Willy Thorn

Personified - Volume 1 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of classic rhyming poetry built around the concept of personification; giving life & form, voice & breath to virtues & philosophical concepts. Individual pieces include: flourishing Superstition, Idolatry & Hypocrisy; Outlaw Time & beautiful Nature; the collision of Time & Truth; Justice's eager ears; Lust & Greed exposed, as so naïve; Ignorance tobogganing; Alcohol is no lady & certainly not your friend; the discourse between Knowledge & Wisdom; the relationship between Death & Beauty & more. Includes 27 pieces, accompanied by allegorical art work from Arnold Böcklin, Donatello, Titian, Albrecht Duerer, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Kano Motonobu, Frederick Stuart Church, Maritius Lowe, Theodoor van Thulden, Balthasar Permoser & the Supreme Court of Canada. Includes quotes from: Martin Luther Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Updike Mos Def Nathaniel Hawthorne Tennessee Williams William Carlos Williams D.H. Lawrence Lee Xiaolong the Book of Isaiah Jim Stands the Book of Isaiah John Webster Jeremy Taylor Pliny Laurell K. Hamilton Jack Kerouac Marquis de Sade Nicholas Rowe Miguel de Cervantes Rumi John Updike Claudian Georges Bernanos Tryon Edwards Billy Graham e.e. cummings Mark Twain Michel de Montaigne Jimi Hendricks Hans-Ulrich Obrist Thucydides Henry Ford Kurt Vonnegut Louis Pasteur DeWitt Clinton Calvin Coolidge Augustus Hare Derek Bok Margaret Fuller Jay-Z Friedrich Nietzsche Leonardo da Vinci Marcus Garvey Plato Ralph W. Sockman Stephen Hawking Kofi Annan Avery Brooks James Madison John Milton Jim Morrison Lucius Annaeus Seneca Horace Homer Wallace Stevens Walt Whitman J.R.R. Tolkien Edgar Allen Poe Henry David Thoreau Virginia Woolf Laughing Bull Plato Zhuang Zi Thomas Moore

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Willy Thorn
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005301712
• Artikelnr.: 72407297

Autorenporträt

Willy Thorn is a communications expert & artistic renaissance man. He is a journalist & copywriter, teacher, author & artist. He has lived many places, beginning with Milwaukee & Rome & Minnesota & central Wisconsin. Among his other homes are Washington DC & Baltimore, Chicago & the Twin Cities, St. Francis South Dakota, the Bay Area & Shanghai. He currently lives & works in Bangkok. Thorn has a Masters Degree in Journalism & has spent time as a Capitol Hill reporter & wire editor, sports writer, political columnist & arts critic. Other media endeavors include public relations campaigns, magazine feature writing, ghostwritten biographies & time on the radio as a DJ & on-air host, play-by-play sports announcer & music promoter. He has spent nearly a decade as a language specialist for Craft Worldwide & as a copywriter & creative for McCann Worldgroup. He currently works as senior copywriter at Quo Global branding agency in Bangkok. He has won awards at Cannes Lions & been recognized for sports writing & political columns, magazine features, theatre scripts, religious publications & photography. Thorn is also a photographer & classical oil painter, trained thru the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. His artistic c.v. includes photography gallery shows; sculpting in Mamallapuram, India; concrete statuary at Wat Xieng Mouane, in Luang Prabang, Laos; and flower petal mosaics in Cagli, Italy. He is a Buddhist meditation instructor; trained thru Thailand's renowned Willpower Institute. And he was even the rare foreigner to complete the entire six month course in spoken & written Thai. He currently sits as an advisor on the institute's English Foreign Language subcommittee where he translates books, helps develop outreach programs & occasionally lectures. He proudly notes a Master's Degree from Marquette University & books in both Washington's Library of Congress & the Vatican Archives in Rome. His catalog is varied & he has written extensively about a number of subjects including sports, politics, religion, Buddhist philosophy & Asian history & art. One of his largest endeavors was documenting & cataloguing several hundred temples in Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Yangon, Vientiane & Kuala Lumpur. His catalog is available thru the following distributors: Am...