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Soldier: A Poet's Childhood

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Civitas Books
ISBN 13 : 0786731370
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Soldier: A Poet's Childhood written by June Jordan and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profoundly moving childhood memoir by one of the most widely acclaimed Black American writers of her generation Captured with astonishing beauty, through the eyes of a child, Soldier paints the battleground of June Jordan’s youth as the gifted daughter of Jamaican immigrants, struggling under the humiliations of racism, sexism, and poverty in 1940s New York. “There was a war on against colored people, against poor people,” Jordan writes, and she watches her mother turn inward in her suffering, her father lashing out, often violently, against his own daughter. She learns to harden herself, to be a “soldier,” while preserving a deep capacity for love and wonder. Poignantly exploring the nature of memory, imagination, and familial as well as social responsibility, Jordan re-creates the vivid world in which her identity as a social and artistic revolutionary was forged.

WHEREAS

Author : Layli Long Soldier
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979610
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book WHEREAS written by Layli Long Soldier and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

The Soldier

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Soldier written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Directed by Desire

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320800
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Directed by Desire written by June Jordan and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affordable e-book of volume honored as one of Library Journal's "Poetry Books of the Year."

A Soldier

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book A Soldier written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memoirs of a Military Child

Author : Breeya D. Springer
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532073232
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Military Child written by Breeya D. Springer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-05-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... He’s leaving again To protect and serve But all I feel is rising nerves Tell me more my heart pounds I can feel it beating in the ground He’s leaving and I’m sad but proud. It’s tough to grow up, even when a child has two parents living full-time in the house with them. Unfortunately for B.D. Springer, life was much different as a child growing up in a military family. As her father fulfilled his duties as a soldier in the army and she attended funerals without knowing why, Springer was often left in the dark with more questions than answers. In a collection of poignant poetry, Springer addresses many of the concerns that young children have when one parent—or both—serve in the military. Her poems explore her fears of not being able to make friends in each new city, her frustrations with being invisible, the bliss of having her father return home, and the emptiness she felt every time he left again. Memoirs of a Military Child shares a unique collection of poems that reflect on the myriad of emotions a child feels when a parent is deployed to a faraway location.

Be a Good Soldier

Author : Jennifer Margaret Fraser
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442643137
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Be a Good Soldier written by Jennifer Margaret Fraser and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the modern era, children experiencing grief were encouraged to dry their tears and 'be good soldiers.' How was this phenomenon interrogated and deconstructed in the period's literature? Be a Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child in modernist novels, investigating the demand for emotional suppression as manifested later in cruelty and aggression in adulthood. Jennifer Margaret Fraser provides sophisticated close readings of key works by Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, among others who share striking concerns about the concept of infantry both as a collection of infants, and as foot soldiers of war. A phenomenon associated traditionally with Freud, Fraser instead uses a unique, Derridean theoretical prism to provide new ways of understanding modernist concerns with power dynamics, knowledge, and meaning. Be a Good Soldier establishes a pioneering, nuanced vocabulary for further historical and cultural inquiries into modernist childhood.

Life Studies and For the Union Dead

Author : Robert Lowell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374530963
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Life Studies and For the Union Dead written by Robert Lowell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century—and Life Studies and For the Union Dead stand as among his most important volumes. In Life Studies, which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his earlier poems and started writing in a more confessional vein. The title poem of For the Union Dead concerns the death of the Civil War hero (and Lowell ancestor) Robert Gould Shaw, but it also largely centers on the contrast between Boston's idealistic past and its debased present at the time of its writing, in the early 1960's. Throughout, Lowell addresses contemporaneous subjects in a voice and style that themselves push beyond the accepted forms and constraints of the time.

