Because What Else Could I Do - 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 Because What Else Could I Do write by Martha Collins. This book was released on 2019-08-23. Because What Else Could I Do available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Because What Else Could I Do is a sequence of fifty-five untitled short poems, almost all of them addressed to the poet’s husband during the six months following his sudden and shocking death. Perhaps best known for her historical explorations of sociopolitical issues, Martha Collins did not originally intend to publish these poems. But while they are intensely personal, they make use of all of her poetic attention and skills. Spare, fragmented, musical even in their most heartbreaking moments, the poems allow the reader to share both an intimate expression the poet’s grief and a moving record of her attempt to comprehend the events surrounding her loss.
Admit One: An American Scrapbook
Admit One: An American Scrapbook - 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 Admit One: An American Scrapbook write by Martha Collins. This book was released on 2016-03-31. Admit One: An American Scrapbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Admit One: An American Scrapbook,Martha Collins relentlessly traces the history of scientific racism from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fairthrough the eugenics movement of the 1920s. Using a wide variety of documentary sources, including her Illinois grandfather's newspaper, Collins constructs a "scrapbook" of fragments, quotations, narrative passages, and lyrical riffs that reveal startling connections between the Fair, the Bronx Zoo, and ideas that culminated in anti-immigration, anti-miscegenation, and eugenic sterilization laws in 1924. Among the book's recurring elements are evolving portraits of the "exhibited" African Ota Benga, the sterilization victim Carrie Buck, and the eugenicist Madison Grant, whose reach extended to Nazi Germany. Following the practice begun in her book-length poem Blue Front and continued in her exploration of race in White Papers, Collins combines careful research with innovative poetic techniques to create an arresting account of a segment of American history that haunts us even today. Admit One is a brilliant, troubling, necessary read.
The Book of (More) Delights
The Book of (More) Delights - 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 The Book of (More) Delights write by Ross Gay. This book was released on 2023-09-19. The Book of (More) Delights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.
The Essential Rumi
The Essential Rumi - 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 The Essential Rumi write by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana). This book was released on 1999. The Essential Rumi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rumi the Persian poet is widely acknowledged as being the greatest Sufi mystic of his age. He was the founder of the brotherhood of the Whirling Dervishes. This is a collection of his poetry.
The Invitation
The Invitation - 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 The Invitation write by Oriah Mountain Dreamer. This book was released on 2000. The Invitation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cult bestseller The Invitation is more than just a poem. It is a profound invitation to a life that is more fulfilling and passionate, with greater integrity. This book is a word-of-mouth sensation, whose truths have resonated with people all over the world, and is now reissued with a beautiful new cover design.
