Oral Poetry and Narrative Lore from Northern Arabia
The heroic deeds and words of a warrior poet of northern Arabia An epic hero and a poet, the semi-legendary Shayi? al-Amsa? was a prominent ancestor of the Shammar tribal confederation that stretches across the Great Nafud desert in the northern Arabian Peninsula. Shayi?'s corpus of extant poems are preserved in narratives about his chivalrous ......
A remarkable autobiography of Alice Rothchild's journey from 1950's good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist forging her own direction in the contradictory, sexist world of medicine A remarkable autobiography-written entirely in free verse-of Alice Rothchild's journey from 1950's good girl to irreverent, feisty, ......
Landfall explores themes of memory and history through an exploration of the islands off the coast of Maine. Photographs and poetry explore how family and personal history is reflected in the landscape and in the objects that we imbue with meaning. In an island context these issues are condensed, as the history of each island has undergone often ......
Multi-award-winning poet Capildeo's new collection brings home the delight, frustration, restlessness and continuity of striving to live a connected human life in our fragmenting times.
Collected Poems from an Army Doctor in Crisis and War
This work captures personal experience of the Army's Surgeon General as a military doctor in crisis and war, spanning 30 years from Northern Ireland; through Kosovo to the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns; culminating in the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukraine war. Poetry provides the ability to say what is otherwise difficult or unpalatable. ......
Political Wisdom in Late Shakespeare: A Way Out of the Wreck assesses the four last plays of Shakespeare's First Folio--"Cymbeline," "The Tempest," "Henry VIII," and "The Winter's Tale"--providing underappreciated resources for political thought and reflection. This study examines the ruling communities in each of these plays, exploring what ......
Mining and Minding the Wonder of Unexpected Supply
In Robert Frost's Visionary Gift: Mining and Minding the Wonder of Unexpected Supply, William F. Zak provides groundbreaking analysis of well over one hundred of Frost's lyrics, considering each poem as an interrelated portion of the poet's overarching "constellation of intention." Beyond biography, this book offers extended, close readings of ......
A classic textbook on the study of logic In the Muslim East, logic was an integral part of the syllabus of schools and found to be especially helpful for legal studies. It was at this time that The Rules of Logic was composed by Najm al-Din al-Katibi, a scholar of the Shafi?i school of law. The Rules of Logic is the most widely read introduction ......
