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The overarching aim of When We Pray is to explore the connections between prayer, meditation, and aesthetic experience in ways that are both insightful and practical. Each of the eight essays takes the reader on an exploration of topics such as: the role of imagination in prayer and manifestation, the aesthetic aspects of enlightenment, the role of signs and symbols in the spiritual life, and more. As you explore these topics you are also invi...

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kids everywhere are called to supper: it's lateit's dark and you're all played out. you want to go home no rule is left to this game. playmates scatter like breaking glassthey return to smear the ______. and you're it--from "(you'd want to go to the reunion: see)" In "Cocktails, " D. A. Powell closes his contemporary "Divine Comedy" with poems of sharp wit and graceful eloquence born of the AIDS pandemic. These poems, both harrowing and beauti...

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Now in paperback, the winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awardso many of the best days seem minor forms of nearness that easily fall among the dropseed: a rind, a left-behind -from "no picnic" In these brilliant poems from one of contemporary poetry's most intriguing, singular voices, D. A. Powell strikes out for the farther territories of love and comes back from those fields with los...

*Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry*I have this rearrangement to make: symbolic death, my backward glance. The way the past is a kind of future leaning against the sporty hood. -from "Bugcatching at Twilight" In Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys - D. A. Powell's fifth book of poetry - the rollicking line he has made his signature becomes the taut, more discursive means to describing beauty, singing a dirge, d...

D. A. Powell's first three groundbreaking booksPublished together for the first time, D. A. Powell's landmark trilogy of Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails make up a three-course Divine Comedy for our day. With a new introduction by novelist David Leavitt, Repast presents a major achievement in contemporary poetry.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, now in paperbackD. A. Powell's fifth book of poetry, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, explores the darker side of divisions and developments, the interstitial spaces of boonies, backstage, bathhouse, and bar. With witty banter, emotional resolve, and powerful lyricism, this collection demonstrates Powell's exhilarating range.

What main factors affect mammalian home-range and dynamics? To what extent do constraints on home range characteristics vary between the sexes? This book aims to address these issues by concentrating the authors' expertise and experience in studies of home ranges in general and focusing on their studies of the black bears of the Pisgah Forest, North Carolina, in particular. The authors provide an overview of black bears and methods for their s...

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d.a. powells Dichtung ist in vielerlei Hinsicht bemerkenswert. Kein anderer Dichter seiner Generation vermag es gleichzeitig regelmäßig auf den Seiten der altehrwürdigen etablierten Zeitschriften wie auch in den sprachexperimentellen Magazinen der Language Poetry zu erscheinen & dabei obendrein Anhänger in der Slam Poetry um sich zu scharen. Und immer wieder findet sich der Vergleich mit e.e. cummings. Schonungslos & mit unbestechlichem Auge f...

The first poetry collection by D. A. Powell since his remarkable trilogy of "Tea, " "Lunch, " and "Cocktails, " a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award" "so many of the best days seem minor forms of nearness "that easily falls among the dropseed: a rind, a left-behind" "--from "no picnic" In these brilliant new poems from one of contemporary poetry's most intriguing, singular voices, D. A. Powell strikes out for the farther terr...

A direct and moving account of a young man's life in a time of plague.