Author : Toi Derricotte
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 1989-11-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0822978512
What are the forces that cause us to strike out and harm each other? Captivity explores the way in which the individual is held hostage by society; how the forces of racism, sexism, and classism frequently express themselves as violence within the family. The book also explores a deeper captivity, like the Jews in Egypt yearning for the Promised Land, the soul trapped in exile from God.
Author : Eleanor Ross Taylor
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 2009-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807135135
Over nearly fifty years, Eleanor Ross Taylor has established herself as one of the foremost southern poets of her generation. Captive Voices gathers selections from Taylor's five previous books along with a generous helping of new poems. Scintillating, unusual, passionate, and profound, the poems range from contemporary pieces about a bag lady on a bus, to historical pieces about settlers held hostage and a wartime nurse caring for British wounded, to intensely personal poems about her dislike for her grandmother and worries about her son. The title poem -- a real tour de force -- explores the notion of captivity on several levels as it speaks to the suffering we all endure, some of which is of our own making. Decidedly regional yet determinedly universal, the poems in this remarkable volume, along with a foreword by Ellen Bryant Voigt, attest to the singular talent of a woman justly described as "a poet of genius."
Author : Laurie Sheck
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2007
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0307265390
A collection of poetry that explores the textures and movements of the human mind.
Author : John Still
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Imprisonment
ISBN :
Author : György Spiró
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1632060493
This translation originally copyrighted in 2010.
Author : Rowlandson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1528785886
Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of the “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” (1682). Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711), nee Mary White, was born in Somerset, England. Her family moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the United States, and she settled in Lancaster, Massachusetts, marrying in 1656. It was here that Native Americans attacked during King Philip’s War, and Mary and her three children were taken hostage. This text is a profound first-hand account written by Mary detailing the experiences and conditions of her capture, and chronicling how she endured the 11 weeks in the wilderness under her Native American captors. It was published six years after her release, and explores the themes of mortal fragility, survival, faith and will, and the complexities of human nature. It is acknowledged as a seminal work of American historical literature.
Author : Shane McCrae
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 2016-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0819577138
Winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry (2017) Acclaimed poet Shane McCrae's latest collection is a book about freedom told through stories of captivity. Historical persona poems and a prose memoir at the center of the book address the illusory freedom of both black and white Americans. In the book's three sequences, McCrae explores the role mass entertainment plays in oppression, he confronts the myth that freedom can be based upon the power to dominate others, and, in poems about the mixed-race child adopted by Jefferson Davis in the last year of the Civil War, he interrogates the infrequently examined connections between racism and love. A reader's companion is available at wesleyan.edu/wespress/readerscompanions.
Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0061751405
“These molten poems radiate with the ferocity of desire, and in them Erdrich does not spin verse so much as tell tales—of betrayal and revenge, of hunting and being hunted.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune A passionate book of poetry from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louise Erdrich. In this important collection, Erdrich has selected the best poems from her two previous books of poetry, Jacklight and Baptism of Desire, and added 19 new poems. In an entirely unique fashion, Original Fire unfolds the themes and introduces the characters of some of Erdrich’s most acclaimed fiction. The beloved storyteller Nanapush, most recently seen in The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, appears in these poems as the questing rascal Potchikoo. And a series of poems called “The Butcher’s Wife”—dating from 1984—contains, in embryo, the story of her novel, The Master Butchers Singing Club.
Author : Reginald Dwayne Betts
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393652157
Winner of the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize “A powerful work of lyric art.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice In fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration—canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace—and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of post-incarceration existence in traditional and newfound forms, from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s radiant conclusion.
Author : Marian Cannon Dornell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,81 MB
Release : 2015-02-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781622298570
