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Author: K.B. Chandra Raj Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1698712804 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 86
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K.B. Chandra Raj was born and raised in Malaysia with firm roots in Sri Lanka (once known as Serendib and later Ceylon) is an accountant by training. He served a five-year period of articles with the prestigious firm of chartered accountants, Turquand Youngs and Company and has worked as chief accountant in Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone as Accountant General, Liberia and the United States of America. Chandra and his wife Siva have been blessed with two loving grandchildren – granddaughter Neela Chandraraj and grandson Deeran Vermeij. He presently lives in tranquil retirement with his wife Siva in Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.A. His seven previous publications: 1. For the Love of Shakespeare 2. Your Sense of Humor – Don’t Leave Home Without It 3. Mining my own life 4. Reminiscing in tranquility of a time long gone by 5. Itty Bitty Tiny Tall Tales 6. Rhyme to Pass the Time 7. Poems Please
Author: K.B. Chandra Raj Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1698712804 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 86
Book Description
K.B. Chandra Raj was born and raised in Malaysia with firm roots in Sri Lanka (once known as Serendib and later Ceylon) is an accountant by training. He served a five-year period of articles with the prestigious firm of chartered accountants, Turquand Youngs and Company and has worked as chief accountant in Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone as Accountant General, Liberia and the United States of America. Chandra and his wife Siva have been blessed with two loving grandchildren – granddaughter Neela Chandraraj and grandson Deeran Vermeij. He presently lives in tranquil retirement with his wife Siva in Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.A. His seven previous publications: 1. For the Love of Shakespeare 2. Your Sense of Humor – Don’t Leave Home Without It 3. Mining my own life 4. Reminiscing in tranquility of a time long gone by 5. Itty Bitty Tiny Tall Tales 6. Rhyme to Pass the Time 7. Poems Please
Author: John Halliday Publisher: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry ISBN: 9781852249878 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 207
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Gathering poems from Shakespeare to the present, Don't Bring Me No Rocking Chair addresses aging through the several ages of poetry. Poetry can help to give us a fresh language to think about aging and these poems are chosen to fortify, celebrate, lament, grieve, rage, and ridicule.
Author: Maya Angelou Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0307833275 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 60
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Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society.
Author: Maya Angelou Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company ISBN: 9781402720239 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 62
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Award-winning poet, author, playwright, historian, songwriter, singer, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, and civil rights activist: Dr. Maya Angelou needs no introduction. She is a true American icon—and now she is the first living poet included in Sterling’s celebrated Poetry for Young People series. Twenty-five of her finest poems capture a range of emotions and experiences, from the playful “Harlem Hopscotch” to the prideful “Me and My Work” to the soul-stirring “Still I Rise.” While her writings deal with the historic struggles of African-Americans, they all resonate with spiritual strength and hope for the future that everyone can relate to. A special inclusion in this volume is “A Brave and Startling Truth,” written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. Award-winning artist Jerome Lagarrigue masterfully illustrates each verse with evocative, stunning pictures. Dr. Edwin Graves Wilson, the Provost Emeritus of Wake Forest University and a longtime colleague of Dr. Angelou, has written the book’s introduction, the introductions to the individual poems, and the annotations.
Author: Ashton Applewhite Publisher: Celadon Books ISBN: 1250311489 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 302
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“Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride!
Author: Maya Angelou Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0812997875 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 337
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The beauty and spirit of Maya Angelou’s words live on in this complete collection of poetry, including her inaugural poem “On the Pulse of Morning” Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer’s remarkable life. Every poetic phrase, every poignant verse can be found within the pages of this sure-to-be-treasured volume—from her reflections on African American life and hardship in the compilation Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie (“Though there’s one thing that I cry for / I believe enough to die for / That is every man’s responsibility to man”) to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in the poem “Still I Rise” (“Out of the huts of history’s shame / I rise / Up from a past that’s rooted in pain / I rise”) to her “On the Pulse of Morning” tribute at President William Jefferson Clinton’s inauguration (“Lift up your eyes upon / The day breaking for you. / Give birth again / To the dream.”). Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry also features her final long-form poems, including “A Brave and Startling Truth,” “Amazing Peace,” “His Day Is Done,” and the honest and endearing Mother: “I feared if I let you go You would leave me eternally. You smiled at my fears, saying I could not stay in your lap forever” This collection also includes the never-before-published poem “Amazement Awaits,” commissioned for the 2008 Olympic Games: “We are here at the portal of the world we had wished for At the lintel of the world we most need. We are here roaring and singing. We prove that we can not only make peace, we can bring it with us.” Timeless and prescient, this definitive compendium will warm the hearts of Maya Angelou’s most ardent admirers as it introduces new readers to the legendary poet, activist, and teacher—a phenomenal woman for the ages.
Author: Peg Grimm Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing ISBN: 1598586599 Category : Automobile travel Languages : en Pages : 130
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Martha's Journey, Renascence in a Mobile Home Park is the story of a recently widowed 66 year old. She finds herself alone, adrift, and uncertain. She makes a 1300 mile car trip, a metaphor for the life changing journey she must undertake. The subtitle word "renascence" represents the reshaping of her thoughts, her fears, and her sadness. In the mobile home park she finds the humorous situations, the pathos, the caring and the sharing of those around her change her outlook, lessen her sadness, and temper her sense of aloneness. This becomes the stage of her new life. She has found her role. Above all she hears laughter and she responds and knows that smiles etch her face. These aging physically hampered old folks still feel life's force. Is that not an irony in itself? And she is grateful.
Author: Maya Angelou Publisher: Random House ISBN: 030780206X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 65
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Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me. Thus begins “Phenomenal Woman,” just one of the beloved poems collected here in Maya Angelou’s third book of verse. These poems are powerful, distinctive, and fresh—and, as always, full of the lifting rhythms of love and remembering. And Still I Rise is written from the heart, a celebration of life as only Maya Angelou has discovered it. “It is true poetry she is writing,” M.F.K. Fisher has observed, “not just rhythm, the beat, rhymes. I find it very moving and at times beautiful. It has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity. . . . It is astounding, flabbergasting, to recognize it, in all the words I read every day and night . . . it gives me heart, to hear so clearly the caged bird singing and to understand her notes.”
Author: K.B. Chandra Raj
Author: K.B. Chandra Raj
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Author: Maya Angelou