Rare in any age is work which incorporates a passion for experience, a commitment to truth, an ability to plumb the irrational, and a fluency in poetic language and music which can work through all these tangled thickets, but Eve Alexandra does just that. . . . This is true poetry; it immediately takes its place as a participant in the vast historical voice which composes poetry, a voice which contains ten-thousand tones, but which takes nothing unto itself which doesn't resonate, as do the poems of The Drowned Girl, with authenticity and fervor."--C. K. Williams, Judge "One of the things I find compelling about Eve Alexandra's poems is that, while the narrator is seductive and beautiful, she is not pleasing. She does not offer comfort. She is not kind or solicitous. Like Ariel, who 'performs the tempest' for Prospero, Alexandra, too, is a tempest-ress: these are the storms and drownings of her own invention. Like Ariel's bedeviling and gorgeous tunes composed to tease the sorrowful, these are poems of the taunt and tease, the razor in the apple."--Lynn Emanuel "Something bright and reflective, something lucid and exacting glints at the center of this fleshy, original debut. Is it a needle? Is it a scalpel? Is it a scythe? Is it the switchblade a woman might carry in her purse? Eve Alexandra wields a tender, sharp honesty. The lines cut and dice, arc and glimmer in the light of her lyricism and intelligence. These poems will open you, make you bleed, make you wonder."--Terrance Hayes
Love Eve By: Eve Love Eve addresses our relationship with God and our difficult social issues, failing at feeding the poor, the myths of climate change, and all we need to do to prepare for our quickly approaching end.
Eve Diaries is the new and highly anticipated book peppered with decadent erotica short stories. Each story was created from real people and experiences designing a world of addiction and voyeurism for the reader.
A prologue provides commentary from Sts. Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, Gregory of Nazianzus, Symeon the New Theologian, Gregory of Nyssa, Didymus the Blind, and others on Genesis 1-5. The compassionate Lament of Eve follows a simple style based upon the commentary by the Church Fathers. Many thought-provoking insights are included on: the creation and dignity of men and women; the image and likeness of God and theosis; mankind's stewardship of the earth; propgation before and after the Fall; the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil; the fall, the reasons for the expulsion from Paradise and the sentence of mortality, God's love and providence and His primacy in our lives.
The scene is an exclusive men's club in 1903, a time when male chauvinist behavior and banter were in full flower. There are seven characters, all portrayed by women in men's full dress apparel"--Page 4.
They spent one passionate night together, a night neither could forget . . . But it isn't until Bomb Unit Detective Alexandra "Alex" Sheridan is assigned to investigate architect Luke Morgan about the bombing of his new building that Alex is forced to face the man-and feelings-she'd run from earlier. Drawn to the charismatic man who'd soothed her grief with their shared passion, she finds herself wanting more from him. As the case progresses, however, she questions his innocence and his feelings for her. Can she trust him, ignoring his past and the evidence pointing to his guilt? Or will she have to be satisfied with just one night? Eve Gaddy is the award-winning author of sixteen novels, with more than a million copies in print. She lives in east Texas with her husband of many years and her incredibly spoiled Golden Retriever, who is convinced he's her third child. Visit her at www.evegaddy.net.
Those aspects of the Mathematica software program most useful to students are introduced in this guide. The commands are presented as a means of solving problems and illuminating the underlying mathematical principles. The book has been completely rewritten to cover Mathematica 6.
Wrapped in a sexy new dress, Alex readies herself to bid on a man at an auction. Her objective: to show up her ex-husband, who accused her of being frigid. When she enters the room, she finds the virile, captivating Travis up on the stage. The moment their eyes meet, both their bodies burn with fervent desire…
Wrapped in a sexy new dress, Alex readies herself to bid on a man at an auction. Her objective: to show up her ex-husband, who accused her of being frigid. When she enters the room, she finds the virile, captivating Travis up on the stage. The moment their eyes meet, both their bodies burn with fervent desire…
Can the concept of original sin truly be founded on the beautiful Genesis creation story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden? Only if the story is misinterpreted in terms of literal truth which entails belief in an articulate serpent. But when the story is interpreted as myth-history - not literal history - this important myth records a unique, fundamental and uplifting event in the human story. The garden paradise pre-dates the written Old Testament, having circulated in Abraham's country of Mesopotamia in the second millennium BC incorporated in some of the world's oldest literature: the epic poem of Gilgamesh. Behind the naked figures of Adam and Eve stands an earlier naked couple whose 'history' should certainly be preserved in Genesis. However, interpretation of this 'history' in literal terms and from the standpoint of monotheism turns that ancient 'history' on its head. During its long life the story of the first man to enter the garden paradise has been interpreted differently from at least four differing standpoints: Mesopotamian polytheism, the revolution of patriarchal monotheism, Christian monotheism, and the standpoint of science. At its origins, however, this priceless 'history' had nothing to do with the origin of sin. On the contrary, that interpretation throws the baby out with the bathwater. Look at the story in terms of myth, and in sympathy with its integral guiding images of serpent and tree and the garden reveals its long-buried treasure of truth.
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