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Cry Of The Peacocks (Naomi Lazard Book)
Cry of the Peacock or Cry of the Peacocks may refer to: * ''Cry of the Peacock'' (novel), a novel by Gina B. Nahai *''Cry of the Peacock'', the English title of ''Ardèle ou la Marguerite'', a 1948 play by Jean Anouilh *''Cry of the Peacocks'', a 1967 book of poetry by Naomi Lazard See also *"And I remembered the cry of the peacocks", a line from the poem "Domination of Black" by Wallace Stevens *''A Peacock Cry'', a 1954 novel by Val Mulkerns *''Cry, The Peacock'', a 1963 novel by Anita Desai *''And I remembered the cry of the peacocks'', a 1988 work for English horn, string trio, and computer by John Melby John Melby (born 1941) is an American composer. Life and work John Melby is most widely known for his numerous compositions for computer-synthesized sounds, particularly in combination with live acoustic instruments. In addition to electronic mus ... *''A Cry of Peacocks'', a TV docudrama about the Hawaiian princess Kaʻiulani {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cry Of The Peacock (novel)
''Cry of the Peacock'' is the first novel from Gina B. Nahai and follows the story of a family of Jews through seven generations, from 1780s Persia to contemporary Iran. The book was published in 1991 by Crown Publishing Group in the United States and won several awards. It was an alternate selection of The Book of the Month Club and The Doubleday Book Club. Plot summary Peacock, a 116-year-old woman, is captured by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Her story and that of a relatively unknown group of Jews, the oldest in the diaspora, unfold as she waits in her prison cell. Born in the Esfahan ghetto, Peacock was married off at age nine to the wealthy Solomon the Man. A decade later, she becomes the first woman of the ghetto ever to have left her husband. Peacock's family story goes back to Esther the Soothsayer, who appears in the dreams of her descendants. The novel incorporates Persian stories and fables as well as historical figures such as Mossadeq ( Mohammad Mosaddegh) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ardèle Ou La Marguerite
''Ardèle ou la Marguerite'' is a 1948 play by French dramatist Jean Anouilh. It was the first of his self-styled pièces grinçantes – i.e., 'grating' black comedies. According to Anouilh's biographer Edward Owen Marsh, "In this angry, pessimistic work Anouilh shows himself a master at the height of his powers in every aspect of his craft... ''Ardèle'' is a terribly bitter play, but it holds the imagination as a piece of poetic theatre." Plot Set in 1912 "or thereabouts", the play concerns a family conference convened by the ageing General Léon Saint-Pé to discuss a romance entered into by his hunchbacked sister Ardèle. His other sister Liliane, a Countess, is accompanied by her husband Gaston (the Count) and her lover, Hector de Villardieu. All of them, especially the Countess, are scandalised by Ardèle's supposedly inappropriate passion for a fellow hunchback who has been engaged as tutor to the General's small son, Toto. Their self-interested entreaties to her are com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Lazard
Naomi Lazard (born Naomi Katz in Philadelphia, March 17, 1928, died December 22, 2021) was an American poet, children's literature author, and playwright. She was the winner of two Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a former president of the Poetry Society of America. Her translations of Faiz Ahmed Faiz have been widely acclaimed. Biography She has published three volumes of poetry: '' Cry of the Peacocks'' ( Harcourt, Brace & World; 1967), '' The Moonlit Upper Deckerina'' ( Sheep Meadow Press, 1977), and '' Ordinances'' (Ardis, 1984). The poems in ''Ordinances'' are notable for their "dark Orwellian tone" - describing life lived under a monstrous, faceless bureaucracy. She also brought out '' The True Subject: Selected Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz'', a volume of translations from the work of Pakistanian poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. She has also translated the works of Romanian poet Nina Cassian. She is also the author of the children’s book '' What Amanda Saw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domination Of Black
"Domination of Black" is a poem in Wallace Stevens' ''Harmonium'', first published in 1916 (and later in 1942), and selected by him as his best poem for the anthology ''This Is My Best''. Interpretation The poem can be compared to imagist paintings of the period such as Klee's "Blaue NachtKlee's shades of blue replaced by Stevens' colors of the night. Stevens adds unsettling elements. The poem unfolds like a little horror show. A fire creates flickering images of the colors of bushes and leaves, which themselves turn in the wind. Also the color of heavy hemlocks "came striding", as from the river Styx ("the Stygian hemlocks", in Vendler's phrase). Ambiguous peacocks descend from the hemlocks. Then the poet notices outside his window the planets gathering isomorphically, "Like the leaves themselves", and the night came striding. The threat of darkness (death? suicide?) is palpable: "I felt afraid." See also " Tea (poem), Tea", which, like "Domination of Black", demonstrates "all t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Mulkerns
Val Mulkerns (14 February 1925 – 10 March 2018) was an Irish writer and member of Aosdána. Her first novel, ''A Time Outworn'', was released to critical acclaim in Ireland in 1952, followed by a series of novels and short stories in the 1970s and 1980s. Mulkerns continued to publish until she died. She also worked as a journalist and columnist and was often heard on the radio. Early life Mulkerns was born in Dublin in 1925 to James Mulkerns and Esther O'Neill. She was educated at the Dominican school at Eccles Street, and grew up in an artistic family, her father being a Dublin strolling player and writer of satirical verse. After a period in the Irish Civil Service, she moved to England, where she worked as a teacher. Hiking around Connemara on holiday in 1951, she met, by chance, the novelist Kate O'Brien. The experience encouraged Mulkerns to return to Ireland. After moving back to Ireland, she began to write, and worked as an associate editor and theatre critic of '' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Desai
Anita Desai, born Anita Mazumdar (born 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel ''Fire on the Mountain'', from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. She won the British Guardian Prize for '' The Village by the Sea''."Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry details and list of past winners" guardian.co.uk, 12 March 2001; retrieved 5 August 2012. The Peacock, Voices in the City, Fire on the Mountain and an anthology of short stories, Games at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Melby
John Melby (born 1941) is an American composer. Life and work John Melby is most widely known for his numerous compositions for computer-synthesized sounds, particularly in combination with live acoustic instruments. In addition to electronic music, Melby's catalog includes many acoustic chamber, vocal, and orchestral works. Since 2010, he has focused exclusively on writing acoustic music for chamber ensembles and symphony orchestra. Born in Whitehall, Wisconsin, Melby holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University. He studied with Henry Weinberg, George Crumb, Peter Westergaard, J. K. Randall, and Milton Babbitt. Melby has held faculty positions at West Chester University and was appointed to the faculty of the School of Music of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1973, where he served until his retirement in 1997. Melby has won numerous awards for his work including an NEA Fellowship (1977), a Gugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |