![]() ![]() This sequence as written celebrates many aspects of "comradeship" or "adhesive love," Whitman's term, borrowed from phrenology to describe male same-sex attraction. In the 1860 third edition of Leaves of Grass, Whitman included the twelve "Live Oak" poems along with others to form a sequence of 45 untitled numbered poems. ![]() This sequence was not known in its original manuscript order until a 1953 article by Fredson Bowers. Even in Whitman's intimate writing style, these poems, read in their original sequence, seem unusually personal and candid in their disclosure of love and disappointment, and this manuscript has become central to arguments about Whitman's homoeroticism or homosexuality. These poems seem to recount the story of a relationship between the speaker of the poems and a male lover. These poems were all incorporated in Whitman's 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, but out of their original sequence. The first evidence of the poems that were to become the "Calamus" cluster is an unpublished manuscript sequence of twelve poems entitled "Live Oak With Moss," written in or before spring 1859. Most critics believe that these poems are Whitman's clearest expressions in print of his ideas about homoerotic male love. ![]() These poems celebrate and promote "the manly love of comrades". The " Calamus" poems are a cluster of poems in Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() "I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all." (Laura Ingalls Wilder, quoted by John E."For every bad judgment, the fine was no silver-wrapped Kisses, the sweet chocolate drops that I loved more than anything in the world, except Bailey." (Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Random House, 1969).The presidential suite in the new hotel is usually occupied by rock stars and other visiting celebrities."f you are unhappy at work and spend eight hours a day, five days a week there, it is a large proportion of waking life to spend doing something that doesn't suit you." (Sue Hadfield, Brilliant Positive Thinking.A New Hampshire doctor won a significant victory in the medical profession's counterattack on harassing malpractice suits.Huber was coming at seven to take their photograph for the Christmas card. She had put out Francis' blue suit and a tie with some color in it, because the picture was going to be in color this year." (John Cheever, "The Country Husband." The Stories of John Cheever. ![]() ![]() ![]() Regeneration describes how an inclusive movement can engage the majority of humanity to save the world from the threat of global warming, with climate solutions that directly serve our children, the poor, and the excluded. It is the first book to describe and define the burgeoning regeneration movement spreading rapidly throughout the world. Regeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation. ![]() A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller Drawdown. ![]() ![]() ![]() While there are no specifics about which city or country the revolution is happening in, it harks back to the Arab Spring that changed the entire Arab world. The book showcases how a revolution gets a life of itself and what happens to it. While I wasn’t wholly new to the politics of the Middle-East, I never paid much attention to studying it. Sameera finds friendship in the City, across nationalities, which are often tested in the difficult times. ![]() She works as an RJ and is adjusting to life in a foreign country which finds itself suddenly in the throes of a people’s revolution. Jasmine Days is about a young Pakistani girl, Sameera Parvin, who has moved to a ‘City’ in a gulf country. I took a more than a few days to get through the first 50 pages, and after that the story just gripped me, and I finished it over a few hours. Jasmine Days is the first political-fiction I read, and it took me a while to get through it. ![]() It made me reflect on the meaning of freedom, nationality, patriotism and all the baggage that comes in a world with borders. As India was gearing up to celebrate the 72nd Independence Day, I was burning the midnight oil and pacing through ‘Jasmine Days.’ It was probably the most appropriate book I could have picked for the occasion. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was there she fell in love with the written word. God’ When Michelle Lynn Brown was a teenager, her mother used to take her to used books stores at least once a month. Like the flawed characters that grace her books, she has had many stumbles and struggles in her life. And since she married her husband, the military has blessed her with the opportunity to live in many locations, from Germany to Pennsylvania, where she now resides. She was born in Dayton, Ohio, but raised in El Paso, Texas. ![]() She is a housewife, mother of three, military spouse, writer, blogger, hopeless romantic, and a cuddly lap for one very large cat. As a writer, she uses this passion to share with others the joy of having a personal and intimate relationship with Christ. When Michelle Lynn Brown was a teenager, her mother used to take her to used books stores at least once a month. