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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.
This colorful memoir of growing up in the Fifties and early Sixties
in Newport, RI by award-winning poet and historian, Michael Hogan,
provides a rich and multi-layered description of the city in the
days before the building of the Newport Bridge. Then the island was
still isolated from the mainland and only accessible from Jamestown
by ferry. Downtown Thames Street had its seamy side with sailors
and marines fighting in honky-tonk bars as Destroyer Fleet Atlantic
brought troops back from Korea. Still, it was the summer home of
the Vanderbilts, the Astors and Goelets, and the aspiring young
author greeted both Eisenhower and Kennedy at the Summer White
House and made a car trip to Amherst to meet Robert Frost.
PUBLISHER'S REVIEW "Before the Jazz Festivals, the condominiums,
the gentrification of Thames Street, the Bed and Breakfasts, and
the Bridge that let the tourists and New York investors turn my
hometown into a theme park, there was another Newport. Shrouded by
fog, slowed by cobblestone streets, full of abandoned mysterious
mansions, turreted and dark, it was a town that held history as
mysteriously as the true wine in some misplaced Medieval grail.
Like all really interesting towns, Newport had its seamy side as
well. Although nowadays it is largely upscale, in 1955 there was
still the Gas House Gang, the Irish toughs of the Fifth Ward, the
sailors and the Marines in the rough bars along Thames (pronounced
then in the English way, "Tems") Street, the "Colored"
neighborhood, the rough and tumble docks, Long Wharf, the cinder
lots and broken pavement near the railroad depot, the vacant lots
and haunted houses, Tim the Ragpicker, and the Crazy Lady on
Carroll Street. There was also the Newport of the Ocean Drive and
the Cliff Walk where one could see the magnificent homes of the
last of the robber barons of the 1890s: the Duponts, the
Rockefellers, the Pierponts, the Morgans and the Vanderbilts. It
was the vacation spot of presidents and the locus of the summer
White House for Dwight D. Eisenhower and later for John F. Kennedy.
The early mists rising from the trees, the sounds of flickers and
wrens, occasionally a song bird, were part of every morning. The
bleat of sheep from a hill off in the distance, the fog horns of
destroyers out in Narragansett Bay, the thin scrape of a garden
rake were my summer music. Had my parents wished me to become a
poet, they could not have planned it better. Always on these summer
mornings there was the sense of the world being born again."
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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
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