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Author : Pat Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780932379009
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Jonestown & Other Madness written by Pat Parker and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straightforward, no-nonsense poetry about being Black, female and gay.
Author : Teri Buford O’Shea
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462037380
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Jonestown Lullaby written by Teri Buford O’Shea and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age nineteen, author Teri OShea joined Peoples Temple in California led by Jim Jones. A member for seven years, she escaped Peoples Temple three weeks before the massacre in Jonestown, Guyana. The raw and powerful poems in Jonestown Lullaby explore her experience in Jonestown and the aftermath of her survival. A personal confidant to Jim Jones for seven years, OShea writes about the harrowing nightmare of Jonestown with an intensity and passion seldom captured in poetic form. Teri was the last person to escape Peoples Temple before the massacre in Jonestown; now, she turns to writing to help find her way back to a more peaceful life. Jonestown Lullaby records her voyage, with vivid, stark images of the bewildering world that was Jonestown and the pathological madness of Jim Jones. Teri includes photographs of some of the Peoples Temple members who lived and lost their lives there; revealing an aspect of Jonestown rarely seen. This is her tribute to those who died so tragically. I Write I write from the poor side of silence Of an unholy priesthood that Captured my soul for a time These poems Neither confession nor biography Follow the voyage of a lonely spirit Into a realm where there are no answers
Author : Erwin Brewster
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781365580321
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Jonestown Remembered and Other Shorter Tragedies written by Erwin Brewster and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main poem in this book is the story of the Jonestown massacre which took place in Guyana in 1978. It is related in poetic form so as to lend greater emphasis to the incidents that led up to tragedy and attempts to portray the effect it had on the lives of the members of the commune before it occurred. Shorter poems of the loss of love are also included.
Author : Erwin Brewster
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524558419
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)
Download or read book Jonestown Remembered and Other Shorter Tragedies written by Erwin Brewster and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonestown Remembered is a poem about those who lost their lives as a result of the machinations of one individual who sought to direct the lives of some 912 persons in an isolated region of Guyana during the period of 1976 to 1978. Having formed the Peoples Temple in California, he transferred his activities to a country that was anxious to accommodate him without reserve or supervision. His name was Jim Jones. He felt that his view on how life was to be lived was unique and admired the socialist ideology. But all was not well with the administration of the community, which eventually climaxed with the deaths by suicide and murder of all its members save a few who had escaped. The poem seeks to recount the trials of the occupants of the Temple, their sense of abandonment at having been removed from the comfort and camaraderie of their friends, and their feelings of impotence to do anything about it. But still, for some, this experience was a deliverance from a much worse condition of life that they had experienced in the US. These felt that they owed allegiance to their leader, who had made their lives worthwhile for the first time. The poem seeks to explore both these responses and how the final sacrifice or deliverance was accomplished. Other poems of tragic loss are included in the book that suggests that life is not always a bed of roses; that the joy and happiness derived from love is often a prelude to tragedy and sorrow. That the love and contentment derived from a life well spent will come to an end, inevitably, with the final parting, and loved ones are left in their solitude.
Author : Carmen Gillespie
Publisher : Lotus Press (WI)
ISBN 13 : 9780979750939
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Jonestown written by Carmen Gillespie and published by Lotus Press (WI). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2011 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.
Author : Fraser Sutherland
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551995301
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Jonestown written by Fraser Sutherland and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted by the People's Temple tragedy, Fraser Sutherland has, in this extraordinary long poem, reconstructed Jonestown in all its horror and dark comedy, as well as the career of its monstrous architect. Like a cracked mirror image of Christ, the shadow of Jones falls on every page—a hollow man who could not live outside the din of his own voice, a voice that Sutherland renders in the third person. Tracking Jones's perverse pilgrimage from Indiana to California to Guyana, Sutherland shows him melting at the edges so he becomes only a blundering instrument of control, a social chameleon, a monkey in the jungle.
Author : Michael Gilkes
Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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.
