Black Paper Dream

Black Paper Dream is a novel approach to five short stories. 55 dreams become 5 intersecting nightmares awakening to a single modern-day horror. Featuring: The IMask Interlink. Little Gracies Pictures. The Joliet Butcher. Red Landgrave and the Waxworks. Waiting on the Brambleman.

A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. “Darkness is not empty,” writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity—and witness the humanity of others—in a time of darkness. One of the most celebrated essayists of his generation, Cole here plays variations on the essay form, modeling ways to attend to experience—not just to take in but to think critically about what we sense and what we don’t. Wide-ranging but thematically unified, the essays address ethical questions about what it means to be human and what it means to bear witness, recognizing how our individual present is informed by a collective past. Cole’s writings in Black Paper approach the fractured moment of our history through a constellation of interrelated concerns: confrontation with unsettling art, elegies both public and private, the defense of writing in a time of political upheaval, the role of the color black in the visual arts, the use of shadow in photography, and the links between literature and activism. Throughout, Cole gives us intriguing new ways of thinking about blackness and its numerous connotations. As he describes the carbon-copy process in his epilogue: “Writing on the top white sheet would transfer the carbon from the black paper onto the bottom white sheet. Black transported the meaning.”

Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. The poem of "Paper Dreams" by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Russia) is finest contemporary poetry in trilingual or bilingual presentation.

The poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko made his debut in underground magazines in the late Soviet period, and developed an elliptic, figural style with affinities to Moscow metarealism, although he lived in what was then Leningrad. Endarkenment brings together revisions of selected translations by Lyn Hejinian and Elena Balashova from his previous American titles, long out of print, with translations of new work carried out by Genya Turovskaya, Bela Shayevich, Jacob Edmond, and Eugene Ostashevsky. This chronological arrangement of Dragomoshchenko’s writing represents the heights of his imaginative poetry and fragmentary lyricism from perestroika to the time of his death. His language—although “perpetually incomplete” and shifting in meaning—remains fresh and transformative, exhibiting its roots in Russian Modernism and its openness to the poet’s Language School contemporaries in the United States. The collection is a crucial English introduction to Dragomoshchenko’s work. It is also bilingual, with Russian texts that are otherwise hard to obtain. It also includes a foreword by Lyn Hejinian, an essay on how the poetry reads in Russian, a biography, and a list of publications. Check for the online reader’s companion at endarkenment.site.wesleyan.edu.

A thought-provoking book that will shine a light on the meaning of your dreams and help develop your skills in fortune-telling. Madame Juno, the Gypsy Queen, gives the true interpretation of every dream you are likely to have and advises on fortune-telling methods. First published in 1930, this volume is an essential read for anyone with an interest in the art of divination. The chapters featured in this volume include: - Dreams and Their Interpretations - How to Tell Fortunes by Dominoes - How to Tell Fortunes by Dice - How to Tell Fortunes from the Hand - How to Tell Fortunes by Moles - The Moon - Judgments Drawn from the Moon’s Age - How to Tell Fortunes by Cards - How to Tell Fortunes by Tea-Leaves, or Coffee-Grounds - Charms and Ceremonies - Charms, Spells and Incantations - Fortune-Telling Games with Cards - The Oraculum, or Book of Fate Consulted by Napoleon

THE BLACK PAPER OD DIARY IS AN ANTHOLOGY BOOK, WHERE WRITERS EXPRESSED THEIR OPINIONS ON VARIOUS ASPECT OF LIFE. IT'S A TOTALLY FICTIONAL BOOK

Faith Listening focuses on Who God is and What God is doing. What if God is The Author and we are the living text? What if God is writing His:story on the tablets of our human hearts? What if we are witnesses to the Mystery of God present in and among us? Faith Listening is a toolkit of practical strategies to connect you with God and to bring about reconciliation and healing. It is a refreshing way to live by faith and find meaning. The adventure awaits!

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Newspaper is about more than news printed on paper. It brings us inside our best and worst selves, from censorship and the intentional destruction of historic record, to partisan and white supremacist campaigns, to the story of an instrument that has been central to democracy and to holding the powerful to account. This is a 400-year history of a nearly-endangered object as seen by journalist Maggie Messitt in the two democratic nations she calls home – the United States and South Africa. The “first draft of history,” newspapers figure prominently through each movement and period of unrest in both nations-from the first colonial papers published by slave traders and an advocate for press freedom to those published on id cards, wallpaper, and folio sheets during civil wars. Offices were set on fire. Presses were pushed into bodies of water. Editors were run out of town. And journalists were arrested. Newspaper reflects on a tool that has been used to push down and to rise up, and a journey alongside the hidden lives that have harnessed its power. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.