Sacrilegion PDF Download

Author: L. Lamar Wilson
Publisher: Poetry
ISBN: 9780932112934
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 79

View

Book Description
Collection of poetry, selected by Lee Ann Brown as Winner of the Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series award.

Author: Rigoberto Gonzalez
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472036971
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 246

View

Book Description
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

Author: Greg Castle
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557605164
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 740

View

Book Description
The Apocalepticon, a modern neo-classical epic poem, covering an encyclopedic range of subject matter, historical themes, philosophical schools and theological traditions - A work conceived over three decades, in a culmination of poetical language, that gives a new and original voice to the Western Epic Tradition.

Author: Natalie Diaz
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496219104
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 460

View

Book Description
Sport has always been central to the movements of both the nation-state and the people who resist that nation-state. Think of the Roman Colosseum, Jesse Owens's four gold-medal victories in the 1936 Nazi Olympics, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's protest at the 1968 Olympics, and the fallout Colin Kaepernick suffered as a result of his recent protest on the sidelines of an NFL game. Sport is a place where the body and the mind are the most dangerous because they are allowed to be unified as one energy. Bodies Built for Game brings together poems, essays, and stories that challenge our traditional ideas of sport and question the power structures that athletics enforce. What is it that drives us to athletics? What is it that makes us break our own bodies or the bodies of others as we root for these unnatural and performed victories? Featuring contributions from a diverse group of writers, including Hanif Abdurraqib, Fatimah Asghar, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Louise Erdrich, Toni Jensen, Ada Limón, Tommy Orange, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, and Maya Washington, this book challenges America by questioning its games.

Author: Louis Gaston de Ségur
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375022131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

View

Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Author: George Keller
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801895189
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 207

View

Book Description
While he celebrated higher education as the engine of progress in every aspect of American life, George Keller also challenged academia’s sacred cows and entrenched practices with provocative ideas designed to induce “creative discomfort.” Completed shortly before his death in 2007, Higher Education and the New Society caps the career of one of higher education’s exceptional minds. Refining and expanding ideas Keller developed over his fifty-year career, this book is a clarion call for change. In the face of a transformed American society marked by population shifts, technological upheavals, and a volatile economic landscape, Keller urges leaders in higher education to see and confront their own serious problems. With characteristic forthrightness and inimitable wit, Keller targets critical areas where bold thinking is especially important, taking on such explosive issues as the configuration of academic disciplines, the runaway problem of big-time sports, the decline of the liberal arts, and the urgent problems of finances and costs. Keller expected this book to ignite discussion and controversy within academic circles, and he hoped fervently that it would also lead to real thinking, real analysis, and urgently needed transformation.

Author: John T. Edge
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820354295
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129

View

Book Description
Yes, there is barbecue, but that's just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering. The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney, Frank X Walker, Sheryl St. Germain, Molly McCully Brown, and forty-five more. These poets represent past, current, and future conversations about what it means to be southern. Throughout the anthology, region is layered with race, class, sexuality, and other shaping identities. With an introduction by Sandra Beasley, a thought-provoking foreword by W. Ralph Eubanks, and luminous original artwork by Julie Sola, this collection is an ideal gift. Meant to be savored slowly or devoured at once, these pages are a perfect way to spend the hour before supper, with a glass of iced tea-or the hour after, with a pour of bourbon-and a fitting celebration of the SFA's focus and community.

Author: David Deutsch
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611179300
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 157

View

Book Description
The first book-length study of an influential voice in contemporary queer American literature Since the early 1980s, Jim Grimsley has received increasing acclaim for his achievements in a variety of dramatic and literary genres. Through his novels, plays, and short stories, Grimsley portrays an unrelenting search for happiness and interrogates themes of corruption, technology, poverty, domestic abuse, sexuality, and faith in the contemporary United States. Through unique characters and a multitude of forms, the award-winning author explores the complexities of southern culture, his own troubled childhood, and larger pieces of the human experience. In Understanding Jim Grimsley, David Deutsch offers the first book-length study of Grimsley's diverse work and argues for his vital role in shaping the contemporary queer American literary scene. Deutsch helps readers navigate the intricacies of Grimsley's influential drama, fiction, and fantasy science fiction—including his most popular novel, Dream Boy—by weaving together discussions of common themes. Placing Grimsley's plays, novels, and short stories in conversation with one another, Deutsch reveals Grimsley's development throughout a career in which he has investigated hope and hardship, youth and maturity, experimentation and convention. Deutsch also provides vital historical and cultural contexts for understanding how Grimsley engages, expands, and challenges literary and theatrical traditions. Deutsch demonstrates a deep, critical understanding of Grimsley's hard-earned, pragmatic optimism. Intertwining Grimsley's major fiction and plays and contextualizing these within a broader American landscape, this volume brings his work more completely into the conversation on southern queer literature.

Author: Greg Castle
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312100958
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 620

View

Book Description
"THE HERMETALEPTCON" A Mythological Journey, in the Epic Poetry Tradition, through the width and breadth, of world culture and Archaeological Proto-Civilization - Establishing, a connective narrative arc, to the Atlantean Flood Destruction Cycle, and the mysterious origins, of Mythological Antediluvian Legends, that have subsequently, come down to us, throughout the ages: In an often fascinating similarity, among disparate, geographically isolated societies, yet consistent in their oral and written traditions - Recounting these tales now, from that Universal Ontological Perspective, of the Surviving Tales, of the Biblical Flood - "The Hermetalepticon", is also complimented, with a compendium of Illustrations, making it a unique literary and artistic modern statement: Thus drawing upon the most ancient, collected Mythic Tales, ever recorded, at the dawn, of human history, at the tumultuous conception, of the earliest rise and inspired expression, of World Civilization -

Author: Rose McLarney
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820356247
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224

View

Book Description
Getting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the Blue Ridge to the Cumberland Plateau, is one of the most biodiverse on earth. A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia—a hybrid literary and natural history anthology—showcases sixty of the many species indigenous to the region. Ecologically, culturally, and artistically, Southern Appalachia is rich in paradox and stereotype-defying complexity. Its species range from the iconic and inveterate—such as the speckled trout, pileated woodpecker, copperhead, and black bear—to the elusive and endangered—such as the American chestnut, Carolina gorge moss, chucky madtom, and lampshade spider. The anthology brings together art and science to help the reader experience this immense ecological wealth. Stunning images by seven Southern Appalachian artists and conversationally written natural history information complement contemporary poems from writers such as Ellen Bryant Voigt, Wendell Berry, Janisse Ray, Sean Hill, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Deborah A. Miranda, Ron Rash, and Mary Oliver. Their insights illuminate the wonders of the mountain South, fostering intimate connections. The guide is an invitation to get to know Appalachia in the broadest, most poetic sense.