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With more than 120 beautiful color photos, this guide introduces
how the simple art of weaving can help each of us-whether we are
weavers or not-to build our inner life. The goal is to recognize,
receive, and live in harmony with your own deepest truths. Using a
system of seven "keyforms" that span cultures, ranging from an
amulet to a mask to a belt of power, the growth process is explored
in depth. Instructions for seven symbolic keyform projects help
beginners to use tapestry weaving techniques, and help seasoned
weavers to find new dimensions in their work. To put it in weaving
terms, the inner life is like the vertical warp on a loom. The weft
of our daily activities weaves through our inner values and beliefs
with each moment. The Weaving a Life process has been used
successfully by weavers and spinners, psychotherapists, nurses,
hospice workers, educators, artists, and youth leaders, as well as
by countless individuals who seek a deeper vision for their lives.
Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer and her co-authors have taken an important
study and turned it into an intriguing, readable, and practical
book. Adult learners provide a unique opportunity for museum
educators. But what are adult learners looking for? What motivates
them to take a class or attend a museum-sponsored activity? What do
planners and instructors need to know to maximize the experience
for participants? The authors analyzed a wide variety of programs
from the perspective of planners, instructors, and participants.
They discovered what works and what doesn't, and they've distilled
this knowledge into twelve basic steps you can use to design truly
meaningful experiences for your museum's adult programs. Visit the
authors' web page
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
The Invasion is the first work of Janet Lewis (The Wife of Martin
Guerre and The Trial of Soren Quist) who grew up in the Lake
country of the Old Northwest and is based on family stories told to
her as a child. It displays well-researched historical accuracy and
an innate understanding of and feeling for Native American culture
enhanced by the author's fluency in the Ojibwa language.
In this new edition of Janet Lewis's classic short novel, "The Wife
of Martin Guerre," Swallow Press executive editor Kevin Haworth
writes that Lewis's story is "a short novel of astonishing depth
and resonance, a sharply drawn historical tale that asks
contemporary questions about identity and belonging, about men and
women, and about an individual's capacity to act within an
inflexible system." Originally published in 1941, The Wife of
Martin Guerre has earned the respect and admiration of critics and
readers for over sixty years.
Based on a notorious trial in sixteenth-century France, this story
of Bertrande de Rols is the first of three novels making up Lewis's
Cases of Circumstantial Evidence suite (the other two are "The
Trial of Soren Qvist" and "The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron").
Swallow Press is delighted and honored to offer readers beautiful
new editions of all three "Cases of Circumstantial Evidence"
novels, each featuring a new introduction by Kevin Haworth.
Against a Darkening Sky was original published in 1943. Set in a
semi-rural community south of San Francisco, it is the story of an
American mother of the mid-1930s and the sustaining influence she
brings, through her own profound strength and faith, to the lives
of her four growing children. Scottish by birth, but long a
resident of America, Mary Perrault is married to a Swiss-French
gardener. Their life in South Encina, though anything but lavish,
is gay, serene, and friendly. As their children mature and the
world outside, less peaceful and secure than the Perrault home,
begins to threaten the equilibrium of their tranquil lives, Mrs.
Perrault becomes increasingly aware of a moral wilderness rising
from the physical wilderness which her generation has barely
conquered. Her struggle to influence, while not invading the lives
of her children is the focus of this novel of family life during
the depression years.
Kenneth Rexroth wrote: \u201cJanet Lewis uses reason to veil and
adorn the flesh of feeling and intuition. This is the way the
greatest poetry has always been written.\u201d The poems in this
collection range over a period of 60 years. The style is spare,
direct, cutting to the core of subject. Richness of intelligence
and a concern for the human has also characterized every phase of
Lewis' development.
