Chorus in the Dark

Chorus in the Dark
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Publisher : Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 1907534911
ISBN-13 : 9781907534911
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Chorus in the Dark by : Kim Lan Nguyen

Download or read book Chorus in the Dark written by Kim Lan Nguyen and published by Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chorus in the Dark invites attention to the treaty negotiated by the voices of Lamentations. The issues of God's justice and human rights are at the centre of a forceful discussion embodied in the five poems of Lamentations. Difficult questions are subtly raised: How can God's justice be recognized and honoured in the midst of suffering? How can the human right to protest against mistreatment be respected? How can loss, grief, and shame be overcome? What future is there for the victims? How can these sensitive issues be negotiated without loss? Zion is the first major speaker in Lamentations. Zion projects the voice of a woman crying by the grave. Her pain is intense, her loss is vast, her anger is uncontrollable. Zion is unable to see any future. God is indeed just in destroying her, but her surviving children do not deserve her fate. The other major speaker is the man of Lamentations 3. He too speaks of the pain, grief, anger, and desire for vengeance of a victim bent under the yoke of affliction. Yet, like a Davidic king, he dares to claim covenant promises and hope that darkness will eventually turn to light. Through both harmony and discord, and with a profound ambivalence toward the future, the separate voices of Lamentations resonate in a timbre that transcends the sum of its parts. The five poems, while having unique value individually, are meant to be read together as a living documentation of a moment of suspension, a great turning point in the history of Israel.

The Book of Unconformities

The Book of Unconformities
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Publisher : Verse Chorus Press
Total Pages : 415
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ISBN-10 : 9781891241741
ISBN-13 : 1891241745
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Book of Unconformities by : Hugh Raffles

Download or read book The Book of Unconformities written by Hugh Raffles and published by Verse Chorus Press. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.

Great Balls of Doubt

Great Balls of Doubt
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Total Pages : 128
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ISBN-10 : 1891241664
ISBN-13 : 9781891241666
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Great Balls of Doubt by : Mark Terrill

Download or read book Great Balls of Doubt written by Mark Terrill and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Balls of Doubt gathers 96 of Mark Terrill's poems and prose poems from limited-edition chapbooks and broadsides (many now sold out or no longer in print) and from hard-to-find journals and magazines, as well as his recent, previously uncollected work. Lavishly illustrated with 25 drawings by Jon Langford, Great Balls of Doubt delivers images and sentiments ranging from the real to the surreal to the elegiac, with no shortage of humor along the way. "Doubt is an unpleasant condition," ­Voltaire once remarked, "but certainty is absurd."

The Devil's Caress

The Devil's Caress
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Publisher : Verse Chorus Press
Total Pages : 187
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ISBN-10 : 9781891241758
ISBN-13 : 1891241753
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Devil's Caress by : June Wright

Download or read book The Devil's Caress written by June Wright and published by Verse Chorus Press. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth in Dark Passage’s reissue series of crime mysteries by June Wright, The Devil’s Caress, originally published in 1952, is an tense psychological thriller set on the wild southern coast of the Mornington Peninsula, outside Melbourne. Overworked young medico Marsh Mowbray has been invited to the country home of her revered mentor, Dr. Kate Waring, but it's far from the restful weekend she was hoping for. As storms rage outside, the house on the cliff’s edge seethes with hatred and tension, and two suspicious deaths soon follow. "Doubt is the devil’s caress", one of the characters tells Marsh, as her resolute efforts to get to the bottom of the deaths force her to question everyone's motives, even those of Dr. Kate. This is a classic country house mystery with shades of Agatha Christie, but with the jagged emotional edge of Daphne du Maurier.

The Night Chorus

The Night Chorus
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Total Pages : 81
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ISBN-10 : 9780773554924
ISBN-13 : 0773554920
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Night Chorus by : Harold Hoefle

Download or read book The Night Chorus written by Harold Hoefle and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems that give voice and agency to marginal figures in rural places and cityscapes.

The Chorus Choir

The Chorus Choir
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Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89011694098
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Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Chorus Choir by : Eben Tourjée

Download or read book The Chorus Choir written by Eben Tourjée and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Chorus of Fire

A Chorus of Fire
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Publisher : Tor Books
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781250214652
ISBN-13 : 1250214653
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Chorus of Fire by : Brian D. Anderson

Download or read book A Chorus of Fire written by Brian D. Anderson and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chorus of Fire is the second installment of the Sorcerer's Song fantasy adventure series from Brian D. Anderson, bestselling author of The Godling Chronicles and Dragonvein. A shadow has moved across Lamoria. Whispers of the coming conflict are growing louder; the enemy becoming bolder. Belkar’s reach has extended far into the heart of Ralmarstad and war now seems inevitable. Mariyah, clinging to the hope of one day being reunited with Lem, struggles to attain the power she will need to make the world safe again. But a power like this is not easily acquired and will test the limits of her mind and body. She will need to look deep inside herself to find the strength to achieve what even the Thaumas of old could not. Lem continues his descent into darkness, serving a man he does not trust in the name of a faith which is not his own. Only Shemi keeps his heart from succumbing to despair, along with the knowledge that he has finally found Mariyah. But Lem is convinced she is being held against her will, and compelled to do the bidding of her captors. He is determined to free her, regardless the cost. Their separate roads are leading them to the same destination. And once they arrive they will have to confront more than the power of Belkar. They will have to face themselves and what Lamoria has forced them to become. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.