e. smith sleigh,
nominated for Kentucky's 2013-2014 Poet Laureate
Her 5th poetry book, An American Still Life, appeared on the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry List
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nominated for Kentucky's 2013-2014 Poet Laureate
Her 5th poetry book, An American Still Life, appeared on the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry List
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e. smith sleigh's latest poetry collection:
It's not what one might think, it's about being in lockdown, the ordinary and the extraordinary, and the aftermath, it's
About the House
there’s a sound of rushing
and the clamor of all things
that occurred
my home and I
are exhausted
-- e. smith sleighink, it's about being in lockdown, the ordinary and the extraordinary, and the aftermath, it's About the House there’s a sound of rushing and the clamor of all things that occurred my home and I are exhausted
Home
“There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireside.” – Cicero
My grandmother and great aunt and uncle provided a better atmosphere for me than my parents. I loved their home and longed for it when I was away. I thought of it as my refuge. When I left for college, I decided I would make a pleasant home like theirs for my own family.
As in my childhood, I moved many times in my adult life. I tried to maintain homes that were organized and full of laughter. My goals were well intended. The truth, without platitudes and excuses, is that maintaining a good atmosphere in anyone’s house is difficult when the people who dwell there don’t agree with your goals or they become ill and pass away. Also, events outside of your home, the human world or your government, may transform the circumstances inside your home. -- e.
“People and homes come and go in life. I’ve learned that the home you create must first be present within yourself. Build that wonderful home
and never allow it to fall down or be torn down or taken away.”
– e. smith sleigh
“Under no circumstances do you allow your home to become, or be made into, a cage.”
– e. smith sleigh
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About the House
there’s a sound of rushing
and the clamor of all things
that occurred
my home and I
are exhausted
-- e. smith sleighink, it's about being in lockdown, the ordinary and the extraordinary, and the aftermath, it's About the House there’s a sound of rushing and the clamor of all things that occurred my home and I are exhausted
Home
“There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireside.” – Cicero
My grandmother and great aunt and uncle provided a better atmosphere for me than my parents. I loved their home and longed for it when I was away. I thought of it as my refuge. When I left for college, I decided I would make a pleasant home like theirs for my own family.
As in my childhood, I moved many times in my adult life. I tried to maintain homes that were organized and full of laughter. My goals were well intended. The truth, without platitudes and excuses, is that maintaining a good atmosphere in anyone’s house is difficult when the people who dwell there don’t agree with your goals or they become ill and pass away. Also, events outside of your home, the human world or your government, may transform the circumstances inside your home. -- e.
“People and homes come and go in life. I’ve learned that the home you create must first be present within yourself. Build that wonderful home
and never allow it to fall down or be torn down or taken away.”
– e. smith sleigh
“Under no circumstances do you allow your home to become, or be made into, a cage.”
– e. smith sleigh
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Yes, these books are sexy.
Within e. smith sleigh’s story, the lovers intertwine in a blend of traditional romance and the tentative existence of those living in the arts outside a conventional life flow. Their mutual, adoration holds them together and lends strength to their lives. Eventually, their earth-shattering romance evolves into a comforting, everlasting love.
sleigh’s poetry explores the idea of relearning love after trauma and loss. Her love poems are descriptions, interrogations and celebrations of love. One of the most intense and important of human experiences is expressed within her striking, honest poetic descriptions, tone and storyline. The lovers meet in high school. Her parents are wealthier than most families in their county in that they own a ranch. He is gifted in music and she is talented in literature and other arts. Sometimes his relatives worked on her dad’s ranch. They fell in love after meeting on a hay ride. She was accompanied by her older sister. Her older sister makes several attempts to seduce him. He laughs her off. She confronts her sister in the family’s kitchen one evening. After high school graduation, her family understands that the lovers are serious about each other and welcomes the male into their family. She talks to her dad and mother about the embarrassing attempts at taking her boyfriend away by her sister. The parents consent to help them both attend a state university in a nearby city away from the interference of her sister. There they move in together, study and attempt to get something going in the local music scene. She writes poetry, and songs for him to sing. After a few years of struggle and making many friends and contacts, they succeed in their quest for success in the area. She graduates college. By his junior year, he is bored, feels he has learned what he needed from the music department and is ready to take off back east for a break that is offered him in Nashville, Tennessee. He does well there. She leaves their apartment and returns West to her parent’s ranch to wait for him to return home. Several events happen to draw them even closer, then separate them. sleigh’s love poems disclose their journey together, and apart. Join them in their travails and triumphs. |
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Nine Lines
For Emily Dickinson First came the book, then came the documentary, film, now comes the poetry - - Emily Dickinson’s hidden life addressed. Some old myths are dispelled and new observations pro-offered. Somewhere in these new poetic offerings Emily can be found, persevering as always to her end in Amherst’s West Cemetery and beyond… -- ess I believe
that our Emily D was held captive by repressive social mores, traditional United States, inheritance laws and her self-indulgent, licentious brother. -- e. smith sleigh - Suppose Emily Dickinson lived two lives, one in the mid 1800s and another now, in the current era -- that's the way this book is written. - Suppose Emily was caught with a female lover at school. - Suppose Emily's parents forced her to return to her childhood home. - Suppose Emily D wrote poetry as a release from her captive existence and her brother who had a thing for her. - Suppose Emily D fell in love with her sister-in-law and slept with her brother's mistress. hmmmmm interesting right |
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Explosive Historical Fiction about 4th Century Europeans
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a sequel to Catch a Lover Falling
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From the passion of sexual desire to the intense longing for your lover, Catch a Lover Falling by e. smith sleigh celebrates the spirit of love in all its forms. Romance. Passion. Sensuality. Her book of love poems will illuminate the phases and many moods of love.
