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Mama Amazonica

Author : Pascale Petit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780372952
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Mama Amazonica written by Pascale Petit and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mama Amazonica is set in a psychiatric ward and in the Amazon rainforest, an asylum for animals on the brink of extinction. It reveals the story of Pascale Petit's mentally ill mother and the consequences of abuse. The mother transforms into a giant Victoria amazonica waterlily, and a bestiary of untameable creatures - a jaguar girl, a wolverine, a hummingbird - as she marries her rapist and gives birth to his children. From heartbreaking trauma, there emerge luxuriant and tender portraits of a woman battling for survival, in poems that echo the plight of others under duress, and of our companion species. Petit does not flinch from the violence but offers hope by celebrating the beauty of the wild, whether in the mind or the natural world. Mama Amazonica is Pascale Petit's seventh collection, and her first from Bloodaxe. It is the Poetry Book Society Choice for autumn 2017. Four of Pascale Petit's previous six collections have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

Anthropocene Poetry

Author : Yvonne Reddick
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031393899
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Anthropocene Poetry written by Yvonne Reddick and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment and Planet argues that the idea of the Anthropocene is inspiring new possibilities for poetry. It can also change the way we read and interpret poems. If environmental poetry was once viewed as linked to place, this book shows how poets are now grappling with environmental issues from the local to the planetary: climate change and the extinction crisis, nuclear weapons and waste, plastic pollution and the petroleum industry. This book intervenes in debates about culture and science, traditional poetic form and experimental ecopoetics, to show how poets are collaborating with environmental scientists and joining environmental activist movements to respond to this time of crisis. From the canonical work of Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, to award-winning poets Alice Oswald, Pascale Petit, Kei Miller, and Karen McCarthy Woolf, this book explores major figures from the past alongside acclaimed contemporary voices. It reveals Seamus Heaney’s support for conservation causes and Ted Hughes’s astonishingly forward-thinking research on climate change; it discusses how Pascale Petit has given poetry to Extinction Rebellion and how Karen McCarthy Woolf set sail with scientists to write about plastic pollution. This book deploys research on five poetry archives in the UK, USA and Ireland, and the author’s insider insights into the commissioning processes and collaborative methods that shaped important contemporary poetry publications. Anthropocene Poetry finds that environmental poetry is flourishing in the face of ecological devastation. Such poetry speaks of the anxieties and dilemmas of our age, and searches for paths towards resilience and resistance.

The Golden Shovel Anthology

Author : Terrance Hayes
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610756649
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Shovel Anthology written by Terrance Hayes and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The cross-section of poets with varying poetics and styles gathered here is only one of the many admirable achievements of this volume.” —Claudia Rankine in the New York Times The Golden Shovel Anthology celebrates the life and work of poet and civil rights icon Gwendolyn Brooks through a dynamic new poetic form, the Golden Shovel, created by National Book Award–winner Terrance Hayes. An array of writers—including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the National Book Award, as well as a couple of National Poets Laureate—have written poems for this exciting new anthology: Rita Dove, Billy Collins, Danez Smith, Nikki Giovanni, Sharon Olds, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Doty, Sharon Draper, Richard Powers, and Julia Glass are just a few of the contributing poets. This second edition includes Golden Shovel poems by two winners and six runners-up from an international student poetry competition judged by Nora Brooks Blakely, Gwendolyn Brooks’s daughter. The poems by these eight talented high school students add to Ms. Brooks’s legacy and contribute to the depth and breadth of this anthology.

The Glitter in the Green

Author : Jon Dunn
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541618181
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Glitter in the Green written by Jon Dunn and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed natural history writer follows the trail of the remarkable hummingbird all over the world. Hummingbirds are a glittering, sparkling collective of over three hundred wildly variable species. For centuries, they have been revered by indigenous Americans, coveted by European collectors, and admired worldwide for their unsurpassed metallic plumage and immense character. Yet they exist on a knife-edge, fighting for survival in boreal woodlands, dripping cloud forests, and subpolar islands. They are, perhaps, the ultimate embodiment of evolution's power to carve a niche for a delicate creature in even the harshest of places. Traveling the full length of the hummingbirds' range, from the cusp of the Arctic Circle to near-Antarctic islands, acclaimed nature writer Jon Dunn encounters birders, scientists, and storytellers in his quest to find these beguiling creatures, immersing us in the world of one of Earth's most charismatic bird families.

Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope

Author : Virginia D. Nazarea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816599076
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope written by Virginia D. Nazarea and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food is more than simple sustenance. It feeds our minds as well as our bodies. It nurtures us emotionally as well as physically. It holds memories. In fact, one of the surprising consequences of globalization and urbanization is the expanding web of emotional attachments to farmland, to food growers, and to place. And there is growing affection, too, for home gardening and its “grow your own food” ethos. Without denying the gravity of the problems of feeding the earth’s population while conserving its natural resources, Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope reminds us that there are many positive movements and developments that demonstrate the power of opposition and optimism. This broad collection brings to the table a bag full of tools from anthropology, sociology, genetics, plant breeding, education, advocacy, and social activism. By design, multiple voices are included. They cross or straddle disciplinary, generational, national, and political borders. Contributors demonstrate the importance of cultural memory in the persistence of traditional or heirloom crops, as well as the agency exhibited by displaced and persecuted peoples in place-making and reconstructing nostalgic landscapes (including gardens from their homelands). Contributions explore local initiatives to save native and older seeds, the use of modern technologies to conserve heirloom plants, the bioconservation efforts of indigenous people, and how genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been successfully combated. Together they explore the conservation of biodiversity at different scales, from different perspectives, and with different theoretical and methodological approaches. Collectively, they demonstrate that there is reason for hope.

A Vertical Art

Author : Simon Armitage
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691233101
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book A Vertical Art written by Simon Armitage and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry today In A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend itself to grand statements and hollow gestures. Questioning both the facile and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, he offers sparkling new insights about poetry and an array of favorite poets. Based on Armitage’s public lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry, A Vertical Art illuminates poets as varied as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, A. R. Ammons, and Claudia Rankine. The chapters are often delightfully sassy in their treatment, as in “Like, Elizabeth Bishop,” in which Armitage dissects—and tallies—the poet’s predilection for similes. He discusses Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, poetic lists, poetry and the underworld, and the dilemmas of translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Armitage also pulls back the curtain on the unromantic realities of making a living as a contemporary poet, and ends the book with his own list of “Ninety-Five Theses” on the principles and practice of poetry. An appealingly personal book that explores the volatile and disputed definitions of poetry from the viewpoint of a practicing writer and dedicated reader, A Vertical Art makes an insightful and entertaining case for the power and potential of poetry today.

Granta 157: Should We Have Stayed at Home?

Author : William Atkins
Publisher : Granta
ISBN 13 : 190988944X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Granta 157: Should We Have Stayed at Home? written by William Atkins and published by Granta. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Antarctica and the deserts of the US-Mexico border, to a Siberian whale-killing station and the alleyways of Taipei, these dispatches describe a world in perpetual motion (even when it is 'locked-down'). To travel, we are reminded, is to embrace the experience of being a stranger - to acknowledge that one person''s frontier is another's home. Granta 157 is guest-edited by award-winning travel writer William Atkins. It features: Jason Allen-Paisant remembers the trees of his childhood Jamaica from his home in Leeds Carlos Manuel lvarez navigates Cuba's customs system, translated by Frank Wynne Eliane Brum travels from her home in the Brazilian Amazon to Antarctica in the era of climate crisis, translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty Francisco Cant and Javier Zamora: a former border guard travels to the US-Mexico border with a former undocumented migrant who crossed the border as a child Jennifer Croft's richly illustrated essay on postcards and graffiti, inspired by Los Angeles Bathsheba Demuth visits a whale-hunting station on the Bering Strait, Russia Sinad Gleeson visits Brazil with Clarice Lispector Kate Harris with the Tlingit people of the Taku River basin, on the border of British Columbia and Alaska Artist Roni Horn on Iceland Emmanuel Iduma returns to Lagos in his late father's footsteps, Nigeria Kapka Kassabova among the gatherers of the ancient Mesta River, Bulgaria Taran Khan with Afghan migrants in Germany and Kabul Jessica J. Lee in the alleyways of Taipei, Taiwan, in search of her mother's home Ben Mauk among the volcanoes of Duterte's Philippines Pascale Petit tracks tigers in Paris and India Photographer James Tylor on the legacy of whaling in Indigenous South Australia, introduced by Dominic Guerrera

