On the Great Grassy African Plain Handsome Hog had a beautiful smooth coat and an extremely elegant tail. This is the story of how Handsome Hog lost his looks and became known as Warthog to the other animals. Mwenye Hadithi is a pen name and means a story-teller in Swahili.[...]
"Jefferson aspired beyond the ambition of a nationality,
and embraced in his view the whole future of man."
--Henry Adams
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Adrienne Rich's Later Poems Selected and New displays the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most distinguished artists of American letters. After her death Rich left a manuscript that speaks for her concern with a poetics of relation along with a passionate attention to craft. In addition [...]
In both poetry and prose, the editors have chosen selections intended to give readers a clear sense of Adrienne Rich's evolution and accomplishment. Accompanying this is the latest selection of study on her life and work.[...]
In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of The Dream of a Common Language and Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law writes of war, oppression, the future, death, mystery, love and the magic of poetry.[...]
We are in the presence here of a major American poet whose voice at mid-century in her own life is increasingly marked by moral passion. New York Times Book Review[...]
Examining the connections between history and the imagination, ethics and action, she explores the possible meanings of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a United States citizen, both at this particular time and through the lens of the past.[...]
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The experience is her own as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance.[...]
At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the [...]
"Italian in 32 Lessons" is the rapid and practical way for tourists, students, and businesspeople to master the basics of Italian and begin speaking. Unlike traditionally dry language texts based on rote memorization and repetition, "Italian in 32 Lessons" encourages creavity, allowing the learner t[...]
With more than 700,000 copies of her books sold, Adrienne Rich's work is unequaled today in reclaiming serious poetry from scholars and returning it to the lives of general readers. Collected here for the first time are more than 200 poems: all those in her first six books plus a dozen others of tho[...]
German in 32 Lessons is the rapid and practical way to master the basics and begin speaking the language. The book gives you the essential, simplified grammar plus the 3000 most-used words--words and idiomatic phrases that people use in real-life situations. The book can be used as a self-learner by[...]
Adrienne's acclaimed "Gimmick" approach offers both the beginner and the seasoned traveler a fast and effective route to this lexicon by teaching language as it is actually spoken. Adrienne's vocabulary lists are contemporary, practical, and uncensored - you'll find words here that aren't in any oth[...]
These essays trace a distinguished writer's engagement with her time, her arguments with herself and others. "I am a poet who knows the social power of poetry, a United States citizen who knows herself irrevocably tangled in her society's hopes, arrogance, and despair," Adrienne Rich writes. The ess[...]
This Adrienne Rich selection has been revised and expanded to cover the entirety of her career. It forms a useful introduction to her work, from her formative lyricism in "A Change of "Word" (1951), to the poems of "Diving into the Wreck" (1973), to the searching voice of "Fox" (2001).[...]
In "A Human Eye", one of America's most distinguished poets explores the complex relationship between art and social justice. Over more than three decades, Rich's essays have been praised for their lucidity, courage, and range of concerns. She examines a diverse selection of writings and their place[...]
"Rich is one of the greatest American poets of the past half century ...attested to both by the extraordinary power of her poems and by the laurels she's racked up...The events of our blood-dimmed decade have afforded Rich a subject for some of her strongest material."-Sara Marcus, San Francisco Chr[...]
In this reissue of her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim - to discover - what has been forgotten, lost, or unexplored.[...]
Focusing on the integrated understanding of the role of systems within the business, organizationally and strategically, this book demonstrates theory by including extensive business examples, and by ending each chapter with international case studies. Topics covered include: the nature of organizat[...]
In the context of ever-increasing globalization, transnational systems of support have emerged in response to the needs of transnational families, labour forces, and the communities within which they are located. This volume will be the first to systematically address transnational support research [...]
James Redfield crystallized a new spiritual vision for millions with The Celestine Prophecy and The Tenth Insight. In this work, he helps readers explore their mission on the planet by delving into the hidden energies of individual life dramas and revealing the mystical experiences that resolve them[...]
With this new companion guide, everyone can apply to their lives daily the wisdom of The Celestine Prophecy--the national bestseller with 875,000 copies in print, called by the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, "a true example of an increasingly rare phenomenon at a time of splashy celebrity bestsellers[...]