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In The Color Of My Skin: Poems

Author : Fru Doh
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956764523
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book In The Color Of My Skin: Poems written by Fru Doh and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection, Doh straddles the Atlantic with voices that doubt, question, and lament the black predicament; voices that evoke the wisdom of Africas cultural values in a manner reminiscent of the continents orality. Like the echoing of the talking drums in the forests and the savannahs, these voices acknowledge the challenges and vexing truths of the hour: the plight of a people that have been buffeted repeatedly by waves of invasion, deceit, and betrayals, yet against which onslaught they remain standing, frighteningly tall in dignity and integrity.

Tan to Tamarind

Author : Malathi Michelle Iyengar
Publisher : Children's Book Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892392278
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Tan to Tamarind written by Malathi Michelle Iyengar and published by Children's Book Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems in celebration of brown skin color.

Feast, Famine and Potluck

Author : Karen Jennings
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 0620588861
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Feast, Famine and Potluck written by Karen Jennings and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2014-06-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling collection from across the African continent and diaspora here SHORT STORY DAY AFRICA has assembled the best nineteen stories from their 2013 competition. Food is at the centre of stories from authors emerging and established, blending the secular, the supernatural, the old and the new in a spectacular celebration of short fiction. Civil wars, evictions, vacations, feasts and romances the stories we bring to our tables that bring us together and tear us apart.

Sisyphusina

Author : Shira Dentz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948587099
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Sisyphusina written by Shira Dentz and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Women's Studies. Art. Music. SISYPHUSINA is a cross-genre collection of prose, poetry, visual art, and improvisatory music, centered on female aging. Faced with linguistic and literary traditions that lack rich vocabularies to describe female aging, Shira Dentz uses the hybrid form as an attempt to suture new language that reflects internal and physical processes that constitute a shifting identity. By deviating from formal classical construction, and using the recurring image of a rose, SISYPHUSINA circles around conventions of beauty, questioning traditional aesthetic values of continuity, coherence, and symmetry. Some of the book's images are drawn from separate multimedia collaborations between the author and composer Pauline Oliveros, artist Kathy High, and artist Kathline Carr. A musical composition improvised by Pauline Oliveros, based on one of her text scores, titled "Aging Music," is the book's coda, and readers can listen to it online by scanning a QR code inside the book. The interweaving of these collaborations with the author's voice and voices from other sources imbue this book with a porous texture, and reimagines the boundary of the book as a membrane.

Shake Loose My Skin

Author : Sonia Sanchez
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807068896
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Shake Loose My Skin written by Sonia Sanchez and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner. Shake Loose My Skin is a stunning testament to the literary, sensual, and political powers of the award-winning Sonia Sanchez.

Colours of My Skin

Author : Anzelyne Shideshe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781797024592
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Colours of My Skin written by Anzelyne Shideshe and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-16 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of us have issues that made us fall into despair, joy or forgiveness. Either way, we got shaped as the turn of events. Life is a great experience but its success promotes a mutual misunderstanding and a competitiveness, which result into mutual understanding. This book, however, is a reminiscence of past experiences. Its wide range of poetic forms from Haiku, Free Verse, Rhyme, Tanka to Senryu present various issues in artistic way thus making a must read text.

Wound from the Mouth of a Wound

Author : torrin a. greathouse
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571317155
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Wound from the Mouth of a Wound written by torrin a. greathouse and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival. “Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem. greathouse celebrates “buckteeth & ulcer.” She odes the pulp of a bedsore. She argues that the vestigial is not devoid of meaning, and in kinetic and vigorous language, she honors bodies the world too often wants dead. These poems ache, but they do not surrender. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes. Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to be read in the mirror. greathouse’s poetry demands more of language and those who wield it. “I’m still learning not to let a stranger speak / me into a funeral.” Concrete and evocative, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive. greathouse—elegant, vicious, “a one-girl armageddon” draped in crushed velvet—teaches us that fragility is not synonymous with flaw.

