Author: Boris Franklin Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1441594450 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 139
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Boris Franklin has been writing rap songs since he was 10 and is now putting his experience about his life into poetry. In 1990 Boris won a writing contest for his prize writing rap song on the importance of passing the High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) taking top honors district-wide. He continues to put his talent to work by poetic expressions. The Poetic Side of A Man's Mind is not only informative, but also entertaining. This seductively written guide will help you form a better relationship with the one you love, as well as with yourself.
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana) Publisher: ISBN: 9780140195798 Category : Persian poetry Languages : en Pages : 336
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Rumi the Persian poet is widely acknowledged as being the greatest Sufi mystic of his age. He was the founder of the brotherhood of the Whirling Dervishes. This is a collection of his poetry.
Author: New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperative Publisher: Haymarket Books ISBN: 1642590819 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 121
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This poignant play, written by current and formerly incarcerated authors uses, gripping truths and soulful dialogue to reveal the human cost of America's for-profit justice system. The story follows Omar, pulled back into the prison system after trying to lift his family out of poverty, who struggles to maintain a sense of humanity while fighting to keep his loved ones close. According to NJ.com, "From institutionalized racism to addiction to the prison-industrial complex, this is a play about a great many large, pressing social challenges, but at its core it is a play about one family and its struggles to remain united as their world steadily crumbles. Impactful, warm, and unrelenting, this play that began as an experiment turns out to be an excellent examination of the human cost of a harsh and inhospitable world." For every print copy of Caged purchased from Haymarket Books through June 1, Haymarket will donate a copy of the book to prisoners and their families working with the New Jersey Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prisons Consortium (NJ-STEP). All profits from the book will go to a prison re-entry fund run by The Second Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth, New Jersey to help the playwrights secure housing and continue their schooling upon release.
Author: Ocean Vuong Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525562044 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 258
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The instant New York Times Bestseller • Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction “A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years. Named a Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine and more!
Author: Boris Franklin Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 147716703X Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 139
Book Description
Boris Franklin has been writing rap songs since he was 10 and is now putting his experience about his life into poetry. In 1990 Boris won a writing contest for his prize writing rap song on the importance of passing the High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) taking top honors district-wide. He continues to put his talent to work by poetic expressions. The Poetic Side of A Mans Mind is not only informative, but also entertaining. This seductively written guide will help you form a better relationship with the one you love, as well as with yourself.
Author: Anthony Holden Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476712778 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 336
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In this unique poetry anthology, 100 grown men - bestselling authors, poets laureate, actors, producers and other prominent figures from the arts, sciences and politics, share the poems that have moved them to tears.
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