Hugging the Jukebox
Title | Hugging the Jukebox PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi Shihab Nye |
Publisher | Dutton Adult |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Hugging the Jukebox
Title | Hugging the Jukebox PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Bonazzi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | |
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Words Under the Words
Title | Words Under the Words PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi Shihab Nye |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN |
A collection of poems in which the author draws upon her experiences as a Palestinian-American living in the Southwest, and her travels in Central America, the Middle East, and Asia, to comment upon the shared humanity of different cultures throughout the world.
Transfer
Title | Transfer PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi Shihab Nye |
Publisher | BOA Editions, Ltd. |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2011-08-23 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1934414654 |
"In the current literary scene, one of the most heartening influences is the work of Naomi Shihab Nye. Her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her work enhances life."— William Stafford Dusk where is the name no one answered to gone off to live by itself beneath the pine trees separating the houses without a friend or a bed without a father to tell it stories how hard was the path it walked on all those years belonging to none of our struggles drifting under the calendar page elusive as residue when someone said how have you been it was strangely that name that tried to answer Naomi Shihab Nye has spent thirty-five years traveling the world to lead writing workshops and inspire students of all ages. In her newest collection Transfer she draws on her Palestinian American heritage, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas, and her extensive travel experiences to create a poetry collection that attests to our shared humanity. Among her awards, Naomi Shihab Nye has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow. She has received a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and four Pushcart prizes. In January 2010, she was elected to the board of chancellors of the Academy of American Poets.
Shades
Title | Shades PDF eBook |
Author | Esperanza M. Cintrón |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2019-08-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0814346898 |
Interconnected stories exploring life, love, and passion in an ever-changing community. Esperanza Cintrón's Shades: Detroit Love Storiesis a short story collection that is distinctly Detroit. By touching on a number of romantic and sexual encounters that span the historical and temporal spaces of the city, each of these interconnected stories examines the obstacles an individual faces and the choices he or she makes in order to cope and, hopefully, survive in the changing urban landscape. Shades begins in the 1960s by following two young black women who are determined to find joy in their lives even as they struggle to make ends meet. Their lives continue to evolve under triumphant and disappointing conditions—falling in and out of love, giving birth, raising children, and struggling to "make it" despite disappointing and tenuous love affairs and relationships. The setting throughout the eighteen stories shifts as these women age and their children extend the timeline, reflecting on the city's social and political changes over three decades, as well as the pitfalls, tragedies, and opportunities these linked families encounter. Cintrón favors an everyday vernacular for her characters' voices in order to reflect the complexities of their working/middle-class, ethnic, and racial identities. Divided into two sections, Eastside and Westside, the collection gives a nod to the sometimes contentious geographical split marked by Woodward Avenue. Cintrón takes readers through city streets—from neighborhood bars to burger joints—while painting lyrical portraits of the unique and multifaceted characters whose honesty shatters the illusion of endless love and happily-ever-after fantasies, as they clash with the circumstances of economics and race. Cintrón's stories capture the rhythms of language and the poetry of the people and will interest readers of fiction or poetry who seek to understand love.
The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling
Title | The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Handke |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0374180547 |
In his "Essay on Tiredness," Handke transforms an everyday experience - often precipitated by boredom - into a fascinating exploration of the world of slow motion, differentiating degrees of fatigue, the types of weariness, its rejuvenating effects, as well as its erotic, cultural, and political implications.
West of the American Dream
Title | West of the American Dream PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Christensen |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780890967539 |
"West of the American Dream is a multifaceted account of the search. Christensen shares his feelings of culture shock in east-central Texas as he meets the cowboy version of the blue-collar Texan and his Mexican American neighbours. He introduces readers to the convoluted history of poetry in Texas, a tradition, started by women, that shifted from a focus on the land to the quotidian habits of urban living. Using a unique dissection of the public ritual of a poetry reading, Christensen assesses the origins of modern poetry, the value of imagination in modernist and postmodernist verse, and what Texas poets achieved and how their work evolved after World War II."--Jacket.