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Author |
: Shelby Johnson |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2024-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798890887320 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rich Earth Between Us by : Shelby Johnson
In this theory-rich study, Shelby Johnson analyzes the works of Black and Indigenous writers in the Atlantic World, examining how their literary production informs "modes of being" that confronted violent colonial times. Johnson particularly assesses how these authors connected to places—whether real or imagined—and how those connections enabled them to make worlds in spite of the violence of slavery and settler colonialism. Johnson engages with works written in a period engulfed by the extraordinary political and social upheavals of the Age of Revolution and Indian Removal, and these texts—which include not only sermons, life writing, and periodicals but also descriptions of embodied and oral knowledge, as well as material objects—register defiance to land removal and other forms of violence. In studying writers of color during this era, Johnson probes the histories of their lived environment and of the earth itself—its limits, its finite resources, and its metaphoric mortality—in a way that offers new insights on what it means to imagine sustainable connections to the ground on which we walk.
Author |
: Joy Harjo |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 129 |
Release |
: 2019-08-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781324003878 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1324003871 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis An American Sunrise: Poems by : Joy Harjo
A nationally best-selling volume of wise, powerful poetry from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this stunning collection, Joy Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where the Mvskoke people, including her own ancestors, were forcibly displaced. From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the Native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings.
Author |
: Hervé Kempf |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 146 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106019880175 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis How the Rich are Destroying the Earth by : Hervé Kempf
A best seller in France, and already translated into Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Korean, Hervé Kempf'sHow the Rich Are Destroying the Earth now appears in its first English edition. Bringing to bear more than twenty years of experience as an environmental journalist, Kempf describes the invincibility that many of the world's wealthy feel in the face of global warming, and how their unchecked privilege is thwarting action on the single most vexing problem facing our world.In this important primer on the link between global ecology and the global economy, Kempf makes the following observations: First, that the planet's ecological situation is growing ever worse, despite the efforts of millions of engaged citizens around the world. And second, despite environmentalists' emphasis that "we're all in the same boat," the world's economic elites--who continue to benefit by plundering the environment--have access to "lifeboats" that insulate them from the resulting catastrophes.Societies have not been able to effectively combat the expanding ecological crisis because it is intimately linked to the social crisis in which the ruling form of capitalism has been organized to impede democratic initiatives. This link explains the failure to make progress against the greatest emergency of our time, because in this relationship the oligarchy plays an essential and destructive role. For this reason, solving the ecological crisis depends on disrupting the power of the world's elite.We cannot understand the entwined ecological and social crises, Kempf argues, if we don't see them as the two sides of the same disaster--a disaster that comes from a system piloted by a dominant social strata that has no drive other than greed, no ideal other than conservatism, no dream other than technology. But Kempf also calls for measured optimism: "Despite the scale of the challenges that await us, solutions are emerging and--faced with the sinister prospects the oligarchs promote--the desire to remake the world is being reborn."
Author |
: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke |
Publisher |
: Coffee House Press |
Total Pages |
: 145 |
Release |
: 2022-03-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781566896290 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1566896290 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Look at This Blue by : Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Poetry! Interweaving elegy, indictment, and hope into a love letter to California, Look at This Blue examines America’s genocidal past and present to warn of a future threatened by mass extinction and climate peril. Truths about what we have lost and have yet to lose permeate this book-length poem by American Book Award winner and Fulbright scholar Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. An assemblage of historical record and lyric fragments, these poems form a taxonomy of threatened lives—human, plant, and animal—in a century marked by climate emergency. Look at This Blue insists upon a reckoning with and redress of America’s continuing violence toward Earth and its peoples, as Hedge Coke’s cataloguing of loss crescendos into resistance.
Author |
: Elizabeth Bishop |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2015-01-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466889422 |
ISBN-13 |
: 146688942X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poems by : Elizabeth Bishop
A Stirring Collection of Verse Embark on an evocative journey through life and landscape with Poems, an acclaimed anthology by the peerless Elizabeth Bishop. This anthology places the reader at the heart of experience, rendering the grandeur of human existence and our symbiotic relationship with the natural realm, through precision-tuned verse that oscillates between humor and sorrow, acceptance and affliction. Bishop's artistry immerses us in evocative landscapes, from the nostalgic corners of New England, her childhood abode, to the vibrant hues of Brazil and the lush expanses of Florida, her later homes. Rich in geographical motifs, the collection navigates the intertwined tapestry of human life and nature, revealing the poet's intrinsic ability to render chaos into form. A vital presence in twentieth-century literature, this anthology forges an essential window into Bishop's world, offering a comprehensive view into her profound career. Whether you’re new to Bishop's work or a longtime admirer, you’ll discover the unique perspective she brought to English-language poetry, solidifying this anthology as a definitive cornerstone in any poetry collection.
Author |
: Shelby Johnson |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 149 |
Release |
: 2024-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469677927 |
ISBN-13 |
: 146967792X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rich Earth between Us by : Shelby Johnson
In this theory-rich study, Shelby Johnson analyzes the works of Black and Indigenous writers in the Atlantic World, examining how their literary production informs "modes of being" that confronted violent colonial times. Johnson particularly assesses how these authors connected to places—whether real or imagined—and how those connections enabled them to make worlds in spite of the violence of slavery and settler colonialism. Johnson engages with works written in a period engulfed by the extraordinary political and social upheavals of the Age of Revolution and Indian Removal, and these texts—which include not only sermons, life writing, and periodicals but also descriptions of embodied and oral knowledge, as well as material objects—register defiance to land removal and other forms of violence. In studying writers of color during this era, Johnson probes the histories of their lived environment and of the earth itself—its limits, its finite resources, and its metaphoric mortality—in a way that offers new insights on what it means to imagine sustainable connections to the ground on which we walk.
Author |
: Maymanah Farhat |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2020-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1951163060 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781951163068 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poetry Is Not a Luxury by : Maymanah Farhat
Author |
: Walt Whitman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 520 |
Release |
: 1872 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951002415170D |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0D Downloads) |
Synopsis Leaves of Grass by : Walt Whitman
Author |
: Audre Lorde |
Publisher |
: Crossing Press |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2012-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307809049 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307809048 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sister Outsider by : Audre Lorde
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. “[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—The New York Times In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. These landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to “never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is . . . ”
Author |
: Carmen Giménez |
Publisher |
: Graywolf Press |
Total Pages |
: 110 |
Release |
: 2019-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781555978921 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1555978924 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Be Recorder by : Carmen Giménez
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry • Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award • Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Carmen Giménez Smith dares to demand renewal for a world made unrecognizable Be Recorder offers readers a blazing way forward into an as yet unmade world. The many times and tongues in these poems investigate the precariousness of personhood in lines that excoriate and sanctify. Carmen Giménez Smith turns the increasingly pressing urge to cry out into a dream of rebellion—against compromise, against inertia, against self-delusion, and against the ways the media dream up our complacency in an America that depends on it. This reckoning with self and nation demonstrates that who and where we are is as conditional as the fact of our compliance: “Miss America from sea to shining sea / the huddled masses have a question / there is one of you and all of us.” Be Recorder is unrepentant and unstoppable, and affirms Giménez Smith as one of the most vital and vivacious poets of our time.