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From award-winning poet Daniel Tobin comes The Mansions, an epic trilogy of book-length poems which examines exemplary 20th-Century figures Georges Lemaître, Simone Weil, and Teilhard de Chardin, all at the crossroads of science, history, and religion. Capacious in their philosophical explorations, immaculate in their form, stirring in their alchemy of faith and empiricism, each complete section works both autonomously and as part of the whole...

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A collection that explores spaces in order to probe the fraught interplay of matter and spirit, desire and monstrosity, the created and the uncreated

An exploration of poetry's power to make meaning despite the breakdown of traditional claims of its poetic value, featuring profile essays on R.S. Thomas, John Ashbery and Gertrude Stein.

Forty versions of Holocaust survivor, and German poet Paul Celan, done into english.

A resource for anyone interested in the art and craft of contemporary poetry. This work gathers together essays by some of the most important voices in contemporary poetry: Carl Dennis, Stephen Dobyns, Tony Hoagland, Heather McHugh, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Eleanor Wilnor, Dean Young, and the late Larry Levis and Agha Shahid Ali.

Portions of many of these essays were given as papers over the years at regional, national, and international meetings of the American Conference for Irish Studies"--Pref.

The formally diverse and intellectually acute sixth poetry collection from award-winning poet Daniel Tobin

Daniel Tobin's stunning new collection, Double Life, takes its name from a vision of humanity at once passionately earthbound and spurred by the metaphysical. These poems range from haunting meditations on the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch to an astonishing polyphonic sequence based on the life of Father Bartolomeo de Las Casas, who died in 1566 and wrote the first bill of rights in the New World. Between these two longer orchestrations appea...

An exploration of the life of Belgian physicist and priest Georges Lemaître, known as "the father of the Big Bang

Coming of age in Brooklyn's Bay Ridge, these poems explore what it is to be an Irish American Catholic, a dutiful son of hard drinking, sometimes hilarious and sometimes tragic parents, a son of Brooklyn, and, too, deeply rooted to the country of his ancestors, Ireland. Dark, funny, and sometimes troubling, these poems, always accessible, track a life well lived and felt.

Based on the set of managerial competencies specially developed by the American Management Association for a new core management curriculum, The AMA Guide to Management Development provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how to continually develop managers throughout their entire organization. The book considers every factor important in management development, and features in-depth information on topics including:. The five maj...

What did you learn at work today? "Every employee who wants to succeed in business should read Tobin's new book."-Marshall Goldsmith, million-selling author of the New York Times bestsellers Mojo and What Got You're Here Won't get You There"Nothing less than a survival plan for a rewarding, relevant career. Read it if you are responsible for the careers and performance of others. Read it if you want to propel your own career. . . In any case, ...

This is the first major anthology of Irish American poetry. It breaks new ground in the field of Irish American literary scholarship by collecting for the first time the work of over two hundred Irish American poets, as well as other American poets whose work enjoins Irish American themes. What does it mean to be an Irish American poet? The Book of Irish American Poetry answers this question by drawing together the best and most representative...

About the Book: Caregiving for aging parents is a physical and emotional reality currently facing a large number of the 30 million baby boomers in America. That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine, based on a family caregiving approach developed by Daniel R. Tobin, M.D., and the staff of Care Support of America, presents eight activities that offer practical and pro-active guidance for middle aged people who are caregivers to their parents. This guide...

Designed to help organizations and their HR and training groups take maximum advantage of the trend toward an independent, self-directed learner workforce. This work shows you how to develop new organizational and individual employee development strategies to meet workplace challenges.

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded by many as the greatest Irish poet since Yeats.Passage to the Center is the most comprehensive critical treatment to date on Heaney's poetry and the first to study Heaney's entire body of work. It is also the first to examine the poems from the perspective of religion, one of Heaney's guiding preoccupations.According to Danie...

In the Harvard Review, critic Christopher Bock writes that ., ."Four Way Books is known for taking risks with aesthetically challenging and important work, and Tobin seems more ambitious than many of his contemporaries...." Second Things is Daniel Tobin's fourth book of poems, and his second collection with Four Way Books, with a third forthcoming in 2010. Following 2005's The Narrows, which traces an Irish-American boy-to-manhood in lush poem...

No company is too small to plan for its leadership future. Feeding Your Leadership Pipeline provides a blueprint for leadership development that addresses the unique challenges of small to mid-sized companies. It helps busiess leaders identify high-potential talent, define key leadership competencies, build an affordable and effective leadership development program, harness the power of mentoring and coaching, evaluate program effectiveness, a...

A collection of impressive symbolic variance that is both fragile and resilient