Author: Eunice SheffieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Choice Readings in Prose and Poems
Author: Eunice SheffieldChoice Readings in English Literature. Prose and Poetry
Author: William POLLARD (Quaker.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Choice Readings in English Literature : Prose and Poetry
Author: William PollardPublisher: London : J. Kempster, [187-?]
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
The Literary World
Author: Public and Parlor Readings
Author: Lewis B. MonroePublisher:
ISBN: 9781330852750
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Excerpt from Public and Parlor Readings: Prose and Poetry for the Use of Reading Clubs In my position as teacher of elocution, I have been the recipient of numerous letters from amateur Readers, members of literary clubs, and others, asking me to name some piece appropriate to a given occasion. Teachers have desired choice readings for school exhibitions. My own public entertainments have been followed by verbal or written requests for copies of selections which excited the interest of hearers. Such appeals were usually for pieces which were not common or familiar, and of which I possessed perhaps but a manuscript copy. I was therefore put to the task of transcribing the desired pieces over and over again, 0 or forced to the ungracious duty of denying the very proper request, for want of time to comply with it. These solicitations were very frequently accompanied by offers of compensation; but manifestly no price could be set on what - though costing much time and trouble when so multiplied was in any individual case a mere courtesy. I was led, therefore, to think that a book made up in the main of selections which had proved entertaining to public audiences, or literary or social circles, might be acceptable to the public at large. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
WHEREAS
Author: Layli Long SoldierPublisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555979610
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.
Youth and culture
Author: 大日本図書株式会社Readings in English Literature, Prose - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: English LiteraturePublisher: Scholar's Choice
ISBN: 9781296138813
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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Choice Readings
Author: Readings from the Book of Exile
Author: Pádraig Ó TuamaPublisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848254407
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
One of the most intriguing and engaging voices in contemporary Christianity is that of the Irish poet, Pádraig Ó Tuama and this is his first, long-awaited poetry collection. Hailing from the Ikon community in Belfast and working closely with its founder, the bestselling writer Pete Rollins, Pádraig’s poetry interweaves parable, poetry, art, activism and philosophy into an original and striking expression of faith. Pádraig’s poems are accessible, memorable profound and challenging. They emerge powerfully from a context of struggle and conflict and yet are filled with hope.