Book Description
Poems offer a direct look at the harshness of urban life, including drugs, AIDS, and violence
Author : Willie Perdomo
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393313833
Poems offer a direct look at the harshness of urban life, including drugs, AIDS, and violence
Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429926643
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.
Author : Willie Perdomo
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780805078817
A wonderful picture book from a hip young poet and an award-winning illustrator introduces young readers to a legendary American writer. Full color. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Willie Perdomo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0143132695
From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era Willie Perdomo, a native of East Harlem, has won praise as a hip, playful, historically engaged poet whose restlessly lyrical language mixes "city life with a sense of the transcendent" (NPR.org). In his fourth collection, The Crazy Bunch, Perdomo returns to his beloved neighborhood to create a vivid, kaleidoscopic portrait of a "crew" coming of age in East Harlem at the beginning of the 1990s. In poems written in couplets, vignettes, sketches, riffs, and dialogue, Perdomo recreates a weekend where surviving members of the crew recall a series of tragic events: "That was the summer we all tried to fly. All but one of us succeeded."
Author : Willie Perdomo
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0805082247
The award-winning team of Perdomo and Collier ("Visiting Langston") joins forces once again for this tribute to baseball's beloved Roberto Clemente. Full color.
Author : Willie Perdomo
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1642594849
Smoking Lovely's explorations of poetry and the neoliberal city at the intersection of community and commodity. In this radically revised new edition, Perdomo shifts the poem into mostly second person, thereby further accentuating its self-reflexive and complex exploration of self-and/as-other, and of the simultaneous othering, commodification, and spectacularization of Afro-diasporic bodies and cultural forms.
Author : George Augustus Walton
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Arithmetic
ISBN :
Author : Felicia Chavez
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 164259198X
In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim to our cultural and civic space. Like Hip-Hop, we honor what was, what is, and what's next.
Author : Kimberly Wilson
Publisher : Page Street Kids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1645674681
In this "punny" introduction to US currency, a penny, doubting her value, sets out to find her purpose at any cost.
Author : James Langston Hughes
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0679426310
Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes's poetry - 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.