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Book Synopsis Versos sencillos / Simple Verses by : Jos? MartÕ
Download or read book Versos sencillos / Simple Verses written by Jos? MartÕ and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. SIMPLE VERSES is the first complete English translation of the classic collection VERSOS SENCILLOS, written by the Cuban poet Jose Marti (1853-1895) in the United States during his years of exile and revolutionary struggle. This great political and literary figure of the nineteenth century has been one of the most influential men in all the Americas. A spiritual autobiography, SIMPLE VERSES captures in each poem an experience, a feeling or a moment that formed the poet and the man. The poet, the soldier, the troubadour, the legislator, the searcher for truth, the enraptured and the disenchanted lover, the defender of poetry and its transformer, the genius and the man - all alternate in a modulated and musical flow like life itself, which it embodies. The translations of Manuel Tellechea, a Cuban American living in Union City, New Jersey, have been published by the University of Pittsburgh, Freedom House, Transaction Publishers, and others.
Download or read book Versos Sencillos written by José Martí and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, the great Cuban revolutionary leader Jose Marti wrote his most famous poetry, Versos Sencillos, in a small town called Haines Falls in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Sincere and intensely personal in tone, these verses form a unique autobiographical expression yet have world-wide appeal. This dual-language edition of Versos Sencillos offers both the Spanish-language original and a graceful English translation of each poem in the collection. The translation follows the original rhyme scheme where feasible but deliberately chooses meaning over form, staying true to mood and method. In addition to notes on the poems, this edition also includes the particulars of translation and provides a background for the composition of the verses, features lacking in earlier translations. An index of first lines, both English and Spanish, is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Book Synopsis Versos en Matices by : Maria Aduke Alabi
Download or read book Versos en Matices written by Maria Aduke Alabi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Versos en Matices es una compilación de poemas, unidos por el concurso de su propia diversidad, los que debido a las diferentes tonalidades subscritas en la vida misma se plasman de forma que abarcan cada una de ellas, con un carácter propio, con estilo y con una cualidad peculiar y especial que se distingue por sus matices, los que transforman letras en sensaciones. Esta colección de poemas colorativos es una luz que se descompone en rayos cada uno con un matiz diferente en vías de reflejar en otros, ya sea por armonía o contraste la combinación perfecta de sensaciones, música, pasiones, recuerdos y sentimientos. Espero con cada verso producir una impresión en el sensorio individual del lector que sea desatada mediante la luz propia que se refleja como rayo rebosante de sensibilidades, dejar sentir la vibración emergente de sus ondas líricas y que estas envuelvan y seduzcan almas con sus cantares rítmicos o arrítmicos, que construyan en la imaginación con fiel apego los colores reflejados por su espectro. El conjunto cromático armónico de esta colección es detallada a continuación para el mejor entendimiento del contenido y la intensión que detallan cada una de sus matices: GRIS Es el símbolo cromático que representa los versos que se identifican con el infortunio, la melancolía, el dolor y el sufrimiento. También representa el desconsuelo. En este caso el poeta utiliza los versos grises dentro del poemario para dar cabida a estos sentires. ROSADO El color rosado en este poemario es símbolo del amor de pareja, el amor puro como sentimiento no como acto. También se utiliza para denotar cariño y respeto. El amor es normalmente representado por el color rojo pero el poeta prefirió separar ambas simbologías en dos tonalidades diferentes. ROJO El rojo por su tonalidad ardiente se destaca dentro de la escala cromática como violencia, pero no es representativo en este poemario. En esta colección este color representa la pasión arrolladora, representados mediante poemas eróticos y pasionales, aquellos en los que tiene lugar el contacto físico entre un hombre y una mujer, narrados de una forma que presentan lo dicho en un plano simbólico incorporando la realidad del acto en cuestión. AMARILLO Es un símbolo cromático que señala la muerte, pero en este poemario representa el cambio (muerte y nacimiento) la transformación, la mutación, la evolución. El amarillo es el elemento ideal para transportar lo malo de su vida hacia algo positivo y más deseado. PURPURA Generalmente el color purpura o violeta ha tenido su representación simbólica dentro de la religión y la espiritualidad con un valor litúrgico poderoso. Es un color frio y muy delicado y de signo idealista que tradicionalmente ha sido símbolo de espiritualidad. El violeta como símbolo cromático representa exactamente eso en esta obra: espiritualidad, sublimación, pasión por lo desconocido. Presenta una imagen netamente subjetiva y mística. VERDE El color verde no es utilizado nominalmente como representación de cosas verdes, más bien como color polifacético la simbología dada en este poemario la relaciona con la creación artística, la inspiración, la fertilidad mental, la naturaleza del pensamiento, la fecundidad de las ideas y simbólicamente representa la capacidad literaria y la creación inusual. AZUL Este color es un símbolo cromático utilizado en la obra como representación del idealismo patriótico, nacionalismo y amor al pueblo de origen. La luz que se desprende del azul, la vemos resplandecer clara e iluminada en identificación con los más altos ideales. NEGRO Este color tradicionalmente ha sido símbolo de oscuridad o maldad, pero esa representación simbólica no tiene cabida en este poemario. El negro aquí representa a una cultura, a una raza, un linaje, una proced
