Author: Bill Morgan Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780143112495 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 724
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In the first biography of Ginsberg since his death in 1997 and the only one to cover the entire span of his life, Ginsberg's archivist Bill Morgan draws on his deep knowledge of Ginsberg's largely unpublished private journals to give readers an unparalleled and finely detailed portrait of one of America's most famous poets. Morgan sheds new light on some of the pivotal aspects of Ginsberg's life, including the poet's associations with other members of the Beat Generation, his complex relationship with his lifelong partner, Peter Orlovsky, his involvement with Tibetan Buddhism, and above all his genius for living.
Author: James Buckley Publisher: Twenty First Century Publishers Ltd ISBN: 1904433642 Category : Business students Languages : en Pages : 154
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"Celebrate Myself," penetrates the hallowed halls of business school academia to reveal a simmering world of unbridled lust and unchecked ambition. When tragedy strikes during a riotous evening on the town, the students' entangled lives become irreversibly altered. Amidst the recrimination and despair surrounding unfolding events, powerful lessons are learned that could never be taught in any classroom.
Author: Dorothy Briggs Publisher: Main Street Books ISBN: 0385131054 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 241
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From the author of Your Child's Self Esteem, a practical step-by-step guide to building a positive self-image that will enhance every area of life and create new joy and satisfaction.
Author: Bill Morgan Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1440677999 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 721
Book Description
In the first biography of Ginsberg since his death in 1997 and the only one to cover the entire span of his life, Ginsberg's archivist Bill Morgan draws on his deep knowledge of Ginsberg's largely unpublished private journals to give readers an unparalleled and finely detailed portrait of one of America's most famous poets. Morgan sheds new light on some of the pivotal aspects of Ginsberg's life, including the poet's associations with other members of the Beat Generation, his complex relationship with his lifelong partner, Peter Orlovsky, his involvement with Tibetan Buddhism, and above all his genius for living.
Author: Walt Whitman Publisher: Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media ISBN: 1722525053 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 68
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One of the Greatest Poems in American Literature Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was considered by many to be one of the most important American poets of all time. He had a profound influence on all those who came after him. “Song of Myself”, a portion of Whitman’s monumental poetry collection “Leaves of Grass”, is one of his most beloved poems. It was through this moving piece that Whitman first made himself known to the world. One of the most acclaimed of all American poems, it is written in Whitman’s signature free verse style, without a regular form, meter, or rhythm. His lines have a mesmerizing chant-like quality, as he sought to make poetry more appealing. Few poems are as fun to read aloud as this one. Considered to be the core of his poetic vision, this poem is an optimistic and inspirational look at the world in 1855. It is exhilarating, epic, and fresh in its brilliant and fascinating diction and wordplay as it tries to capture the unique meaning of words of the day, while also embracing the rapidly evolving vocabularies of the sciences and the streets. Far ahead of its time, it was considered by many social conservatives to be scandalous and obscene for its depiction of sexuality and desire, while at the same time, critics hailed the poem as a modern masterpiece. This first version of “Song of Myself” is far superior to the later versions and will delight readers with the playfulness of its diction as it glorifies the self, body, and soul. “I am large, I contain multitudes,”
Author: Olly Sanya Publisher: Archway Publishing ISBN: 1452591849 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 347
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Self-celebration will really inspire you. It will provide you with words of comfort and enable you to praise and encourage yourself. It has a very positive tone and contains sound advice that will help you throughout the day. It promises to bring happiness into your life. Self-celebration covers topics such as self-belief, viewing your mistakes as opportunities, knowing your future is bright, keeping your joy, overcoming fear, making use of your gifts and talents, remembering that you've tried, hoping more, building a positive self-image, and viewing yourself as powerful. Self-celebration will help you see yourself as special; it will help you feel contented regardless of your imperfections and mistakes. Self-celebration will really enable you to continually work towards excellence in the different areas of your life. It will help you to understand timings and believe that there is still enough time left for you to achieve what you haven't yet achieved. It will help you to understand that there is a time for everything. Self-celebration will help you build positive relationships that will pour love and happiness into your life. It will help you not to focus on the unfortunate events of the past. Self-celebration will help you to speak and confess great and powerful words into your life that will bring the best out of you. Self-celebration will protect you from the imperfect and negative things people are saying to you; instead you will honor yourself, remain focused, and keep enjoying your life.
Author: Matt Miller Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803234422 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 318
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Collage of Myself presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America's most celebrated collection of poems. In the first book length study of Walt Whitman's journals and manuscripts, Matt Miller demonstrates that until approximately 1854 (only a single year before the first publication of Leaves of Grass), Whitman---who once speculated that Leaves would be a novel or a play---was unaware that his ambitions would assume the form of poetry at all. Collage of Myself details Whitman's discovery of a remarkable new creative process that allowed him to transform a diverse array of texts into poems such as "Song of Myself" and "The Sleepers." Whitman embraced an art of fragments that encouraged him to "cut and paste" his lines into ever evolving forms based on what he called "spinal ideas." This approach to language, Miller argues, represents the first major use in the Western arts of the technique later know as collage, an observation with significant ramifications for our reception of subsequent artists and writers. Long before the modernists, Whitman integrated found text and ready made language into a revolutionary formulation of artistic production that anticipates much of what is exciting about modern and postmodern art. Using the Walt Whitman Archive's collection of digital images to study what were previously scattered and inaccessible manuscript pages, Miller provides a breakthrough in our understanding of the great American literary icon.
Author: Walt Whitman Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134476809 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 232
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Since 1855, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself has been enjoyed, debated, parodied and imitated by readers, critics and artists crossing national and linguistic boundaries. Many argue that it is the most influential poem ever written by an American. This sourcebook and critical edition provides easy access to: * information on the contexts of Whitman's work, including biographical details and a chronology * an overview of the critical reception of the poem and extracts from important criticism, reprinted with clear introductory headnotes * key passages from the original 1855 edition, with commentary and annotation * the full 'final' 1881 edition of the poem. Cross-references link the critical, contextual and textual sections of the volume, encouraging an integrated understanding of this creative and controversial text. Complementing a wealth of material with suggestions for further reading, this volume is ideal for readers with no knowledge of the poem, or for those returning anew to a favourite text.
Author: Robert W. Griggs Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1532683464 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 175
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Depression steals joy and brings pain. After serving for more than thirty years as a parish minister, the author was hospitalized for major depression and experienced the powers of this disease to destroy all that makes life good. In the years since, he has learned it is possible to recover the joy that depression had stolen. Always with honesty, often with humor, he shares the lessons he learned on his recovery journey back from being hospitalized to practicing his profession. He offers these lessons as “Forty-Nine Helps,” each a short chapter focused on a specific aid to recovery, each speaking the truth to depression’s lies.
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