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Poetic Struggles

Author : Lenard Pierce
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 149312630X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Poetic Struggles written by Lenard Pierce and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why I Wrote! What Made Me Write My Books? I wrote Testimonial Poetry and Poetic Struggles to share my experiences. It consists of my personal Testimony of how God has answered my prayers. How He has blessed me and save me from a life of self destruction. I consider Testimonial Poetry to be instrumental and encouraging to others who are faced with trouble, adversity, addiction, and a lack of hope and faith. This is my way of doing God’s work. I believe that my readers will find my Testimony to be uplifting and very beneficial. How Did My Books Change My Life? In answering that question, it’s too soon to tell. However, just the acceptance by my publisher and the encouragement the staff has given me is a serious confidence boost. I can now be considered a legitimate author with the publication of two books, Testimonial Poetry and Poetic Struggles. How Did My Work Change Others Lives? It was my objective that my work be an inspiration for others to seek God for hope, peace, prosperity and salvation; to submit their troubles and issues faithfully to God for His divine intervention. As for change in my relationships, the people closest to me have become extremely proud and supportive. They realized the sincerity and seriousness of my life taking a turn for the best. They love me more; they respect and support me wholeheartedly. What Would I Say To Someone Who Can’t Read? To an illiterate person I would say do not stay stuck in such a predicament. It’s never too late to learn. Unless you have some type of medical disability that hinders your learning, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Do not be ashamed, stubborn, or too proud to seek the necessary help that can change your situation. First of all, prayer will get you started and faith will guide your paths. From The Author of Testimonial Poetry and Poetic Struggles. Lenard Pierce

My Dyslexia

Author : Philip Schultz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393083500
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book My Dyslexia written by Philip Schultz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A success story . . . proof that one can rise above the disease and defy its so-called limitations on the brain.”—Daily Beast Despite winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008, Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled to the "dummy class" in school, where he was largely ignored by his teachers and peers and not expected to succeed. Not until many years later, when his oldest son was diagnosed with dyslexia, did Schultz realize that he suffered from the same condition. In his moving memoir, Schultz traces his difficult childhood and his new understanding of his early years. In doing so, he shows how a boy who did not learn to read until he was eleven went on to become a prize-winning poet by sheer force of determination. His balancing act—life as a member of a family with not one but two dyslexics, countered by his intellectual and creative successes as a writer—reveals an inspiring story of the strengths of the human mind.

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333)

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1598536664
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333) written by Kevin Young and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present Across a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. Capturing the power and beauty of this diverse tradition in a single indispensable volume, African American Poetry reveals as never before its centrality and its challenge to American poetry and culture. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people like Phillis Wheatley and George Moses Horton and activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper voice their passionate resistance to slavery. Young’s fresh, revelatory presentation of the Harlem Renaissance reexamines the achievements of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen alongside works by lesser-known poets such as Gwendolyn B. Bennett and Mae V. Cowdery. The later flowering of the still influential Black Arts Movement is represented here with breadth and originality, including many long out-of-print or hard-to-find poems. Here are all the significant movements and currents: the nineteenth-century Francophone poets known as Les Cenelles, the Chicago Renaissance that flourished around Gwendolyn Brooks, the early 1960s Umbra group, and the more recent work of writers affiliated with Cave Canem and the Dark Room Collective. Here too are poems of singular, hard-to-classify figures: the enslaved potter David Drake, the allusive modernist Melvin B. Tolson, the Cleveland-based experimentalist Russell Atkins. This Library of America volume also features biographies of each poet and notes that illuminate cultural references and allusions to historical events.

When My Brother Was an Aztec

Author : Natalie Diaz
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320339
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book When My Brother Was an Aztec written by Natalie Diaz and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone from Antigone, Houdini, Huitzilopochtli, and Jesus is invoked and invited to hash it out. These darkly humorous poems illuminate far corners of the heart, revealing teeth, tails, and more than a few dreams. I watched a lion eat a man like a piece of fruit, peel tendons from fascia like pith from rind, then lick the sweet meat from its hard core of bones. The man had earned this feast and his own deliciousness by ringing a stick against the lion's cage, calling out Here, Kitty Kitty, Meow! With one swipe of a paw much like a catcher's mitt with fangs, the lion pulled the man into the cage, rattling his skeleton against the metal bars. The lion didn't want to do it— He didn't want to eat the man like a piece of fruit and he told the crowd this: I only wanted some goddamn sleep . . . Natalie Diaz was born and raised on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Needles, California. After playing professional basketball for four years in Europe and Asia, Diaz returned to the states to complete her MFA at Old Dominion University. She lives in Surprise, Arizona, and is working to preserve the Mojave language.

Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles

Author : Tahia Abdel Nasser
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474471242
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles written by Tahia Abdel Nasser and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In memoirs, Arab writers have invoked solitude in moments of deep public involvement. Focusing on Taha Hussein, Sonallah Ibrahim, Assia Djebar, Latifa al-Zayyat, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Edward Said, Haifa Zangana, and Radwa Ashour, this book reads a range of autobiographical forms, sources, and affinities with other literatures.Taking a comparative approach, Nasser shows the local sources of contemporary Arab autobiography, adaptations of a global genre, and cultural exchange. She also examines different aspects of the contemporary autobiography as it has evolved in the Arab world during the past half-century, focusing on the particularity of the genre written in different languages but pertaining to one overarching Arab culture. Drawing on memoirs, testimonies, autobiographical novels, poetic autobiography, journals, and diaries, she examines solitude and national struggles in contemporary Arab autobiography.

Go To Hell, Heaven

Author : Heaven Santiago
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Go To Hell, Heaven written by Heaven Santiago and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the twisted world of a self-described imposter.

Why Poetry

Author : Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062343092
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Why Poetry written by Matthew Zapruder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.

Running Out of Words for Afterwards

Author : David Hargreaves
Publisher : Broadstone Books
ISBN 13 : 9781937968939
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Running Out of Words for Afterwards written by David Hargreaves and published by Broadstone Books. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lush and allusive, tuned to a background in translating Nepal Bhasa poetry, RUNNING OUT OF WORDS FOR AFTERWARDS gives voice to cycles of desire, loss, and renewal. Like the many rivers that flow through this book, David Hargreaves' poems, in various turns, can be urgent, expansive, unpredictable, or calm, conveying the reader through landscapes both mystical and mundane, through illusions of selfhood, and the struggles of language to accept its own limitations. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies.

Helium

Author : Rudy Francisco
Publisher : Button Poetry
ISBN 13 : 1943735352
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Helium written by Rudy Francisco and published by Button Poetry. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Finalist Helium is the debut poetry collection by internet phenom Rudy Francisco, whose work has defined poetry for a generation of new readers. Rudy's poems and quotes have been viewed and shared millions of times as he has traveled the country and the world performing for sell-out crowds. Helium is filled with work that is simultaneously personal and political, blending love poems, self-reflection, and biting cultural critique on class, race and gender into an unforgettable whole. Ultimately, Rudy's work rises above the chaos to offer a fresh and positive perspective of shared humanity and beauty.

The Songs We Know Best

Author : Karin Roffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0374293848
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Songs We Know Best written by Karin Roffman and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A biography focusing on the poet John Ashbery's early life"--

The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae

Author : Michael Putnam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192869272
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae written by Michael Putnam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the essays of this volume, Michael Putnam shows how seriously Statius pays homage to his canonical predecessor, Virgil, how thoroughly he interprets the complexities of Virgilian poetry, and how he often, by placing a Virgilian reference in a different social and cultural context, boldly turns Virgil to new and more positive purposes. He focuses particularly, though not exclusively, on those Silvae which deal with the architectural world of Statius' society, the private villas, the gardens, and the imperial palace. He also writes of the Roman equivalent of the 'Grand Tour,' a young man's educational journey through the monuments of Egypt, Greece, and Asia Minor. The essays offer valuable insight into the cultural and social identity of late first-century imperial Rome. Statius' reverential but also heuristic engagement with Virgil emerges more distinctly across the interrelated essays. Putnam's collected essays display the pioneering nature of Statius' Silvae in the development of ecphrasis as an important social and literary mode in Roman poetry.

Bronx Masquerade

Author : Nikki Grimes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425289761
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Bronx Masquerade written by Nikki Grimes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved and award-winning novel now available in a new format with a great new cover! When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon they're having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are opening up and taking on the risky challenge of self-revelation. There's Lupe Alvarin, desperate to have a baby so she will feel loved. Raynard Patterson, hiding a secret behind his silence. Porscha Johnson, needing an outlet for her anger after her mother OD's. Through the poetry they share and narratives in which they reveal their most intimate thoughts about themselves and one another, their words and lives show what lies beneath the skin, behind the eyes, beyond the masquerade.