All you need to start a fire is to read these poems of desire to your lover or tuck the book under their pillow or yours. More than just love poems, this book tells a story of love lost and found. Romance will float off the pages and rap itself around you. Sleigh excites with her poems about forbidden love, lost love, everlasting love. Her sensual poetry collection is personal and inspirational. Every day, you will reach again for sensuality expressed by lovers when falling in love and traversing time together. You will be smitten, taken, and fall deeply in love over and over again. vineyard I am your Vintner your distraction your accompaniment I will drink you like wine -- e. smith sleigh |
REVIEWS "In An American Still Life, poet e. smith sleigh took Post Structuralism at its word and produced an important work that breaks the constraints that have been imposed too long by academics on contemporary poetry." -- Charles Bane, Jr. author of The Chapbook and Love Poems; creator of The Meaning Of Poetry series for The Gutenberg Project, and nominee as Poet Laureate of Florida. 5 star rating AN AMERICAN STILL LIFE "In a Post-structural era comes e. smith sleigh's unfettered, frank, poetry about life in contemporary America. The USA defined by a painter poet with words concentrated into gems of private concepts and experiences which shine from each page of this marvelous, thought provoking poetry collection." -- Lyn Plihal To purchase book: http://amzn.to/1bDkd3e or click on book cover many good things can be found in the ruins in the collapse of older systems ...the last limousine awaits hurry up it’s for you --e. smith sleigh |
Poetry sample:
...I wasn’t made for this
these things dance
and I defy
these things dance
and I deny
these things
--e. smith sleigh
...I wasn’t made for this
these things dance
and I defy
these things dance
and I deny
these things
--e. smith sleigh
Musings from the Fault Line after Dark
is a poetry collection with the subtitle New Poetry New Style. e. smith sleigh decided to incorporate post structuralism into her fourth book of poetry not only as architecture but in her words and their context, as well. Post-Structuralism is a reaction to structuralism and works against seeing language as a stable, closed system. It is a shift from seeing the poem or novel as a closed entity. Post structural poetry is equipped with meanings that are the reader's task to decipher. A post-structural theorist might talk about the playfulness of language. sleigh entertains us by creating words. She reshapes and molds those words we know and engages us with challenging new ideas and concepts in the language as she presents it, one rollicking word after another tumbling, spinning, running before us. |
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Post-structuralism and Related Quotes: from Jacques Derrida, Judith Kristeva, and Others:
After reading my blogs containing post-structuralism quotes, so many readers, especially students, asked me for a non-fiction book of
Post-structuralism quotes, so here it is. I wanted to pull together a manuscript that reflects a casual, Post-structural feel. I placed a lot of
resources within these pages for research, essays, papers, and theses. There are quotes from the different movements beginning with
Structuralism and leading up to Derrida and Post-structuralism.
Post-structuralism and Related Quotes contains a great deal of Derrida quotes and quotes of others associated with Post-structuralism
including: Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler, Jean Baudrillard, and Julia Kristeva. Citations for the quotes can be found in the
Bibliography and appear underneath individual quotes. I also included quotes rebutting or refuting Post-structuralism. Feel free to copy and
cite the quotes within your papers and other scholarly efforts.
--e. smith sleigh
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When I am dead, there will be a bird, an ant, who will say “me” for me,
and when someone says “me” for me, that’s me.
--Jacques Derrida
[1] (2014-03-03). For Strasbourg: Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy
(Kindle Locations 585-586). Translated
Fordham University Press. Kindle Edition.
