Ashes For Breakfast

Author : Durs Grünbein
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466886137
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ashes for Breakfast written by Durs Grünbein and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of Germany's leading contemporary poet. ...what is the whole surreal jokeshop of terrors compared to the infinitely chance little tricks of a poem. --from "MonoLogical Poem #1" Born in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grünbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a place where, he wrote, "the best refuge was a closed mouth." In unsettling, often funny, sometimes savage lines whose vivid images reflect his deep love for and connection with the visual arts, Grunbein is reinventing German poetry and taking on the most pressing moral concerns of his generation. Brilliantly edited and translated by the English poet Michael Hofmann, Ashes for Breakfast expertly introduces Germany's most highly acclaimed contemporary poet to American readers.

Author : Thomas Joseph Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ashes for Breakfast written by Thomas Joseph Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diary of racism in an American church which is incredibly shocking but also true story of a Christina minister and his two colleages evicted from their pastorate because they sought to change the congregation's lily-white racial policy.

Author : Emmanuel L. McCall
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881460650
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When All God's Children Get Together written by Emmanuel L. McCall and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baptists in the South were once considered the last bastions of segregation. From 1957 to 1995, God was at work changing the attitudes of those opposed to the acceptance of all people. The change was so phenomenal that Dr. C. Peter Wagner at Fuller Theological Seminary called Southern Baptists the most open and diverse denomination in the nation. This change did not come by accident. College and seminary professors, denominational servants, women in the Woman's Missionary Union in local churches, average laypeople and many other unnamed persons made it happen. This book tells how God used people and events to bring about unhearalded changes. The book is written from the author's point of view, therefore it is limited in scope. However, because the author had a national platform, the book reflects that perspective as well.

Author : Michael Eskin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110227959
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Durs Grünbein written by Michael Eskin and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durs Grünbein is the most significant poet and essayist in German today. No other modern German poet has written from such an emphatically European and global perspective, and this volume seeks to present the poet and his work to the English-speaking world in all their significance and breadth. Written by a line-up of international scholars and critics, the volume offers highly readable and wide-ranging essays on Grünbein’s substantial œuvre, complemented by specially commissioned material and an interview with the poet. It covers the German and European traditions, and engages with Grünbein’s works in the context of a number of relevant topics, such as ‘memory’, ‘urban life’, ‘mortality’, ‘love’, and ‘presence’; it also probes Grünbein’s sustained dialogue with the natural sciences and the visual arts.

Author : Geordie Greig
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374116482
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breakfast with Lucian written by Geordie Greig and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A memoir about the author's relationship with renowned painter Lucian Freud that includes interviews with many close friends and family members as well as critical analyses of Freud's art"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Gabriel Walsh
Publisher : Poolbeg Press Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maggie's Breakfast written by Gabriel Walsh and published by Poolbeg Press Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of dysfunctional and destitute parents secures employment as a member of the morning breakfast staff in Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel. The job affords the boy a respite from his father’s profound apathy and his mother’s obsession with religion. His father Paddy, an ex-British army soldier, considers his marriage to Molly to be a greater threat to his existence than his life and death struggles in the trenches during the Great War. Molly considers her life with the unemployed Paddy and ten children a crucifixion that will ensure her a place in Heaven among her favourite martyrs. In the Shelbourne, the boy encounters Margaret Burke Sheridan, a retired opera diva who in her prime sang at La Scala and Covent Garden. She was Puccini’s favourite Madame Butterfly and a protégé of Marconi, the inventor of the radio. In her present sad and lonely retirement Maggie is considered just a thorn in the side of the hotel staff. But one morning, when the new breakfast boy attempts to serve her breakfast (under the bed), Maggie has an attitude change. She senses she has one last aria to sing in the opera of her life. One that will change the boy’s life forever.

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0375409173
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling Mercies written by Anne Lamott and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2000-09-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Bird by Bird comes a personal, wise, very funny, and “life-affirming” book (People) that shows us how to find meaning and hope through shining the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life. "Anne Lamott is walking proof that a person can be both reverent and irreverent in the same lifetime. Sometimes even in the same breath." —San Francisco Chronicle Lamott claims the two best prayers she knows are: "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." She has a friend whose morning prayer each day is "Whatever," and whose evening prayer is "Oh, well." Anne thinks of Jesus as "Casper the friendly savior" and describes God as "one crafty mother." Despite—or because of—her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier nonfiction books. The people in Anne Lamott's real life are like beloved characters in a favorite series for her readers—her friend Pammy, her son, Sam, and the many funny and wise folks who attend her church are all familiar. And Traveling Mercies is a welcome return to those lives, as well as an introduction to new companions Lamott treats with the same candor, insight, and tenderness. Lamott's faith isn't about easy answers, which is part of what endears her to believers as well as nonbelievers. Against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. As she puts it, "My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers."

Author : Keith W. Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965555302
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Ashes written by Keith W. Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathleen Donohoe
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544526694
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ashes of Fiery Weather written by Kathleen Donohoe and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “stunning and intimate portrayal of four generations of New York City firefighters somehow manages to be part Alice McDermott, part Denis Leary” (Irish America). One of Book Riot’s 100 Must-Read New York City Novels Firefighters walk boldly into battle against the most capricious of elements. Their daughters, mothers, sisters, and wives walk through the world with another kind of strength and another kind of sorrow, and no one knows that better than the women of the Keegan-O’Reilly clan. Ashes of Fiery Weather takes us from famine-era Ireland to New York City a decade after 9/11, illuminating the passionate loves and tragic losses of generations of women in a firefighting family—with “characters that come so vividly to life one forgets one is reading a novel . . . Anyone Irish will face an uncanny recognition in these pages; everyone else will be enthralled meeting such captivating figures” (Matthew Thomas, New York Times–bestselling author of We Are Not Ourselves).

Author : Lillis Lish
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503530949
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Ashes written by Lillis Lish and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the tragic death of her husband, Joe, Marie Maxwell and her children embrace becoming squatters. As they learn to rebuild their lives, they befriend Fiona (a.k.a. Feodora) who is hiding from the Russian mob. Martha, a lost heiress, and Rosa and George, a displaced family she takes in. As she becomes a famous ceramist and finds love again, her life and her children are tormented by nightmares of her dead husband. Will she find peace in her new life as Joe's secret is revealed?