Problems of Communism

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Problems of Communism written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Amandla! Poems of Love and Struggle

Author : Gerald Lenoir
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387300091
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Amandla! Poems of Love and Struggle written by Gerald Lenoir and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-28 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amandla! Poems of Love and Struggle is Gerald LenoirÕs first book of poetry containing poems written over the past 34 years.Ê With passion for people and politics, he writes verses that reflect the universal experiences of racial injustice, class exploitation and imperial domination.Ê His poems are often militant, occasionally despairing, sometimes hopeful, and always engaging. Reflecting his 40+ years as a social justice activist and his 69 years of being a compassionate Black child/man and a caring human being, Gerald writes with head, heart and hand about the struggle against racism and police brutality, international solidarity, love in the times of HIV/AIDS and more.Ê

Poems of Love, Struggle, and Change

Author : Merredith F. Perkins, Ph.D.
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480959529
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Poems of Love, Struggle, and Change written by Merredith F. Perkins, Ph.D. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of Love, Struggle, and Change By: Merredith F. Perkins Ph.D. If someone had said to her twenty-five years ago that she would be living the life she’s living, Merredith F. Perkins, Ph.D. would have questioned his or her sanity. She would have been an ardent disbeliever. The fortune of writing was bestowed upon her a long time ago, but she did not know that twenty-five years of reflective writing and her poems would show up in a book at this stage of her life. In her golden years, Dr. Perkins is writing and sharing her poetry with the public to show that we all have a lot in common and that we all stumble humbly through our life’s journey. In taking stock of her life and understanding a little bit of what her life has been for, she is learning that the puzzle pieces were being laid on a path long before she arrived at that path. Poems of Love, Struggle, and Change is a collection of poetic expressions on topics about love in relationships, struggling with expressions of self-awareness, and engaging in the friction of self-discovery as a way to gauge internal and external explorations as life unfolds.

India’s Freedom Struggle and the Urdu Poetry

Author : Gopi Chand Narang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000827836
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book India’s Freedom Struggle and the Urdu Poetry written by Gopi Chand Narang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry, mainly Urdu poetry, played a very significant role in India’s freedom struggle. This book explores the poetic contributions going back centuries of colonial rule, which became songs of freedom and captured both the poignancy and fervor of revolution, protest, and hope. Urdu became one of the essential languages in colonial India, used by both political leaders and many young revolutionaries in speeches and writings as slogans for freedom and a call to action. Poets such as Josh Malihabadi, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Sahir, Makhdoom, Kaifi Azmi, Majaz, Majrooh, and Faiz Ahmad Faiz wrote highly patriotic poetry which was used not only to inspire and help mobilize people but also to offer criticism of existing socio-cultural practices in India and promote reform and equality. This work – a creative and selective translation of the book Hindustan Ki Tahriik-e Aazadi aur Urdu Shaa’yiri by Professor Gopi Chand Narang – includes English translations of poems from rare historical manuscripts as well as banned and witnessed poetry confiscated by the British. It looks at key events in India’s struggle for freedom through the prism of literature, language, poetry, and culture while also delving into the lives of poets who became the voice of their generation. This book is an essential read for students and researchers of colonial and postcolonial literature, cultural studies, comparative studies, history, and South Asian literature and culture.

Poems of Human Struggle and God’S Love

Author : Margaret Freeman
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1452526044
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Poems of Human Struggle and God’S Love written by Margaret Freeman and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Poems of Human Struggle and Gods Love, Margaret Freeman explores the theme of salvation: release from bondage to self-consciousness through the awakening of Christ-consciousness. She believes that this awakening to the glory of God is increasing on earth and she considers aspects of this through her poetry as she tells biblical and contemporary stories and shares personal revelation of the one who holds you dear. Freemans poetry gives voice to our insecurities, doubts and questions and the work of the spirit of Christ to awaken our own spirits to the fullness of the life God has for us, body and soul clothed in light and glory. Transfiguration Adam and Eve were naked; No shame they had to hide: Clothed in light and splendour, A delight to Gods eyes. Until Satan tempted them To believe his lie. He said God couldnt be trusted; Good things he withheld. He said they should seek out the truth The apple would reveal. And so through their own efforts They were bound to self-rule, To striving for perfection- All men became its fool. Their spirits now bound within the soul, And animal skins for clothing, They tried their best to work the soil As Satan stood by laughing. But God has not been outplayed; He came to earth, you see, To tell us he is the way For our spirits to be freed: Bound by grace to Truth and Light- Our transfiguration.