The Wild Rose Asylum
The Wild Rose Asylum

Author: Rachel Dilworth

Publisher: Akron Series in Poetry (Paperb

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781931968614

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The poems of The Wild Rose Asylum give to the women of the Magdalen laundries a voice that sharpens the air. The testimonies rendered here are stark yet fiercely lyrical, bearing witness to generations of lost women and lost freedom.

Herd Book
Herd Book

Author: National Pig Breeders' Association, London

Publisher:

Published: 1912

Total Pages: 824

ISBN-13:

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Requiem for the Orchard
Requiem for the Orchard

Author: Oliver De la Paz

Publisher: The University of Akron Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1931968748

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These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place 'where the Ferris Wheel / was the tallest thing in the valley, ' where a boy would learn 'to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck / with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel.' . . . In spite of such hardscrabble cruelties"or because of them"there is also a real tenderness in these poems, the revelations of bliss driving along an empty highway 'like opening a heavy book, / letting the pages feather themselves and finding a dried flower.' . . . The poet has a gift for rendering his world in cinematic images. . . . In short, these poems are the stuff of life itself, ugly and beautiful, wherever or whenever we happen to live it. "Martin Espada

Elizabeth Adam As Wild Rose Message of National Marginalization (Third Edition)
Elizabeth Adam As Wild Rose Message of National Marginalization (Third Edition)

Author: Istvan Adorjan

Publisher: Istvan Adorjan

Published: 2018-01-29

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13:

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p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } With this book, i present the stifled, faded, falsified, buried and condemned-to-annihilation wild-rose message of universal value as the message of national marginalization of Elizabeth Adam (1947-2014) — in her original name Erzsébet ÁDÁM — become widely known as a dramatic artist in Marosvásárhely, Romania, and an English-language reciter of Hungarian and Romanian poets in her tours in Britain and overseas.

The Other Victims
The Other Victims

Author: Patsy King Hosman

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc

Published: 2023-11-27

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1509251138

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When Alice Bennett discovers her older sister, Lou Ella Sutton, has murdered the eleven victims recently shot at a college bar, her life is changed forever. Lou, in a psychotic state, hears voices urging her to kill government agents who are trying to steal her thoughts. This takes her to the bar in Mineral Wells, Oklahoma, where she opens fire on the unsuspecting patrons. As the media vehicles park on their street, Alice’s teenage daughters, Flory and Phoebe, must contend with the backlash from their peers. Rodney, Alice’s husband, watches his business diminish. Alice, overwhelmed with guilt and shame, wonders what she could have done to stop this tragedy. The struggle to come to terms with what Lou did becomes all-consuming for the family. And then there are the victims of this crime who did not survive. Can the Bennetts help these families move forward with their heartbreaking loss?