America, My New Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America, My New Home write by Monica Gunning. This book was released on 2004-11-01. America, My New Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From her Caribbean island birthplace, a young girl carries a dream and journeys to a new land that is at once puzzling, frightening, and inspiring. In twenty-three compelling poems, Jamaican-born poet Monica Gunning tells her immigrant's story with gentle humor, grace, and a child's sense of wonder. She describes a place where skyscrapers, rather than the moon, light the night; where people dress in woolens, ready for snow; where no one knows your name. Yet this same place offers exciting treasures: dizzying amusement park rides, stirring symphony concerts, flashy circus performers, towering cathedrals, and captivating art museums that speak to those who linger. Above all, this new land is place where "hope glows, a beacon / guiding ocean-deep dreamers / from storm surfs to shore."
America, My New Home
America, My New Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America, My New Home write by Monica Gunning. This book was released on 2004. America, My New Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Monica Gunning tells her immigration story through poetry with gentle humor, grace, and a child's sense of wonder.
Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone
Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone write by Janice N. Harrington. This book was released on 2007. Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Memory and its embodiment in a colloquial, yet highly wrought musical language are what originally drew me to Harrington's manuscript and what continues to pull me back. We learn the story of Lillian and Webster and their children and grandchildren, a black family living a hardscrabble life in the rural South more than sixty years ago. Set on the cusp of the Civil Rights era, the poems chronicle a way of life that has long since vanished."--Elizabeth Spires, from the foreword Janice N. Harrington is an award-winning children's book author and a nationally recognized storyteller. She works as a librarian in Champaign, Illinois.
Can't Find My Way Home
Can't Find My Way Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Can't Find My Way Home write by Martin Torgoff. This book was released on 2004-05-13. Can't Find My Way Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can't Find My Way Home is a history of illicit drug use in America in the second half of the twentieth century and a personal journey through the drug experience. It's the remarkable story of how America got high, the epic tale of how the American Century transformed into the Great Stoned Age. Martin Torgoff begins with the avant-garde worlds of bebop jazz and the emerging Beat writers, who embraced the consciousness-altering properties of marijuana and other underground drugs. These musicians and writers midwifed the age of marijuana in the 1960s even as Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass) discovered the power of LSD, ushering in the psychedelic era. While President John Kennedy proclaimed a New Frontier and NASA journeyed to the moon, millions of young Americans began discovering their own new frontiers on a voyage to inner space. What had been the province of a fringe avant-garde only a decade earlier became a mass movement that affected and altered mainstream America. And so America sped through the century, dropping acid and eating magic mushrooms at home, shooting heroin and ingesting amphetamines in Vietnam, snorting cocaine in the disco era, smoking crack cocaine in the devastated inner cities of the 1980s, discovering MDMA (Ecstasy) in the rave culture of the 1990s. Can't Find My Way Home tells this extraordinary story by weaving together first-person accounts and historical background into a narrative vast in scope yet rich in intimate detail. Among those who describe their experiments with consciousness are Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Robert Stone, Wavy Gravy, Grace Slick, Oliver Stone, Peter Coyote, David Crosby, and many others from Haight Ashbury to Studio 54 to housing projects and rave warehouses. But Can't Find My Way Home does not neglect the recovery movement, the war on drugs, and the ongoing debate over drug policy. And even as Martin Torgoff tells the story of his own addiction and recovery, he neither romanticizes nor demonizes drugs. If he finds them less dangerous than the moral crusaders say they are, he also finds them less benign than advocates insist. Illegal drugs changed the cultural landscape of America, and they continue to shape our country, with enormous consequences. This ambitious, fascinating book is the story of how that happened.
America, My New Home
America, My New Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America, My New Home write by Monica Gunning. This book was released on 2004. America, My New Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In twenty-three compelling poems, a young girl carries her dreams from her Carribbean island birthplace to America, a new land she finds at once puzzling, frightening, and inspiring.
