These short poems tell of how Posh, the pug, and Posie, the puggle, enjoy the seasons, holidays, and traditions (and a few not so much) with personality, humor, and gratitude.
An equal opportunity offender shares his brazen rants, jokes, and random thoughts suitable for the age of social media. The slogan worthy one-liners on drinking, sex, stupidity, stereotypes, rudeness, apathy, and anti-social behavior are political, provocative, immature, and hilarious.
The Dreamer and the Blood Moon delves into the supernatural, gets into politics, appeals to Millennials, reconciles with childhood, finds the spiritual, and exercises rage. In this follow-up to Monsters and the Moon, poet Jason Duncan looks back on his 39 years. He reminiscences about relationships, meditates on loneliness, remembers dreams, and gives in to all that still haunts.
Based on rare archival sources, this book fills a gap in the history of New York Catholicism by chronicling anti-Catholic feeling in the pre-Revolutionary and early national periods. Colonial New York, despite its reputation for pluralism, tolerance, and diversity, was also marked by severe restrictions on religious and political liberty for Catholics. The logic of the American Revolution swept away the religious barriers, but Anti-Federalists...
From Chaplin's brilliant use of Wagner in The Gold Rush to the Bach chorale closing Scorsese's Casino, classical music has played a fascinating role in movies. Dean Duncan provides a fresh critical survey of the aesthetics of classical music in film. Exploring tensions between high art and commercial culture, Duncan examines how directors quote themes and classical passages in genres ranging from the Soviet avant garde to Hollywood romances. D...
In seeking company from those of my kind, I entered a world of delusion, superficiality, and depravity. Was I losing my soul or just my sanity? Traveling through salvation and damnation, to a more enlightened place -- within my own soul. A suppressed rage endangered me to the dark side. This is a journey out of that darkness... Lyrical confessions about relationships, love, adolescence, insecurity, family, death, depression, society, gay cultu...
An equal opportunity offender of gays, rednecks, women, Christians, millennials, and people of color shares his brazen rants, jokes, and random thoughts suitable for the age of social media. The slogan worthy one-liners on drinking, sex, stupidity, stereotypes, rudeness, apathy, and anti-social behavior are political, provocative, immature, and hilarious.
In seeking company from those of my kind, I entered a world of delusion, superficiality, and depravity. Was I losing my soul or just my sanity? Traveling through salvation and damnation, to a more enlightened place -- within my own soul. A suppressed rage endangered me to the dark side. This is a journey out of that darkness... Lyrical confessions about relationships, adolescence, insecurity, death, society, gay culture, perseverance, and spir...