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A shaman and visionary - not a poet in any ordinary sense - Maria Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jimenez, and yet her words, always sung or spoken, have carried far and wide, a principal instance and a powerful reminder of how poetry can arise in a context far removed from literature as such. Seeking cures through language - with the help of Psilocybe mushrooms, said to be the source of language itself - she was, as Henry Munn describes her, 'a genius [who] emerges from the soil of the communal, religious-therapeutic folk poetry of a native Mexican campesino people'. She may also have been, in the words of the Mexican poet Homero Aridjis, 'the greatest visionary poet in twentieth-century Latin America'. These selections include a generous presentation from Sabina's recorded chants and a complete English translation of her oral autobiography, her vida, as written and arranged in her native language by her fellow Mazatec Alvaro Estrada. Accompanying essays and poems include an introduction to "The Life of Maria Sabina" by Estrada, an early description of a nighttime 'mushroom velada' by the ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson, an essay by Henry Munn relating the language of Sabina's chants to those of other Mazatec shamans, and more.
Correspondence of Maria Van Rensselaer 1669-1689
Maria Van Rensselaer; A. J. F. (TRN) Van Laer
Kessinger Pub
2007
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Maria Edgeworth And Her Circle In The Days Of Buonaparte And Bourbon
Constance Hill
Kessinger Pub
2007
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Tales From Maria Edgeworth
Maria Edgeworth; Austin (CON) Dobson; Hugh (ILT) Thomson
Kessinger Pub
2008
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Based on family diaries and letters, Maria Pasqua tells the story of a beautiful, unhappy woman who achieved fame in Paris as a child, and whose later life consisted of a hopeless and frustrated longing to return to the scenes of her childhood.Born in 1856, Maria Pasqua was blessed with an exceptional and unfading beauty. From an early age she was modelling for artists in Rome. When six her father took her to Paris where she was adopted by the Comtesse de Noailles, a member of the Baring family. The Comtesse was domineering and eccentric on the grand scale. She had an invincible faith in the salubrious benefit of the breath of cattle, and would keep a cow tethered to every ground floor window so that its wholesome breath could infuse the room. When she married a doctor turned country gentleman some twenty years her senior, Maria Pasqua , whilst still subject to the constant interference of the Comtesse, found herself cocooned within the enervating routine of a typical country house of that time.Madgalen Goffin has written a haunting and entirely delightful memoir which combines, to an extraordinary extent, humour, vitality and a most attractive sympathy for the tragedy of life.The book has an interesting genesis. The first draft was written by Magdalen Goffin's mother, who sent it to Evelyn Waugh: he was haunted by what he considered to be a unique and poignant story, and the suggestions he made for its improvement and presentation proved invaluale when Madgalen Goffin herself took up the task following her mother's death.'Mrs Goffin has made a work of great beauty and interest , intesely sad but artistically vigorous; the moral seems to be that we tamper at our peril with basic affections and can stunt, in a sense kill the heart, by the sort of desertion Maria Pasqua had to bear: sold, as she was, out of happy penury into plushy, eccentric slavery.' Isabel Quigly. Financial Times Books of the Year 1979'The book is beuatifully written in an unobtrusive way . . . The whole thing is like a piece of quiet music, drawing no attention to itself, yet insisting its way into the memory. I do not expect to ahve such a pleasantly haunting book to review for many a long year.' Robert Nye, The Scotsman'Mrs goffin is descended from both the exile and her captor so that pity for Maria is balanced by an acute sense of Philip's solitude, silence and constraint. What in part is a lament becomes also a kind of hymn to the solid, stuffy, monotonous pleasures of English country life; and it is this subtle equivocation which makes Maria Pasqua like 'Petita', a classic of its kind. Hilary Spurling, Observer
The first literary phase in the brilliant and protean career of Conor Cruise O'Brien was his work as critic for Dublin literary magazine The Bell, which begat this collection of essays first published in 1952 (under the pseudonym 'Donat O'Donnell', as O'Brien was then a working civil servant). In it, O'Brien set himself to a study of 'the patterns of several exceptionally vivid imaginations which are permeated by Catholicism' - from Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh to Francois Mauriac and Paul Claudel - and to analyse 'what those patterns might share'. The originality and flair of Maria Cross won O'Brien many vocal admirers, among them Dag Hammarskjöld, cerebral Secretary-General of the United Nations.'A most interesting and at times brilliant book, admirably and wittily written.' New Statesman'One of the most acute and stimulating books of literary criticism to be published for some years.' Spectator
This is a version of the famous nineteenth-century crime in which an innocent young country girl is murdered by a local squire who had earlier seduced her and is now anxious to marry an heiress. Partly through the agency of a gypsy, however, retribution overtakes the villain. Ingeniously telescoped in time and place into one simple setting.
Characters: 1 male, 5 female Multiple Sets Up-and-coming cartoonist Stuart fights to keep the lid on his mother's and aunts' simmering angst. But the family's secrets channel themselves into a bizarre shapeshifter that guzzles soda, communicates by fax, and spouts old German verse. Friedrich Schiller's classic tale of warring queens inspires this gothic romp through the weirder side of suburban America. "Grote has made a name for himself in recent years with scripts that explode the boundaries between the ordinary and the chimerical, the political and the aesthetic, the intimate and the dizzyingly cosmic."- Washington Post "An ingenious tale, and mined with offbeat, explosive devices." - Seattle Times "Maria/Stuart, by Brooklyn-based playwright Jason Grote, is a cleverly built, well-concealed pit trap. At first, the play seems like a pleasant stroll through a family of comical, middle-class eccentrics-in just a few steps, it plunges into a dark subterranean maze...Here's hoping this isn't the last we'll see of Jason Grote." -The Stranger "Written in true Grote form, Maria/Stuart explores-and redefines-the boundaries between reality and fantasy, ordinary and bizarre, chaos and normality. It's also darkly comical, witty and relevant."-Twin Cities Metro "Absolutely astonishing. Tremendous writing, incredible acting. And laughs. Big laughs." - DC Theatre Scene "Crazily entertaining comedy...surreal, witty, expertly performed. Maria/Stuart is a melange of intense, ludicrous, silly, common-garden-variety family hell. It is more than enough for a great night out at the theater." -MetroWeekly
Der Wandel des Bilds der Frau bleibt eine Herausforderung auch des 21. Jahrhunderts: Ihrer Emanzipation stellt sich eine Welt entgegen, die sie als Besitz betrachtet, ihren Kerker als "gottgewollt" ansieht. Auch Maria, dem vaterlosen Fl chtlingsm dchen, wird im Nachkriegsdeutschland das Frausein verwehrt. Doch der Einbruch einer fremden Welt befreit verdr ngte Bed rfnisse. Maria k mpft um Hosen und Lippenrot, gegen die Dem tigung f r ihr Geschlecht: Es geht nicht um Mode gegen "Nat rlichkeit". Es geht um Recht auf Fraulichkeit. Maria revoltiert, bricht aus dem Kerker "jungfr ulicher Tugend" aus. Die Romantrilogie "Maria" untersucht psychologische Bedingungen des Neuanfangs nach einer Katastrophe. Dieser zweite Band beschreibt, vor dem Hintergrund der 50er Jahre, Ursachen dogmatischer Frauenbilder und zeitbedingte Formen weiblichen Protests gegen ein berholtes Patriarchat. Er stellt ein Klischeebild in Frage, das in neuer Lust auf Weiblichkeit blo e R ckkehr des "Heimchens" zu erkennen glaubt.
A book like no other, I Am Maria weaves Shriver's hard-earned wisdom with her own deeply personal poetry. I Am Maria reminds readers there is strength and love on the other side of all of our hardest days. I Am Maria is a powerful collection of Maria Shriver's own poems that grapple with identity, grief, love, loss, longing, heartbreak and healing. Her deeply personal poems address life's transitions, challenges, successes and failures. Vulnerable and deeply moving, Shriver's words are a collection of her life experiences woven into poetry to inspire everyone on their own journey. It is also an invitation for readers to write their own personal poetry, reclaiming the art as accessible to everyone and a tool to look within. I Am Maria is a roadmap for anyone trying to shed the labels, layers, and armor that holds us back from creating a wildly authentic and meaningful life. "I never imagined writing poetry would help me embarkOn a journey deep into myselfI never imagined that everything I sought or thought I neededWas within me all along"--from I Am Maria
