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Author: Ferdinand Rodriguez Sr. Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1644620855 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 64
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As a semitractor trailer driver, he had the opportunity to see this great country driving throughout the United States and Canada for forty plus years. America is a beautiful land and blessed by God, that's for sure. Coming from New York City, born and raised as a poor boy, he had the opportunity given to him as a truck driver. He loved what he did and also became a trainer of new drivers, thereby giving them the opportunity to become good truckers and enjoy their job. America is truly grand and beautiful, seeing it from a trucker's point of view. You love the job you have and are thankful for your freedom of choice. Silver Eagle wishes you all a safe and great trip.
Author: Ferdinand Rodriguez Sr. Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1644620855 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
As a semitractor trailer driver, he had the opportunity to see this great country driving throughout the United States and Canada for forty plus years. America is a beautiful land and blessed by God, that's for sure. Coming from New York City, born and raised as a poor boy, he had the opportunity given to him as a truck driver. He loved what he did and also became a trainer of new drivers, thereby giving them the opportunity to become good truckers and enjoy their job. America is truly grand and beautiful, seeing it from a trucker's point of view. You love the job you have and are thankful for your freedom of choice. Silver Eagle wishes you all a safe and great trip.
Author: David Orr Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698140893 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 127
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A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost’s immortal lines remain unbelievably popular. And yet in spite of this devotion, almost everyone gets the poem hopelessly wrong. David Orr’s The Road Not Taken dives directly into the controversy, illuminating the poem’s enduring greatness while revealing its mystifying contradictions. Widely admired as the poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review, Orr is the perfect guide for lay readers and experts alike. Orr offers a lively look at the poem’s cultural influence, its artistic complexity, and its historical journey from the margins of the First World War all the way to its canonical place today as a true masterpiece of American literature. “The Road Not Taken” seems straightforward: a nameless traveler is faced with a choice: two paths forward, with only one to walk. And everyone remembers the traveler taking “the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” But for a century readers and critics have fought bitterly over what the poem really says. Is it a paean to triumphant self-assertion, where an individual boldly chooses to live outside conformity? Or a biting commentary on human self-deception, where a person chooses between identical roads and yet later romanticizes the decision as life altering? What Orr artfully reveals is that the poem speaks to both of these impulses, and all the possibilities that lie between them. The poem gives us a portrait of choice without making a decision itself. And in this, “The Road Not Taken” is distinctively American, for the United States is the country of choice in all its ambiguous splendor. Published for the poem’s centennial—along with a new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Frost’s poems, edited and introduced by Orr himself—The Road Not Taken is a treasure for all readers, a triumph of artistic exploration and cultural investigation that sings with its own unforgettably poetic voice.
Author: The American Poetry & Literacy Project Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 048611029X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 81
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More than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrate real and metaphorical journeys. Poems by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others.
Author: Don West Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 025209283X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 280
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This is the first book to celebrate the life and writing of one of the most charismatic Southern leaders of the middle twentieth century, Don West (1906-1992). West was a poet, a pioneer advocate for civil rights, a preacher, a historian, a labor organizer, a folk-music revivalist, an essayist, and an organic farmer. He is perhaps best known as an educator, primarily as cofounder of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and founder of the Appalachian South Folklife Center in West Virginia. In his old age, West served as an elder statesman for his causes. No Lonesome Road allows Don West to speak for himself. It provides the most comprehensive collection of his poetry ever published, spanning five decades of his literary career. It also includes the first comprehensive and annotated collection of West's nonfiction essays, articles, letters, speeches, and stories, covering his role at the forefront of Southern and Appalachian history, and as a pioneer researcher and writer on the South's little-known legacy of radical activism. Drawing from both primary and secondary sources, including previously unknown documents, correspondence, interviews, FBI files, and newspaper clippings, the introduction by Jeff Biggers stands as the most thorough, insightful biographical sketch of Don West yet published in any form. The afterword by George Brosi is a stirring personal tribute to the contributions of West and also serves as a thoughtful reflection on the interactions between the radicals of the 1930s and the 1960s. The best possible introduction to his extraordinary life and work, this annotated selection of Don West's writings will be inspirational reading for anyone interested in Southern history, poetry, religion, or activism.
Author: Callie Garnett Publisher: ISBN: 9781737277507 Category : Languages : en Pages : 110
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Poetry. Callie Garnett's first full-length collection of poems, WINGS IN TIME, is a book one watches as much as reads. Whether it be her memories of browsing now-extinct video stores, the tender lessons learned from children's public television (Garnett's mother is a long-time writer for Sesame Street), a student job at a CD & record shop, or Zoom meetings during quarantine back in her parents' home, the four sections of this book nod toward media's shifting formats and mirror the coming of age of the poet herself. Garnett's experiences and evocations have here been transcribed, recorded, rewound, shared and edited over emails, and nearly float context-less, full of the desire to touch the immaterial and the dematerialized.
Author: Joy Harjo Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393867927 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 286
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A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project—including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others—to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. The chosen poems reflect on the theme of place and displacement and circle the touchpoints of visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment. Each poem showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, “that heritage is a living thing, and there can be no heritage without land and the relationships that outline our kinship.” In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than five hundred living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.
Author: Patrick Flores-Scott Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR) ISBN: 1627797424 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 261
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A heartwrenching YA coming of age story about three siblings on a roadtrip in search of healing. With a strong family, the best friend a guy could ask for, and a budding romance with the girl of his dreams, life shows promise for Teodoro “T” Avila. But he takes some hard hits the summer before senior year when his nearly perfect brother, Manny, returns from a tour in Iraq with a devastating case of PTSD. In a desperate effort to save Manny from himself and pull their family back together, T’s fiery sister, Xochitl, hoodwinks her brothers into a cathartic road trip. Told through T’s honest voice, this is a candid exploration of mental illness, socioeconomic pressures, and the many inescapable highs and lows that come with growing up—including falling in love. Christy Ottaviano Books
Author: Ferdinand Rodriguez Sr.
Author: Ferdinand Rodriguez Sr.
Author: David Orr
Author: The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Author: Hazel Felleman
Author: Don West
Author: Callie Garnett
Author: Joy Harjo
Author: Sam Walter Foss
Author: Patrick Flores-Scott