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At the Center of All Beauty

Solitude and the Creative Life

by Fenton Johnson ...

“A treasure that I didn’t know I was looking for.” —Rabih Alameddine, author of The Angel of HistoryFenton Johnson’s lyrical prose and searching sensibility explore what it means to choose solitude and to celebrate the notion that solitude is a legitimate and dignified calling. He delves into the lives and works of nearly a dozen iconic solitaries he considers his kindred spirits, from Thoreau at ... Read more

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“A treasure that I didn’t know I was looking for.” —Rabih Alameddine, author of The Angel of HistoryFenton Johnson’s lyrical prose and searching sensibility explore what it means to choose solitude and to celebrate the notion that solitude is a legitimate and dignified calling. He delves into the lives and works of nearly a dozen iconic solitaries he considers his kindred spirits, from Thoreau at
... Read more

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Scissors, Paper, Rock

A Novel

by Fenton Johnson ...

Series series Kentucky Voices
Two generations of a Kentucky family struggle with loss and reunion in a novel by a Lambda Award winner: "Brilliant . . . emotional jolts lurk on every page." — Entertainment WeeklyDespite the emotional distance that has long existed between them, Raphael Hardin has left San Francisco to care for his dying father in his rural Kentucky hometown. Raphael had finally made a life for himself in ... Read more

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Two generations of a Kentucky family struggle with loss and reunion in a novel by a Lambda Award winner: "Brilliant . . . emotional jolts lurk on every page." — Entertainment WeeklyDespite the emotional distance that has long existed between them, Raphael Hardin has left San Francisco to care for his dying father in his rural Kentucky hometown. Raphael had finally made a life for himself in
... Read more
Keeping Faith

A Skeptic's Journey

by Fenton Johnson ...

Observing an encounter between Catholic and Buddhist monks in 1996 at the Abbey of Gethsemani, near where he grew up in rural Kentucky, Fenton Johnson found himself unable to make the sign of the cross. His distance from his childhood faith had become so great -- he considered himself a rational, skeptical man -- that he could not participate in this most basic ritual. Impelled by this troubling ... Read more

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Observing an encounter between Catholic and Buddhist monks in 1996 at the Abbey of Gethsemani, near where he grew up in rural Kentucky, Fenton Johnson found himself unable to make the sign of the cross. His distance from his childhood faith had become so great -- he considered himself a rational, skeptical man -- that he could not participate in this most basic ritual. Impelled by this troubling
... Read more
Crossing the River

A Novel

by Fenton Johnson ...

Series series Kentucky Voices
A spirited Southern woman upends the insular world of her small Kentucky town in this acclaimed debut novel by "a storyteller of distinction" ( Publishers Weekly).Kentucky, 1944. Though she hails from a Fundamentalist Baptist family, there is nothing conventional about Martha Bragg Pickett Miracle. In her youth, she smoked cigarettes, rode motorcycles, and snuck across the Knob Fork River to buy ... Read more

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A spirited Southern woman upends the insular world of her small Kentucky town in this acclaimed debut novel by "a storyteller of distinction" ( Publishers Weekly).Kentucky, 1944. Though she hails from a Fundamentalist Baptist family, there is nothing conventional about Martha Bragg Pickett Miracle. In her youth, she smoked cigarettes, rode motorcycles, and snuck across the Knob Fork River to buy
... Read more
The Man Who Loved Birds

A Novel

by Fenton Johnson ...

Series series Kentucky Voices
Having taken great risks—to immigrate to America, to take monastic vows—Bengali physician Meena Chatterjee and Brother Flavian are each seeking safety and security when they encounter Johnny Faye, a Vietnam vet, free spirit, and expert marijuana farmer. Amid the fields and forests of a Trappist monastery, Johnny Faye patiently cultivates Meena's and Flavian's capacity for faith, transforming all ... Read more

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Having taken great risks—to immigrate to America, to take monastic vows—Bengali physician Meena Chatterjee and Brother Flavian are each seeking safety and security when they encounter Johnny Faye, a Vietnam vet, free spirit, and expert marijuana farmer. Amid the fields and forests of a Trappist monastery, Johnny Faye patiently cultivates Meena's and Flavian's capacity for faith, transforming all
... Read more
Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays

by Fenton Johnson ...

