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Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering inspiration to all, one man's philosophy of life and truth, considered one of the classics of our time.
Author : Pamela Sneed
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531504868
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery written by Pamela Sneed and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incendiary literary work more relevant now than ever. “if anger were an ax/it would split me open/and if this is a sermon/let it be my granddaddy’s sermon/my grandmother’s foottapping/steady rocking/choir singing” —from “This Is Not a New Age” First published in 1998, Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery is the debut collection by acclaimed poet and performer Pamela Sneed. Provocative and potent, it tackles the political and personal issues of enslavement, sexuality, emotional trauma, and abuse. These poems chart the journey of an artist trying to escape cycles of dependency and reclaim lost self and identity. Drawing parallels to Harriet Tubman’s journey on the Underground Railroad, Sneed’s explorations of the woods are a metaphor and emotional path one must explore to attain self-ownership. Sneed’s poems are bound by the search for love, freedom, and justice—from images of lesbian love to Emmet Till’s bloated body, they offer a raging cry and a roadmap for those interested in transforming the personal into social justice and abolitionist practices.
Author : Sidney R. Jacobs Ph.D.
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982228652
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Freedom Poems written by Sidney R. Jacobs Ph.D. and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom Poems is a poetry collection that gives readers a glimpse of religion, education, racism, politics, and world issues that intrigue the mind and soul. Dr. Jacobs raises brows with queries that follow precise pieces for readers to document their feelings and sentiments. After reading this repertoire, readers will anxiously await for Freedom Poems Volume II.
Author : Aja Monet
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608467686
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter written by Aja Monet and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am 27 and have never killed a man but I know the face of death as if heirloom my country memorizes murder as lullaby —from “For Fahd” Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet’s ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters—the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Complemented by striking cover art from Carrie Mae Weems, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy. Praise for Aja Monet: ““[Monet] is the true definition of an artist.” —Harry Belafonte ““In Paris, she walked out onto the stage, opened her mouth and spoke. At the first utterance I heard that rare something that said this is special and knew immediately that Aja Monet was one of the Ones who will mark the sound of the ages. She brings depth of voice to the voiceless, and through her we sing a powerful song.” —Carrie Mae Weems Of Cuban-Jamaican descent, Aja Monet is an internationally established poet, performer, singer, songwriter, educator, and human rights advocate. Monet is also the youngest person to win the legendary Nuyorican Poet’s Café Grand Slam title.
Author : Leonard A Slade, Jr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781662802690
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Selected Poems for Freedom, Peace, and Love written by Leonard A Slade, Jr and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Slade's Poetry "Dr. Leonard A. Slade, Jr., is a gifted poet. His poems that deal with social issues reflect the complexity of people and relationships, as well as highlight some very troubling contemporary problems. Slade's poetry is truly a healing work of art." - Sandra M. Grayson Professor of English University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee "The beauty of Slade's poetry is the adequacy of their feeling and the fine images he discovers for their expressions. His poetry is a rich addition to our literary stores." - Houston A. Baker, Jr. Distinguished Professor of English Vanderbilt University "In spare, unpretentious verse Slade asks us to think about racism, history, love, the beauty of nature, the homeless, old teachers, young daughters, political hypocrisy - - and more. These are splendid, moving poems." -Elizabeth Ammons Former Dean The College of Arts and Sciences Tufts University "Dr. Leonard A. Slade, Jr.'s poetry presents a historical panorama of American blacks. His poems cover a range of subjects. They reflect the poet's values: family, education, love, nature, the history of blacks in the U.S., hypocrisy, and politics. Slade is a new breed of black poet." - R. Baird Shuman Professor Emeritus of English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Leonard A. Slade, Jr., is Professor Emeritus, former Director of the Humanistic Studies Doctoral Program and the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, Collins Fellow, and Citizen Academic Laureate at the University at Albany (SUNY). He has published in many journals and magazines and is the author of twenty-one books of poetry. He studied poetry with Pulitzer Prize winners Donald Justice and Stephen Dunn. For several summers, Slade studied poetry at Bennington College, Vermont; at The Bread Loaf Writers' Workshop, Middlebury College, Vermont; at The Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing in Fiction and Poetry; and at The Ragdale Artists' Colony, Lake Forest, Illinois. The recipient of many awards for his writing, teaching, and service, Slade has taught English and Africana Studies at the University at Albany (SUNY), Skidmore College, Union College, and RPI. He lives with his wife in Albany, New York.
