Poems, Maxims and Extended Thoughts

ISBN-13: 9781524970369 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018

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Spis treści

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter One: The Poems
• Messengers
• Howling at the Moon
• Use Me No More My Brothers
• Yellow Leaves
• Communication
• Images
• Mark
• Writing
• Older, But not Wiser
• What Were You Saying?
• Listening and Hearing (Making Connections)
• DD The Bag Boy
• Only If
• Not Again!
• Discipline Not Taken Lightly
• So You're Married . . . How About That?
• The Best Kisses
• Making Love Is Not a Fight
• The Telegraphed Note
• Blank Card
• Promises
• Torn Up
• Sadness
• I Never Thought That I
• Lessons Learned
• You Lied
• Thank You!
• Study Habits
• If I Ever Cross Your Mind
• Hello . . . ?
• You Asked
• When
• I Love
• Truths: I Can't Come to Class Today
• Chapter Two: The Maxims
• Metaphor
• Healing
• If
• Excuses
• The Question
• Phenomenology "". . . Getting Back to the Things Themselves"" (Husserl)
• Sitting Still Is Often the Best Course of Action
• Outsourcing Contributes to Poverty and Hunger in America
• Lost in Here
• Where I Live
• Searching
• No Appreciation? So What?
• For the Children
• Maybe It's the Wind
• Sitting Across the Table
• Sorry
• Brothers
• Cold Shoulder
• A Loving Mother and Wife
• Enlightenment
• Mommy
• Defiance
• Wilderness
• While You Slept
• Grandmother
• Daughter
• Cutting Losses and Mourning
• Time
• To Live
• The Hug
• Pugs
• Turtles
• Apathy USA
• Judas Kiss
• Life
• Insensitive
• Generation X
• Microaggressions
• Resistance
• When Students Tune Out
• Movement
• Feet
• Aging
• Headache
• Observant and Focused (Recognizing Aggression)
• The Widening of the Gap in Educational Achievement
• Holding onto Hate
• New Material
• From Narrative to Formal Writing
• Agenda
• Stolen
• Spirited Away
• Coming from Another Place
• Where Does Hate Come From?
• Into the Night and Lost Forever (An Interior Monologue)
• Just Get a Job
• Idle Mind
• Conflict in Consciousness
• Was It Really Like That?
• For You, Granddaughter
• Cutting (For Casey)
• ""Ahhhhhhhhhh . . .""
• The Kien Evolution
• Mom, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother: Things I, We Did Not Say
• Chapter Three: Extended Thoughts
• Salamanders
• People of Color
• Finding a Sense of Purpose
• Eucalyptus Leaves
• Beneath It All
• The Dead Cat
• Exploring the Written Word
• Marginality: Promotion of the Theory and Use of the Label