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Download or read book Optimism Blues written by Michel McIrvin and published by Cedar Hill Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "Michael McIrvin's analysis of the modern American psyche is far beyond almost any other living U.S. poet. His poems are among the best informed and most intelligent you'll find. In fact, McIrvin's vision quest and its resultant insights into the complexities of human nature and the natural world exceed what most poets can ever hope to achieve"--Leonard Cirino.
Download or read book Optimism Blues written by Michael McIrvin and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compact intensity of Michael McIrvin's poems links him to the strongest vein of American modernist and postmodern poetry, but their philosophical fire is entirely McIrvin's own and constitutes a unique contribution. His Dog may be the most forcefully developed metaphor since Ted Hughes' Crow, but all his work shows an intensely illuminating focus on those moments when perception and metaphysics intersect.William DoreskiMichael McIrvin's analysis of the modern American psyche is far beyond almost any other living US poet. His poems are among the best informed and most intelligent you'll find. In fact, McIrvin's vision quest and its resultant insights into the complexities of human nature and the natural world exceed what most poets can ever hope to achieve.Leonard CirinoMcIrvin's voice leads us safely through his unique landscape; half myth, half to help us make sense of our loneliness and suffering. It is its honesty that distinguishes his poetry, that enables it to reach back in time and rescue us from ancient walls and distances. McIrvin's power, clarity, and compassion assure Optimism Blues a secure place in 20th century literature.Simon PerchikThe authentic voice of Western man remains Job's. Michael McIrvin's Optimism Blues is in that ancient tradition: petitioning, pleading, deploring, damning, praying. Author of one of the most brilliant, most needed essay collections in the past decade, Whither American Poetry, McIrvin pursues with painful integrity and philosophical and poetic passion the classic issues. He offers us poems that are the "infinite herd of his sorrows," but poems that are also sexy and erotic and tender and funny. Poems that speak "Dios in the same breath as devastar." Michael McIrvin is a poet who will not compromise his dark vision precisely because his dream is "the salvation of the world."Sharon Doubiago
Download or read book Everybody Pays. written by Brian Townsley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the guerillalit family, this book by Brian Townsley contains poems of redemption and loss, hopeless black nights and scenes of noir and madness. Visit guerillalit.com.
Book Synopsis Langston Hughes and the Blues by : Steven C. Tracy
Download or read book Langston Hughes and the Blues written by Steven C. Tracy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughes’s work while revealing how Hughes mined Black oral and literary traditions to create his poetry. Comparing Hughes’s poems to blues texts, Tracy reveals how Hughes’s experimental forms reflect the poetics, structures, rhythms, and musical techniques of the music. Tracy also offers a discography of recordings by the artists--Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and others--who most influenced the poet.
Book Synopsis The History of the Blues by : Michael V. Uschan
Download or read book The History of the Blues written by Michael V. Uschan and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a deep look into the Blues. Author Michael V. Uschan describes this quintessentially American music, charting its evolution out of African American field hollers, slave songs, and spirituals in the late nineteenth century, its emergence from the South and spreading through the U.S. in the early twentieth century, and its influence on later forms of music, including R and B and Rock-and-Roll.
Download or read book Ever the Optimist written by Joe Jennings and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-05-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ever the Optimist" is a heart warming tale of Joe Jennings' love affair with his football club, which shows no sign of wilting despite the heartaches they have presented him over the years.The book is an epic adventure, a plethora of events that have been cherry picked to signify the resurrection of one of English football's great bastions; which after years of decline is finally emerging from the depths to cement itself back among the elite. They are by no means there, but the author has seen enough to suggest that the tide is turning, and as he steers you through the waters of hope, with the enthusiasm and optimism that underlines his every sentence, it starts to rub off on you and you are willing them to succeed as much as he. It is feeling that you rarely get from a football book and it is arguably the first that has been able to capture the spirit and emotion that has been missing from books of this genre since Nick Hornby's 'Fever Pitch'.
Download or read book Ralph Ellison written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Ralph Ellison.
Book Synopsis A Colourful Dose of Optimism by : Jules Standish
Download or read book A Colourful Dose of Optimism written by Jules Standish and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we could write ourselves a prescription today, would it be for instant happiness and joy, optimism and hope? In the current climate of anxiety and uncertainty, let's take control of the things that we can change in a positive way.
Download or read book Blues & Beatles written by Neil Roberts and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duncan Ferguson. David Moyes. Paul McCartney. A father and a son. A passion for Everton. A passion for The Beatles. Blues & Beatles is the story of football and music across the generations. The story of how a young boy inherited those fascinations from his father - and would one day pass them on to his own son. And it's the story of how he met his heroes along the way. From legendary footballers to a 20th Century icon: one of the Fab Four. Blues & Beatles is a football story and a music story. But above all else, it's a story shared by father and son.
