Poems For The Bee Charmer And Other Familiar Ghosts

What are we made of, and what do we leave behind? We are all amalgamations of family heirlooms, the places we go, and the ones we love. The reminders of what we leave behind - whether it be ancestors, hometowns, or relationships - shape us and those who come after. Yet, there is always one person you can't seem to leave in the past with everything else. The person who will always answer your call, no matter how long it has been. Your bee charmer. In Poems for the Bee Charmer (and Other Familiar Ghosts), Lentz explores the remnants of what we walk away from - and what we just can't seem to let go of.

With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition. Warner tells the unexpected and often disturbing story about shifts in thought about consciousness and the individual person, from the first public waxworks portraits at the end of the eighteenth century to stories of hauntings, possession, and loss of self in modern times. She probes the perceived distinctions between fantasy and deception, and uncovers a host of spirit forms--angels, ghosts, fairies, revenants, and zombies--that are still actively present in contemporary culture.

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Essays in which happiness becomes a magic carpet, lifting readers above momentary fret and making the ordinary appears wondrous.

With an acute attention to detail "Stained Glass" is the first collection of Mozambican poetry of its kind which tries to encompass the entire literary landscape with its variety and multiplicity. Translated from original Portuguese.