Where Do Things Go? offers fresh reflections on everyday life, expressed with humor, insight, and lyrical grace. In a conversational tone, Ms. Heidish takes on delight, death, beauty, and the ironies of living. Rediscover yourself in this poetic mirror for today's adults, challenged by changing times. This luminous book of poems is the latest work from the award-winning author of "A Woman Called Moses" and "Too Late To Be A Fortune Cookie Writer." Her third poetry collection goes deeper and lighter at once and speaks to you in an engaging manner: spirited, sassy and sensitive. * * * Marcy Heidish is an award-winning author of 16 books: fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. She is the recipient of a National Endowment Fellowship Grant, a Schubert Fellowship, and other awards. After years of teaching at Fordham, Georgetown, Howard, and George Washington Universities, Ms.Heidish lives and writes in Colorado.
Heidish offers simple, specific ways to practice the art of caring, especially within one's immediate circle of concern: family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers.
Travel through the centuries to watch a timeless love unfold around a timeless masterpiece: the fabled cathedral of Chartres, France. In 1194, an unthinkable disaster struck that sacred site. In one June night, a firestorm devastated the cathedral, its artwork, and parts of its surrounding town. Immediately, the finest artists converged on Chartres to plan a new and innovative structure, built to endure and to surpass all that went before. Inevitably, these plans led to plots and rivalry, threatening the realization of a daring and demanding dream. Against this backdrop, two lovers struggle to conceive the new cathedral's stained glass windows, still regarded as marvels today. This quest centers on discovering new gem-like colors: unique, precious, and incomparable. The pair, under increasing pressure, embarks on an intense search for the mysterious but elusive answers. Deftly weaving fact with fiction, Marcy Heidish sets an inspirational love story against a thoroughly researched Medieval backdrop. With her proven attention to detail, Heidish transports us to the winding streets of Chartres: its sounds and smells, its interiors and intrigues. Suspenseful, engrossing, and imaginative, Scene Through A Window (A Historical Novel) creates a magical space where the impossible can happen.
Your City Guide to God Beneath the relentless rhythms of city life beats the heart of God, and award-winning author Marcy Heidish takes you into a more intimate relationship with him in the midst of crowds, chaos, and concrete. Her experiences from a curb in Brooklyn, the bay in San Francisco, a rooftop of Chartres Cathedaral in Paris, and the busy halls of Washington, D.C., help you see the city in a new light. She turns common city distractions, annoyances, and challenges into spiritual invitations or “gateways” to a new kind of contemplation where: •screaming sirens become cues to silent intercession, •skyscrapers, like spires, pull your eyes and thoughts heavenward, •and red traffic lights work as “pause” buttons that call for you to stop and pray. “In the city there is grit,” Marcy writes. And grime and garbage. But her practical tools in every chapter for reflection, discussion, and application help you see–whether you’re visiting, working, or dwelling in Philadelphia or Phoenix, New York or Los Angeles, Seattle or Syracuse–that in the city there is also grace.
A Spellbinding Tale of Mysticism, Horror, and History; A Literary Guild Alternate Selection; A Vivid Tale of the Interplay of Present and Past, Lightness and Dark, Grace and Evil.
Finding Spiritual Support In Depression. An illuminating guide for the treatment of depression, drawing on advances in medical science and the wisdom of Christianity.
Heidish presents a brilliant novel about a woman achiever, overcomer, and heroine whose charge was "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
SHE FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM AND WON...NOT ONLY FOR HERSELF...FOR HUNDREDS OF OTHERS! The acclaimed historical novel based on the amazing life of Harriet Tubman, Abolitionist and Conductor on the Underground Railroad. As events build toward a stunning climax on the Underground Railroad, we are drawn into the spellbinding narrative of an extraordinary life, and a portion of our American past. The novel was made into a TV movie starring Cicely Tyson.
Miracles -- A Novel About Mother SetonThe First American Saint -- is the story of an unforgettablewoman's life and love. It is a novel charged with thevitality of a life that saw many changes, and with the powerof a love that took many forms . . . [whether] as a lonelydaughter of a wealthy, indifferent man; a searching young woman; a contented matron embracing a marriage that producedfive beloved children; a widow searching for new meaningto life.
A novelist has a specific poetic license which alsoapplies to his own life." ~ Jerzi KosinskiMarcy Heidish, award-winning author of fifteen books, fictionand non-fiction, is such a novelist with a "specific poetic license."Her work has been praised for its "lyrical grace" and so it is aspecial joy to present her first book of poetry. Ms. Heidish haswritten poems for decades.With humor and humanity, this collection spans a broad rangeof subjects. Insight, wit and depth enliven these poems. Theyaddress universal concerns: maturity, mortality, memory and much more.Ms. Heidish gives us an intimate glimpse into a writer's soul.Adept at varied verse forms, she amuses, reflects, recalls, and rejoices:* "A watched pot never boils unless you're boiling vodka...."* "Houses crowd my life like chairs on a November beach...."* "The sun is a peach, half ripened, at hand...."And the poet brings us with her.
Heidish offers simple, specific ways to practice the art of caring, especially within a person's immediate circle of concern--family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers.
Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand ears....Her story would be beyond belief if it were not true."--Winston Churchill"She is the Wonder of the Ages. And when we consider her origin,her early circumstances, her sex, and that she did all the things upon which her renown rests while she was a young girl, were cognize that while our race continues, she will also be the Riddle of the Ages."--Mark TwainHere, in poetry, is a fresh approach to Joan of Arc, that famous heroine-for-all-seasons. Almost six hundred years after she was burned at the stake, Joan's story still compels, fascinates and challenges us.Credited with saving France, that famous warrior-maid leaps from a new poetry collection by Marcy Heidish, a gifted specialist in historical fiction (A Woman Called Moses, Destined to Dance, etc). Heidish's poetic reflections on Joan are riveting, imaginative, and beautifully crafted.Whether you know a little or a lot about Joan of Arc, this original and elegant collection will invite you to see "TheMaid of Orleans" from a wealth of insightful perspectives. If you approach Joan as a role model, a puzzle, or a poem herself, you will find this book an impressive and inspiring read.
DESTINED TO DANCE They called her a genius. They called her a goddess. They called her a monster. Which title best fits Martha Graham, iconic Mother of Modern Dance? Find out - in the first historical novel about this great American diva. DESTINED TO DANCE is a creative portrait of the legendary dancer and choreographer. Written by award-winning author Marcy Heidish, Martha Graham's story holds the spotlight - and the reader. Skillfully weaving fact and fiction, Heidish (A Woman Called Moses, etc.) offers another remarkable account of an American heroine: her successes, her sorrows, and her struggles. Here is a masterful portrait of Graham, onstage, back-stage, offstage. With literary grace and lively prose, the woman behind the icon is revealed. We see Graham's break-through brilliance, often compared to Picasso's or Sravinsky. We also witness Graham's triumph over alcoholism, despair, and a failed marriage. Set against the intriguing world of dance, Martha Graham's story offers us a close-up on a complex and compelling overcomer. Martha Graham (1894-1991) invented a new "language of movement," still taught around the world and exemplified in such classic works as Appalachian Spring, among 180 others. The Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance tours widely and its current artistic director, a former Graham dancer, has contributed unique input to this novel. As always, Heidish's research is thorough and her sense of her subject is magical. For all who love the arts, all who seek inspiration, and all who like to read between history's lines, DESTINED TO DANCE is a must-read book.
A new angle on the world's beloved Saint Francis of Assisi: a story told in the form of linked poems about the amazing life of "Francesco" who went from wealthy man-about-town to warrior to family rebel to great spiritual leader. This change had much to do with Francis's dramatic break with his father, Pietro. Marcy Heidish, seasoned historical novelist and poet, has used Pietro's point-of-view for a different look at Francis's life. Original and lyrical, by turns moving and amusing, Heidish's story-poems sing of a unique Saint --- and of us, reaching for renewal and hope. Marcy Heidish is an award-winning author of twenty books: fiction and nonfiction and poetry. She is the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and other awards. Her novel about Harriet Tubman, A Woman Called Moses, was made into a TV movie starring Cicely Tyson. She has lived in Colorado and Washington, D.C. *** Ms. Heidish holds a B.A. With Honors from Vassar College and an M.A. With Distinction from the American University. She has taught at Georgetown, Fordham, George Washington, and Howard Universities. *** Praise for the poetty of Marcy Heidish: Kirkus Reiviews featured Where Do Things Go? as "Poems full of linguistic delights and keen emotion." and A Misplaced Woman as "A collection that beautifully finds the holy in the eccentric, the homeless, and the disregarded.
This stunning book was designed to read like a novel --- and a page-turner, at that. An intriguing narrator presents an incisive look at the most unsung heroines of all: homeless women. Their voices speak to you in original, edgy, accessible poetry. The result is eye-opening, absorbing and unforgettable.
The fictional account of Mother Seton, the first American-born saint, follows the tragedies and triumphs of her life and her struggle to triumph over pain and find meaning in her life
Deadline" is a tense, well-turned tale, filled with authentic police and newspaper people. Heidish's taut, punchy style moves the story at lightning speed." ("Washington Post") 260 pp.
An herbalist-midwife staunchly loyal to Anne Hutchinson during her two heresy trials, Nell Benedict relates the personal, political, and religious difficulties that beset Hutchinson during the 1630s
Your City Guide to God Beneath the relentless rhythms of city life beats the heart of God, and award-winning author Marcy Heidish takes you into a more intimate relationship with him in the midst of crowds, chaos, and concrete. Her experiences from a curb in Brooklyn, the bay in San Francisco, a rooftop of Chartres Cathedaral in Paris, and the busy halls of Washington, D.C., help you see the city in a new light. She turns common city distractions, annoyances, and challenges into spiritual invitations or “gateways” to a new kind of contemplation where: •screaming sirens become cues to silent intercession, •skyscrapers, like spires, pull your eyes and thoughts heavenward, •and red traffic lights work as “pause” buttons that call for you to stop and pray. “In the city there is grit,” Marcy writes. And grime and garbage. But her practical tools in every chapter for reflection, discussion, and application help you see–whether you’re visiting, working, or dwelling in Philadelphia or Phoenix, New York or Los Angeles, Seattle or Syracuse–that in the city there is also grace.
This practical book is designed to bring out the caring person in each of us. Mary Heidish offers simple, specific ways to practice the art of caring, especially within our immediate circle of concern: family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers.
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