The Blues Of Heaven

Author : Barbara Ras
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988216
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blues of Heaven written by Barbara Ras and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Blues of Heaven, Barbara Ras delivers her characteristic subjects with new daring that both rattles and beguiles. Here are poems of grief over her brother’s death; doors to an idiosyncratic working-class childhood among Polish immigrants; laments for nature and politics out of kilter. Ras portrays the climate crisis, guns out of control, the reckless injustice and ignorance of the United States government. At the same time, her poems nimbly focus on particulars—these facts, these consequences—bringing the wreckage of unfathomable harm home with immediacy and integrity. Though her subjects may be dire, Ras also weaves her wise humor throughout, moving deftly from sardonic to whimsical to create an expansive, ardent, and memorable book. Survival Strategies To dig for quahogs, to feel their edges like smiles and pull against their suck to toss them in a bucket. To feel the wind as a friend, to feel its current as luck. To ignore Capricorn and Cancer presuming to slice the globe. To know the lie in “names can never hurt you.” To be a gull breezing the blue, eating nothing but clouds. To measure your ties to the past by the strength of cobwebs. To haunt the widow’s walk, its twelve narrow windows each the size of a child’s coffin. To watch the harbor where the Acushnet runs into Buzzards Bay before it was named a Superfund site full of PCBs. To wonder if that water you swam summer after aimless summer could get you the way something got your brother, too fast, too soon. To bury or burn the whole family you were born to and talk to them only through the smoke of letters you torch at their graves. To see a snake with a ladybug on its back and still refuse to pray.

Author : Willard Wyman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080618292X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Heaven written by Willard Wyman and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1902. A young stock-handler named Fenton Pardee has just survived the train wreck that almost destroyed William F. Cody’s Wild West show. Surveying the train’s smoldering ruins—and what is left of Cody’s company of stunt-riders, trick-shooters, and stage actors—Fenton realizes that turning the West into a circus to thrill the world is no longer thrilling for him. Salvaging a saddle horse and three pack mules, he heads back into the West, seeking the reality of the Montana Rockies. Blue Heaven marks the return of Fenton Pardee, veteran guide and packer, who figured so memorably in High Country, Willard Wyman’s highly acclaimed first novel. Now Wyman moves back in time, filling in the story of the legendary packer. As he begins his westward journey, Fenton is not nearly as sure of where he is going as of what he wants to leave. Crossing the National Divide, he follows Indian trails and game trails, learning the lay of the land as he moves into a wilderness that comforts him as it draws him ever deeper into it. Stumbling into the camp of Tommy Yellowtail, a Flathead Indian as determined to remain in these mountains as Fenton is to embrace them, he finally finds his way. Together the two men discover that showing people what they want to preserve has its own way of keeping it alive. The tale of Fenton and Tommy—and of the women they love, one of whom is tragically taken from them—cuts through the romance of the West to offer an earthier reality, even as twentieth-century expansion and a looming world war threaten to take it all away.

Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Werner. The deformed transformed. Heaven and earth. The blues. The third act of Manfred. Cain. Marino Faliero. Sardianapalus. The two Foscari. Manfred written by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barry Hansen
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879306250
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhino's Cruise Through the Blues written by Barry Hansen and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better known as Dr. Demento on nationally syndicated radio, Hansen traces the history of blues music and its social and cultural mores and profiles its legendary players. Published in cooperation with Rhino Records. 200 color and B&W photos.

Author : Karen Hanson
Publisher : Lake Claremont Press
ISBN 13 : 9781893121195
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Today's Chicago Blues written by Karen Hanson and published by Lake Claremont Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles dozens of Chicago's blues musicians; discusses the city's blues history; and offers tips on clubs, radio stations, record labels, grave sites, and places of interest to blues fans.

Author : Robert M. Marovich
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097084
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A City Called Heaven written by Robert M. Marovich and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A City Called Heaven, Robert M. Marovich follows gospel music from early hymns and camp meetings through its growth into the sanctified soundtrack of the city's mainline black Protestant churches. Marovich mines print media, ephemera, and hours of interviews with artists, ministers, and historians--as well as relatives and friends of gospel pioneers--to recover forgotten singers, musicians, songwriters, and industry leaders. He also examines the entrepreneurial spirit that fueled gospel music's rise to popularity and granted social mobility to a number of its practitioners. As Marovich shows, the music expressed a yearning for freedom from earthly pains, racial prejudice, and life's hardships. Yet it also helped give voice to a people--and lift a nation. A City Called Heaven celebrates a sound too mighty and too joyous for even church walls to hold.

Author : Cynthia Rylant
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 054533750X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cat Heaven written by Cynthia Rylant and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This joyous celebration of a cat’s journey after a happy life on Earth by the Newbery Medalist “will kindle sighs even from the feline-indifferent” (Kirkus Reviews). “The way to Cat Heaven is a field of sweet grass, where crickets and butterflies play!” With a gentle, playful rhyme, Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant explores all the ways our beloved cats enjoy Cat Heaven, as she did for dogs in the–bestselling companion book, Dog Heaven. Her shining artwork illustrates a world of peace for cats in Heaven, where no tree is too tall for exploring, where there is no lack of angels’ laps for sleeping. If your child wonders where his or her kitty goes after a happy life on Earth, they can rest assured that all cats “know where the angel cats fly. They’ll run past the stars and the moon and the sun . . . to curl up with God in the sky.” “The visual impact of the book is stunning . . . Whether read as a story to younger children or used in a discussion of the nature of heaven with older ones, this deceptively simple, sweet book is rewarding.” —School Library Journal

Author : Rick Telander
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803294271
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heaven is a Playground written by Rick Telander and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, Rick Telander intended to spend a few days doing a magazine piece on the court wizards of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant. He ended up staying the entire summer, becoming part of the players' lives and eventually the coach of a loose aggregation known as the Subway Stars. Telander tells of everything he saw: the on-court flash, the off-court jargon, the late-night graffiti raids, the tireless efforts of one promoter-hustler-benefactor to get these kids a chance at a college education. He lets the kids speak for themselves, revealing their grand dreams and ambitions. But he never flinches from showing us how far their dreams are from reality. The roots of today's inner-city basketball can be traced to the world Telander presents in "Heaven is a Playground," the first book of its kind. Rick Telander is a senior writer for "Sports Illustrated" and the winner of the 1987 Notre Dame Club Award for Excellence in Sports Journalism.

Author : Thomas Pelham Gross
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1591605482
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jews and the Blues written by Thomas Pelham Gross and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ben Kahn
Publisher : Scout Comics
ISBN 13 : 9781639691258
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Blues written by Ben Kahn and published by Scout Comics. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heavenly Blues is a fantastical, philosophical heist comic book story that sends its team of deceased thieves across Heaven and Hell. Written by Ben Kahn and illustrated by Bruno Hidalgo, published monthly by Scout Comics. The heist is on! All the plans are in motion, and the die is cast. The souls of the greatest thieves in Hell are teaming up to pull the ultimate heist on Heaven! Isaiah Jefferson, a bank robber betrayed by his own gang, is aiming for one last shot at greatness. Erin Foley died a pre-teen scam artist, and wants to lash out at the judgement system that damned her. When a suspicious angel comes offering a deal too good to be true, this unlikely duo will get the chance they’ve been waiting for. They’ll assemble a crew of broken souls, and gamble it all on a desperate fight against a terrifying Archangel lord. With nothing but their wits and their grit, this band of thieves will take on everything Heaven and Hell can throw at them to pull off the heist of an after-lifetime.