An injury keeps Christina from riding for at least three months. In the meantime, she reluctantly allows Melanie to train Star.

An injury keeps Christina from riding for at least three months. In the meantime, she reluctantly allows Melanie to train Star.

Breathing and its rhythms—liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous—have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath's punctuations, cessations, inhalations, or exhalations operate at the limits of meaningful speech, Stefanie Heine explores how literary texts reflect their own mediality, production, and reception in alluding to and incorporating pneumatic rhythms, respiratory sound, and silent pauses. Through close readings of works by a series of pairs—Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; Robert Musil and Virginia Woolf; Samuel Beckett and Sylvia Plath; and Paul Celan and Herta Müller—Poetics of Breathing suggests that each offers a different conception of literary or poetic breath as a precondition of writing. Presenting a challenge to historical and contemporary discourses that tie breath to the transcendent and the natural, Heine traces a decoupling of breath from its traditional association with life, and asks what literature might lie beyond.

Have a few minutes...and a pencil? Then, why not solve a crossword! This impressive collection of 148 puzzles has been carefully crafted by crossword maven Martin Ashwood-Smith to provide the maximum entertainment value for each white square. To add to the fun, he’s designed them all to be completed in about 15 minutes. So you can get one done over a cup of morning coffee, during a lunch break (and still get to eat), or on a short commute. While not extremely difficult, these crosswords are full of clever themes and up-to-date clues that make them the perfect fix for any crossword junkie with just a little time to spare.

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