Willy Thorn

Personified - Volume 2 (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. Pieces include the Fertile Ground of the Unknown & Frustration as a Wasteland; Traveling thru the Valley of Fear; Love's Leap & the Landfall of Faith; Hope as Strong Liquor; the Circle of Worry; How Time is Always Fresh; Being Prisoner to Pain; the Future as a Friend; Belligerent Courage & Carving Will; Keeping Reins Tight on Hope; Uncertainty like Wolves; the Shield of Faith; Pain as the Greatest Teacher & more. Includes 32 individual poems, accompanied by allegorical art work from Odilon Redon William Blake, Georgette Agutte, William Adams, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Maerten van Heemskerck & Leonardo da Vinci. Includes quotes from: C. S. Lewis Rumi Jim Morrison Khalil Gibran Charles Bukowski Joseph Campbell J.K. Rowling Margaret Atwood Deepak Chopra Oscar Munoz Richard Paul Evans Psalm 23:4 Jack Canfield George R.R. Martin Miguel de Cervantes Hunter S. Thompson William Shakespeare Rosa Parks a Japanese proverb Robert Frost Soren Kierkegaard Chinese proverb Pema Chödrön Ruth Gendler Richard Eberhart Enoch Arnold Bennett Ernest Hemingway James Ellroy Ephesians 6:16 George MacDonald James Russell Lowell Anton Chekhov Plato Mahatma Gandhi Marcus Tullius Martin Luther George W. Bush J.R.R. Tolkien Madeleine L'Engle Elbert Hubbard Michelangelo Robert Hillyer Kenji Miyazawa Matshona Dhliwayo George Bernard Shaw Marco Aurelio Antonino John Lennon Fernando Pessoa Victor Hugo John Green Jackson Pearce John Sterling Barbara Lazear Ascher Julius Caesar Jim Rohn Wm. Paul Young Emily Dickinson George Orwell Raymond Reddington Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Mary Tyler Moore Maxime Lagacé Antoine de Saint-Exupery Charlie Chaplin Don Ingall Woody Hayes Rabindranath Tagore Arnold Schwarzenegger A.W. Tozer Lao Tzu Percy Bysshe Shelley Henry Ward Beecher John Keats Carl Jung Robert Gary Lee David Richo Frida Kahlo Lionel Trilling Marilyn Manson Coretta Scott King James Baldwin

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Willy Thorn
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005521295
• Artikelnr.: 72407296

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...