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King, Martha

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New Rivers Press

This collection of twenty-four stories by seventeen contemporary Italian women celebrates a high level of accomplishment that draws on a tradition of women's literature in Italy, but also marks a new and exciting vitality in Italian fiction. Writing of various experiences and from different regions, these women all create with an ease born of confidence in their art. They exhibit a control, an emotional detachment, that allows the deep irony of their invented world to play below the surface. They have a succinctness, a skill in limiting, that reveals more than layers of detail possibly could. These women share a talent for contriving psychological insights that surprise and touch the reader. Authors include Anna Banti, Grazia Deledda, Paola Drigo, Natalia Ginzburg, Geda Jacolutti, Gina Lagorio, Rosetta Loy, Dacia Maraini, Milena Milani, Marina Mizzau, Giuliana Morandini, Elsa Morante, Maria Occhipinti, Anna Maria Ortese, Fabrizia Ramondino, Francesca Sanvitale, and Monica Sarsini.

New Italian Women: A Collection of Short Fiction (Women Writers)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Italica Press

A Italian collection of short stories by a new generation of women writers, born and educated after World War II. Includes 22 stories.

After the War: A Collection of Short Fiction

Contemporary

The rugged landscape of Baronia on Sardinia sets the scene for this novel of crime, guilt and retribution. This novel presents the story of the Pintor sisters - from a family of noble landowners now in decline - their nephew Giacinto, and their servant Efix, who is trying to make up for a mysterious sin committed many years before. Around, below, and inside them the raging Mediterranean storms, the jagged mountains, the murmuring forests, and the gushing springs form a Greek chorus of witness to the tragic drama of this unforgiving land. Deledda tells her story with her characteristic love of the natural landscape and fascination with the folk culture of the island, with details about the famous religious festivals held in mountain encampments and the lore of the "dark beings who populate the Sardinian night, the fairies who live in rocks and caves, and the sprites with seven red caps who bother sleep." Introduction by the Sardinian ethnographer, Dolores Turchi.

Reeds in the Wind

Deledda, Grazia

United States

Poetry. History as content has a sharper feel to more Americans post 9/11. Martha King's work shivers with awareness of mortality and the echoes of history's violence. Wars-even those removed in time by generations-dislocate the present in many of these poems. In others, war is the long loving/hating war of parents and children, or the imperfect fit between human activity and what is called the natural world. These poems, written over the past 20 years, celebrate the ability of humor to squelch sentimental responses and the requirement of wit for free-range chickens. As the late Paul Metcalf commented, `Martha sure can be funny about death."

Imperfect Fit: Selected Poems

Poetry

Marsh Hawk Press

Drawing on the perspectives of researchers, law enforcement, and immigrant communities themselves, this volume analyzes the complicated relationship between immigrant populations and state and local law enforcement.

Justice and Safety in America's Immigrant Communities

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Policy Research Inst for the region

Each volume in the Exegetical Summaries series works through the original text phrase by phrase. English equivalents are provided for all Hebrew and Greek words, making this an excellent reference for exegetes of all levels. Questions that occur to exegetes as they study the text are stated and then answered by summarizing the ways many scholars have interpreted the text. This information should help translators or students in making their own exegetical decisions. As a basis for discussion, a semi-literal translation of the text is given. The first question to be answered is the meaning of key words in context. Information from standard lexicons is given and then translations of the word are cited from a dozen major Bible versions and from commentaries that offer their own translations of the text. Questions about the grammar and discourse structure of the original languages are answered by summarizing the views of many commentators. When exegetical disagreements appear in the commentaries and versions, the various interpretations are listed. This book is not intended to replace the commentaries that are consulted. Rather than being a stand-alone commentary, this book summarizes many important details of exegesis that should be considered in studying the biblical text. Martha King worked with SIL in Guatemala from 1967-1992, first as a Bible translator in a Cakchiquel language, later as a supervisor of mother-tongue translators in two other Cakchiquel languages. She has also served as a translation consultant. Since her marriage to SIL International Translation Consultant Ellis Deibler in 2004, she and her husband have traveled to various countries checking translations of books of the Bible in a number of languages.

