The Fire's Journey
Title | The Fire's Journey PDF eBook |
Author | Eunice Odio |
Publisher | |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Epic poetry, Spanish |
ISBN | 9781935635499 |
The Fire's Journey Complete Set
Title | The Fire's Journey Complete Set PDF eBook |
Author | Eunice Odio |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2019-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781935635932 |
Since 2012, Tavern Books has been releasing volumes of The Fire's Journey, an origin story of epic proportions by Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio (first published in 1957 as El tránsito de fuego). A much-neglected masterpiece of 20th-century Latin American poetry, the poem imagines the world as the word of God. Using a mixture of surrealism, narrative, and dialogue, the story follows the journey of Ion, the poet-god who enters the universe to battle the Void, the force of chaos that threatens to cast the world into darkness. Drawing on traditions from Genesis to Paradise Lost, Odio's The Fire's Journey is a poem about the sacred power of language and the fate of the poet in the world.The Complete Set includes all four volumes of The Fire's Journey.
Journey Through Fire and Ice
Title | Journey Through Fire and Ice PDF eBook |
Author | Deanne Burch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2021-01-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781949642599 |
At the age of twenty-three, Deanne Burch accompanied her husband, Ernest "Tiger" Burch to the Inuit village of Kivalina, Alaska, a barrier island 23 miles above the Arctic Circle. Tiger was conducting a participant study of the natives, whereas Deanne was a city girl - ethnocentric, naïve, and completely unprepared for the journey she was about to embark on. In Kivalina, she lived on the edge of two worlds - the one she left behind and the one where she reluctantly participated in all aspects of the women's lives. Skinning seals, cleaning and drying fish, cutting beluga and caribou to store became her way of life. Plumbing, running water and electricity were not available. Loneliness was a constant companion, although she tried to be accepted by the Inuit women who were suspicious of all white women. Gradually Deanne adapted to living in a culture she knew nothing about. The midnight sun was followed by relentless darkness and brutal weather. With this came a journey into the unknown. First was a fateful camping trip where they nearly lost their lives, followed six days later by a fire in their house, an event that left Tiger badly burned. During the three months Tiger spent in the hospital, his only wish was to return to Kivalina and finish what he had started. Despite horrific burns on his face and hands and seared lungs from which he never recuperated, Tiger and Deanne returned to the village to complete the study. Instead of believing in fairy tales and happy endings, Deanne became a woman of strength ready to face the next challenge. Over fifty years later she remembers the young girl who left on an unknown journey. A journey that will live in her heart forever.
The Fires of Spring
Title | The Fires of Spring PDF eBook |
Author | Shelly Culbertson |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2016-04-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1250067049 |
"The "Arab Spring" all started when a young Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire in protest of a government official confiscating his apples without cause and slapping his face. The aftermath of that one personal protest grew to become the Middle East movement known as the Arab Spring -- a wave of disparate events that included revolutions, protests, government overthrows, hopeful reform movements, and bloody civil wars. This book will be the first to bring the post Arab Spring world to light in a holistic context. It is a narrative of the author Shelly Culbertson's journey through six countries of the Middle East, describing countries, historical perspective, and interviews with revolution and government figures. Culbertson, RAND Middle East analyst and former U.S. State Department officer who has been involved with the Middle East for two decades, is uniquely equipped to analyze the current social, political, economic, and cultural effects of the movement. With honesty, empathy, and expert historical accuracy, Culbertson strives to answer the questions "what led to the Arab Spring, " "what is it like there now, " and "what trends after the Arab Spring are shaping the future of the Middle East?" The Fires of Spring tells the story by weaving together a sense of place, history, insight about key issues of our time, and personal stories and adventures. It navigates street life and peers into ministries, mosques, and women's worlds. It delves into what Arab Spring optimism was about, and at the same time sheds light on the pain and dysfunction that continues to plague some parts of the region."--
The Fire's Journey Part III
Title | The Fire's Journey Part III PDF eBook |
Author | Eunice Odio |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2018-08-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781935635826 |
After the chaos of the first two volumes of The Fire's Journey, where the world was formless and void yet teeming with the shape of life to come, and Ion the poet-hero took mortal form to battle the Void, in Part III we begin to encounter a landscape that looks more like the one we know today. Ion has entered the world. A much-neglected masterpiece of 20th-century Latin American poetry, The Fire's Journey will be published by Tavern Books in an English translation for the first time across four volumes.
First on the Scene
Title | First on the Scene PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Simpson |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2018-03-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781984343727 |
In 1972 when a man walked into the Greenville, Mississippi fire department reporting to work, there was nothing particularly extraordinary about this event, except that for the very first time in the history of the department, the man walking in was Black. This memoir follows the author's journey towards becoming the first Black firefighter on the scene. In an era where bigotry, injustice and discrimination reigned supreme, this book documents his life story from childhood to his fight for recognition in the heart of the Delta.
The Fire's Journey
Title | The Fire's Journey PDF eBook |
Author | Eunice Odio |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Play script |
ISBN | 9781935635239 |