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Xibalba Songs

Author : Bruce Rimell
Publisher : Xibalba Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Xibalba Songs written by Bruce Rimell and published by Xibalba Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From cosmogonies and half-remembered memories, to mythical mandalas from the ancient past, this collection of surreal and unsettling poetry charts the soul's journey from daylight into the dark recesses of Xibalba, the Realm of the Dead and the Archetypal. But in doing so, it also mirrors the death of mythical and non-rational modes of experience in our modern society: the grey emptiness of Xibalba is experienced here as a bleak realm whose mythological heart is steadily disppearing to be replaced by muted whispers on the archetypal breeze. The house of torment in Orpheus Junior is the rationalising but dehumanised urban space, yet there are signs of hope: flashes of life remind us that we are alive on this cold road downwards, and the collection culminates in a face-off with a nameless Underworld deity who simultaneous takes us apart as it reassembles us. Xibalba Songs asks a simple question: can we honestly say that if we let our ancestral mythological heritage pass into permanent nightfall, that we will be able to retain the true depth of our humanity? Should we simply stand by, record its demise and allow it to pass quietly into the night as we greet a cold, purposeless future without the colourful mythforms of our ancestors to guide us onwards?

The Fernal Songs

Author : Bruce Rimell
Publisher : Xibalba Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fernal Songs written by Bruce Rimell and published by Xibalba Books. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would a positive, life-affirming, cosmos-embracing and transcendent Queer mythology look like? In the years 2013-15, artist and poet Bruce Rimell got a chance to find out when he was invited to participate in a collaborative project to create an international art publication, ‘The Encyclopaedia of Fernal Affairs’. Although this was principally an art-oriented initiative, Bruce quickly went off on his own tangent, inventing a complete constructed language and two song-cycles of fernal mythology which resonated with his own burgeoning sense of his Queer identity. ‘The Fernal Songs’ are the shimmering results of that literary side project. Centred around Lucaion, a Queer Hero whose exploits around an animistic cosmos showcase a more compassionate, interactive masculine images than the traditional subduer of enemies, and Afer, an all-gendered Cosmic Creatrix, whose song reverberates across the Fernal World, these are sacred songs which move beyond satirical ‘queering’ of traditional religious forms into a transcendent queer space which simultaneously resonates with ancient memories and indigenous lifeways as well as with possible queer futures of intense beauty and humanism. The ‘Song of Lucaion’, the ‘Thirteen Songs’ and the supplemental ‘Daiarzan’ come with several essays, personal recollections and honest expressions of Bruce’s envisioning of what he calls the ‘sacred and pristine jewel of queeritude within.’

Nine Nights Awake

Author : Bruce Rimell
Publisher : Bruce Rimell
ISBN 13 : 1447871529
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Nine Nights Awake written by Bruce Rimell and published by Bruce Rimell. This book was released on 2023-01-25 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nameless young man finds himself wandering half-naked through the frozen wintry Bristol night, when he falls – or is he pushed…? – into the river and is washed out to sea. Arriving lost and exhausted upon a strange island enmisted, he comes to a fortress which holds a lithe, enchanted-but-broken, eternal youth in chains, who tries to kill him. It is only through sharing stories of his life that he is able to avert the youth's wrath at being disturbed, easing his traumatised heart by offering him something no other visitor to this dark place has ever given him: presence, and care. This unearthly mythical narrative becomes the poetic frame story by which Bruce, the nameless wanderer, unfolds his life story in fractured, allegorical and dreamlike ways. We move from migraines and his lived experience as a gay/queer person with ADHD, into visionary experiences that changed the course of his life, the ecstasies of true love, and expressions of his personal philosophies and spiritualities, as well as a curious catalogue of artworks he has created over the years as an artist. As this most unusual of autobiographies unfolds, we move deeper into Bruce's queer/neurodiverse, homoerotic/hyperactive inner world, gliding from one theme to another in a genre-baffling, lilting symphony of images, ultimately uncovering his one true mirror soul with all its fragilities, strengths and wonders. He must try to save his own life as well as the youth's, so they can escape this otherworldly prison together. At once melodious and magic, joyous and tragic, ‘Nine Nights Awake’ is not for the faint of heart: simultaneously riddlingly absurd, sexually graphic and brutally honest, its mythical wildness might well be the oddest and most eccentric memoir you are ever likely to read! ‘Nine Nights Awake’ is all at once, a kind of thematically arranged autobiography of an idiosyncratic inner life, with all its feelings, colours, dreams, armchair philosophies and psychological agilities; an epic poem grounded in fragments of Celtic and Germanic myth telling the story of a lost soul found; an ad-hoc set of narrative allegories from personal, gay/Queer, neurodiverse, contemporary and archetypal human life; an extensive artist’s talk enfolded into a dreaming fall and confinement; an intimate and winding conversation with the soul; a lengthy meditation upon the Medieval Welsh poem ‘Preiddeu Annwn’ attributed to Taliesin, which in turn liberates further personal musings on poetry itself; and a radically parallel series of multiple threads, sidenotes, sidetracks, circular narratives, premonitions, postmonitions and quirky references, misquotes, paraphrased song lyrics and other inspirations… all rolled into one!