Part retrospective, part memoir, Fenton Johnson's collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality, religion, geography, the AIDS crisis, and more. Johnson's wanderings take him from the hills of Kentucky to those of San Francisco, from the streets of Paris to the sidewalks of Calcutta. Along the way, he investigates questions large and small: What's the relationship between artists ... Read more

$12.29 USD

Part retrospective, part memoir, Fenton Johnson's collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality, religion, geography, the AIDS crisis, and more. Johnson's wanderings take him from the hills of Kentucky to those of San Francisco, from the streets of Paris to the sidewalks of Calcutta. Along the way, he investigates questions large and small: What's the relationship between artists
... Read more
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Selected poems of Fenton Johnson

by Fenton Johnson ...

Narrated by Tarun Ratnani ...

Unabridged

9 min

Fenton was born on May 7th' 1888 in the American state of Chicago. He represented the Harlem Renaissance writers in the early 20th century, and self-published three poetry collections: A Little Dreaming in 1913, Visions of the Dusk in 1915, and Songs of the Soil in 1916. Having made quite a name as a poet, essayist, author, editor and educator, he expired in 1958. ... Read more

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Fenton was born on May 7th' 1888 in the American state of Chicago. He represented the Harlem Renaissance writers in the early 20th century, and self-published three poetry collections: A Little Dreaming in 1913, Visions of the Dusk in 1915, and Songs of the Soil in 1916. Having made quite a name as a poet, essayist, author, editor and educator, he expired in 1958.
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At the Center of All Beauty

Solitude and the Creative Life

by Fenton Johnson ...

Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

Unabridged

7 hours 53 min

A profound meditation on accepting and celebrating one's solitude.Solitude is the inspirational core for many writers, artists, and thinkers. Alone with our thoughts, we can make discoveries that matter not only to us but to others. To be solitary is not only to draw sustenance from being alone, but to know that our ultimate responsibility is not only to our partner or our own offspring, but to a ... Read more

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A profound meditation on accepting and celebrating one's solitude.Solitude is the inspirational core for many writers, artists, and thinkers. Alone with our thoughts, we can make discoveries that matter not only to us but to others. To be solitary is not only to draw sustenance from being alone, but to know that our ultimate responsibility is not only to our partner or our own offspring, but to a
... Read more

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Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The Great Lakes Poets

A celebration of American poetry

by Ambrose Bierce, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Vachel Lindsay, James Madison Bell, Clara Ann Thompson, James Whitcomb Riley, Fenton Johnson, Alice Cary ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Darrell Joe, John-Michael MacDonald ...

Unabridged

1 hour 41 min

Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to ... Read more

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Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to
... Read more
The Three Pillars of Ethical Research with Nonhuman Primates

A Work Developed in Collaboration with the National Anti-Vivisection Society

by L. Syd M Johnson, Andrew Fenton, Mary Lee Jensvold ...

Series series Elements in Bioethics and Neuroethics
The Three Pillars (Harmonization, Replacement, and Justice) describe an ethical path forward and away from the use of nonhuman primates in harmful research and scientific use. Conducting nonhuman primate research in an ethical way that acknowledges their moral importance requires satisfying more rigorous guidelines and regulations modeled on those that apply to similarly vulnerable human subjects, ... Read more

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The Three Pillars (Harmonization, Replacement, and Justice) describe an ethical path forward and away from the use of nonhuman primates in harmful research and scientific use. Conducting nonhuman primate research in an ethical way that acknowledges their moral importance requires satisfying more rigorous guidelines and regulations modeled on those that apply to similarly vulnerable human subjects,
... Read more
A Matter of the Heart

A Monk's Journal

by James Finley, Paul Quenon ...

“This book is a treasure-chest of wisdom and beauty and fun. Brother Paul’s delight in the world, and his gift for putting words to wonder, would make his old novice master Thomas Merton beam. Best of all, a deep sense of contentment and peace arises from these pages that can remind the monk in every one of us how we might choose to live.” —Pico Iyer, author of The Half Known Life: In Search of ... Read more

$17.29 USD

“This book is a treasure-chest of wisdom and beauty and fun. Brother Paul’s delight in the world, and his gift for putting words to wonder, would make his old novice master Thomas Merton beam. Best of all, a deep sense of contentment and peace arises from these pages that can remind the monk in every one of us how we might choose to live.” —Pico Iyer, author of The Half Known Life: In Search of
... Read more
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Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love

by Elizabeth A. Johnson ...

Narrated by Katherine Fenton ...

Unabridged

15 hours 34 min

Bloomsbury presents Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love by Elizabeth A. Johnson, read by Katherine FentonFor millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right.Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main ... Read more

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Bloomsbury presents Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love by Elizabeth A. Johnson, read by Katherine FentonFor millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right.Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main
... Read more

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