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House of Fact, House of Ruin

2018-02-06 Poetry
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Release : 2018-02-06
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 979/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis House of Fact, House of Ruin by : Tom Sleigh

Download or read book House of Fact, House of Ruin written by Tom Sleigh. This book was released on 2018-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Very much of our present moment, in which fact can so easily be manufactured and ruin so easily achieved by pressing SEND or pulling a trigger, these poems range across the landscapes of contemporary experience. Whether a militia in Libya or a military base in Baghdad, a shantytown in East Africa or an opulent mall on Long Island, these subjects and locations resonate with the psychic and social costs of having let the genie of war, famine, and climate change out of the lamp in the first place. The book ultimately turns on conundrums of selfhood and self-estrangement in which Sleigh urges us toward a different realm, where we might achieve the freedom of spirit to step outside our own circumstances, however imperfectly, and look at ourselves as other, as unfamiliar, as strange."--

The King's Touch

2022-02-01 Poetry
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Release : 2022-02-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 670/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The King's Touch by : Tom Sleigh

Download or read book The King's Touch written by Tom Sleigh. This book was released on 2022-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound encounter with the hyperreality of our time of global upheaval, violence, and pandemic. Tom Sleigh’s poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self. Justice is a prevailing force, even while the poems are fully cognizant of the refugee crisis, war, famine, and the brutal reality of a crowded hospital morgue. The King’s Touch collides the world of fact and the world of mystery with a resolutely secular register. The title poem refers to the once-held belief that the king, as a divine representative, is imbued with the power of healing touch. Sleigh turns this encounter between illness and human contact toward his own chronic blood disease and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its mounting death tolls. One poem asks, “isn’t it true that no matter how long you / wear them, masks don’t grieve, only faces do?” In this essential new work, Sleigh shows how the language of poetry itself can revive and recuperate a sense of a future under the conditions of violence, social unrest, and global anxiety about the fate of the planet.

The Land Between Two Rivers

2018-02-06 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2018-02-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 960/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Land Between Two Rivers by : Tom Sleigh

Download or read book The Land Between Two Rivers written by Tom Sleigh. This book was released on 2018-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These essays recount Tom Sleigh's experiences working as a journalist during several tours in Africa and in the Middle Eastern region once called Mesopotamia, "the land between two rivers." Sleigh asks three central questions: What did I see? How could I write about it? Why did I write about it? The first essays focus on the lives of refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Somalia, and Iraq. Under the conditions of military occupation, famine, and war, their stories can be harrowing, even desperate. But unlike their depiction in mass media, their stories are often laced with an undeluded hopefulness. The second part of this book explores how writing might be capable of honoring the texture of these individuals' experiences while remaining faithful to political emotions, rather than political convictions. The final essays meditate on youth, restlessness, illness, and Sleigh's motivations for writing his own experiences in order to move out into the world."--Back cover.

A Court of Wings and Ruin

2018-05 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2018-05
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 208/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Court of Wings and Ruin by : Sarah J. Maas

Download or read book A Court of Wings and Ruin written by Sarah J. Maas. This book was released on 2018-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah J. Maas hit the New York Times SERIES list at #1 with A Court of Wings and Ruin!

El Palacio

1915 New Mexico
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Release : 1915
Genre : New Mexico
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Book Synopsis El Palacio by : Bruce T. Ellis

Download or read book El Palacio written by Bruce T. Ellis. This book was released on 1915. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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