Book Synopsis The Verso Book of Feminism by : Jessie Kindig
Download or read book The Verso Book of Feminism written by Jessie Kindig and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented collection of feminist voices from four millennia of global history Throughout written history and across the world, women have protested the restrictions of gender and the limitations placed on women's bodies and women's lives. People–of any and no gender–have protested and theorized, penned manifestos and written poetry and songs, testified and lobbied, gone on strike and fomented revolution, quietly demanded that there is an "I" and loudly proclaimed that there is a "we." The Book of Feminism chronicles this history of defiance and tracks it around the world as it develops into a multivocal and unabashed force. Global in scope, The Book of Feminism shows the breadth of feminist protest and of feminist thinking, moving through the female poets of China's Tang Dynasty and accounts of indigenous women in the Caribbean resisting Columbus's expedition, British suffragists militating for the vote and the revolutionary petroleuses of the 1848 Paris Commune, the first century Trung sisters who fought for the independence of Nam Viet to women in 1980s Botswana fighting for equal protection under the law, from the erotica of the 6th century and the 19th century to radical queer politics in the 20th and 21st. The Book of Feminism is a weapon, a force, a lyrical cry, and an ongoing threat to misogyny everywhere.
Book Synopsis The Verso Book of Dissent by : Andrew Hsiao
Download or read book The Verso Book of Dissent written by Andrew Hsiao and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, through to the Arab slave revolts and anti-Ottoman rebellions of the Middle Ages. These sources were tapped during the Dutch and English revolutions at the outset of the Modern world, and in turn flowed into the French, Haitian, American, Russian and Chinese revolutions. More recently, resistance to war and economic oppression has flared up on battlefields and in public spaces from Beijing and Baghdad to Caracas and Los Angeles. This anthology, global in scope, presents voices of dissent from every era of human history: speeches and pamphlets, poems and songs, plays and manifestos. Every age has its iconoclasts, and yet the greatest among them build on the words and actions of their forerunners. The Verso Book of Dissent will become an invaluable resource, reminding today’s citizens that these traditions will never die.
Book Synopsis Versi Tricolori Versos Tricolores Tricolor Verses by : Salvatore Poeta
Download or read book Versi Tricolori Versos Tricolores Tricolor Verses written by Salvatore Poeta and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El ttulo de esta coleccin potica tiene menos que ver con un patriotismo explcitamente poltico que con la trayectoria de la asimilacin de su autor a las tres culturas representadas. Inmigr a Estados Unidos desde mi Piazza Armerina nativa a los seis aos de edad, para corretear en las calles y rascacielos de Nueva York. Mi madre, Salvatrice, y dos hermanos, Mara y Concetto, tardamos once das en cruzar el Atlntico a bordo del Giulio Cesare para reunirnos con nuestro padre, Filippo, quien haba hecho el viaje dos aos antes a bordo de la Bianca Mano. A los nueve meses nacera mi tercera y ms joven hermana, Roseann, la cual nos servira simblicamente para anclarnos ya defi nitivamente en nuestra nueva tierra. No sabiendo la lengua y desconociendo la cultura norteamericana el proceso de asimilacin, desde luego, fue lento y no sin sus peridicas peleas y traumas con vecinos y compaeros. No me daba cuenta entonces que estos mismos muchachos con quienes peleaba casi diariamente acabaran ms tarde siendo mis ms fi eles y queridos amigos; entre ellos Carmine Glorioso que muri, a mi misma edad de diez aos, atropellado por un coche mientras cruzaba el Sunrise Highway, en Long Island, Nueva York. Todava hoy da siento el estrecho y desesperante abrazo de un padre lloroso en la sala del funeral, como si tratara de recuperar en mi cuerpo el cuerpecito destrozado de su propio hijo ante la inevitable realidad de que dentro de pocos das tendra que devolverle a la tierra lo suyo. No hara falta decir que, despecho a mis tiernos diez aos de edad, tuve muy serias discusiones con un Dios cuya insensata y arbitraria crueldad no lograba entender en aquella poca. Hoy da agradezco a ese mismo Dios la viva presencia de Carmine, cuyo compaerismo espiritual sigue a mi lado y al cual me dirijo frecuentemente en busca de consolacin en mis momentos de mayor desolacin. Me sent atrado al espaol por primera vez en la escuela media. No recuerdo precisamente si fuera a causa de los muchachos que llegaban, como yo anteriormente, a mis clases de otras tierras para sentarse a mi lado, como especies de sordomudos, sin poder entender ni responder a las ruidosas garruleras que pretendan ser ingls, o simplemente porque el espaol me sonaba al italiano y, as, a algo por fi n familiar. De todos modos, yo me pona al servicio de estos chicos traduciendo continuamente entre ellos y los maestros. Mi capacidad como traductor ofi cial de la clase