Brassbones & Rainbows
Title | Brassbones & Rainbows PDF eBook |
Author | Shirley Bradley LeFlore |
Publisher | 2Leaf Press |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2015-07-13 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 098847638X |
BRASSBONES & RAINBOWS is the debut poetry collection of Shirley Bradley LeFlore, an oral poet and performance artist from St. Louis, Missouri who has been on the literary scene for over five decades. While LeFlore tackles social, political and cultural issues with a profound love for humanity, she also provides insight into self-identity, inner-strength, beauty and faith. A literary griot, LeFlore shares the fabric of verse through jazz, blues and gospel in an easy going, smooth and soothing Southern American dialect mixed with African American Vernacular English serving as musical notes. BRASSBONES & RAINBOWS is a stunning testament to Shirley Bradley LeFlore, a story singer whose words will certainly roll off your tongue.
Brassbones & Rainbows
Title | Brassbones & Rainbows PDF eBook |
Author | Shirley Bradley LeFlore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN |
Brassbones & Rainbows
Title | Brassbones & Rainbows PDF eBook |
Author | Shirley Bradley LeFlore |
Publisher | 2leaf Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780988476349 |
Foreword by Amina Baraka; introduction by Gabrielle David.
Aloud
Title | Aloud PDF eBook |
Author | Miguel Algarin |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 1994-08-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0805032576 |
A multicultural selection of contemporary poems by Puerto Rican and other poets who meet at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City.
The Beiging of America, Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century
Title | The Beiging of America, Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century PDF eBook |
Author | Cathy J. Schlund Vials |
Publisher | 2Leaf Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2017-07-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1940939550 |
THE BEIGING OF AMERICA, BEING MIXED RACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, takes on “race matters” and considers them through the firsthand accounts of mixed race people in the United States. Edited by mixed race scholars Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Sean Frederick Forbes and Tara Betts, this collection consists of 39 poets, writers, teachers, professors, artists and activists, whose personal narratives articulate the complexities of interracial life. THE BEIGING OF AMERICA is an absorbing and thought-provoking collection of stories that explore racial identity, alienation, with people often forced to choose between races and cultures in their search for self-identity. While underscoring the complexity of the mixed race experience, these unadorned voices offer a genuine, poignant, enlightening and empowering message to all readers.
Providencia
Title | Providencia PDF eBook |
Author | Sean Frederick Forbes |
Publisher | 2Leaf Press |
Pages | 117 |
Release | 2015-07-13 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 194093902X |
PROVIDENCIA, Sean Frederick Forbes’s debut poetry collection, offers deeply personal poetry that digs beneath the surface of family history and myth. This coming of age narrative traces the experience of a gay, mixed-race narrator who confronts the traditions of his parents’ and grandparents’ birthplace: the seemingly idyllic island of Providencia, Colombia against the backdrop of his rough and lonely life in Southside Jamaica, Queens. These lyric poems open doors onto a third space for the speaker, one that does not isolate or hinder his sexual, racial, and artistic identities. Written in both free verse and traditional poetic forms, PROVIDENCIA conjures numerous voices, images, and characters to explore the struggles of self-discovery.
After Houses
Title | After Houses PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Millikin |
Publisher | 2Leaf Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2015-07-13 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1940939313 |
AFTER HOUSES is an extended meditation on homelessness. In unflinching, raw poetry, poet Claire Millikin explores states of homelessness, and a longing for, even a devotion to, houses—houses as spaces where one could be safe and at ease. The poems move through an American landscape, between the South and the North, between childhood and adulthood, reaching toward a home that’s never reached, but always at one’s fingertips. Throughout the collection, Millikin draws from personal and family history, from classical mythology and architectural theory, to shape a poetry of empathy, in which some of the places where people get lost in America are faced and given place. AFTER HOUSES echo the voices of girls who have not quite survived, but who persist, intact in the way that Rimbaud insists on intactness, in words.