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Book Synopsis Bastards of the Reagan Era by : Reginald Dwayne Betts
Download or read book Bastards of the Reagan Era written by Reginald Dwayne Betts and published by Stahlecker Selections. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bastards of the Reagan Era challenges and confronts many of the difficult realities that frame America
Book Synopsis Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by : Nikki Grimes
Download or read book Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance written by Nikki Grimes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance--paired with full-color, original art from today's most talented female African-American illustrators. For centuries, accomplished women--of all races--have fallen out of the historical records. The same is true for gifted, prolific, women poets of the Harlem Renaissance who are little known, especially as compared to their male counterparts. In this poetry collection, bestselling author Nikki Grimes uses "The Golden Shovel" poetic method to create wholly original poems based on the works of these groundbreaking women-and to introduce readers to their work. Each poem is paired with one-of-a-kind art from today's most exciting female African-American illustrators: Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Cozbi A. Cabrera, Nina Crews, Pat Cummings, Laura Freeman, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Ebony Glenn, April Harrison, Vashti Harrison, Ekua Holmes, Cathy Ann Johnson, Keisha Morris, Daria Peoples-Riley, Andrea Pippins, Erin Robinson, Shadra Strickland, Nicole Tadgell, and Elizabeth Zunon. Legacy also includes a foreword, an introduction to the history of the Harlem Renaissance, author's note, and poet biographies, which make this a wonderful resource and a book to cherish. Acclaim for One Last Word A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor winner A New York Public Library Best Kids Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, Middle Grade A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, Nonfiction
Book Synopsis Legacy of Poems by : Angela Willoughby
Download or read book Legacy of Poems written by Angela Willoughby and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My desire is to remain alive in generations beyond my lifetime. Much of my work is experiential. Feeling empathy towards people's grief and pain was conveyed to poetry. My poetry speaks to thoughtless, cruel treatment of animals not treated as sentient beings, even those feeling and trusting creatures of the sea. Nature, love, friendships, retirement, African American men, birth and death are reflected in "Legacy of Poems" . Downsizing elicited stinging rebuke from my pen. Subtle advice is expended, but the last poem becomes overt. I received merit awards for the Sound of Poetry and was included in Best Poetry of the Year four times and also in Celebration of Poets, a showcase edition. Book Review Reviewer: Cindy Skelton, High School Teacher [email protected] 650.343.7269 Angela Kiel Willoughby's Legacy of Poems spring from her life experiences and observations. The first section of poems feel familiar as she writes about her family and growing up in Illinois. "Memories" and "My Mother" particularly remind me of stories my father told me about growing up on a farm in Roseville, Illinois. They hearken back to a simpler time or perhaps a more difficult one: picking down for a featherbed, gathering eggs, feeding chickens in addition to a myriad of other daily chores. Through the poems, we learn of strong character traits inherent in her family; an example of the strength required to raise seven children. For several years, Ms. Willoughby worked as a labor and delivery nurse, giving her a great insight into health care issues (and what could be more timely) whether it was delivering babies or considering an ailing relative in a nursing home. She honors colleagues both doctors and nurses and shares definite opinions on those that have a poor bedside manner. Assisting in all those deliveries, her writings acknowledge the trauma of a stillborn birth, the agony of carrying a baby to term and giving him up for adoption and the difficulty of a pre-mature birth. These poems, written when Ms. Willoughby was still working, must have been a way for her to cope with the often tragic events associated with her profession. She takes the opportunity to write scathing poems about health care "professionals" who were not so professional. In "Mildred Marie's Final Hospital Days" and "Mildred Marie Willoughby" the reader completely understands her anger at the poor way Mildred was treated during her final days and we can only hope that we never encounter a nurse as horrible as the one described in these poems. Over the years, she has developed a passion for animal rights advocacy. Included in this volume is a letter/poem to President Clinton urging him to uphold the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act a letter she sent to members of congress and the senate as well. She writes a poem to the CEO of Proctor and Gamble, "Praying for World Enlightenment", urging him to ban animal testing. These poems are passionate pleas to honor and protect the lives of animals. On a final note, the layout of this book is particularly comforting. Ms. Willoughby takes care to have only one poem per page, often with a corresponding picture from her own collection. The reader is allowed to linger and savor each poem as it is discovered. We are fortunate that Angela Willoughby chose to compile some of her best poems into this volume. She writes each poem with a thoughtfulness and deliberate point of view, enabling the reader to experience clear snapshots of these moments in her life.
