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Singing My Mother's Song

Author : Rebecca Tantony
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911570622
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Singing My Mother's Song written by Rebecca Tantony and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection started as a whisper, a quiet mouth asking questions. Over the years it became a coherent voice that kept getting louder. Now it is a song, sprung from a yearning to fill in the missing parts, to understand my mother's story. Perhaps it's something that goes beyond what is experiential and real and moves into memory and imagination. Perhaps it is a book of magic, of synchronicity and colliding moments in time, too strange to be logical, too concise to be chance. Ultimately, it's a way of shedding light, in order to change the direction of a past. Sometimes, I think it has been formed by my imagined daughter, clearing the way ahead before her own birth. Or by whole generations of women, celebrating a future, formed from the heart of us.

Songs & Poems

Author : Bathsheba Davis
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Songs & Poems written by Bathsheba Davis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era where there were no televisions, limited school books and education, the one-room segregated schoolhouse in the woods of the south, off the main dirt road, housed all the brown, colored and negro children as they sang praises to Du Pont. With only a few windows and only one entrance, friends, family and neighbors, every child in varying grades, learned everything together. Songs and Poems strengthened and empowered the souls of these young beings. Documenting the beginnings of her mother’s childhood is a shared experience of a colorful and simplistic existence of creative imagination and gifted memorization. The dolls made from old rags and straw, came to life with the stories and songs performed creating pictorial extracts and time travel before bed.

The Song Poet

Author : Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1627794956
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book The Song Poet written by Kao Kalia Yang and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story -- of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost.

My Mother's Poem and Other Songs

Author : Micere Githae Mugo
Publisher : East African Educ. Publ.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book My Mother's Poem and Other Songs written by Micere Githae Mugo and published by East African Educ. Publ.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteen poems deal with the eminent kenyan writers political commitment. She always seeks to infuse her poetic statements with optimism. The poems are addressed trenchantly to such issues as the current ideological crisis in the emergent American-led 'new world order', gender relations, and Africa's destiny in the global village.

Crazy Brave

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393073467
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Crazy Brave written by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.

Songs of Motherhood

Author : Elizabeth Johnson Huckel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Songs of Motherhood written by Elizabeth Johnson Huckel and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Morning Song

Author : Susan Todd
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312644260
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Morning Song written by Susan Todd and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poignant, inspiring, and full of wisdom, Morning Song celebrates the joy a new child brings to the life of parents and family. With sources ranging from the Bible, Sappho, and traditional songs to Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and our outstanding contemporary poets, this beautiful collection summons the cosmic and the comic, the spiritual and the pragmatic, the whimsical and the divine. Sections such as "Conception and Grace," "Waiting," "Sleep and Song," and "Green and Carefree" evoke the breadth of the parenting experience and capture the emotional intensity of this magical time. Among the poets included here are: Billy Collins Mary Oliver Richard Wilbur Sylvia Plath Galway Kinnell Natasha Trethewey Dylan Thomas Pablo Neruda James Merrill John Berryman Kay Ryan Alice Walker Jane Kenyon Rita Dove Mary Jo Salter Sharon Olds An ideal gift book for any parent-to-be, this classic collection will become a treasured companion during the many hours spent waiting and caring for a child.

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

Author : Mary Korzan
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780740741920
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book When You Thought I Wasn't Looking written by Mary Korzan and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Rita Schilke Korzan wrote a poem to her mother 24 years ago, thanking her for all she had done as a mother, friend, and role model. She gave the poem to her mother and, a few months later, offered it as a tribute when Mary and her husband were married. So many wedding guests asked for a copy that Mary included one in her thank-you notes.Then began the strange and heartwarming journey of Mary's poem to her mom. Friends passed it on to those they knew. A minister in her hometown couldn't recall who gave it to him, but he included the by-then "anonymously written" poem in his book about loving others. Another author picked it up from there for her compilation of heartfelt works, and Mary finally noticed her poem, now listed as "Author Unknown," in A Fourth Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul, which her husband and children gave her as a Mother's Day gift.With this new book, readers have the chance to experience When You Thought I Wasn't Looking in its entirety and from its creator. This is the special kind of book that reminds us that sometimes the little things we do "just because" mean more to someone than we can ever know. Those little things teach love, compassion, and understanding. In other words, they're priceless. This sweet gift book brings that lesson home to the heart.

Mother Truths: Poems on Early Motherhood

Author : Karen McMillan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838444600
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Mother Truths: Poems on Early Motherhood written by Karen McMillan and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother Truths is a beautiful, funny, and raw collection of poetry about early motherhood. The perfect gift for expectant mothers and new mums.

Mother-play and Nursery Songs; Poetry, Music and Pictures for the Noble Culture of Child Life

Author : Friedrich Fröbel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Mother-play and Nursery Songs; Poetry, Music and Pictures for the Noble Culture of Child Life by : Friedrich Fröbel

Download or read book Mother-play and Nursery Songs; Poetry, Music and Pictures for the Noble Culture of Child Life written by Friedrich Fröbel and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Songs My Mother Wrote

Author : Carolyn Trocino
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 146708574X
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Songs My Mother Wrote written by Carolyn Trocino and published by Author House. This book was released on 2007-04-16 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs My Mother Wrote is a poetic journey about my life with my mother and how I was able to make a choice about how I was going to handle the loss of my mother. I decided to celebrate her life. I hope this book can help others who have lost someone special overcome the grief and sorrow of loss. Joyce Fizzolio died of lung cancer on July 8, 2004. She was a child, a sister, a wife, a mother, a grandmother, and a well-known and respected voice teacher. My mother studied music at Wayne State University and she graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto. She was a coloratura soprano and teacher. Her concert debut was with the American Symphony Orchestra of New York. My mother performed in twenty-three musicals and she made her Broadway debut as a feature soloist at the Palace Theater in New York City. She taught singing lessons for several years and she was a member of several music organizations. My mother’s creative outlet was her voice. My creative outlet is my writing. During my time of grieving and loss, I found comfort in writing poetry. I was amazed at how my writing changed as I started to channel my grief and sadness into learning more about myself and my purpose and my healing. We are all born with gifts and we must look at our gifts to bring forward the memory of someone special. This is my gift and I hope you enjoy the poetry. If you knew my mother, I hope it gives you a smile to remember what a dynamic and wonderful person she was in life.

