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Book Synopsis A Barbados Book of Poems and Puzzles by : Mobile Media Marketing
Download or read book A Barbados Book of Poems and Puzzles written by Mobile Media Marketing and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the first edition of A Barbadian Book of Poems and Puzzles. This book presents a wonderful world of poetry and puzzles. It is an eclectic collection of Barbadian poems and puzzles, penned mainly by friends, family and supporters of The Peoples Cathedral Primary School.This initiative was conceptualized to reawaken the art of poetry writing, bring to the fore topical issues that are a part of the social fabric of the society and lay the foundation for a national competition to showcase the diverse categories of poetry that is penned daily by many Barbadian in all strata of the society. The puzzles present a fun, exciting, yet relaxing way of learning about Barbados¿ history. They cover numerous themes including but not limited to sports, culture, national heroes, flora and fauna and civics.An electronic version of the book that contains all of the answers to the quiz, plus some sample poems can be found at www.EducateWithGames.org.Happy reading and happy hunting ¿ until the next edition.
Download or read book Limestone written by Tony Kellman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Barbados is the central character is this epic poem, which combines narrative development, historical insight, and traditional folk sounds to tell the story of the island from the time of early Amerindians to the present day. Anthony Kellman invents his own Tuk verse forms that include the three-line tercet verse form, rhymed couplets in tetrameter, and rhythmic patterns of the snare drum. These provide a cadence to each section of the poem, whose sound is organic to the people and cultures being described. Legendary figures including indigenous leader Samuel Jackman Prescod and invented characters provide windows into the polarizing and uniting issues in the nation's history and illustrate the suffering and achievement of Barbados's known and unknown heroes.
Book Synopsis Joanstown and Other Poems by : Michael Gilkes
Download or read book Joanstown and Other Poems written by Michael Gilkes and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the long title poem and the other poems in the collection, Michael Gilkes sets up a dialogue about the nature of memory and the meaning of experience across time.
Book Synopsis Barbadoes, and Other Poems by : Matthew James Chapman
Download or read book Barbadoes, and Other Poems written by Matthew James Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Everything and Other Poems by : Charles North
Download or read book Everything and Other Poems written by Charles North and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everything and Other Poems" is a new collection of poetry by Charles North. North has published eleven books of poems, three books of critical prose, and collaborations with artists and other poets. With James Schuyler, he edited the poet/painter anthologies "Broadway" and "Broadway 2." His "New and Selected: What It Is Like" headed NPR's Best Poetry Books of 2011, and he has received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, two NEA grants, four Fund For Poetry Awards, and a Poets Foundation Award. He lives with his wife, the painter Paula North, in New York City. More info at charles-north.com"--
Book Synopsis Reader, I Married Him and Other Queer Goings On by : Dorothea Smartt
Download or read book Reader, I Married Him and Other Queer Goings On written by Dorothea Smartt and published by Inscribe. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first poem to the last, Smartt's new chapbook collection advocates a revolutionary decampment from the madhouse of desires reigned in to protect a precarious and often incoherent code of Caribbean respectability. This is Smartt at her sensual and lyrical best. These poems sing, and dance and love passionately 'til morning cum.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse by : Stewart Brown
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse written by Stewart Brown and published by Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean has produced one of the most vigorous and exciting bodies of poetry of the last one hundred year. The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse is the only contemporary anthology to present the best of the English-language poetry of the region alongside selections from the poetry of boththe French and Spanish Caribbean. Featuring a range of established poets from Derek Walcott to Jesus Cos Causse, Olive Senior to Aime Cesaire, as well as exciting new voices, this is a rich and challenging book.
Book Synopsis Connecting Medium by : Dorothea Smartt
Download or read book Connecting Medium written by Dorothea Smartt and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book links the past to the present, the Caribbean to England, mothers to fathers. Here are poems about identity and culture, generations and the future.
Download or read book Ooga-Booga written by Frederick Seidel and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror, rage, and desire. Here I am, not a practical man, But clear-eyed in my contact lenses, Following no doubt a slightly different line than the others, Seeking sexual pleasure above all else, Despairing of art and of life, Seeking protection from death by seeking it On a racebike, finding release and belief on two wheels . . . --from "The Death of the Shah" The poems in Ooga-Booga are about a youthful slave owner and his aging slave, and both are the same man. This is the tenderest, most savage collection yet from Frederick Seidel, "the most frightening American poet ever" (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review).
