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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Love and loss"”.
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Life,love and loss (under a few trees)
… main existential concerns: life in general, love and loss, all arising from my own experience. The poems on the theme of life take the everyday as their subject matter ranging through my passions for textile-craft, gardening, my observations of the natural world, and my own, and others’, …
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A grammar of sentiment thinking about sentimental jewellery towards making new art about love and loss.
… practice-led research project explores English and French sentimental jewellery of the Victorian period. ‘Sentimental jewellery’ or ‘message jewellery’ denotes jewellery created to function as a tangible expression of feeling between donor and recipient, mediated through complex narratives …
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We Were Such a Happy Family: Lessons in Imperfection
<p>What does it mean to hold both your love of your family and their deep and sometimes harmful flaws? This memoir in essays, 100-word stories, and poetry examines themes of imperfection, love, and loss—and what it means to be a family—against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
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What Doesn't Count and Other Short Stories
<p>In this collection of short stories, comedy and drama work side by side in stories about love and loss. Through the characters' flaws and distractions, stories of coping with the tragedies of life emerge from the exaggerated and humorous voice and style. The stories were written between August …
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Graduate Recital, Voice
… of forgotten composers, forgotten cultures, and especially of forgotten women. The recital speaks on behalf of these composers through pastoral themes. The women of these texts express love and loss through communion with nature. They see their hearts' reflections in the sun and the moon, the …
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Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Darker
… Grow Darker</em>. Set in two time periods, 2017 and 1849, the plot centers around a newly renovated castle hotel in County Cork, Ireland. Newlyweds, Alicia and Greg Silvan discover a bottle of absinthe that is Spanish in origin. Alicia is haunted by the ghost of former owner, Keira O’Shea, as …
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In the Dead Season
… family narrative, the tensions between ignorance and truth, between honor and mendacity, between violation and veneration, between love and loss, between grief and transcendence. Set in rural Texas, the poems in this collection describe a harsh and unforgiving landscape seen largely, though not …
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running away, running towards: a collection of sestinas
These poems of vulnerability, love, and loss trace the journey of a poet slowly coming into their identity. They emphasize the intensity and quality of the mundane, with poems found in bus stops, bowls of soup, quiet mornings, and inkstains. The repetition of words in the sestina form also gives …
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Criterion for tune: identifying "New Englandy" traits of Alice Parker's choral settings of Emily Dickinson poetry
This dissertation identifies “New Englandly” characteristics in Alice Parker’s choral cycles setting Emily Dickinson poems. An extensive literature review helps identify New Englandly traits in poetry. In particular, Christanne Miller’s book, Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar, provides five ways …
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Body of water
… dualistic: it is simultaneously a source of life and death, a vehicle which connects yet separates, and an invisible substance which contains life yet conceals it within. As Sublime Landscape, the sea prompts a state of bliss and terror, of fear and delight, as 'away-place', it becomes a location …
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Wealth and ethics in Pindar
… developed with the anthropology of ethics and in critical dialogue with socioeconomic historicism. It aims to restore the place of divinity in Pindar’s valuation of wealth and provide a productive framework for interpreting apparent inconsistencies in Pindar’s gnomic wisdom. The methodology …
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The Man in the Backseat
… of short stories centered around characters in and from Virginia in a post-September 11th America. The characters, their despairs, hopes, and hopelessness are a product of a society that has watched horrible, life-altering events unfold on television, vowed to change their ways for the better, …
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"Is there a way back to me, for me"? Older men's stories of Life, Loss, Connection and Community Development.
… community work, are difficult to engage with, and are at risk of isolation. This narrative inquiry tells the story of six older men (55+) living on the margins of society in a public sheltered housing complex in Dublin and how they talk about their engagement with a local community development …
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Dancing on the Threshold of Time: An Orphic Journey into the Second Half of Life.
… of being on the threshold between the first and the second half of life, using the archetypal mythical framework of Orpheus and Eurydice, a story of love, loss and transformation. This work produces an alternative knowledge about this stage of adult development, in attending to the process of …
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All that is worth remembering
… that I took lessons from him when I was a kid and young adult (how I despise that term), and hadn't spoken with him, at least not at length, in years. Standing at his wake-only the second I'd been to in my life and the first that was more than a small room of silent people and the acrid smell …
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The Fiction We Make Between Us
… contains two sections, “Quiet Project” and “Notes for a Memoir,” each of which could later expand into a separate chapbook, or a section of a book, of poems. In the first section, “Quiet Project”, the speakers externalize their interior realities, reflect and marvel on the quotidian …