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This collection of poems continues Adele Kenny's reflections on the spiritual condition of being. She looks into the dark without flinching and finds light among the shadows. Using ekphrasis as a rhetorical device these poems filter and record experience in startling ways as they journey across aging's inevitable arc.

This comprehensive new reference focuses on the variety of animal figures produced in Staffordshire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Characterized by a cottage industry quaintness, Staffordshire figures were known as "image toys" and "chimney ornaments" in their day. Countless subjects were produced but the animal models comprise a Noah's Ark of some of the most charming and endearing figures. Today, Staffordshire animals are am...

Imagine the gilded age of a nation reflected in hundreds of earthenware figures, each with its own story to tell. This book offers an in-depth study of the cultural, socio-economic, religious, political, and technological history that defined the British Empire in the 19th century. This meticulously researched volume is infused with the real-life stories of the potters, their subjects, and people who lived with these historical figurines. Each...

This new and beautiful book traces the development of pioneer photographs, daguerrotypes, and the miniature art cases that were manufactured to protect and display them. Emphasis is placed on Victorian-era design and its impact on the American case art industry. Included are over 460 illustrations, informative captions with values, and a comprehensive index.

Popular Victorian spaniel figures made in Staffordshire, England from c. 1840-1900 presented with a detailed look at all of the Spaniel variations, history, and recent reproductions beautifully illustrated with color photographs. Spaniel types and sizes, tips for collectors, and a helpful glossary are included. Captions offer descriptions, sizes, dates of manufacture, and current values.

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Intensely focused, compressed, and sharp-edged, these prose poems by Adele Kenny take the spiritual journey into heightened awareness of experience, place, and identity. Deliberate fragments, the language of dreams, and an occasional nod to the surreal combine with Kenny's signature elements of striking imagery, lyrical precision, and compelling immediacy to inform an enhanced vision of the ways in which the interior life intersects with the o...