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| Title: Davey McGravey |
| By (author): David Mason. Illustrated by: Grant Silverstein |
| ISBN10-13: 1589880994 : 9781589880993 |
| "Davey McGravy, a name to conjure with, to dream with by the cedar trees out in the rainy woods". In a misty, faraway-feeling "land of rain", Davey McGravy lives with his father and brothers, but mourns his missing mother. He follows the rhymes in his head into a forest of ferns, moss, and cedar trees where he meets animals wise and strange. A coaxing crow urges him onwards. A consoling peacock tells him that nothing is really lost. A fierce lioness frightens him. Following their voices, Davey travels deeper and deeper into the mysterious woods. Then he must find his way home, to a father who is sad but loving, and brothers who care for him no matter how they fight. Caught between his forest-world and the world of school, shopping, and family life, Davey wanders his way through grief. With playful and evocative verse, poet David Mason delivers him back to his boyhood but leaves the mysteries of love intact. Full of humour and melancholy, this book movingly captures the longing of a child for his lost mother. |
| Grant Silverstein specialises in etchings. |
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"Children of all ages will delight in its song and story." -- Charles Martin, author of "Signs & Wonders"
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"Across a series of poems, accompanied by early-Sendakesque etchings by artist Grant Silverstein, we meet a little boy named Davey McGravy living in the tall-treed forest with his father and brothers. A few tender verses in, we realize that Davey is caught in the mire of mourning his mother. Without invalidating the deep melancholy that has set in, Mason makes room for the mystery of life and death, inviting in the miraculous immortality of love
Only a rare poet can merge the reverence of Thoreau with the irreverence of Zorba the Greek to create something wholly unlike anything else -- and that is what Mason accomplishes in Davey McGravy." -- Brain Pickings
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"From his first full-length narrative poem, 'The Country I Remember', to his extraordinary verse novel, Ludlow, David Mason's ambition to expand the realm of narrative in contemporary verse has been central to his poetic project, even as successive collections revealed him as one of the best lyric poets of his generation. The latest proof of Mason's necessity, Davey McGravy, is both a vibrant celebration of language as play and the moving tale of how a young boy discovers, through heartbreaking loss, the transformative powers of the imagination. Children of all ages will delight in its song and story." -- Charles Martin, author of "Signs & Wonders"
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Pages: 120
Size: 230x155mm
Illustrations: illus
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| Published: Paul Dry Books (US) - March 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry (Children's / Teenage) : Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage) : PSI: family issues (Children's / Teenage) |
| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 1 of: 3 |
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| Title: Odyssey |
| By (author): Homer Translated by: Joe Sachs |
| ISBN10-13: 1589880986 : 9781589880986 |
| "The poem appears in as many guises as Odysseus himself. There is so much power and grace in Homer's poetry that a reader responsive to a few partial strands of it can find in them a wholly satisfying experience and every translator whose work I have read has detected and magnified something in the original that I had not found by other means. Any newly encountered translation of a poem is an opportunity to participate in a fresh reading through a new pair of eyes, and while those readings cannot all be taken in at one view, each one adds something to the sight that occupies the foreground at any moment. It is not because a new translation is needed that I now offer this one, but because every new translation is a contribution that enhances the self-revelation of a poem of boundless variety. The friction of one translation against another can be the quickest way for a path to light up for a reader's own entry into the work. And this invitation to use the available translations not as rivals but in partnership gives license to any single translator to sacrifice part of the meaning and weight of any word or phrase to capture more effectively whatever seems to matter most in it. There comes a point when your best recourse is to rely on no one's judgment but your own, to confront the intelligence, imagination, and heart we know as Homer on your own, and to join the fun." -- from the Introduction by Joe Sachs |
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"The transparent, natural language of Joe Sachs's translation brings the reader quickly and deeply into the Odyssey. Behind that language, both intimate and clear, we sense his sure feel for the Odyssey's people and places. And as much as the scenes of the poem vary, and the language with them, we detect the idea of the Odyssey that Sachs articulates in his valuable afterword: that Homer can begin his story in the middle of things because we are always in the midst of the Odyssey's action no matter where we start reading -- because the poem's subject is the discovery of what is essentially human, a discovery that humans are always, wonderingly, in the middle of." -- Nickolas Pappas, Professor of Philosophy at City College & the Graduate Center, CUNY
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"Joe Sachs’s translation of Aristotle's Poetics is to me the most vibrant version of a well-thumbed text that is still the screenwriter's bible. So I am not surprised that he brings the same freshness to the world’s greatest long-voyage-home-to-a-lost-love story. This Odyssey is exciting reading for the general reader and essential reading for teachers and students who can now 'hear' how Homer’s epic might have been heard by listeners in times past. Let's hope Joe Sachs is now working on the Iliad." -- Eoghan Harris, Irish National Film School (Dun Laoghaire Institute)
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Pages: 379
Size: 230x155mm
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| Published: Paul Dry Books (US) - January 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry by individual poets |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 2 of: 3 |
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| Title: Then & Now |
| Sub-title: The World's Center & the Soul's Demesne |
| By (author): Eva Brann |
| ISBN10-13: 158988101X : 9781589881013 |
| These two long essays make up a short book, one full of depth and knowledge, in which Eva Brann gets at the roots of our thinking -- without tearing things apart. Then: In the first essay, Brann parses out the schema and meaning of Herodotus's The History (The Persian Wars). She writes that Herodotus worked by indirection. Giving a full account of the Persians and the peoples who constituted their empire -- and whose empire encircled the Greeks (thus the "Greek centre") -- Herodotus delineates the essential difference between the Barbarians and the Greeks. This difference Brann calls Athens' "elusive essence", its freedom contrasting with the slavery upon which the Persian empire depended. Now: In the second essay, the author delves into what it means for a person to unite a disposition toward conservatism with a capacity to reiterate and rehearse events, scenes, and dramas in "the conservatory of the imagination". To uncover the meanings and consequences of this union -- this imaginative conservatism -- and the type of soul to which it applies, Brann offers twelve perspectives, starting with "Temperamental Disposition" and ending with "Eccentric Centrality" (without ever explicitly focusing on politics). Join her and you'll find both delight and education. |
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Pages: 138
Size: 185x120mm
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| Published: Paul Dry Books (US) - July 2015 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval : Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 : Social & political philosophy : Political science & theory |
| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Title: 3 of: 3 |
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