Books with author Mark Musa

Musa's commentary is thorough and clear ... recommended. - Library Journal "Among currently available parallel-text editions, this one certainly has the most elaborate and helpful annotation ..." - Choice --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition."The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner."Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University."Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor"

In an attempt to find relief, a woman writes an email to reveal her pregnancy--never intending to send it to anyone. But the email was sent and proved to be a Pandora’s box that unleashes her secrets and memories of the past and present. “Stop! Please help me! Put the book down!” “I told you not to read this! Now look at what you made me do…” The man confused and disillusioned can not accept this fate. The thought of bringing a child into this world reminds him of his relationship with his own father. “Ok you made me do this. Leave the door open. Don’t lock it! What you don’t know…is that this woman is trying to make him realize a part of his life he has yet to discover.”

Tender, fragile, flexible, full of feelings, but so small; our fingertips are our gateway to our nerves. To touch, to feel, it is the most sensitive part of our hands. In the same way Fingertips is a collection of poems, full of raw emotions from the male and female perspective. It is reflections on fear, love, friendship, family, politics and dreams about the future and technology. Fingertips is a journey, it is stories from around the world, from all points of views.

Tender, fragile, flexible, full of feelings, but so small; our fingertips are our gateway to our nerves. To touch, to feel, it is the most sensitive part of our hands. In the same way Fingertips is a collection of poems, full of raw emotions from the male and female perspective. It is reflections on fear, love, friendship, family, politics and dreams about the future and technology. Fingertips is a journey, it is stories from around the world, from all points of views.

In an attempt to find relief, a woman writes an email to reveal her pregnancy--never intending to send it to anyone. But the email was sent and proved to be a PandoraÕs box that unleashes her secrets and memories of the past and present. ÒStop! Please help me! Put the book down!Ó ÒI told you not to read this! Now look at what you made me doÉÓ The man confused and disillusioned can not accept this fate. The thought of bringing a child into this world reminds him of his relationship with his own father. ÒOk you made me do this. Leave the door open. DonÕt lock it! What you donÕt knowÉis that this woman is trying to make him realize a part of his life he has yet to discover.Ó

This book is simply what I saw one day. I saw my son being a brother for the first time with his sister. I saw the possibility that deep inside that hard shell that I still had a son. My job as a father does not end when a child turns 18 years of age. That day, I felt his pain, being a young black man. I never knew my daughter. I did not know the first thing about raising a child because, in some sense, I was still raising myself. I made a lot of mistakes as a father, but I saw that it is not too late. For the most part of my son's life, he shouts out everyone, but somehow with the help of his little sister, we found a new connection. We found a new way to communicate, without saying a word. He found someone that he could open up to, and trust me a little in the process.