me gan algunas amistades entre los recin llegados de la tierra que habamos dejado atrs. Tambin ganaba en que estos servicios hacan que me sintiera algo menos extranjero en mi recin adoptada tierra. Termin la escuela secundaria ya decidido a ser maestro de lenguas extranjeras; ms concretamente del italiano y del espaol. Y as fue. Hoy da soy profesor de lengua y literatura espaolas en Villanova University, en Pennsylvania, casado con mi amada esposa Valerie, y con dos esplndidas y bonitas hijas Lauren y Kristen. Despecho a lo que he vivido y sufrido en este nuevo mundo, nunca he tomado por hecho el entraable reconocimiento de que todo lo que he pensado, sentido y logrado hasta el momento lo debo a esa singular decisin de mis padres de abandonar su tierra nativa para emprender aquel largo viaje a travs del Atlntico, en busca de una nueva aunque desconocida suerte en aquella tierra al otro lado del mundo; en aquella tierra de grandes promesas y oportunidades, en estos Estados Unidos de Amrica.
Book Synopsis The Future is Degrowth by : Matthias Schmelzer
Download or read book The Future is Degrowth written by Matthias Schmelzer and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with capitalism, and points to desirable alternatives to it. Not only in society at large, but also on the left, we are held captive by the hegemony of growth. Even proposals for emancipatory Green New Deals or postcapitalism base their utopian hopes on the development of productive forces, on redistributing the fruits of economic growth and technological progress. Yet growing evidence shows that continued economic growth cannot be made compatible with sustaining life and is not necessary for a good life for all. This book provides a vision for postcapitalism beyond growth. Building on a vibrant field of research, it discusses the political economy and the politics of a non-growing economy. It charts a path forward through policies that democratise the economy, “now-topias” that create free spaces for experimentation, and counter-hegemonic movements that make it possible to break with the logic of growth. Degrowth perspectives offer a way to step off the treadmill of an alienating, expansionist, and hierarchical system. A handbook and a manifesto, The Future Is Degrowth is a must-read for all interested in charting a way beyond the current crises.
Book Synopsis The Verso Book of Dissent by : Andrew Hsiao
Download or read book The Verso Book of Dissent written by Andrew Hsiao and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updated compendium of revolt and resistance Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many years later. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, through to the Arab slave revolts and anti-Ottoman rebellions of the Middle Ages. These sources were tapped during the Dutch and English revolutions at the outset of the Modern world, and in turn flowed into the French, Haitian, American, Russian and Chinese revolutions. More recently, resistance to war and economic oppression has flared up on battlefields and in public spaces from Beijing and Cairo to Moscow and New York City. This anthology, global in scope, presents voices of dissent from every era of human history: speeches and pamphlets, poems and songs, plays and manifestos. Every age has its iconoclasts, and yet the greatest among them build on the words and actions of their forerunners. The Verso Book of Dissent should be in the arsenal of every rebel who understands that words and ideas are the ultimate weapons.
Download or read book Four Futures written by Peter Frase and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism and extermininsm might actually entail. Could the current rise of the real-life robocops usher in a world that resembles Ender's Game? And sure, communism will bring an end to material scarcities and inequalities of wealth—but there's no guarantee that social hierarchies, governed by an economy of "likes," wouldn't rise to take their place. A whirlwind tour through science fiction, social theory and the new technologies are already shaping our lives, Four Futures is a balance sheet of the socialisms we may reach if a resurgent Left is successful, and the barbarisms we may be consigned to if those movements fail.
Download or read book Latin written by Françoise Waquet and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original and accessible history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries For almost three centuries, Latin dominated the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. From the moment in the sixteenth century when it was adopted by the Humanists as the official language for schools and by the Catholic Church as the common liturgical language, it was the way in which millions of children were taught, people prayed to God, and scholars were educated. Francoise Waquet’s history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries is a highly original and accessible exploration of the institutional contexts in which the language was adopted. It goes on to consider what this conferring of power and influence on Latin meant in practice. Among the questions Waquet investigates are: What privileges were, and are still, accorded to those who claim to have studied Latin? Can Latin as a subject for study be anything more than purely linguistic or does it reveal a far more complex heritage? Has Latin’s deeply embedded cultural legacy already given way to a nostalgic exoticism? Latin: A Symbol’s Empire is a valuable work of reference, but also an important piece of cultural history: the story of a language that became a symbol with its own, highly significant empire.
