Search results for ""Author Ellen Watson""

The five interlocking stories in The Tower Of Glass create a singular, powerful account of a nation in turmoil - and a prophetic warning about an oppressive government's need to control not just the society but the mind. Through symbolism, wry humour, and outrageous sexual frankness, Ivan Angelo tells of businessmen and whores, poor working people and Death Squads, truth and illusion, and methods of political manipulation and terror. From the gritty, bawdy story of "Bete the Streetwalker" to the Kafkaesque portrait of a prison made of glass, the fictional pieces demonstrate Angelo's masterful wordplay, and his ability to take formal and structural risks without a false step.

Read more less

Adelia Prado was "discovered" she was nearly 40 by Brazil's foremost modern poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, who was astonished to read her 'phenomenal' poems, launching her literary career with his announcement that St Francis was dictating verses to a housewife in the provincial backwater of Minas Gerais. Psychiatrists in droves made the pilgrimage to Divinopolis to delve into the psyche of this devout Catholic who wrote startlingly pungent poems of and from the body; they were politely served coffee and sent back to the city. After publishing her first collection, Baggage, in 1976, she went on to become one of Brazil's best-loved poets, awarded the Griffin Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. Adelia Prado's poetry combines passion and intelligence, wit and instinct. Her poems are about human concerns, especially those of women, about living in one's body and out of it, about the physical but also the spiritual and the imaginative life; about living in two worlds simultaneously: the spiritual and the material. She also writes about ordinary matters, insisting that the human experience is both mystical and carnal. For her these are not contradictory: 'It's the soul that's erotic,' she writes. 'Sometimes other poets and critics analyse my writing, and they've said how, even though the text is made of colloquial and everyday language, the work goes to transcendental issues. I don't know, I don't explain things; I simply do what I do. I only know how to write about concrete, immediate and commonplace things. But these commonplace things show me their metaphysical nature. I can only see the metaphysical, the divine, through the concrete and the human.'

Read more less

Welcome to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the not too distant future. Water is scarce, garbage clogs the city, movement is restricted, and the System--sinister, omnipotent, secret--rules its subjects' every moment and thought. Here, middle-aged Souza lives a meaningless life in a world where hope is a lie and all memory of the past is forbidden. A classic novel of "dystopia," looking back to Orwell's "1984" and forward to Terry Gilliam's "Brazil," "And Still the Earth" stands with Loyola Brandao's "Zero" as one of the author's greatest, and darkest, achievements.

Read more less

Move from surviving to thriving. With simple and introspective prompts, resilience-building exercises, and heartening quotes, along with evocative nature photography, this research-backed guided journal is an uplifting roadmap for anyone dealing with a difficult life change. A TOOL FOR SELF-RENEWAL: With simple and introspective prompts, resilience-building exercises, and heartening quotes, along with evocative nature photography, this research-backed guided journal is an uplifting tool to help you emerge from life changes better than you were before. INSPIRING SELF-HELP: This journal combines the substantial guidance and introspection of traditional self-help books with a beautiful visual metaphor about blooming with the seasons. The best of inspirational journals and self-help journals in one! START SMALL: This book offers a clear roadmap of prompts, breaking down the sometimes-overwhelming healing process into bite-sized steps so you can gradually build yourself back up and eventually bounce back from life's hard moments. A BEAUTIFUL GIFT FOR A FRIEND IN NEED: This journal, filled with evocative nature photography, is a lovely, thoughtful gift for any friends or loved ones who are struggling with transitions or life changes. INCLUDES: Hardcover journal, 5 x 7 inches, 192 lined pages, full-color photographs throughout

Read more less