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Author : Chandramohan Sathyanathan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781988832371
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Love After Babel & Other Poems written by Chandramohan Sathyanathan and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Akshya Saxena
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691223149
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Vernacular English written by Akshya Saxena and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against it Against a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today. A comparative study of three centuries of English literature and media in India, this original and provocative book tells the story of English in India as a tale not of imperial coercion, but of a people’s language in a postcolonial democracy. Focusing on experiences of hearing, touching, remembering, speaking, and seeing English, Akshya Saxena delves into a previously unexplored body of texts from English and Hindi literature, law, film, visual art, and public protests. She reveals little-known debates and practices that have shaped the meanings of English in India and the Anglophone world, including the overlooked history of the legislation of English in India. She also calls attention to how low castes and minority ethnic groups have routinely used this elite language to protest the Indian state. Challenging prevailing conceptions of English as a vernacular and global lingua franca, Vernacular English does nothing less than reimagine what a language is and the categories used to analyze it.
Author : Barbara Hamby
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822990946
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book All-Night Lingo Tango written by Barbara Hamby and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is a love letter to language with poems that are drunk and filled with references to the hyperkinetic world of the twenty-first century. Yet Zeus and Hera tangle with Leda on the interstate; Ava Gardner becomes a Hindu princess; and Shiva, the Destroyer, reigns over all. English is the primary god here, with its huge vocabulary and omnivorous gluttony for new words, yet the mystery of the alphabet is behind everything, a funky puppet masterwho can make a new world out of nothing.
Author : Lewis R. Gordon
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374718806
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Fear of Black Consciousness written by Lewis R. Gordon and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopher In this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness produces, and the many creative responses from Black and non-Black communities in contemporary struggles for dignity and freedom. Skillfully navigating a difficult and traumatic terrain, Gordon cuts through the mist of white narcissism and the versions of consciousness it perpetuates. He exposes the bad faith at the heart of many discussions about race and racism not only in America but across the globe, including those who think of themselves as "color blind." As Gordon reveals, these lies offer many white people an inherited sense of being extraordinary, a license to do as they please. But for many if not most Blacks, to live an ordinary life in a white-dominated society is an extraordinary achievement. Informed by Gordon's life growing up in Jamaica and the Bronx, and taking as a touchstone the pandemic and the uprisings against police violence, Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking work that positions Black consciousness as a political commitment and creative practice, richly layered through art, love, and revolutionary action.
Author : Helen Hopekirk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Seventy Scottish Songs written by Helen Hopekirk and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gabriel Kruis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1576876063
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (768 download)
Download or read book Acid Virga written by Gabriel Kruis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gabriel Kruis is a really formidable poet. Acid Virga is rather terrifying, also a tour de force and a formal breakthrough. . . a blend of narrative and lyric the way the mind is. . . ” —ALICE NOTLEY “As wildly visionary as it is linguistically alive, Gabriel Kruis’s Acid Virga drills down into the bedrock of American life to produce a book unparalleled in its exploration of how visionary experience and social upheaval collide in ways that are both transformative and annihilating.” —TOM SLEIGH “If you’ve ever been conscious, and felt a little disturbed about it, of life as ancient and ephemeral or that falling apart is an integral force, this is a book to read over and over.” —STACY SZYMASZEK “. . .a great affliction and affection inform Acid Virga, fast-moving with strophes like brisk moving cloud banks over the mind in your heart.” —MAJOR JACKSON “Meanwhile, in el mal pais, leaned out on mucinex, mixing dexy cocktails in the haloed pharmacy of the car...” An unusually assured debut, Acid Virga is a memoir in verse cutting between a vivid Southwest upbringing and modern O’Hara hustle in New York City, deeply and seriously reckoning with the psychedelic heritage of religion and the psychological clarity of chemical consciousness. It is both thrillingly propulsive and dense enough to read again and again, always offering up something new. Language is boundlessly specific, evocative of states internal and external, reading at times like a melancholy memoir stuck between stations, an epic poem or even a philosophical tract, always a true and important record of our American lives as lived now—an endless and reliable ticker tape of the soul.
