![]() ![]() ![]() For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.” ![]() As she writes, “I could not be a poet without the natural world. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, “a place to enter, and in which to feel,” and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. “Uniting essays from Oliver’s previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds. “There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language. The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year ![]()
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In order to protect myself from the parasitic nature of the dead, I've always held fast to these rules passed down from my father…until now.ĭetective John Devlin needs my help to find a killer, but he is haunted by ghosts who shadow his every move. ![]() ![]() This story was nominated in the Best Paranormal Romance category. ![]() ![]() ![]() Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer they have ever encountered-before a shocking conclusion in which everything they knew turns out to be devastatingly wrong.įull of the breathtaking drama and unforgettable emotions for which James Patterson is famous, 1st to Die is the start of a blazingly fast-paced and sensationally entertaining new series of crime thrillers. The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a killer whose crimes have stunned an entire city. First to Die is a 2003 television miniseries based on the 2001 novel of the same name by James Patterson.The film stars Tracy Pollan, Pam Grier, Angie Everhart and Carly Pope as a group of women team up to investigate a string of murders. ![]() So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving one another a hand. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.īut the usual procedures aren't bringing them any closer to stopping the killings. ![]() 1st to Die is a dazzlingly powerful new thriller by master suspense novelist James Patterson, the #1 bestselling author of Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider.įour women - four friends - share a determination to stop a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco. ![]() ![]() And, being literary works that thematize a philosophical question, even the opposition philosophy/literature. In such a manner, it is possible to track in these novels a strategy of deconstruction on hierarchical binary oppositions such as madness/reason, human/animal, God/Evil, speech/writing, body/soul. ![]() Working with the theme of madness as a mediator between language and the body's materiality, this analysis aims to show, moreover, how the strategy of deconstruction can be not only uttered, but also performed. The aim is to show how their search is mediated by language, in a manner that thematizes its deconstructive character, but concretized in the materiality of their bodies, in the form of obscenity and animality. ![]() In this analysis, they are read in light of the philosopher's Jacques Derrida theory of deconstruction. The obscene Madame D and With my dog-eyes are two short novels by the Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) where the protagonists engage in a philosophical search for meaning that lead them to a state that is publicly interpreted as madness. 2022 (English) Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits Student thesis Abstract ![]() ![]() ![]() Disappointingly, it lacks the skillful organization and power of Stickler's film. Overall, Rising Son is a likable, television quality documentary about a youth celebrity's misadventure, steep fall from grace and sobering redemption. ![]() Years later, in jail and at rock bottom, he finds his salvation in religion. Then, just as suddenly, trends change and Hosoi descends into the fathoms as he succumbs to a drug addiction. We watch as Hosoi's style-driven aerial acrobatics, exhibitionism and campy, vibrant-colored clothing make him an overnight celebrity and fashion icon. ![]() The film's subject, Christian Hosoi, is a flamboyantly charismatic skateboarder who captures the energy and youth spirit of early professional skateboarding. Rising Son, similar to Helen Stickler's 2002 documentary, "Stoked! The Rise and Fall of Gator", chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of a 1980s skateboarder, in yet another cautionary, VH1-esque tale about the dangers of fame. An enjoyable, albeit formulaic documentary of another fallen skateboard star from the 1980s. ![]() |