This book, crammed with the authentic voices of the men and women who were vaudeville, re-creates for us the excitement, the razzle-dazzle, the history of vaudeville, the essence of vaudeville with seventy-three extraordinary pieces culled from articles, memoirs, editorials, commentaries, critiques and skits. Here, speaking for themselves, are the men and women who were onstage or backstage or our front applauding (or booking) - from B.F. Keith (the founder) and the critics and producers to the great stars: Fanny Brice, George Burns, Lillian Russell, George M. Cohan, Eddie Cantor, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Foy and many more...Listen to their voices and to dozens of others, it's all here, from vaudeville's shaky beginnings in 1883 in a dime museum in Boston to the moment when talking pictures finally brought it all crashing down. American Vaudeville helps readers recapture the magic of one of the great eras of American show business.

AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE

Humor & Entertainment

Stein, Charles

Humor

KNOPF

The Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Station Hill Pr

This is a hardcover book published with a dust jacket price of $27.50 by Station Hill Press, Barrytown, NY 12507 in 1987. Reissued as a paperback in 1997. The complete title is "Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum: The Poetic Cosmology of Charles Olson and His Use of The writings of C. G. Jung including an annotated facsimile of Olson's last text." This text explores Charles Olson's visionary poetics and the extensive use he made of the writings of Jung. Offering numerous readings of poems from the "Maximus" series, Stein provides a useful and clearly written introduction to the major themes, cosmological speculations, and poetic inventions of Olson's work.

SECRET OF THE BLACK CHRYSANTHEMUM (The Clinamen Studies Series)

United States

AmazonUs/INDPB

PARTS AND OTHER PARTS

Station Hill Press

Approximate Computation of Expectations (Lecture Notes-Monograph Series, Vol 7)

Science & Math

Mathematics

Inst of Mathematical Statistic

The Rhinebeck Institute Seminars: Poetics, Mathematical Logic, and Mystical Speculation

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

North Atlantic Books

Being=Space X Action: Searches for Freedom of Mind Through Mathematics, Art, and Mysticism

Persephone Unveiled reveals the goddess in all her guises, as the daughter of Demeter; the Queen of the Underworld; the archetypal female healer; and as a central figure in the Eleusinian Mysteries, where celebrants experienced sacred visions through secret rituals fueled by an LSD-like substance. The author examines the known details about the psychoactive agent and explores the Mysteries' influence on, and relationship to, early Christianity. Guided meditations, using active imagination techniques, help readers summon an experience with the goddess.

Persephone Unveiled: Seeing the Goddess and Freeing Your Soul

History

Ancient Civilizations

FROM MIMIR'S HEAD comprises two reciprocal passes through the same terrain - a sequence of poems mostly exploring ontological matters in a variety of verse inventions, and a series of notes in a prose equally exploratory and inventive. In both, the quickly shifting diction is at once mercurial and immaculate, theimages vivid and well-ordered, the structures musical and truly spoken, and the thought, if philosophical, nonetheless sprung from the recognition of the limits of metaphysical discourse. Stein writes: The philosopher shouldbe discouraged in his metaphysical pretension, but the metaphysician encouraged in his poetic need.

From Mimir's Head: Poems from theforestforthetrees (1994-2000)

A presentation of seven essential texts, central to the Hermetic Tradition, never before published together\n• Includes Theogony, The Homeric Hymn to Hermes, The Poem of Parmenides, The Poimandres, The Chaldean Oracles, Hymn to Isis, and On Divine Virtue, each translated from the original Greek or Latin\n• Presents interpretive commentary for each text to progressively weave them together historically, poetically, hermeneutically, and magically\nLinked to both the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth, Hermes Trismegistus is credited, through legend, with thousands of mystical and philosophical writings of high standing, each reputed to be of immense antiquity. During the Renaissance, a collection of such writings known as the Corpus Hermeticum greatly inspired the thought of philosophers, alchemists, artists, poets, and even theologians.\nOffering new translations of seven essential Hermetic texts from their earliest source languages, Charles Stein presents them alongside introductions and interpretive commentary, revealing their hidden gems of insight, suggesting directions for practice, and progressively weaving the texts together historically, poetically, hermeneutically, and magically. The book includes translations of Hesiod’s Theogony, the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, the “Poem of Parmenides,” the Poimandres from the Corpus Hermeticum, the Chaldean Oracles, “The Vision of Isis” from Apuleius’s Metamorphoses, and “On Divine Virtue” by Zosimos of Panopolis.\nThrough his introductions and commentaries, Stein explains how the many traditions that use Hermes’s name harbor a coherent spirit whose relevance and efficacy promise to carry Hermes forward into the future.\nRevealing Hermes as the very principle of Mind in all its possibilities, from intellectual brilliance to the workings of the cognitive life of everyone, the author shows how these seven texts are central to a still-evolving Western tradition in which the principle of spiritual awakening is allied with the creative. Never before published together, these texts present a new vehicle for transmission of the Hermetic Genius in modern times.

The Light of Hermes Trismegistus: New Translations of Seven Essential Hermetic Texts

History & Criticism

Inner Traditions

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