The Crucifixion

Binding	EAN	ISBN-10	Pub Date	PAGES	Language	Size	Price
Paperback	9780983585268	0983585261	2012-04-06	190		0.00 x 5.50 x 8.50 in	$16.95

Mouthbrooders

by Nawrocki, Amy

Where does language originate, especially the language of poetry?in the brain or the emotions? In the images we behold, or in the memory? In this deeply observant collection, Amy Nawrocki asks, "What language do you have / for the barren days when nothing catches your eye?" And although "The contortionist is unable to speak / from all her sword swallowing," Nawrocki whose brain and emotions once...

River of Love

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RIVER OF LOVE is a supernatural Love story about a fierce Indigenous Mexican American girl growing up in a white Colorado town during a youth-led cultural revolution of the 1970s. It’s a Love letter to the Southern Rocky Mountains, to the Spirits, to a close-knit family, and even to youth itself. The Arkansas River is a vital character, as is the environment, and wisdom of the ancestors...

Before the Sun Rises

by Morgan, Gwendolyn

Before the Sun Rises is poetry of awakening and listening to the natural world at this turbulent time on our planet. Gwendolyn Morgan evokes a dreamtime threshold of climate change, global initiations, corvid and celestial convergences...

Painted Oxen

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Two men, three realms, one goal: to find the heart of the world. Painted Oxen is a novel of transcendence, one that not only invites its readers into its story, but somehow enmeshes them in its alchemy, leaving them changed in unexpected ways at its journeys end...

Original Syn

by Kander, Beth

Fifty years after the Singularity, the world is divided into two populations locked in a cold war: Synthetic Citizens, or Syns, human-computer hybrids with extraordinary enhancements and potentially infinite lifespans; and Originals, the individuals who did not merge their bodies with the machines...

The Seas of Distant Stars

by Varela, Francesca G.

Agapanthus was kidnapped when she was only two years old, but she doesn’t remember it. In fact, she doesn’t remember her home planet at all. All she knows is Deeyae, the land of two suns; the land of great, red waters. Her foster-family cares for her, and at first that’s enough. But, as she grows older, Agapanthus is bothered by the differences between them...

The Comet's Tail

by Nawrocki, Amy

I do not remember the tubes, the tests, or the icy cold of space. I do not remember losing six months of my life.At age nineteen, Amy Nawrocki returned from her first year of college, scribbled a few notes in her journal, and took a terrifying summer trip. She remembers one night of disorientation, then nothing until Christmas, when awareness slowly restarts...

The Strait

by Jarvis, Andrew

The Strait explores sensory experiences gleamed from the natural environment, historic traditions, archeological findings, and folklore of the Pacific Northwest. Jarvis presents a spiritual and honest landscape rich with images and metaphors that define our place in this beautiful, multicultural world and what it means to be human...

River's Child

by Seiler, Mark Daniel

Trapped underground in the Svalbard Seed Vault, Mavin Cedarstrom is rescued by a band of strange women dressed in furs. The Peregrine scout Simone Kita was sent to recover seeds from the top of the world and bring them south to the floating gardens of Kashphera. Conjuring myth and magic, this fun, action-packed novel is a delight. River’s Child is a wild ride into an ancient...

Tinker's Damn

by Leff, David K.

Deeply rooted in place and time, these poems explore nature, the built environment, and human relationships with an acute sense of reverence and wonder that renews the spirit.

Seasons of Contemplation

by Browning, L.M.

In Seasons of Contemplation, Browning offers the reader humble yet impacting meditations on the topics of religion, connection, mindfulness, ecology, the spiritual journey, and the perils of modern culture. The ruminations gathered within these pages provide simple insights that help bring sense to the chaos and hustle of our daily life...

Night, Mystery & Light

by McDowell, J.K.

"McDowell often ends his poems with a challenge to 'Jim,' a question usually asking him to make sense of his life. Yet as we feel our way through the earlier stanzas, living within their diaphanous walls, we overhear this final question as if it were directed at us. One of the joys of reading McDowell's poetry is precisely this-that his questions urge us to make deeper sense of our own lives...

Creatively Maladjusted

by Richards, Theodore

Education is the subject of much public debate. Politicians and bureaucrats, educators and parents, students and concerned citizens all have an interest—and a stake—in the way we educate our children...

Nature's Calling

by Collins-Ranadive, Gail

Steeped in the faith tradition of the American Transcendentalists (the majority of whom, like Emerson, were Unitarian ministers) the author's own spiritual life was likewise grounded and guided by nature. So of course she said yes to a career in interim ministry that would require her to relocate every summer...

by Richards, Theodore

The Crucifixion is a modern American myth reframing the Old Testament in terms of the flight of African Americans from the Deep South during the Great Migration and the New Testament as the struggle for meaning in the modern, urban America. It is the story of a young man who is lost and alone, and must return to the city of his birth to find his place in the world...

