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"Eyes To See Otherwise" is the first extensive selection of poems
by leading Mexican poet Homero Aridjis to appear in English. The
range and quality of the translations, by some of America's finest
poets, mark the centrality of his work on the map of modern poetry.
W.S. Merwin writes, "In his early books, it was immediately clear
that Homero Aridjis was a poet of great vitality and originality
...[his] range grew with astonishing vigour in one book after
another ...Poems of his have been published in English translation
for decades but it is more than time to have a large, widely
representative selection of his poems available in English".
Charles Tomlinson recalls, "When I first met Homero Aridjis, he was
a youthful poet. He has carried that sense of youth with him
throughout his life and it has left a mark on all his work. Born in
a Mexican village, near which the monarch butterflies swarm yearly
after their flight from Canada, he experienced early life in a
profound relationship with the cycles of nature. This lies at the
root of his two principal concerns, poetry and ecology. He not only
writes of the whale, but has long fought for the protection of its
breeding places in Baja California". Kenneth Rexroth calls him "a
visionary poet of lyrical bliss, crystalline concentrations and
infinite spaces". He adds, "These are words for a new "Magic
Flute"".
This volume contributes to the extant and prolific New Agendas in
Communication Series from one of the most salient perspectives
within the field of Communication: New Technologies and Civic
Engagement. The impact of the Internet and other technological
advances are constantly referred to at most junctures of today's
Communication research agendas. The area of Political Communication
is not immune to this trend. The effects of the Internet and
digital media on today's political landscape, with a particular
emphasis on enhancing individuals' civic duties and engagement
levels, are theme of concern at many of the most renowned journals
in Communication and Political Science disciplines. First, this
book pays attention to the overall impact of the Internet and
people's use of digital media and new technologies to analyze civic
life at large, reconceptualizing what citizenship is today.
Secondly, and more specifically, participants shed light over the
intersection of a number of current new agendas of research in
regards to some of the most rapidly growing technological advances
(i.e., new publics and citizenship), and the emergence of sprouting
structures of citizenship. The volume shows the implications that
new technological advances carry with respect the possibilities,
patterns and mechanisms for citizen communication, citizen
deliberation, public sphere and civic engagement.
Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence, by the renowned Mexican
writer Homero Aridjis, is a brilliant collection of poems written
in and for the new century. Aridjis seeks spiritual transformation
through encounters with mythical animals, family ghosts, migrant
workers, Mexico's oppressed, female saints, other writers (such as
Jorge Luis Borges and Philip Lamantia), and naked angels in the
metro. We find tributes to Goya and Heraclitus, denunciations of
drug traffickers and political figureheads, and unforgettable
imaginary landscapes. As Aridjis himself writes: "a poem is like a
door / we've never passed through..." And now past eighty, Aridjis
reflects on the past and ponders the future. "Surrounded by light
and the warbling of birds," he writes, "I live in a state of
poetry, because for me, being and making poetry are the same."
This volume contributes to the extant and prolific New Agendas in
Communication Series from one of the most salient perspectives
within the field of Communication: New Technologies and Civic
Engagement. The impact of the Internet and other technological
advances are constantly referred to at most junctures of today's
Communication research agendas. The area of Political Communication
is not immune to this trend. The effects of the Internet and
digital media on today's political landscape, with a particular
emphasis on enhancing individuals' civic duties and engagement
levels, are theme of concern at many of the most renowned journals
in Communication and Political Science disciplines. First, this
book pays attention to the overall impact of the Internet and
people's use of digital media and new technologies to analyze civic
life at large, reconceptualizing what citizenship is today.
Secondly, and more specifically, participants shed light over the
intersection of a number of current new agendas of research in
regards to some of the most rapidly growing technological advances
(i.e., new publics and citizenship), and the emergence of sprouting
structures of citizenship. The volume shows the implications that
new technological advances carry with respect the possibilities,
patterns and mechanisms for citizen communication, citizen
deliberation, public sphere and civic engagement.
