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Heaven's Burning Porch

Author: James Dunlap

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2022-05-15

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1680032763

The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Arkansas In Heaven’s Burning Porch, James Dunlap reckons with the legacy left to him: one of pain, gratitude, violence, and salvation. In turns dark, humorous, lyric and narrative, Heaven’s Burning Porch explores what it means to grow up in rural Arkansas under the weight of his rough inheritance. from “A Good Year for Pecans” —Central Arkansas, April The plum trees are wearing their crowns of thorn again and the clouds that hang like shreds of dried tobacco are sliding away like clots of oil in an empty lake— the persimmon tree, dying in a nest of its own fruit, now ripped in half, now yanked out of socket, its roots like thorns pulled from a muddy paw, no sound but the green whisper of pine needles raining down from the single tree left standing, and I haven’t seen enough of this night to know what it means

Stray Latitudes

Author: Dan Leach

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2024-06-03

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13: 1680033840

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The poems in Dan Leach’s debut collection present lyrical portraits of dying (if not already dead) suburban neighborhoods in South Carolina. Stalled-out construction sites, abandoned shopping malls, and builder grade houses that seem haunted before they’re even sold—these are the doomed spaces that populate Leach’s work. Stray Latitudes investigates the spiritual and geographical crises of the New South, pitting the individual need for identity against the recent swell of nationalism and the ongoing creep of capitalism. Like the vagrant creature for which the book is named, these are poems that scratch and claw in their search for a place to call home. The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: South Carolina

Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers

Author: Kelly McQuain

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2023-05-12

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1680033336

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The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: West Virginia In questioning the boundaries between the world and oneself, Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers unflinchingly explores the dark eddies of coming of age and coming out. Kelly McQuain’s poems are far roaming in setting and far ranging in style, depicting the richness of a rural West Virginia upbringing as well as contemporary adulthood in the big city and abroad. Glints of humor and glimpses of pathos abound in the imaginative leaps these poems take as they tackle such subjects as LGBTQ sexuality, homophobia, domestic abuse, and racism. Unafraid to push the limits of contemporary sonics, McQuain’s work is rich in music and varied in form, with new riffs on the sonnet, the villanelle, and the persona poem. Accessible and lyrical, this debut collection deftly explores the homes we come from and the homes we create—all the while shining with wonder and resolve. Several of the poems won contests including the Bloom chapbook prize, the Glitter Bomb Award, Best New Poets 2000. ... From “No Trespassing” It’s me who worries about her mini-strokes and falls, the knot on her head from where she stumbled picking blackberries on the bank. She watches the bees come, stippling themselves with pollen, flowers bending in the breeze. This world is hers, for now—all she covets. Tonight it is a black bear and three cubs up against her window, spilling seeds from a bird feeder hung against the house. My mother stands in the dark by that window, her thin hand, the chill of ghostly glass.

Heaven Burning Devil God

Author: Feng JuZi

Publisher: Funstory

Published: 2020-11-16

Total Pages: 871

ISBN-13: 163707431X

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The mystical continent had been shattered by the divine beasts and had been reborn because of them! The treasures that had been sought for many years by various forces had been born into the world. A bloody storm was brewing ... In the eyes of some, he was a god who saved others from danger, while in the eyes of others, he was a murderous demon god. On this continent where spiritual energy was the source of all, a Martial God of his generation had appeared!

Arrows of Heaven

Author: Stephen Brooke

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-07-13

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1937745449

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`The end of every epic is the beginning of another.¿ Who was Teme? A noble girl, sister to the High King of all the Mora, and of an age to marry appropriately? Yes, she was this, but also a renowned archer, acclaimed by her people as a hero of the recent civil war, named in the epics bards sang across the land. Warrior or woman? Was it possible to be both? Through intrigues and adventures in the realm of the Mora and beyond, Teme has one quest above all others ¿ to learn who she truly is.

Get Out of Heaven's Waiting Room

Author: Joyce Ackley

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2008-08

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1606475150

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Joyce Ackley is an 83-year-old living in Washington State with her little dog Annie (an orphan.) After her husband retired from the Navy the two went to college and became school teachers. They became grandparents before they graduated. Joyce became a widow 29 years ago and has constantly sought to be useful and happy in her life. As she ages, she still looks for ways to find life fulfilling. She does not want to retire to Heaven's Waiting Room. Can't do the things you used to do? Ready to give up on life? This book is full of ideas to get you out of Heaven's Waiting Room and back to enjoying the wonderful life God has given you. The book is a series of essays and ideas for you to try. You will find out why to cough in a plastic bag or find out how you get pregnant. Other laughable notes as well as a touching story of a grandfather crying in church on Christmas Eve. It's a book that will start you thinking, make you laugh and make you begin to live again. Young at Hearts are the main focus of the book although anyone needing ideas to spice up their life will find it helpful.

The Wars of Heaven

Author: Richard Currey

Publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 0988225212

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The lives of the working class in West Virginia—a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed—are explored in this powerful yet tender collection of six short stories and a novella. They depict an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity and are a lyrical rendering of times and places now largely gone—but the stirring clarity of people and landscape can persist in the reader's imagination.

Circuit of Heaven

Author: Dennis Danvers

Publisher: Speaking Volumes

Published:

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 162815893X

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“A haunting novel that will make readers wonder.”-Orlando Sentinel Nemo's mother and father left him behind to enter "the Bin"—joining twelve billion uploaded personalities who live in crime-free, disease-free and deathless virtual societies. Nemo has come of age on a dangerous, near-deserted planet populated by a handful of stragglers: religious fundamentalists and rebels, the creeps and the crazies. Now he is twenty-one. And on a rare, reluctant visit to the parents who abandoned flesh and son for cyber-utopia, Nemo has met the perfect woman: a new Bin arrival named Justine, a beautiful pop singer who dreams other people's dreams in the virtual night. Now an inconvenient attraction is leading two lovers into a perilous mire of irreversible choice. For Justine has no body to return to. And Nemo the renegade has sworn never to sacrifice his own; to live, age, and die instead in a bleak earthly hell. Because, as an outsider, he may enter the Bin for short periods of time. But if he ever decides to stay...there will be no way out again. “EARTHLY AND SPIRITUAL DELIGHTS AROUND… DENNIS DANVERS'S MOVE TO SF IS A WELCOME ONE."-Washington Post "A wild ride."-Details "Danvers isn't exactly a household name in SF circles... CIRCUIT OF HEAVEN may change that."- Locus

Stairway to Heaven

Author: Toby Huitson

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2014-03-26

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 184217665X

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Medieval stairs, galleries and upper chambers in cathedrals, abbeys, and parish churches have been an enduring source of fascination to historians and archaeologists since the eighteenth century, but their practical purposes have long been shrouded in mystery and speculation. From libraries to lights, clocks to dovecotes, from secret games of skittles played over the vaults to the daring exploits of the twelfth-century Flying Monk, Toby Huitson explores the lofty spaces, nooks and crannies of medieval upper spaces though the interrogation of a wide range of documentary, visual and archaeological materials. Evidence is revealed for over 30 different functions during the period from around AD 1000 to 1550. Generously illustrated and fully-referenced, the text is accompanied by a set of special features and a quick-reference section, making it indispensable to all those interested in medieval history and architecture. Dr Toby Huitson teaches at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

A River Goes with Heaven

Author: Howell Vines

Publisher:

Published: 1930

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13:

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A young professor gains in wisdom and in the understanding of love from an old man, a girl, and two rivers during an idyllic summer's experience in the Warrior River county of northern Alabama.