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Our story begins : New and selected stories
Ten potent new stories that, along with twenty-one classics, display Wolff's mastery over a quarter century.
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Door to Remain
\"There are some poets we admire for a mastery that allows them to tell a story, express an epiphany, form a conclusion, all gracefully and even memorably--yet language in some way remains external to them. But there are other poets in whom language seems to arise spontaneously, fulfilling a design in which the poet's intention feels secondary. Books by these poets we read with a gathering sense of excitement and recognition at the linguistic web being drawn deliberately tighter around a nucleus of human experience that is both familiar and completely new, until at last it seems no phrase is misplaced and no word lacks its resonance with what has come before. Such a book is Austin Segrest's Door to Remain. Ranging between Atlanta, Georgia, and the Eternal City of Rome, these poems offer a poignant chronicle of haunting by a mother who is simultaneously present and absent even before her death. The centerpiece of the book is a poem in nineteen sections entitled 'Majestic Diner' that strives to answer its own epigraph, from George Herbert: 'My God, what is a heart?' Elsewhere, the poet writes 'Humankind / cannot bear to be cheated out of our most guarded truths,' paraphrasing T.S. Eliot's dictum that 'Humankind cannot bear very much reality,' and part of what makes this book memorable are the clear-sightedness and charity with which those truths are anatomized.\"--Karl Kirchwey, author of Poems of Rome and judge.
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Love in the Present Tense
A celebration of a life, a story of a death, but most importantly an exploration of grief and loss relevant to all those in a position to make that experience more bearable.This book is essential reading for anyone working or preparing to work with young adults and others facing terminal illness, and their families. It is written by a bereaved mother of a 25 year-old son treated unsuccessfully for cancer. Heartbreakingly honest, Nina draws on relevant theory, research and narrative texts as well as personal reflections. She considers what might have made the hideous journey through treatment, dying and bereavement easier to bear. This is a moving and memorable story for all of us, but there are also learning points throughout for medics and medical policy makers specifically and the health and social care professions more generally. Students and experienced nurses, doctors, counsellors, clerics and others will benefit from deepening their understanding in order to work more effectively with people facing the unthinkable.
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Der Silberfuchs meiner Mutter : Roman
\"1942 fährt eine Norwegerin nach Vorarlberg. Sie ist schwanger. Eigentlich wollte sie hier ein neues Leben beginnen mit ihrem Verlobten, einem Wehrmachtssoldaten. Doch alles kommt anders. Für sie und für ihren Sohn, Heinz. Schlimmer. Ein brillanter Roman über einen Menschen, der sich nicht brechen lässt. Und die berührende Liebeserklärung eines Sohnes an seine Mutter. Das einzige, was Heinz Fritz mit Gewissheit von seiner Mutter weiß, sind die Stationen ihrer ersten langen Reise: Oslo - Kopenhagen - Berlin - München - Hohenems. Verbürgt ist sie durch ein Schriftstück, das er sein Leben lang bei sich trägt: ein Dokument des SS-Lebensborn. Die Norwegerin hat sich mit dem Feind eingelassen. Und sie hat dem Falschen vertraut. Denn als sie in Österreich ankommt, wird sie nicht willkommen geheissen von der Familie ihres Verlobten, sondern abgewiesen. Zurück kann sie auch nicht, denn in Norwegen gilt sie nun als Kollaborateurin ... In einer grossen, kompromisslosen Selbstbefragung versucht der Erzähler des Romans - ihr Sohn -, die Rätsel seiner Herkunft zu lösen, die Wahrheit über seine Eltern freizulegen. Es ist eine Spurensuche, an deren Ende sich noch einmal alles dreht. Und eine zweite, »hellere« Version der düsteren Geschichte aufscheint\"--Pages 2-4 of cover.
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The Cruelest of All Mothers: Marie de l'Incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Tradition
In 1631, Marie Guyart stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, leaving behind her eleven-year-old son, Claude, against the wishes of her family and her own misgivings. Marie concluded, \"God was dearer to me than all that. Leaving him therefore in His hands, I bid adieu to him joyfully.\" Claude organized a band of schoolboys to storm the convent, begging for his mother's return. Eight years later, Marie made her way to Quebec, where over the course of the next thirty-three years she opened the first school for Native American girls, translated catechisms into indigenous languages, and served some eighteen years as superior of the first Ursuline convent in the New World. She would also maintain, over this same period, an extensive and intimate correspondence with the son she had abandoned to serve God. The Cruelest of All Mothers is, fundamentally, an explanation of Marie de l'Incarnation's decision to abandon Claude for religious life. Complicating Marie's own explication of the abandonment as a sacrifice carried out in imitation of Christ and in submission to God's will, the book situates the event against the background of early modern French family life, the marginalization of motherhood in the Christian tradition, and seventeenth-century French Catholic spirituality. Deeply grounded in a set of rich primary sources, The Cruelest of All Mothers offers a rich and complex analysis of the abandonment.
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Darling Mother, Darling Son
'However far away from you I am, you are the real centre of my life ...' Leslie Walford.
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Blazed
When his manic-depressive mother is institutionalized after trying to kill herself, fourteen-year-old Jaime is sent to San Franciso to live with his estranged father, whom Jaime blames for his mother's problems.
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Remembering Hagar and Her Son (Gen 21: 9–21): A Narrative Reading of Helpless Victims and Hopeful Survivors in the Wheel of Providence
Narratives are fundamentals of storytelling. In Biblical literature, narratives do not only tell what happened (the context for God’s revelation), they also indicate why what happened matters (the purpose of history). Employing a narrative methodology and a hermeneutic of identification as an interpretive approach, this article explores the Hagar–Ishmael narrative in Genesis 21: 9–21 against the background of those who have been marginalized, exploited, excluded, trafficked, and sitting in a wilderness of despair, struggle, and mistreatment and are in need of survival. The exploration seeks to understand the narrative structure, plot, characters, and themes within the text. The Hagar–Ishmael position is too painfully close to the realities of many today. In this narrative account, one finds a pitiable scene of human suffering and misery, and yet it is bounded by divine mercy and compassion. The stream of helplessness and consequent hope of survival shows that, no matter how mistreated people might have been, they can rise above their “victimization” and embrace the promises of God by staving off defeat, shaking off despair, and vanquishing discouragement. Thus with a hermeneutic of identification, readers are encouraged to identify with the characters, situations, and experiences described in the biblical narrative.
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