This powerful and moving historical novel is inspired by the
written recollections and the memories that haunted the author's
father, Nicias Aridjis,-a captain in the Greek army, who returned
from the fields of battle to Smyrna, 50 miles northwest of his
hometown of Tire, in 1922 just as Turkish forces captured this
cosmopolitan port city. Smyrna in Flames , by the internationally
acclaimed Mexican writer and poet Homero Aridjis, lays bare the
unimaginable events and horrors that took place for nine days
between September 13 and 22-known as the Smyrna Catastrophe. After
capturing Smyrna, Turkish forces went on a rampage, torturing and
massacring tens of thousands of Greeks and Armenians and
devastating the city-in particular, the Greek and Armenian
quarters-by deliberately setting disastrous fires. After years of
fighting in World War I and the Greco-Turkish War, Nicias enters a
Smyrna under siege. He desperately moves through the city in search
of Eurydice, the love of his life whom he left behind. Wandering
the streets, the sounds of hopelessness commingle in his mind with
echoes of the ancient Greek poets who sang of the city's past
glories. Images and voices, suggestive of Homeric ghosts adrift in
a catastrophic scenario, conjure up a mythological, historical,
geographical quest that, in the manner of classical epic, hovers
between the heroic and the horrible, illustrating the depths and
depravity of the human soul. Making his way from district to
district, evading capture, Nicias observes the last vestiges of
normal life and witnesses unspeakable horrors committed by roaming
Turkish forces and irregulars who are randomly abusing and raping
Greek and Armenian women and torturing and murdering their men.
What he experiences is literally a living hell unfolding before his
eyes. As Nicias passes familiar buildings, cafes, and churches, his
mind and soul fill with nostalgia for his earlier life and the
promise of love. Fortunately for the reader, the brutal and
bloodthirsty scenes of the Smyrna Catastrophe are leavened by the
voice of this "visionary poet of lyrical bliss, crystalline
concentrations and infinite spaces," as Kenneth Rexroth has
described Aridjis. His portrayal of a genocide-in-progress floods
our senses, turning these chaotic scenes into a poignant drama. At
the very end, aboard one of the last ships to take refugees out of
Smyrna before its final fall, Nicias scours the throng of thousands
of desperate Greeks and Armenians pressing forward to escape on
already overcrowded ships. Suddenly Turkish forces move in to shoot
and stab, and, overwhelmed by the all-pervasive tragedy, Nicias
abandons Smyrna and Asia Minor forever.
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Practiced in community centers and psychiatric hospitals throughout
Brazil, Spiritist therapies are gaining increasing recognition
internationally for their ability to complement conventional
medicine. This pioneering text is the first comprehensive account
of the philosophy, theory, practical applications and wider
relevance of Spiritist therapies to be published in the English
language. Leading practitioners and researchers in the field
describe the history, principles and diagnostic processes of the
Spiritist approach to mental health, and provide an extensive
summary of the various methodologies used, including spiritual
mediumship, energy work, prayer, homeopathy, past life regression
and the practice of integrating spirituality into counselling and
psychotherapy. Considering the ways in which Spiritism aligns with
contemporary science, they show that the Spiritist model has the
potential to bring about a positive transformation in the ways in
which mental health care is conceptualized and delivered around the
globe. The final part of the book explores how Spiritist centers
and psychiatric hospitals are established and financed, with
specific examples from Brazil and the USA. Providing important new
insights into the rich tradition of Brazilian Spiritism, this
authoritative text will be of interest to mental health
professionals, counselors, therapists and alternative and
complementary health practitioners.
This book presents a compilation of articles written by notable
scientists from around the world focusing on recent research
involving the noble gas argon. The inert argon gas has low thermal
conductivity and when combined with its low cost, has favorable
usage in the generation of laboratory electrical discharges and
plasmas at low and high pressure, for a range of applications in
industry, environmental preservation, and medical and general
research.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ L'Odissea D'Omero Di Giuseppe Bossoli: Tomo Primo -terzo];
L'Odissea D'Omero Di Giuseppe Bossoli: Tomo Primo -terzo]; Homero
Homero Andrea Rubbi Giuseppe Maria Bozzoli presso Antonio Zatta e
figli, 1793
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