Book Synopsis The Book of the Dead by : Muriel Rukeyser
Download or read book The Book of the Dead written by Muriel Rukeyser and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.
Book Synopsis The Dissonant Legacy of Modernismo by : Gwen Kirkpatrick
Download or read book The Dissonant Legacy of Modernismo written by Gwen Kirkpatrick and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Book Synopsis Shahid Reads His Own Palm by : Reginald Dwayne Betts
Download or read book Shahid Reads His Own Palm written by Reginald Dwayne Betts and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gripping and terrifying, eloquent and heartwrenching, this debut collection delves into hellish territory: prison life. Soulful poems somberly capture time-bending experiences and the survivalist mentality needed to live a contradiction, confronting both daily torment and one's illogical fear of freedom.
Download or read book Vessel written by Parneshia Jones and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE MIDWEST BOOK AWARD The imagination of a girl, the retelling of family stories, and the unfolding of a rich and often painful history: Parneshia Jones’s debut collection explores the intersections of these elements of experience with refreshing candor and metaphorical purpose. A child of the South speaking in the rhythms of Chicago, Jones knits “a human quilt” with herself at the center. She relates everything from the awkward trip to Marshall Fields with her mother to buy her first bra to the late whiskey-infused nights of her father’s world. In the South, “lard sizzles a sermon from the stove”; in Chicago, we feast on an “opera of peppers and pimento.” Jones intertwines the stories of her own family with those of historical black figures, including Marvin Gaye and Josephine Baker. Affectionate, dynamic, and uncommonly observant, these poems mine the richness of history to create a map of identity and influence.
Download or read book Twilight Hours written by Sarah Williams and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legacy written by Jeffrey Marc Winkelman and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Marc Winkelman's LEGACY poetry book addresses contemporary social issues of people of all ages, races, and genders. While Jeffrey writes about life, daily events, and relationships, some of his best work is written about controversial issues that society faces today. Some examples: (1) in the book starting at page 38 and continuing for eight pages, is a story poem in rhyme entitled “Gay.” It is the story of a high school female named Jenna who tells her mother that she is homosexual. The poem details Jenna's fear building up to telling her family, and the way she was treated by her family members and mistreated by her mother thereafter; (2) in the book at page 11 is a poem entitled “Recognized Sin,” which discusses the feelings of isolation and helplessness of sexual abuse; (3) in the three page poem “Cradle Of Violence” the author tells the story of a boy who was victimized by domestic abuse and the actions he took to overcome the enormous mistreatment that he was faced with; (4) without preaching or trying to enforce his beliefs on anyone, Jeffrey tackles that age-old question of religion and religious beliefs in such poems as “Lord, Is That You?”, “One God Or No God”, and “Why?”; (5) and “Poker Fish” is a four page poem about a player who plays his suited 8 and 3 hole cards in Texas Hold'em, creating a comedic story for the reader. Jeffrey Marc Winkelman also pays homage to the classic styles of poetry by writing a handful of Sonnets, and styling some of his poems after those of Emily Dickinson, John Milton, Marianne Moore, and Robert Frost. He mainly writes his poems in rhyme, using all different kinds of rhyme scheme. Jeffrey Marc Winkelman wrote his first poems at the tender age of twelve, and soon realized writing a poem about a girl and giving it to her was an easy way to gauge her interest level. Since then, while his flirting skills may not have improved much, his poetry writing ability has. Jeffrey now writes poems, prose, and songs in various forms of rhyme and free verse about social issues, life, coming of age, hardships, daily events, religion, science, love, and relationships.The book contains over 100 poems.Additional information about the author, and some examples of the poems within the 135 page book can be found at www.LegacyPoetry.comIf you purchase this book for use with an electronic device (i.e. Kindle, Nook, eReader, Tablet, etc.) the original formatting may be modified. The written words are a true and accurate representation of what the author intended, but the physical appearance and formatting (i.e. centering, line breaks, spacing, bold emphasis, etc.) may have been modified for the particular electronic device that you're using.
