Book Description
A provocative new collection examining the power of language and race in contemporary culture by a leading American poet
Author : Dawn Lundy Martin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781937658281
A provocative new collection examining the power of language and race in contemporary culture by a leading American poet
Author : Sarah Jane Adams
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 176087390X
Auction catalogues can reveal a lot about a person: their life, their loves and their style. Antique jewellery dealer Sarah Jane Adams became an international model and overnight Instagram sensation in her sixties. She tells her story through a lifetime's collection of rare pieces and worthless objects, as well as personal photographs and effects from her 'estate'. Told with wit, pathos and charm. Life In A Box illustrates the deeply personal connection that we have with our belongings: they are laden with rich meaning and adventure and, above all, redolent of our stories.
Author : Laurie Ecklund Long
Publisher : Agl Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Emergency management
ISBN : 9780967439471
Advice for organizing a family toolbox to be used in family emergencies and natural or man-made disasters.
Author : Dawn Lundy Martin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0820329916
Dawn Lundy Martin's work is neither language poetry, which rejects the speaking subject, nor strictly lyric, which embraces the speaking "I." Martin's poems bend the form into something new, seeing a way to approach the horrific and its effect on the psyche more fully than might be possible in the worn groove of the traditional lyric. Her formal inventiveness is balanced by a firm grounding in bodily experience and in the amazing capacity of language to expand itself in Martin's hands. She explodes any pretense at a world where words mean exactly what we want them to mean and never more nor less -- Back cover.
Author : Natalia Cecire
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 142143377X
She shows how the Language poets, a group of primarily white experimental writers, restored to the canon what they saw as modernism's true legacy, whose stakes were simultaneously political and epistemological: it produced a poet who was an intellectual and a text that was experimental.
Author : Peter Davison
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 2016-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1786063271
His fans have spoken, but despite their requests, Peter Davison has gone ahead and written his autobiography anyway. It wasn’t the book they tried to stop – it was more like the book they didn’t want him to start. An aspiring singer-songwriter, once dubbed Woking’s answer to Bob Dylan (by his mum, who once heard a Bob Dylan song), Peter actually penned a hit for Dave Clark but soon swapped a life on the pub circuit to tread the boards. From colonial roots – his dad was Guyanese and his mother was born in India – the family settled in Surrey where Peter’s academic achievements were unspectacular – he even managed to fail CSE woodwork, eliciting a lament from his astonished teacher (‘All you have to do is recognise wood!’). Despite this, Peter has secured his place in science fiction history, becoming the fifth Doctor Who, although he nearly turned down the role. The Time Lord connection continued with the marriage of his daughter Georgia to Dr Who number ten, David Tennant. The artist formerly known as Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett has starred in a number of television series including Love for Lydia, A Very Peculiar Practice, At Home with the Braithwaites and The Last Detective and became a national treasure for having his arm up a cow in his role as Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small. He was also in a Michael Winner movie... He made his first stage appearance with an amateur dramatic company, but The Byfleet Players’ loss was the West End’s gain as he now has a number of musicals to his name, including Legally Blonde, Chicago and Spamalot. Most recently he starred in the box office record-breaking Gypsy where he rubbed shoulders backstage with Dames Meryl Streep, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench – all asking him for directions to Imelda Staunton’s dressing room. One thing is for sure: of all the British screen and stage actors of the last fifty years, Peter Davison is certainly one of them and, within these pages, intrepid readers will at last have the dubious honour of sharing in his life and times – as he despairs over whether there truly ever can be life outside the box.
Author : Katharina Motyl
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 359350782X
The freedom of the individual to aim high is a deeply rooted part of the American ethos but we rarely acknowledge its flip side: failure. If people are responsible for their individual successes, is the same true of their failures? The Failed Individual brings together a variety of disciplinary approaches to explore how people fail in the United States and the West at large, whether economically, politically, socially, culturally, or physically. How do we understand individual failure, especially in the context of the zero-sum game of international capitalism? And what new spaces of resistance, or even pleasure, might failure open up for people and society?
Author : Marilyn Herbert
Publisher : Bookclub-in-a-Box
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 2005-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0973398477
The story of a boy, a boat, and a tiger promises an adventure which some may find hard to believe. However, with the Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion companion to Yann Martel's novel, Life of Pi, readers begin to consider how to believe the unbelievable. While Yann Martel takes readers on a voyage of discovery, Bookclub-in-a-Box interprets his exploration: can miracles exist? what is the power of faith? what guarantees successful survival? Let Bookclub-in-a-Box take readers into Pi's mind, the influences in his life, his physical struggle to survive at sea and his spiritual struggle to understand his own faith and his place in the world. There are a great many deep concepts to reflect upon in this small fictional narrative, and Bookclub-in-a-Box presents them for thoughtful consideration.
Author : Henry Box Brown
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 1851
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
The life of a slave in Virginia and his escape to Philadelphia.
Author : Bob Edwards
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813134501
A National Public Radio veteran and a satellite radio pioneer discusses his influential life in radio.