Author : Mathews Phosa
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1415207771
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)
Download or read book Chants of Freedom written by Mathews Phosa and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathews Phosa developed his love for poetry as a young boy growing up in rural Mpumalanga and Limpopo. Mostly written while in exile as the commander of an MK unit, Chants of Freedom vividly recreates the feelings of anger, defiance, frustration, shame, pain and ultimately hope that characterised the exiles’ experience of the struggle to abolish apartheid in South Africa. Writing in a lyrical style, Phosa addresses such themes as oppression, violence, death and hatred, and recalls the atrocities and tragedies of the migrant-labour system, the murders of innocent children, the detentions without trial, the bannings and the state-sanctioned executions that characterised the apartheid era. He recalls the influences on his life, from his grandparents to struggle leaders, and pays tribute to the role played by women and the youth in the liberation struggle. He celebrates the victory over apartheid and eulogises all those who contributed to the fight for democracy, black and white. Chants of Freedom provides raw, powerful and unprecedented insight into the consciousness of a freedom fighter, and ultimately reveals his humanity.
Author : Brandon Mackey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (693 download)
Download or read book I Am a Freedom Writer written by Brandon Mackey and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am A Freedom Writer is an empowering book of thoughts from the mind of Brandon Mackey about love, death, sadness, blackness and every day life in America.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937057688
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (576 download)
Download or read book The Poetry Friday Anthology written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hughes: Poems written by Langston Hughes and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1999-03-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by the African-American poet Langston Hughes.
Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805086744
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Surrender Tree written by Margarita Engle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. This history in verse creates a lyrical portrait of Cuba.
Author : Peter Campion
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022666337X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Radical as Reality written by Peter Campion and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do American poets mean when they talk about freedom? How can form help us understand questions about what shapes we want to give our poetic lives, and how much power we have to choose those shapes? For that matter, what do we even mean by we? In this collection of essays, Peter Campion gathers his thoughts on these questions and more to form an evolutionary history of the past century of American poetry. Through close readings of the great modernists, midcentury objectivists, late twentieth-century poets, his contemporaries, and more, Campion unearths an American poetic landscape that is subtler and more varied than most critics have allowed. He discovers commonalities among poets considered opposites, dramatizes how form and history are mutually entailing, and explores how the conventions of poetry, its inheritance, and its inventions sprang from the tensions of ordinary life. At its core, this is a book about poetic making, one that reveals how the best poets not only receive but understand and adapt what comes before them, reinterpreting the history of their art to create work that is, indeed, radical as reality.
Author : John Mulgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Poems of Freedom written by John Mulgan and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... I do not think that this anthology will appeal to those who cannot, for example, understand why men are prepared to fight for a principle of international law, or in defence of democracy or social betterment, but not merely to preserve imperial dividends ... The anthology has been arranged in roughly chronological order. It opens with extracts from the Peasants Revolt of 1381 and with passages from that great poem of that period, Piers Plowman ... Reading this anthology will teach no-one how to run a state or raise a revolution ; it will not even, I think, tell them what freedom is. But it is a record of what people in many different social positions ... and in many different Englands ... have noticed and felt about oppression, and so also it is a record of what we still feel. The details of our circumstances of injustice change, so does our knowledge of what is unjust and how best to remedy it, but our feelings change little which is why it is possible still to read poems by those who are now dead ..."--W.H. Auden p. 8.
Author : Alexander King
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1452524289
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Freedom from Yourself written by Alexander King and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom from Yourself: Selected Poems from Divan Shams Tabrizi is a guide written to help set us free from our ignorance and the prison of our minds which keeps us occupied in misery, fear, and guilt. Rumi’s teaching is based on the foundations of Sufifism which is divine love, worship, simplicity and moderation, goodness, consciousness of God, humbleness, and tolerance. The most celebrated relationship in Rumi’s spiritual development was with Shams Tabrizi, whom he met in Konya. Through their spiritual teamwork, they enlightened many people and also influenced all the centuries which followed. This guide was written to help people reach their ultimate goal of attaining Nirvana—a state of mind when all our desires subside and we live in total harmony, peace, serenity and total stillness of the mind. it represents the final goal of Buddhism. Freedom from Yourself enables everyone to go deeper into the meaning of Shams Tabrizi’s poems and to apply them directly to the everyday problems we can encounter.
Author : Layli Long Soldier
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979610
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book WHEREAS written by Layli Long Soldier and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.
Author : Galway Kinnell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618154456
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (544 download)
Download or read book A New Selected Poems written by Galway Kinnell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of more than sixty of Galway Kinnell's poems, spanning 1960-1994.
Author : Reginald Dwayne Betts
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393652157
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Felon: Poems written by Reginald Dwayne Betts and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys "the visceral effect that prison has on identity" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace—and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of postincarceration existence and examines prison not as a static space, but as a force that enacts pressure throughout a person’s life. The poems move between traditional and newfound forms with power and agility—from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s radiant conclusion. Drawing inspiration from lawsuits filed on behalf of the incarcerated, the redaction poems focus on the ways we exploit and erase the poor and imprisoned from public consciousness. Traditionally, redaction erases what is top secret; in Felon, Betts redacts what is superfluous, bringing into focus the profound failures of the criminal justice system and the inadequacy of the labels it generates. Challenging the complexities of language, Betts animates what it means to be a "felon."
Author : Geoffrey Winthrop Young
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015821880
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Freedom written by Geoffrey Winthrop Young and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