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only heaven truly knows all the ways God has used Experiencing God to impact the world. previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next sort by previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. Because of this study, countless of people are now serving as missionaries, pastors, evangelists, and faithful servants. Blackaby Average rating 4.31 47,755 ratings 1,030 reviews shelved 77,277 times Showing 30 distinct works. ![]() The study has transformed thousands of churches, high schools, colleges, and seminaries. ![]() So many lives have been radically changed: inmates, military personnel, lawyers, judges, CEOs, professional athletes, politicians, parents. I am amazed that God, in His mercy and grace, used such a modest work by ordinary people! I have been overwhelmed by the response to Experiencing God. The workbook has now been published in 47 languages and has been used in almost every denomination. Ten years after its release, more than three million copies of the workbook had been distributed. People repeatedly asked, “Have you ever written down the material you are teaching? God’s people need to hear these truths.” I eventually put that material into the book Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God. Since its release in 1990, God has used the study to change millions of lives and thousands of churches around the world. I had shared these truths in many places before writing the book. It describes the way I have always understood and walked with God. ![]() ![]() But carriages bring close quarters, dark secrets, and unbearable temptation, making opposites altogether too attractive. ![]() She wouldn't have him if he were the last man on earth. He thinks she's trying to trick him into marriage. When King discovers stowaway Sophie, however, the journey becomes anything but boring! Kingscote, "King," the Marquess of Eversley, has never met a woman he couldn't charm, which results in a reputation far worse than the truth, a general sense that he's more pretty face than proper gentleman, and an irate summons home to the Scottish border. Unfortunately, the carriage in which she stows away isn't saving her from ruin. When Sophie, the least interesting of the Talbot sisters, lands her philandering brother-in-law backside-first in a goldfish pond, she shocks society and finds herself the target of very public aristocratic scorn, leaving her no choice but to flee, vowing to start a new life far from London. all the fun and guilty pleasure of celebrity gossip, with a Regency twist! ![]() ![]() The first in Sarah MacLean's sensational new Scandal & Scoundrels series. 'For a smart, witty and passionate historical romance, I recommend anything by Sarah MacLean' Lisa Kleypas Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 'Smart, sexy, and always romantic' Julia Quinn, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, one day Purcell wakes to find that he may have japed the statue honoring Major Streiter by cutting off its head, and repositioning the body so it appears to be playing football with itself. Now, in the early 22nd century, Alan Purcell runs an agency that provides MoRec campaigns to the Telemedia, the government-run television network. MoRec stands for Moral Reclamation, an ultra-conservative and puritanical process of limiting cultural expansion and only providing new ideas through carefully groomed channels. "The Man Who Japed" is set in a world similar to " The World Jones Made." Philip K Dick has imagined a world after the apocalypse of the 1970's, where society was rebuilt based on a philosophy of MoRec, which made peace and prosperity compulsory, promoted by an early leader named Major Streiter. ![]() ![]() Their physical organism, if organism it can be called, is quite unlike either the human or the Martian. ![]() The eldila are very different from any planetary creatures. He had met the creatures called eldila, and specially that great eldil who is the ruler of Mars or, in their speech, the Oyarsa of Malacandra. Who could imagine that a little farther on in that quiet landscape I should meet and shake by the hand a man who had lived and eaten and drunk in a world forty million miles distant from London, who had seen this Earth from where it looks like a mere point of green fire, and who had spoken face to face with a creature whose life began before our own planet was inhabitable?įor Ransom had met other things in Mars besides the Martians. The few houses and the clumps of red or yellowish trees were in no way remarkable. The gloomy five-o'clock sky was such as you might see on any autumn afternoon. ![]() The flat heath which spread out before me (for the village lies all behind and to the north of the station) looked an ordinary heath. ![]() As I left the railway station at Worchester and set out on the three-mile walk to Ransom's cottage, I reflected that no one on that platform could possibly guess the truth about the man I was going to visit. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, it was a very interesting change. We went from cute, middle school girl accidentally discovers she is a mermaid in gym class and then goes on an adventure to cute, middle school girl almost gets everyone killed by a ancient, angry monster. This book took a completely different turn. ![]() All in all, I would recommend this to kids and adults alike because you’re never too old for a good middle grade.īook Two: Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep There was also lots of great mystery and adventure that I know that I really fell in love with as a kid. Nostalgic memories aside, this book was a great introduction to the series! The world of mermaids was introduced in an interesting way, and we got to see Emily fumble through this new society that she had never known about as a means of discovering what is what. I thought about doing a full series review, but then decided that for these books it would probably just be easier to write a paragraph or so on each book, especially since these are not exactly books that you have to diligently read in order (though I did).Īs I was reading this book, I felt instantly transported back to childhood and reading this book in the car on the way back from the beach. Today we’re talking all about Emily Windsnap so I can try and get this series out of my system and talk about something else. ![]() |