the déjà vu

the déjà vu

Author: Gabrielle Civil

Publisher: Coffee House Press

Published: 2022-02-22

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1566896312

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Gabrielle Civil mines black dreams and black time to reveal a vibrant archive of black feminist creative expressions. Emerging from the intersection of pandemic and uprising, the déjà vu activates forms both new and ancestral, drawing movement, speech, and lyric essay into performance memoir. As Civil considers Haitian tourist paintings, dance rituals, race at the movies, black feminist legacies, and more, she reflects on her personal losses and desires, speculates on black time, and dreams into expansive black life. With intimacy, humor, and verve, the déjà vu blurs boundaries between memory, grief, and love; then, now, and the future.


Diver Beneath the Street

Diver Beneath the Street

Author: Petra Kuppers

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2024-02-13

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 0814351123

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True crime meets ecopoetry at the level of the soil, bringing together life and death. A decaying psychogeography unfurls the landscapes of the 1967–69 Michigan Murders, the 2019 Detroit serial killer, and the COVID-19 lockdown in this visceral poetry collection. Author, performance artist, and disability culture activist Petra Kuppers dissects traces of violence in the richness of the soil while honoring lost community members. Dynamic and somatic poems traverse the realms of urban space, wild rivers, and the hinterlands of suburbia, glimpsing the decay of bodies, houses, carpets, hair, and bones by way of ecopoetry. Poems like "Reintegration" and "Earth Séance" delve into cycles of decomposition and decreasing biodiversity across the micro- and macroworlds. Others such as "Dancing Princesses" tie timeless fairy-tale tropes of violence toward women to modern murders and lived experience. Moments in lockdown are embodied through somatic exploration of nature and self in works like "Dear White Pine in My Garden." This evocative entanglement of life and death, joy and horror, natural and artificial processes and particles offers an intriguing lyrical and poetic quality as well as unique perspectives through the lenses of feminist, queer, and disability studies.


Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?

Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?

Author: Seo-Young Chu

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-01-15

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0674059220

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In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of “high-intensity realism” capable of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more traditional, “realist” modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and the figurative, science fiction has the capacity to accommodate objects of representation that are themselves neither entirely figurative nor entirely literal in nature. Chu explores the globalized world, cyberspace, war trauma, the Korean concept of han, and the rights of robots, all as referents for which she locates science-fictional representations in poems, novels, music, films, visual pieces, and other works ranging within and without previous demarcations of the science fiction genre. In showing the divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? sheds new light on the value of science fiction as an aesthetic and philosophical resource—one that matters more and more as our everyday realities grow increasingly resistant to straightforward representation.


Dream Singers

Dream Singers

Author: Anthony Shafton

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2010-03-08

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0470653345

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Advance Praise for Dream-Singers "You will find a great storehouse of folk and literary treasures in this ambitious book that speaks to anyone who has ever thought about his or her dreams. It's a wonderful adventure and I highly recommend it."-Clarence Major, author of Configurations and Juba to Jive Acclaim for Dream Reader also by Anthony Shafton "A book so unique in its combination of scholarship, clarity, and down-to-earth feeling about dreams that I find it hard to fully express the excitement and satisfaction I felt on reading it."-Montague Ullman, M.D., Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Author of Working with Dreams and Dream Telepathy "Breathtaking . . . the single most complete and thorough analysis of contemporary dream theories yet written . . . Shafton has a keen sense for what people most want to know about dreams, and an admirable ability to explain difficult concepts without oversimplifying them."-Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., Past President, The Association for the Study of Dreams, Author of The Wilderness of Dreams


Deja Vu Dream

Deja Vu Dream

Author: Virginia Nygard

Publisher: Virginia Nygard

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0979675286

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Jennifer Jenssen awakens from one nightmare to find herself facing another. One she feels may be of her own making. Could her husband's accident have been avoided if she had heeded the powerful message sent through a dream? Buried deep in Jennifer is anger for the curse of visions she fails to interpret correctly, and secrets so painful she has no memory of them. Don Summers provides the support and strength Jennifer needs to grow beyond the pain of loss ... but he is powerless to prevent her confrontations with death.


The Childhood Diaries

The Childhood Diaries

Author: Eliza White Buffalo

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1491875917

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Come home to the place of your soul in Grace... The Two Roads Trilogy brings acceptance and understanding of the collective human story of suffering and redemption. This third and final part, The Childhood Diaries, continues the compelling account of Rose's personal journey out of fear and into Love. Walk with her on the path of full forgiveness, and lift your heart into the light of Heaven... How are we created? Where did we come from? And what exactly is the purpose of life and reincarnation? Find the answers to your question of why and begin to understand how all roads, suffering and non-suffering, ultimately lead to Grace. May the rose of your heart blossom and thrive in the heavenly light and love of Oneness.


Skinny Dark Kid

Skinny Dark Kid

Author: Chrys Kattirisetti

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2021-02-21

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 1637816820

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Skinny Dark Kid is a collection of short stories about an Indian girl who grew up in the 70’s in the city of Hyderabad in India. Besides being skinny and dark, she had other oddities she had to contend with. From the first day at school to the teenage years, she narrates humorous anecdotes of growing up and the life lessons she learnt.


'Bitter with the Past but Sweet with the Dream': Communism in the African American Imaginary

'Bitter with the Past but Sweet with the Dream': Communism in the African American Imaginary

Author: Cathy Bergin

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-05-19

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9004293256

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The legacy of the relationship between African American writers and Communism in the US is a contested one. Bergin argues that in three novels, by seminal mid-century authors (Wright, Himes and Ellison) Communism is not dismissed as incapable of meeting the demands of black political identity but is castigated for its refusal to do so. A detailed focus on the political milieu in which these texts operate challenges many of the presumptions about the ‘inability’ of Communism to comprehend racial oppression, which dominate literary critical approaches to these novels. She draws on the complex formations black political agency presumed and reproduced by American Communism during the Depression.