Reveries, Dreams, Refractions

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Author : Bruce Rimell
Publisher : Xibalba Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reveries, Dreams, Refractions written by Bruce Rimell and published by Xibalba Books. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2021, British artist Bruce Rimell realised that he had also been a poet for much longer than he had been an artist, and decided to bring this other creative practice into the foreground. Delving through his many collections of poetry, he began to publish the best as part of a small series of books. However, some of his unpublished collections were of much lower quality, yet contained within them what he felt were occasional shards of beautiful light. He decided to gather these disparate poems into a single volume of assorted works. This retrospective book is the result, mapping the transformations of Bruce's poetic voice over nearly thirty years, from formative and youthful compositions into the confident, eclectic, and eccentric poet with a mythical edge that he is now. The diverse collection ranges from satirical to magical, playful to visionary. Longform psychedelic texts sit alongside quick bursts of poetic inspiration, while poems which accompanied artworks, along with random social media compositions, all add their unique voices to the throng of the anthology. ‘Reveries, Dreams, Refractions’ is an unconventional volume charting a course across decades of a poet's inner life. Come and see...!

Ta Sba Balamil Ta Ch'ulel ~ On The Face Of The Earth And In The Soul

Author : Bruce Rimell
Publisher : Xibalba Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ta Sba Balamil Ta Ch'ulel ~ On The Face Of The Earth And In The Soul written by Bruce Rimell and published by Xibalba Books. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, artist and poet Bruce Rimell visited the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico as part of a programme of arts cultural events and indigenous ceremonies. To prepare for this journey, Bruce chose not to learn Spanish but Tzotzil, the local Maya language, and to explore the indigenous people’s beliefs, worldviews and ways of life. During these researches, he learned that the Tzotzil pay close attention to their dreams, and they consider that Westerners and non-Maya Mexicans who ignore these night-time voyages live only half a life. This philosophy is expressed in the succinct Tzotzil phrase ta sba balamil ta ch’ulel, ‘on the face of the Earth, and in the soul’, meaning that human life must be lived in both waking life and dreams. This little book of strange verse accompanied by surreal sketches is an attempt to bridge the gap between the Mayan cosmovision and the Western world, and represents an integrated reflection of Bruce’s journey to Chiapas. Featuring visits to contemporary highland Maya villages, archaeological sites and time spent with indigenous people – on the face of the Earth – as well as ceremonies, visions and dreams – and in the soul – that became increasingly influenced by Tzotzil insights into how to live, this collection of poetry expresses Bruce’s effort to intimate something of that fuller dreaming human life which for the indigenous people of Chiapas is as natural as events in the waking world. This delightfully designed volume features poems in both English and selected translations into the Tzotzil language, and it is the fourth in the new Xibalba Books Poetry Series aimed at republishing selected highlights from Bruce's vast poetry archive.

Uji no Shi

Author : Bruce Rimell
Publisher : Xibalba Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uji no Shi written by Bruce Rimell and published by Xibalba Books. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1990s, artist and poet Bruce Rimell travelled halfway across the world to live and work in Japan. There in his new home city of Uji, just south of Kyoto, he discovered a wonderful new world of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines, as well as evocative myths and folktales, beautiful rivers and forested mountains. Losing himself in this ancient landscape, where the Uji River emerges from the mountains into a picturesque cultural scene, he soon discovered the traditional Japanese artform of the 短歌 tanka, the ‘short song’ arranged in five lines of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables, and he began writing these brief poems to reflect upon his emotional life, and to note his personal impressions of the historical region in which he lived. After two years in the country, he decided to return home to Britain, initiating a transformative period in his life. The 短歌 tanka struck him as an appropriate way to record these changes, particularly as the medium commonly evokes traditional Japanese cultural ideas of impermanence, transience and the fleeting nature of moments in time. As he departed from Japan, and settled back slowly into British life, sorrows of a life left behind, impressions of natural beauty, and failed love affairs, are all enfolded into a collection of poems – in Japanese, but with English translations and notes – that represents an emotionally sensitive work of memory, of reminiscence, and of もののあわれ mono no aware, the ‘sigh of things’, the delicate knowledge that everything in this fleeting, floating world eventually fades and passes away.