My Book of Poems for the World

Author : Raymond Crhistian
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463400934
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book My Book of Poems for the World written by Raymond Crhistian and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I hope this book will touch your heart concerning the many attributes of life I have shared with you. Although I do not have a set style of writing I consider myself as being creative and versatile a God given ability and talent to create words with energy and emotions. The variety of poems that are placed in this book are unique in their own way. I pray which ever poem or prose enlightens your heart that you are able to embrace the words and share them with someone else. I pray this book will help you to be able to encourage the life of someone around you and help to change the course of their life. Poetry is a spiritual gift of love concerning the many evolutions and cycles that this world we call the planet earth evolves around. It is a gift of love shared by the muses of ones connectivity to bring an individual or individuals into a glorifying act of happiness and peace through each word, each line, each stanza and ending. What you choose to grasp and take with you concerning my work I pray it will be with you forever. My Book of Poems for the World is a mixture of my work. According to how you feel at the time you pick up the book to read it. I am certain you will thumb through the pages and say to yourself, I like this one or that one. Just remember that any poem or prose you choose it is definitely up to your liking. You will enjoy them all but everyone has a favorite. I expressed many emotions and feelings in this book concerning the poetry and prose enclosed. You will find poems and prose of, love, romance, humor, spiritual enlightenment, poems and prose for just a little food for thought. On the spiritual side of it all I must say that the prose, Just One More Soul is one of my best works. It deals with the lost soul and how you must seek God for yourself. There is also, A Penny for Your Thoughts quite controversial yet it leads you to a higher power as one would say reminding you in the process of course there is only one true God. If you would go deeper into the book and study it carefully I am certain that you are going to run across what I consider a little food for thought a prose I have written titled, My Shoes, My Bed, My Table if you really have a heart ticking in your body once you finish this one prose I am certain you will become more involved in what is taking place with those who are in need of assistance. Not just the homeless but the widows, orphans and strangers who you turn your backs on daily. I Cry from the Womb is based on the awareness all mothers should have due to their ability to bring life into this world, a child crying for their mothers protection (sensitive and touching). Although I do not consider myself to be a controversial writer I understand that some of my work does take some people into deep thought(meaning critics) and will cause them to think otherwise. I must state because of my love for all mankind I only write what I know to be factual and true, what I have experienced and what I have researched in order that the truth does not get distorted. Prose like The Whip, An Unpaid Debt, The Dim Light of Justice and a few others may spark a few thoughts concerning your creed, color or religious background. I state it is time for a positive change to occur and if my work begins to reopen the doors of concern for everyone to put their cards on the table and show their hands then there is not a need to vote.

The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin

Author : Kathleen Hellen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996907477
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin written by Kathleen Hellen and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Tokyo to an American military father and a traditional Japanese mother, Kathleen Hellen describes the landscape of post-war America, a personal history and a hybrid culture.

The Song Poet

Author : Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1627794956
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book The Song Poet written by Kao Kalia Yang and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story -- of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost.

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm

Author : Alice Walker
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307430448
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Poem Traveled Down My Arm written by Alice Walker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating book, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and acclaimed poet Alice Walker reveals her remarkable philosophy of life. Curiously, this labor of love started with the author’s signature: Faced with the daunting task of providing autographs for multiple copies of one of her poetry collections, Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth, Walker turned an act of repetition into an act of inspiration. For each autograph became something more than a name: a thoughtful reflection, an impromptu sketch, a heartfelt poem. The result is this spontaneous burst of the unexpected. A Poem Traveled Down My Arm is a lovely collection of insights and drawings—by turns charming and humorous, provocative and profound—that represent the wisdom of one of today’s most beloved writers. The essence of Walker’s independent spirit emanates from words and images that are simple but deep in meaning. An empowering approach to life...the inspiration to live completely in the moment...the chance to nurture one’s creativity and peace of mind—all these beautiful elements are evoked by this unusual and original book.

The Trouble with Poetry

Author : Billy Collins
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375755217
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Poetry written by Billy Collins and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed. Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, “Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would like to address / only those in my own time zone”–but also with quiet observation, intense wonder, and a reverence for the everyday: “The birds are in their trees, / the toast is in the toaster, / and the poets are at their windows. / They are at their windows in every section of the tangerine of earth–the Chinese poets looking up at the moon, / the American poets gazing out / at the pink and blue ribbons of sunrise.” Through simple language, Collins shows that good poetry doesn’t have to be obscure or incomprehensible, qualities that are perhaps the real trouble with most “serious” poetry: “By now, it should go without saying / that what the oven is to the baker / and the berry-stained blouse to the drycleaner / so the window is to the poet.” In this dazzling new collection, his first in three years, Collins explores boyhood, jazz, love, the passage of time, and, of course, writing–themes familiar to Collins’s fans but made new here. Gorgeous, funny, and deeply empathetic, Billy Collins’s poetry is a window through which we see our lives as if for the first time.

When My Brother Was an Aztec

Author : Natalie Diaz
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320339
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book When My Brother Was an Aztec written by Natalie Diaz and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone, Houdini, Huitzilopochtli, and Jesus is invoked and invited to hash it out. These darkly humorous poems illuminate far corners of the heart, revealing teeth, tails, and more than a few dreams. I watched a lion eat a man like a piece of fruit, peel tendons from fascia like pith from rind, then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones. The man had earned this feast and his own deliciousness by ringing a stick against the lion's cage, calling out Here, Kitty Kitty, Meow! With one swipe of a paw much like a catcher's mitt with fangs, the lion pulled the man into the cage, rattling his skeleton against the metal bars. The lion didn't want to do it— He didn't want to eat the man like a piece of fruit and he told the crowd this: I only wanted some goddamn sleep . . . Natalie Diaz was born and raised on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Needles, California. After playing professional basketball for four years in Europe and Asia, Diaz returned to the states to complete her MFA at Old Dominion University. She lives in Surprise, Arizona, and is working to preserve the Mojave language.

Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart, The

Author : Michael Phillips
Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 0764227025
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart, The written by Michael Phillips and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katie and Mayme face new challenges to their safety and the survival of the plantation. Shenandoah Sisters book 3.

The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry since 1945

Author : Andrew Epstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108652735
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry since 1945 written by Andrew Epstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary American poetry can often seem intimidating and daunting in its variety and complexity. This engaging and accessible book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the rich body of American poetry that has flourished since 1945 and offers a useful map to its current landscape. By exploring the major poets, movements, and landmark poems at the heart of this era, this book presents a compelling new version of the history of American poetry that takes into account its variety and breadth, its recent evolution in the new millennium, its ever-increasing diversity, and its ongoing engagement with politics and culture. Combining illuminating close readings of a wide range of representative poems with detailed discussion of historical, political, and aesthetic contexts, this book examines how poets have tirelessly invented new forms and styles to respond to the complex realities of American life and culture.

Love Poems|Poetry Books

Author : Poetry Books
Publisher : Poems Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Poems|Poetry Books written by Poetry Books and published by Poems Books. This book was released on 2019-01-26 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: love poems Whether you're searching for words to express a romantic love or a lovely friend ship, or a love that's painful and complex, I have written a selection of popular love poems for you to choose from, from the classic to the contemporary. What better way to express one’s feelings of love than through reading and sharing a poem? Kinds of poetry La poesia narrativa, la poesia drammatica e la poesia lirica e le loro principali differenze e caratteristiche descritte in lingua inglese Slippers di Slippers Genius 13293 punt Studiare meno e avere bei voti: scopri come! Kinds of poetry There are three main kinds of poetry: narrative, dramatic and lyrical. It is not always possible to make distinction between them. For example, an epic poem can contain lyrical passages, or lyrical poem can contain narrative parts. Narrative poetry Is the kind of poetry which tells a story. Typical are the epic, the tale in verse, the romance. The ballad can also be included into narrative poetry because it contains a story. The epic poem The hero of epic poem is a special man endowed with physical strength, leadership, who respects a nation or race, and performs superhuman deeds. The dominant tone is heroic. The poem style is elevated, stylized, formal. The primary epic was based on the oral traditions of a country – see the Iliad and Odyssey. The major Anglo-Saxon example is Beowulf. The literary or secondary epic was modeled on the primary epic, and was the work of a learned, refined writer. Examples are Virgil’s Aeneid and, in Englang, John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The commonest metre of the epic blank verse (unrhythm iambic pentametre). The solemnity and seriousness of the epic led, almost inevitably, to parody and burlesque. This is how mock-heroic or mock-epic poetry was born. One of the best examples in English is Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock. The tale in verse Narrative in verse was very popular during the Renaissance, and met great favour again in the Romantic period thanks to Walter Scott, who started his career as a poet, and George Byron. The romance The medieval romance was a tale in verse dealing with chivalry and love. Edmund Spencer’s Faerie Queene and Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the king are modeled on the medieval chivaltric romance. Dramatic poetry The word “drama” implies one or more characters and action. Dramatic poetry aims at involving the reader in an experience or situation, and creates tension, immediacy, expectation, conflict. The speakers act out roles and therefore must not be identified with the poet. Many of John Donne’s lyrics represent vivid examples of dramatic poetry. When one speaker only is involved and the poem is his/hers speech, we have the dramatic monologue. It aim is to get the reader Contemporary Love Poems "My Heart" by Kim Addonizio That Mississippi chicken shack... "Negotiations" by Rae Armantrout The best part… "In Our Late Empire, Love" by Malachi Black drops from upper air... “Love Comes Quietly” by Robert Creeley Love comes quietly… "Love in the Morning" by Annie Finch Morning's a new bird... “Happy first anniversary (in anticipation of your thirty ninth)” by Bob Hicok I don’t have much time. I’m an important person… “For What Binds Us” by Jane Hirshfield There are names for what binds us… “The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.” by Donika Kelly I am taken with the hot animal… "Someone" by Joseph O. Legaspi Somewhere someone rises … "Electrons" by Ruth Madievsky The eye chews the apple … “syntax” by Maureen N. McLane and if… “The Imprint” by Jennifer Moxley We will count on these walls… "Chess" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Exactly four different men have tried… "How to Love" by January Gill O'Neil After stepping into the world again... "Divine Overdose" by Matthew Rohrer We are even more modern … “Imaginary Morning Glory” by C. D. Wright Whether or not the water was freezing. The body…

Contemporary Chicana Poetry

Author : Marta E. Sanchez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520340884
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Chicana Poetry written by Marta E. Sanchez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first book-length study of the works of Chicano women writers, Marta Ester Sanchez introduces the reader to a group of Chicanas who in the 1970s began to reexamine and reevaluate their gender and cultural identity through poetic language. The term 'Chicana' refers here to women of Mexican heritage who live and write in the United States. The works of four contemporary Chicana poets---Alma Villanueva, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lucha Corpi, and Bernice Zamora---are the focus of this volume.