Ramses In Nighttown
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Author |
: Barry B. Powell |
Publisher |
: Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2005-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781599262444 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1599262444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis RAMSES IN NIGHTTOWN by : Barry B. Powell
I. The hero is born into an unhappy family; he has nightmares but loves the girl next door; a dog kills his pet duck; he is left alone on the big river, where a man had drowned; he frequents the upholstery repair shop of his grandpa Bill, the home of Bill and Gram, and the great house on the river; he falls into a trance in his father?s room beside the river; he learns to fish and to kill his catch; an evil aunt ruins his sister Tari?s playhouse; he loves little girls too much and too often; he has a vision while fishing for crawdads in the San Lorenzo River; he and his brother Seth learn of their father?s death, smothered in a pyramid of sand. II. Now ten years old, he takes up entomology; his disturbed mother?s pet pigeon is crushed in a door; he learns the truth about his philandering father; in high school he has a new friend in Frankie Lee; he murders prairie dogs with his father?s gun; he meets the mysterious Johnny Martin, a poet, in love with the hero; he faints in class while presenting the story of Leopold and Loeb. III. He wins a prize and meets Eisenhower; he works as forest firefighter and sees a man burn to death; Johnny Martin shows him around Berkeley. IV. At Berkeley he suffers from herpes simplex and meets strange characters; a Los Angelino seduces him; Frankie Lee joins him a sordid apartment; he falls in love and travels to Mexico, where he loses his way; he goes to Harvard but doesn?t like it and flees to Europe, hoping to marry the girl he loves, who is studying in Spain. V. When the girl rejects him, he takes a boat from Barcelona to Athens, where he lives near a whorehouse in Piraeus; he sells his blood to survive; he climbs Mount Olympus in a snow storm; he hitchhikes across Algeria just after the war of independence; he takes drugs in Tangiers. VI. Back in Berkeley, he finds Frankie Lee and visits old friends, including Johnny Martin; he has night visions; he meets Isis; he locates his brother, who has gone mad; he consorts with drug dealers and enjoys their products; the streets are alive with revolution; he insults his professors and he meets a woman who claims to be from another planet; he lives with hippies, some of them mad; he meets a strange man in a bourgeois house; he has a shattering vision in which he turns into light and briefly leaves the world. VII. With Isis he moves to the mountains in Arizona, where he raises a family; he corresponds with Frankie Lee, living in LA; he eats peyote and remembers the day his father died; he climbs in the wilderness and converses about his early youth; he travels in remote areas; with friends he climbs a volcano in the night and slipping on a glacier almost dies; he returns to his hometown to find his grandmother incapacitated, abused, and near death; his grandfather recalls his brother?s madness; he undergoes a minor operation, after which he suspects Isis of infidelity. IX. Ramses and Isis travel to Egypt, where they run up against Egyptian bureaucracy and attendant horrors; a Copt cheats them and takes their money; their hopes to see the mummies of the pharaohs come to naught. XI. Ramses learns of his brother-in-law?s suicide, shot through the heart; going to NYC to investigate, he learns that his sister Tari was with another man that night; living in Greece with his teenage son, Ramses visits Ithaca, where they search for the house of Odysseus; back in the states, Ramses learns of his brother?s whereabouts, missing for forty years; he visits him in a halfway house, a house of horror. XIII. Ramses feels intense pains in his abdomen and goes to the emergency room, where his colon bursts; they operate, but after terrible suffering he dies, remembering the vision of light he saw in his youth.
Author |
: Barry Powell |
Publisher |
: Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 107 |
Release |
: 2005-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781425703509 |
ISBN-13 |
: 142570350X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rooms Containing Falcons by : Barry Powell
Rooms Containing Falcons is a collection of poetry those themes range from the surreal nightmare of the mind, noirish tortures of the heart, to hopeful resolution in visions of renewed vitality. A wild ride, makes you glad to get off.
Author |
: Barry B. Powell |
Publisher |
: Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015070697704 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The War at Troy by : Barry B. Powell
THE WAR AT TROY: A TRUE HISTORY. Tells the story of the entire saga based on ancient sources with a humorous tongue-in-cheek tone. Fascinating and a great source for what the ancients actually said about the course of this most famous war.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 602 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015066254577 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 608 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822037943230 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Writers Directory by :
Author |
: Barry B. Powell |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 78 |
Release |
: 1977 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106006989328 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Composition by Theme in the Odyssey by : Barry B. Powell
Author |
: Nick Blinko |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 126 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0952574403 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780952574408 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Primal Screamer by : Nick Blinko
The nameless evil that haunts a legendary punk rock outfit...a Gothic Horror novel about severe mental distress and punk rock. Semi-autobiographical novel from the Rudimentary Peni leading light plunging into the worlds of madness, suicide and anarchist punk. And it's a good read.
Author |
: Barry B. Powell |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2012-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781118293492 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1118293495 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing by : Barry B. Powell
Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization traces the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond. Examines the earliest evidence for writing in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC, the origins of purely phonographic systems, and the mystery of alphabetic writing Includes discussions of Ancient Egyptian,Chinese, and Mayan writing Shows how the structures of writing served and do serve social needs and in turn create patterns of social behavior Clarifies the argument with many illustrations
Author |
: Stevie Ray Vaughan |
Publisher |
: Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2001-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781458489241 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1458489248 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live at Carnegie Hall (Songbook) by : Stevie Ray Vaughan
(Guitar Recorded Versions). 13 tunes from the 1997 album that the All Music Guide calls Stevie Ray's "best live record yet released." The performance took place during the 1984 tour for Couldn't Stand the Weather , and featured guest performers Jimmie Vaughan and Dr. John. Songs include: C.O.D. * Cold Shot * Dirty Pool * Honey Bee * Iced Over * Lenny * Letter to My Girlfriend * Love Struck Baby * Pride and Joy * Rude Mood * Scuttle Buttin' * Testifyin' * The Things That I Used to Do. Includes photos.
Author |
: Renee Gladman |
Publisher |
: New York Review of Books |
Total Pages |
: 130 |
Release |
: 2013-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780984469390 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0984469397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge by : Renee Gladman
“In Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge, it’s the sentence that is alive and that is also a kind of architecture or landscape.” —Amina Cain “Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge is the third volume of Renee Gladman's magnificent, melancholy series about the city-state of Ravicka, or about the architectures of its absence. It is tempting to read the Ravickian books as an extended allegory—of architecture itself, perhaps, except that architecture is already half-allegorical, its every element raised to prefigure whatever meanings can make their way to them. If any can. In Ravicka, meanings—indeed most contact of any kind—remain in abeyance, building, in absentia, the constitutive negative spaces of the narrative. There is a plot; it lays out zones of sheer ambience. Experiences, of which there are many, unfold as a redolent lingering in the structures of immateriality, the radical realities of the insubstantial. Gladman is a philosopher of architecture, though not that of buildings. Rather, she thinks (and writes) the drifts, partitions, and immobilities of identity, affect, communication, the very possibility of being human. Profound, compelling—haunting, even—the story of Ravicka is astonishingly ours.” (Lyn Hejinian)