Book Synopsis Oasis of Imagination by : Ted Turnau
Download or read book Oasis of Imagination written by Ted Turnau and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should the church's cultural witness be? Too often, it has been marked by political strong-arming or fearful withdrawal into the "Christian bubble." There is another way: creative cultural engagement, using our imaginations to plant oases in the desert, breathable spaces that refresh, challenge, and draw together Christians and non-Christians alike. Oases refresh the soul, provoke discussion, challenge assumptions, and lead the imagination to a new place. In Oasis of Imagination, Ted Turnau lays out the Biblical mandate for engaging culture, and why the imaginative path holds promise. He explores the nature of the imagination from both Scripture and nature. He asks, "What makes a Christian imagination that resonates with non-Christians different?" He explores examples of Christian creativity done well from video games to movies to music to The Lord of the Rings. He challenges the church, artist and non-artist alike, to be intentional about their own imaginative lives, how artists and non-artists can support each other, as they together engage in building bridges and being cultural ambassadors to the wider community. In-depth and wide-ranging, Oasis of Imagination equips and encourages Christians, whatever their calling, to consider how to imaginatively enter into the broader cultural conversation, beyond the culture-warring and Christian bubbles. It seeks to provoke a conversation within the church between its artists and non-artists about how best to unleash our God-given creativity to shine light into the broader culture.
Download or read book Human Blues written by Elisa Albert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Crackling and bighearted...A powerhouse [that] echoes with the truth that we find harmony when we listen first to ourselves.” —Oprah Daily * “Takes off with magnificent speed and never lets up.” —The New York Times * “Revolutionary.” —NPR’s Morning Edition * A Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A provocative and “darkly funny” (Cosmopolitan) novel about a woman who desperately wants a child but struggles to accept the use of assisted reproductive technology—a “riotous, visceral” (Vanity Fair) send-up of feminism, fame, art, commerce, and autonomy. On the eve of her fourth album, singer-songwriter Aviva Rosner is plagued by infertility. The twist: as much as Aviva wants a child, she is wary of technological conception, and has poured her ambivalence into her music. As the album makes its way in the world, the shock of the response from fans and critics is at first exciting—and then invasive and strange. Aviva never wanted to be famous, or did she? Meanwhile, her evolving obsession with another iconic musician, gone too soon, might just help her make sense of things. Told over the course of nine menstrual cycles, this utterly original novel is a “fast, fiery, and often funny” (The Boston Globe) interrogation of our cultural obsession with childbearing. It’s also the story of one fearless woman at the crossroads, ruthlessly questioning what she wants and what she’s willing—or not willing—to do to get it.
Book Synopsis Someone Shot My Book by : Julie Carr
Download or read book Someone Shot My Book written by Julie Carr and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the Blues by : Edward M. Komara
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Blues written by Edward M. Komara and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive two-volume set brings together all aspects of the blues from performers and musical styles to record labels and cultural issues, including regional evolution and history. Organized in an accessible A-to-Z format, the Encyclopedia of the Blues is an essential reference resource for information on this unique American music genre. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of the Blues website.
Download or read book Good Health written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living Blues written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Revive Us Again by : The Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II
Download or read book Revive Us Again written by The Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of sermons and speeches that lay out a groundbreaking vision for intersectional organizing, paired with inspirational and practical essays from activists in today’s Poor People’s Campaign The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has been called “the closest person we have to Martin Luther King Jr. in our midst” (Cornel West) and “one of the most gifted organizers and orators in the country today” (Ari Berman). In this age of political division and civic unrest, Rev. Barber’s message is more necessary than ever. This volume features Rev. Barber’s most stirring sermons and speeches, with response essays by prominent public intellectuals, activists, and faith leaders. Drawing from the history of social movements in the US, especially the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign, Rev. Barber and the contributors to this volume speak to the most pressing issues of our time, including Black Lives Matter, the fight for a $15 minimum wage, the struggle to protect voting rights, the march for women’s rights, and the movement to overcome poverty and unite the dispossessed across all dividing lines. Grounded in the fundamental biblical theme of poor and oppressed people taking action together, the book suggests ways to effectively build a fusion movement to make America fair and just for everyone.
Book Synopsis Analysing Popular Music by : David Machin
Download or read book Analysing Popular Music written by David Machin and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. Like language these elements can be used to communicate complex cultural ideas, values, concepts and identities. Analysing Popular Music is a lively look at the semiotic resources found in the sounds, visuals and words that comprise the ‘code book’ of popular music. It explains exactly how popular music comes to mean so much. Packed with examples, exercises and a glossary, this book provides the reader with the knowledge and skills they need to carry out their own analyses of songs, soundtracks, lyrics and album covers.
