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Soul Cleansing

Author : Jenna Williams

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 68 pages

File Size : 29,12 MB

Release : 2007-04

Category : History

ISBN : 9781425736842

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MY POETRY Expresses My Every Thought At The Time Written. It Shows How My True Heart Is Feeling At The Time Written. MY POETRY Explores & Enlightens. My Words Give A Vivid Expression About Society Race Heritage Finances Love Belonging Understanding MY POETRY Shows How Society My Up-Bringing Without My Dad My Single Mom Experience & My Experience Of Having No Help Financially Has Shaped My Life & My Thoughts MY POETRY Is For People Who Want To Be Motivated Enlightened Uplifted & Willing & Wanting To Make A Change Read MY POETRY With A Open Loving



Soul Cleansing Poetry Blues

Author : Jenna Williams

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 76 pages

File Size : 25,14 MB

Release : 2009-02-01

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 9781436377676

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Health, Wealth & Prosperity is what God has ordained for my life! God wants me to use my talents to further his kingdom. God has given me an agenda for my life, which I must follow; without question. Attending True Rock Church has made me no longer a spectator, but a participator. True Rock is the Church that officially changed my life forever. I can and never will be the same under the teaching of Pastors Darryl & Georgan Redmond. I¡¦m having an awesome time fulfilling my destiny God has set before me! I¡¦m looking forward to traveling the World! I cannot stop what God has placed in motion for my life! I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Highland Park, Michigan. I¡¦m finishing up a Bachelor Degree at University of Detroit Mercy-Liberal Arts Program. History/Ancestors is my 1st Soul Cleansing Poetry Blues Selection. Urban/Deep is my 2nd Soul Cleansing Poetry Blues Selection. My next Soul Cleansing Poetry Blues Selection will be entitled Sister¡¦s WORK TO COME IN THE NEAR FUTURE æ Soul Awakening Fiction Novels (Their going to be awesome/Get ready America!) æ I¡¦m in the process of working on business endeavors to magnify God at all times. (Gods¡¦ got my back!) æ Gospel Plays (Hold on to your seats/Get Ready America!) æ I¡¦m looking forward to doing live poetry readings/ with Music Dance & Celebration! WORK TO COME IN FUTURE æ Tv Sitcoms ! æ Movies ! Jenna Williams Soul Cleansing Poetess



Outlandish Blues

Author : Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Publisher : Wesleyan University Press

Page : 65 pages

File Size : 25,51 MB

Release : 2012-01-01

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 0819572489

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Winner of the Harper Lee Award (2018) Fierce and sensual, the poems in Outlandish Blues merge everyday speech with a shimmering lyricism and burst from the page into song. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers sees the blues, what she terms the "shared 'blue notes,''' as an important intersection between the secular and the divine, and between the various African American vernacular traditions, from spirituals to jazz. Part Nina Simone, part Bessie Smith, her poems are filled with a sweaty honesty, moving from the personal to the collective experience. This movement is often accomplished through the use of personae, concentrated here in a stunning series of poems on the Biblical figures of Hagar and Sarah. Whether about a contemporary domestic scene, a slave ship, or Aretha Franklin, these are poems that speak to the soul of experience.



The Weary Blues

Author : Langston Hughes

Publisher :

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 23,50 MB

Release : 1926

Category : African Americans

ISBN :

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"Beginning with the opening "Proem" (prologue poem)--"I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa"--Hughes spoke directly, intimately, and powerfully of the experiences of African Americans at a time when their voices were newly being heard in our literature. As the legendary Carl Van Vechten wrote in a brief introduction to the original 1926 edition, "His cabaret songs throb with the true jazz rhythm; his sea-pieces ache with a calm, melancholy lyricism; he cries bitterly from the heart of his race. Always, however, his stanzas are subjective, personal," and, he concludes, they are the expression of "an essentially sensitive and subtly illusive nature." That illusive nature darts among these early lines and begins to reveal itself, with precocious confidence and clarity"--From publisher's description (a later edition).



me and Nina

Author : Monica Hand

Publisher : Alice James Books

Page : 98 pages

File Size : 18,36 MB

Release : 2016-05-30

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1938584929

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"Monica Hand's me and Nina is a beautiful book by a soul survivor. In these poems she sings deep songs of violated intimacy and the hard work of repair. The poems are unsentimental, blood-red, and positively true, note for note, like the singing of Nina Simone herself. Hand has written a moving, deeply satisfying, and unforgettable book."—Elizabeth Alexander In an intimate conversation with the "High Priestess of Soul," Monica A. Hand surveys the places and moods of alienation through poems that are as musical and stylistically diverse as Nina Simone's work. Hand readily embraces a "mass hypnosis" style, putting "a spell on [us]" with her intensely passionate cries and commitment to embracing both tragedy and exuberance in these insightful poems. From "Dear Nina": I am not recession depression oppression compression crooked line broken line polka dot parking lot or spot I am a Gift from God I know that I am an un-kept solo song Monica A. Hand is a poet and book artist currently living in Harlem, New York. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Aunt Chloe, Black Renaissance Noire, The Sow's Ear, Drunken Boat, Beyond the Frontier, African-American Poetry for the 21st Century, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry and poetry in translation from Drew University and is a founding member of Poets for Ayiti.



Blues Poems

Author : Kevin Young

Publisher : Everyman's Library

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 31,81 MB

Release : 2003-09-02

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 0375414584

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Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the country from the Mississippi delta to “Sweet Home Chicago,” forming the backbone of American music. In this anthology–the first devoted exclusively to blues poems–a wide array of poets pay tribute to the form and offer testimony to its lasting power. The blues have left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes and “Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden, to “Blues on Yellow” by Marilyn Chin and “Reservation Blues” by Sherman Alexie. Here are blues-influenced and blues-inflected poems from, among others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan, Richard Wright, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Cornelius Eady. And here, too, are classic song lyrics–poems in their own right–from Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, and Muddy Waters. The rich emotional palette of the blues is fully represented here in verse that pays tribute to the heart and humor of the music, and in poems that swing with its history and hard-bitten hope.



Blues Is My Happy Place

Author : Sharita Sims

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 112 pages

File Size : 45,1 MB

Release : 2017-12-03

Category :

ISBN : 9781974336906

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Blues Is My Happy Place is a collection of poetry and reflections that explore an eclectic journey of spirituality. By balancing health, hopeful romanticism, and understanding familial roots in New Orleans, Louisiana, Sharita A. Sims conveys poetic stories and visuals through a blues-filled context while experiencing a paradigm shift in her self-awareness. Through a voyage of consciousness, the poet feels her way to the light after traveling through her own shadow darkness which is conveyed as the blues. The collection of poems and reflections call the audience to connect to the core of their psyche, their community, and the healing of kinship.



Until Now: New Poems

Author : Carrie Newcomer

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 12,75 MB

Release : 2021-09-10

Category :

ISBN : 9781737533504

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Salvation Blues

Author : Rodney Jones

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 42,56 MB

Release : 2007-04-05

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 0547981678

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Rodney Jones has been called "the supreme example of the southern human person speaking in American poetry" (Southern Review) and one of the nation's "best, most generous, and most brilliantly readable poets" (Poetry). Salvation Blues traces the career of this popular narrative poet through one hundred choice poems, including twenty-four bold new pieces.



The Weary Blues

Author : Langston Hughes

Publisher : Courier Dover Publications

Page : 99 pages

File Size : 20,92 MB

Release : 2022-01-31

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 0486850560

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Immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release, Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems still offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From "The Weary Blues" to "Dream Variation," Hughes writes clearly and colorfully, and his words remain prophetic.