Acta amazonica

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Acta amazonica written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each issue to contain material in each of seven subject fields: botany, forestry research, environmental sciences, phytochemistry, tropical medicine, zoology and technology.

Antropológica

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Antropológica written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Queen Victoria's Secrets

Author : Adrienne Munich
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231104814
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Queen Victoria's Secrets written by Adrienne Munich and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unconventional figure in an age that excluded women from government, Victoria was accorded prominence unavailable to any male monarch. Yet as Adrienne Munich argues in this fascinating work, the originality of the solid, dour icon that was Victoria lay, paradoxically, in her very ordinariness. The first book to fully investigate the influence of this icon of British history, Queen Victoria's Secrets demonstrates the firm grasp the queen held on the cultural imagination of her country, exploring how Victoria created and maintained her royal authority. Gracefully weaving together feminist, anthropological, and postcolonial approaches, Munich searches out the myriad, often contradictory incarnations of the queen in the minds of her people. How did Victoria convincingly maintain her power for forty years after Prince Albert's death, never giving up her identity as a grieving widow? How did Victorian society's reverential treatment of their queen conflate with the monarch's plain, middle class public image? These are some of the secrets Munich examines in her richly detailed work. In demonstrating the subtle but powerful ways in which Victoria performed significant cultural work, Queen Victoria's Secrets goes against the grain of Victoria scholarship, which has tended to overlook the queen's political and cultural centrality. This stylish, accessible portrait will be of great interest to those who are fascinated by the myth-making and secrets of the Victorian age.

Antonio y los Garimpeiros

Author : José Víctor Delgado, Ph.D.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312382422
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Antonio y los Garimpeiros written by José Víctor Delgado, Ph.D. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonio nos emociona, con osadas aventuras frente a las hordas de garimpeiros que invaden las selvas venezolanas tras el codiciado oro. Muchas injusticias debe enfrentar: secuestros, esclavitud, contaminación, prostitución, explotación, miseria, depredación, abuso y vejaciones a los indígenas en su procura de mano de obra esclava o con irrisoria paga pero Antonio ha recibido la orden de acabar con todo esas irregularidades. ¿Hará uso de los métodos tradicionales y presuntuosos que tienden a delatar y prevenir, por anticipado, las acciones que adelanten las autoridades? ¿No deberá buscar otros métodos de inserción, operación y repliegue de sus hombres de manera discreta y sigilosa? ¿Podrá hacer frente a todos los retos, exigencias y desafíos con sus incondicionales amigos, rudos hombres de los batallones de selva? ¿Se podrán mimetizar en la selva y pasar desapercibidos? ¿Podrán cumplir con la misión tan solo cinco hombres contra, a veces, cientos? ¡ACOMPAÑENOS!

Effigies

Author : Pascale Petit
Publisher : Mosaic Rooms
ISBN 13 : 9789950313460
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Effigies written by Pascale Petit and published by Mosaic Rooms. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Effigies is a selection of 15 poems written by Pascale Petit in response to the drawings by artist Lawand. This limited edition of the publication includes an original drawing by the artist."--Publisher's website.

