![]() Why? Why? Why? For you My delights surpass all other delights,Īnd the pleasure I bring you surpasses all other pleasures. Why don’t you see Me? Why don’t you hear Me? ![]() What’s with you that you don’t feel me in the things you touch? How often I’ve become fragrance and you don’t smell Me,Īnd tasty food, a but you don’t taste Me! ![]() It is through My Eyes that you see Me and yourself,ĭearly beloved! How often I call you and you don’t hear! How often I show myself to you and you don’t see! So if you perceive Me, you perceive yourself.īut you cannot perceive Me through yourself. I have only created perceptions for you so that by them, you might perceive Me I am the command descending between Heaven and Earth, I am the sought essence in the cosmos I am the centre of the circle and its circumference, ![]() Although not a poem in Arabic, this moving account of Divine “pillow talk” or munājāt (intimate discourses) by Ibn ‘Arabi was beautifully translated by Henri Corbin in poetic form (and modified by me to better correspond to the Arabic). ![]()
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This volume challenges some of our most prevalent assumptions relating to identity, the body, monogamy, libido, sexual identity, seduction, fidelity, orgasm, and more. Our amorous and erotic experiences do not simply bring us pleasure they shape our very identities, our ways of relating to ourselves, each other and our shared world. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. 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It’s all in order, baby on the left, wedding cake on the right. On that last spread, look carefully See where the glasses are now? The glove? The hat? Isn’t that fun? Though the back of the garden is faded, everything on this page is found in the body of the book. ![]() Beyond recalling his grandfather’s life, what is the boy doing? Collecting lost objects in the garden and returning them to the grandfather. Objects morph into other things-tears into garden hose water, bush into cannon. In order for the story to be fully appreciated, the reader has to read the pictures slowly. The committee will have a ball talking about this book. So, a few of you have chimed in about Grandpa Green and I can see why. ![]() ![]() MemberĪuthors League of America (member of executive board), PEN (member of executive board), Dramatists Guild, Phi Beta Kappa, English Graduate Union ( Columbia University). ![]() Member of Advisory Commission of Performing Arts member of board of directors, Shalom Aleichem Foundation member of advisory council, Town Hall Foundation. Taught fiction workshops at University of Rochester and University of Florida. ![]() Taught in New York City high schools for twenty years New School for Social Research (now New School University), New York, NY, instructor in English, 1964 Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY, assistant professor of English, beginning 1964 City University of New York, adjunct professor of English. Agent-Authors Unlimited, 31 East 32nd St., Suite 300, New York, NY 10016. Hobbies and other interests: Travel, bicycling, doodling, writing funny verses. (magna cum laude), 1934 Columbia University, M.A. Education: Hunter College (now Hunter College of the City University of New York), B.A. (a physician) and Lola (a writer maiden name, Rabinowitz) Kaufman married second husband children: (first marriage) Jonathan Goldstine, Thea Goldstine. ![]() Born Belle Kaufman, 1911, in Berlin, Germany immigrated to Russia immigrated to United States, c. ![]() ![]() Publishers Weekly appreciated the "seductively complex", ambitious worldbuilding and the "subtle language" of Dickinson's "compelling, utterly surprising narrative". It was published in September 2015 and was well received by critics. His debut novel The Traitor Baru Cormorant, a hard fantasy expansion of a 2011 short story, is about a brilliant young woman who, educated in the schools of the imperial power that subjugated her homeland, sets out to gain power to subvert the empire from within. He also contributed writing to video games, including Destiny: The Taken King (2015). He has published short fiction in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among others. ![]() ![]() Seth Dickinson is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, known for his 2015 debut novel The Traitor Baru Cormorant, as well as its sequels The Monster Baru Cormorant and The Tyrant Baru Cormorant.ĭickinson graduated from the University of Chicago, where he won the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing in 2011 for his short story "The Immaculate Conception of Private Ritter". ![]() |