Author : Judy Bebelaar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998709680
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)
Download or read book And Then They Were Gone written by Judy Bebelaar and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of the 918 Americans who died in the shocking murder-suicides of November 18, 1978, in the tiny South American country of Guyana, a third were under eighteen. More than half were in their twenties or younger. And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown begins in San Francisco at the small school where Reverend Jim Jones enrolled the teens of his Peoples Temple church in 1976. Within a year, most had been sent to join Jones and his other congregants in what Jones promised was a tropical paradise based on egalitarian values, but which turned out to be a deadly prison camp. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the late 1970s, And Then They Were Gone draws from interviews, books, and articles. Many of these powerful stories are told here for the first time."--Back cover
Author : Wilson Harris
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571283667
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Jonestown written by Wilson Harris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I was obsessed - let me confess - by cities and settlements in the Central and South Americas that are an enigma to many scholars. I dreamt of their abandonment, their bird-masks, their animal-masks ... Did their inhabitants rebel against the priests, did obscure holocausts occur, civil strife, famine, plague? Was Jonestown the latest manifestation...?' Jonestown (1996), one of Wilson Harris's most acclaimed creations, is a fictional re-imagining of the real-life ritual mass suicide orchestrated by Reverend Jim Jones in the remote Guyana forest in 1978. The novel's narrator, Francisco Bone, has survived the suicide albeit in a traumatized condition. By way of a dream-book he tries to heal his psychic wound, under the influence of the Mayan concept of time that twins past and future. Faber Finds is devoted to restoring to readers a wealth of lost or neglected classics and authors of distinction. The range embraces fiction, non-fiction, the arts and children's books. For a full list of available titles visit www.faberfinds.co.uk. To join the dialogue with fellow book-lovers please see our blog, www.faberfindsblog.co.uk.
Author : Fred D'Aguiar
Publisher : Random House UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bill of Rights written by Fred D'Aguiar and published by Random House UK. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative poem which tells the story of the Guyanese Jonestown massacre (1978) through the views of a young man who is enthralled by Rev. Jim Jones' rhetoric.
Author : Jack Hirschman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (213 download)
Download or read book The Jonestown Arcane written by Jack Hirschman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Haven
Publisher : NYQ Books
ISBN 13 : 9781630450687
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Bone Seeker written by Chris Haven and published by NYQ Books. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Chris Haven's debut collection of poems, BONE SEEKER, celebrates the mystery of what we take into our lives and can't let go. In lyrics, prose poems, and persona poems from voices ranging from Marie Curie to Emma Darwin to Janis Joplin, we journey through parenthood and politics, song and miracle, and life and loss, wondering, "will the cold things inside / Of you light up, as they should, for no reason?"
Author : Deborah Layton
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307575136
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Seductive Poison written by Deborah Layton and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this haunting and riveting firsthand account, a survivor of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple opens up the shadowy world of cults and shows how anyone can fall under their spell. A high-level member of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple for seven years, Deborah Layton escaped his infamous commune in the Guyanese jungle, leaving behind her mother, her older brother, and many friends. She returned to the United States with warnings of impending disaster, but her pleas for help fell on skeptical ears, and shortly thereafter, in November 1978, the Jonestown massacre shocked the world. Seductive Poison is both an unflinching historical document and a suspenseful story of intrigue, power, and murder.
Author : Tim Reiterman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440634467
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Raven written by Tim Reiterman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the upcoming HBO miniseries and the "definitive account of the Jonestown massacre" (Rolling Stone) -- now available for the first time in paperback. Tim Reiterman’s Raven provides the seminal history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown in 1978. This PEN Award–winning work explores the ideals-gone-wrong, the intrigue, and the grim realities behind the Peoples Temple and its implosion in the jungle of South America. Reiterman’s reportage clarifies enduring misperceptions of the character and motives of Jim Jones, the reasons why people followed him, and the important truth that many of those who perished at Jonestown were victims of mass murder rather than suicide. This widely sought work is restored to print after many years with a new preface by the author, as well as the more than sixty-five rare photographs from the original volume.
Author : Washington S. McCuistian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933265711
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (657 download)
Download or read book A Jonestown for Worms written by Washington S. McCuistian and published by . This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denice Stephenson
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781597140027
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Dear People written by Denice Stephenson and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denice Stephenson describes the heartbreaking tragedy of Jonestown---the idealistic community movement that preceded it--presented in text and photos from the Peoples Temple Archive.
Author : Laurie Efrein Kahalas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Snake Dance written by Laurie Efrein Kahalas and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survivor's riveting tale. Leftwing, interracial church transplants to utopia overseas. Premeditated government conspiracy destabilizes and destroys. Breathtaking, one-of-a-kind tour-de-force.