Good-bye, Son, Lewis' only collection of short fiction, was
originally published in 1946, but it remains as quietly haunting
today as it was then. Set in small communities of the upper Midwest
and northern California in the '30s and '40s, these stories focus
on the imperceptible processes, or cycles, connecting youth with
age, despair and hope, life and death. Through a variety of
characters (mostly female) at various stages of life, we glimpse
the motion of these cycles. To some, they appear incomprehensible
and therefore wholly destructive. To others, they are the source of
mystery, enlightenment, and understanding. Lewis' spare,
understated style allows us to see beneath action and character to
the forces which, in the world of her fiction, drive both. Lewis
weaves these perceptions into themes as varied as initiation
(\u201cRiver\u201d), the succession of life and generations
(\u201cThe House\u201d), life-in-death (\u201cThe Apricot
Harvest\u201d), and, ultimately, life beyond death (\u201cGood-bye,
Son\u201d). Added to the collection in this edition is \u201cThe
Breakable Cup,\u201d the story of a very young boy and a very old
woman who recognize the frailty in each other and form a bond
across generations. In the longest of these stories, \u201cGood-bye
Son,\u201d the themes and settings of the earlier pieces come
together in an extended psychological ghost story. Here, Sara
McDermott, whose only child died at birth, is later visited by the
boy on four separate occasions, each preceding a disaster in which
he would have died as a child or young man. Sara's mingled joy and
grief at each visit gradually give way to an understanding and
acceptance of the place of death in nature and the bond that death
creates among the living.
Originally published in 1947, The Trial of S\u00f6ren Qvist has
been praised by a number of critics for its intriguing plot and
Janet Lewis's powerful writing. And in the introduction to this new
edition, Swallow Press executive editor and author Kevin Haworth
calls attention to the contemporary feeling of the story-despite
its having been written more than fifty years ago and set several
hundred years in the past. As in Lewis's best-known novel, The Wife
of Martin Guerre, the plot derives from Samuel March Phillips's
nineteenth-century study, Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence,
in which this British legal historian considered the trial of
Pastor S\u00f6ren Qvist to be the most striking case.
Since the appearance in print of her early poems over seventy-five
years ago, the poetry of Janet Lewis has grown in quiet acclaim and
popularity. Although she is better known as a novelist of
historical fiction, her first and last writings were poems. With
the publication of her selected poems, Swallow Press celebrates the
distinguished career of one of its most cherished authors.
Critics as disparate as Kenneth Rexroth, Timothy Steele,
Theodore Roethke, Larry McMurtry, N. Scott Momaday, and Dana Gioia
have sung the praises of her work over the decades. Her career as a
poet was remarkable not only for its longevity but also for the
fact that even well into her tenth decade she wrote poems that
stand with her very best work.
Characterized by the vigor and sharpness of her images and the
understated lyricism that permeates her rhythmic lines. The
Selected Poems of Janet Lewis is a survey of modern poetry unto
itself.
This historical novel is the third and final book in American poet
and fiction writer Janet Lewis's "Cases of Circumstantial Evidence"
series, based on legal case studies compiled in the nineteenth
century. In "The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron," Lewis returns to her
beloved France, the setting of "The Wife of Martin Guerre," her
best-known novel and the first in the series. As Swallow Press
executive editor Kevin Haworth relates in a new introduction,
Monsieur Scarron shifts the reader into the center of Paris in
1694, during the turbulent reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV. The
junction of this time and place gives Monsieur Scarron an
intriguing political element not apparent in either "The Wife of
Martin Guerre" or "The Trial of Soren Qvist."
"The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron" begins in a small bookbinder's shop
on a modest Paris street, but inexorably expands to encompass a
tumultuous affair, growing social unrest, and the conflicts between
a legal system based on oppressive order and a society about to
undergo harsh changes. With its domestic drama set against a larger
political and historical backdrop, Monsieur Scarron is considered
by some critics and readers to be the most intricately layered and
fully realized book of Lewis's long career. Originally published in
1959, Monsieur Scarron has remained in print almost continuously
ever since.
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