![]() ![]() As one reviewer puts it, 'her poetry reads like a blessing'. ![]() Awe, realisation and appreciation of the world we live in is its theme the natural world in all its diversity (- from snakes to swans, birds, flowers, waterfalls and dogs) its subject matter and language as serene as a still lake, as striking as a sunset, as beautiful and fragile as petals unfolding and as quiet and steady as a heartbeat - its modus of astounding.Ī good poem offers us a new way of looking at the world, but Mary Oliver's poems will change your way of looking completely. The world glitters and shines in her poetry. ![]() Every poem sings with the soul of someone who not only believes in beauty, but pursues it within everything and everywhere with a startling intensity. This collection of poems will make you fall in love with the world,as simple (and as staggering) as that.Īcclaimed American poet Mary Oliver has written here a tour-de-force of tender praise for the flora and fauna around us. ![]()
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He was walking home about eleven o’clock from Lord Henry’s, where he had been dining, and was wrapped in heavy furs, as the night was cold and foggy. It was on the ninth of November, the eve of his own thirty-eighth birthday, as he often remembered afterwards. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]() ![]() Stone describes this ancient system and, with its disintegration, the decline in women's status. Under her, women's roles were far more prominent than in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures. |a From the Publisher: Here, archaeologically documented, is the story of the religion of the Goddess. |a Preface - Introduction - 1: Tales with a point of view - 2: Who was she? - 3: Women-where woman was deified - 4: Northern invaders - 5: One of their own race - 6: If the king did not weep - 7: Sacred sexual customs - 8: They offered incense to the queen of heaven - 9: Men of the city shall stone her with stones - 10: Unraveling the myth of Adam and Eve - 11: Daughters of Eve - Date charts - Bibliography - Index. ![]() ![]() |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-257) and index. |a xxvii, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : |b illustrations |c 21 cm. ![]() |a New York : |b Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, |c |a When God was a woman / |c Merlin Stone. ![]() |a MYG |b eng |c MYG |d NEG |d EDK |d OCLCQ |d OCLCF |d OCLCO |d P4I |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d IOC |d DE# |d NLUKB |d OCLCQ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Orlando Hotel Jetted Tub Suites - hotels and resorts with private in-room spa tubs. 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As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a “year of wonders.” As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love. Through Anna’s eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. 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He gives money to the needy and employs the new Russian and Eastern European immigrants whom others find suspicious. ![]() ![]() Margaret’s, the only good school for girls in town, which is run by an order of nuns.įurlong is of a more compassionate, egalitarian bent than most New Ross residents, who are content to keep their heads down and “stay on the right side of people” (13) in positions of power, such as the wealthy and the Church. Although the Furlongs often struggle to make ends meet, he is hopeful about his intelligent daughters’ future and sends them to St. The protagonist, Bill Furlong, is a coal seller who is married to Eileen, and they have five daughters. It is December 1985 in the town of New Ross, County Wexford. Content Warning: The source text contains depictions of physical and emotional abuse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although they soon become roommates and inseparable friends, both women are emotionally guarded and reluctant to share their personal histories. Britain is still rebuilding and many believe the wedding to be a sign of renewal.Īnn, whose brother died during the Blitz, works on the gown’s elaborate stitched detailing alongside Miriam Dassin, a young French immigrant and Holocaust survivor. Speculation over the design is rampant, in particular because fabric rations are still enforced, even for royalty. The era-flipping, postwar novel starts in 1947, when Ann Hughes, a trained embroiderer with the real-life London fashion house Hartnell, is assigned to the top-secret team behind Princess Elizabeth’s wedding dress and veil. In Jennifer Robson’s fifth novel, the Toronto author and academic imagines a story in which greed and anticipation over Princess Elizabeth’s dress design leads to a horrifying personal betrayal. This isn’t the only recent context in which royal nuptials have inspired false rumours. 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