Book Synopsis Wings of a Stranger by : Tony Kellman
Download or read book Wings of a Stranger written by Tony Kellman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the continuing rite of return to his native Barbados from longer and longer away, something has happened to Tony Kellman. No longer are these the alienated poems of the long gap, of belonging nowhere. With greater establishment in America has come the capacity to embrace his past and to see wholly afresh what was once familiar and unremarked.
Book Synopsis Barbados Poetry, ?1661-1979 by : Kamau Brathwaite
Download or read book Barbados Poetry, ?1661-1979 written by Kamau Brathwaite and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Genealogies of Barbados Families by :
Download or read book Genealogies of Barbados Families written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1983 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, there was a continuous flow of settlers from Barbados to virtually every point on the Atlantic seaboard, with the result that many families in America today trace their origins in the New World first to Barbados. Records of Barbados families exist in a variety of places and indeed a great many have been written up and published in the turn-of-the-century journal Caribbeana and The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society.This present work contains every article pertaining to family history ever published in these journals.The combined articles, reprinted here in facsimile, range from conventional genealogies and pedigrees to will abstracts and Bible records and refer to some 15,000 persons, all of whom are listed in the index.
Download or read book A Caribbean Dozen written by John Agard and published by Walker. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mangoes and jelly coconut, garter snakes and speckled frogs. These are some of the many vivid memories of a Caribbean childhood from poets such as Valerie Bloom, Faustin Charles, Telcine Turner and Dionne Brand.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to West Indian Poetry by : Laurence A. Breiner
Download or read book An Introduction to West Indian Poetry written by Laurence A. Breiner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to West Indian poetry is written for readers making their first approach to the poetry of the Caribbean written in English. It offers a comprehensive literary history from the 1920s to the 1980s, with particular attention to the relationship of West Indian poetry to European, African and American literature. Close readings of individual poems give detailed analysis of social and cultural issues at work in the writing. Laurence Breiner's exposition speaks powerfully about the defining forces in Caribbean culture from colonialism to resistance and decolonization.
Download or read book Dear Girl written by Drea Brown and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. African American Studies. DEAR GIRL: A RECKONING revisits the biography of 18th century poet Phillis Wheatley and reimagines her journey through the Middle Passage to Boston. The poems are a gathering of ghosts whose voices shift from slaver to enslaved, from the mouths of the sacred to haunted dreamer. Echoes of loss and fracture each peer into silences and gaps to uncover narratives of restoration. The poems are letters and mausoleums, voices of ghosts interspersed with theories of transgenerational trauma, that take on a range of forms and innovative strategies that visualize not only grief but a range of possibilities for healing. DEAR GIRL: A RECKONING is a book of conjure that aims to call and quell ghosts of a past not past.
Book Synopsis The Stone Gatherer by : Esther Phillips
Download or read book The Stone Gatherer written by Esther Phillips and published by Peepal Tree Caribbean Poetry. This book was released on 2009 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candid, honest, and empathetic, this disarming volume of poetry revels in poems that undress the foibles of familyfrom a father s smallness to a mother s fortissimo all located within the unique landscape of Barbados. Displaying a facility for the Barbadian dialect as well as lyrical West Indian English, the collection demonstrates the wit and intelligence of an artist committed to the use of verse to test the meaning of experience. Structured as a woman-centered movement of poems, the volume begins with the complex coming-of-age journey of a child and moves through an adulthood of romance and crushed emotions, the rewards and anxieties of motherhood, and the contemplative and reflective role of elder."
Book Synopsis A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and Dutch-speaking countries by : Albert James Arnold
Download or read book A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and Dutch-speaking countries written by Albert James Arnold and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished international team of specialists. Read separately or as a set of three volumes, the History of Literature in the Caribbean is designed to serve as the primary reference book in this area. The reader can follow the comparative evolution of a literary genre or plot the development of a set of historical problems under the appropriate heading for the English- or Dutch-speaking region. An extensive index to names and dates of authors and significant historical figures completes the volume. The subeditors bring to their respective specialty areas a wealth of Caribbeanist experience. Vera M. Kutzinski is Professor of English, American, and Afro-American Literature at Yale University. Her book Sugar's Secrets: Race and The Erotics of Cuban Nationalism, 1993, treated a crucial subject in the romance of the Caribbean nation. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger has been very active in Latin American and Caribbean literary criticism for two decades, first at the Free University in Berlin and later at the University of Maryland. The editor of A History of Literature in the Caribbean, A. James Arnold, is Professor of French at the University of Virginia, where he founded the New World Studies graduate program. Over the past twenty years he has been a pioneer in the historical study of the Négritude movement and its successors in the francophone Caribbean.
