Garden Full of Love

Author: Sandra Kuck

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780736900065

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A world-renowned artist captures the special warmth of meeting and making friends with more than a dozen illustrations that herald the sweetness of friendship and the beauty of God's creation.