Thomas Simmons Libros

Celebrated for its rich tapestry of emotion and insight, this collection showcases a selection of poems spanning four decades, highlighting the evolution of the poet's voice. Themes of love, loss, and identity resonate throughout, inviting readers to explore the depths of human experience. The work is both reflective and innovative, offering a unique perspective on the passage of time and the power of memory. This anthology serves as a testament to the poet's enduring impact on contemporary literature.

The book explores the concept of mindfulness and living in the present moment, emphasizing the importance of awareness in everyday life. It offers practical insights and techniques for cultivating a deeper connection to the here and now, encouraging readers to let go of past regrets and future anxieties. Through engaging anecdotes and thought-provoking exercises, it aims to inspire a transformative journey towards greater peace and fulfillment.

Exploring the Venera program, the book delves into the USSR's ambitious missions to Venus from 1961 to the mid-80s. It highlights the unique designs of the probes, including balloon-like crafts navigating the planet's harsh environment and others that met catastrophic ends. Through vivid imagery and poetic language, the narrative uncovers the beauty and significance of the data and photographs transmitted back to Earth, portraying the alien landscape as a source of inspiration and revelation.

Exploring love as a post-evolutionary force, the author combines personal meditation with insights from theology, animal biology, and paleoanthropology. The narrative suggests that understanding love's complexities could lead to a rediscovery of a "home range," a primal refuge that may mitigate the inherent dangers of love. This unique perspective invites readers to reflect on the interplay between evolution, human connection, and the quest for safety in relationships.

Have you ever grown tired of yourself, fed up with the narrative of your life, despairing of hopeful change? Me too. But this book is not a self-help book. Its intricate interweaving of neuroscience and the philosophy of mind takes us back to fundamental questions: is there such a thing as a continuous self, or a reliable narrative of a life? Is there such a thing as consciousness apart from biology? Is the human brain the source of conscious awareness or the evolved site of an awareness that inheres in the nature of general relativity? This book argues that consciousness on earth is an ancient phenomenon, dating back at least 500 million years, and that human self-awareness is a relatively recent gremlin on the scene. Arguing from the vantage point of one particular moment in Edmund Husserl’s “the residuum of consciousness after the annihilation of the world”, this book invites the reader to leave both self-consciousness and the fear of death behind and to look at how the relative phenomenon of the brain is a harbinger of something much greater.

Bring Your Nights With You - Volume Two: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2015 by Thomas Simmons

This book by Thomas Frederick Simmons provides a comprehensive overview of courts martial and their role in the English legal system. The book also includes a summary of the law of evidence as it pertains to courts martial.

Obscenity and Disruption in the Poetry of Dylan Krieger is the first full-length study of the radical poetry of Baton Rouge-based poet Dylan Krieger. Wickedly smart, iconoclastic, daring in their critiques of religion and contemporary culture, Krieger's poems rank with Allen Ginsberg's and Adrienne Rich's as the most provocative and avant-garde of any recent generation. With its debt to third-wave feminism and the "Gurlesque," Krieger's work nevertheless moves outward and backward across the landmines of sexual precocity and religious fundamentalism and across the entire western project of epistemology as Krieger came to understand it at the University of Notre Dame. Though this book necessarily stays close to Krieger's specific poems, it follows her lead in stretching her cultural, sexual, and religious furies to their apotheosis in a manifesto of liberation.

A poet's oeuvre is typically studied as an arc from the first work to the last work, including everything in between as a manifestation of some advance or reversal. What if the primary relationship in a poet's oeuvre is actually between the first and last text, with those two texts sharing a compelling private language? What if, read separately from the other work, the first and last books reveal some new phenomenon about both the struggles and the achievement of the poet? Drawing on phenomenological and intertextual theories from Ladislaus Boros, Julia Kristeva, Theodor Adorno, and Peter Galison, Poets' First and Last Books in Dialogue examines the relevant texts of Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Sexton, Thom Gunn, Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes. In each of these poets' first books, Thomas Simmons examines both the evidence of some new phenomenon and a limit or unsolved problem that finds its resolution only in a specific conversation with the final text. By placing the texts in dialogue, Simmons unveils a new internal language in the work of these groundbreaking poets. The character of this illumination expands in a coda on Robert Pinsky, whose career is particularly marked by what neurologist Antonio Damasio calls the moment of «stepping into the light.»