Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks

DescriptionA picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-20...

Reducere. ``If you wanted a poem, `` wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, ``you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting ...

Description"The cross-section of poets with varying poetics and styles gathered here is only one of the many admirable achievements of this volume....

Reducere. Description"The combination of biography and Brooks' own poems makes for a strong, useful, and beautiful text . . . A solid introduction to a brill...

The poetry and writings of an outsider is a collection of poetry and short fiction as well as some autobiographical sketches from an author living ...

Reducere. This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, ...

"Tariq Tour is Baltimore's Black revolutionary voice. In the tradition of Amiri Baraka and James Baldwin, Tour masterfully uses his pen to attack w...

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This Scotnote Study Guide examines issues of family and cultural identities in Jackie Kay's work. It covers a wide range of her poetry as well as h...

Contemporary Dance Lighting: The Poetry and the Nitty-Gritty dynamically guides students toward aesthetically, creatively, and skillfully becoming ...

Reducere. How does a parent live through the death of a child? This profound and poignant compilation of the courageous personal journeys of seven grieving m...

The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative...

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Babington Macaulay's excellent compendium of Roman narrative poetry consists of works both tragedian and dramatic, which were pop...

A collection of essays, reviews, and interviews that is designed to ignite a more wide-ranging critical appraisal of Donald Revell's writing, from ...

Reducere. The Storms Of Life can prove to be seemingly unbearable. So often, our major shortcoming is simply to doubt that we could go through life experienc...

Publisher: University of Wisconsin PressAuthor(s): Douglass K. DanielIllustration(s): 22 black and white photographsNumber of pages: 248Collection:...

Brings together ten essays on John Donne and George Herbert composed by an international group of scholars. The volume represents the first collect...

Reading Latin Poetry Aloud Paperback with Audio CDs: A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse - Clive Brooks

Reducere. In these fast-paced times, the exquisite risk facing each of us every day is to slow down and -still our own house- so that we may experience life ...

Reducere. The civil rights movement was defined by figures thrust into positions of importance; be they participants in a sit-in, Freedom Riders, or marchers...

Reducere. Observing that poetry is a natural part of our pastimes and rituals, Muriel Rukeyser opposes elitist attitudes and confronts Americans' fear of fee...

An award-winning Black feminist music critic takes us on an epic journey through radical sound from Bessie Smith to Beyonc . Daphne A. Brooks explo...

Reducere. "Continuing their pioneering work on resilience, they now show how and why it is never too late for adults to find strength and safety in life."--E...

Reducere. The Bhakti Sūtra attributed to Nārada is a collection of 84 aphoristic statements in Sanskrit, dating to the tenth to eleventh centuries in India, ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The Woman Who Defied Kings is the first modern, comprehensive biography of Dona Gracia Nasi, an outstanding Jewish international banker during the ...

When Barbara Abercrombie's husband died, she found the language of condolence irritating, no matter how well intended. "My husband had not gone to ...

Enables students of all kinds to read Latin poetry aloud with confidence. It contains about seventy Latin poems covering the period c. 200 BC - c. ...

Reducere. Rivers of Life is a book filled with poetry that contains words of wisdom, hope, and encouragement for the entire family.

Reducere. Looking for a newcomer's guide for an easy-to-learn practice for optimizing well-being and vitality? Then this book is for you.Discover the healing...

Reducere. The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist...

Reducere. Description"The Boat Rocker" is a poetry of life that both presents a philosophy of life and describes an art of living that has been learned the h...

Reducere. Abyss of Bliss is a poetry book exploring the purpose of life. This spellbinding poetry, goes beyond emotion, beyond form, beyond belief and explor...

Reducere. A CRY FROM THE WOMB- Healing the Heart of the World contains astounding information that completely reframes the debate between pro-life and pro-ch...

An invitation to the colorful, dynamic world of the Nabis, a circle of Post-Impressionist avant-garde artists whose members, including Bonnard and ...

An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and paint...

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life o...

Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relativel...

Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turne...

From the multi award-winning Claire North comes a captivating retelling of the classic Greek myth of Penelope. It's time for the women of Ithaca to...

Reducere. DescriptionLike a flash of lightning it came to him--the unathletic high school student Ted Kooser saw a future as a famous poet that promised ever...

This is the truth of you.Because you are all I see.Because you are all I breathe.Because when I cannot find you, I am lost.Because when I'm with yo...

Navigating the Winding Road: Family Law and Estate Planning in Illinois was written by the highly experienced legal team at Gwendolyn J. Sterk Fami...

Revenge sometimes causes people to act blindly through anger, rather than reason. In each of these four tales, revenge is a dish best served cold. ...

Regarded in his day as an important Australian impressionist painter, A.H. Fullwood (1863-1930) was also the most widely viewed British-Australian ...

The biography of Second World War Spitfire pilot John Gillespie Magee who penned the poem `High Flight', which would inspire legions of aspiring av...