Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

Will it be short stories, fiction, nonfiction, biography, poetry, children's stories, or even a book if you are really ambitious??

In short, the book, based largely on lectures delivered at Harvard University, is both reliable and readable ; ;

Some consider this more of a short story collection ; Milne didn't like it and considered The Day's Play as his first book.

The book includes some material from the short story The Salesman's Tale, and some unpublished material cut from Prince of Chaos, notably Coral's pregnancy by Merlin.

Alcott asked Niles if he would publish a book of short stories by his daughter ; instead, he suggested she write a book about girls.

This collection of short Latin verse texts and accompanying woodcuts created an entire European genre, the emblem book, which attained enormous popularity in continental Europe and Great Britain.

Generally, managers seek relative value opportunities by being both long and short municipal bonds with a duration-neutral book.

Seven of the eight scrolls originally contained the entire book of Daniel in the short form as it is in the Masoretic Text, however none have the long form as preserved in the Septuagint.

It is a rather short book, in both Jewish and Christian scripture, consisting of only four chapters.

In Christianity, the book of Obadiah is classified as a minor prophet of the Old Testament, due to its short length.

While the book is relatively short it includes lament ( 1. 8-16 ; 7. 8-10 ), theophany ( 1. 3-4 ), hymnic prayer of petition and confidence ( 7. 14-20 ), and the " covenant lawsuit " ( 6. 1-8 ), a distinct genre in which Yahweh ( God ) sues Israel for breach of contract, that is, for violation of the Sinai covenant.

" It is a short book, consisting of only two chapters.

He founded the short lived Campaign for Social Democracy ( CFSD ) thereafter, and wrote a book about events surrounding the by-election called The Future of the Left – Lincoln and After ( 1972 ).

A breviary ( from Latin brevis, ' short ' or ' concise ') is a liturgical book of the Latin liturgical rites of the Catholic Church containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons in the Divine Office ( i. e., at the canonical hours or Liturgy of the Hours, the Christians ' daily prayer ).

However, the 1552 book was used only for a short period, since Edward VI died in the summer of 1553 and, as soon as she could do so, Mary I, restored the old religion.

In modern literature, Cockney rhyming slang is used frequently in the novels and short stories of Kim Newman, for instance in the short story collections " The Man from the Diogenes Club " ( 2006 ) and " Secret Files of the Diogenes Club " ( 2007 ), where it is explained at the end of each book.

Pitman's short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion, his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Street, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.

Also, since the book is 81 short poems, there is little need for an abridgement.

In 1909, Jones wrote the short Pronunciation of English, a book which he later radically revised.

A library assigns a DDC number that unambiguously locates a particular volume to within a short length of shelving which makes it easy to find any particular book and return it to its proper place on the library shelves.

The Charles Men consists not of a connected narrative but of a group of short stories, each depicting a special phase of the general subject.

The first string has a short English-language description, namely " ab 32 times ", which consists of 11 characters.

Like the peptidoglycan found in bacterial cell walls, pseudopeptidoglycan consists of polymer chains of glycan cross-linked by short peptide connections.

Jiangsu cuisine, also known as Su ( Cai ) Cuisine for short, is one of the major components of Chinese cuisine, which consists of the styles of Yangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou and Zhenjiang dishes.

* Theodore Sturgeon's short novel, Some of Your Blood ( 1961 ), consists of letters and case-notes relating to the psychiatric treatment of a non-supernatural vampire.

Blades of Exile consists of three short scenarios set after the main trilogy as well as an editor that allows players to create their own scenarios, which need not be set in the Exile game world at all.

A montage sequence consists of a series of short shots that are edited into a sequence to condense narrative.

Beyond the microsong, it is characteristic of grindcore to have short songs in general ; for example, Carcass ' debut album Reek of Putrefaction ( 1988 ) consists of 22 tracks with an average length of 1 minute and 48 seconds.

The substance of an indictment or other charging instrument is usually the same, regardless of the jurisdiction: it consists of a short and plain statement of where, when, and how the defendant allegedly committed the offense.

Shortform improv consists of short scenes usually constructed from a predetermined game, structure, or idea and driven by an audience suggestion.

The whimsical Svetz series consists of a collection of short stories, The Flight of the Horse, and a novel, Rainbow Mars, which involve a nominal time machine sent back to retrieve long-extinct animals, but which travels, in fact, into alternate realities and brings back mythical creatures such as a Roc and a Unicorn.

Microblogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts.

The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between two characters, most typically the violent Punch and one other character.

Compared to Web browsing, e-mail or many other uses of the internet, where data is only transferred in short intervals and relative small quantities, P2P file-sharing often consists of relatively heavy bandwidth usage due to ongoing file transfers and swarm / network coordination packets.

In prokaryotes, the promoter consists of two short sequences at-10 and-35 positions upstream from the transcription start site.

Occasionally a bottleneck is used on only the highest two strings of a guitar in standard tuning, usually in live performance to introduce just a short passage of bottleneck effect into a piece which otherwise consists mainly of guitar played in standard fashion.

The staff sling, also known as the stave sling, fustibalus ( Latin ), fustibale ( French ), consists of a staff ( a length of wood ) with a short sling at one end.

The principle behind a Pulsed-Ultrasonic technology is that the transmit signal consists of short bursts of ultrasonic energy.

One, the Catalepton, consists of fourteen short poems, some of which may be Virgil's, and another, a short narrative poem titled the Culex (" The Gnat "), was attributed to Virgil as early as the 1st century AD.

Stripping consists of removal of all or part the saphenous vein ( great / long and / or lesser / short ) main trunk.

The Yom Kippur confessional consists of two parts: a short confession beginning with the word Ashamnu ( אשמנו, " we have sinned "), which is a series of words describing sin arranged according to the aleph-bet, and a long confession, beginning with the words Al Cheyt ( על חטא, " for the sin "), which is a set of 26 double acrostics, also arranged according to the aleph-bet, enumerating a range of sins.

The Aeneid, like other classical epics, is written in dactylic hexameter: each line consists of six metrical feet made up of dactyls ( one long syllable followed by two short syllables ) and spondees ( two long syllables ).

In ALE, the sounding information consists of a heavily error-corrected short message identifying the sender.