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Martin Arnold's Promiscuous Beauty is a celebration of the messiness and contradictions of our everyday lives. But it's also more than that. Dig a little deeper and you will find that Arnold is giving us "a study in patience, an apprenticeship in awareness." The language is down to earth and direct, the images building one after another, line after line, stanza after stanza, poems after poem, revealing a world that is, despite what we often see and hear on the news, actually filled with humor and compassion. This is the book of poet whose vision is growing in breadth and depth, which is, after all, what we want from the best of our writers.--Terry L. Kennedy, author of New River BreakdownThank goodness for the beautiful, wild, sane poems of Martin Arnold. These poems are the fruit of knowledge found in deep engagement and conversation with the human and natural landscapes. Despite his modesty and protestations, in his poem, "Promiscuous Beauty," one of three with that name that punctuate the text, he is indeed: "a cartographer of clouds and confidant of stars, a recorder of the movement of boulders, an acolyte of the wind." This is a powerful and wonderful selection of poems by a poet ripening to wisdom.--Stuart Dischell

Dragons are a global phenomenon, one that has troubled mankind for thousands of years. From the fire-breathing beasts of North European myth and legend to the Book of Revelation's Great Red Dragon of Hell, from those supernatural agencies of imperial authority in ancient China to those dragon-women posing a threat to male authority, dragons have a wide variety of forms and meanings. But there is one thing they all have in common: our fear of their formidable power and, as a consequence, our need to overcome them, to appease them or in some way to assume their power as our own. How can this be explained? Is it our need to impose order on chaos in the person of a dragon-slaying hero? Is it our terror of Nature unleashed in its most destructive form? Or is the dragon nothing less than an expression of that greatest and most disturbing mystery of all - our mortality? Martin Arnold traces the history of ideas about dragons, from the earliest of times to Game of Thrones, and asks what exactly it might be in our imaginations that appears to have necessitated such a creature.

Founder of sixpackfilm, a platform for Austrian film and video, Viennese artist Martin Arnold (born 1959) has defined himself as an independent filmmaker since 1987. This publication demonstrates Arnold's animated short films that distort and manipulate classic characters from Walt Disney films.

The myths of the Norse god Thor were preserved in the Icelandic Eddas, set down in the early Middle Ages. The bane of giants and trolls, Thor was worshipped as the last line of defence against all that threatened early Nordic society. This title explores the extraordinary regard in which Thor has been held since medieval times.

Presents a history that traces the 300-year saga of the pirates and warlords who poured out of Scandinavia between the eighth and eleventh centuries, terrorizing, conquering, and settling vast stretches of Europe. This work provides an account of this early medieval period that became known as the Viking Age.

Martin Arnold ist einer der profiliertesten experimentellen Filmemacher Österreichs. Seine jüngste Arbeit „Deanimated: The Invisible Ghost“ ist eine Art Übermalung eines klassischen amerikanischen Horrorstreifens: im Verlauf der Handlung werden zentrale Figuren des Geschehens mit digitalen Mitteln herauskopiert, sodass sich der Film sukzessive entvölkert. Durch diesen Deanimationsprozess entsteht aus der alten, herkömmlichen Suspense-Geschichte eine neue, die offener und rätselhafter ist. Deanimated präsentiert den gesamten Film in einer Serie von Fotostills. In einem Interview mit dem Künstler sowie Essays werden die unterschiedlichen Aspekte der Arbeit Martin Arnolds analysiert.