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Draw Me Without Boundaries

By: Margaret Gibson

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Powerful love between a grandmother and a granddaughter animates the voices in this poignant series of inner monologues set against the backdrop of global climate crisis and the COVID pandemic. Margaret Gibson’s Draw Me without Boundaries lays bare the integrity and depth of inquiry it takes to make life and death choices in a broken world. This luminous book—innovative, suspenseful, deeply moving—reflects in conjoined poetry and prose the profound issues of our time.

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LSU Press

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0807182680

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9780807182680

Out in the Open

Poems

By: Margaret Gibson

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Out in the Open

Poems

By: Margaret Gibson

The lyric and meditative poems Margaret Gibson gives us in Out in the Open are works of contemplation and self-inquiry. “In the long journey to be other than I am / I have struggled and not got far,” she writes. Sometimes the journey takes the poet literally out in the open—the mountains, the desert, the fields, the wood. At other times, the journey, the search for vision and for truth, begins a moment’s notice in more familiar, domestic surroundings. I lift the glass turn it slowly in the light, its whole body full of light. Suddenly I hold everything I know, myself most of all, in question. Waiting for a grasp of permanent unity and clarity, the poet turns the act of waiting into a discipline that enables the obstructions encountered (desire, fear, ambition, death, disharmony) to become teachers. “Meeting others we meet ourselves,” one poem says, and whether the other is a love, or someone dying, a former Nazi pilot, or a blind woman in Zagorsk, there is self-meeting and, sometimes, a deep recognition of something beyond, and yet within, self. At the core of what I am, in that sacred space, light does its work, as it will without my consent or blessing—and better so. Echoes of Taoist, Buddhist, and Christian thinking haunt the mind in these poems, although the vision arrived at in the last poems is syncretic, an existential clarity in which struggle of wills is momentarily stilled. The wind breathes light into our bones—turning stars into power we can touch, impluse we can follow of tell, teaching love— for that is what we are.

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0807115193

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9780807115190

The Glass Globe

Poems

By: Margaret Gibson

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The Glass Globe

Poems

By: Margaret Gibson

With The Glass Globe, celebrated poet Margaret Gibson completes a trilogy distinguished by its meditative focus on the author’s experience of her late husband’s Alzheimer’s disease. In this new collection, she blends elegies of personal bereavement with elegies for the earth during the ongoing global crisis wrought by climate change. Gibson’s poems personalize the vastness of climate catastrophe while simultaneously enlarging personal grief beyond the limits of self-absorption. A work of great compassion and vision, The Glass Globe is a necessary, heartbreaking book from one of our most compelling poets.

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108

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LSU Press

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0807175900

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9780807175903

Broken Cup

Poems

By: Margaret Gibson

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Broken Cup

Poems

By: Margaret Gibson

Broken Cup brings breathtaking eloquence to what Margaret Gibson describes as "traveling the Way of Alzheimer's" with her husband, poet David McKain. After his initial and tentative diagnosis, Gibson suspended her writing for two years; but then poetry returned, and the creative process became the lightning rod that grounded her and presented a path forward. The poems in Broken Cup bear witness to how Alzheimer's erodes memory and cognitive function, but they never forget to see what is present and to ask what may remain of the self. Moving and unflinchingly honest in the acknowledgment of pain, frustration, and grief, the poems uncover, time and time again, the grace of abiding love. Gibson gives heart as well as voice to an experience that is deeply personal, yet shared by all too many.

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0807156434

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9780807156438

Autumn Grasses

Poems

By: Margaret Gibson

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Autumn Grasses

Poems

By: Margaret Gibson

The inspiration for most of the poems in Autumn Grasses was a daily engagement calendar that features the art of Japan—screens, hanging scrolls, painted silks, wood-block prints. In the dynamic stillness of this new visual field, Margaret Gibson steps away from the merely personal—“No one’s home”—to write poems that dip and swoop with the unguarded ease of birds in flight, verse as fluid and seamless as the movement of day to night, season to season. Trusting the power of unknowing, of imagination, these poems are delicate reminders of English-based forms filled with the spirit of Zen. Autumn Grasses is both elegant and spontaneous, vivid and wise. Gibson’s rapt engagement with Japanese art has produced swift insight, detail that dazzles, a voice that can range from the serene to the earthy, always with a commitment to seeing each thing as it is, entering each moment with presence and zest.