Download or read book Blues People written by Leroi Jones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1999-01-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music." So says Amiri Baraka in the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 1960's, Baraka traces the influence of what he calls "negro music" on white America -- not only in the context of music and pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music. In tracing the music, he brilliantly illuminates the influence of African Americans on American culture and history.
Book Synopsis A Legacy in Poems by : Claude Dallas
Download or read book A Legacy in Poems written by Claude Dallas and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title: INITIATING A LEGACY OF POEMS WAS DESIGNED TO: Provide a written record of my life- transforming decisions and experiences for my descendants. It is something that I wished had been available for me to assist in my positive self-development as a young man. Record the lessons on life learned from my father and his father to be passed down to future generations. To serve as a guide and template for others who desires to reflect upon their relationships and experiences. Encourage other men in refining and expanding their sense of purpose and destiny. Serve as an example to many of my cultural and spiritual brothers of the importance of recording a written legacy. Legacy Journal of Personal Transformation is an open-ended work of poems and other literature that will be used in the context of speaking with my offspring and their progeny to fill in the dash between the date on which I was born and the date on which I physically depart this dear earth. It is my intention to continue to record my personal life's journey, the significant events in my life and the decisions that resulted. May my vulnerability expressed in these writings assist my heirs and others in becoming more aware of the presence, plans, power and purpose of God. May they treasure the blessings of many past generations who have prayed for them and labored knowing that they would never see this day. 1. Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children, but a sinner's wealth is stored up for the righteous.
Download or read book Legacy written by Mark Dunster and published by . This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Legacy of Poems by : Vicki Grometer Jahns
Download or read book A Legacy of Poems written by Vicki Grometer Jahns and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vicki Jahns has been capturing feelings and thoughts in phrases for quite some time. She previously published poems and essays in magazines and journals. She has two previously published books, The Fig Tree and From My Mother's Patio. She combines those and new poems in this edition. Poems arrive and seem to be asked to be written. The poems found in this book are a wide variety- thoughtful, funny, transcendent, family oriented, and illuminating. This book is a fond legacy to Vicki's family and friends.
Book Synopsis Poetry's Legacy by : Robert Anderson Love Wins
Download or read book Poetry's Legacy written by Robert Anderson Love Wins and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing "Poetry's Legacy Journey of Light - Wheel of Timeless Poetic Gifts for the Soul," a captivating anthology that invites you on an extraordinary voyage of self-discovery, empowerment, and poetic brilliance. Embark on a literary odyssey as renowned poets from around the world answer the call of unity and interdependence. This exquisite collection brings together their talents to create a symphony of over 222 poems, each a radiant gem crafted to illuminate the human experience. As the verses unfold, you'll find yourself transported through the intricate layers of life's Quantum Wheel, exploring its diverse segments with awe-inspiring artistry. From the deep purple petals of Spirituality & Inner Growth, to the olive green embrace of Contribution & Giving Back, these poets guide you through each symbol's vibrant hues, offering insights, reflections, and revelations that resonate with the very core of your being. Through the richness of their verses, you'll witness the rise of a legacy built on shared visions and poetic unity. Within the pages of "Poetry's Legacy Journey of Light," you'll encounter the royal blue aspirations of Career & Finances, the soft pink ties of Relationships & Social Connections, and the emerald vitality of Health & Well-being. Each segment comes alive through the distinctive voices of these poets, whose words are handprints of inspiration, touching upon love, growth, and the infinite palette of human emotions. Elegantly written and passionately woven, this anthology transcends the boundaries of poetry, becoming a guiding light that transforms lives. Join these gifted poets as they uplift and empower with verses that resonate long after the final page is turned. "Poetry's Legacy Journey of Light" is not just a collection of words; it's a journey, a legacy, and a gift that forever ignites the flames of personal growth within your soul. joining us on our journey: 1. **Homer** (Ancient Greece) - Author of the epic poems "Iliad" and "Odyssey." 