BLACK HEAT is Norman Kelley's novelistic exploration of the turbulent legacy of the 1960s black liberation movement-its continuance in a watered-down post-nationalist Afrocentrism, its perversion in the media-driven, get-rich schemes of the black bourgeoisie. Caught in the crossfire is the intrepid and resourceful Nina Halligan-formerly a Brooklyn assistant district attorney, now a private investigator-who searches for the missing daughter of a slain civil-rights leader while grappling with her own rage concerning the murder of her family. "Kelley pushes a heavy thumb on hot-button issues of black politics: Afrocentrism; the appeal of televangelism; what it means to be authentically black; FBI dirty tricks against civil-rights leaders"-Publishers Weekly.

Black Heat

Literature & Fiction

Kelley, Norman

United States

Cool Grove Press

A contemporary American poet on pilgrimage in India experiences a chain of extraordinary accidents that trip her into a linguistic revelation—she quickly learns to read and write Middle Hindi or Braj. Her special insight into the love poems of legendary 16th century Indian woman poet-saint Mirabai culminating in the present work. This illuminated second edition of Sweet on My Lips offers the reader a peek into an insider's experience of the path of devotion (bhakti).The first edition sold out establishing a loyal and growing audience for this book. (A Google search on Louise Landes Levi brings up numerous references to Sweet On My Lips, the first edition from Cool Grove Press)––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Praise for Sweet on my Lips"The beautiful poems of Mirabai have been beautifully translated from the Middle Hindi by Louise Landes Levi, and they should serve as a fine key to this tantric poet’s consciouness." — Lawrence Ferlinghetti"Mirabai’s spiritual vision and poetic genius shine through these pages. Verses of wounded pathos and soaring ecstasy are rendered here as vividly as if they had been spoken yesterday, yet with the incantatory power of sacred text. Levi’s translations, brilliant in their lucidity, usher the reader directly into the heart of Mira’s rare, impassioned devotion."— Miranda Shaw"The relationship between Louise and Mirabai seems divinely ordained. It is hard to imagine a more perfect vehicle for the English language realization of this ecstatic work." —La Monte Young

Sweet on my lips: The love poems of Mirabai

Mīrābāī

Poetry

Cultural Writing. Various types of sacred texts are included in this volume including prayers of supplication to Guru Rinpoche for his guidance and for achieving profound wisdom through devotion and meditation. In the eighth century, Guru Padmasambhava--the Lotus Born--came to Tibet from India and became known as Guru Rinpoche, the Precious Teacher. He transmitted many esoteric teachings to his disciples and concealed them as Ter (gTer) or Terma (gTerma)--hidden Dharma treasures--for the sake of future disciples. From the eleventh century until today thousands of volumes of those concealed teachings have been discovered by the reincarnations of his chief disciples through spiritual discernment. Guru Rinpoche is the founder of Tibetan Buddhism and is referred to as the Second Buddha by his followers. Translator Mike Dickman has previously translated many texts of the Nyingma and 'Drigung Ka'gyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

A Treasure Trove of Blessing and Protection

Religion & Spirituality

Dickman, Mike

Buddhism

Fiction. IBO LANDING is a celebratory testament to the South's unbroken cultural, linguistic and spiritual links to West Africa through Gullah ancestry and the heritage of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In these 22 tales author Ihsan Bracy brings to life an arcana of colorful characters carefully illuminated through speech, manner and relationship. Together the stories become candidates for tomorrow's folklore - via the African American southern oral tradition.

Ibo Landing: An Offering of Short Stories

Bracy, Ihsan

Fiction. IBO LANDING is a celebratory testament to the South's unbroken cultural, linguistic and spiritual links to West Africa through Gullah ancestry and the heritage of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In these 22 tales author Ihsan Bracy brings to life an arcana of colorful characters carefully illuminated through speech, manner and relationship. Together the stories become candidates for tomorrow's folklore - via the African American southern oral tradition.

IBO LANDING

Poetry. Tracing a road that runs from Milarepa to Michaux, from Isabelle Eberhardt to Jack Kerouac, Louise Landes Levi offers a compilation of spiritual experimentation and 'ordinary' road adventure. Here, musical genre, iconoclasm and itineracy mix as we observe the author's devotional impulse. She is the author of a dozen books of poetry and her work has been translated into several languages. Louise Landes Levi's poems are the union of street smart and great wisdom. Her poems sing in the mind, and dance through the heart and throat, and arms and legs, with great clarity and bliss. Louise is Sarasvati, goddess of poetry -- John Giorno.

Guru Punk

Levi, Louise

Cultural Writing. This unique work unites prose and art, exploring the dark mythologies of sexual fetishes and power. Based on the erotic drawings and etchings of Polish writer and artist Bruno Schulz, who died at the hands of the Nazis in 1942. Rolando Perez digs around in that rooted turf Schulz describes; he grows his own books in that fecund loam of literature and history, dreams and ideas. His writing is often inspired by or a response to his reading, which is wide and deep --John Strausbaugh, NY Press.

The Divine Duty of Servants

Arts & Photography

Pérez, Rolando

Individual Artists

The Divine Duty of Servants: A Book of Worship

Disciples of the Buddha: Living Images of Meditation

Cultural Writing. Religion &amp; Spirituality. Art. Asian Studies. Introduction by Chogyam Trungpa. DISCIPLES OF THE BUDDHA presents images of the eight surviving "Lohan" statues--remnants of one of the most renowned works of Eastern art, as well as "The Torch of Precious Jewels-a Sadhana of the Buddha and Sixteen Arhats" by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche. "DISCIPLES OF THE BUDDHA is a treasure of Buddhist art, history and wisdom. These centuries-old rare images, with expressions as realistic as if we were in the very presence of the living sages in their true states of being, nourish our hearts with blessings of peace, joy and power"--Tulku Thondup. "This book brings us images which "are expressions of nonverbal experience that the artist had in the state of arahthood...We could say these images present the particular realization of Buddha's sanity in his disciples"--Chogyam Trumpa.

NEWMAN, ROBERT

Religious

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Black Heat

Sweet on my lips: The love poems of Mirabai

A Treasure Trove of Blessing and Protection

Ibo Landing: An Offering of Short Stories

IBO LANDING

Guru Punk

The Divine Duty of Servants

The Divine Duty of Servants: A Book of Worship

Disciples of the Buddha: Living Images of Meditation

Disciples of the Buddha: Living Images of Meditation