The Hierarchy of Human Sufferings or the poetic anatomy of grand scale anguishes ambitions to be a succinct but exhaustive account about humankind's great pains and the great calamities - divine, natural or man-made - that periodically provoke them. Succinct by its sheer volume, exhaustive by its arguments and criteria of reflections to which the author refers in its development. The events utilized by the author are intermittently pulled out of the biblical and secular vast reservoirs. Thus, the arguments are worthy and at the height of the author's ambition to be able to convince the reader that when our calamities are not from nature or man-made, they are evidently self-inflicted owing it to the concept that we often are the artisans of our own sufferings. Do not miss to read"The Hierarchy of Human Sufferings." Make it your next bedside book.

Anguish Language: Writing & Crisis considers language as a core aspect of the present social crisis. Initiated in a week-long workshop in Berlin in 2013, the Anguish Language Project surveys and develops the variety of forms of self-publishing, poetry, criticism, experimental writing, declamation and political speech that arose in the wake of the 20072008 financial crisis as a form of social struggle in response to crisis. The amply illustrated softcover publication includes workshop discussions, practices of crisis literature in seminars, presentations, walks, poetry, readings, drawing, writing experiments and performance. Contributors include Sean Bonney, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lisa Robertson, Anne Boyer, Anke Hennig, Karolin Meunier & Mattin, Jacob Bard-Rosenberg, Frere Dupont, Amy DeAth, Catherine Wanger, Neinsager, Danny Hayward, Martin Hause, Wealth of Negations, and the Anguish Language Berlin and Copenhagen Groups. Edited by London-based writer/researcher John Cunningham, fiction and critical theory writer Anthony Iles, and writers Mira Mattar and Marina Vishmidt.

This book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. Along the way, the book addresses many questions that are of interest to the student of the ancient world: how did the literature of Greece relate to that of its eastern neighbours? What did ancient readers from different cultures think it meant to be human? Who invented the writing of universal history as we know it? How did the Greeks come to divide the world into Greeks and 'barbarians', and what happened when they came to live alongside those 'barbarians' after the conquests of Alexander the Great? In addressing these questions, the book draws on cutting-edge research in comparative literature, postcolonial studies and archive theory.

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poemis designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends thesubject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personalpossession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relationto content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the presentday and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closesanalysis. Discusses the work of major poets, including John Milton,Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson,W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, W.H.Auden, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon,and many more. Includes a helpful glossary of poetic terms.

Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2020.

Anthropology is the study of all humans in all times in all places. But it is so much more than that. "Anthropology requires strength, valor, and courage," Nancy Scheper-Hughes noted. "Pierre Bourdieu called anthropology a combat sport, an extreme sport as well as a tough and rigorous discipline. ... It teaches students not to be afraid of getting one's hands dirty, to get down in the dirt, and to commit yourself, body and mind. Susan Sontag called anthropology a "heroic" profession." What is the payoff for this heroic journey? You will find ideas that can carry you across rivers of doubt and over mountains of fear to find the the light and life of places forgotten. Real anthropology cannot be contained in a book. You have to go out and feel the world's jagged edges, wipe its dust from your brow, and at times, leave your blood in its soil. In this unique book, Dr. Michael Wesch shares many of his own adventures of being an anthropologist and what the science of human beings can tell us about the art of being human. This special first draft edition is a loose framework for more and more complete future chapters and writings. It serves as a companion to anth101.com, a free and open resource for instructors of cultural anthropology. This 2018 text is a revision of the "first draft edition" from 2017 and includes 7 new chapters.