During the experimental sixties, Spike Hawkins's literary voice was first heard in "The Lost Fire Brigade." It was a voice so startlingly original it could not be overlooked nor forgotten. A literary oracle who when asked for practical advice could only respond with strips of luminous poetry. In the third entry in Harwood Academic Publishers' Poets' Voices series, "250 Grams of Poetry," a spellbinding anthology of Hawkins' poetry, features the internationally known poet, screenwriter and playwright himself reading his own stellar work on the enclosed compact disc. "Target" My shoe has caught a Pig. My shoe has caught a Pig. I am a Pig Trap. - Spike Hawkins Spike Hawkins was at the origin of the Liverpool Poets movement (he inspired Roger McGough and Adrian Henri) then went to the United States where he became involved with the Beats. He is currently collaborating with Jennifer Fabian on a screenplay about the life of Djuna Barnes, and is assembling a new col
In this last of Spike's hilarious reinterpretations of the classic works of litarature, all the familiar faces of Robert Louis Stevenson's original version appear: Squire Trelawney, Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver. But they are joined by Groucho Marx - and Long John's parrot plays a starring role. This rip-roaring adventure of the hunt for buried treasure unravels faster than Ben Gunn's pants, with plenty of laughs along the way. Rude and irreverent as ever, Spike's rendering of this classic tale is as chock-full of gems as Cap'n Flint's treasure chest.
During the experimental sixties, Spike Hawkins's literary voice was first heard in "The Lost Fire Brigade." It was a voice so startlingly original it could not be overlooked nor forgotten. A literary oracle who when asked for practical advice could only respond with strips of luminous poetry. In the third entry in Harwood Academic Publishers' Poets' Voices series, "250 Grams of Poetry," a spellbinding anthology of Hawkins' poetry, features the internationally known poet, screenwriter and playwright himself reading his own stellar work on the enclosed compact disc. "Target" My shoe has caught a Pig. My shoe has caught a Pig. I am a Pig Trap. - Spike Hawkins Spike Hawkins was at the origin of the Liverpool Poets movement (he inspired Roger McGough and Adrian Henri) then went to the United States where he became involved with the Beats. He is currently collaborating with Jennifer Fabian on a screenplay about the life of Djuna Barnes, and is assembling a new col
Since his first feature movie, She's Gotta Have It (1986), gave him critical and commercial success, Spike Lee has challenged audiences with one controversial film after another. Lee has made a broad range of movies, including documentaries (4 Little Girls), musicals (School Daze), crime dramas (Clockers), biopics (Malcolm X).
This book shows how to combine grammaticalization theory with the comparative method to reconstruct the grammar of Proto-Languages. To showcase the methodology, seven morphosyntactically distinct verbal systems in the Cariban family--three ergative, three nominative, and one inverse--are reconstructed. Spike Gildea presents detailed data in his reconstruction of Proto-Carib verbal and nominal morphologies. The inverse verbal system reconstructs to Proto-Carib; the other six are innovative, and reconstruct to Proto-Carib nonfinite source-constructions.
Blood, rust, lava, wine—the flush of passion and the glow of approaching night—no color arrests our attention more than the color red. Today it is the flag of danger and seduction, of spirit and revolution, but throughout nearly all of human history it has held a special place in our aesthetics. In this book, Spike Bucklow brings us into the heart of this fiery hue to better understand the unique powers it has had over us. Bucklow takes us from a thirty-four-thousand-year-old shaman burial dress to the iPhone screen, exploring the myriad of purposes we have put red to as well as the materials from which we have looked to harvest it. And we have looked for it everywhere, from insects to tree resin to tar to excitable gasses. Bucklow also details how our pursuit of the color drove medieval alchemy and modern chemistry alike, and he shows us red’s many symbolic uses, its association with earth, blood, and fire, its coloring of caves and the throne rooms of goddesses, as well as national flags, fire trucks, power grids, and stoplights. The result is a material and cultural history that makes one see this color afresh, beating with vibrancy, a crucial part of the human visual world.
The phenomenon of Spike Lee continues with this revealing and engaging look at his outstanding career, his creative process, and the screenplay for his dynamic movie Do The Right Thing. Spike Lee burst full formed into the screen world with his award-winning, commercially successful independent film She's Gotta Have It. In the few short years following this stellar debut he has established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the film industry and in American popular culture. This book reveals Spike Lee as a Hollywood iconoclast and gifted visionary and takes us though the dramatic sequence of events that brought the movie Do The Right Thing to fruition. It is a testimonial to his developing genius, written in the stingingly funny and informed language of Spike Lee.
Welcome to the world of classic adventure stories, hilariously retold by the much loved, legendary comic Spike Milligan. On his death in 2002, he was widely regarded as the greatest and most influential comedian to have emerged from post-war Britain.
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