Author : Matthew Huff
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537722405
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (224 download)
Download or read book The Cardinal Turns the Corner written by Matthew Huff and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Cardinal Turns the Corner, Matthew Huff revels in the richness of life as his poems span an extensive spectrum, ranging from a coffee outing with Beethoven to the quiet turmoil of making the bed. Whether he is observing the pain of loss and grief ("A Quiet Pond in Camden," "Math," "Grief") or simply the sheer delight of living ("My Daughter Speaks with Thunder," "Passion," "Play"), Huff's poetic voice illuminates the imagination, inviting the reader to see the wonder in even the simplest of moments. All proceeds from the sales of this book go directly to Curing Kids Cancer, an Atlanta-based organization committed to funding cutting-edge research and technology in the fight against childhood cancer. "Every time I have heard Matthew speak on poetry, which is quite a bit, I have been so inspired by his words and his attitude. Knowing him so closely and seeing the poetry that comes out of his life, I can really experience his poems. Through his passion my eyes have been opened to the beauty of poetry." - Colton Guffey, Providence Classical School of Rock Hill
Author : Boris Dralyuk
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589881672
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)
Download or read book My Hollywood and Other Poems written by Boris Dralyuk and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The wit and daring of his rhymes and phrasing remind me of that old master, Donald Justice, who dazzled us with the elegance of his forms. Dralyuk carries this high style into the 21st century, and I, for one, am thrilled to be in the presence of his marvelous verbal art. Pay attention, readers: a new maestro is in our midst."—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa "These [poems] are the souvenirs of an almost-vanished glamour, an ethnic, gritty, free-wheeling city, little fantasias encased in rhyme and meter."—Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's My Hollywood and Other Poems is a collection of lyric meditations on the experience of émigrés in Los Angeles. In forms ranging from ballades to villanelles to Onegin sonnets, the poems pursue the sublime in a tarnished landscape, seek continuity and mourn its loss in a town where change is the only constant. My Hollywood draws on the poet’s own life as a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union, honors the vanishing traces of the city’s past, and, in crisp and poignant translations, summons the voices of five Russian poets who spent their final years in LA, including the composer Vernon Duke. “Dralyuk embraces rhyme with a rare and admirable enthusiasm for sound and syllable, for musical variety and plays on words . . . [An] air of upbeat sorrow permeates My Hollywood. It’s an émigré mood, defined by the conviction that things could always be worse.”—New York Review of Books "Sophisticated, musical, and often humorous."—Booklist "Byronic rhymes are poetry’s answer to special effects, and Dralyuk’s skill at slipping them in—so that the art seems artless—is worthy of Industrial Light & Magic . . . What’s true of my favorite films is true of this book: the lines are first-rate, but it’s the images that linger.”— Austin Allen, The Hopkins Review "My Hollywood is a first-rate collection of precise, delightfully graceful poems, the poet as Fred Astaire tap-dancing up and down the lines."—Russian Life
Author : Susan Wheeler
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609381424
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Meme written by Susan Wheeler and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed poet Susan Wheeler, whose last individual collection predicted the spiritual losses of the economic collapse, turns her attention to the most intimate of subjects: the absence or loss of love. A meme is a unit of thought replicated by imitation; examples of memes, Richard Dawkins wrote, “are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.” Occupy Wall Street is a meme, as are internet ideas and images that go viral. What could be more potent memes than those passed down by parents to their children? Wheeler reconstructs her mother’s voice—down to its cynicism and its mid twentieth-century midwestern vernacular—in “The Maud Poems,” a voice that takes a more aggressive, vituperative turn in “The Devil—or—The Introjects.” In the book’s third long sequence, a generational inheritance feeds cultural transmission in “The Split.” A set of variations on losses and break-ups—wildly, darkly funny throughout and, in places, devastatingly sad—“The Split” brings Wheeler’s lauded inventiveness, wit, and insight to the profound loss of love. One read, and the meme “Should I stay or should I go?” will be altered in your head forever.
