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This debut volume establishes Steve Willard as a true original, an artist whose kinetic sense of wordplay is deft, smart, and unfailingly provocative. Intended to be read in repeated passes, these poems are Cubist in feel, multifaceted in syntax, and brilliant in coloration. By turns disjunctive, narrative, plaintive, and disruptive, Harm. makes use of a wide formal range in reaching toward its ambition, which is nothing short of reclaiming lost human potentiality from current norms. Syntax flexes and the world is refigured, observed as if through a different camera's open aperture, drawing the reader to a new and transformative interior landscape.

Nature --- Poetry. --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- Literature --- Philosophy --- ambition. --- coloration. --- contemporary poetry. --- cubist. --- disjunctive. --- disruptive. --- honesty. --- human possibility. --- interior landscape. --- invention. --- kinetic sense. --- literary poetry. --- lost human potential. --- multifaceted. --- narrative. --- original poetry. --- plaintive. --- poems. --- poet. --- poetry. --- provocative. --- repeated readings. --- subject and object. --- transformative. --- wordplay. --- writing style.

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A superbly crafted study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation, achievement, and continuing relevance.    Savage Journey is a "supremely crafted" study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation and achievement. Focusing on Thompson's influences, development, and unique model of authorship, Savage Journey argues that his literary formation was largely a San Francisco story. During the 1960s, Thompson rode with the Hell's Angels, explored the San Francisco counterculture, and met talented editors who shared his dissatisfaction with mainstream journalism. Author Peter Richardson traces Thompson's transition during this time from New Journalist to cofounder of Gonzo journalism. He also endorses Thompson's later claim that he was one of the best writers using the English language as both a musical instrument and a political weapon. Although Thompson's political commentary was often hyperbolic, Richardson shows that much of it was also prophetic.   Fifty years after the publication of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and more than a decade after his death, Thompson's celebrity continues to obscure his literary achievement. This book refocuses our understanding of that achievement by mapping Thompson's influences, probing the development of his signature style, and tracing the reception of his major works. It concludes that Thompson was not only a gifted journalist, satirist, and media critic, but also the most distinctive American voice in the second half of the twentieth century.

American literature --- Journalists --- History and criticism. --- Thompson, Hunter S. --- Thompson, Hunter S. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- 1960s. --- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. --- Hunter S Thompson reportage. --- San Francisco literary culture. --- hell's angels. --- hippie counterculture. --- media critique. --- new journalism. --- political journalism. --- rolling stone magazine. --- writing style.

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Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman SenecaIn his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: "No plague has cost the human race more dear." This was proved by his own life, which he barely preserved under one wrathful emperor, Caligula, and lost under a second, Nero. This splendid new translation of essential selections from "On Anger," presented with an enlightening introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, offers readers a timeless guide to avoiding and managing anger. It vividly illustrates why the emotion is so dangerous and why controlling it would bring vast benefits to individuals and society.Drawing on his great arsenal of rhetoric, including historical examples (especially from Caligula's horrific reign), anecdotes, quips, and soaring flights of eloquence, Seneca builds his case against anger with mounting intensity. Like a fire-and-brimstone preacher, he paints a grim picture of the moral perils to which anger exposes us, tracing nearly all the world's evils to this one toxic source. But he then uplifts us with a beatific vision of the alternate path, a path of forgiveness and compassion that resonates with Christian and Buddhist ethics.Seneca's thoughts on anger have never been more relevant than today, when uncivil discourse has increasingly infected public debate. Whether seeking personal growth or political renewal, readers will find, in Seneca's wisdom, a valuable antidote to the ills of an angry age.

Anger --- 80s BC. --- Aeneid. --- Agrippina the Elder. --- Analogy. --- Ancient art. --- Anecdote. --- Assassination. --- Astyages. --- Awareness. --- Bassus. --- Blacklisting. --- Cato the Younger. --- Clothing. --- Correction (novel). --- Courtesy. --- Cruelty. --- Cyrus the Great. --- De Beneficiis. --- De Ira. --- Death of Alexander the Great. --- Decorum. --- Democritus. --- Denarius. --- Despotism. --- Diction. --- Diogenes of Babylon. --- Eloquence. --- Epic poetry. --- Epictetus. --- Eunuch. --- Fiction. --- Flattery. --- Foe (novel). --- Forehead. --- Freedman. --- Gaius Caesar. --- Gauls. --- Harpagus. --- Herodotus. --- Histories (Herodotus). --- Iliad. --- Introspection. --- Laughter. --- Law court (ancient Athens). --- Livy. --- Marcus Caelius Rufus. --- Metaphor. --- Michel Foucault. --- Nickname. --- Odysseus. --- Otium. --- Paragraph. --- Parricide. --- Philosopher. --- Poetry. --- Practical Ethics. --- Pretext. --- Pricking. --- Pro Caelio. --- Proconsul. --- Proscription. --- Result. --- Roman Senate. --- Sarcasm. --- Self-control. --- Seneca the Younger. --- Sexism. --- Sextus (praenomen). --- Silver coin. --- Stoicism. --- Sulla. --- Sybaris. --- The Persians. --- Theft. --- Thought. --- Thyestes. --- Torture. --- Tragedy. --- Treatise. --- Trojan War. --- Virgil. --- War of succession. --- Wildness. --- Writer. --- Writing style. --- Writing.

