A Living Testimony of Love's Power. A Series of Letters and Poems. By Two Sisters
Title | A Living Testimony of Love's Power. A Series of Letters and Poems. By Two Sisters PDF eBook |
Author | TESTIMONY. |
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Pages | |
Release | 1917 |
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Title | General Catalogue of Printed Books PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | English imprints |
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Emily Dickinson Face to Face
Title | Emily Dickinson Face to Face PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Dickinson Bianchi |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 70 |
Release | 2023-04-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1946022594 |
Long out of print, a uniquely intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson written by her niece. What would it be like to have Emily Dickinson as your babysitter? In this astonishing memoir, out of print for almost a century, Martha “Matty” Dickinson describes the childhood she spent next door to—and often in the care of—her Aunt Emily. We see Matty as a little girl, hiding from the other grownups in Emily’s upstairs rooms, helping Emily in the kitchen, venturing with her into the cellar for the gingerbread she wasn’t supposed to have. As Matty becomes a teenager, she finds a confidante in her aunt, who is fascinated by the latest youth fads, school gossip, and the recurring question of what to wear to a party (“her ‘vote’ was for my highest-heeled red slippers”)—not to mention the music, novels, and poems she and Matty both love. From an early age, Emily teaches Matty the joys of solitude and independence: “No one,” Emily said, “could ever punish a Dickinson by shutting her up alone.” First published in 1932, this is the most intimate record we have of Emily Dickinson, whose death sparked a long family struggle over her work and her image. In a foreword to this new edition, the poet and critic Anthony Madrid provides a biographical frame for Matty’s recollections, and explains how such a remarkable document could spend so long out of sight.
The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony
Title | The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony PDF eBook |
Author | Ladan Osman |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2015-04-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0803278594 |
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always women, assert and reassert in an attempt to establish authority, often through persistent questioning. Specters of race, displacement, and colonialism are often present in her work, providing momentum for speakers to reach beyond their primary, apparent dimensions and better communicate. The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony is about love and longing, divorce, distilled desire, and all the ways we injure ourselves and one another.
Crazy Brave
Title | Crazy Brave PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Harjo |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2012-07-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0393073467 |
A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.
The Athenaeum
Title | The Athenaeum PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 864 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Arts |
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She
Title | She PDF eBook |
Author | Lou Ella Hickman |
Publisher | Press 53 |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 2015-09-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781941209257 |
"After Eve, who is the next woman named in the Bible?" asks editor Tom Lombardo in his Introduction. In she: robed and wordless, Lou Ella Hickman-a widely published poet and Catholic nun-invites us to listen to the words of the women in the Bible, who encountered grace and sins, joys and sorrows, life and death. With empathy and language, Hickman opens up for us what might have transpired in the minds and hearts of these women.