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large collection of New York School poet ... Read more

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The Peruvian mystic St. Rose of Lima (Isabel Flores y Oliva, 1586-1617) was canonized in 1671 as the first saint of the New World and remains the object of widespread devotion today. In this engrossing new study, Frank Graziano uses the example of St. Rose to explore the meaning of female mysticism and the way in which saints are products of their cultures.
Virginity, austerity, eucharistic devotion, incessant mortification, and mystical marriage to Christ characterized the devotional regimen that structured St. Rose's entire life. Many of her mystical practices echo the symptoms of such modern psychological disorders as masochism, depression, hysteria, and anorexia nervosa. Graziano offers a sophisticated argument not only for the origins and meaning of these behaviors in Rose's case, but also for the reason her culture venerated them as signs of sanctity. In the process he explores a wide range of themes, from the idea of suffering as an expression of love to the assimilation of childhood trauma through religious repetition.
Graziano also offers a penetrating analysis of the politics of Rose's canonization. He finds that her mystical union with God--bypassing the institutional channels of sacrament and priestly mediation--was inherently subversive to the bureaucratized Church. Canonization was a cooptation by which Rose's competing claim to Christ was integrated into the Catholic canon.
The book concludes with a fascinating exploration of mystical eroticism, with its intense experiences of vision and ecstasy. The eroticized suffering of many mystics is shown to be very human in origin: the mystic's wounded love is projected onto a God conceived to accommodate it.
Wounds of Love is based on a decade of research in archives, rare books, and an extraordinary range of secondary sources. Introducing an innovative method that integrates history, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and clinical psychology, this compelling work offers a bold new interpretation of female mysticism. ... Read more

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The Fundamental Things Apply
Individuals who injure themselves have existed throughout history. This fascinating case study shows the historical context of this perplexing behavior.Saint Rose of Lima explained her self-inflicted suffering with the values of 16th-century South America the way an anorexic today draws on current values.Why do self-injurers win social approval and subtle encouragement? Rose's huge popularity during her lifetime and ever since is brilliantly explained here based on extensive original research.This tale brings true insight into the human psyche in any time period.

Saints and Insanity
This remarkable book is the result of impeccable research combined with a strong command of interpretive theories.The chapters on the psychology of mysticism are incredible.Highly recommended for anyone interested in female mysticism, the psychology of religion, and colonial Latin America.

A Major Work
In this innovative study, St. Rose of Lima provides a focus for the broader exploration of themes in medieval and early-modern mysticism. The politics of canonization, the textual construction of saints, and mystical marriage are all treated with insight and precision. The discussion is profoundly interdisciplinary, combining the methods of history, cultural studies, and psychology to elucidate how saints are formed by their cultures. This book is a major and extraordinary accomplishment.

Excellent!
Excellent- sets a new standard for the scholarship on saints and mystics. Provocative, clearly reasoned, and beautifully written. ... Read more

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From 1963 to 1978 Joe Brainard (author of I Remember) created more than one hundred works of art that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into an astonishing variety of spaces, all electrified and complicated by the incongruity of her presence.

In The Nancy Book, Joe Brainard's Nancy traverses high art and low, the poetic and pornographic, the surreal and the absurd. Whether inserted into hypothetical situations, dispatched on erotic adventures, or seemingly rendered by the hands of artists as varied as Leonardo da Vinci, R. Crumb, Larry Rivers, Pablo Picasso, and Willem de Kooning, Brainard's Nancy revels in as well as transcends her two-dimensionality. A beguiling balance of mischief and innocence, irreverence and wonder, spontaneity and calculation, Brainard's Nancys accumulate into a complex work of great originality and wit, equal parts surprise and subtlety.

The Nancy Book includes 78 full page reproductions in color and b/w and features collaborations with poets Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Robert Creeley, Frank Lima, Frank O'Hara, Ron Padgett, and James Schuyler. The Nancy Book also includes a reminiscence by Ron Padgett as well as an original essay by Ann Lauterbach that locates, with poetic and critical acumen, the matrix of relationships that informed Brainard s work, illuminating the Nancy works in particular.

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I remember Joe Brainard
i never saw this book, but i saw a bunch of Joe's "Nancy" drawings in the old Peace Eye Booksore in the east village, which was run by Ed Sanders of the Fugs. whew, that's a long sentence eh? well, years later i attended the School of Visual Arts and Joe was one of my painting instructors. we didn't see eye to eye because he taught a figure painting class and i refused to put faces or heads on my figure studies because i said that if you put a face or head on it, it becomes a portrait, not a figure study.i liked joe. when i asked him about those Nancy cartoons in the Peace Eye he sort of shrugged and looked embarrassed and i never brought it up again. that's all i know ... Read more

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ROLF!If you've spent time in Hawaii, read this!
We lived in Hawaii for 6 years, that really helps since most of the humor is ethnic.Also you learn some of the history of the various groups in Hawaii.example:Chinese are called 'Pake' from 'Bakka' or father in Hakka dialect of Chinese.here's two 'Pake' jokes:

Hear about the new brand of tires, 'Pakestone'?
They not only stop on a dime, they pick it up.

Difference between a Pake and a canoe?
Canoes sometimes tip.

'Haole' or white person joke:
Why did God invent Golf?
So Haoles can dress up like Filipinos.

What do you call a Filipino family without a dog?
A family that doesn't know where its next meal is coming from. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Frank Lima, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1375 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

• Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
• Family members
• Education
• Professional associations and honors
• Employment
• Writings, including books and periodicals
• A description of the author's work
• References to further readings about the author

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Chapters: Airfix, Hornby Railways, Meccano Ltd, Scalextric, Lima, Frank Hornby, Bassett-Lowke, Corgi Classics Limited, G ... Read more

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Comedy CD with 15 tracks of Frank De Lima's performances. including "FBI Warning De Lima Style", "Big Time Sumo", "Glen Miyashiro", "Reggae Man", etc. ... Read more

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This is the awesomely photo-illustrated story of one of the United States most flamboyant and unusual street musicians. More than simply an accordion player, The Great Morgani (aka Frank Lima) is a performance artist whose wild, self-made costumes are beyond imagination and impossible to describe with words alone. Hence, the lavish color photos throughout this book. Needless to say, you've never seen street musician costumes like this. Each costume of The Great Morgani are legitimate pieces of art in themselves and have made The Great Morgani practically a landmark in himself. Fantastic! Running across The Great Morgani will be a sight that no one will ever forget. Simply amazing. ... Read more