This River Here
Title | This River Here PDF eBook |
Author | Carmen Tafolla |
Publisher | Wings Press |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2014-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1609403991 |
San Antonio Poet Laureate Carmen Tafolla captures her hometown — the city of her ancestors for the past three centuries — in poems that celebrate its history as a cosmopolitan multilingual cultural crossroads. Discover San Antonio’s corazón in Tafolla’s poetry, accompanied by historic and contemporary photographs that convey its enduring sense of place. The little river that has charmed so many rises at “the biological hub of the northern half of this hemisphere” (Dr. Karen Stothert) in a spring that Frederick Law Olmsted described as being “among the gems of the natural world.” A century ago, San Antonio gave Oscar Wilde “a thrill of strange pleasure.” J. Frank Dobie claimed that “every Texan has two hometowns — his own and San Antonio,” and Will Rogers declared it to be “one of the three unique cities of America.” To Larry McMurtry, “San Antonio has kept an ambiance that all the rest of our cities lack.” Carmen Tafolla calls forth the soul of this place — the holy home of the waters, called Yanaguana by los Indios — and celebrates the many cultures that have made of it “un rebozo bordado de culturas y colores.”
This River Here
Title | This River Here PDF eBook |
Author | Carmen Tafolla |
Publisher | Wings Press |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2014-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1609404009 |
San Antonio poet laureate Carmen Tafolla captures her hometown—the city of her ancestors for the past three centuries—in poems that celebrate its history as a cosmopolitan multilingual cultural crossroads. Discover San Antonio's corazón in Tafolla's poetry, accompanied by historic and contemporary photographs that convey its enduring sense of place. A century ago, San Antonio gave Oscar Wilde "a thrill of strange pleasure." J. Frank Dobie claimed that "every Texan has two hometowns—his own and San Antonio," and Will Rogers declared it to be "one of the three unique cities of America." To Larry McMurtry, "San Antonio has kept an ambiance that all the rest of our cities lack." Carmen Tafolla calls forth the soul of this place—the holy home of the waters, called Yanaguana by los indios—and celebrates the many cultures that have made of it "un rebozo bordado de culturas y colores."
The River Stops Here
Title | The River Stops Here PDF eBook |
Author | Ted Simon |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2001-06 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0520230566 |
A rancher's stubborn refusal to be flooded out by the Army Corps of Engineers led him to mount an extraordinary crusade against California's most powerful forces of the time--the 60s water lobby. He created a new environmental coalition, helped save the wild rivers of the north coast, and vitally affected the future water policies of the state.
With the River on Our Face
Title | With the River on Our Face PDF eBook |
Author | Emmy Pérez |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 105 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0816534519 |
Emmy Pérez’s poetry collection With the River on Our Face flows through the Southwest and the Texas borderlands to the river’s mouth in the Rio Grande Valley/El Valle. The poems celebrate the land, communities, and ecology of the borderlands through lyric and narrative utterances, auditory and visual texture, chant, and litany that merge and diverge like the iconic river in this long-awaited collection. Pérez reveals the strengths and nuances of a universe where no word is “foreign.” Her fast-moving, evocative words illuminate the prayers, gasps, touches, and gritos born of everyday discoveries and events. Multiple forms of reference enrich the poems in the form of mantra: ecologist’s field notes, geopolitical and ecofeminist observations, wildlife catalogs, trivia, and vigil chants. “What is it to love / within viewing distance of night / vision goggles and guns?” is a question central to many of these poems. The collection creates a poetic confluence of the personal, political, and global forces affecting border lives. Whether alluding to El Valle as a place where toxins now cross borders more easily than people or wildlife, or to increased militarization, immigrant seizures, and twenty-first-century wall-building, Pérez’s voice is intimate and urgent. She laments, “We cannot tattoo roses / On the wall / Can’t tattoo Gloria Anzaldúa’s roses / On the wall”; yet, she also reaffirms Anzaldúa’s notions of hope through resilience and conocimiento. With the River on Our Face drips deep like water, turning into amistad—an inquisition into human relationships with planet and self.
There's this River
Title | There's this River PDF eBook |
Author | Christa Sadler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN |
The River Is Home
Title | The River Is Home PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick D. Smith |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2021-07-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1683342852 |
Poor in material possessions, Skeeter's kinfolk are rich in their appreciation of their beautiful natural surroundings. The river on which they live—with its food supply, steamboats, and floods—figures strongly in their lives as the source of life, change, and death. Though their life is a simple one, it's filled with friendship, loyalty, love, and compassion
River Hymns
Title | River Hymns PDF eBook |
Author | Tyree Daye |
Publisher | Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | POETRY |
ISBN | 9780983300854 |
River Hymns is the lyrical journey of a young black man's spiritual reckoning with his family history.