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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Penelope Mortimer
Winner of the 2022 ALTA Italian Prose in Translation AwardSilvana La Spina gives voice to Penelope and provides her with an apt forum to narrate her story of abuse and manipulation - despite her royal status. As other queens, from Mary Stuart to Marie Antoinette, her side of the story deserves to be imagined and heard if we want the course of history to begin a new path.
Penelope is a story about a little hedgehog who is forced to leave her cozy cottage in a lavender field. Throughout the story, Penelope must run and hide from scary things she encounters in a big world that is completely unfamiliar to her. At the end, however, Penelope finds a new home complete with the many comforts she had in her original home--plus the friendship of a lovely lady who will care for and love her.
What People Are Saying"Homer and Beckett remind us the major stories of life all involve waiting. Indeed, Odysseus's long journey home is in itself a form of waiting. And, of course, there is Penelope at her loom, as intelligent and cunning as her husband. We say 'Faithful Penelope, ' as if one word sums up a complex woman. But there is so much more to know, and Julie Whitaker's remarkable poems-soliloquies actually, all prefaced by a line or lines from The Odyssey-allow readers to see Penelope, wife, mother, and storyteller, as 'Grief folds her in familiar pain, ' more clearly, more modern than ever: 'Stark words: Save my son /Her cry of pain resounds.' As do these poems."-Louis Phillips, poet and playwright."Homer's Penelope is finally finished waiting, thanks to Julie Whitaker's poignant imagination and deft poetics. Whitaker offers a Penelope for whom waiting is as vibrant, various, active, and textured as any hero's journey. Penelope's world is not just the home but the vast and complex world of a mind suffering and sustaining itself, a wife and mother whose interiority is conjured and renovated with each of Whitaker's astonishing poems. Alternating between first and third person, the poems unravel and fill out the inner life of every wily woman who has known that grief does not always quell hope, and the hottest passions often require patience. 'My emptiness is like my loom, ' declares Whitaker's Penelope. Rage unspools into glee, nostalgia tangles with fantasy. It takes a finely tuned lyric voice to finish and make new such epic weaving-Whitaker leaves us a loom of language richly resounding with empathy and music. 'The air's alive. My head is light, ' this debut is not to be missed."-Elizabeth Metzger, author of Lying In"Julie Whitaker's PENELOPE is consistently fascinating, often touching and remarkably faithful to the style of the translations that supplement her story. The feelings about her son, her contempt for her suitors, her longing for Odysseus and her ambivalence about him are all vivid. This is a real accomplishment."-Warren Wechsler, writer and musician"Julie Whitaker's Penelope captures the metre and mood of Penelope's long sadness and, finally to the oaken bed, at last. Quite a tour de force "-BC Vermeersch, arts and music educatorJulie M. Whitaker taught international literature at the Nightingale Bamford School in New York City. is the coeditor of Late Poems 1968-1993: Attitudinizings Verse-wise, While Fending for One's Selph, and in a Style Somewhat Artificially Colloquial by Kenneth Burke.
Dear Journal, It is T-minus three hours and thirty minutes until the Ender's (Lifelong great friends of my family and me) will be arriving from Michigan to my hometown of Denver, Colorado Due to the fact that the Ender's son, Eric, has been my secret love interest for as long as I can remember, this makes me even more excited Even though they are only able to spend one night here, the fact that they are able to celebrate Christmas with us this year makes this holiday that much more exciting and amazing -Penelope
When Penelope and Mommy and Daddy go for a trip to the shore, Penelope decides she wants a bring a pet fish back home with her, only Mom and Dad doesn't think she's ready for a pet just yet. They stress that taking care of a pet requires patience and kindness. Worse, her two best friends now have pets of their own and aren't exactly following the rules. Will Penelope and her friends learn the value of taking care of a pet and treating animals with love and kindness?
Penelope and friends learns there's more to life than digital devices and that playing outside can be fun When Penelope's friends Christopher and Timmy get new phones, they no longer want to play with Penelope. Will Christopher and Timmy put their phones away to play a game of super duper spectacular princess ballerina and a game of tag?
Penelope learns to help mom and dad with chores in this charming children's book.
Penelope's rambunctious best friends Christopher and Timmy are up to their usual tricks when they play a prank on Penelope, causing her to become scared of monsters. And now, Penelope is too afraid to sleep alone in her room when it's dark. Will Penelope learn to be brave and sleep alone in her room again? Find out in this story about watching age-appropriate programs and that there's no such thing as monsters.
Meet Penelope O'Shaughnessy, Harvard freshman.Armed with her Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights poster and party conversation modelled on the repartee of Noel Coward, Penelope is ready to take her place on campus. But where are the kindred spirits who will share her passion for Morse code and Tetris? Penelope's roommates, over-achieving Emma and the sullen Lan, seem to have already got to grips with university life, and she is finding it hard to work out if the dashing but elusive Gustav matches up to her hero, Hercule Poirot.Penelope follows our heroine's progress through her first year among America's elite, as she navigates the mysteries of life, love, inappropriate tutors, marionette operation and how to kiss on both cheeks and avoid disaster.