"A unique travelogue" that "explores the nature of terror, its place in the post-9/11 world and how it unites and galvanizes those in the throes of it" ( Kirkus Reviews).Using several ageless questions—"Where do we come from? Where are we going? What shall we do?"—as his point of departure, journalist and award-winning poet Christopher Merrill explores the related issues of terror, modernity, tradition, and epochal transformation. In three extended essays, ...

In the course of researching dogwood trees, beloved poet and essayist Christopher Merrill realized that a number of formative moments in his life had some connection to the tree named-according to one writer-because its fruit was not fit for a dog. As he approached his sixtieth birthday, Merrill began to compose a self-portrait alongside this tree whose lifespan is comparable to a human’s and that, from an early age, he’s regarded as a talisman.Dogwoods have never been far from Mer...

Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars is a chronicle of poet and critic Christopher Merrill's ten war-time journeys to the Balkans from the years 1992 through 1996. At once a travelogue, a book of war reportage, and a biography of the imagination under siege, this beautifully written and personal narrative takes the reader along on the author's journeys to all the provinces and republics of the former Yugoslavia-Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Monteneg...

Lauded poet Christopher Merrill hatched a brilliant plan: invite six other poets to join him in four days of writing in Iowa City. The poets would write for 30 minutes, creating a poem of 15 lines, and then read it aloud to the group. As poets heard the poems, they noted memorable words, images, and lines, which they would borrow to insert in subsequent poems of their own. These rounds continued, until, in a process of call and response and unprecedented collaboration, 80 poems had been co...

This book offers the most comprehensive and detailed reading to date of Song of Myself. One of the most distinguished critics in Whitman Studies, Ed Folsom, and one of the nation’s most prominent writers and literary figures, Christopher Merrill, carry on a dialog with Whitman, and with each other, section by section, as they invite readers to enter into the conversation about how the poem develops, moves, improvises, and surprises. Instead of picking and choosing particular passa...

This book is the first to offer a comprehensive selection of Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry and prose with a full commentary on each work. Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill carry on a dialogue with Whitman (and with each other) as they invite readers to trace how Whitman’s writing about the Civil War develops, shifts, and manifests itself in different genres throughout the years of the war. The book offers forty selections of Whitman’s war writings, including not only the well-known war p...

Church worship leaders are more than just musicians. Worship leaders must plan, budget, organize, develop people and stay abreast of technology changes. Gleaned from over 35 years of worship team experience, this book gives the church worship leader practical tips for mastering the elements of the Worship Leader role beyond the musicianship. This toolkit will become an indispensable resource to enhance your congregation's overall worship experience

Guns 360 takes a comprehensive and common-sense approach to some of the most difficult issues facing not only the criminal justice system but also society as a whole: firearm possession, regulation, and control. Issues related to firearms cut across all dimensions of society and are a concern to everyone from the members of the general public, law enforcement, academics, politicians, public health agencies, and the media. An interdisciplinary approach is needed to fully understand...

Yea, though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, you should fear this Evil.In Currant Falls, Vermont, a chilling darkness has descended. When tech mogul JJ Harrison and his family are brutally murdered-and his only daughter vanishes without a trace-Special Agent Ryan Mills and the elite SPECTER team are thrust into a race against time.Their mission: Find the missing five-year-old before an ancient, malevolent presen...

Der mehrfache Weltfußballer und Juve-Star Cristiano Ronaldo bekommt seinen eigenen Comic, deren Charaktere er – gemeinsam mit US Superheldenschöpfer Sharad Devarajan – selbst erschaffen hat. Ronaldo höchstpersönlich und eine bunte Schar superstarker Agenten müssen es mit bedrohlichen Außerirdischen und fiesen Robotern aufnehmen, um die Welt vor der Vernichtung zu retten.

Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there . . . .In the afterglow, the grid vanished, and Ryan’s breath caught in her throat when she saw what remained. There was Jean, walking through her living room just as she had imagined her. Except, this woman was outlined in a halo of blue light—a hologram with every living detail that had been Jean—when she was alive.When gifted homicide detective Ryan Mills is recruited to a top-secret FBI division known as S.P.E.C.T....

"In this rendering, the Psalms become once again what they were for Christian believers from the very beginning: the hymnal of the Church. They remain, certainly, the songs of Israel: from its cries of lamentation to its shouts of exultation. But for the Christian reader, they become as well hymns of petition and praise that express both the joy and the longing of those who live 'in Christ' . . . At the same time their very language can convey to us the assurance that, as he has throughout...