Facing Mecca Poems

Author : Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578146371
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facing Mecca / Poems written by Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Muslims who pray the five obligatory prayers each day of our lives, when able we orient ourselves toward Mecca, located in what is now Saudi Arabia, from wherever we happen to find ourselves, farflung in some island fastness, or out in desert dunes, or in a New York hotel room. There are boat people who tie up and face Mecca right in their boats, saintly Moroccan merchants who fling their carpets down just behind the counter where they sell embroidery thread to very particular customers (I am a witness). We can't get too "far out" when we stop to face Mecca five times and more a day, or in the solitude of our nights, knowing the plumb line goes straight through to the next world, and its rising to the holy heights.

Author : Gwendolyn Brooks
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Mecca written by Gwendolyn Brooks and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1968 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was the Pulitzer Prize-winner's first new collection of poetry after a gap of nearly ten years. "I was to be a Watchful Eye; a Tuned Ear; a Super-reporter," Brooks said. "I began writing about whatever I thought I knew, whatever I experienced." What she knew and experienced in those years resulted in poetry charged with a new power and urgency. The book takes its title from a long narrative poem set in a huge decayed apartment house in Chicago's black ghetto, a building called the Mecca. A tragedy in the Mecca gives rise to Brooks' extraordinary poetic evocation of its dense personal miseries and sense of life. Nine shorter poems follow, and these too, in large part, have their source in contemporary figures and circumstances: Medgar Evers and Malcolm X, "the Blackstone Rangers gang," the astonishing prideful mural painted on a ghetto wall one summer. The universality that transcends the immediate event, and is the mark of poetic sensibility, distinguishes all the poetry here. Gwendolyn Brooks' stature as a poet who "induces almost unbearable excitement"--As Phyllis McGinley described her--is here enriched by the new dimensions her work encompasses.--Adapted from book jacket.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Poems written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yogendranātha Ghosha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moallakat, Or, Seven Arabian Poems which Were Suspended on the Temple at Mecca written by Yogendranātha Ghosha and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. E. Johnson
Publisher : Gorgias PressLlc
ISBN 13 : 9781931956802
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book السبع المعلقات written by F. E. Johnson and published by Gorgias PressLlc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seven pre-Islamic Arabic poems, the Mullaqat form the most celebrated forms of poetry. A tool for students of Arabic literature, this book gives a literal translation of these poems with a commentary.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Poems Suspended in the Temple at Mecca written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. E. Johnson
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ISBN 13 : 9783337992361
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Poems Suspended in the Temple at Mecca written by F. E. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Delp
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814327975
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Poems from the Third Coast written by Michael Delp and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology that offers a sampling of the best poetry written by Michigan writers.

Author : Angela Jackson
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807025046
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun written by Angela Jackson and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look back at the cultural and political force of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, in celebration of her hundredth birthday Artist–Rebel–Pioneer Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century, a protégé of Langston Hughes and mentor to a generation of poets, including Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, and Elizabeth Alexander. Her poetry took inspiration from the complex portraits of black American life she observed growing up on Chicago’s Southside—a world of kitchenette apartments and vibrant streets. From the desk in her bedroom, as a child she filled countless notebooks with poetry, encouraged by the likes of Hughes and affirmed by Richard Wright, who called her work “raw and real.” Over the next sixty years, Brooks’s poetry served as witness to the stark realities of urban life: the evils of lynching, the murders of Emmett Till and Malcolm X, the revolutionary effects of the civil rights movement, and the burgeoning power of the Black Arts Movement. Critical acclaim and the distinction in 1950 as the first black person ever awarded a Pulitzer Prize helped solidify Brooks as a unique and powerful voice. Now, in A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun, fellow Chicagoan and award-winning writer Angela Jackson delves deep into the rich fabric of Brooks’s work and world. Granted unprecedented access to Brooks’s family, personal papers, and writing community, Jackson traces the literary arc of this artist’s long career and gives context for the world in which Brooks wrote and published her work. It is a powerfully intimate look at a once-in-a-lifetime talent up close, using forty-three of Brooks’s most soul-stirring poems as a guide. From trying to fit in at school (“Forgive and Forget”), to loving her physical self (“To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals”), to marriage and motherhood (“Maud Martha”), to young men on her block (“We Real Cool”), to breaking history (“Medgar Evers”), to newfound acceptance from her community and her elevation to a “surprising queenhood” (“The Wall”), Brooks lived life through her work. Jackson deftly unpacks it all for both longtime admirers of Brooks and newcomers curious about her interior life. A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun is a commemoration of a writer who negotiated black womanhood and incomparable brilliance with a changing, restless world—an artistic maverick way ahead of her time.

Author : Daniel Moore
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blind Beekeeper written by Daniel Moore and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection provides an introduction to the work of an American Arabist and Sufi poet. Ranging from the personal and lyrical to full narratives and the ever-present mystical elements, the poems explore the inter-cultural, traditional and postmodern world.