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LSU Press

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0807128597

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9780807128596

Ethics in Ethnography

A Mixed Methods Approach

By: Margaret D. LeCompte,Jean J. Schensul

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Ethics in Ethnography

A Mixed Methods Approach

By: Margaret D. LeCompte,Jean J. Schensul

This is Book 6 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition. Ethics in Ethnography explores the burgeoning field of research ethics and addresses how both formal and informal ethical considerations underpin good ethnographic research. Coming from the position that no particular research design is more or less prone to generate ethical issues, LeCompte and Schensul open this volume with a short history of formal oversight for human research and address the formal ethical responsibilities incumbent upon researchers. Next, they consider how informal or “everyday” ethics affect researchers’ daily interactions in the field. In recognition of the shift toward team-based field research, the authors pay special attention to ethics related to collaborative research. The book concludes with an examination of new challenges and issues ranging from new field realities to the ethics of interpreting research results. As with all books in the series, this title features case studies, checklists, key points to remember, and additional resources to consult; the result is a uniquely detailed and eminently useful introduction to the ethical conduct of ethnography. Other books in the set: Book 1: Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research: An Introduction, Second Edition by Margaret D. LeCompte and Jean J. Schensul 9780759118690 Book 2: Initiating Ethnographic Research: A Mixed Methods Approach by Stephen L. Schensul, Jean J. Schensul, and Margaret D. LeCompte 9780759122017 Book 3: Essential Ethnographic Methods: A Mixed Methods Approach, Second Edition by Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte 9780759122031 Book 4: Specialized Ethnographic Methods: A Mixed Methods Approach edited by Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte 9780759122055 Book 5: Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data: A Mixed Methods Approach, Second Edition by Margaret D. LeCompte and Jean J. Schensul 9780759122079 Book 7: Ethnography in Action: A Mixed Methods Approach by Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte 9780759122116

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AltaMira Press

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0759122105

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9780759122109

Second Nature

Poems

By: Margaret Gibson

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Second Nature

Poems

By: Margaret Gibson

Learn of the green world what can be thy place," wrote Ezra Pound. In Second Nature, her tenth collection of poems, Margaret Gibson takes Pound's stern counsel to heart. With stunning clarity, these poems move from acute observation to an empathy, participation, and intimacy that continues Gibson's search to experience the "one body" of the world in direct encounter and to translate that encounter into words. As Emerson tells us, the Spirit moves throughout Nature and through us -- our art is, therefore, second nature. Whether Gibson's poems take us to Greece and to "a writing desk no larger than a page of light" or whether they explore the woods that surround her house, all of the poems arise from the desire to embrace a "fierce, clear-eyed attention" and to be open to revelation. Her poems re-imagine watchfulness, seeing beyond surfaces, listening to what is innermost. Second Nature gives us poems that are a ripening of years of poetic and spiritual practice -- simply Gibson at her best.

