My Father Sings, to My Embarrassment - 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 My Father Sings, to My Embarrassment write by Sandra M. Castillo. This book was released on 2002. My Father Sings, to My Embarrassment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 7th Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize.
The Song Poet
The Song Poet - 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 Song Poet write by Kao Kalia Yang. This book was released on 2016-05-10. The Song Poet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story -- of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost.
Red Hot Salsa
Red Hot Salsa - 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 Red Hot Salsa write by Lori Marie Carlson. This book was released on 2005-04. Red Hot Salsa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a collection of poems written in both Spanish and English on being young and Latino living up in the United States.
Four Books, One Latino Life
Four Books, One Latino Life - 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 Four Books, One Latino Life write by Ignacio F. Rodeño Iturriaga. This book was released on 2021-02-19. Four Books, One Latino Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Acclaimed by many as one of the most gifted essayists and stylists in American letters these last few decades, Richard Rodriguez has left an indelible imprint on the tradition of autobiographical writing of the nation. Rodeño’s study of the four installments of Rodriguez’s self-writing offers an insightful and perspicacious analysis of the evolution and the most controversial elements in this Chicano writer’s production so far. Delving deeply into issues of racial and ethnic identity, sexual orientation, religious background, various types of hybridity, and different forms of socio-cultural adaptation, this book presents all kinds of incisive observations about the contested space(s) that “minority” self-writers are often pushed to occupy in the American tradition of the genre.
The Cambridge History of American Poetry
The Cambridge History of American Poetry - 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 Cambridge History of American Poetry write by Alfred Bendixen. This book was released on 2014-10-27. The Cambridge History of American Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars, this literary history emphasizes the complex roles that poetry has played in American cultural and intellectual life, detailing the variety of ways in which both public and private forms of poetry have met the needs of different communities at different times. The Cambridge History of American Poetry recognizes the existence of multiple traditions and a dramatically fluid canon, providing current perspectives on both major authors and a number of representative figures whose work embodies the diversity of America's democratic traditions.