Tiger Girl

Author : Pascale Petit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780375267
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book Tiger Girl written by Pascale Petit and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pascale Petit'apos;s Tiger Girl marks a shift from the Amazonian rainforests of her previous work to explore her grandmother'apos;s Indian heritage and the fauna and flora of subcontinental jungles. Tiger girl is the grandmother, with her tales of wild tigers, but she'apos;s also the endangered predators Petit encountered in Central India. In exuberant and tender ecopoems, the saving grace of love in an otherwise bleak childhood is celebrated through spellbinding visions of nature, alongside haunting images of poaching and species extinction. Tiger Girl is Pascale Petit'apos;s eighth collection, and her second from Bloodaxe, following Mama Amazonica, winner of the Royal Society of Literature'apos;s Ondaatje Prize 2018 - the first time a poetry book won this prize for a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry best evoking the spirit of a place. Four of her earlier collections were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

Love to Mamá

Author : Pat Mora
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584302353
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Love to Mamá written by Pat Mora and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen Latino poets celebrate their bonds with their mothers and grandmothers.

Heart of a Deer

Author : Pascale Petit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Heart of a Deer written by Pascale Petit and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pascale Petit's first collection uses startling imagery to journey through Venezuelan Amazon rainforests and the icy realms of Tibet. Transforming memories of childhood and marriage, she encounters a man changed into a butterfly, a bride who is a frozen waterfall. At the core of this book are two prize-winning longer poems: Eisriesenwelt, the ice mother, and Kanaima, the forest father -- parents recreated as geology and Amerindian demons, in a landscape of orchids, jaguars, and talking waterfalls. She is the Poetry Editor of Poetry.

Insurgent Encounters

Author : Jeffrey S. Juris
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082239586X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Insurgent Encounters written by Jeffrey S. Juris and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insurgent Encounters illuminates the dynamics of contemporary transnational social movements, including those advocating for women and indigenous groups, environmental justice, and alternative—cooperative rather than exploitative—forms of globalization. The contributors are politically engaged scholars working within the social movements they analyze. Their essays are both models of and arguments for activist ethnography. They demonstrate that such a methodology has the potential to reveal empirical issues and generate theoretical insights beyond the reach of traditional social-movement research methods. Activist ethnographers not only produce new understandings of contemporary forms of collective action, but also seek to contribute to struggles for social change. The editors suggest networks and spaces of encounter as the most useful conceptual rubrics for understanding shape-shifting social movements using digital and online technologies to produce innovative forms of political organization across local, regional, national, and transnational scales. A major rethinking of the practice and purpose of ethnography, Insurgent Encounters challenges dominant understandings of social transformation, political possibility, knowledge production, and the relation between intellectual labor and sociopolitical activism. Contributors. Giuseppe Caruso, Maribel Casas-Cortés, Janet Conway, Stéphane Couture, Vinci Daro, Manisha Desai, Sylvia Escárcega, David Hess, Jeffrey S. Juris, Alex Khasnabish, Lorenzo Mosca, Michal Osterweil, Geoffrey Pleyers, Dana E. Powell, Paul Routledge, M. K. Sterpka, Tish Stringer

The Zoo Father

Author : Pascale Petit
Publisher : Seren Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Zoo Father written by Pascale Petit and published by Seren Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2001 T.S. Eliot Prize, this unique collection centres on a daughter's fraught relationship with her dying father, a man whose legacy to her was violence and abandonment. Rich in the imagery of the Amazonian jungle (fire ants, shaman masks, hummingbirds, shrunken heads, jaguars) these poems at once ward off and redeem the father through myriad transformations. In contrast, 'The Vineyard' series is inspired by the author's mother and by "...the last piece of wild land, / left to me by accident, by dream" - a family vineyard in France. These intense, vibrant and fiercely felt poems are sure to evoke strong responses in readers. Refusing oblique irony, quotidian props, cant or any pretensions to urban hipness, Pascale Petit takes considerable risks. With fierce courage, she not only survives the brutal facts of her past, but transmutes them, through vivid imagination, into art. The Zoo Father is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.