Author: Jack CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Poet Scout
Author: Jack CrawfordCaptain Jack Crawford
Author: Darlis A. MillerPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826351905
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Jack Crawford (1847–1917) entertained a generation of Americans and introduced them to their frontier heritage. A master storyteller who presented the West as he experienced it, he was one of America’s most popular performers in the late nineteenth century. Dressed in buckskin with a wide-brimmed sombrero covering his flowing locks, Crawford delivered a “frontier monologue and medley” that, as one New York City journalist reported, “held his audience spell-bound for two hours by a simple narration of his life.” In this biography, Darlis Miller re-creates his experiences as a scout, rancher, miner, reformer, husband and father, and poet and entertainer to reinterpret the American Dream and the lure of getting rich pursued by many during the Gilded Age.
The Poet Scout
Author: Jack CrawfordThe Poet Scout
Author: Jack CrawfordAmerica's Ancient Treasures
Author: Franklin FolsomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological museums and collections
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
New edition of a guide to visiting US and Canadian archaeological sites and museums of prehistoric Indian life.
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Author: Terrance HayesPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525504966
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America." -The New York Times In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered--the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.
Never Catch Me
Author: Darius SimpsonPublisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1638340552
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
2023 Midwest Book Award Winner 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist Darius Simpson’s debut collection Never Catch Me centers on Black boyhood in the midwest and familial disintegration over time. Simpson pulls back the curtain, exposing the violence enacted against and upon, Black bodies, and yet, still, each poem is saturated in revolution and hope. Never Catch Me is the anthem necessary to organize a community that is committed to a better right now–one that can only be achieved with an intensity and action that goes far beyond the page.
Simon Kenton, Kentucky Scout
Author: Thomas Dionysius ClarkPublisher:
ISBN: 9780945084396
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
No part of American history is more exciting than the 1770's, when Europeans first settled west of the Appalachian mountains in the land now known as Kentucky. Simon Kenton's story is synonymous with the story of that era. His life of excitement, adventure, and danger on the frontier made him one of the leading heroes of that time and, eventually a Kentucky legend.
Earth Room
Author: Rachel MannheimerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781955125109
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Selected by Nobel Laureate Louise Glück as Winner of the inaugural Bergman Prize, Rachel Mannheimer's debut, Earth Room, is a dazzling book-length narrative poem that explores with tenderness how art and love intersect to make one's life. Transporting the reader across decades and from the Moon to Mars by way of Alaska, Berlin, and the Hudson Valley, Earth Room considers a lineage of sculpture, performance, and land art--from Robert Smithson to Pina Bausch--with observations shaped by gender and environment, history and portents of apocalypse. With an urgent, direct, and unmistakably powerful voice, Mannheimer tests the line between nature and culture, ordinary life and performance. A work of sly wit and bracing sincerity, Earth Room is an original, unsparing book that Louise Glück calls "a lesson in how to make something of where we find ourselves."
The Berry Patch
Author: Elise Monsour PuckettPublisher: Elise Monsour Puckett
ISBN: 9780999439104
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A magical little story about two kids who meet a talking mouse, in a secret garden, who teaches them about the different kinds of berries and the importance of not picking or eating wild berries without parents' permission. Bonus feature: Secret map!