Bøger af Margaret Gibson

With The Glass Globe, poet Margaret Gibson completes a trilogy distinguished by its meditative focus on the author's experience of her late husband's Alzheimer's disease. In this new collection, she blends elegies of personal bereavement with elegies for the earth during the ongoing global crisis wrought by climate change.

This catalogue is a brief report of Arabic and Syriac manuscripts found at Saint Catherine's Monastery, compiled by Margaret Dunlop Gibson and her sister.

This edition and translation by Gibson first appeared in 1903 and was heralded then as a monumental contribution to a long neglected father of the Eastern Church. A century later, Gibson's unsurpassed rendering of Isho'dad's commentaries remains as valuable as ever.

This edition and translation by Gibson first appeared in 1903 and was heralded then as a monumental contribution to a long neglected father of the Eastern Church. A century later, Gibson's unsurpassed rendering of Isho'dad's commentaries remains as valuable as ever.

This edition and translation by Gibson first appeared in 1903 and was heralded then as a monumental contribution to a long neglected father of the Eastern Church. A century later, Gibson's unsurpassed rendering of Isho'dad's commentaries remains as valuable as ever.

This edition and translation by Gibson first appeared in 1903 and was heralded then as a monumental contribution to a long neglected father of the Eastern Church. A century later, Gibson's unsurpassed rendering of Isho'dad's commentaries remains as valuable as ever.

This edition and translation by Gibson first appeared in 1903 and was heralded then as a monumental contribution to a long neglected father of the Eastern Church. A century later, Gibson's unsurpassed rendering of Isho'dad's commentaries remains as valuable as ever.

This edition and translation by Gibson first appeared in 1903 and was heralded then as a monumental contribution to a long neglected father of the Eastern Church. A century later, Gibson's unsurpassed rendering of Isho'dad's commentaries remains as valuable as ever.

This edition and translation by Gibson first appeared in 1903 and was heralded then as a monumental contribution to a long neglected father of the Eastern Church. A century later, Gibson's unsurpassed rendering of Isho'dad's commentaries remains as valuable as ever.

In these poems, Gibson evokes the talismanic energy of things with a palette of sensual colours and textures. Her work seeks to be both political and spiritual.

With stunning clarity, these poems move from acute observation to an empathy, participation, and intimacy that continues Gibson's search to experience the "one body" of the world in direct encounter and to translate that encounter into words.

One Body is Margaret Gibson's most intimate collection of poems to date. Written as if to honour the injunction "Work to simplify the heart", the poems are direct, empathetic, and tender in their study of life and death.

The inspiration for most of the poems in Autumn Grasses was a daily engagement calendar that features the art of Japan. In the dynamic stillness of this new visual field, Margaret Gibson writes poems that dip and swoop with the unguarded ease of birds in flight, verse as fluid and seamless as the movement of day to night, season to season.

Presents poems grounded in reverence and inquiry and sensuous delight. Margaret Gibson extends and enriches the lyric poem, finding it capacious and durable enough to embrace short and longer meditations, epistles, persona poems, and narratives.

Cultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociological thinking and research. Highly renowned authors present a rich overview of major sociological themes and the various empirical applications of cultural sociology.

The lyric and meditative poems Margaret Gibson gives us in Out in the Open are works of contemplation and self-inquiry. "In the long journey to be other than I am / I have struggled and not got far," she writes.

With a quiet eloquence, the poems in this collection follow "the deep imagination's long tap into the dark", inward toward the still and radiant centre of the self. Margaret Gibson writes out of the firm conviction that our personal griefs held energies that can move is to reach beyond ourselves and join with others in common struggle.

This book takes readers into stories of love, loss, grief and mourning and reveals the emotional attachments and digital kinships of the virtual 3D social world of Second Life. This book shows how a virtual world can change lives and create forms of memory, nostalgia and mourning for both real and avatar based lives.

In this transformative new collection, Margaret Gibson moves inward, taking surprising, mercurial turns of the imagination, guided by an original and probative intelligence. With a clear eye and an open heart, Gibson writes, "How stark it is to be alive"- and also how glorious, how curious, how intimate.

This book takes readers into stories of love, loss, grief and mourning and reveals the emotional attachments and digital kinships of the virtual 3D social world of Second Life. This book shows how a virtual world can change lives and create forms of memory, nostalgia and mourning for both real and avatar based lives.

Brings breathtaking eloquence to what Margaret Gibson describes as "traveling the Way of Alzheimer's" with her husband, poet David McKain. After his diagnosis, Gibson suspended her writing for two years; but then poetry returned, and the creative process became the lightning rod that grounded her and presented a path forward.

Tina Modotti, known to a few as the beautiful Italian actress in Erich von Stroheim's silent film Greed, was also a dedicated political activist and photographer whose best work has a powerful dignity and integrity. Margaret Gibson's Memories of the Future is based on Modotti's vivid but enigmatic life.

A re-edition of Christian Palestinian Aramaic lectionary. It is presented in Syriac with English annotations to the Greek text of the Gospels.

A vibrant tale of two journeys to St. Catharine's Monastery in Mount Sinai that lead to the discovery of an ancient codex containing an old version of the Syriac Gospels.

Deals with the death of a loved one and the process of sorting through, living with, and discarding, the objects that are left behind. This book looks at the status of objects as property, metaphors, symbols of love and identity, and the power of things to bind and unbind family relationships.

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