Download or read book Heroes written by Franco Berardi and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wave of American mass murders - the prominent Italian thinker Franco Berardi Bifo traces the social roots of the mental malaise of our age. His darkest and most unsettling book to date, Berardi proposes dystopian irony as a strategy to disentangle ourselves from the deadly embrace of the neoliberalism.
Book Synopsis What Is Subjectivity? by : Jean-Paul Sartre
Download or read book What Is Subjectivity? written by Jean-Paul Sartre and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961, the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. In attendance were some of Italy's leading Marxist thinkers, such as Enzo Paci, Cesare Luporini, and Galvano Della Volpe, whose contributions to the long and remarkable discussion that followed are collected in this volume, along with the lecture itself. Sartre posed the question "What is subjectivity?" - a question of renewed importance today to contemporary debates concerning "the subject" in critical theory. This work includes a preface by Michel Kail and Raoul Kirchmayr and an afterword by Fredric Jameson, who makes a rousing case for the continued importance of Sartre's philosophy.
Download or read book Mural written by Mahmoud Darwish and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most celebrated writer of verse in the Arab world." –Adam Shatz, The New York Times Poetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated by original drawings by John Berger Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half century, his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession and exile. His poems display a brilliant acuity, a passion for and openness to the world and, above all, a deep and abiding humanity. Here, his close friends John Berger and Rema Hammami present a beautiful new translation of two of Darwish’s later works. Illustrated with original drawings by John Berger, Mural is a testimony to one of the most important and powerful poets of our age.
Book Synopsis The End of Policing by : Alex S. Vitale
Download or read book The End of Policing written by Alex S. Vitale and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics. It also made The End of Policing a bestseller and Alex Vitale, its author, a leading figure in the urgent public discussion over police and racial justice. As the writer Rachel Kushner put it in an article called "Things I Can't Live Without", this book explains that "unfortunately, no increased diversity on police forces, nor body cameras, nor better training, has made any seeming difference" in reducing police killings and abuse. "We need to restructure our society and put resources into communities themselves, an argument Alex Vitale makes very persuasively." The problem, Vitale demonstrates, is policing itself-the dramatic expansion of the police role over the last forty years. Drawing on first-hand research from across the globe, The End of Policing describes how the implementation of alternatives to policing, like drug legalization, regulation, and harm reduction instead of the policing of drugs, has led to reductions in crime, spending, and injustice. This edition includes a new introduction that takes stock of the renewed movement to challenge police impunity and shows how we move forward, evaluating protest, policy, and the political situation.
Book Synopsis The Dispossessed by : John Washington
Download or read book The Dispossessed written by John Washington and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration’s assault on asylum protections Arnovis couldn’t stay in El Salvador. If he didn’t leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning—that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. “It was like a bomb exploded in my life,” Arnovis said. The Dispossessed tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old Salvadoran man, Arnovis, whose family’s search for safety shows how the United States—in concert with other Western nations—has gutted asylum protections for the world’s most vulnerable. Crisscrossing the border and Central America, John Washington traces one man’s quest for asylum. Arnovis is separated from his daughter by US Border Patrol agents and struggles to find security after being repeatedly deported to a gang-ruled community in El Salvador, traumatic experiences relayed by Washington with vivid intensity. Adding historical, literary, and current political context to the discussion of migration today, Washington tells the history of asylum law and practice through ages to the present day. Packed with information and reflection, The Dispossessed is more than a human portrait of those who cross borders—it is an urgent and persuasive case for sharing the country we call home.
Book Synopsis Taking A Long Look by : Vivian Gornick
Download or read book Taking A Long Look written by Vivian Gornick and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing writing from the course of her career, Taking a Long Look illuminates one of the driving themes behind Gornick's work: that the painful process of understanding one's self is what binds us to the larger world. In these essays, Gornick explores the lives and literature of Alfred Kazin, Mary McCarthy, Diana Trilling, Philip Roth, Joan Didion, and Herman Melville; the cultural impact of Silent Spring and Uncle Tom's Cabin; and the characters you might only find in a New York barber shop or midtown bus terminal. Even more, All That Is Given brings back into print her incendiary essays, first published in the Village Voice, championing the emergence of the women's liberation movement of the 1970s. Alternately crackling with urgency or lucid with insight, the essays in Taking a Long Look demonstrate one of America's most beloved critics at her best.
