Poetry becomes a vessel for personal and universal truths in San Lin Tun's evocative new collection, Silent Sensuous Ecstasy, and Other Poems. With lyrical grace and unflinching honesty, these poems explore the paradoxes of life in a rapidly changing world-shifting from tender reflections to turbulent undercurrents.Written with a simple, uncluttered clarity, each piece captures the fragility and resilience of the human spirit. Themes of love, music, empathy, humaneness, despair, jo...

This volume assembles a group of eminent scholars to look at the problem of growth and environment from the perspective of environmental regulation. The questions addressed are: How does economic growth interact with regulation, and what are the best approaches to regulation in use today?The context for the volume is the current situation in China, where twenty years of rapid growth have created a situation in which there are both demands for environmental regulation and needs for ...

“Sailboat is a book of heartfelt poetry that grabs the reader’s curiosity, first with the outcome of the book, and then with the originality of the author. In the universal motifs and messages, found throughout the poems of Ratka Bogdan, one senses a rich and diversified life, which is spread across three continents. Nevertheless, the birthplace, that beautiful homeland, as with most authors, is never-ending eternal love...”—Danilo Maric, author of “The Mystic Best Man”“Rare...

This life is not meant just for romance, love and pleasure. To live for a holy mission is even nobler and more satisfying to soul. If your heart is broken, dedicate yourself to a cause of selfless love, as the youth in this story did. Don't be a craving gold, be a melting snow.

However grand or short our tale, it is the moment we set sail, when all the former pale away, a fresh new wind come into play, that lets us see in grand array: it was the entire journey, that made our perfect day! Hurry, scurry, there now in summer's flurry come and walk with me, and on a mountain see, the view eclipse magically, the ardour of our century.

Jerry celebrates his 50 years together with Dani in Poetry. A true love story for all ages.

The poems have been delivered as a pregnant woman having the child of the aesthetic in her. I have tried painting words, writing words as abstract music. There are many moods, all poetic and sublime. I enjoyed bringing new tropes into existence, a painless labor that breathes with my soul.

Her presence in his life was unexpectedshe a landlord, he a tenant; she a vibrant Russian-born scientist, he a journalism professor near retirement. He had come to Durham on a mission to save himself at the world-famous Duke Diet and Fitness Center. She was a brilliant neuroscientist breaking new ground in the labs at Duke on the link between short-term memory and schizophrenia. She was inaccessiblea demanding lab schedule, a deep commitment to her Orthodox faith, emotionally isolated by t...

Poetic meditations on solitude by acclaimed author May SartonThis collection borrows its title from Sir Walter Raleigh, who wrote, "Love is a durable fire / In the mind ever burning." It is a fitting sentiment for a collection on solitude, wherein the author finds herself full of emotion even in seclusion. The first poem, "Gestalt at Sixty," finds the author reflecting on the joy and loneliness of being solitary. A Durable Fire is a transformative work by a...

My writingsa mixed bag. Ive been writing safely dull and inoffensive poems since 1956, but Ive noticed of late that FARCE (alien elements theyre called) has occasionally taken residence in my verses. This can sometimes be considered a problem, but I think a problem that can be endured for the sake of the action, the plot, the whole nine yards, and for what is generously called life. And well, poetry.

Does poetry always have to be about broken love and sad words?Well, this is where All of Twenty Nine stands out.It is a wholesome package of happiness, friendship, romance,food, abstract, dream, fancy, fashion, stigma, new age and what not!This is an entertaining read for poetry lovers encompassinga curious mix of fantasy and realism. It is rich in languagethat is robust enough to keep you hooked.‘When light faded,We drank p...

When Ally realizes that the mysterious man sitting in front of her on the beach café where she now spends her afternoons after work, is reading her personal favorite book, she has no idea what life and fortune have reserved for her. For them.On that March afternoon, Ally Julliard, an uncommon free spirited financial marketeer and Henry Bell, a profound creative film producer are united in a devoted experience of unforeseen truth and magnificent splendor that will live on forever in ...