Having been abandoned by a mysterious man she'd met on the Yugoslavian island of Korchula, Miranda is set on a course of loneliness, pent-up passion, and longing. When she sets foot on Crete, her fortunes begin to change, as she is caught up in the web spun by the Serbian actress Divna, and her estranged husband, Dionysios. Following the steps of mythological Greek characters, this triangle of lust and passion heads toward both ecstasy and tragedy.

Dance of the Ariadnes

Literature & Fiction

Spencer, Sharon

United States

Sky Blue Pr

A bilingual collection of 55 Stephane Mallarme poems. Translated from the French by Daisy Aldan with expositions. Mallarme (1842-1898), renowned French symbolist poet, is famous for his unique approach to poetry, considered today to be brilliant. 
 This new bilingual collection of 55 Stephane Mallarme poems, including one of his masterpieces, "Un Coup De Des" ("A Throw of the Dice"), gives readers a fresh new perspective of Mallarme's genius. Translator Dr. Daisy Aldan discovered and fell in love with Mallarme's work when she was told that her poetry was reminiscent of his. In 1956, she translated "Un Coup De Des" into English for the first time; the result was recognition of Dr. Aldan's unparalleled deep understanding and feeling for Mallarme. Now, more than 40 years later, she has blessed us with To Purify the Words of the Tribe, with expositions, which will surely lead to a deeper comprehension of the poetry of Stephane Mallarme.

To Purify the Words of the Tribe : The Major Verse Poems of Stephane Mallarme (English, French and French Edition)

Mallarmé, Stéphane

Herron, Paul

Poetry

Daisy Aldan Reads Mallarme

Paul Herron

Daisy Aldan

stephane-mallarme

IN THE SHADOW OF MADNESS, a memoir by Dolores Brandon, has a literary quality, rare in books and articles written about mental illness—depression, bi-polar or manic depression, schizophrenia, panic disorder among them. 
Those of us involved with an afflicted friend or relative eagerly wade through academic articles about the latest research, always looking for a breakthrough to relieve a patient’s and a family’s trials. Or we read, with the hope of gaining help, a case study of a person whose illness resembles whichever neurological brain disease our kin has. 
Seldom are we treated to the type of writing Dolores Brandon produced as she relates her Canadian family’s coping and surviving her father’s manic depressive illness. 
Most of the telling is in the author’s poetic form. Some is poetry we know, some is in French, most is in English. Other times she uses the lyrics of a song. The prose is the oral history her mother contributes. 
The oldest of three daughters, the author begins the narrative even before she leaves her mothers’ womb. “Once, inside, I remember the lights flashing bright, the walls of your belly—paper thing, your voice—a moist and delicate reed crying: ‘Don’t do it. I beg you, let me go.’” 
Her father’s rage, building as his highs develop, often foretells the violence that will occur causing his hospitalizations. The early progression of these highs reveals a talented, creative man. However, his successes as an inventor, salesman, and performer are all short-lived. Little is said about his lows. 
The resulting experiences and frequent moves are realistically told, without self-pity, and illustrated with family album pictures, including the grandparents as well as aunts and uncles. One of them always was there for the mother when she needed help the most. Only once does Dolores mention her sister’s and her stay in a foster home. 
Dolores makes us feel the spirit that keeps this family together. And it is generally the family that is the most important element, that best supports any victim of a mental illness. 
In the end, it was cancer that caused her father’s death. Ironically, the long, painful confinement assured compliance to psychotropic medications which were just becoming available in the ‘60’s and that he had begun to accept. The girls’ lifelong endurance of the affects caused by his mental illness was replaced by the anguish they experienced through the pain he suffered from his physical disease. 
In her last chapter she reveals problems of the family after her father’s death. It may be that they had always been there but had been overlooked in order to solve those the father’s illness created. 
With her skills, I would like to have Dolores consider writing another moving story—a full account of what happened to her father’s survivors. Reviewer:
Thelma I. Hayes was the founding president of NAMI, the voice for the mentally ill, North Coastal San Diego County, California. She now serves as advocacy chair.

In the Shadow of Madness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dolores Brandon

Psychology & Counseling

Few collections of poetry explore an artist’s search for the sublime as does Collected Poems of Daisy Aldan. Gleaned from more than a dozen highly acclaimed poetry books, this compilation is the record of a lifetime of spiritual exploration, struggle, despair, and triumph. Daisy Aldan’s poetry covers nearly every aspect of human life and the supreme forces that govern it—she saw poetry as an integral part of humankind’s universal quest for spiritual interconnected-ness.  The poems, innovative and daring, drawing on symbolism, eurhythmy, and experimentation, are powerful and passionate panels in a mosaic of ingenious artistic expression of the evolution of the soul.

Collected Poems of Daisy Aldan

Aldan, Daisy

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