An Exegetical Summary of Colossians, 2nd Edition

Religion & Spirituality

SIL International, Global Publishing

Martha King’s fascinating memoir bristles with a unique kinetics of purpose, struggle, reluctant parents, loyal friendships, and of a lifelong partnership with brilliant artist Basil King forged in a utopian dream of communality and the powers of alternative art praxis and passionate bohemian life. What a headstrong young woman she was taking off to Black Mountain upon receiving a note from then rector Charles Olson to “Come with all the money you have and what you are used to for cooking.” And what a long life that continues unabated! Indeed this book is a way of seeing with others in and out of place in the maelstrom of heady American art and poetry life. I think of Clifford Geertz’s terms “consociational”: all the bustling intersecting realities and persons and the work itself that makes such a grand fabric and warm salute to an amazing time in our culture’s complicated relationship to its geniuses. I couldn’t put OUTSIDE/INSIDE down until way after dawn, captured by King’s patience, and the urgent “call” to tell this palpable art-driven love story, an archive of trenchant and luminous particulars. —Anne Waldman   I've just finished with this splendid memoir. It has so much life to it, and brio, and so much deeply felt reflection that I'm hooked. I loved hearing about everything! The picture of San Francisco life at a certain moment in the mid-fifties has not been equaled elsewhere...but the Lucia Berlin chapter was to me the emblem of all the rest—a long look, with a hundred cunningly observed details, that builds to an heroic thesis. —Kevin Killian   Martha King’s writing brims with a forward propulsion that makes her memoir a page-turner, until you deliberately slow down to relish many passages. You end up appreciating a well-lived life, even if you are not familiar with all of its characters. She says early on that she, perhaps unfashionably for today, lived/lives a life (partly) in support of her partner rather than in self-focused exploration. That’s not something to criticize when her partner, painter-poet Basil King, manifests an integrity that earns any support for it. Besides, hindsight shows that Martha ends up fulfilling her own potential as a poet and writer. The very last word of the memoir sums up Martha’s life — it is a word worth discovering in a book worth reading for her definition. —Eileen R. Tabios

Outside/Inside: Just outside the art world’s inside

BlazeVOX Books

What if I told you that your present problem will bring you healing and happiness later? Would you stay and fight? Or, would you give up because your pain feels unbearable? In, "Saving Lives While Fighting for Mine: Stories to Empower Women to Win," the 11 authors discuss their past problems that presented as pain appearing beyond repair. Although the authors could not see victory over their current situations; they kept going because someone else needed them to win. In "Saving Lives While Fighting for Mine: Stories to Empower Women to Win," the authors discuss their personal battles with self-identity, unfair discrimination, financial disparity, and sexual trauma. The authors did not focus on their present problems and give up; they focused on solutions and someone they wanted to live for. Their personal transformational stories are to empower women to win: <ul><li>Win in education</li><li>Win in motherhood</li><li>Win in educating their children</li><li>Win in their finances</li><li>Win in relationships</li><li>Win in employment</li><li>Win in their physical bodies</li><li>Win in their minds</li></ul> The purpose of this book is to help women know they are not alone in their struggles, so that young women will learn preventive measures from poor decision making, and so that women who are currently struggling will gain hope, inspiration, motivation, and tips to apply in the middle of their messes. About the Authors This book was compiled by visionary: International Best-Selling Author, Ayanna Mills Gallow Co-Authors: Alison Brown, Chany Rosengarten, Charmane West, Dr. Charmaine Gentles, Dr. Keesha Karriem, Jacinta Wolff, Lisa Campbell, Lisa Lamazzi, Martha King, Tiffani Teachey, and TrevisMichelle Mallord. Foreword By: International Best-Selling Author, Dr. Janell Jones

Saving Lives While Fighting For Mine: Stories to Empower Women to Win

Brown, Alison

Campbell, Lisa

Gallow, Ayanna

West, Charmane

Wolff, Jacinta

Rosengarten, Chany

Karriem, Keesha

Lamazzi, Lisa

Mallord, TrevisMichelle

History & Criticism

Thanx A Mills, LLC

What made a young Sardinian woman in the nineteenth century think that she could become a famous writer, especially considering the time and her position, her gender and lack of education? Yet Grazia Deledda achieved such status in the literary world that publishers in Italy vied for her fiction. Nearly seventy years after her death, her novels continue to be reprinted and translated, and critical appreciation of her work continues to grow. This - the first full length biography of Deledda in English for an adult audience - is the story of a woman who overcame obstacles that would discourage most people, and went on to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. The book charts her life and work from her childhood in Sardinia to her death in Rome.

Grazia Deledda: A Legendary Life (Troubador Italian Studies)

Troubador Pub

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