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Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1st, 1819, the third of eight children.At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which was to permanently diminish his eyesight.At this time Melville was described as being "very backwards in speech and somewhat slow in comprehension."His father died when he was 12 leaving the family in very straitened times. Just 14 Melville took a job in a bank paying $150 a year that he obtained vi...

The Cracked Mirror - Reflections...When Prentice Paul Hiller enters the senior care facility he brings with him not only a hip surgery gone wrong, but a mirror of his past, cracked with the stress of all his memories: a family broken apart by their Appalachian circumstances and the 'great depression', a childhood tainted by a father's abusive nature, an impetuous marriage and a sorrowful divorce, a subsequent search of 'isms' and for love and ...

Theoretische Grundlagen der Wetterkunde, Darstellung wichtiger Wetterlagen der Alpen und ihre Auswirkungen, Grundzüge des Klimas in den Alpen, Klimaänderung, Erarbeitung eigener Vorhersagen, alpine Gefahren, Grundlagen der Orientierung, Orientierung im Gelände.

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The poems in this book have transitions in common - from death and dying, whether accidental or planned, to milestones such as a son leaving home etc. There's love palpably felt after death and beyond it, little epiphanies from near-disasters, the whole subject of death from many different angles - the news that breaks us, how our lives are enlarged by telling moments. The title poem "Irresistible" and "Tandem Hang-Gliding Incident" embody our...

Set in the natural environment of the American West, the poems in Desert Meditations advocate immersing oneself in the natural world as a way to reconnect to that inner core which sustains everyone. Offering an alternative to the hectic pace of contemporary life, these short and accessible poems acknowledge the restorative effects of reconnecting with nature. They suggest that seeking stillness and solitude and cultivating an awareness of the ...

Disorientation brought about by new or frustrated love, impending death, or unfamiliar geography, both physical and psychological, engenders lyrical encounters with the self and others. Disorientation and the Weather is all about Relationship with a capital R. In the largest sense, these poems are conversations with the universe held by characters as disparate as an airplane passenger, a lover, a museum guard, a patient, a parent, a traveler, ...

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Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1st, 1819, the third of eight children.At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which was to permanently diminish his eyesight.At this time Melville was described as being "very backwards in speech and somewhat slow in comprehension."His father died when he was 12 leaving the family in very straitened times. Just 14 Melville took a job in a bank paying $150 a year that he obtained vi...

Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1st, 1819, the third of eight children.At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which was to permanently diminish his eyesight.At this time Melville was described as being "very backwards in speech and somewhat slow in comprehension."His father died when he was 12 leaving the family in very straitened times. Just 14 Melville took a job in a bank paying $150 a year that he obtained vi...

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Heidi Seaborn started writing poetry in 2016 and has quickly gained national recognition for her fresh voice and the lyrical quality she brings to writing about to life's experiences. With her debut poetry chapbook, Finding My Way Home, Seaborn explores what it means to be lost, to feel loss and to undertake the journey to find the people, history and place that embodies home. With her mastery of verbs, embedding action into her writing, these...

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The title of Linda McClure Dunn's chapbook, "Shape and Shadow", uses those words more in their verb sense than as nouns, although the latter is detectable. It is a retrospective assessment of the ever-morphing web of heredity, culture, and individual experience shaping who we are at any given time in our lives. It explores influences from the distant past through childhood and into the latter stages of life, as well as the impact of change lif...

La poesia di Giorgio Pannunzio si nutre di un sontuoso modernismo ritmico non riconducibile facilmente ad esempi coevi e non ? lontana da certe soluzioni metaforiche espressioniste e visionarie, tuttavia in essa non mancano tratteggi pi? tradizionali e legati a modelli contenutistici veterodecadenti. Accanto a pregevoli versi d?estrazione ermetica, ve ne sono altri profondamente intrisi di pessimismo e di struggente nostalgia, che costruiscono...

Earth Wars veteran Jim Turhan loves his quiet life on supply planet Mossera 4, teaching young cadets the art and science of xeno-farming.Pollinator drones never sting or bite. They simply do their jobs.Then crops all over Mossera 4 begin to fail.Will Jim discover the cause before starvation, or worse, turns his dream life into a nightmare?An excerpt from Restricted Species:Maerlis leaned forward, holding the comm in her lap. "I know we're a fr...

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A young man starting down the road on his life journey. Faced with many opportunities. He wants to put them on hold and follow his life long dream. He decides to learn as much as possible about the sweet science of boxing.