White Moths

This collection navigates the process of grief after the speaker’s loss of both parents. The speaker struggles to connect with both the dead and the living through her physical intimacy and relationship with a troubled lover. These poems explore and exhume the speaker’s buried memories, moving from moments of wry humor to meaningful and sometimes painful discovery. Ultimately, these poems attempt to reach beyond the self, to transform loss and loneliness from a human condition into a musical tool of art for human connection.

Love and Beauty in the Romantic Poetry of Hindi and Malayalam

Hindi

Introduction to the English reader; or, A selection of pieces, in prose and poetry, calculated to improve the younger classes of learners in reading, and to imbue their minds with the love of virture. To which are added, rules and observations for assisting children to read with propriety.

First edition published at York, Eng., 1801.

Introduction to the English reader, or, A selection of pieces in prose and poetry : calculated to improve the younger classes of learners in reading and to imbue their minds with the love of virtue : to which are added, rules and observations for assisting children to read with propriety /

Mode of access: Internet.

The plain dealer; being select essays on several curious subjects, relating to friendship love, and gallantry, marriage, morality, mercantile affairs, painting, history, poetry, and other branches of polite literature.

Originally published in 117 numbers, Mar. 23, 1724 - May 7, 1725.

The religion of beauty in women : and other essays on Platonic love in poetry and society /

Partly reprinted from various periodicals.

Entering Youthwork Through Love's Many Pathways: A Poetic Rendition

Entering Youth work Through Love's Many Pathways is a text that wanders and digresses to places where, through poetic inquiry and a Spinozist and Sufi framework, the concepts of immanence, love and becoming can be explored. This thesis is framed as a walk through which the researcher / youth worker along with the reader, traverses through five pathways that she considers necessary in cultivating a meaningful relationship with the youth: opening, strength, listening, trust and unconditional compassion. By means of engaging the “self”, this thesis approaches youth work as a field that is relational and socially interconnected. In this sense, this poetic inquiry seeks to rupture predictable patterns of behaviour. One of the ways I do this is through found poetry. Through this specific form of poetic inquiry, I bring together various voices, an assemblage – Rumi, Rilke, Whitman, Lalla, Mirabai and Song of Songs – in order to find my voice and by extension, to help the youth find their voice through a human connection that goes beyond colour, race, gender etc. In other words, my aim is to actualize the experiences of becoming youth worker while being in a field of immanence where similarities are understood and differences respected. My hope is that this project may offer an example of understanding, celebration, and engagement of our mutual differences, while still being able to relate to one another through the many pathways of love.

The Last Page: Love Story

“Love Story” a poem by Lucy Dotson ’13J