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This book represents a circle, moving geophysically and
mythologically from salt water - the cosmic and microcosmic
elemental birthplace - to desert sand, the reposing place of earth
matter, or materiality. The visions that make up this volume are
taken from experiences, past and present, of Native American
storytellers. The speakers come from many tribes: Pascagoula,
Arawak, Iroquois, Arapaho, Kiowa, Rio Grande Pueblo, Kwakiutl,
Cherokee and Navajo. Gerald Hausman has created this poetic and
visionary anthology from years of dedicated research and dialogue
with Native American people.
Aram Saroyan's The Street: An Autobiographical Novel tells what it
was like to come of age in New York City in the turbulent period of
Vietnam and L.S.D., of racial unrest and rock-and-roll. Saroyan's
free-wheeling, poignant and funny autobiographical novel deals with
near stardom in Hollywood (Mike Nichols wanted him for the title
role in "The Graduate"), his father, William Saroyan, his
step-father, Walter Matthau, and a fascinating cast of characters
from the world famous to the drop-outs of the psychedelic
revolution. A screen adaptation of The Street, written and directed
by Noam J. Christopher, can be viewed at ubu.com/film/saroyan.html.
"Here is a novel that pins down an era." -Bookpeople Aram Saroyan's
Complete Minimal Poems received the William Carlos Williams Award
from the Poetry Society of America. His many prose books include
Genesis Angels: The Saga of Lew Welch and the Beat Generation,
Artists in Trouble: New Stories, and Door to the River: Essays and
Reviews from the 1960s into the Digital Age. "A writer who looks
deeply into himself and his own experience, confronts what he finds
there with real courage and reports what he has experienced with a
measure of candor that is both breathtaking and, at moments,
heartbreaking." -Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
Marcos Caliente is a jalapeno pepper who is called Marcos the Wise
because he stands up to his enemy, Phatkat, and the greedy growers
of Phlamco who want the whole world to eat test tube food. How does
Marcos defeat those who want to put him under the ground? Well, you
must remember that once upon a dream Marcos was a tiny little
sprout in the earth. No stranger to the natural soil of life, he
likes it there better than anywhere else. But it's as he says,
"Those who wish to bury me should remember that I come from the
earth and the powers of the earth reside within me forever." Follow
the adventures of Marcos Caliente, the clever jalapeno pepper who
makes the world a better place for all to live and grow wise just
like him.
Josephine grows up on the island of Martinique longing for a
glorious life in Paris. A West Indian seer has told her she is
destined to be "more than a queen." An arranged marriage to a
French nobleman brings her to the city of lights. But instead of
the grand life, she experiences the French Revolution. Her husband
is executed, she is imprisoned and all of her dreams of diamonds
turn to dirt. But then she meets the greatest love of her life,
Napoleon Bonaparte. Their ups and downs, joys and sorrows, set
against the background of the Napoleonic Wars ensure that this
dramatic novel is one of the most turbulent romances of the time.
A collection of stories, poems, and meditations that illuminate the
spiritual world of the Navajo.
- Explores the Navajo's fundamental belief in the importance of
harmony and balance in the world.
- Shares Navajo healing ways that have been handed down for
generations.
- Includes meditations following each story or poem.
Navajo myths are among the most poetic in the world, full of
dazzling word imagery. For the Navajo, who call themselves the Dine
(literally, "the People"), the story of emergence--their creation
myth--lies at the heart of their beliefs. In it, all the world is
created together, both gods and human beings, embodying the idea
that change comes from within rather than without. Poet and author
Gerald Hausman collects this and other stories with meditations
that together capture the essence of the Navajo people's way of
life and their understanding of the world. Here are myths of the
Holy People, of Changing Woman who teaches the People how to live,
and of the trickster Coyote; stories of healings performed by
stargazers and hand tremblers; and songs of love, marriage,
homecoming, and growing old. These and the meditations that follow
each story reveal a world--our world--that thrives only on harmony
and balance and shares the Dine belief that the most important
point on the circle that has no beginning or end is where we stand
at the moment.
A collection of first-person stories and essays about living on
Pine Island, a barrier island off the West Coast of Florida. The
author and his wife have lived on Pine Island for 18 years and have
met just about every kind of animal, insect, amphibian, reptile and
person that inhabits small, sub-tropical mangrove islands in this
part of Florida. Often humorous, the stories share the lives of
creatures often unseen by other people. Also shared are weather
patterns, including a category 5 hurricane, and the many
"transplants," non-native species that have made Florida their
permanent home.
Six stories of survival -- men and women set upon by stormy seas,
starvation, thirst, beasts, ghosts and their own inner demons.
Based on real historical accounts the narratives are filled with
the eerie poetry of island life, the exultant triumph of survival
against all odds. From Florida's Bigfoot called the Skunk Ape to
"the man who would not go bottom" -- a superhero who could not
drown but was vulnerable on land, these stories of castaways will
appeal to readers of all ages.
Condemned to a penal colony in Australia for stealing a woman's
bonnet, young Mary Bryant braves every danger in Britain's newest
colony, Australia -- disease, famine, rape, and the cruelty of the
penal system. As the first convict married in Australia, Mary and
her husband Will learn from aboriginal friends how to survive. In
time they also learn how to escape. Traveling three months and
three thousand miles, Mary's courageous feat is yet unequaled by a
woman with two young children traversing rough seas for so many
miles in an open boat without training or navigational equipment.
Mary's capture, return to England and the curious trial that
determines if she lives or dies is filled with drama, and all the
more interesting for the portrait of her real-life attorney, James
Boswell.
Wondrous stories of Changing Woman, First Man and First Woman,
Coyote, Great Snake, Gila Monster and others who infuse the rich
and complex canvas of the Navajo world view. This book illuminates
the traditional oral narratives of the tribe and shows how they
work ceremonially as healing ways. Collectively, they also convey
the origin story of The People and in addition they provide a moral
code for harmonious existence with the natural world. The
enlightened state of Navajo consciousness, which they call "walking
in beauty" is presented in such a way that all of us can learn to
use it and live by it.
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