The Concrete River

Author : Luis J. Rodríguez
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453259090
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concrete River written by Luis J. Rodríguez and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVA mesmerizing collection of poems of urban pain and immigrant alienation, humming with a current of genuine beauty and the pulse of life/divDIV/divDIVThe Concrete River’s poems are dispatches from city corners that CNN viewers never see, that few dare visit, and that fewer still manage to escape. Rodríguez sings corridos of barrios and busted Chicanos trying to make it in L.A. and Chicago, from ballads of Watts’s broken glass to blues played alongside a tequila bottle under an elevated train. But the music also captures moments of true beauty amid the hard urban surfaces, where the cries of the ’hood “deliver sacrifices / of sound and flesh, / as a mother’s milk flows,” while love and community offer renewed hope./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Luis J. Rodríguez including rare images from the author’s personal collection./divDIV /div/div

Author : Luis J. Rodriguez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concrete River written by Luis J. Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of poems with such themes as homelessness, unemployment, and the struggle of the working class.

Author : Luis J. Rodriguez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780605968486
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concrete River written by Luis J. Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 1991-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Farris Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451699441
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rivers written by Michael Farris Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx, “a wonderfully cinematic story” (The Washington Post) set in the post-Katrina South after violent storms have decimated the region. It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn’t rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds flew and the clouds were white and sunshine glistened across the drenched land. The Gulf Coast has been brought to its knees. Years of catastrophic hurricanes have so punished and depleted the region that the government has drawn a new boundary ninety miles north of the coastline. Life below the Line offers no services, no electricity, and no resources, and those who stay behind live by their own rules—including Cohen, whose wife and unborn child were killed during an evacuation attempt. He buried them on family land and never left. But after he is ambushed and his home is ransacked, Cohen is forced to flee. On the road north, he is captured by Aggie, a fanatical, snake-handling preacher who has a colony of captives and dangerous visions of repopulating the barren region. Now Cohen is faced with a decision: continue to the Line alone, or try to shepherd the madman’s prisoners across the unforgiving land with the biggest hurricane yet bearing down—and Cohen harboring a secret that poses the greatest threat of all. Eerily prophetic in its depiction of a Southern landscape ravaged by extreme weather, Rivers is a masterful tale of survival and redemption in a world where the next devastating storm is never far behind.“This is the kind of book that lifts you up with its mesmerizing language then pulls you under like a riptide” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

Author : Tupac Shakur
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671028456
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rose that Grew from Concrete written by Tupac Shakur and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of verse by the late hip-hop star Tupac Shakur includes more than one hundred poems confronting such wide-ranging topics as poverty, motherhood, Van Gogh, and Mandela.

Author : John Shannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933648217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concrete River written by John Shannon and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Shannon's literary mysteries deserve a much wider audience. They are tough, wry, graceful, humane, deeply engaged with the world. The Jack Liffey series is a major re-imagining of Los Angeles."-Los Angeles Times Book Review? Jack Liffey's lost everything: his job, his lovely wife, his daughter. His first case as a Los Angeles child-finder becomes a fight for redemption and for life itself, as he's swept into a world gone mad around him.

Author : Yvonne Pearson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781631436949
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concrete Poems written by Yvonne Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents an overview of concrete poems, including the form's history, elements, and traits and how poets use concrete poems to express ideas"--Publisher.

Author : Jen Bryant
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467432547
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A River of Words written by Jen Bryant and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2009 Caldecott Honor Book An ALA Notable Book A New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book A Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book NCTE Notable Children’s Book When he wrote poems, he felt as free as the Passaic River as it rushed to the falls. Willie’s notebooks filled up, one after another. Willie’s words gave him freedom and peace, but he also knew he needed to earn a living. So he went off to medical school and became a doctor -- one of the busiest men in town! Yet he never stopped writing poetry. In this picture book biography of William Carlos Williams, Jen Bryant’s engaging prose and Melissa Sweet’s stunning mixed-media illustrations celebrate the amazing man who found a way to earn a living and to honor his calling to be a poet.

Author : Jeffrey F. Mount
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052091693X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Rivers and Streams written by Jeffrey F. Mount and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California Rivers and Streams provides a clear and informative overview of the physical and biological processes that shape California's rivers and watersheds. Jeffrey Mount introduces relevant basic principles of hydrology and geomorphology and applies them to an understanding of the differences in character of the state's many rivers. He then builds on this foundation by evaluating the impact on waterways of different land use practices—logging, mining, agriculture, flood control, urbanization, and water supply development. Water may be one of California's most valuable resources, but it is far from being one we control. In spite of channels, levees, lines and dams, the state's rivers still frequently flood, with devastating results. Almost all the rivers in California are dammed or diverted; with the booming population, there will be pressure for more intervention. Mount argues that Californians know little about how their rivers work and, more importantly, how and why land-use practices impact rivers. The forceful reconfiguration and redistribution of the rivers has already brought the state to a critical crossroads. California Rivers and Streams forces us to reevaluate our use of the state's rivers and offers a foundation for participating in the heated debates about their future.

Author : Ada Limón
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571318186
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sharks in the Rivers written by Ada Limón and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderful book” from the National Book Award for Poetry finalist that explores themes of dislocation and danger (Bob Hicok, author of Red Rover, Red Rover). The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family’s roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion—both toward and away from us—and it is also full of risk: from sharks unexpectedly lurking beneath estuarial rivers to the dangers of New York City, where, as Ada Limón reminds us, even rats find themselves trapped by the garbage cans they’ve crawled into. In such a world, how should one proceed? Throughout Sharks in the Rivers, Limón suggests that we must cleave to the world as it “keep[s] opening before us,” for, if we pay attention, we can be one with its complex, ephemeral, and beautiful strangeness. Loss is perpetual, and each person’s mouth “is the same / mouth as everyone’s, all trying to say the same thing.” For Limón, it’s the saying—individual and collective—that transforms each of us into “a wound overcome by wonder,” that allows “the wind itself” to be our “own wild whisper.” “Through the steamy, thorny undergrowth, up through the cold concrete, under the swift river, Limon soars and twirls like a bird, high on heart.” —Jennifer L. Knox, author of Crushing It