Author: Chafe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: ecstatic, tragic
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2008-08-12
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 019534300X
ISBN-13: 9780195343007
During the years preceding the composition of Tristan and Isolde, Wagner’s aesthetics underwent a momentous turnaround, principally as a result of his discovery of Schopenhauer. Many of Schopenhauer’s ideas, especially those regarding music’s metaphysical significance, resonated with patterns of thought that had long been central to Wagner’s aesthetics, and Wagner described the entry of Schopenhauer into his life as "a gift from heaven." Chafe argues that Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde is a musical and dramatic exposition of metaphysical ideas inspired by Schopenhaue
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Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: poems, ecstatic, mirabai
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2004-11-19
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 080706386X
ISBN-13: 9780807063866
Afterword by John Straton HawleyA stunning collection of poems by Mirabai, the fifteenth-century female Indian ecstatic poet Like Coleman Barks’s translations of Rumi, this collection of poems by Mirabai will appeal to anyone interested in spiritual poetry. Translator and renowned poet Robert Bly has teamed up with Jane Hirshfield, a leader in the field of feminine spiritual poetry and a highly respected poet herself, to bring us a passionate and inspiring collection of the ecstatic poems of Mirabai.Mirabai was a figure of legendary proportions. Born a princess in Rajasthan, India, in 1498,
Author: Steve Erickson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: novel, days, ecstatic
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-01-10
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0743285107
ISBN-13: 9780743285100
In the waning summer days, a lake appears almost overnight in the middle of Los Angeles. Out of fear and love, a young single mother commits a desperate act: convinced that the lake means to take her small son from her, she determines to stop it and becomes the lake’s Dominatrix-Oracle, "the Queen of the Zed Night." Acclaimed by many critics as Steve Erickson’s greatest novel, Our Ecstatic Days takes place on the forbidden landscape of a defiant heart.
Author: David A. Cooper
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Keywords: kabbalah, ecstatic
Number of Pages: 97
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1591793440
ISBN-13: 9781591793441
Kabbalah—the secret is out! From Madonna’s controversial conversion to the Dalai Lama’s acknowledgment and support, this mystical tradition is gaining unprecedented recognition. But how do we put this powerful and esoteric worldview into practice? With The Ecstatic Kabbalah, Rabbi David Cooper— author of God Is a Verb (100,000 copies sold, Riverhead, 1958), and a renowned leader of the Jewish meditation movement—provides practical exercises on the path toward "mending the soul," the fundamental Jewish experience that brings union with the Divine. With meditation techniques for both b
Author: Tristan Taormino
Publisher: Collins Living
Keywords: sex, ecstatic, guide, hands, pucker
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-09
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0060394153
ISBN-13: 9780060394158
A frank and witty tour of modern sexuality from a knowing young "sexpert" who’s seen -- and done -- it all. From her popular columns and website to her videos and lecture series, Tristan Taormino has garnered raves for her unabashed straight talk about sex. Now, for the first time in book form, she imparts wisdom gleaned from years of adventurous and informative sexual anthropology. As a sex educator, Tristan has listened to thousands of people’s most intimate questions. In Pucker Up, she responds to those queries -- no matter how taboo -- giving honest, useful advice that doe
Author: Victoria Lee
Publisher: Conari Press
Keywords: soulful, sex, guide, intimate, lovemaking, ecstatic
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 2002-01-09
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 157324760X
ISBN-13: 9781573247603
Author: William Bryant Logan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: earth, skin, ecstatic, dirt
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-01-17
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 039332947X
ISBN-13: 9780393329476
“A gleeful, poetic book. . . . Like the best natural histories, Dirt is a kind of prayer.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “You are about to read a lot about dirt, which no one knows very much about.” So begins the cult classic that brings mystery and magic to “that stuff that won’t come off your collar.” John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Saint Phocas, Darwin, and Virgil parade through this thought-provoking work, taking their place next to the dung beetle, the compost heap, dowsing, historical farming, and the microscopic biota that till the soil. With fresh eyes and heartfelt