Minver Stories

Author : Bruce Rimell
Publisher : Xibalba Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minver Stories written by Bruce Rimell and published by Xibalba Books. This book was released on 2021-06-13 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playful, archaic and confusing, this bizarre collection of song-chant poems narrates in a riddling language the story of Minver, a flashing-eyed sprite who became for the author the very embodiment of ecstasy. Emerging from the dance club culture of the late 90s, but set in an archetypal nameless mythical landscape, Minver Stories is a very idiosyncratic take on the MDMA experience. “is there no word in my language, a box of papers, leaves in the air, to tell me who you are? I can see you but I do not yet know who you are...” Indefinable trickster, strange and fantastic sprite, Minver leaps from these pages into caves, rivers and forests, meets a cast of mythical characters (who mostly become victims of his irascible ecstatic playtime) and dances with flowing words and oblique references into the heart and into the soul. “a leaf, an angel wing, you will see soon enough...”

White Book

Author : Bruce Rimell
Publisher : Xibalba Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Book written by Bruce Rimell and published by Xibalba Books. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Book is a strange and beautiful visionary and mystical text: “Could I not be a Quiet Man? / Could I not be a Speaker of these Words? / Laughing, crying, I hear these Words / I hear the answer: The time is now / It is always now / And when I knew this truly / To the depth of my soul / I became human / And I took of the vision / The Vision of the New Year...” This sparse but beautiful volume is the fifth in the new Xibalba Books Poetry Series aimed at republishing selected highlights from Bruce's vast poetry archive.

Hangman Starman

Author : Bruce Rimell
Publisher : Xibalba Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hangman Starman written by Bruce Rimell and published by Xibalba Books. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CW: Suicidal ideation, self-harm, sex/death psychodynamics, but the journey moves from such darkness into radiant, transformative light! “and the glints on waves / are not glints on waves, but... / stars...” In summer 2010, artist and poet Bruce Rimell fell into a self-destructive spiral of suicidal ideation, confused hyperactivity, and dark dreams so unsettling and so persistent that they threatened to tear his life apart. The most prominent recurring nightmare was one in which he hanged himself and enjoyed it, eager to end his life, but at the last moment he would spit out letters, so did not die. Waking up terrified, he felt himself coming undone, desperately seeking answers but finding none. When he began to 'enter into the image' of this dream, rather than study it rationally, a new and unexpected transformative path opened up towards a more holistic Queer spiritual identity. This in turn kickstarted the healing of his latent self-destructive urges that arose from his internalised rage at centuries of homo/queerphobic persecution. 'Hangman Starman' is a visionary voyage through the darkest realms of Bruce's gay/queer psyche, a brutally honest account of his time in the underworld, and how he worked his dreams to burn his darkness through to the blazing light on the other side.

Xibalba Songs

Author : Bruce Rimell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781312842427
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Xibalba Songs written by Bruce Rimell and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-18 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From cosmogonies and half-remembered memories to mythical mandalas from the ancient past, this collection of surreal poetry charts the soul's journey from the daylight waking world into Xibalba, the Realm of the Dead and Archetypal. But in doing so, it also mirrors the death of mythical and non-rational modes of experience in our modern society: the grey emptiness of Xibalba as experienced here is the bleakness of a society deprived of a mythological heart. Xibalba Songs asks a simple question: can we honestly say that if we let our ancestral mythological heritage pass into permanent nightfall, that we will be able to retain the true depth of our humanity, our experience and our much-celebrated curiosity and inspiration? Should we simply stand by, record its demise, and then move on to a future at best purposeless and at worst pitiless and bleak?

Songs of Broken Clay

Author : Cassandra Flores
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1638604134
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Songs of Broken Clay written by Cassandra Flores and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a very young girl, I became slowly aware that I was living through a childhood that was atypical. Self-expression through writing and music became both a way to survive and a resounding yet unanswered cry for help. This collection is meant to explore trauma, survival, and ultimately healing through an intensive therapeutic process and an overwhelming amount of self-reflection. Songs of Broken Clay touches on traumas associated with race, gender, sexual violence, chronic illness, and child abuse while finding a way to use these traumas to be of service to those who might feel alone or isolated in these experiences.