Kodah and Me

by Slayton, Elizabeth

Kodah and Me is the winner of the 2017 Nautilis Silver Medal for Children's Picture Book.Elizabeth Slayton has written a touching and uplifting story in Kodah and me. Her illustrations are exquisite and the relationship between the characters are sure to touch your heart. Brilliant work.—Sandra Ingerman, author of Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of Shamanic Life

Airstream

by Henderson, Audrey

Vagabonds, prophets and vanishing societies, hunters of rare species and rare truths, silent canyons and the New Jersey Turnpike-Audrey Henderson's witty and profound poems lead us on a pilgrimage to the extreme edges of artistic and spiritual exploration.

My Mother's Kitchen

by Ekkanath Klein, Meera

My Mother's Kitchen is an enchanting place filled with promise, change and good food. If the weathered walls of this magical room could talk they would tell the story of Meena and her childhood life. Each chapter is a slice in her young life and depicts her spunk and youthful spirit. A visit to the local Fruit and Flower Show becomes an adventure as told by Meena...

Wildness

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"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." ? John Muir Celebrating Homebound Publications' 5th Anniversary, the press gathers a circle of 19 of its most beloved authors to create this anthology celebrating the confluence of the internal and natural landscape.

Reconnaissance

by Nawrocki, Amy

In her latest collection, Amy Nawrocki plays voyeur and thief, surveying canvases and investigating bookshelves, searching for creativity's origins and exploring the nature of inspiration...

Four Blue Eggs

by Nawrocki, Amy

Four Blue Eggs is sense music, an exploration of beginnings and of endings. In this collection of poems, Amy Nawrocki intuits fireflies and sapphires, observes gardens rooted in glasses of water, and tests the bindings of old books. Solace abounds-in winter's white, in the hefty doors of an Oldsmobile, in half melted candles...

Having Listened

by Whited, Gary

Having Listened offers a collection of poems that speak from the confluence of a childhood on the prairie remembered and an encounter with the haunting voice of Parmenides echoing across 2500 years. These poems might draw you into your own listening places, to places unheard before, to places whose voices have been forgotten or half remembered.

Rolling up the Sky

by Flaherty Haltmaier, Linda

"The poems in Rolling up the Sky tell stories about mothers and daughters, about struggle, about grief ― but no matter how painful their occasions, these poems are full of warmth and humor...

Logos

by Neeleman, John

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Listen

by Varela, Francesca G.

In Listen Francesca tells us the story of May. May is a piano-genius college freshman who dreams of becoming a brilliant composer. In her school's practice rooms she meets Conner, an undeniably unattractive junior, and she is immediately captivated by his raw musicality on the piano...

The Conversions

by Richards, Theodore

In his novel, The Conversions, Richardsdeals with some of the most pressing questions at this moment in history: What kind of world can be created with the end of industrial civilization? What is truly at the root of the so-called clash of civilizations? What is the place for religion in the post-modern world? Is American identity only about defining and excluding the other? What does a...

The Foundation of Summer

by Lehman, Eric D.

A scholar forges a masterpiece, a drug dealer solves a mystery, two trackers chase each other through the space between the suburbs. Join the fanatics, impostors, murderers and fools who inhabit Eric D. Lehman's The Foundation of Summer, as they search New England for a season of transcendence.

Saving the Farm

by Powers, James T.

Located on ten acres of woods and meadows at the intersection of two busy state roads, the Dudley Farm at first glance looks like many other surviving New England farms from the 19th century. But, with a second look, it becomes obvious there is a difference. Sitting on a slight hill above the road, with its picket fence and stone walls, the farm calls the passerby...

Seeing the Past

by Powers, James T.

Milo Todd was not content with his future lot in life. Having inherited his family gristmill in the tiny village of Northford, he lived at a time of dynamic economic change during the latter half of the 19th Century and spent his life determined to be part of it. The quest to do so would bring Todd on a journey across Connecticut as he sought his place in that rapidly transforming world...

Shadows of Paris

by Lehman, Eric D.

When William Byrnes takes a teaching job at a private school in the Marais, he thinks he's escaping his sins. He sentences himself to winter afternoons under the vaulted ceilings of Notre Dame and to rice for dinner, while the City of Light goes unnoticed...

To Look Out From

by Cummings, Dede

According to acclaimed poet Clarence Major, “Dede Cummings’ poems in To Look Out From are breathtakingly vivid. Deeply felt, they often chronicle the relationship between self and the natural world, between self and others. These are New England poems that transcend New England. They are well-crafted testaments, often pastoral, to the cycles of life...

Woodland Manitou

by Barr, Heidi

Woodland Manitou: To Be on Earth is a collection of essays rooted in the rhythm of the natural world. Through the turn of the seasons, Heidi Barr illustrates how the cycles of the earth have informed her everyday life from community to vocation to the food that finds its way to the dinner table...

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Mouthbrooders

River of Love

Before the Sun Rises

Painted Oxen

Original Syn

The Seas of Distant Stars

The Comet's Tail

The Strait

River's Child

Tinker's Damn

Seasons of Contemplation

Night, Mystery & Light

Creatively Maladjusted

Nature's Calling

The Crucifixion

Kodah and Me

Airstream

My Mother's Kitchen

Wildness

Reconnaissance

Four Blue Eggs

Having Listened

Rolling up the Sky

Logos

Listen

The Conversions

The Foundation of Summer

Saving the Farm

Seeing the Past

Shadows of Paris

To Look Out From

Woodland Manitou

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