Bøger af David Middleton

Outside the Gates of Eden is a carefully sequenced collection of poems whose deepest roots are in the opening words and chapters of the Book of Genesis: How God, by simply speaking, brought things into existence; how Adam further linked mankind to creation by naming the animals; how Adam and Eve fell from a state of innocence and perfection into this world of history, death, and time - whose effects some poems depict; and how art, especially poetry with its use of linking metaphors, has a special - even heroic - role as a mode of knowing by which human beings can once again perceive and, perhaps, even move toward the wholeness, harmony, and radiance of what "Eden" means. In addition, this collection considers how poetry may be the way by which humankind can most fully celebrate, here and now, even in a post-Edenic world, the mystery of creation, its orderliness and beauty, its origin and end, its purposefulness, and, above all, the wonder of its merely being. Traces of the old geocentric Ptolemaic cosmos and its music of the spheres are here and there in this verse still faintly apprehended.

In The Habitual Peacefulness of Gruchy, David Middleton celebrates the artist Jean-Franois Millet's sympathetic realism depicting the harsh life of French peasants in the nineteenth century. Here, Middleton follows Millet, picture by picture, in taking a lowly pastoral theme and elevating it to epic and tragedy. Middleton seeks to describe Gruchy--the small Norman village where Millet grew up--and explore that rural world in relation to the American South and his own career as a Louisiana poet. A deep affirmation of the agrarian way of life, Middleton's poems are an implicit critique of the postagrarian world entering its final stages of decay.

This collection, whose title refers to barrier islands off the Louisiana coast, takes the poet beyond earlier doubts concerning the cosmos and its Creator to a loving trust in Providence often expressed in psalm-like poems that celebrate both the beauty and the rational intelligibility of the natural order of things.

A whole world comes to life in vibrant color and sharp detail.

Deeply rooted in personal and regional history, David Middleton's The Fiddler of Driskill Hill celebrates a particular place and the universal human experience. While evoking distinctive Louisiana landscapes, both north and south, these poems address the great philosophical and theological questions of the ages.

A joint publication of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

A travel guide and photography guide rolled into one that tells where to find picture-perfect shots and how to take them.

Complete with special functions, integrals, solutions of integral equations, and an extensive, updated bibliography, An Introduction to Statistical Communication Theory is a seminal reference particularly for anyone working in the field of communications, as well as in other areas of statistical physics.

What informs the process of remembering and forgetting? Is it merely about our capability to store and retrieve experiences in a purely functional sense? This book presents an insight into the social psychology of experience drawing upon a number of works to help develop their argument.