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a river unraveled
angela muir's a river unraveled, shifts between poetic forms, from prose poems to splayed open lines, shaped by rich pensive language and deeply spiritual undertones. the narrative moves from a pilgrimage in India, through a multilayered unraveling, and is finally sewed together with a series of contemplations. drawing from a palette of yoga, science, and nature, the poet seems to be distilling a truth we must experience to know.
Once Upon a Time
Daniel Schwartz's debut collection of poems Once Upon a Time "astounds with its acrid and self-steeling figurative power." In this phantasmagoric journey, Schwartz offers readers a kind of "genetic account of creation" -- a creation that is simultaneously an excavation of the speaker's own mind, never quite ending or arriving, looping always ecstatically back on itself. Called by one reader a "contemporary theophany," Schwartz's collection transfigures the emotional landscape of childhood -- our immemorial family drama -- into incandescent abstraction, an imagistic anti-thinking whose dark intensities are strange and joyous
Ripponlea 6: Fever Fall
Johnny Murray’s Ripponlea is a seven-volume illustrated novel. Within its pages lurk dragons and ghosts, pirates and mermaids, goblins and wolves. Not to mention uber-marionettes, bioluminescent streetlamps, story-dwelling games, secret tower chambers, a labyrinthine underworld known as Chthonia (and the creatures that dwell there), and an ancient phoenix tree blazing nightly atop craggy seaside cliffs. And, of course, wayward children of all ages caught in the middle of everything. Whew! Volume 6: Fever Fall contains chapters 78 through 91 of Ripponlea and includes eleven illustrations.
Bailey Anne Barnum's Book of Worlds
When cat-loving, purple-haired Bailey Anne Barnum finds herself in a strange land surrounded by giant cats angry at her for squishing their king, falling on him like a house on a witch, she has to wonder how on earth she got here.
Growing up, her storytelling father, Barney, cared for her at home while her mother, brave Beatrice, was out saving the world. Bailey never questioned this narrative when she was little, but she was too old now to believe in it, wasn't she? When Barney's stories of Beatrice's adventures start bleeding into real life, including those about the mouse knight, Lady Nimn, Bailey wonders if there wasn't more than a grain of fact in her family's fictions.
Can Bailey use her own history to solve the mystery of her present predicament and, ultimately, find a path to safety?
Ripponlea 5: Emerald Tendrils
Johnny Murray’s Ripponlea is a seven-volume illustrated novel. Within its pages lurk dragons and ghosts, pirates and mermaids, goblins and wolves. Not to mention uber-marionettes, bioluminescent streetlamps, story-dwelling games, secret tower chambers, a labyrinthine underworld known as Chthonia (and the creatures that dwell there), and an ancient phoenix tree blazing nightly atop craggy seaside cliffs. And, of course, wayward children of all ages caught in the middle of everything. Whew!
Volume 5, Emerald Tendrils, contains chapters 64 through 77 of Ripponlea and includes nine illustrations.
Ripponlea 4: A Cast of the Die
Johnny Murray’s Ripponlea is a seven-volume illustrated novel. Within its pages lurk dragons and ghosts, pirates and mermaids, goblins and wolves. Not to mention uber-marionettes, bioluminescent streetlamps, story-dwelling games, secret tower chambers, a labyrinthine underworld known as Chthonia (and the creatures that dwell there), and an ancient phoenix tree blazing nightly atop craggy seaside cliffs. And, of course, wayward children of all ages caught in the middle of everything. Whew!
Volume 4, A Cast of the Die, contains chapters 52 through 63 of Ripponlea and includes ten illustrations.
Ripponlea 3: Visitants
Johnny Murray’s Ripponlea is a seven-volume illustrated novel. Within its pages lurk dragons and ghosts, pirates and mermaids, goblins and wolves. Not to mention uber-marionettes, bioluminescent streetlamps, story-dwelling games, secret tower chambers, a labyrinthine underworld known as Chthonia (and the creatures that dwell there), and an ancient phoenix tree blazing nightly atop craggy seaside cliffs. And, of course, wayward children of all ages caught in the middle of everything. Whew!
Volume 3, Visitants, contains chapters 33 through 51 of Ripponlea and includes eleven illustrations.
Ripponlea 2: Lost Provenance
Johnny Murray’s Ripponlea is a seven-volume illustrated novel. Within its pages lurk dragons and ghosts, pirates and mermaids, goblins and wolves. Not to mention uber-marionettes, bioluminescent streetlamps, story-dwelling games, secret tower chambers, a labyrinthine underworld known as Chthonia (and the creatures that dwell there), and an ancient phoenix tree blazing nightly atop craggy seaside cliffs. And, of course, wayward children of all ages caught in the middle of everything. Whew!
Volume 2, Lost Provenance, contains chapters 22 through 32 of Ripponlea and includes seven illustrations.
Ripponlea 1: I Promise I’ll Come Back the Same
Johnny Murray’s Ripponlea is a seven-volume illustrated novel. Within its pages lurk dragons and ghosts, pirates and mermaids, goblins and wolves. Not to mention uber-marionettes, bioluminescent streetlamps, story-dwelling games, secret tower chambers, a labyrinthine underworld known as Chthonia (and the creatures that dwell there), and an ancient phoenix tree blazing nightly atop craggy seaside cliffs. And, of course, wayward children of all ages caught in the middle of everything. Whew!
The first volume, I Promise I'll Come Back the Same, introduces young Bianca Riley as she sets out from her small village in the mountains on a journey across the countryside through dark forests toward the fabled city of Ripponlea. Will she reach her destination? And who—or what—might she meet along the way?
I Promise I'll Come Back the Same contains chapters 1 through 21 of Ripponlea and includes fourteen illustrations.
