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| | Simply Being by Roula-Maria Dib now available from Chiron Publications
Chiron Publications is pleased to announce the release of Simply Being, a celebration of the various facets of life, its blessings, beauties, and challenges.
Exploring the richness of our manifold existence seen through the many different lenses beyond the quotidian and the mundane, Roula-Maria Dib looks at the multifariousness of reality and nuances of the self with its different roles and experiences, peeking into the parallel worlds of myth, and art, which infuse our everyday life.
The poems in this collection are a compilation of verses on memories, aspirations, ekphrasis, and the different forms of love that shape us into who we are.
“Through pure joy of language, Dib’s poetry shows us the paucity of a world without myth and mystery. We do not have to reject the gods just because we don’t take them literally. Every moment of life is bursting with miracles, and the requisite tragedies of life are vital initiations. Dib chooses each word carefully- ventana, hyssop, squid– to paint striking, unforgettable images. Pure magic.”
Lorette C. Luzajic, author of Pretty Time Machine, editor, The Ekphrastic Review
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Roula-Maria Dib (PhD, Leeds) is a creative writer and literary scholar. Currently, she is a professor of English at the American University in Dubai, and editor-in-chief of Indelible, the university’s literary journal.
Her poems, essays, and articles have appeared in several journals. Her new book, Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature was published in March 2020. She is a member of the International Association for Jungian Studies, the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies, and the British Association for Modernist Studies.
The themes that pervade her work usually revolve around different aspects of human nature, ekphrasis, surrealism, and mythology.
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| | | Table of Contents -Introduction
-Number 1
-Starry Night, A Theogony
-Coquelicots
-When Aštart Sings
-Shoe and Tell
-Drawers, Slips and Slits
-Lunar Rhapsody
-Ludus
-Salutations
-Lavenders
-Hold my Hand
-Nigredo
-Window of Life
-Aurora
-A Poet in Love
-The Godmother
-The Prodigal Daughter
-Heraclitus Today
-Iconic Existence
-The Icon Speaks
-Insomnia
-The Maze of Consciousness
-The White-in-the Waiting
-Death of a Capitalist
-Wordsearching
-The Trickster Triangle
-To Savor and Relish
-Moonlighting
-Scarce Resources
-Figs and Marrows
-Immunity
-Grapes
-Matinee
-Twenty
-Lemonade
-Afterword
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