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Selected poems 1959-2022

Cherkovski, Neeli
The definitive collection of poems from an American original, Neeli Cherkovski. Neeli Cherkovski's SELECTED POEMS: 1959-2022 is the definitive collection from an American original. With his earliest poem in this volume beginning at age fourteen, Cherkovski reveals a youthful wisdom which grows throughout his career. For more than sixty years, Neeli has lived his life for the poem, chewing on the reality and wonder of being here, and the endless question of, what shall we do? His answer is clear: we must rejoice in the endless dilemma! In his foreword to SELECTED POEMS: 1959-2022, Charles Bernstein writes, "In Neeli Cherkovski's poetry, beat rhetoric melts into wild riffs then returns to metaphor; bunts, dodges, bows head in respect to disrespect: onward, impulse as image, becomes phrases, becomes sublime moment of stutter, stagger, implosion; till waves of loss get tossed in a walk down a lazy street, as memory of a friend, the darkening night of the soiled--soaring--souring--soul, the benediction of artfulness and refusal of refusal." "In Neeli Cherkovski's poetry, beat rhetoric melts into wild riffs then returns to metaphor; bunts, dodges, bows head in respect to disrespect: onward, impulse as image, becomes phrases, becomes sublime moment of stutter, stagger, implosion; till waves of loss get tossed in a walk down a lazy street, as memory of a friend, the darkening night of the soiled--soaring--souring--soul, the benediction of artfulness and refusal of refusal."--Charles Bernstein Poetry.
Lithic Press 2024-05 387 pages

45 seconds from Broadway

Simon, Neil
Comedy Characters: 6 male 6 female Interior Set From America's master of Contemporary Broadway Comedy here is another revealing comedy behind the scenes in the entertainment world this time near the heart of the theatre district. 45 Seconds from Broadway takes place in the legendary "Polish Tea Room" on New York's 47th Street. Here Broadway theatre personalities washed-up and on-the-rise gather to schmooz even as they lose. This touching valentine to New York
Samuel French 2003 84 pages

London Suite: a comedy

Simon, Neil
Comedy / Characters: 3 male 3 female Scenery: Interior America's premier comic playwright crosses the Atlantic for a suite of hilarious comedies set in a deluxe London hotel a sedate place until these characters check in. In Settling Accounts the suite is occupied by an inebriated Welsh writer who is holding his long time business manager caught absconding with the writer's money at gun point. The villian concocts increasingly farfetched explanations of what he was doing at Heathrow with
Samuel French 1996 104 pages

The Gingerbread Lady A New Play

Neil Simon
Genre: Dramatic Comedy Characters: 3 males, 3 females Scenery: Interior Maureen Stapleton won Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress for the role of Evy Meara, a popular singer who has hit the skids. After a short stay in rehab, her best friend age-defying Toby, her daughter Polly, and Jimmy Perry, a gay actor try to help her adjust to sobriety with a jolly birthday party. Enter Lou Tanner, a former lover, who ends up giving her a black eye. The party is a wash out, the "gingerb
Samuel French, Inc. 1971 89 pages

The universe within: from quantum to cosmos

Turok, Neil
Turok explores the transformative scientific discovers of the past three centuries, from classical mechanics to the nature of light and the evolution of the cosmos, and shows how they created shifts in the organization of society. He argues that we are on the cusp of another major transformation: the coming quantum revolution that will supplant our current digital age.
House of Anansi Press 2012 292 pages

Hesed in the Bible

Nelson Glueck
Professor Nelson Glueck's pioneer study of hesed and its meaning in the Bible has long been a basic source for biblical scholarship and theology. When the work first appeared as a published doctoral dissertation in 1927, titled Das Wort hesed im altentestamentlichen Sprachgerrauche als menschliche und gottliche gemeinschaftgemasse Verhaltunsweise, it was a methodological landmark study of the history of the ideas of the Bible. -- Alfred Gottschalk Hebrew Union College Los Angeles The importance of Nelson Glueck's monograph on hesed is, perhaps, best demonstrated in the use of his research in almost every important study involving the term since 1927, and in the relatively limited contribution made to Glueck's interpretation of the word. -- Gerald Larue
Wipf and Stock Publishers 2011-05-20 118 pages

Reconceptions in philosophy and other arts and sciences

Goodman, Nelson
"The authors argue against certain philosophical distinctions between art and science; between verbal and nonverbal meaning; and between the affective and the cognitive. The book continues Goodman's argument against one traditional mode of philosophizing which privileges the notions of 'truth' and 'knowledge'. Hence, the book is in a broadly pragmatic tradition. It also deals in detail with such topics as meaning in architecture and the concept of 'variation' in art, and contains a superb critique of some important views in contemporary epistemology. This work will be savored even by those who will not accept all aspects of Goodman and Elgin's approach. Essential for all undergraduate philosophy collections." --Stanley Bates, Choice
Hackett Pub. Co 1988-01-01 174 pages

From the margins of globalization: critical perspectives on human rights

Neve Gordon
"Either you are with us or you are with the Terrorists!" President Bush exclaimed in a joint session of Congress ten days after the September 11 attacks. Even though the war on terrorism and the discourse surrounding it were ostensibly unleashed to protect freedom and enhance democracy, they have actually empowered authoritarian elements of state power and relegated human rights to the margins of the political arena. In From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights , Neve Gordon assembles work of leading intellectuals and rights activists from around the globe. While highlighting the importance of human rights, each essay in this volume also encourages a critical perspective, stretching, as it were, the conception of human rights beyond its current borders. Whether it's Iranian premier, Mohammad Khatami, writing on the clash of civilizations, Étienne Balibar thinking through universalism, racism, and sexism, or Ruchama Marton discussing the relation between human rights and psychiatry, this book comprises a challenge to some of the dominant worldviews circulating in the west. Anyone studying human rights or globalization in the fields of anthropology, philosophy, political science, political theory, economy and sociology should have a copy of this volume.
Lexington Books 2004-09-20 312 pages