Able Muse - v9 https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/817/817? en The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/rachel-hadas/greek-poets-homer-present? <!--paging_filter--><p><strong>Three thousand years of the greatest Greek poetry, exquisitely translated and assembled in a handsome volume sure to be a modern classic.</strong> This landmark volume captures three millennia of Greek poetry—more than 1,000 poems and 200 poets. From the epics of Homeric Greece to the historical and erotic ironies of Cavafy, from the romances, hymns, and bawdy rhymes of Byzantium to the innovative voices of a resurgent twentieth century, this anthology brings together the diverse strands of the Greek poetic tradition.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/rachel-hadas/greek-poets-homer-present?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/rachel-hadas/greek-poets-homer-present?#comments Books homer to the present poems poetry book rachel hadas the greek poets v7 v9 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:50:00 +0000 Administrator 759 at https://www.ablemuse.com All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/rebecca-foust/all-gorgeous-pitiless-song? <!--paging_filter--><p>Poetry. "Foust brings to life an immense range of experience and feeling. This poet's emotional intelligence correlates, too, with her formal skill, that unique talent for phrase and rhythm with which she makes a whole world palpable. A superb poet and a tremendous book"--Peter Campion.</p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/rebecca-foust/all-gorgeous-pitiless-song?#comments Books all that gorgeous pitiless song poems poetry book rebecca foust v8 v9 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:39:29 +0000 Administrator 756 at https://www.ablemuse.com Heidegger's Glasses: A Novel https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/thaisa-frank/heideggers-glasses-novel? <!--paging_filter--><p>Heidegger’s Glasses opens during the end of World War II in a failing Germany coming apart at the seams. The Third Reich’s strong reliance on the occult and its obsession with the astral plane has led to the formation of an underground compound of scribes—translators responsible for answering letters written to those eventually killed in the concentration camps.Into this covert compound comes a letter written by eminent philosopher Martin Heidegger to his optometrist, who is now lost in the dying thralls of Auschwitz. How will the scribes answer this letter?</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/thaisa-frank/heideggers-glasses-novel?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/thaisa-frank/heideggers-glasses-novel?#comments Books fiction heidegger&#039;s glasses novel story storybook thaisa frank v9 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:51:09 +0000 Administrator 755 at https://www.ablemuse.com Able Muse Anthology (best of the poetry, fiction, short stories, creative nonfiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, poetry https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/alexander-pepple/able-muse-anthology-best-poetry-fiction-short-stories-creative-nonfiction-essays-interviews? <!--paging_filter--><p>The <em>Able Muse Anthology</em> — from the new Able Muse Press — celebrates <em>Able Muse'</em>s journey through its first decade and beyond, by showcasing the best of the published poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, book reviews, art and photography, including a foreword by Timothy Steele. This anthology has received high praise and acclaim from Dana Gioia, David Mason, Charles Martin, Catharine Savage-Brosman, X.J. Kennedy, Catharine Savage Brosman and others. <strong>PRAISE FOR THE ABLE MUSE ANTHOLOGY:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/alexander-pepple/able-muse-anthology-best-poetry-fiction-short-stories-creative-nonfiction-essays-interviews?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/alexander-pepple/able-muse-anthology-best-poetry-fiction-short-stories-creative-nonfiction-essays-interviews?#comments Books able muse anthology alexander pepple book review essays fiction interview poems poet poetry poetry book timothy steele v9 x.j. kennedy Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:38:19 +0000 Administrator 754 at https://www.ablemuse.com Sharon Passmore https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/bio/sharon-passmore? <p>Sharon Passmore is the art moderator at <em>Able Muse</em>&rsquo;s <a href="/erato"><em>Eratosphere</em></a> workshops. Sharon lives in California, soon to be South Carolina, and is a self-unemployed mural artist and color consultant.</p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/bio/sharon-passmore?