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LSU Press

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0807136956

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9780807136959

Mind as Machine

A History of Cognitive Science

By: Margaret A. Boden

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Mind as Machine

A History of Cognitive Science

By: Margaret A. Boden

The development of cognitive science is one of the most remarkable and fascinating intellectual achievements of the modern era. The quest to understand the mind is as old as recorded human thought; but the progress of modern science has offered new methods and techniques which have revolutionized this enquiry. Oxford University Press now presents a masterful history of cognitive science, told by one of its most eminent practitioners. Cognitive science is the project of understanding the mind by modeling its workings. Psychology is its heart, but it draws together various adjoining fields of research, including artificial intelligence; neuroscientific study of the brain; philosophical investigation of mind, language, logic, and understanding; computational work on logic and reasoning; linguistic research on grammar, semantics, and communication; and anthropological explorations of human similarities and differences. Each discipline, in its own way, asks what the mind is, what it does, how it works, how it developed - how it is even possible. The key distinguishing characteristic of cognitive science, Boden suggests, compared with older ways of thinking about the mind, is the notion of understanding the mind as a kind of machine. She traces the origins of cognitive science back to Descartes's revolutionary ideas, and follows the story through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the pioneers of psychology and computing appear. Then she guides the reader through the complex interlinked paths along which the study of the mind developed in the twentieth century. Cognitive science, in Boden's broad conception, covers a wide range of aspects of mind: not just 'cognition' in the sense of knowledge or reasoning, but emotion, personality, social communication, and even action. In each area of investigation, Boden introduces the key ideas and the people who developed them. No one else could tell this story as Boden can: she has been an active participant in cognitive science since the 1960s, and has known many of the key figures personally. Her narrative is written in a lively, swift-moving style, enriched by the personal touch of someone who knows the story at first hand. Her history looks forward as well as back: it is her conviction that cognitive science today--and tomorrow--cannot be properly understood without a historical perspective. Mind as Machine will be a rich resource for anyone working on the mind, in any academic discipline, who wants to know how our understanding of our mental activities and capacities has developed.

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Oxford University Press

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019954316X

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9780199543168

Life Lessons Learned in 84 Years

By: Margaret Mayo Gibson

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Life Lessons Learned in 84 Years

By: Margaret Mayo Gibson

Life Lessons Learned in 84 Years presents funny and serious excerpts from a life well lived. Containing experiences from childhood to the golden years, the book gives readers entertaining, true stories they can apply to their own lives.

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1507617429

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Icon and Evidence

Poems

By: Margaret Gibson

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Icon and Evidence

Poems

By: Margaret Gibson

A collection of poems by Margaret Gibson.

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LSU Press

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0807127094

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9780807127094

God¡¦S Instructions to the Family

By: Margaret Ann Gibson

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God¡¦S Instructions to the Family

By: Margaret Ann Gibson

The family unit today has many problems because CHRIST is not the center of it. The family can be restored by parents repenting of their sins and obeying GODs instructions to the family. Life is a problem solving process and the Word of GOD has a solution for each one. It is not too late to restore the family. GOD created the family to be successful. This book will share many but not all of the scriptures that GOD gave to the family to practice and train their children.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462852882

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9781462852888

The Prodigal Daughter

Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood

By: Margaret Gibson

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The Prodigal Daughter

Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood

By: Margaret Gibson

Gibson recounts her childhood in conservative Richmond, Virginia, and her growing estrangement from her sister and parents. Returning home years later to meet the needs of her stroke-crippled sister and her incapacitated parents, Gibson offers a deeply moving recounting of her reconciliation with the family she left behind"--Provided by publisher.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826217834

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9780826217837

Objects Of The Dead

Mourning And Memory In Everyday Life

By: Margaret Gibson

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Objects Of The Dead

Mourning And Memory In Everyday Life

By: Margaret Gibson

What is the fate of objects after a death-a daughter's hairbrush, a father's favourite chair, an aunt's earrings, a husband's clothes? Why do some things stay and some go from our lives and memories? Objects of the Dead examines a poignant and universal experience-the death of a loved one and the often uneasy process of living with, and discarding, the objects that are left behind. How and when family property is sorted through after a death is often fraught with difficulties, regrets and disagreements. Through personal stories, literature, film and memoir Margaret Gibson reveals the power of things to bind and undo relationships. This is a remarkable reflection on grieving-of both saying goodbye and living with death.

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522859062

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9780522859065

Book's by Margaret Gibson

Draw Me Without Boundaries

Draw Me Without Boundaries

Out in the Open

Out in the Open

The Glass Globe

The Glass Globe

Broken Cup

Broken Cup

Autumn Grasses

Autumn Grasses

Ethics in Ethnography

Ethics in Ethnography

Second Nature

Second Nature

Mind as Machine

Mind as Machine

Life Lessons Learned in 84 Years

Life Lessons Learned in 84 Years

Icon and Evidence

Icon and Evidence

God¡¦S Instructions to the Family

God¡¦S Instructions to the Family

The Prodigal Daughter

The Prodigal Daughter

Objects Of The Dead

Objects Of The Dead

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