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Poems for New Orleans

Author : Edward Sanders
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556437427
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Poems for New Orleans written by Edward Sanders and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indomitable spirit of the people of New Orleans is the focus of this powerful suite of poems by counterculture icon Ed Sanders. The book begins with a series of vivid evocations of key events and personalities in the city’s history, then brings this colorful legacy into the present with the harrowing force of Hurricane Katrina. That natural catastrophe, multiplied by human indifference, incompetence, and greed, is explored as a watershed demonstration of the sociopolitical fissures underlying modern America. At the core of the book is the saga of the Lebage family, beginning with Lemoine Lebage, who fought with Andrew Jackson’s forces in the Battle of New Orleans and then set down roots in the city. Five generations later his descendant Grace Lebage is a singer and poet struggling to restore her life after Katrina has wrecked her ancestral home. Although the enormous, still-unfinished tragedy of Katrina suffuses Poems for New Orleans, human resilience in the face of adversity is its ultimate subject. Here is a New Orleans only glimpsed by the outside world, a place whose creativity, humor, and triumphant spirit no tragedy can overcome.

City Without People

Author : Niyi Osundare
Publisher : Tradeselect
ISBN 13 : 9780983707912
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book City Without People written by Niyi Osundare and published by Tradeselect. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niyi Osundare, one of Africa's most prominent poets and resident of New Orleans, La was one of the many whose life was caught in the destructive force of hurricane Katrina. Rescued by a neighbor with a boat, losing all that he had, exiled without even an identification to several states, he returned to rebuild his life and house. Written over the last five years, these poems recount both his loss and a thank you to those who helped.

Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana's Radical Civil War-era Newspapers

Author : Clint Bruce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780917860799
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana's Radical Civil War-era Newspapers written by Clint Bruce and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Original French text and English translations of Afro-Creole poetry published in L'Union and La Tribune (Civil War-era New Orleans newspapers established by free people of color), with a scholarly introduction and brief biographies of the poets"--

Second Line Home

Author : Mona Lisa Saloy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781887160025
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Second Line Home written by Mona Lisa Saloy and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this celebration of life in death, Mona Lisa Saloy captures the solemn grief, ongoing struggle, and joyous processions of New Orleans after the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina. She knows the music of the neighborhood spoken and sung in affirmation of what is genuine and hopeful, as well as the despair of destruction that nature and politics heaped upon The Crescent City. Saloy's details of down-home activities and use of local expressions convey the many cultures and voices of this unique place. In this ode to New Orleans there is joy and hope, and a passionate call to join the resilient Second Line.

New Orleans, Mon Amour

Author : Andrei Codrescu
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565127900
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book New Orleans, Mon Amour written by Andrei Codrescu and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the streets and voodoo queens live around the corner; where cemeteries are the most popular picnic spots, the ghosts of poets, prostitutes, and pirates are palpable, and in the French Quarter, no one ever sleeps. Codrescu's essays have been called "satirical gems," "subversive," "sardonic and stunning," "funny," "gonzo," "wittily poignant," and "perverse"—here is a writer who perfectly mirrors the wild, voluptuous, bohemian character of New Orleans itself. This retrospective follows him from newcomer to near native: first seduced by the lush banana trees in his backyard and the sensual aroma of coffee at the café down the block, Codrescu soon becomes a Window Gang regular at the infamous bar Molly's on Decatur, does a stint as King of Krewe de Vieux Carré at Mardi Gras, befriends artists, musicians, and eccentrics, and exposes the city’s underbelly of corruption, warning presciently about the lack of planning for floods in a city high on its own insouciance. Alas, as we all now know, Paradise is lost. New Orleans, Mon Amour is an epic love song, a clear-eyed elegy, a cultural celebration, and a thank-you note to New Orleans in its Golden Age.

The New Testament

Author : Jericho Brown
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 161932119X
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The New Testament written by Jericho Brown and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honored as a "Best Book of 2014" by Library Journal NPR.org writes: “In his second collection, The New Testament, Brown treats disease and love and lust between men, with a gentle touch, returning again and again to the stories of the Bible, which confirm or dispute his vision of real life. 'Every last word is contagious,' he writes, awake to all the implications of that phrase. There is plenty of guilt—survivor’s guilt, sinner’s guilt—and ever-present death, but also the joy of survival and sin. And not everyone has the chutzpah to rewrite The Good Book.”—NPR.org "Erotic and grief-stricken, ministerial and playful, Brown offers his reader a journey unlike any other in contemporary poetry."—Rain Taxi "To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating genius."—Claudia Rankine In the world of Jericho Brown's second book, disease runs through the body, violence runs through the neighborhood, memories run through the mind, trauma runs through generations. Almost eerily quiet in even the bluntest of poems, Brown gives us the ache of a throat that has yet to say the hardest thing—and the truth is coming on fast. Fairy Tale Say the shame I see inching like steam Along the streets will never seep Beneath the doors of this bedroom, And if it does, if we dare to breathe, Tell me that though the world ends us, Lover, it cannot end our love Of narrative. Don’t you have a story For me?—like the one you tell With fingers over my lips to keep me From sighing when—before the queen Is kidnapped—the prince bows To the enemy, handing over the horn Of his favorite unicorn like those men Brought, bought, and whipped until They accepted their masters’ names. Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans before earning his PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston. His first book, PLEASE (New Issues), won the American Book Award. He currently teaches at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Walt Whitman's New Orleans

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807177237
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Walt Whitman's New Orleans written by Walt Whitman and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Whitman’s short stint in New Orleans during the spring of 1848 was a crucial moment of literary and personal development, with many celebrated poems from Leaves of Grass showing its influence. Walt Whitman’s New Orleans is the first book dedicated to republishing his writings about the Crescent City, including numerous previously unknown pieces. Often spending his afternoons strolling through the vibrant city with his brother in tow, the young Whitman translated his impressions into short prose sketches that cataloged curious sights, captured typical characters one might meet on the levee, and joked about the strangeness of urban life. Including the first complete run of a fictional, multipart series titled “Sketches of the Sidewalks and Levee,” Walt Whitman’s New Orleans pairs his glimpses of the city with historical illustrations, supplementary texts, detailed annotations, and an introduction by editor Stefan Schöberlein that offers new insights on the poet’s southern sojourn. Whitmanites, history enthusiasts, and lovers of New Orleans will find much to treasure in these humorous, evocative scenes of antebellum city life.

