A collection of forty poems about the essence of life, from awkward young love to the eternal class struggle to quantum electrodynamics. Many are formalist poems, though free verse and prose poems also appear.
Renowned poet Charles Joseph Albert brings you seventeen stories populated by ghosts, monsters and incompetent gods…. From the dawn of man to the twilight of a life, from Paris to Kuala Lampur to New York City, these stories full of humor and imagination will stay with you long after you have immersed yourself in them.
Charles Joseph Albert's debut collection of poetry contains humorous and lyrical takes on the themes of a broken heart and a career in tatters. Some novel poetic forms and rhyme schemes are introduced.
A gene editing procedure with undesired results. An eviction notice to an entire planet. Bigfoot. Hummingbirds. Inter-imensional hijinks. These thirteen stories, some appearing in print for the first time, present a cosmic fail compilation of wit, depth &, above all, ERROR404
Javier must complete a hit to be accepted in his gang. But before the eleven-year-old can pull the trigger, he is abducted from the City by Childsnatchers and brought to their Village. In a 23rd-century America torn in two, Javier goes from one extreme to the other: born in the Dickensian Bayarea ruled by guns and the Church, he comes of age in a Burning-man inspired commune in the Desert. As Javier reaches manhood and begins to see more clearly the flaws and strengths of each society, he triggers a war that will shatter their separation, and will threaten everyone he loves in both worlds.
A collection of 59 poems in formal verse, free verse, and prose poems, accompanied by illustrations. The focus is on the civic: political, ecomomic, societal. The final and eponymous poem, an apology to a succeeding species after humanity has abdicated dominion over the Earth, recapitulates the theme.
Widor's Toccata is the most famous organ piece composed in the past three hundred years-since Bach's ubiquitous Toccata in D Minor. Linked inseparably with the organ through his ten seminal organ symphonies and legendary sixty-four years as organist at Saint-Sulpice, Widor drew crowds of doting admirers from all walks of life around himself and Cavaillâe-Coll's great organ of one hundred stops. It is apparent throughout these "Autobiographical Recollections" that Widor was well-connected, moving with ease among the intelligentsia, presidents, politicians, royalty, nobility, patrons, and artists. A keen observer and a man of sophistication and extraordinary erudition, Widor was an all-embracing musician and notable historical figure who led an active life beyond his famous organ gallery. As permanent secretary of the Academy of Fine-Arts, he was the cultural ambassador of France for more than twenty years. Few musicians of any era have had a broader experience, wider sphere of influence, and greater number of significant and varied accomplishments. Preceded by a comprehensive Preface, these "Autobiographical Recollections," narrated in the last months of Widor's life, are translated into English for the first time, meticulously edited, and profusely annotated. The persons, political details, and historical events that Widor spoke of with great fluency are identified in notes that give the reader a full understanding of the narrative. Several appendixes and a trove of hitherto unpublished photos illuminate the text. John R. Near is Professor Emeritus of Music, Principia College, and author of Widor: A Life beyond the Toccata and Widor on Organ Performance Practice and Technique"--
This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South. Using wide-ranging archival work and extensive interviews with movement participants, Charles Payne uncovers a chapter of American social history forged locally, in places like Greenwood, Mississippi, where countless unsung African Americans risked their lives for the freedom struggle. The leaders were ordinary women and men--sharecroppers, domestics, high school students, beauticians, independent farmers--committed to organizing the civil rights struggle house by house, block by block, relationship by relationship. Payne brilliantly brings to life the tradition of grassroots African American activism, long practiced yet poorly understood. Payne overturns familiar ideas about community activism in the 1960s. The young organizers who were the engines of change in the state were not following any charismatic national leader. Far from being a complete break with the past, their work was based directly on the work of an older generation of activists, people like Ella Baker, Septima Clark, Amzie Moore, Medgar Evers, Aaron Henry. These leaders set the standards of courage against which young organizers judged themselves; they served as models of activism that balanced humanism with militance. While historians have commonly portrayed the movement leadership as male, ministerial, and well-educated, Payne finds that organizers in Mississippi and elsewhere in the most dangerous parts of the South looked for leadership to working-class rural Blacks, and especially to women. Payne also finds that Black churches, typically portrayed as frontrunners in the civil rights struggle, were in fact late supporters of the movement.
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