Author : Barbara Hamby
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822980118
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Babel written by Barbara Hamby and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2004-11-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babel features more of the rhetorical acrobatics that fueled Barbara Hamby's earlier work. These whirlwinds of words and sounds form vistas, images, and scenes that are at once unique and immediately recognizable. In poems such as “Six, Sex, Say,” she displays a linguistic bravado that moves effortlessly through translations, cognates, and homonyms. This love of words permeates the poems, from the husband wooing his future wife “with a barrage of words so cunningly fluent, / so linguistically adroit” in “Flesh, Bone, and Red,” to the alphabetic sampler woven from memory and love in “Ode on My Mother's Handwriting.” Hamby's poems drift across histories and continents, from early writing and culture in Mesopotamia through the motion-picture heaven that seems so much like Paris, to odes on such thoroughly American subjects as hardware stores, bubblegum, barbecue, and sharp-tongued cocktail waitresses giving mandatory pre-date quizzes to lawyers and “orangutans in the guise of men.” As Booklist noted in reviewing her previous collection, Hamby's poems “are tsunamis carrying you far out to sea and then back to shore giddy and glad to be alive.”
Author : Coventry Patmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781437847857
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Victories of Love and Other Poems written by Coventry Patmore and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11 substantial poems of this Pre-Raphaelite poet and critic
Author : Alfred Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sacred and Profane Love written by Alfred Austin and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Margall
Publisher : Fum d'Estampa Press
ISBN 13 : 1913744124
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)
Download or read book One Day of Life is Life written by Joan Margall and published by Fum d'Estampa Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bilingual collection of both Maragall's poetry and prose has been edited and translated by Ronald Puppo, a research fellow and translator at the University of Vic. His keen eye and expertise on Maragall comes across in droves as he takes what are arguably Catalan literatures finest moments and turns them into eminently readable and enjoyable English language poems. Also included in this collection are some of Maragall's pieces of prose work and personal letters that shed light onto the man himself. Accompanying all this are Puppo's own indepth comments and insights
Author : Carolyn Parkhurst
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759528063
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)
Download or read book The Dogs of Babel written by Carolyn Parkhurst and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant and beautiful debut novel explores a man's quest to unravel the mystery of his wife's death with the help of the only witness -- their Rhodesian ridgeback, Lorelei.
Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Checkmark Books
ISBN 13 : 9780816051236
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (512 download)
Download or read book The Atlas of Languages written by Bernard Comrie and published by Checkmark Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to languages and linguistics, including the evolution of over 200 languages, explanations of writing systems, language trees, and maps illustrating various aspects of all the language families.
Author : Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Publisher : Book Jungle
ISBN 13 : 9781438526324
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Kingdom of Love and Other Poems written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and published by Book Jungle. This book was released on 2009 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 1919) was an American author and poet. She is known for writing Poems of Passion. Her most remembered poem was "Solitude", which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone". The Kingdom of Love was published in 1909 and includes The Kingdom Of Love, Meg's Curse, Solitude, The Gossips, Platonic, Grandpa's Christmas, After The Engagement, A Holiday, False, Two Sinners, The Phantom Ball, Words And Thoughts, Wanted--A Little Girl, The Suicide, "Now I Lay Me", The Messenger, A Servian Legend, Peek-A-Boo, The Falling Of Thrones, Her Last Letter, The Princess's Finger-Nail, A Baby In The House, The Foolish Elm, Robin's Mistake, New Year Resolve, What We Want, Breaking The Day In Two, The Rape Of The Mist, The Two Glasses, The Maniac, What Is Flirtation?, Husband And Wife, How Does Love Speak?, Reincarnation, As You Go Through Life, How Salvator Won, The Watcher, How Will It Be?, Memory's River, Love's Way, A Man's Last Love, The Lady And The Dame, Confession, A Married Coquette, Forbidden Speech, The Summer Girl, The Ghost, The Signboard, A Man's Repentance, Aristarchus, Dell And I, About May, Vanity Fair, The Giddy Girl, A Girl's Autumn Reverie, His Youth, Under The Sheet, A Pin, and The Coming Man.
Author : Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Class List of the Books in the Reference Library written by Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference Library and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
