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  The Hundred Grasses - Poems

  Leila Wilson

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  “Beautiful and necessary.” —DAN BEACHY-QUICKShimmering and formally precise, the poems of this debut collection “fuse absence and presence in lines full of a feeling that has no opposite” (Brian Teare).These are poems written from the periphery of an open field, poems rooted in the flatlands and lowlands: the Midwestern lawns, lakes, and creeks of Leila Wilson’s childhood, and the farms, canals, and seascapes near her family home’s in Holland. “We wonder / what we’re not / in the field,” writes Wilson—and reading The Hundred Grasses, we too are made to wonder about both what is lacking and what fills the void. In these poems, the act of looking animates what is seemingly static. Stillness becomes not absence but fullness. Sounds are culled from empty spaces, giving shape to life’s silences. In the process of this hollowing out and filling up, The Hundred Grasses morphs into an extended and unforgettable investigation of longing and loss, love and doubt.

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  Picnic at Hanging Rock (stage...

  Joan Lindsay

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  'I know you're there… Miranda? Miranda!'
  On a summer's day in 1900, three Australian schoolgirls on a picnic expedition to the remote Hanging Rock abscond from their group. They are last seen heading towards the beckoning Rock…
  In Tom Wright's chilling adaptation of Joan Lindsay's classic novel, five performers struggle to solve the mystery of the missing girls and their teacher. Euphoria and terror reverberate throughout the community, as the potential for history to repeat itself becomes nightmarishly real.
  This adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock was first co-produced by Malthouse Theatre and Black Swan State Theatre Company, Perth, and first performed at Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, in 2016. The play received its European premiere at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, in 2017.
  'This retelling of the Joan Lindsay cult classic proves the book's theme remains relevant – and will terrify the pants off you.' - Guardian

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  Rumi's Little Book of Life - The...

  Rumi

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  From Madonna to Deepak Chopra, celebrities have been recording and embracing Rumi's poetry for the past two decades, creating a resurgence of interest in this 13th century Sufi mystic. This beautiful collection of 196 of his poems, previously unavailable in English and now translated by native Persian speakers Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin, will appeal to Rumi lovers everywhere who want a guidebook for their inner journey. The poetry within will accompany those who consciously enter the inner world to explore the gardens within—out of the everyday "world of dust"—through an ascending hierarchy that restores one's soul to the heart, the heart to the spirit, and, in finding spirit, transcends all.

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  Gulf War Black

  Joyce Carol Oates

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  Two one-act plays by Joyce Carol Oates.Gulf War: An affluent young couple entertains an older couple for an evening of cocktails and politics during the Gulf War. But as the evening continues, the conversation take a bizarre and absurd tone.Black: In this evening of cocktails and dinner, a couple anxiously awaits the arrival of an ex-husband. As the wine glasses are drained, the evening becomes dark and intense, revealing the true colors of the characters in this eerie love triangle.Full-cast L.A. Theatre Works performances featuring Edward Asner, Stephanie Dunnam, Rif Hutton, Nan Martin, and Joe Spano.

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  The Bhakti Poet Saints

  Mirabai, Kabir, Guru Nanak

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  Whilst Europe endured the Dark Ages in the 6th & 7th Centuries devotees of Shiva and Vishnu in Southern India were creating the Bhakti Movement.  Some of these exponents, as in our volume, were bestowed with the title of saint but some had the additional title of sant, swami or goswami. 
   
  Broadly speaking, Bhakti poetry, as in Hinduism itself, is divided into ‘Nirguna’, the idea that the divine is formless as exampled by Kabir and ‘Saguna’ which interprets the divine as having physical form as captured by Mirabai.  
   
  The rapid spread, of the Bhakti movement, with its theme of love and devotion to God, proffered by these rebellious poet saints, did, over the following centuries, meld with much needed Hindu reforms and went to the heart of human existence.  These ‘God possessing’ rather than ‘God fearing’ poets rejected hierarchies and intermediaries in their spiritual devotion and were critical of rules, regulations and ritual observances administered by Brahmin priests in the sacred but elitist court and temple Sanskrit.   
   
