More Than Peace And Cypresses

Author : Cyrus Cassells
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556592140
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Than Peace and Cypresses written by Cyrus Cassells and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical "book of heroes" about the role of art, creation, and inspiration.

Author : Camille T. Dungy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820334316
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Nature written by Camille T. Dungy and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.

Author : Julie Buckner Armstrong
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820331813
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil Rights Reader written by Julie Buckner Armstrong and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. Unique in its focus on creative writing, the volume also ranges beyond a familiar 1954-68 chronology to include works from the 1890s to the present. The civil rights movement was a complex, ongoing process of defining national values such as freedom, justice, and equality. In ways that historical documents cannot, these collected writings show how Americans negotiated this process--politically, philosophically, emotionally, spiritually, and creatively. Gathered here are works by some of the most influential writers to engage issues of race and social justice in America, including James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Amiri Baraka, and Nikki Giovanni. The volume begins with works from the post-Reconstruction period when racial segregation became legally sanctioned and institutionalized. This section, titled "The Rise of Jim Crow," spans the period from Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. In the second section, "The Fall of Jim Crow," Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" and a chapter from The Autobiography of Malcolm X appear alongside poems by Robert Hayden, June Jordan, and others who responded to these key figures and to the events of the time. "Reflections and Continuing Struggles," the last section, includes works by such current authors as Rita Dove, Anthony Grooms, and Patricia J. Williams. These diverse perspectives on the struggle for civil rights can promote the kinds of conversations that we, as a nation, still need to initiate.

Author : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031334860X
Total Pages : 827 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States [2 volumes] written by Emmanuel S. Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 827 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this two-volume work, hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries survey contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer American literature and its social contexts. Comprehensive in scope and accessible to students and general readers, Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States explores contemporary American LGBTQ literature and its social, political, cultural, and historical contexts. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries written by expert contributors. Students of literature and popular culture will appreciate the encyclopedia's insightful survey and discussion of LGBTQ authors and their works, while students of history and social issues will value the encyclopedia's use of literature to explore LGBTQ American society. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and lists additional sources of information. To further enhance study and understanding, the encyclopedia closes with a selected general bibliography of print and electronic resources for student research.

Author : Malin Pereira
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820337137
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen written by Malin Pereira and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pereira's collection of interviews with leading contemporary African American poets Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, and Cyrus Cassells offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post-Black Arts Movement generation.

Author : Christian Wiman
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556592604
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambition and Survival written by Christian Wiman and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "That calling, at once religious, ethical, and aesthetic, is one that only a genuine poet can hear—and very few poets can explain it as compellingly as Mr. Wiman does. That gift is what makes Ambition and Survival, not just one of the best books of poetry criticism in a generation, but a spiritual memoir of the first order." —New York Sun "This weighty first prose collection should inspire wide attention, partly because of Wiman's current job, partly because of his astute insights and partly because he mixes poetry criticism with sometimes shocking memoir ... The collection's greatest strength comes in general ruminations on the writing, reading and judging poetry." —Publishers Weekly "[Wiman is] a terrific personal essayist, as this new collection illustrates, with the command and instincts of the popular memoirist ... This is a brave and bracing book." —Booklist “Blazing high style” is how The New York Times describes the prose of Christian Wiman, the young editor transforming Poetry, the country's oldest literary magazine. Ambition and Survival is a collection of stirring personal essays and critical prose on a wide range of subjects: reading Milton in Guatemala, recalling violent episodes of his youth, and traveling in Africa with his eccentric father, as well as a series of penetrating essays on writers as diverse as Thomas Hardy and Janet Lewis. The book concludes with a portrait of Wiman's diagnosis of a rare form of incurable and lethal cancer, and how mortality reignited his religious passions. When I was twenty years old I set out to be a poet. That sounds like I was a sort of frigate raising anchor, and in a way I guess I was, though susceptible to the lightest of winds. . . . When I read Samuel Johnson's comment that any young man could compensate for his poor education by reading five hours a day for five years, that's exactly what I tried to do, practically setting a timer every afternoon to let me know when the little egg of my brain was boiled. It's a small miracle that I didn't take to wearing a cape. Christian Wiman is the editor of Poetry magazine. His poems and essays appear regularly in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and The New York Times Book Review.

Author : Sarah Lindsay
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556591640
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twigs and Knucklebones written by Sarah Lindsay and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of surreal poems that blend science and art.

Author : Mar?m Mi?r?
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556592647
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor written by Mar?m Mi?r? and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First American publication of Syrian poet Maram al-Massri, presented in a bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Author : Norman Dubie
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556592639
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Insomniac Liar of Topo written by Norman Dubie and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Dubie is a trickster purveyor of illusions whose devout readership expects the unexpected.

Author : David Huerta
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556592876
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before Saying Any of the Great Words written by David Huerta and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First English-language collection of David Huerta; includes the premier translation from his masterpiece, Incurable.