2. **William Shakespeare** (England) - Renowned playwright and poet, known for his sonnets and plays. 3. **Dante Alighieri** (Italy) - Wrote "Divine Comedy," a monumental work in Italian literature. 4. **Rumi** (Persia) - A Sufi mystic poet known for his spiritual and philosophical poetry. 5. **Rabindranath Tagore** (India) - Nobel laureate known for his poetry, including "Gitanjali." 6. **Emily Dickinson** (United States) - Her unique and innovative poems explored themes of nature, death, and immortality. 7. **Pablo Neruda** (Chile) - A prolific poet, diplomat, and Nobel laureate with a focus on love and politics. 8. **Langston Hughes** (United States) - A key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, known for his impactful poems on African American culture. 9. **W.B. Yeats** (Ireland) - A leader of the Irish Literary Revival and Nobel laureate in literature. 10. **Federico García Lorca** (Spain) - A prominent figure of the Spanish literary movement "Generation of '27." 11. **Sappho** (Ancient Greece) - An ancient Greek lyric poet known for her poems on love and longing. 12. **John Milton** (England) - Wrote "Paradise Lost," an epic poem on the fall of humanity. 13. **Walt Whitman** (United States) - Known for his groundbreaking work "Leaves of Grass," which celebrated individualism. 14. **Seamus Heaney** (Ireland) - Nobel laureate celebrated for his nature-themed and politically engaged poetry. 15. **Maya Angelou** (United States) - Renowned for her autobiographical works and poems on identity and social justice. Join Us!
Book Synopsis June Jordan's Poetry for the People by : Lauren Muller
Download or read book June Jordan's Poetry for the People written by Lauren Muller and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively "blueprint" (guidebook) represents collaborative efforts of the Poetry for the People, 60 or more multicultural students under the leadership of June Jordan at the University of California, Berkeley. Describing how-tos of grassroots poetry programs and staunchly pledged to current politically correct tenets of diversity, in addition to printing student poems, this anthology reviews how to take readings and workshops into the community and cultivate "empowerment by affirming that everybody has something to offer." Chapters discuss these "cultural literacies": African American; Asian American; Caribbean; Chicana/o, Latina/o American; children's; deaf; gay and lesbian; Irish and Irish American; Native American; and women's. This celebration of "explorative" poetry as a communal, oral art form is an easy-to-use, timely reference for community college, public libraries, and writers' centers. Frank Allen, Northampton Community Coll., Tannersville, Pa. Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information.
Book Synopsis Phillis Wheatley by : Vincent Carretta
Download or read book Phillis Wheatley written by Vincent Carretta and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carretta offers the first full-length biography of Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784), who became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman--of any race or background--to do so in America.
Book Synopsis Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction by : Michael Ferber
Download or read book Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction written by Michael Ferber and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Romanticism? In this Very Short Introduction Michael Ferber answers this by considering who the romantics were and looks at what they had in common — their ideas, beliefs, commitments, and tastes. He looks at the birth and growth of Romanticism throughout Europe and the Americas, and examines various types of Romantic literature, music, painting, religion, and philosophy. Focusing on topics, Ferber looks at the 'Sensibility' movement, which preceded Romanticism; the rising prestige of the poet; Romanticism as a religious trend; Romantic philosophy and science; Romantic responses to the French Revolution; and the condition of women. Using examples and quotations he presents a clear insight into this very diverse movement, and offers a definition as well as a discussion of the word 'Romantic' and where it came from. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