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Despite the social sciences' growing fascination with tattooing--and the immense popularity of tattoos themselves--the practice has not left much of a historical record. And, until very recently, there was no good context for writing a serious history of tattooing in the West. This collection exposes, for the first time, the richness of the tattoo's European and American history from antiquity to the present day. In the process, it rescues tattoos from their stereotypical and sensationalized association with criminality. The tattoo has long hovered in a space between the cosmetic and the punitive. Throughout its history, the status of the tattoo has been complicated by its dual association with slavery and penal practices on the one hand and exotic or forbidden sexuality on the other. The tattoo appears often as an involuntary stigma, sometimes as a self-imposed marker of identity, and occasionally as a beautiful corporal decoration. This volume analyzes the tattoo's fluctuating, often uncomfortable position from multiple angles. Individual chapters explore fascinating segments of its history--from the metaphorical meanings of tattooing in Celtic society to the class-related commodification of the body in Victorian Britain, from tattooed entertainers in Germany to tattooing and piercing as self-expression in the contemporary United States. But they also accumulate to form an expansive, textured view of permanent bodily modification in the West. By combining empirical history, powerful cultural analysis, and a highly readable style, this volume both draws on and propels the ongoing effort to write a meaningful cultural history of the body. The contributors, representing several disciplines, have all conducted extensive original research into the Western tattoo. Together, they have produced an unrivalled account of its history. They are, in addition to the editor, Clare Anderson, Susan Benson, James Bradley, Ian Duffield, Juliet Fleming, Alan Govenar, Harriet Guest, Mark Gustafson, C. P. Jones, Charles MacQuarrie, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Stephan Oettermann, Jennipher A. Rosecrans, and Abby Schrader.

Tattooing --- Tattooing --- Tattooing --- Tattooing --- History. --- History. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Social aspects --- History. --- A Book Of. --- Abjection. --- Adolf Loos. --- Alex Binnie (tattoo artist). --- Alfred Gell. --- Ancient Rome. --- Arthur Dimmesdale. --- Body painting. --- Body piercing. --- Book. --- Cesare Lombroso. --- Chris Burden. --- Cogito ergo sum. --- Consciousness. --- Courtauld Institute of Art. --- Culture and Society. --- Dialectic. --- Disfigurement. --- Document. --- Dramaturgy. --- Engraving. --- Epigraphy. --- Essay. --- Forensic science. --- Forgery. --- George Burchett. --- God. --- Havelock Ellis. --- Heart On. --- Henry Mayhew. --- Horace Walpole. --- Human branding. --- Iconoclasm. --- Iconodule. --- In Death. --- Inception. --- Ink. --- John Bulwer. --- Journalism. --- Knout. --- Literature. --- Manichaeism. --- Manuscript. --- Mark Lilla. --- Messer (weapon). --- Mutability (poem). --- Neocolonialism. --- Newspaper. --- Oppositional culture. --- Ornament and Crime. --- P. T. Barnum. --- Parchment. --- Penal transportation. --- Personal identity. --- Phrenology. --- Physiognomy. --- Pictish language. --- Picts. --- Plautus. --- Police state. --- Powers of Horror. --- Pricking. --- Prison tattooing. --- Process of tattooing. --- Protesilaus. --- Prudentius. --- Puncturing. --- Rebuke. --- Reginald Scot. --- Religion. --- Robert Bly. --- Robert Fludd. --- Roman naming conventions. --- Samuel Purchas. --- Scrimshaw. --- Shirt of Nessus. --- Simile. --- Simon Forman. --- Skinhead. --- Sophocles. --- Stephen Greenblatt. --- Suetonius. --- Tattoo artist. --- Tattoo machine. --- Tattoo removal. --- Tattoo. --- Tattooing. --- The Antiquary. --- The Offence. --- The Remains. --- Theodor de Bry. --- Tichborne case. --- Toff. --- Tomb. --- Warfare. --- William Camden. --- Wound. --- Writing style. --- Writing. --- Your Face.