If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time

Poetry is a wonderful stage that allows me an opportunity to enact aspects of my personal life, a helicopter vision that journeys back into my past and zoom those intense involvement and self discovery as silhouetted against the background of my family, my friends, my work, my hobbies, my challenges, my areas of development, the world, things I treasure, things I cherish and love and forces outside my control that continues to exert their influence and direct courses of my life. Poems in this book are carefully and specifically selected as they continue to invoke the bad and the lovely memories, mixed emotions and thoughts - a package of everyday life. Despite its challenges, unbearable pressures, unfairness, double standards and imperfection, it is still our beautiful life worth of praise!

My name is Brenda Bonds. Back in the day I was out there, I should have been dead a long time ago, but by the grace of God I was given a second chance. This book will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you think. So dont judge because you always have the chance to turn it around.

Can Word Birth Voices is a book of lyrical works comprised from a collection of poetry by Richard A. White, known to the Spoken Word World as Shake the Poet. These poems are of varius topics, stemming from love and sex to politics and personal life experiences.

From the heart is a compilation of poems and songs that I have written over the years that I feel should be shared. Sometimes it feels good to get out of the normal genre that I write and let my heart speak.

The Butterfly On My Shoulder is an inspiring book composed of poems and commentary about the grief process. Its purpose is to share the love, pain and growth that so many have lived through and to inspire healing by all who grieve. This book lets mourners know that they are not alone and they are not going crazy, they are grieving and they can heal. It was written over a 22 year period by a mother after the death of her 24 year old son by suicide in 1986. Many of the poems have been previously published in newsletters, brochures and on the internet. They have proven to be very encouraging to those who grieve by helping them to deal with and understand their grieving journey. The book offers a clear explanation of the grief journey and grief process as experienced from the perspective of all family members, friends and fellow grievers in fourteen chapters. The chapters are divided by the stages and the friend or family member's perspective. The poems and commentary offer suggestions and information about helpful methods and modalities that a grieving person can use to better negotiate the different stages of grief. The author uses her experiences and education as the Executive Director/CEO of the Florida Initiative for Suicide Prevention, Inc. and a member of the Florida State Suicide Prevention Coordinating Council to explain and share the experiences of thousands of grieving individuals which she has come in contact with over the last 22 years. The commentary and poems express the perspective of both the author and survivors with which she has worked and describes their pain and ultimate healing. This book is a useful tool for anyone who is grieving the loss of a loved one including those dealing with a death by suicide.

Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics is a comprehensive collection devoted to the new field of research called 'intermedialities.' The concept of intermedialities stresses the necessity of situating philosophical and political debates on social relations in the divergent contexts of media theories, avant-garde artistic practices, continental philosophy, feminism, and political theory. The 'intermedial' approach to social relations does not focus on the shared identity but instead on the epistemological, ethical, and political status of inter (being-in-between). At stake here are the political analyses of new modes of being in common that transcend national boundaries, the critique of the new forms of domination that accompany them, and the search for new emancipatory possibilities. Opening a new approach to social relations, intermedialities investigates not only engagements between already constituted positions but even more the interval, antagonism, and differences that form and decenter these positions. Consequently, in opposition to the resurgence of cultural and ethnic particularisms and to the leveling of difference produced by globalization, the political and ethical analysis of the 'in-between' enables a conception of community based on difference, exposure, and interaction with others rather than on an identification with a shared identity. Investigations of 'in-betweenness,' both as medium specific and between heterogeneous 'sites' of inquiry, range here from philosophical conceptuality to artistic practices, from the political circulation of money and power to the operation of new technologies. They inevitably invoke the crucial role of embodiment in creative thought and collective acting. As a mediating instance between the psyche and society, matter and spirit, nature and culture, and biology and technology, the body is another interval forming and informed by socio-linguistic relations. As these complex intersections between media, materiality, art, and the philosophy and politics of the in-between suggest, the project of intermedialities provides new ways of rethinking relations among arts, politics, and science.

This is a collection of poetry from the many phases of Gracies love life (i.e., puppy love, infatuation, obsessions, forbidden love, whirlwind affairs) and, finally, acceptance of not love but the idea of being in love and its elusiveness.