Michael Walsh Bücher

Wenn schon die ersten Takte eines Klavierkonzerts unerträglich sind, weil man sich bei E-Musik ahnungslos fühlt, obwohl einem die Filmmusik von "Amadeus" und "2001" schon gefällt, wenn der eigene CD-Player Heavy Metal satt hat, dann ist dieses Buch der ideale Helfer! Es liefert Ihnen eine durchaus respektlose, absolut voreingenommene, aber für den Anfänger ideale Einführung in die klassische Musik.

Beschreibt Herkunft, Familie und Leben des bekannten Musical-Komponisten und geht ausführlich auf Entstehung, Inszenierung und Wirkung seiner Werke ein.

Eine neblige Dezembernacht 1941. Auf dem Rollfeld des Flughafens von Casablanca steht Rick Blaine und blickt einem startenden Flugzeug nach. An Bord befindet sich Ilsa Lund, die große Liebe seines Lebens, Frau des tschechischen Widerstandskämpfers Victor Laszlo. Nach über fünfzig Jahren erfahren die "Casablanca"-Fans nun, ob der Liebe zwischen Rick und Ilsa tatsächlich keine Zukunft beschieden war.

The narrative centers on a tragic event during World War II when the British troop ship HMT Rohna was attacked by German bombers on November 26, 1943. Carrying over 2,000 U.S. servicemen, the ship was part of a convoy that initially withstood the assault. However, a final attack by a technologically advanced glide bomb led to devastating losses, resulting in the deaths of 1,015 servicemen. The harrowing rescue efforts that followed highlight the chaos and heroism amid the tragedy at sea.

Michael Walsh’s poetry collection Creep Love explores a family contending with a complex and ongoing crisis, the aftermath of which creates a shockwave that reverberates through these poems. Stories, half-truths, and lies combine into disturbing fable: A young pregnant woman flees her abusive boyfriend only to discover with terror that he is focused on her younger sister. When her younger sister later gives birth to her abusive ex’s other sons, the unsettling presence of the child’s father becomes unavoidable, and the family soon forces the first son to become a family secret. We come to find out that the father carries a secret of his own. As tensions rise, attacks within the family escalate and finally culminate in an attempted murder. In Creep Love, Walsh captures the terror of this event, and these poems take us through the surprising outcomes. Near death, rather than floating into light due to hypoxia—a temporary release from the grip of compounding trauma—the speaker sinks into all-encompassing darkness. The anxiety of this moment returns him to his body from the edge of death. These poems give witness to the fallout, demonstrating how love can be charged with something ultimately unknowable.  

From the most basic terms to the structures and practices of the Church, this book offers a plain-speaking introduction to Roman Catholicism. Now in a second edition, it contains new sections on relations with other faiths, coverage of recent controversies in the Church and an expanded section on social teaching. It covers: Roman Catholic beliefs and traditions practices and devotional life - rituals, prayer, mass Church structures and authorities - from Vatican to parish church Church hierarchies and people - from bishops to the laity the role of the Church in society. With a glossary, further reading sections and reference to official documents of the Church, this is the perfect guide for students approaching the study of Roman Catholicism for the first time.

An anthology of queer nature poetry spanning three centuries.   This anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry. Showcasing over two hundred queer writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Queer Nature offers a new context for and expands upon the canon of nature poetry while also offering new lenses through which to view queerness and the natural world.   In the introduction, editor Michael Walsh writes that the anthology is “concerned with poems that speak to and about nature as the term is applied in everyday language to queer and trans bodies and identities . . . Queer Nature remains interested in elements, flora, fauna, habitats, homes, and natural forces—literary aspects of the work that allow queer and trans people to speak within their specific cultural and literary histories of the abnormal, the animal, the elemental, and the unnatural.” The anthology features poets including Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Blanco, Kay Ryan, Jericho Brown, Allen Ginsberg, Natalie Diaz, and June Jordan, as well as emerging voices such as Jari Bradley, Alicia Mountain, Eric Tran, and Jim Whiteside.