Poets in Their Youth

Author : Eileen Simpson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374713006
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Poets in Their Youth written by Eileen Simpson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, Eileen Simpson—then Eileen Mulligan—married John Berryman. Both were in their twenties; Eileen had just graduated from Hunter College and John had but one slim volume of poetry to his name. They moved frequently—from New York to Boston, then Princeton—chasing jobs, living simply, relying on the hospitality of more successful friends like Robert Lowell and Jean Stafford, or R. P. Blackmur and his wife, Helen. Rounding out their circle of intimates were other struggling poets like Randall Jarrell and Delmore Schwartz. Berryman alternately wrote and despaired of writing. Everyone stayed up late arguing about poetry. Poets in Their Youth is a portrait of their marriage, yes, but it is also a portrait of a group of spectacularly intelligent friends at a particular time, in a particular place, all aflame with literature. Simpson's recollections are so tender, her narrative so generous, it is almost possible to imagine the story has a different ending—even as Schwartz's marriage crumbles, as Lowell succumbs to a manic episode, as her own relationship with Berryman buckles under the strain of his drinking, his infidelity, his depression. Filled with winning anecdotes and moments of startling poignancy, Simpson's now classic memoir shows some of the most brilliant literary minds of the second half of the twentieth century at their brightest and most achingly human.

Deaf Republic

Author : Ilya Kaminsky
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555978800
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Deaf Republic written by Ilya Kaminsky and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.

We're on

Author : June Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938584350
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book We're on written by June Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toni Morrison affirms Jordan's work as "tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art.

A soldier's children

Author : Juliana Horatia Ewing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A soldier's children written by Juliana Horatia Ewing and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Patrol

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060731591
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Patrol written by Walter Dean Myers and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-01-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam. A young American soldier waits for his enemy, rifle in hand, finger on the trigger. He is afraid to move and yet afraid not to move. Gunshots crackle in the still air. The soldier fires blindly into the distant trees at an unseen enemy. He crouches and waits -- heart pounding, tense and trembling, biting back tears. When will it all be over? Walter Dean Myers joined the army on his seventeeth birthday, at the onset of American involvement in Vietnam, but it was the death of his brother in 1968 that forever changed his mind about war. In a gripping and powerful story-poem, the award-winning author takes readers into the heart and mind of a young soldier in an alien land who comes face-to-face with the enemy. Strikingly illustrated with evocative and emotionally wrenching collages by Caldecott Honor artist Ann Grifalconi, this unforgettable portrait captures one American G.L's haunting experience.

The Widening Spell of the Leaves

Author : Larry Levis
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822979276
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Widening Spell of the Leaves written by Larry Levis and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result is a book of discursive meditations that will amply reward the reader. Part travelogue, part pilgrimage in which the shrines remain hidden until they are recognized later, Larry Levis’s startling and complex fifth book of poems is about the enslavement to desire for personal freedom, and the awareness of its price.

The Essential June Jordan

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141996366
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Essential June Jordan written by June Jordan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walker) For the poet and activist June Jordan, neither poetry nor activism could easily be disentangled from the other. Her storied career came to chronicle a living, breathing history of the struggles that defined the USA in the latter half of the twentieth century; and her poetry, accordingly, put its dazzling stylistic range to use in exploring issues of gender, race, immigration, representation and much else besides. Here, above all, are sinuous, lashing and passionate lines, virtuosic in their musicality and always bearing the stamp of Jordan's irrepressible personality. Here are poems of suffusing light and profound anger: poems moved as much by political animus as by a deep love for the observation of human life in all its foibles, eccentricities, strengths and weaknesses. With a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, The Essential June Jordan allows new readers to discover - and old fans to rediscover - the vital work of this endlessly surprising poet who, in the words of Adrienne Rich, believed that 'genuine, up-from-the-bottom revolution must include art, laughter, sensual pleasure, and the widest possible human referentiality.'

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

Author : Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nurse and Spy in the Union Army written by Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1865 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Naming Our Destiny

Author : June Jordan
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780938410843
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Naming Our Destiny written by June Jordan and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1993-02-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems deal with racism, oppression, justice, ecology, poverty, and life in modern American