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Our Moggy (Hardcover)
Michael Hogan; Illustrated by Angela Gooliaff
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This edited volume fills a void in the literature concerning the
purpose, practice, and pedagogy associated with performing
rhetorical criticism. Literature regarding these
issues-predominantly purpose-exists primarily as scattered journal
articles and as sections within chapters of textbooks on rhetorical
criticism. This book brings together 15 established rhetorical
critics, each of whom offers well thought out and argued opinion
pieces that stress the more personal nature of criticism. The
purpose of this book is to serve as a disciplinary resource, and as
a teaching and learning aid. Accessibility across areas of
expertise and experience is stressed in this book. Critics range
from junior faculty to emeritus, and represent a broad spectrum of
views on criticism. In this sense the book offers a snapshot of the
views of a wide swath of successfully practicing, contemporary
rhetorical critics.
This edited volume fills a void in the literature concerning the
purpose, practice, and pedagogy associated with performing
rhetorical criticism. Literature regarding these
issues-predominantly purpose-exists primarily as scattered journal
articles and as sections within chapters of textbooks on rhetorical
criticism. This book brings together 15 established rhetorical
critics, each of whom offers well thought out and argued opinion
pieces that stress the more personal nature of criticism. The
purpose of this book is to serve as a disciplinary resource, and as
a teaching and learning aid. Accessibility across areas of
expertise and experience is stressed in this book. Critics range
from junior faculty to emeritus, and represent a broad spectrum of
views on criticism. In this sense the book offers a snapshot of the
views of a wide swath of successfully practicing, contemporary
rhetorical critics.
Winter Solstice: Selected Poetry 1975-2012, edited by James
Hepworth, gathers together the very best of Michael Hogan's work
from the Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, the Iowa Review
and dozens of other journals and magazines, as well as several
out-of-print books. It is a valuable addition to the American
poetry library. Sam Hamill in his Introduction to this volume
writes: "These poems written over the past thirty years most often
contain a narrative thread that leads into an awakening insight, a
meditative revelation that arrives not with a shock, but with a
sigh or a moment of stillness capturing an essence that is pure
poetry, that moment between image-making and philosophy, between
the intimate whisper of truth and the song's need to be sung."
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Our Moggy (Paperback)
Michael Hogan; Illustrated by Angela Gooliaff
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This book explores the culture of our thinking in relation to
spirituality. It focuses largely on psychological science and the
problems faced by scientists as they attempt to understand
spirituality in action. The book attempts to untangle the concept
of spirituality from various cultural attachments and it considers
the way different worldviews and different philosophical
perspectives can influence the models of spirituality we build. The
book moves toward a contextualist view of spirituality, focusing in
particular on the act in context, and it moves the reader to
consider spirituality as the ultimate testing ground for pragmatic
analysis. In this context, spirituality has to become more than a
simple abstraction to survive, because to survive the test of
pragmatic analysis it must facilitate successful action in context.
The fact that spirituality has survived as a working concept for
thousands of years suggests that it is resilient in this respect.
However, to survive in the modern culture of science it needs to
constantly reinvent itself as a working concept. Ultimately,
spirituality, in this book, resurfaces from the depths of
abstraction as part of an ongoing action state that has real
functional significance. Spirituality comes to be identified as a
worthy focus of analysis for children and adults alike as part of
the science of education itself. Spirituality is not an abstraction
to be feared and branded as anti-scientific. But to reverse
engineer spiritual consciousness and spiritual action is no easy
task either. Insight and out-sight must reach some form of
compromise.
When Michael Regan falls off the rocks to his death on the Ocean
Drive, it is first seen as an accident. Regan's son Gary, a
washed-up tennis pro living in Mexico, returns home to Newport, RI,
for the funeral. He connects with an old friend who suspects Gary's
father was murdered and that evidence is being suppressed. The
death of a Latino teenager at Fort Adams State Park also seems to
be related. Soon the underside of Newport is exposed as Gary
discovers other deaths unresolved going all the way back to the
1960s with Doris Duke, the tobacco heiress a prime suspect. Full of
the richness of an island paradise with the colorful vistas of
Cliff Walk, Rough Point, and the Breakers' Mansion, this detective
novel also explores the dark side of a resort town with its
undesirables and socially marginal, as well as the super-rich, and
powerful landowner-politicians. Meanwhile, for tennis fans, it also
contains a compelling and action-filled match with sizzling serves
and volleys.
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Arabian Nights (DVD)
Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Leif Erikson, Edgar Barrier, Sabu, …
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1940s adventure in which two brothers become rivals when they fall
for the same woman. Kamar (Leif Erikson), brother of Haroun
al-Rashid (Jon Hall), the Caliph who rules over Baghdad, encounters
circus dancer Scheherazade (Maria Montez) and soon falls for her.
With a prophecy predicting that Scheherazade will become queen,
Kamar attempts to overthrow Haroun and claim the throne for
himself. His plot forces the ruler to go on the run and take
shelter among the circus troupe. When Haroun meets the dancer for
himself the two fall in love. Kamar later shows up to claim
Scheherazade's hand in marriage and the situation is further
complicated by Grand Vizier Nadan (Edgar Barrier) who has his own
plans to usurp the Caliph. The brothers fight for both the throne
and the woman they love in a final battle that will determine the
victor.
This most recent collection of Michael Hogan's stories is an
occasion for celebration. Lucid, real and unforgettable, the
characters are sometimes ordinary people trapped in their own lives
waiting for the rescue that surely someday will come. A college
girl tricked into becoming a confidential police informant, a
teacher caught up in a Mossad plot in Argentina, a Jewish family
trapped in Nazi-era Poland, all become as vivid as our neighbors.
Two of the stories are about dogs, heroic and sensitive, travelling
a long journey in the direction of what once was home. It is a book
of infinite betrayals and surprises, some delightful, some
heart-breaking. Two-time winner of the Ojo del Lago Fiction Award
in Mexico.
"Hogan's poems are virtually free of the ego and fake emotion, the
public posturing and self-regard that infect so much recent poetry.
For Hogan to undertake the poem is to undertake the possibility of
radical transformation. The humility and compassion of his poems
warm me when others leave me chilled to the bone. He rewards the
reader with intelligence and warmth and a wide sweep of
understanding." Sam Hamill, American Poetry Review. "This
long-awaited gathering of Michael Hogan's poems contains his most
memorable and disturbing work. Hogan built his reputation among
small presses and chapbook publishers, creating finely crafted
poems full of demonic power and dark beauty. He is a poet who
learned the hard way about the saving power of poetry. His presence
is troubling because he reminds us that poets who write to cut
people with the truth can never go away. Hogan understands what it
takes to make us listen and he has never given up." Ray Gonzalez,
Bloomsbury Review
Durante la invasion norteamericana a Mexico, ocurrida entre 1846 y
1848, una compania de soldados voluntarios irlandeses, conocidos
como "los San Patricios," se distinguio por su valor en el campo de
batalla. Llegados a Mexico como parte del ejercito invasor, pasaron
a las filas mexicanas por simpatia de ideales y religion. Ellos
participaron hombro con hombro junto a los mexicanos en la defensa
del territorio. Tras hacer gala de incomparable bravura, fueron
derrotados en Churubusco por avasalladora superioridad numerica del
enemigo y la falta de municiones. Dr. Hogan nos presenta un
analisis equilibrado, objetivo y autentico de esta invasion injusta
y los heroes irlandeses.
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