T. S. Eliot memorably said that separation of the man who suffers from the mind that creates is the root of good poetry. This book argues that this is wrong. Beginning from Virginia Woolf's 'On Being Ill', it demonstrates that modernism is, on the contrary, invested in physical illness as a subject, method, and stylizing force. Experience of physical ailments, from the fleeting to the fatal, the familiar to the unusual, structures the writing of the modernists, both as sufferers and onlook...

Published in association with the seminar series of the same name held by the University of Oxford, Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies presents the best new scholarship addressing the sources, development and ongoing influence of Samuel Beckett's work. Edited by convenors Dr Peter Fifield and Dr David Addyman, the volume presents ten research essays by leading international scholars ranging across Beckett's work, opening up new avenues of enquiry and association for scholars, stud...

This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett's relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues, conundrums, and themes play out amid narrative intricacies. The volume is thus both an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a series of detailed readings of the intersection between philosophical texts and Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, offered by a plura...

At any given time in our lives, we are in the midst of forming or looking for relationships. How often do we pause to look at those that are formed without thought or action? In this book of short stories and poetry, Peter Fifield gives us a glimpse through his words, at some of those relationships.An interesting connection is formed when a stranger's possessions fall into the hands of a young man struggling for inspiration. A little boy, no longer in the world that was his, reaches...

I remember nightsfilled with starkissed whispersgently floating usoff to sleep.Those werethe nightswe lived for

The Beat Goes On;I was too entranced by the beating of your heart, to hear the meaning in your words.Nodding my head as I continued to ignore.I'll just wine you and dine you, prove I'm a good fella.But my actions are misconstrued, true love comes in A Capella.Stripped to the core, pure and raw emotion from the heart.Getting the message across, the truest definition of art.So I'll tune out the beat so I can finally hear it.And ...

This is a collection of my more serious pieces of writings. I know the general tone of most of these may be somber or tragic, but in many ways, each piece conveys a different part of how I look at the world and respond to life. Many of these are the songs that I have written and, in some cases, have recorded, as the artist BYOB (Bring your own Bob).

A dream of desolation and death. A nightmare vision of a looming end, surrounded by hidden enemies and desperate strangers.His love taken. His hope lost. His life forfeit because of his failures, his inadequacies.How can this end be a beginning? And how can a dream seem so real?

A collection of writings from Kevin Matisyn, the former vocalist and writer for Evans Blue. This collection includes song meanings and extended writing for many previous songs as well as abstract writing on many different subject.

Two brothers, one mistaken for the other. What happens when human scientists finally understand that what they have is not what they thought

Pandora's Box is a compilation of my poetry, written over the course of thirty years. From the beginning I knew the title, because letting my words out was very much like the opening of Pandora's Box. The following are brief glimpses of whole poems; pulling back the bandage, exposing the surface of the wound to the air. Nancy Lister Swayzee

Inside Me is a small collection of poems dedicated to the Love and Passion of my life; may all my fellow women—wives, fiancées, girlfriends—who have ever loved a man or found the very perfect, completing match for their soul, find their love and passion for their man renewed, rekindled, refreshed.*Note to readers: 25% of all profits goes to ALFA, a charity helping adults with autism and other developmental disabilities in Southern Illinois live more full and abundant lives!*