After reading my blogs containing post-structuralism quotes, so many readers, especially students, asked me for a non-fiction book of
Post-structuralism quotes, so here it is. I wanted to pull together a manuscript that reflects a casual, Post-structural feel. I placed a lot of
resources within these pages for research, essays, papers, and theses. There are quotes from the different movements beginning with
Structuralism and leading up to Derrida and Post-structuralism.
Post-structuralism and Related Quotes contains a great deal of Derrida quotes and quotes of others associated with Post-structuralism
including: Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler, Jean Baudrillard, and Julia Kristeva. Citations for the quotes can be found in the
Bibliography and appear underneath individual quotes. I also included quotes rebutting or refuting Post-structuralism. Feel free to copy and
cite the quotes within your papers and other scholarly efforts.
--e. smith sleigh
click book cover
When I am dead, there will be a bird, an ant, who will say “me” for me,
and when someone says “me” for me, that’s me.
--Jacques Derrida
[1] (2014-03-03). For Strasbourg: Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy
(Kindle Locations 585-586). Translated
Fordham University Press. Kindle Edition.
Post-structuralism and Related Quotes
“The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.” "The old principle that the acquisition of knowledge is indissociable from the training (Bildung) of minds, or even of individuals, is becoming obsolete and will become ever more so." "They bring us back to the so-called “deconstruction of Christianity.” In short, who takes on today, who would take on or assume, the responsibility for a deconstruction of Christianity?" Thank you, Japan, for such a wonderful response to
Post-structuralism and Related Quotes |
Post-structuralism and Related Quotes
CONTENTS
Part I: Pre Post structuralism
Chapter 1 - Post structuralism
Brief definition and prehistory
Structuralism
Postmodernism
Deconstructionism
Chapter 2 - Structuralism
Meaning of Structuralism
Ferdinand de Saussure
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Roland Barthes
Chapter 3 - Postmodernism
Meaning of Post modernism
Jean François Lyotard
Part II: Post-structuralism rises
Chapter 4 - Deconstructionism
Jacques Derrida
Chapter 5 - Post structuralism
Jacques Derrida
Michel Foucault
Gilles Deleuze
Judith Butler
Jean Baudrillard
Julia Kristeva
additional individuals with a Post-structuralism phase
a group of random quotes about post-structuralism
rebuttals to post structuralism
Chapter 6 - What's Next?
hypothesis
Chapter 7 - Resources
bibliography (throughout this book, most citations
are displayed as they appeared at the source)
index of terms
how to write in a post structural context
about the author
CONTENTS
Part I: Pre Post structuralism
Chapter 1 - Post structuralism
Brief definition and prehistory
Structuralism
Postmodernism
Deconstructionism
Chapter 2 - Structuralism
Meaning of Structuralism
Ferdinand de Saussure
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Roland Barthes
Chapter 3 - Postmodernism
Meaning of Post modernism
Jean François Lyotard
Part II: Post-structuralism rises
Chapter 4 - Deconstructionism
Jacques Derrida
Chapter 5 - Post structuralism
Jacques Derrida
Michel Foucault
Gilles Deleuze
Judith Butler
Jean Baudrillard
Julia Kristeva
additional individuals with a Post-structuralism phase
a group of random quotes about post-structuralism
rebuttals to post structuralism
Chapter 6 - What's Next?
hypothesis
Chapter 7 - Resources
bibliography (throughout this book, most citations
are displayed as they appeared at the source)
index of terms
how to write in a post structural context
about the author
SIBBE'S WAY is a tale about a young tribal counselor, Embla, and a northern European, Peur, captured by Imperium troops. The Romans force Peur and his family into slavery. He is eventually returned to his home in the North. Their wills clash just as their regions and cultures collide. Embla is caught up in the last days of the older culture. She witnesses the final transition. She relates to her descendant, Isabel, the saga about her tribe's life, the story of her life as a young counselor, and fate of the women and men who surrounded her. Embla was everything early northern Europe was -- young, fiery, exciting. |
* The 11th Installment of SIBBE'S WAY is now posted. The 11th Installment was discontinued for a while. I have yet to make a final decision about the continued serialization of Sibbe's Way and the copying/taking (called theft of intellectual property which is prosecutable) of my novel from this site. I may publish the entirety of the novel as an Amazon ebook or distribute it here. I will let you know. * After much consideration, I have decided to publish the entirety of SIBBE'S WAY, both e-book and paperback, on Amazon. Amazon's fees and recommendations determined the prices of the books. Now, you can read, in one sitting, the incredible ending to this historical fiction novel. A second novel about Sibbe and Embla (Emb La') will be published this year. I will keep you updated. Thank you for continuing to read SIBBE'S WAY http://amzn.to/2mSmuUi |
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