Author: Jasiri S.M. wa Uhuru Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1304308677 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 145
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SHADES OF LOVE: EVOLUTIONARY POEMS, PROSES & PONDERINGS is the 3rd book of poetry by Jasiri S.M. wa Uhuru and is a collection of the close to 40 love, life, spiritual & erotic poems contained in his 1st two books, LOST BETWEEN RHYME & REASON and EVOLUTIONARY SUICIDE. It's full of beautiful photos & artwork. Each poem appears on the page in a very creative & eye-catching layout. The fonts, lettering & type-style were chosen to reflect the individual personality of each poem to give the reader even more of an enjoyable ride as they take a journey inside the heart, soul & mind of the author as he paints a mental mural to express & convey the array of deep emotion, undeniable imagery & exacting intellect in each poem. In addition, SHADES OF LOVE includes a number of my brief but detailed & thought provoking personal views & understandings & ponderings on love, life, spiritual evolution etc.
Author: Ruth Padel Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 030795952X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 162
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This remarkable book brings us an intimate and moving interpretation of the life and work of Charles Darwin, by Ruth Padel, an acclaimed British poet and a direct descendant of the famous scientist. Charles Darwin, born in 1809, lost his mother at the age of eight, repressed all memory of her, and poured his passion into solitary walks, newt collecting, and shooting. His five-year voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, when he was in his twenties, changed his life. Afterward, he began publishing his findings and working privately on groundbreaking theories about the development of animal species, including human beings, and he made a nervous proposal to his cousin Emma. Padel’s poems sparkle with nuance and feeling as she shows us the marriage that ensued, and the rich, creative atmosphere the Darwins provided for their ten children. Charles and Emma were happy in each other, but both were painfully aware of the gulf between her deep Christian faith and his increasing religious doubt. The death of three of their children accentuated this gulf. For Darwin, death and extinction were nature’s way of developing new species: the survival of the fittest; for Emma, death was a prelude to the afterlife. These marvelous poems—enriched by helpful marginal notes and by Padel’s ability to move among multiple viewpoints, always keeping Darwin at the center—bring to life the great scientist as well as the private man and tender father. This is a biography in rare form, with an unquantifiable depth of family intimacy and warmth.
Author: Jamel Brinkley Publisher: Graywolf Press ISBN: 1555979955 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J’Ouvert can’t help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. A pair of college boys on the prowl follow two girls home from a party and have to own the uncomfortable truth of their desires. And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history. Jamel Brinkley’s stories, in a debut that announces the arrival of a significant new voice, reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all.
Author: Rae Armantrout Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 0819571105 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 143
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Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010) Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009) Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded view of the arc of her writing. The poems in the first section, Versed, play with vice and versa, the perversity of human consciousness. They flirt with error and delusion, skating on a thin ice that inevitably cracks: "Metaphor forms / a crust / beneath which / the crevasse of each experience." Dark Matter, the second section, alludes to more than the unseen substance thought to make up the majority of mass in the universe. The invisible and unknowable are confronted directly as Armantrout's experience with cancer marks these poems with a new austerity, shot through with her signature wit and stark unsentimental thinking. Together, the poems of Versed part us from our assumptions about reality, revealing the gaps and fissures in our emotional and linguistic constructs, showing us ourselves where we are most exposed. A reader's companion is available at http://versedreader.site.wesleyan.edu/
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