My River Speaks
Author | : Marianne Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Magothy River Region (Md.) |
ISBN | : 9780966523904 |
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Author | : Marianne Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Magothy River Region (Md.) |
ISBN | : 9780966523904 |
Author | : Elizabeth Rani Segran |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2012-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 8184756941 |
In the ancient Tamil country, the Vaiyai was much more than a mighty river rushing towards the sea. People knew the river intimately and lived their lives upon its banks. In these exquisite poems from the distant past (second to eighth century CE), we glimpse the ebb and flow of everyday life: the bathing, the water games, the lovers’ quarrels and the sacred rituals. Breathtaking in their descriptive power and graceful in their celebration of sensuality, the Vaiyai poems from the Paripāṭal anthology delight our senses and give us insight into a world long past. In V.N. Muthukumar and Elizabeth Segran’s radiant new translation, the Vaiyai River comes alive to a new generation of readers.
Author | : Emmy Pérez |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0816534519 |
Emmy Pérez’s poetry collection With the River on Our Face flows through the Southwest and the Texas borderlands to the river’s mouth in the Rio Grande Valley/El Valle. The poems celebrate the land, communities, and ecology of the borderlands through lyric and narrative utterances, auditory and visual texture, chant, and litany that merge and diverge like the iconic river in this long-awaited collection. Pérez reveals the strengths and nuances of a universe where no word is “foreign.” Her fast-moving, evocative words illuminate the prayers, gasps, touches, and gritos born of everyday discoveries and events. Multiple forms of reference enrich the poems in the form of mantra: ecologist’s field notes, geopolitical and ecofeminist observations, wildlife catalogs, trivia, and vigil chants. “What is it to love / within viewing distance of night / vision goggles and guns?” is a question central to many of these poems. The collection creates a poetic confluence of the personal, political, and global forces affecting border lives. Whether alluding to El Valle as a place where toxins now cross borders more easily than people or wildlife, or to increased militarization, immigrant seizures, and twenty-first-century wall-building, Pérez’s voice is intimate and urgent. She laments, “We cannot tattoo roses / On the wall / Can’t tattoo Gloria Anzaldúa’s roses / On the wall”; yet, she also reaffirms Anzaldúa’s notions of hope through resilience and conocimiento. With the River on Our Face drips deep like water, turning into amistad—an inquisition into human relationships with planet and self.
Author | : Dr. Michael Dassama |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2016-03-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1514465973 |
The overzealousness of man to push beyond destiny in an attempt to achieve success in life had always been the regrettable aftermath that tends to hunt the starving innocent souls to damnation. The issue of compromise between failure to achieve the golden flees of life creates an inner war, within which a decision has to be made. If the cardinal principles of life are to exist as inheritors of what had been, designated for mankind by the creators, shouldnt it be the duty of man to do what ought to be in order to posses possession? Or could it be in conformity with what the Lord Jesus said: Out of thy perspiration shall thou eat bread?
Author | : Nora Laila Staklis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : American River (Calif.) |
ISBN | : 9780975597231 |
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : Jump At The Sun |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2009-01-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
Langston Hughes has long been acknowledged as the voice, and his poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, the song, of the Harlem Renaissance. Although he was only seventeen when he composed it, Hughes already had the insight to capture in words the strength and courage of black people in America. /DIVDIV Artist E.B. Lewis acts as interpreter and visionary, using watercolor to pay tribute to Hughes’s timeless poem, a poem that every child deserves to know.
Author | : Cat Jarman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2022-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1643138707 |
Follow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India. An acclaimed bioarchaeologist, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge forensic techniques to spark her investigation into the history of the Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now over one thousand years old, she can determine childhood diet—and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain a death-date down to the range of a few years. And her research offers enlightening new visions of the roles of women and children in Viking culture. Three years ago, a Carnelian bead came into her temporary possession. River Kings sees her trace the path of this ancient piece of jewelry back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, discovering along the way that the Vikings’ route was far more varied than we might think—that with them came people from the Middle East, not just Scandinavia, and that the reason for this unexpected integration between the Eastern and Western worlds may well have been a slave trade running through the Silk Road, all the way to Britain. Told as a riveting history of the Vikings and the methods we use to understand them, this is a major reassessment of the fierce, often-mythologized voyagers of the North—and of the global medieval world as we know it.
Author | : Ann Hagedorn |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2004-02-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0684870665 |
Traces the story of John Rankin and the heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad, identifying the pre-Civil War conflicts between abolitionists and slave chasers along the Ohio River banks.
Author | : Marjory Stoneman Douglas |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1561647799 |
Born in Minnesota in 1890 and raised and educated in Massachusetts, Marjory Stoneman Douglas came to Florida in 1915 to work for her father, who had just started a newspaper called the Herald in a small town called Miami. In this "frontier" town, she recovered from a misjudged marriage, learned to write journalism and fiction and drama, took on the fight for feminism and racial justice and conservation long before those causes became popular, and embarked on a long and uncommonly successful voyage into self-understanding. Way before women did this sort of thing, she recognized her own need for solitude and independence, and built her own little house away from town in an area called Coconut Grove. She still lives there, as she has for over 40 years, with her books and cats and causes, emerging frequently to speak, still a powerful force in ecopolitics. Marjory Stoneman Douglas begins this story of her life by admitting that "the hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself" and ends it stating her belief that "life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or a longer life, are not necessary." The voice that emerges in between is a voice from the past and a voice from the future, a voice of conviction and common sense with a sense of humor, a voice so many audiences have heard over the years—tough words in a genteel accent emerging from a tiny woman in a floppy hat—which has truly become the voice of the river.
Author | : Alessandro Sanna |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS |
ISBN | : 9781592701490 |
"The River tells four stories about life on the Po River, one story for each of the four seasons"--