  Their poems, in their local language, emphasised personal devotion as a route to salvation with kind deeds and a humble life rather than ritual mediation, stretched the fabric of society.  They were all from lower castes and many were women giving the movement an egalitarian spirit that helped reinforce the message that god’s love was all-encompassing for every person willing to surrender to the divine.   
   
  Furthermore, their verse was accessible, simple, innovative with new poetic forms and often expressed in songs with a fierce passion and ecstasy that demonstrated the movement’s focus on inner, mystical and authentic devotion and humility.  Impromptu performances with provocative outbursts of singing and dancing in unconventional settings or public gatherings evolved into poetic presentations and community recitals as the rapid popularity of the movement spread.  Although the language is every day and simple, many verses carry undercurrents of complex ideas, philosophical and psychological dilemmas, nuance and humour. 
  1 - The Bhakti Poet Saints - An Introduction 
  2 - His Ears Ringeth by Sambandar 
  3 - Thiruppavi (An Extract) by Andal 
  4 - Tiruvasiriyam by Nammalvar 
  5 - Navada Bhakti in An Untainted Heart by Gangasati 
  6 - Show Me Your Way Out by Akka Mahadevi 
  7 - Would A Circling Surface Vulture by Akka Mahadevi 
  8 - The True Name is Like Sandalwood by Namdev 
  9 - Amrutanubhav (An Extract) by Dnyaneshwar 
  10 - Vakh - If in the Flux of Time by Lal Ded 
  11 - Vakh - They Who Have Gained Experience by Lal Ded 
  12 - Acceptance by Janabai 
  13 - Where Shall I Go by Ramananda 
  14 - Vaishnav by Narsinh Mehta 
  15 - Pointless It Is To Lament by Narsinh Mehta 
  16 - Illusion and Reality by Kabir 
  17 - Song 6 - The Moon by Kabir 
  18 - I Laugh When I Hear That the Fish in the Water is Thirsty by Kabir 
  19 - It is the Mercy of My True Guru by Kabir 
  20 - Song 1 - Oh Servant Where Dost Thou Seek Me by Kabir 
  21 - Song 69 - If God Be Within the Mosque by Kabir 
  22 - The Light of the Sun by Kabir 
  23 - You Are Me and I Am You by Ravidas 
  24 - The Name Alone Is The Truth by Ravidas 
  25 - How to Escape by Ravidas 
  26 - Dhanasri Measure by Guru Nanak 
  27 - Gauri Dipaki Measure by Guru Nanak 
  28 - Shikshashtakam by Chaitanya 
  29 - Mine is Gopal by Mirabai 
  30 - Beloved Mohan by Mirabai 
  31 - Mira is Steadfast by Mirabai 
  32 - I Will Sing the Praises by Mirabai 
  33 - O Deluded Ones by Mirabai 
  34 - Enjoy the Company of True Saints by Mirabai 
  35 - Listen by Mirabai 
  36 - Sister Without the Lord I Cannot Carry On by Mirabai 
  37 - Hanuman Chalisa by Tulsidas 
  38 - To Arrange Words by Tu

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  Judas Goat - Poems

  Gabrielle Bates

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  "Stellar . . . with great humanity, grace and precision." —Nicole Sealey, author of Ordinary BeastGabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book's eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this spellbinding collection of forty poems, which wrestle with betrayal and forced obedience, violence and young womanhood, and the "forbidden felt language" of sexual and sacred love. These poems conjure encounters with figures from scriptures, domesticated animals eyeing the wild, and mothering as a shape-shifting, spectral force; they question what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears. All the while, the Deep South haunts, and no matter how far away the speaker moves, the South always draws her back home.In confession, in illumination, Bates establishes herself as an unflinching witness to the risks that desire necessitates, as Judas Goat holds listeners close and whispers its unforgettable lines.

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