Puro Teatro

Author : Alberto Sandoval-S‡nchez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816518272
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Puro Teatro written by Alberto Sandoval-S‡nchez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Latina plays, performance pieces, and "testimonios" focus on race, gender, class, sexual identity, and the empowerment of an educated class of women.

Latin American Classical Composers

Author : Miguel Ficher
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461669111
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Latin American Classical Composers written by Miguel Ficher and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002-10-16 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionary presents expanded and updated coverage of its topic with an aim to be comprehensive. The authors have conducted exhaustive research to fill in gaps and correct minor errors in the first edition, adding young composers and documenting deaths since 1996, when the first edition appeared. Hundreds of composers are represented in this volume, which presents biographical data, including dates of birth and death, personal information about composers' background and training, and a selective listing of each composer's works. Sources for further study are noted within each entry. An index of composers by country rounds out this work.

Songs that Make the Road Dance

Author : Linda O'Brien-Rothe
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477305386
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Songs that Make the Road Dance written by Linda O'Brien-Rothe and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important and previously unexplored body of esoteric ritual songs of the Tz'utujil Maya of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, the "Songs of the Old Ones" are a central vehicle for the transmission of cultural norms of behavior and beliefs within this group of highland Maya. Ethnomusicologist Linda O'Brien-Rothe began collecting these songs in 1966, and she has amassed the largest, and perhaps the only significant, collection that documents this nearly lost element of highland Maya ritual life. This book presents a representative selection of the more than ninety songs in O'Brien-Rothe's collection, including musical transcriptions and over two thousand lines presented in Tz'utujil and English translation. (Audio files of the songs can be downloaded from the UT Press website.) Using the words of the "songmen" who perform them, O'Brien-Rothe explores how the songs are intended to move the "Old Ones"—the ancestors or Nawals—to favor the people and cause the earth to labor and bring forth corn. She discusses how the songs give new insights into the complex meaning of dance in Maya cosmology, as well as how they employ poetic devices and designs that place them within the tradition of K'iche'an literature, of which they are an oral form. O'Brien-Rothe identifies continuities between the songs and the K'iche'an origin myth, the Popol Vuh, while also tracing their composition to the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries by their similarities with the early chaconas that were played on the Spanish guitarra española, which survives in Santiago Atitlán as a five-string guitar.

Songs of Eventide, Heloise, Maya

Author : William Dudley Foulke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Songs of Eventide, Heloise, Maya written by William Dudley Foulke and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Global Humanities Reader

Author : Brian S. Hook
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469666413
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Global Humanities Reader written by Brian S. Hook and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Humanities Reader is a collaboratively edited collection of primary sources with student-centered support features. It serves as the core curriculum of the University of North Carolina Asheville's almost-sixty-year-old interdisciplinary Humanities Program. Its three volumes--Engaging Ancient Worlds and Perspectives (Volume 1), Engaging Premodern Worlds and Perspectives (Volume 2), and Engaging Modern Worlds and Perspectives (Volume 3)--offer accessible ways to explore facets of human subjectivity and interconnectedness across cultures, times, and places. In highlighting the struggles and resilient strategies for surviving and thriving from multiple perspectives and positionalities, and through diverse voices, these volumes course correct from humanities textbooks that remain Western-centric. One of the main features of the The Global Humanities Reader is a sustained and nuanced focus on cultivating the ability to ask questions--to inquire--while enhancing culturally aware, reflective, and interdisciplinary engagements with the materials. The editorial team created a thoroughly interactive text with the following unique features that work together to actualize student success: * Cross-cultural historical introductions to each volume * Comprehensive and source-specific timelines highlighting periods, events, and people around the world * An introduction for each source with bolded key terms and questions to facilitate active engagement * Primed and Ready questions (PARs)--questions just before and after a reading that activate students' own knowledge and skills * Inquiry Corner--questions consisting of four types: Content, Comparative, Critical, and Connection * Beyond the Classroom--explore how ideas discussed in sources can apply to broader social contexts, such as job, career, project teams or professional communities * Glossary of Tags--topical 'hubs' that point to exciting new connections across multiple sources These volumes reflect the central role of Humanities in deepening an empathic understanding of human experience and cultivating culturally appropriate and community-centered problem-solving skills that help us flourish as global and local citizens.

The World Below

Author : Mihaela Moraru
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1678199362
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book The World Below written by Mihaela Moraru and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: