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For the first time the exercises and teaching methods of world-renowned flutist William Bennett are featured in one workbook. After more than a decade of study with Bennett and many of his students, Roderick Seed has documented the tools that have made Bennett known for his ability to give the flute the depth, dignity, and grandeur of the voice or the stringed instrument. Topics range from how to overcome basic technical difficulties, such as pitch control, to the tools for phrasing, prosody, tone, and intonation needed for playing with different dynamics and ranges of expression. Advanced musicians will find useful exercises and techniques in this book that will deepen their knowledge and enjoyment of making music and help them in their quest to master the flute.

Forged with Flames is Ann Fogartys poignant and compelling story of her experiences of the Ash Wednesday bushfires in 1983 and its devastating aftermath as she struggled to survive the severe burns she sustained to 75% of her body, followed by a series of life-threatening events. These have had a profound effect on her psyche, her health and her spirit, yet the reader is repeatedly drawn to admire and be deeply inspired by her honesty and her incredible moral fortitude. Her triumph is coming out of it scathed but by no means defeated.

The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment.Aphrodite's Daughtersintroduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic forms of female self-expression. Maureen Honey paints a vivid portrait of three African American women-Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery-who came from very different backgrounds but converged in late 1920s Harlem to leave a major mark on the literary landscape. She examines the varied ways these poets articulated female sexual desire, ranging from Grimké's invocation of a Sapphic goddess figure to Cowdery's frank depiction of bisexual erotics to Bennett's risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain. Yet Honey also considers how they were united in their commitment to the female body as a primary source of meaning, strength, and transcendence. The product of extensive archival research,Aphrodite's Daughtersdraws from Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery's published and unpublished poetry, along with rare periodicals and biographical materials, to immerse us in the lives of these remarkable women and the world in which they lived. It thus not only shows us how their artistic contributions and cultural interventions were vital to their own era, but also demonstrates how the poetic heart of their work keeps on beating.

Quantum key distribution is a matured quantum science and technology. Over the last 20 years, there has been substantial research and development in this area. Recently, silicon technology has offered tremendous promise in the field for improved miniaturization of quantum key distribution through integrated photonic chips. We expect further progress in this area both in terms of protocols, photon sources, and photon detectors. This review captures some of the recent advances in this area.

Poet, columnist, artist, and fiction writer Gwendolyn Bennett is considered by many to have been one of the youngest leaders of the Harlem Renaissance and a strong advocate for racial pride and the rights of African American women. Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond presents key selections of her published and unpublished writings and artwork in one volume. From poems, short stories, and reviews to letters, journal entries, and art, this collection showcases Bennett's diverse and insightful body of work and rightfully places her alongside her contemporaries in the Harlem Renaissance-figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen. It includes selections from her monthly column \"The Ebony Flute,\" published in Opportunity , the magazine of the National Urban League, as well as newly uncovered post-1928 work that proves definitively that Bennett continued writing throughout the following two decades. Bennett's correspondence with canonical figures from the period, her influence on Harlem arts institutions, and her political writings, reviews, and articles show her deep connection to and lasting influence on the movement that shaped her early career. An indispensable introduction to one of the era's most prolific and passionate minds, this reevaluation of Bennett's life and work deepens our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance and enriches the world of American letters. It will be of special value to scholars and readers interested in African American literature and art and American history and cultural studies.

Claire-Louise Bennett is an author of English origin, who is now settled in Ireland. Her debut short story collection, Pond (2015), may be seen as a fictional representation of her relocation and early settlement. Having quit academia and theatre, the narrator redirects her attention from people to herself and the world around her. This is not, however, done straightforwardly as readers’ knowledge of the woman is limited while narration turns out fragmented and frequently incoherent. In this paper, I suggest that elaborate landscape and setting descriptions may help to unravel the narrator’s non-obvious identity. Hence, I focus on the representations of landscape in Pond and discuss their connection to narration. I consider shifts in scale and the narrator’s distance from fellow villagers as her strategies to define her place in the new country. I read her attempts to establish a blissful connection with her surroundings, at times distorted by anxiety, as a negotiation between her past and present self. Finally, the moments when Bennett resorts to abstraction are examined as hints at the narrator’s deeper insight. The construction of narration in Pond, with its relation to the setting, prompts investigation as Bennett will resort to a female, transforming narrator also in her later works. Claire-Louise Bennett to współczesna autorka angielskiego pochodzenia, obecnie zamieszkała w Irlandii. Jej debiutancki zbiór opowiadań, Pond (2015), można uznać za fikcyjne ujęcie przeprowadzki i próby osiedlenia się. Porzuciwszy środowisko uniwersyteckie i teatralne, narratorka przestaje skupiać się na innych, a w zamian kieruje uwagę w stronę samej siebie i swojego otoczenia. Nie jest to jednak oczywista zmiana, jako że wiedza czytelników o narratorce pozostaje ograniczona, a sama narracja charakteryzuje się fragmentarycznością i brakiem spójności. W niniejszym artykule sugeruję, że rozbudowane opisy krajobrazu i miejsca akcji mogą ułatwić zrozumienie nieoczywistej tożsamości narratorki. Z tego względu skupiam się na związkach tych opisów z narracją. Odczytuję zmiany skali oraz dystans do innych mieszkańców jako strategie pomagające narratorce zdefiniować swoje miejsce w nowym kraju. Próby nawiązania przyjaznej relacji z otoczeniem, niekiedy zakłócone przez lęk i obawy, badam jako negocjacje między przeszłością narratorki a jej obecną sytuacją. Wreszcie, momenty, gdy opisy krajobrazu stają się abstrakcyjne, traktuję jako sugestie głębszego wglądu w osobowość narratorki. Konstrukcja narracji w Pond, a także jej związek z miejscem akcji, to istotny wątek, jako że Bennett posługuje się kobiecą narratorką także w swoich późniejszych dziełach.

The phone rang on the desk (yes, a land line) in my temporary office at St. Thomas University, Fredericton. [...]I suffer a typical writerly type of introversion; though I'm okay talking in front of a crowd or class or among friends, the post-event beer shrivels my innards almost every time. \"Outings\" begins \"The night I heard Trixie Mattel tell a rape joke / my rapist was outed on twitter / & how do you follow that act.\" Love, or something like it, will out, though; \"Kink\" begins \"Wanting you is like waiting for lightning / to strike me each time I smell rain\" (70), \"Tactiles\" evokes Donne's flea: \"Window-sweat embalms a mosquito you crushed. / Our two bloods mingle, unravel like artificial silk\"(75). In the winter of 2003, the English Department at St. Thomas University made a tenure-track hire.