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Author: Minnie J Zerby
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2013-01-10
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1479770272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMinnie grew up in the depression years in Alabama. She rode a school bus to and from school, helped with farming, and spent time with her sisters and brothers fishing and hunting. It was the main source of food as well as the crops they grew. She was a good mother who loved her sons and will always be remembered. By Thomas E Tidwell surviving son.
Author: César Vallejo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2007-01-08
Total Pages: 731
ISBN-13: 0520932145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman, includes the groundbreaking collections The Black Heralds (1918), Trilce (1922), Human Poems (1939), and Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939). Vallejo's poetry takes the Spanish language to an unprecedented level of emotional rawness and stretches its grammatical possibilities. Striking against theology with the very rhetoric of the Christian faith, Vallejo's is a tragic vision—perhaps the only one in the canon of Spanish-language literature—in which salvation and sin are one and the same. This edition includes notes on the translation and a fascinating translation memoir that traces Eshleman's long relationship with Vallejo's poetry. An introduction and chronology provide further insights into Vallejo's life and work.
Author: César Vallejo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1980-09-29
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 0520040996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Translation judges for the National Book Awards--Richard Miller, Alastair Reid, Eliot Weinberger--cited Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia's translation of Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry as follows: "This, the first National Book Award to be given to a translation of modern poetry, is a recognition of Clayton Eshleman's seventeen-year apprenticeship to perhaps the most difficult poetry in the Spanish language. Eshleman and his present collaborator, Jose Rubia Barcia, have not only rendered these complex poems into brilliant and living English, but have also established a definitive Spanish test based on Vallejo's densely rewritten manuscripts. In recreating this modern master in English, they have also made a considerable addition to poetry in our language."
Author: Christina Wieland
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Published: 2024-01-05
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 139849805X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStep into the captivating world of Cyprus, a tranquil island during the serene mid-1930s, where the lives of two extraordinary sisters and a talented young man unfold against a backdrop of freedom, love, and ambition. In this quietly passionate love story, the sisters embark on their personal battles for freedom and love, defying societal expectations and ancient traditions. Their journey intertwines with that of a young man from the remote mountains of Marathasa, who yearns for recognition and happiness in a world that often overlooks him. As the story unfolds, a family steeped in self-importance and propriety grapples with the upheaval caused by their daughter’s rebellion against age-old customs. Amidst the complexities of human relationships, the island itself reveals its captivating beauty – its land, sea, mountains, and its people, forgotten by the outside world. But this idyllic slumber is about to be shattered as Cyprus awakens to the turbulent waters of violent protest and international politics. As the island finds itself at the crossroads of historical events, the characters are swept up in a wave of change, testing their resilience and challenging their deepest desires.
Author: Alexa Wolf
Publisher: Alexa Wolf
Published: 2007-11
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 0741435209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA small, greenery-shrouded home in Los Angeles serves as backdrop to this stunning drama of a mother and daughter who grapple with their volatile relationship ? and with life-threatening health crises in an adversarial system.
Author: Eleanor Wilner
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0472029673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it was—knowing that a poem can’t be conceived in advance of its creation—that helped their poems to emerge or connected them over time. The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry permits an inside view of how poets outwit internal censors and habits of thought, showing how the meticulous and the spontaneous come together in the process of discovery. Within are contained the work and thoughts of: Betty Adcock Joan Aleshire Debra Allbery Elizabeth Arnold David Baker Rick Barot Marianne Boruch Karen Brennan Gabrielle Calvocoressi Michael Collier Carl Dennis Stuart Dischell Roger Fanning Chris Forhan Reginald Gibbons Linda Gregerson Jennifer Grotz Brooks Haxton Tony Hoagland Mark Jarman A. Van Jordan Laura Kasischke Mary Leader Dana Levin James Longenbach Thomas Lux Maurice Manning Heather McHugh Martha Rhodes Alan Shapiro Daniel Tobin Ellen Bryant Voigt Alan Williamson Eleanor Wilner C. Dale Young
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 428
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-06-13
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1101622776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Notable Book Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell's Roses Apricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials, but The Faraway Nearby goes beyond her own life, as she spirals out into the stories she heard and read—from fairy tales to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—that helped her navigate her difficult passge. Solnit takes us into the lives of others—an arctic cannibal, the young Che Guevara among the leprosy afflicted, a blues musician, an Icelandic artist and her labyrinth—to understand warmth and coldness, kindness and imagination, decay and transformation, making art and making self. This captivating, exquisitely written exploration of the forces that connect us and the way we tell our stories is a tour de force of association, a marvelous Russian doll of a book that is a fitting companion to Solnit's much-loved A Field Guide to Getting Lost.
Author: Nece Strudwick
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 2021-04-11
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 1982264314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLove Notes is a fresh delightful book of poems from the heart. The Author has taken eight areas of love and expressed beautiful and meaningful poems in each of these chapters to touch the hearts and souls of every reader. You will smile, cry, and laugh at many of the poems that you read. They are brilliantly expressed in a way that captures the reader’s attention. Many people often want to send a love note to someone, and they are not sure what to say. When you read this book, you may find the perfect poem to send to that special person. This is a beautiful poetry book that will capture your heart and give you a reason to continue celebrate love every day.
Author: Teju Adisa-Farrar
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012-08-08
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1477153101
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘In-between Things: A book of poetry, stories of identity, and interpreting society’ is an anthology of poems, creative non-fiction pieces, essays and social commentary written by the young writer and aspiring scholar/activist Teju Adisa-Farrar. This book maps the progress of her ideas throughout her last year of high school and first few years of college. Starting with pieces of her life and memories from childhood, the book starts off as a creative biography. As the book continues on it develops into an array of writings on the author’s feelings about love, social issues, and histories. The author shares her intimate thoughts along side old, new, and developing beliefs and theories about the society she lives in and the world we are all apart of. While the author does not hold all these ideas as true anymore she wanted to map out and explore how growth is a creative process that does not mean we are becoming someone different, rather that we are learning more about the essence we were always meant to grow into. In this book she uses various types of written form to understand her own identity as it relates to her own stories and her expanding understanding of the world. This anthology combines identity and interpretation in a way that helps us discover the stories in Adisa-Farrar’s mind. The free-flowing nature of the book allows each piece to be new and of it’s own, but add to a larger story of the world as seen through the eyes of a young adult who’s passion is endless and boundless.