#comments Bios art billy monday featured artists interview photography sara g. umemoto sharon passmore v9 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:07:50 +0000 Administrator 752 at https://www.ablemuse.com Able Muse, Volta Issue: Poetry, Prose & Art https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/index.html? <p> <link type="text/css" href="/sites/all/themes/zen/zenzine/front-page-rev.css" rel="stylesheet" /></p> <div id="center_col"> <div id="top_left_col"> <p class="h1" style="font-size: 25px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-bottom: 0pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><a title="Able Muse Volta Issue (v9) - Summer 2010" href="#">Features<br /> </a></p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/index.html?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/index.html?#comments Issue art book reviews essays fiction interviews non-fiction photography poetry rachel wetzsteon tribute v9 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:12:11 +0000 Administrator 741 at https://www.ablemuse.com Stories Of An Imaginary Childhood (Library of American Fiction) https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/stories-imaginary-childhood-library-american-fiction? <!--paging_filter--><p>In Stories of an Imaginary Childhood Melvin Jules Bukiet inscribes the world that might have been his own if not for the catastrophe that destroyed most of Jewish life in eastern Europe during the 1940s. Set before the Holocaust in the tiny Polish shtetl of Proszowice, each interconnected story follows the young protagonist through the pleasures and humiliations of childhood and the rites of manhood, as he fights against historical, social, and psychological forces that threaten to pull him down.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/stories-imaginary-childhood-library-american-fiction?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/stories-imaginary-childhood-library-american-fiction?#comments Books book fiction library of american fiction melvin jules bukiet novel stories of an imaginary childhood story book v9 writer Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:06:03 +0000 Administrator 740 at https://www.ablemuse.com A Faker's Dozen: Stories https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/fakers-dozen-stories? <!--paging_filter--><p>The wicked exploits of an assortment of louts and losers occupy Melvin Jules Bukiet's profligate imagination in these delectable stories. The title of Melvin Jules Bukiet's latest collection hints at the deceitful nature of its multiple protagonists. An aspiring writer stalks Vladmir Nabokov across midtown Manhattan one afternoon in the summer of Watergate. A young co-ed's seduction of her elderly philosophy professor delivers her an A and him lasting happiness. Max, "a liar and a voyeur, like any true artist," wanders the East Village taking photographs of murder victims.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/fakers-dozen-stories?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/fakers-dozen-stories?#comments Books a faker&#039;s dozen book fiction melvin jules bukiet novel stories story book v9 writer Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:05:59 +0000 Administrator 738 at https://www.ablemuse.com While the Messiah Tarries: Stories (Library of Modern Jewish Literature) https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/while-messiah-tarries-stories-library-modern-jewish-literature? <!--paging_filter--><p>A collection of imaginative and humorous short stories by Melvin Jules Bukiet which often end in madness, death or religious epiphany.</p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/while-messiah-tarries-stories-library-modern-jewish-literature?#comments Books book fiction library of modern jewish literature melvin jules bukiet novel stories story book v9 while the messiah tarries writer Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:05:59 +0000 Administrator 739 at https://www.ablemuse.com Strange Fire: A Novel https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/strange-fire-novel? <!--paging_filter--><p>Blind, homosexual, Russian émigré speechwriter Nathan Kazakov has enough problems even before his left ear is obliterated by a bullet presumably meant for the Israeli prime minister. Determined to solve the mystery, Nathan begins exploring a web of conspiracies involving messianic orthodox settlers, Arab terrorists, and the Israeli secret service. Was the bullet intended for Nathan after all? or perhaps for the prime minister's son Gabriel, an archaeologist who shuns his father's politics? One trail leads to Leviticus, another beneath the Temple Mount.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/strange-fire-novel?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/books/melvin-jules-bukiet/strange-fire-novel?#comments Books book fiction melvin jules bukiet novel stories story book strange fire v9 writer Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:05:58 +0000 Administrator 737 at https://www.ablemuse.com