A Tongue In The Mouth Of The Dying
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Author |
: Laurie Ann Guerrero |
Publisher |
: University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages |
: 88 |
Release |
: 2013-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780268080730 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0268080739 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying by : Laurie Ann Guerrero
Filled with the nuanced beauty and complexity of the everyday—a pot of beans, a goat carcass, embroidered linens, a grandfather’s cancer—A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying journeys through the inherited fear of creation and destruction. The histories of South Texas and its people unfold in Laurie Ann Guerrero’s stirring language, including the dehumanization of men and its consequences on women and children. Guerrero’s tongue becomes a palpable border, occupying those liminal spaces that both unite and divide, inviting readers to consider that which is known and unknown: the body. Guerrero explores not just the right, but the ability to speak and fight for oneself, one's children, one's community—in poems that testify how, too often, we fail to see the power reflected in the mirror.
Author |
: Don Kulick |
Publisher |
: Algonquin Books |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2019-06-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781616209476 |
ISBN-13 |
: 161620947X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Death in the Rainforest by : Don Kulick
Don Kulick went to Papua New Guinea to understand why a language was dying. But that was just the beginning of what he learned. Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over thirty years ago to document how it was that their native language, Tayap, was dying. But you can’t study a language without settling in among the people, understanding how they speak every day, and even more, how they live. This book takes us inside the village as Kulick came to know it, revealing what it is like to live in a difficult-to-get-to village of two hundred people, carved out like a cleft in the middle of a swamp, in the middle of a tropical rainforest. These are fascinating, readable stories of what the people who live in that village eat for breakfast and how they sleep; about how villagers discipline their children, how they joke with one another, and how they swear at one another. Kulick tells us how villagers worship, how they argue, how they die. Finally, though, this is an illuminating look at the impact of white culture on the farthest reaches of the globe—and the story of why this anthropologist realized that he had to leave and give up his study of this language. Smart, engaging, and perceptive, A Death in the Rainforest takes readers into a world that will soon disappear forever.
Author |
: Jason Smith |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2015-07-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0996402012 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780996402019 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bitter Taste of Dying by : Jason Smith
In his first book, author Jason Smith explores the depravity and desperation required to maintain an opiate addiction so fierce, he finds himself jumping continents to avoid jail time and learns the hard way that some demons cannot be outrun. While teaching in Europe, he meets a prostitute who secures drugs for him at the dangerous price of helping out the Russian mafia; in China, he gets his Percocet and Xanax fix but terrifies a crowd of children and parents at his job in the process; and in Mexico, Smith thought a Tijuana jail cell would be the perfect place to kick his Fentanyl habit, but soon realizes that the power of addiction is stronger than his desire to escape it. The Bitter Taste of Dying paints a portrait of the modern day drug addict with clarity and refreshing honesty. With a gritty mixture of self-deprecation and light-hearted confessional, Smith's memoir deftly describes the journey into the harrowing depths of addiction and demonstrates the experience of finally being released from it. "Jason is a great writer who's clearly done the life-destroying research that I can relate to. This is the voice of a new generation of drug addicts." - Jerry Stahl, NY Times bestselling author of Permanent Midnight and Happy Mutant Baby Pills
Author |
: Laurie Ann Guerrero |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0989778223 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780989778220 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Crown for Gumecindo by : Laurie Ann Guerrero
Poetry. Art. Latino/Latina Studies. Dedicated and addressed to the poet's grandfather, A CROWN FOR GUMECINDO is a heroic crown of sonnets that chronicles the first year of grief experienced due to the loss of the family patriarch. Through 15 linked sonnets, Guerrero offers readers a layered experience of the tender and often shocking revelations of grief. Visual artist and poet Maceo Montoya contributes 15 original paintings inspired by Guerrero's sonnets.
Author |
: Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 48 |
Release |
: 1821 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B4691973 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Adonais by : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author |
: Laurie Ann Guerrero |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2020-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0875657699 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780875657691 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake by : Laurie Ann Guerrero
Author |
: Adrienne Rich |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 251 |
Release |
: 1995-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393348118 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393348113 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 by : Adrienne Rich
In this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work. At issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as "part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity."
Author |
: Julia Cook |
Publisher |
: National Center for Youth Issues |
Total Pages |
: 33 |
Release |
: 2011-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781937870881 |
ISBN-13 |
: 193787088X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grief is Like a Snowflake by : Julia Cook
Grief is like a snowflake. Each snowflake is different and everyone shows grief differently. After the death of his father, Little Tree begins to learn how to cope with his feelings and start the healing process. With the help and support of his family and friends, Little Tree learns to cope by discovering what is really important in life, and realizing his father's memory will carry on. Best-selling author, Julia Cook, and a lovable cast of trees, offers a warm approach to the difficult subject of death and dying.
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: |
Publisher |
: Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 1998-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781462916498 |
ISBN-13 |
: 146291649X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Japanese Death Poems by :
"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.
Author |
: Jenny George |
Publisher |
: Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages |
: 79 |
Release |
: 2018-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781619321847 |
ISBN-13 |
: 161932184X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dream of Reason by : Jenny George
Jenny George’s debut showcases an astonishing poetic talent, a new voice that is intensely focused, patient, and empathic. The Dream of Reason explores the paradoxical relationships between humans and the animals we imagine, keep, fear, and consume. Titled after Goya’s grotesque bestiary, George’s own dreamscape is populated by purring moths, bats that crawl like goblins, and livestock—especially pigs, whose spirit and slaughter inform a central series of portraits. The poems invite moments of stark realism into a spacious, lucid realm just outside of time—finding revelation in stillness, intimacy in violence, and vision in language that lifts from the dark. From “Threshold Gods”: I saw a bat in a dream and then later that week I saw a real bat, crawling on its elbows across the porch like a goblin. It was early evening. I want to ask about death. But first I want to ask about flying. Jenny George lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she runs a foundation for Buddhist-based social justice. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.