For Want of Water

For Want of Water

Author: Sasha Pimentel

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 0807027855

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Searing verses set on the Mexican border about war and addiction, love and sexual violence, grief and loss, from an American Book Award–winning author. Selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the National Poetry Series. El Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States, while across the river, Ciudad Juárez suffers a history of femicides and a horrific drug war. Witnessing this, a Filipina’s life unravels as she tries to love an addict, the murders growing just a city—but the breadth of a country—away. This collection weaves the personal with recent history, the domestic with the tragic, asking how much “a body will hold,” reaching from the border to the poet’s own Philippines. These poems thirst in the desert, want for water, searching the brutal and tender territories between bodies, families, and nations.


Western Waters

Western Waters

Author: Elizabeth Sewell Hill

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9780332903057

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Excerpt from Western Waters: And Other Poems Swinging slowly we turn, Pointing out for mid-lake, past the long pier where burn The red harbor-lights, where the great billows churn Blow on blow on the spiles, spilling down the white foam But I've written the home-folks that I'm coming home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Song of the Water Boatman

Song of the Water Boatman

Author: Joyce Sidman

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13: 0618135472

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A collection of poems that provide a look at some of the animals, insects, and plants that are found in ponds, with accompanying information about each.


Dividing Western Waters

Dividing Western Waters

Author: Jack L. August (Jr.)

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Tells how Mark Wilmer, an Arizona lawyer, fashioned the successful arguments that won the Supreme Court case securing Arizona's allottment of Colorado River water.


Western Waters, and Other Poems

Western Waters, and Other Poems

Author: Elizabeth Sewell Hill

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781357855680

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters

Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters

Author: Myron J. Smith, Jr.

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-02-20

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0786469676

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War raged along the great rivers of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. While various Civil War biographies exist, none have been devoted exclusively to participants in the Western river war as waged down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Red River, and up the Ohio, the Tennessee and the Cumberland. Based on the Official Records, county histories, newspapers and internet sources, this is the first work to profile personnel involved in the fighting on these great streams. Included in this biographical encyclopedia are Union and Confederate naval officers down to the rank of mate; enlisted sailors who won the Medal of Honor, or otherwise distinguished themselves or who wrote accounts of life on the gunboats; army officers and leaders who played a direct role in combat along Western waters; political officials who influenced river operations; civilian steamboat captains and pilots who participated in wartime logistics; and civilian contractors directly involved, including shipbuilders, dam builders, naval constructors and munitions experts. Each of the biographies includes (where known) birth, death and residence data; unit organization or ship; involvement in the river war; pre- and post-war careers; and source documentation. Hundreds of individuals are given their first historic recognition.