Many words and expressions are viewed as 'taboo', such as those used to describe sex, our bodies and their functions, and those used to insult other people. This 2006 book provides a fascinating insight into taboo language and its role in everyday life. It looks at the ways we use language to be polite or impolite, politically correct or offensive, depending on whether we are 'sweet-talking', 'straight-talking' or being deliberately rude. Using a range of colourful examples, it shows how we use language playfully and figuratively in order to swear, to insult, and also to be politically correct, and what our motivations are for doing so. It goes on to examine the differences between institutionalized censorship and the ways individuals censor their own language. Lively and revealing, Forbidden Words will fascinate anyone who is interested in how and why we use and avoid taboos in daily conversation.

""It wasn't the words that killed, it""Was the wilderness between the words, ""Like the wilderness of God, ""The catch of breath beyond a prayer, ""The wait, the long way home""From candle's gleam." "From "The Words"" Forbidden Words," Patricia Traxler's third book of poetry, explores the weight of unspoken thoughts and the emotional consequences that they may have. Her poems erupt from the prairies and farms of the Midwest, and in them she seeks refuge from the tumultuous storms of spiritual doubt, love, and loss. In her longer poems, such as "The Wife Talks in Her Sleep" and "The Lunatic's Ball," Traxler examines the relationship of silence to the language of women. Her crisp, shorter poems like "Lullaby" and "How I Got This Way" offer insight into the growth of spirituality and childhood in a Midwestern town. Those fascinated with the power of language and the challenge of faith will find Traxler's poems a captivating read.

Award-winning poetry in a bilingual edition, by Portugal's best-known living poet.

Rebecca Willins lives in a world of grey. A world where everything is suppressed from the words you can speak to the furniture you can put in your home. She takes a trip to the local beach for the last time before the City of Sixdale shuts it down. Q is an impossible man, washing up on the shore with his son and pet one night and not afraid of the limitations of Rebecca's world. Together they express themselves to the breaking point. Silence is golden but, rebellion is magenta.

Forbidden "The Fruit of My Own Way" is the final rendition of the book formerly known as Forbidden "A Multitude of Words". It stays true to my trademark image of using darker themes and imagery to convey a deeper and brighter truth that ultimately leads to redemption.