The Moment's Only Moment

Author : Emilie Buchwald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935666905
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The Moment's Only Moment written by Emilie Buchwald and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of poems about the richness of life, encompassing friends and family, the power of music, motherhood, pets, and travel."--

You Are My I Love You

Author : Maryann Cusimano Love
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984812572
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book You Are My I Love You written by Maryann Cusimano Love and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The all-time classic, bestselling ode to the love shared between parent and child. Perfect for new parents, baby showers, and sharing at bedtime. A day in the life of parent and child—full of smiles and giggles, messes and meals, boundless energy and well-earned rest. Not to mention lots of love. Here, in simple, rhyming verse accompanied by colorful, playful illustrations by world-renowned artist Satomi Ichikawa, is one such day. Share it with others and treasure the memories.

Love You Forever

Author : Robert N. Munsch
Publisher : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 : 9780920668375
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Love You Forever written by Robert N. Munsch and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman holds her newborn son And looks at him lovingly. Softly she sings to him: "I'll love you forever I'll like you for always As long as I'm living My baby you'll be." So begins the story that has touched the hearts of millions worldwide. Since publication in l986, Love You Forever has sold more than 15 million copies in paperback and the regular hardcover edition (as well as hundreds of thousands of copies in Spanish and French). Firefly Books is proud to offer this sentimental favorite in a variety of editions and sizes: We offer a trade paper and laminated hardcover edition in a 8" x 8" size. In gift editions we carry: a slipcased edition (8 1/2" x 8 1/4"), with a laminated box and a cloth binding on the book and a 10" x 10" laminated hardcover with jacket. And a Big Book Edition, 16" x 16" with a trade paper binding.

Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother

Author : Hannah Baker Saltmarsh
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611179696
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother written by Hannah Baker Saltmarsh and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful exploration of male poets' contributions to the literature of motherhood In the late 1950s the notion of a "mother poem" emerged during a confessional literary movement that freed poets to use personal, psychosexual material about intimate topics such as parents, childhood, failed marriages, children, infidelity, and mental illness. In Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother, Hannah Baker Saltmarsh argues that male poets have contributed to what we think of as the literature of motherhood—that confessional and postconfessional modes have been formative in the way male poets have grappled with the stories of their mothers and how those stories reflect on the writers and their artistic identities. Through careful readings of formative elegies and homages written by male poets of this time, Saltmarsh explores how they engaged with femininity and feminine voices in the 1950s and 60s and sheds light on the inheritance of confessional motifs of gender and language as demonstrated by postconfessional writers responding to the rich subject matter of motherhood within the contexts of history, myth, and literature. A foreword is provided by Jo Gill, professor of twentieth-century and American literature in the Department of English and associate dean for education at the University of Exeter.

An Iranian Childhood

Author : Hamid Dabashi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009080784
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book An Iranian Childhood written by Hamid Dabashi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamid Dabashi was born and raised in southern Iran in the 1950s and 1960s. During this time, his homeland was changed beyond recognition, from the 1953 coup d'état to the 1963 political protests and the beginning of the Marxist rebellions against the Shah in 1971. In this vibrant, unique and personal study, Dabashi recounts his experience of this defining period in modern Iranian history, deftly blending the personal with the political, the ordinary with the extraordinary. Lyrically written, he combines vivid childhood memories with careful reflection to explore the intersection of history and memory. The book draws upon a rich tapestry of themes and sources, including art, literature, and folklore. In doing so, Dabashi asserts the power and place of the knowing postcolonial subject. Redrawing the limits of modern literary historiography, he asks what it means to be a Muslim and an Iranian, and, indeed, what it is that forms the humanity of a person.

Moving the Piano

Author : Faith Shearin
Publisher : Stephen F. Austin University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Moving the Piano written by Faith Shearin and published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the title poem of Shearin's Moving The Piano, a piano hangs above a city street, bundled and displaced, awkward when it should be elegant, similar to her childhood of damaged Christmas trees, misunderstood pets, and untended lawns. The piano is temporarily displaced, seen differently because it is lifted away from its ordinary surroundings: suspended above the burdens of the earth. The poems in this collection also seek to hold objects and emotions aloft, to allow them to dangle above the usual landscape, allowing the reader a new vantage point. The book contains many poems that explore the particulars of life on the island of Kitty Hawk where she was a child; they pay attention to untended lawns, sunburns, turtles, motherhood, dead pets, and wilted Christmas trees. One very brief poem explains how to live without money. The collection pays notice to foxes and jellyfish, to the places where she can hear the ocean; it ponders aging and money and motherhood. Shearin says of the piano: "We cannot/ turn away from its startling/ moment of freedom, its perilous fling/ before it returns to the burdens of this earth." Her poems capture that perilous fling. Her first collection, The Owl Question, won the May Swenson Award and the poems in her second, The Empty House, helped he rwin a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared regularly in Ploughshares, The Sun, and North American Review and has been read aloud by Garrison Keillor on his show The Writer's Almanac. Recent work also appears in the Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poets. The poems in Moving the Piano were written over a period of three years, on the island of Kitty Hawk, with the help of grants from the NEA and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. They contain the images and emotions and ideas that she finds most compelling and moving;