Counting Descent

Author : Clint Smith
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1938912667
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Counting Descent written by Clint Smith and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Harvard Doctorate in Poetics launches poetry that explores modern blackness. Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear. His poems move fluidly across personal and political histories, all the while reflecting on the social construction of our lived experiences. Smith brings the reader on a powerful journey forcing us to reflect on all that we learn growing up, and all that we seek to unlearn moving forward. - Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award - Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards - 2017 'One Book One New Orleans' Book Selection

Crumpled Paper Dolls

Author : Matthew Nolan
Publisher : Matthew Nolan
ISBN 13 : 0615126553
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Crumpled Paper Dolls written by Matthew Nolan and published by Matthew Nolan. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Crumpled Paper Dolls: A New Orleans Poet, a book of poetry, prose, and journals, Matthew Nolan ignites our senses, depicts the world without filters, demands examination and self-reflection. With the vivid imagery of words, he holds a mirror to our face and makes us see all we hide away. This at first seems like a distortion, but is really an honesty that makes us uncomfortable. Nolan's journals chronicle the struggle of a man pursuing his dream in a world of trials and a mind of dark shadows. In Nolan's writing, nothing is good or bad. It just is. His writing takes us to a place we don't want to talk about, but now may be willing to discuss.

Inspirational Poems from New Orleans

Author : Toney Steele
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1685704948
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Inspirational Poems from New Orleans written by Toney Steele and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of the book is basically the kind of work that Mr. Steele wrote growing up in New Orleans. You see a lot of violence, so it was Mr. Steele's way of turning a negative into a positive.

Downtown

Author : Lee Meitzen Grue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979070242
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Downtown written by Lee Meitzen Grue and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Lee Grue is arguably one of the finest practitioners of poetry in New Orleans' storied history. These superb writs are equal to the upwelling of jazz itself: from Tremé street corners, to the wayward French Quarter, to the carefree vibes of Bywater, all the way to back o' town; this astonishing collection speaks from a mythic pantheon off yowls & beats as timeless as the Crescent City herself. "If you're missing New Orleans, and you know what that means, you need to read Grue's book front to back, place by place, time by time, name by name, everything that breaks your broken heart and asks it to sing. A generous, loving tribute to poetry and to New Orleans"—Dara Wier. "Lee Grue's work is one of the majestic pylons that keeps New Orleans above water, a pylon woven thickly and subtly from the city's history. Her poetry weaves her personal history to the five centuries of the city's own, a fabric stronger than the dreams of engineers. Lee Grue holds us all on the warm open hand of her music; she emanates the love that raises the soul levees"—Andrei Codrescu.

Jim Metcalf

Author : Jim Metcalf
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455606733
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Jim Metcalf written by Jim Metcalf and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology collects four complete volumes of poetry from the beloved New Orleans poet, journalist, and anchorman. Like Robert Frost before him, Jim Metcalf’s poetic commentaries on everyday objects and events offer a keen insight into our world and our own humanity. This volume includes four rare and out-of-print collections of Metcalf’s poetry: Follow Another Star, Please to Begin, In Some Quiet Place, and Jim Metcalf's Journal. With a foreword by his longtime friend and colleague Phil Johnson, this anthology serves as a brilliant reminder of the poet and his work.

History and Other Poems

Author : Brenda Marie Osbey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781568091792
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book History and Other Poems written by Brenda Marie Osbey and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. African American Studies. HISTORY AND OTHER POEMS takes as its task nothing less than an examination and mapping of the never-ending evil of history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the still-palpable effects of European and American colonialism some seven centuries after the making of the New World. Making, breaking and rebuilding language and languages to suit the needs of her characters and the worlds they struggle to survive in and against, Brenda Marie Osbey has created a compelling study of human will and the determination to wrest life and liberty from destinies long ago written out of history as we know it. Aided by an extensive glossary and notes, this volume takes the reader on a series of gruesome journeys across the Americas, from Columbus's first encounter with the Guanahani Indians to the author's native New Orleans, trailing violence, destruction and oppression with every step, marking the geography of evil on the map of this New World. HISTORY AND OTHER POEMS moves from present to past and back again to reveal the trauma of hearts and lives broken even as it underscores the heroic endurance, resilience and agency of the enslaved and their descendants.

Blood Dazzler

Author : Patricia Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Dazzler written by Patricia Smith and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A storm's-eye view of the devastation that forever changed New Orleans and America.

Louisiana Lullaby

Author : Elizabeth Hillery Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780910705004
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Louisiana Lullaby written by Elizabeth Hillery Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Carrying

Author : Ada Limón
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571315137
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book The Carrying written by Ada Limón and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exquisite . . . A powerful example of how to carry the things that define us without being broken by them." --WASHINGTON POST

What My Hair Says about You

Author : Laura Theobald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781988355030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book What My Hair Says about You written by Laura Theobald and published by . This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. WHAT MY HAIR SAYS ABOUT YOU is the final cry of a weary soul. These are poems about the same mistakes we make over and over again in the name of love. Laura Theobald's full-length debut will break your heart but in a good way."