Have you felt confused and isolated in relationships? Have you felt lost in conflicted relational chaos? Do you feel an emotional disconnection between you, others, and God? If so, keep reading Embracing Love invites us to explore what it means to love others well, live beyond fear, and embrace an authentic life. Through the authors personal story and those of others, we will understand the intricacies of giving and receiving love. This book is for those who are tired of hiding, willing to risk being exposed, and desiring to be transformed by Gods embracing love. Embracing Love dares you to discover the other side of just living in loveless, chaotic, and disconnected relationships. I heartily recommend Embracing Love to you. Steves content immediately connects with my world. I was informed by his insight and comforted by his grace as he opened these subjects. Rev. Dr. Mike Moses, lead pastor of Lake Forest Church and board member and adjunct faculty at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary Steve Benson leaves no stone unturned, and you will marvel at how deeply he makes you look into your soul as you begin the process of seeing yourself, your spouse, and God in a complete and loving light. Embracing Love is a book that opens you up to giving as well as receiving lifes greatest giftlove. Coach Mike Sherman, former Green Bay Packers head coach Embracing Love is full of insightful discoveries of relational problem solving through a biblical filter. It had my attention from the beginning to the end. John Schlitt, singer, songwriter, and lead vocalist for the Christian rock band Petra
Poetry. A handsome short book from the poet Steve Benson, of whom Lyn Hejinian wrote: "Steve Benson's many and various works seem always to have been written from within a full milieu—contemporary and complicated, social and geographic—at a moment that has arrived abruptly and definitely.... The entire process of the writing is expansive; the imagination gathers momentum, becoming more and more conscious of uncoiling ramifications and of their intersections—of the immense amount of motion that is a person's life." Saddlestapled chapbook.
The joy of reading Poems By The Skunk River Valley Boys by Barry and Steve Benson is to watch grown men pay such careful attention to the world. The first "rule" in Barry's poem "Rules for Frustrated Poets" is to "Heed the image" - and that's exactly what these poems do. Here you'll find people (like Aunt Clara) places (mostly Iowa), rock and roll songs, the aurora borealis, plants and animals ( wolves, deer, pheasants, muskrats, pigs, hippos, bees). In the end these are poems about remembering, but what they really teach us is how to see.
¿The Benson brothers have put together not only a fine book of poems well worth keeping close but also a strong testament of faith in those subtleties of blood that can elevate the ordinary into song.¿ ¿Gary Gildner, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, Pushcart Prize, etc.; author of two novels, a collection of short stories, two memoirs, and nine books of poetry, including Cleaning a Rainbow, his most recent. ¿This is what poetry was meant to be, neither overly-sentimental nor veiled in obscure imagery. The poems read like music you have discovered as you search across the radio dial. Once found you stay tuned, turning the pages for more. This is adult poetry with risky passion, psychological pain, sensual thirst and the ache of longing. There are no forced inventions or over-clever literary devices. In fact, you are rarely aware of the writer, only the emotional landscape that unfolds with each line. The writing has a quality found in Marcel Proust¿s Remembrance of Things Past ¿ an old picket fence, the ruts in a lane. The sun doesn¿t merely shine on a meadow, but rather is ¿This July-fireball afternoon in a pasture . . .¿ When an alcoholic, frail father irritatedly boots an empty paint can towards his sons it becomes the tumbling, end-over-end kick-off of an imagined football game, the boys waiting underneath it to return the shiny offering. I find the value of any poem is increased or diminished in the sharing. The sharing of these poems, I can attest, stokes the delight and interest of another. ¿SCHOOLED LIVES: Poems by Two Brothers is a gift Barry and Steve Benson have placed in our hands.¿ ¿John Gaps III, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, author of God Left Us Alone Here: A Book of War (poems and combat photographs). ¿Who says a book of poems need be the domain of a singular poet and aesthetic? With Schooled Lives by accomplished poets and brothers Steve and Barry Benson, you get double the perspectives, imagery and deft language about life in the unruly, rural Midwest and other climes. Here too, are lively pairings of poems that dialogue with each other. For instance, Steve¿s ¿Candy for the Fat Lady¿ begins, ¿She bulged in the bed of a parked pickup truck / where it cost two quarters to gawk at her thousand pounds...¿ counters Barry¿s ¿Wild Man of Borneo¿ ¿ ¿. . .not far from fields / where we boys baled hay in country dust and sun and sweat, / patrons stare at the geek in rags and a promise...¿ Though both poets are natural storytellers, Steve -¿ a visual artist ¿ leans toward a leaner, impressionistic verse compared to Barry¿s love of narrative. This weaving together of writers is a welcomed addition to the genre. As Steve claims, ¿The Best Writers are spiders; they connect everything / with fine homespun lines /. . . (and) live in the trembling / nets of their own designs.¿ ¿Barbara Lau, author of The Long Surprise (winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize) & the award-winning drama, Raising Medusa. No relation to me, but brothers in the guts of deep, dark, old, weird America, the viscera of heartland their shared family legends, firsthand feedback stirring one another¿s grief and energy along, resilient as cubs, memories crystals hard and sharp, these two linked different men are wrenchingly attentive to a restless, emphatic, and receptive, sensuous life in contact with and imagining the world they¿ve known. Their poems¿ honest power braces against labor¿s compromises and intuition¿s leaps, tradition and discovery, to bring us into real places some of us have never been and others may not have left. ¿Maine language poet (eight books published) and practicing psychologist(not related to Barry or Steve Benson).
Funded by the National Science Foundation and successfully field-tested in a variety of settings, the materials presented give teachers the opportunity to grow as learners for the classes they teach.
Topics such as diet, exercise, ageing, sex, money, depression and death; it doubles as the ultimate excuse book as well as the ultimate self-help book It sheds humour on topics which are so often dealt with too seriously or warily.
Poetry. "BLUE BOOK bristles with an exuberant improvisatory energy, telegraphically connecting linguistic probes and self-directed cross-examinations. Unlike the free-associative writing it may sometimes resemble, Benson stops to take measure, building structures both edifying and exhilarating" -Charles Bernstein.
Before Season Eight, Joss Whedon brought generations of Slayers and vampires to comics with the help of his acclaimed TV writing team and some of the best artists to ever grace the comics page. Now all those stories, plus selected stories from Season Eight, are collected in one deluxe collection with a new cover by Jo Chen. Joss writes multiple tales: a somber vamp tale, drawn by Cameron Stewart; the story of the first Slayer, drawn by Leinil Yu; and more. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales also reprints for the first time new Season Eight stories written by novelist Jackie Kessler (Hell's Belles) and awardwinning cartoonist Becky Cloonan (Demo), featuring vampires living in the public eye, killing Slayers and killing each other. * This book collects stories from MySpace Dark Horse Presents #31 and Tales of the Vampires: Carpe Noctem parts 1 and 2; Buffy: Tales of the Vampires oneshot; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Vampires #1#5; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayers #1"Broken Bottle of Djinn"; Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayers TPB. Before Season Eight . . .
Poetry. Cultural Writing. Memoir. THE GRAND PIANO 3 continues the experiment in collective autobiography begun over email by ten poets identified with Language poetry, who sought to reconnect their writing practicesand to "recall and contextualize events from the period of the late 1970s." When completed, THE GRAND PIANO will comprise ten parts, in each of which the ten authors appear in a different sequence, often responding to prompts and problems arising in the series. In this issue, the order is Steve Benson, Tom Mandel, Carla Harryman, Rae Armantrout, Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Barrett Watten, Ted Pearson, Kit Robinson, and Ron Silliman.
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