Kirjahaku

Featuring colorful, exquisitely sculpted stories of many kinds-ranging from the comic to the tragic, the satirical to the serious, the lyrical to the macabre, and even the philosophical to the zany-Love of the Blossoming Hills presents a fascinating cavalcade of characters and incidents steeped in the regional tradition and history of northern New England. Here we find, among many others, tales of a wildly eccentric family whose interminable feuding over generations is tempered annually only by a glorious Christmas pie. You'll read about the brilliant lawyer whose early and inexplicable death is shrouded in the darkest mystery and about the Russian ballet master who sets up an international ballet school in an isolated farmhouse in the White Mountains.There's the story of a devoted Latin teacher who enthralls her students with the claim that she's a reincarnation of a girl who perished in the great volcanic catastrophe of Pompei, and of a young schoolgirl whose visit to the sinister domicile of a once renowned "poetess" turns initially into a nightmare and finally into a personal triumph.These stories, above all, are an expression of a love of life set off against the ever-astonishing natural and social landscape of northern New England.

Featuring colorful, exquisitely sculpted stories of many kinds-ranging from the comic to the tragic, the satirical to the serious, the lyrical to the macabre, and even the philosophical to the zany-Love of the Blossoming Hills presents a fascinating cavalcade of characters and incidents steeped in the regional tradition and history of northern New England. Here we find, among many others, tales of a wildly eccentric family whose interminable feuding over generations is tempered annually only by a glorious Christmas pie. You'll read about the brilliant lawyer whose early and inexplicable death is shrouded in the darkest mystery and about the Russian ballet master who sets up an international ballet school in an isolated farmhouse in the White Mountains.There's the story of a devoted Latin teacher who enthralls her students with the claim that she's a reincarnation of a girl who perished in the great volcanic catastrophe of Pompei, and of a young schoolgirl whose visit to the sinister domicile of a once renowned "poetess" turns initially into a nightmare and finally into a personal triumph.These stories, above all, are an expression of a love of life set off against the ever-astonishing natural and social landscape of northern New England.

In these quirky and often erudite tales, you'll meet scores of larger-than-life characters: a canny Palm Beach trophy husband, a burnt-out college poet, and a financial adviser who startles his neighbors with his fantastic Danse du Diable. There's one of those irritating city bus riders who crowds in next to you and won't shut up. (At one point, he confesses to his trapped seat mate, "Orangutans are my kind of guys." And means it )In New York City's Central Park, Catholic schoolboys fight mock battles. In rural Florida and with just one punch from his bony hammer of a fist, a race-car mechanic (reputed to be the ugliest man who ever lived) sparks a riot that disrupts a car race and punctures the pretentions of an entire town.In a gentler tale, a young man recalls with longing his friendship with a remote, almost mystical woman; in another, a less innocent lover struggles against his unwavering adoration for his paramour, who - he knows - intends literally to destroy him.Opera singers, posturing professors, would-be revolutionaries, and more It's all here in Tutelary Presences: a cavalcade of memorable characters and remarkable events guaranteed to bring you unparalleled illumination and unstinting delight.

In these delightful pages, Johann Moser reaches deep into the poetic traditions of many times and various cultures to create for us an abundance of verse in different forms and on an astounding variety of themes. Here are tender love poems and lovely evocations of natural landscapes and of the creatures that dwell in them. There's also a fantasy piece inspired by modern masters such as Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. One sequence features a number of venerable medieval genres, including Arthurian motifs, a troubadour love song, a Crusader hymn, and a satirical "confession" of the notorious folklore scoundrel Reynard the Fox. Other poems resound with the energy and color of great images culled from a multitude of sources, including, among others, the Rosenkavalier's marvelous entrance bearing the Silver Rose of betrothal, the prayer of Odysseus to the white sea-goddess Leucothea, the great philosopher Abelard's touching lament over a dying rabbit, and the stampede of a herd of wild bulls down from the biblically famed mountains of Bashan. Here is a rich gallery of dynamic poems to delight the intellect and illuminate the soul of our time.

Beginning with its title poem, a political elegy rooted in both Western and Eastern lyrical traditions and set in the elegant gardens of Dumbarton Oaks, this second volume of verse by Johann Moser offers for your pleasure a sumptuous banquet of poetic legacies and achievements.It includes the delightful sequence " tudes: For Shakespearian Voices," composed to pay homage to the prosodic and figurative virtuosity of the Bard. Other sequences explore the demands and delights of the rural life, the glory of seascapes, and a host of traditional verse kinds, some of them embracing such macabre expostulations as the Moritat and the Gallows Song. There's a memorial to the Irish Brigade that fought at Gettysburg that integrates into its Civil War imagery allusions to an ancient Irish battle hymn from the eighth century. The volume concludes with an extensive series of sprightly marionette dance-songs composed in iambic tetrameter couplets and a set of literary "palimpsests" written to perpetuate some features of great literary classics, including Hamlet, Don Quixote, Moby Dick, and the Munchausen "tall-tale" tradition.

Beginning with its title poem, a political elegy rooted in both Western and Eastern lyrical traditions and set in the elegant gardens of Dumbarton Oaks, this second volume of verse by Johann Moser offers for your pleasure a sumptuous banquet of poetic legacies and achievements.It includes the delightful sequence " tudes: For Shakespearian Voices," composed to pay homage to the prosodic and figurative virtuosity of the Bard. Other sequences explore the demands and delights of the rural life, the glory of seascapes, and a host of traditional verse kinds, some of them embracing such macabre expostulations as the Moritat and the Gallows Song. There's a memorial to the Irish Brigade that fought at Gettysburg that integrates into its Civil War imagery allusions to an ancient Irish battle hymn from the eighth century. The volume concludes with an extensive series of sprightly marionette dance-songs composed in iambic tetrameter couplets and a set of literary "palimpsests" written to perpetuate some features of great literary classics, including Hamlet, Don Quixote, Moby Dick, and the Munchausen "tall-tale" tradition.

When Edmund Schofield accepts a mysterious invitation to visit the offices of an elderly attorney, he learns of the love of a young, dedicated physician for a dazzling, aspiring actress and of the tragic but beautiful secret that lies at the heart of an eminent Boston family.Set in early twentieth-century New England, this is the luminous story of cultivated men and women whose lives are enriched by profound concern for the well-being of others.Rich in verbal tonalities and resonant with humane wisdom, The Ivory Fount celebrates not only the noblest kinds of love but-even amidst tragedy-the generosity of life itself.

As beautiful artifacts of speech, these poems are marked by a delightful radiance and beauty of form. Suffused with delight in the splendor of high culture, the divine, and the most sublime of human virtues, their finely crafted lines regale us with rich tapestries of history and the natural world.Although most are nourished by Western literary traditions (ranging from Greco-Roman antiquity through the Middle Ages and on to our own time), others have been crafted in accordance with the very best Near Eastern, classical Chinese, and even Sanskrit models.Many are grand, regal, and erudite; others are quieter, yet compelling in their tenderness and delicacy. All, however, cry out to be read aloud, to be heard, and to be treasured again and again.