The Resurrection Of The Body And The Ruin Of The World
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Author |
: Paul Guest |
Publisher |
: New Issues Poetry and Prose |
Total Pages |
: 122 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015058217236 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World by : Paul Guest
"Paul Guest's lyricism ranges from mystical to self deprecation and sarcasm, and his The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World traverses a great distance. The collection is able to reference, among others, Godzilla, the poet's disability, science, and much more. The mysticism doesn't really come off as subject matter, but rather how the poet treats his subject matter. In "Invocation to Destructive Muses," Guest writes, Our poet writes for hours in the myth of quiet: / interruptions pile up like debris. Earthquakes happen. / They are canceled. Tsunamis lap under doors. / Sponged up. Beach Boys die. The poet feels bad / but not too bad. This is from a poem where the first seven words are, Be it Godzilla, King of the Monsters. Yet, of all the imagery of violent destruction, the persona of the poet starts peeking through, and Guest's particular talent is taking things that wouldn't ordinarily fit together, and making them work naturally. Other entries into Guest's first book are bluntly personal. "For a Long time I Have Wanted to Write a Handi-Capable Poem" best illustrates Guest's refusal to fall into a self-pity trap. He doesn't wave his disability in front of the reader, he just assumes his wheel chair is part of who he is. With that in mind, he chafes at disability political correctness: ... if I were the militant type, and I'm not, I might join / my brothers and sisters in disabledom and chain myself / in solidarity / to the Slurpee machine at the 7-Eleven, but they're idiots, / and I'd rather have a super-size grape Slurpee any day. / God, I've fallen into a cranky orbit. The poem also describes failed attempts to pick up women in bars as well as speaking at a conference entitled "Transitioning the Adolescent Disabled into Adulthood." Lines like these do well to balance the collection against its richly textured imagery. More importantly, lines like these, and the rest of the book, work hard to present a solidly original voice."--Author's website.
Author |
: Paul Guest |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
Release |
: 2007-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0803257996 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780803257993 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Notes for My Body Double by : Paul Guest
Who would guess that Godzilla, the Invisible Man, Elvis, Donald Duck, Ted Williams, and the Three Stooges might have something to say about the love and loss that shape the way we see the world? And yet these are the pop-culture coordinates that chart the emotional life brilliantly mapped out in Paul Guest?s second book of poems. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Prize in Poetry, this collection plumbs the depths of nature and culture (how, for instance, ?gar? in Old English means ?spear,? and an octopus can lose a limb during mating) to give form to the darkness and the light that make us human. ø In poetry whose tone is largely one of lament tempered by a wry and intelligent humor, Paul Guest does what a poet does best: he gives us the moments of his life refashioned to reflect the larger arc and meaning of our own?of life, that is, writ large.
Author |
: John Charles MACQUAID (R.C. Archbishop of Dublin.) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 20 |
Release |
: 1960 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:562379695 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Resurrection of the Body. (The Life of the World to Come.). by : John Charles MACQUAID (R.C. Archbishop of Dublin.)
Author |
: Paul Guest |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 102 |
Release |
: 2009-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780061980329 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0061980323 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge by : Paul Guest
“A Paul Guest poem likes to pull out fast in the first line, then zigzag from one eye-opening image to another: A high-speed, innervating trip all the way.” —Dallas Morning News Whiting Award-winning and acclaimed poet Paul Guest’s My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge is an audaciously brilliant collection—a compendium of honesty, strange beauty, and pain—poems Louis Gluck calls, “urgent and moving,” and Robert Haas calls, “vibrant with news of the world seen from an angle of experience not available to most of us.” Mary Karr says, “Guest is a spirit to be reckoned with. Here’s a body of new work to cheer about.” Guest's first book, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World won the 2002 New Issues Prize in Poetry, and his second book, Notes for My Body Double, won the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness will be available in May 2010.
Author |
: Calvin Kingsley |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 1847 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:$B287333 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Resurrection of the Dead by : Calvin Kingsley
The following pages contain the substance of a discourse on the resurrection of the body, preached in Erie, PA, late in the fall of 1845. The occasion of the sermon was the introduction of numerous copies of a book written by George Bush, Professor of Hebrew in the New York University. The avowed object of the book is to overthrow the commonly received opinion of the resurrection of the body. These books were extensively circulated and read. Some embraced the new theory, others found their faith weakened by the bewildering speculations of the learned author. Under these circumstances, believing the error inculcated in the book to be fundamental; that it aimed a fatal blow at the very vitals of Christianity; that it led directly, in all its tendencies, to infidelity; a refutation was undertaken, and the following discourse, in three parts, delivered during three successive sabbaths. - Advertisement.
Author |
: Rubem A. Alves |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 81 |
Release |
: 2003-09-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781592443314 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1592443311 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body by : Rubem A. Alves
I wrote these things as celebrations of the resurrection. In the hope of the resurrection of the dead. To exorcise death, which we ourselves feed with our flesh. Invocations of joy and beauty. Whoever is joyful and loves beauty fights better. Resurrected bodies are more beautiful warriors because they bring in their hands the colors of the rainbow. And so bodies are transformed into seed which impregnates the earth so the future can be born. . . .
Author |
: Caroline Walker Bynum |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 1996-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231515626 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231515627 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 by : Caroline Walker Bynum
Bynum examines several periods between the 3rd and 14th centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western eschatology, and suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that arose from these discussions still undergird our modern notions of the individual. He explores the "plethora of ideas about resurrection in patristic and medieval literature--the metaphors, tropes, and arguments in which the ideas were garbed, their context and their consequences," in order to understand human life after death.
Author |
: Archbishop John Charles McQuaid |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1960 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1418910814 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life of the World to Come by : Archbishop John Charles McQuaid
Author |
: Wilbert Webster White |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 110 |
Release |
: 1923 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X030040597 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Resurrection Body "according to the Scriptures" by : Wilbert Webster White
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: |
Total Pages |
: 28 |
Release |
: 1851 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0020842377 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lecture on the resurrection of the body; compiled from the writings of Paul, Dick, Hall and others. By a layman by :