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Felix Mitterer's reputation as a European dramatist of the first
rank is by now firmly established. With his gift for sketching
social milieu in a few salient strokes and creating almost
unbearably intense moments of dramatic suspense, he has for over
thirty years been riveting the attention of viewers on the
suffering of such oppressed groups as the aged (Siberia), the
mentally challenged (No Room for Idiots) and the workingmen and
women in thrall to corrupt corporations (One Everyman). The two
plays offered here, In the Lions' Den and The Panther, fall well
within the purview of Mitterer's social concerns, portraying as
they do, respectively, the plight of the Jews in the Third Reich
and, once again, the aged in contemporary society. Yet they also
reveal a deeper and more personal thematic vein having to do with
the intimate symbiosis of language and individual identity. In
Lions' Den the Jewish protagonist Kirsch affects Tyrolean dialect
to create an Aryan persona for survival purposes, in effect
corroborating the idealist doctrine, esse est percipi (to be is to
be perceived, as this or that). You are what you can persuade
others you are, and God help you if your powers of persuasion fail
you! In The Panther the old man's self-image, his very sense of
himself, erodes with the chipping-away of age at his memory of the
lines that make up Rilke's immortal Dinggedicht. In both plays the
bedrock ordering of experience imposed by language is strained to
the breaking point, leaving the protagonists teetering on the brink
of the abyss that looms just beyond personal identity. Of his own
life the self-effacing Felix Mitterer has said: "Its only unusual
aspect is that I became a writer, that I was saved and others
weren't". His words allude obliquely to the grinding poverty and
backbreaking work he had to endure labouring on the farms of the
Tyrol as he grew up. They also convey his solidarity with those
"others" who could not make it out of the Alpine ghetto and suggest
his deep commitment to make their plight, and that of other
oppressed groups, the driving force of his dramatic art. Felix
Mitterer has done what all true artists do, transformed his
personal demons into angels of art. And in tracing, through that
art, the correspondence between his own demons and those of
society, he masters them, not only in himself but in the receptive
viewer (or reader) as well.
The United States introduced the earned income tax credit (EITC) in
1975, where it remains the most significant earnings-based
refundable credit in the Internal Revenue Code. While the United
States was the first country to use its domestic revenue system to
deliver and administer social welfare benefits to lower-income
individuals or families, a number of other countries, including New
Zealand and Canada, have experimented with or incorporated similar
credits into their tax systems. In this work, Michelle Lyon Drumbl,
drawing on her extensive advocacy experience representing
low-income taxpayers in EITC audits, analyzes the effectiveness of
the EITC in the United States and offers suggestions for how it can
be improved. This timely book should be read by anyone interested
in how the EITC can be reimagined to better serve the working poor
and, more generally, whether the tax system can promote social
justice.
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Feelings (Paperback)
Michael Lyons; Illustrated by Michael Lyons
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"Meditation, Depression and an Alien Encounter" follows a
conversation about depression and meditation between cartoonist,
Michael Lyons and an alien named, Steven.
"Amix Blood" is the story of a bi-racial girl with a unique set of
problems. She is half elfin and half vampire. When Amix is asked to
leave the prestigious vampire academy, she enrolls in a boarding
school dedicated to assimilating elves into the dominant vampire
culture. After attempting a daring mid-day escape, Amix meets a
kindred spirit in Steven. Steven is also of mixed-heritage. He is
half human and half alien. Together, they resist the terrible
elf-hunter, Santa Claus, and try to get back home.
Little Cutie is a ragged red and white teddy bear who goes on a
vision quest to find out who he is and where he belongs. Along the
way, Little Cutie gets advice from a number of woodland animals
(all with Ojibwe names) about life, living with humans, and how to
find the Great Spirit.
"Rockstar Cartoonist" follows the life of cartoonist, Michael Lyons
and his struggles as an aspiring artist and musician. Beginning in
1967, when we witness the birth of Lyons as the reincarnation of
Michelangelo, the reader follows his experiences (especially
regarding: dating, drawing, and playing guitar) as he progresses
throughout the decades. In the end, we discover Michael as a
middle-aged man with ambivalent feelings about love, music and
cartoons.
"Dog and Ma'iingan" is an English/Ojibwe language picture book.
Readers learn how to count to ten and how to say a number of animal
names in Ojibwe.
"Yea Gimiwan " ("Yea Raining " in Ojibwe) is an Enlish/Ojibwe
coloring book. Author and illustrator, Michael Lyons covers
counting to ten, simple greetings and good-byes, and a number of
animal names common to Northern Minnesota.
The novel celebrates the joys of Austin slacker living.We move in
the lush spring of April-July romance in a low rent Tortilla Flat
community. The novel shows how the biggest story of my generation,
the impact of group theory on the understanding of our place in the
universe, settled into the mind of the main character, Walker
Underwood.
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