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Author | : Paisley Rekdal |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 91 |
Release | : 2019-06-18 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1619322013 |
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Nightingale is a book about change. This collection radically rewrites and contemporizes many of the myths central to Ovid’s epic, The Metamorphoses, Rekdal’s characters changed not by divine intervention but by both ordinary and extraordinary human events. In Nightingale, a mother undergoes cancer treatments at the same time her daughter transitions into a son; a woman comes to painful terms with her new sexual life after becoming quadriplegic; a photographer wonders whether her art is to blame for her son’s sudden illness; and a widow falls in love with her dead husband’s dog. At the same time, however, the book includes more intimate lyrics that explore personal transformation, culminating in a series of connected poems that trace the continuing effects of sexual violence and rape on survivors. Nightingale updates many of Ovid’s subjects while remaining true to the Roman epic’s tropes of violence, dismemberment, silence, and fragmentation. Is change a physical or a spiritual act? Is transformation punishment or reward, reversible or permanent? Does metamorphosis literalize our essential traits, or change us into something utterly new? Nightingale investigates these themes, while considering the roles that pain, violence, art, and voicelessness all play in the changeable selves we present to the world.
Author | : Yosiya Lwanga |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2015-12-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781514353721 |
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A Memoir
Author | : Thomas Wolf |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1643131621 |
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*Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal* A moving and uplifting history set to music that reveals the rich life of one of the first internationally renowned female violinists. Spanning generations, from the shores of the Black Sea to the glittering concert halls of New York, The Nightingale's Sonata is a richly woven tapestry centered around violin virtuoso Lea Luboshutz. Like many poor Jews, music offered an escape from the predjudices that dominated society in the last years of the Russian Empire. But Lea’s dramatic rise as an artist was further accentuated by her scandalous relationship with the revolutionary Onissim Goldovsky. As the world around them descends in to chaos, between revolution and war, we follow Lea and her family from Russia to Europe and eventually, America. We cross paths with Pablo Casals, Isadora Duncan, Emile Zola and even Leo Tolstoy. The little girl from Odessa will eventually end up as one of the founding faculty of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, but along the way she will lose her true love, her father, and watch a son die young. The Iron Curtain would rise, but through it all, she plays on. Woven throughout this luminous odyssey is the story is Cesar Franck’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano.” As Lea was one of the first-ever internationally recognized female violinists, it is fitting that this pioneer was one of the strongest advocates for this young boundary-pushing composer and his masterwork.
Author | : Richard Mabey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 77 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Nightingale |
ISBN | : 9780956186911 |
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Mabey explores the nightingale's link with Suffolk culture and landscape and traces the bird's course through myth, lore and tradition. He plumbs his subject for its fascinating literary and historical references and opens the readers ears to the bird itself and its extraordinary song.
Author | : Sarah A. Tooley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Crimean War, 1853-1856 |
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Author | : American Angus Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Aberdeen-Angus cattle |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lynn McDonald |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 1096 |
Release | : 2011-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1554587476 |
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Florence Nightingale is famous as the “lady with the lamp” in the Crimean War, 1854—56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on Nightingale’s correspondence from the war hospitals and on the staggering amount of work she did post-war to ensure that the appalling death rate from disease (higher than that from bullets) did not recur. This volume contains much on Nightingale’s efforts to achieve real reforms. Her well-known, and relatively “sanitized”, evidence to the royal commission on the war is compared with her confidential, much franker, and very thorough Notes on the Health of the British Army, where the full horrors of disease and neglect are laid out, with the names of those responsible.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Aberdeen-Angus cattle |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders' Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Aberdeen-Angus cattle |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Carl H Nightingale |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1995-01-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780465052196 |
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Filled with fascinating insights into the collective emotional life of inner-city kids, this book is also a highly original history of the erosion of urban community life since World War II.