Author: Alger HissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Recollections of a Life
Author: Alger HissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Recollections of a Lifetime
Author: Samuel Griswold GoodrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ridgefield (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Recollections of a Lifetime
Author: Daniel S. DeweesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calhoun County (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Recollections of My Life as a Woman
Author: Diane di PrimaPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140231587
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school. Immersing herself in Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a renowned poet, an influential editor, and a single mother at a time when this was unheard of. Vividly chronicling the intense, creative cauldron of those years, she recounts her revolutionary relationships and sexuality, and how her experimentation led her to define herself as a woman. What emerges is a fascinating narrative about the courage and triumph of the imagination, and how one woman discovered her role in the world.
Recollections of a Lifetime
Author: Daniel S. DeweesRecollections of My Life
Author: Santiago Ramón y CajalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nervous system
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Recollections of a Lifetime
Author: John GoodePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Recollections of a Happy Life
Author: Marianne NorthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanical artists
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Recollections of a Lifetime
Author: Roeliff BrinkerhoffRecollections of My Nonexistence
Author: Rebecca SolnitPublisher:
ISBN: 0593083334
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. Solnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her, the trauma that changed her, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women, including her. Looking back, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for women's rights. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer--books themselves, the gay men around her who offered other visions of what gender, family, and joy could be, and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. These influences taught her how to write in the way she has ever since, and gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others.