Author: Elizabeth Rachel ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The New Purgatory, and Other Poems
Author: Elizabeth Rachel ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Museum of Objects Burned by the Souls in Purgatory
Author: Jeffrey ThomsonPublisher: Alice James Books
ISBN: 1948579340
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Titled after a small gallery of the same name found in Rome, the poems are devoted to meditations on religious relics and works of art. They explore the narrative power these objects carry—the way we imbue totemic figures with both meaning and story, and the potential they have to define the world.
Sometimes I Never Suffered
Author: Shane McCraePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721807
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the award-winning poet I think now more than half Of life is death but I can’t die Enough for all the life I see In Sometimes I Never Suffered, his seventh collection of poems, Shane McCrae remains “a shrewd composer of American stories” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker). Here, an angel, hastily thrown together by his fellow residents of Heaven, plummets to Earth in his first moments of consciousness. Jim Limber, the adopted mixed-race son of Jefferson Davis, wanders through the afterlife, reckoning with the nuances of America’s racial history, as well as his own. Sometimes I Never Suffered is a search for purpose and atonement, freedom and forgiveness, imagining eternity not as an escape from the past or present, but as a reverberating record and as the culmination of time’s manifold potential to mend.
Tom Thomson in Purgatory
Author: Troy JollimorePublisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781550960976
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Purgatory
Author: Rosetta AllanPublisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 174348609X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
'You don't want to be digging there,' Ma says like he can hear her. No one can hear her, just us boys. We're the dead Finnegans – Ma, Thomas, Ben and me. Ten-year-old John Finnegan can't leave his garden. Ever since they were murdered he, his brothers and his ma have been stuck there, caught between the worlds of the living and the dead. Unseen and unnoticed, he watches the events after his life unfold – including the actions of his murderer. James Stack is born dirt-poor on an Irish tenant farm and the great famine shadows his childhood. But his clever sister's lace making may save the family – until Aileen is sent to the other side of the world on a convict ship. To save her, James joins the redcoats and follows her across dangerous waters to a hopeful new land. But can he ever leave the death and hunger of his homeland behind? Based on the 1865 Otahuhu murders, Purgatory is a startling, gripping novel from an immensely talented new author.
Purgatory Has an Address
Author: Romaine WashingtonPublisher: Bamboo Dart Press
ISBN: 9781947240131
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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American Purgatory
Author: Rebecca Gayle HowellPublisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 183978041X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
American Purgatory is a story of the working class, a dystopia set in a near-future United States marked by severe drought, herbicidal warfare, and a totalitarian climate of poverty. This purgatory is populated by those who believe if that they work hard enough, they will be set free. Against this backdrop, three unlikely characters begin a journey that will take them away from work, belief, and even each other, until the protagonist uncovers the truth about this place and the people in it-a truth that indeed sets her free. Equal parts Dante and Cormac McCarthy, American Purgatory is a coming-of-age for capitalism written in the decade of tea-party terror.AN INDIE BEST-SELLER!Winner of the 2016 Sexton Prize, selected for publication by Don Share
Three Purgatory Poems
Author: Edward E FosterPublisher: Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN: 1580444008
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Though our modern understanding of the medieval doctrine of Purgatory is generally shaped by its presentation by Dante in the Divine Comedy, there is a lengthy history of speculation about the nature of such a place of purgation. Through these fourteenth-century Middle English poems, readers can experience something of the controversies that surfaced and resurfaced even after Aquinas had articulated his doctrine of the Communion of Saints. The Gast of Gy, as Foster notes, puts a human face on the doctrine of Purgatory, not only in the amiable, logical, and patient person of the Gast of Gy himself, . . . but also in the careful and cautious dialogue between the Gast and the Pryor who questions him. Sir Owain and The Vision of Tundale present two accounts of the purgatorial journeys of living individuals who are offered a chance to see the torments they have brought upon themselves by their less-than-perfect lives along with the opportunity to return and amend those lives. All three poems were quite popular, as was the doctrine of Purgatory itself. And why not? As Foster notes in his general introduction, it the doctrine of Purgatory had everything: adventure and adversity, suffering and excitement, and, most importantly, a profound theological warning wrapped in the joyful solace of communion with the departed and hope for our own sinful selves.
The Westminster Review
Author: The Poets and the Poetry of the Century ...: Robert Bridges and contemporary poets
Author: Alfred Henry MilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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