Author: P. Wright Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1456738801 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 50
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"No Longer A Victim: Poems From A Survivor"are Trice's personal expressions and feelings of hurt, hate, love, happiness, emptiness, and sadness after being molested by a relative as a child; these poems were written throughout her adolescent years. Trice's goal is to inspire others to write and/or talk about their abuse, instead of holding it in and letting it go. She wants other victims to know that they are not alone and they can become SURVIVORS too!
Author: Rebecca Street Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781534965577 Category : Adult child sexual abuse victims Languages : en Pages : 0
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You Can Help offers concrete tools to family and friends who wish to participate in the healing process of someone who has been sexually victimized. In Part One, the author chronicles her own journey to recovery while providing pragmatic advice and essential data from numerous experts in the field. Each chapter is followed by "Five Practical Tips." Part Two is comprised of inspirational stories by 19 other survivors of both abuse and assault (8 men and 11 women) who share what was most helpful and hurtful in their own recoveries. Besides empowering family and friends, You Can Help is a valuable asset for arming survivors in their battle against shame and is an important educational resource for professionals who work with trauma. You Can Help enables readers to: (1) BREAK THE SILENCE (silence is the biggest obstacle to recovery) (2) LEARN about the complex consequences of sexual trauma, including PTSD (3) ASSIST SURVIVORS in regaining trust, confidence, and joy.
Author: Brian Clements Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 0807025593 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 210
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A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Brenda Hillman, Natasha Threthewey, Robert Hass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Juan Felipe Herrera, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist, political figure, survivor, or concerned individual, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams; Senator Christopher Murphy; Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts; survivors of the Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston Emmanuel AME, and Virginia Tech shootings; and Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir, and Lucy McBath, mother of Jordan Davis. The result is a stunning collection of poems and prose that speaks directly to the heart and a persuasive and moving testament to the urgent need for gun control.
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0670012106 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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A New York Times bestseller and one of 2019's best-reviewed books, a poetic memoir and call to action from the award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson! Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she's never written about before. Described as "powerful," "captivating," and "essential" in the nine starred reviews it's received, this must-read memoir is being hailed as one of 2019's best books for teens and adults. A denouncement of our society's failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp, whether aloud, online, or only in their own hearts, SHOUT speaks truth to power in a loud, clear voice-- and once you hear it, it is impossible to ignore.
Author: Jeanette LeBlanc Publisher: ISBN: 9780997416428 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 186
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A love letter to those in the midst of the breakdown or a reckoning or a rise. A love letter to the wild ones, to the lost souls, to the free. To the seekers and the lovers of leaving and those intent on finding themselves amidst the rubble. Love letters to you. And always, in the end love letters to myself.
Author: L. Benoit Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 131269713X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 266
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This book covers many different issues that exist in our everyday lives. I felt a need to express them through my emotions and thoughts. This book deals with different kinds of abuse that people deal with, betrayal, bullying, suicide, depression, stalking, hate and love.
Author: Shawn Aveningo Sanders Publisher: ISBN: 9781948461320 Category : Languages : en Pages : 50
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How long can you keep a dark secret before you become completely unraveled? In What She Was Wearing, Shawn Aveningo Sanders uses poetry, prose, and letters to tell her #MeToo story--one that has taken over 30 years to reveal. In this collection, Shawn shares her nightmare of being raped at a fraternity toga party, and examines the event from a variety of perspectives, including poems written from the viewpoint of her attackers; the toga she was wearing; homecoming years later; and even the moment she told her college-aged children. As Shawn's story unfolds, the reader will come to understand how significant the aftermath of rape can be. For decades, she was "triggered" in the most unexpected ways and is just now recognizing how those triggers impacted her self-worth. Inspired by the countless number of women who are bravely opening up to share their truth, she adds her voice to the fight against the oppressive, misogynic times we live in. It's time to stop blaming the victim and to stop asking what she was wearing! For Shawn, writing through the pain and sharing these poems has proven to be cathartic and even epiphanic at times. It is her hope this work can help women of all ages face and cope with their own traumas, while letting them know they can indeed heal and go on to enjoy loving, trusting relationships. Advance Praise for What She Was Wearing "Starkly honest and memorably graceful, these poems are a virtuoso performance of feminism and survival." --Amy Miller, author of The Trouble with New England Girls "Forced into silence for too long, women all over this world are now speaking out, saying #MeToo. What She Was Wearing is Sanders' brave voice joining this transforming chorus." --Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita "Shawn Aveningo Sanders has turned shame, anguish and grief into poetry, ... teach[ing] the audience about pain in a way they will absorb and comprehend, creating deep levels of empathy?" --Judith Arcana, poet & activist for reproductive rights, author of Announcements from the Planetarium "What She Was Wearing demonstrates how sexual assault impacts the entirety of the survivor's life and shows us how one can fight their way back to feeling whole again." --Christopher Luna, Clark County, WA's inaugural poet laureate "As a fellow #MeToo survivor, all 25 poems in the book spoke to me." --Sharon Wood Wortman, poet, storyteller, author of The Portland Bridge Book "Fresh and unflinching" --Leslie Anne Mcilroy, co-founder HEArt: Human Equity through Art
Author: Al Alvarez Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 0747559058 Category : Suicide Languages : en Pages : 322
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'To write about suicide . to transform the subject into something beautiful - this is the foreboding task that Alvarez set for himself . he has succeeded.' The New York Times
Author: Hilda Schiff Publisher: ISBN: 9780953628063 Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Languages : en Pages : 0
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A compilation of 119 poems by fifty-nine writers, including such notables as Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Stephen Spender, and Anne Sexton, captures the suffering, courage, and rage of the victims of the Holocaust.
Author: P. Wright
Author: Rebecca Street
Author: Brian Clements
Author: Juliane Okot Bitek
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Author: Jeanette LeBlanc
Author: L. Benoit
Author: Shawn Aveningo Sanders
Author: Al Alvarez
Author: Hilda Schiff