Michael George Benton

In the forgotten corners of Rina's mind there is a very valuable secret... One that the Chavez family will kill for. Almost two decades ago a car accident thrust Rina Morell's life into darkness. Unable to deal with the traumatic loss of her mother, Rina's young mind erected a wall that blocked her vision and her memories of the event. Years later Rina still suffers from psychosomatic blindness--unable to see the danger that lies next to her. Until a series of "accidents" restores her physical sight, and a mysterious second vision... When she discovers that her husband is the head of the infamous Chavez family, a drug cartel with powerful political and terrorist connections, and that he's responsible for her mother's death, Rina is terrified. With the help of CIA agent JT Wyatt, she escapes into the Witness Security Program. But even anonymity can't protect her from the knowledge locked inside her head...or the fact that her ex-husband, a cold-blooded killer, is still on the loose.

This volume explores the similarities and differences in our experiences of literature and the visual arts, and discusses their implications for pedagogy and their applications in cross-curricular work in the classroom.

This is a collection of poems for children organised at round themes: 'Me and the Things I Do', 'My Family', My Friends, Curiouser and Curiouser, Places, Creatures, and Stories. But giants of poetry world included eg Kipling, Louis Carroll, Roald Dahl, Christina Rossetti, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Ogden Nash, Roy Fuller, Michael Rosen, Tolkien, De La Mare, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Edward Lear etc.

Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.S. Naipaul, this book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together. Biography is seen as a hybrid genre in which historical and fictional elements are imaginatively combined. It considers the roles of story-telling, factual data in the art of life-writing, and the literariness of its language. It includes a case study of the biography of Ellen Terry, discussion of the controversial relationship between a subject's life and works, 'biographical criticism' and, through the issue of gender, the social and cultural changes biographies reflect. It frames a poetics on the basis of its strategy and tactics and demonstrates how the literal truth of verifiable data and the poetic truth of what is narrated are interdependent.

A teaching Anthology of Poetry

'New Touchstones Advanced' is an exciting new poetry anthology for post-16 students that provides a challenging and interesting course of study, emphasising the development of students' individual responses to and interpretations of a wide range of poetry.Split into two sections, the book covers close reading techniques such as imagery and comparative study, and then provides a chronological framework of the history of poetry from Medieval verse through to the present and the variety of poetry written in English today.'New Touchstones Advanced' satisifies the requirements of all specifications for AS and A level English and offers an invaluable resource for all students to develop their knowledge and improve their own skills in reading and writing poetry.

Presents an anthology of famous paintings and poems. This companion volume to Double Vision investigates painting and poetry, showing poems inspired by paintings and paintings inspired by poems side by side. It aims to stimulate discussion of the interplay of text and language.

The poems in this collection have been written specifically for pupils aged seven to 13. Each one was written in response to a famous painting, and the paintings and poems are paired in the book. Pupils are therefore introduced to the worlds of poetry and art through active reading and viewing. Activities aim to draw the pupils into creative and critical discussion. Among the artists featured are Dali, Degas, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Picasso, Whistler and Kandinsky, and poets include U.A. Fanthorpe, Charles Causley, Carol Anne Duffy, Alan Brownjohn and James Berry.

One of Latin America's greatest novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a most acute and wide ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones includes his readings of major twentieth century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum and Herzog, and major works by Hemingway, Woolf, Orwell, Camus and Nabokov. There are long studies of George Grosz, vignettes on Botero and Picasso, and an appreciation of Cezanne and Van Gogh, including a visit to Cezanne's homes on the South Seas. Also included are essays on political and social thinkers, from the nineteenth century feminist, Flora Tristan, to Isaiah Berlin, and contemporary pieces on 9/11, the aftermath of the war in Iraq, and the terrorist attacks on London and Madrid.