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Life Dances Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - Poetry Remembering the Company's Second Decade
ISBN: 9781604140033 / Angielski / Miękka / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life Dances is a book of poetry which captures the world-famous Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre from 1970-1980. The Introduction starts where the critics first begin to call Alvin Ailey "a genius," just after his company returns from its triumphant tour of Russia, "the first American modern dance company to go behind the Iron Curtain." The fact that this is "a black company" makes its success even more significant. Robertu Ras Riley was close to Alvin Ailey and to his art. He was his friend, fellow artist, and fan. In this section of the book, he describes Ailey and his choreography as he...
Life Dances is a book of poetry which captures the world-famous Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre from 1970-1980. The Introduction starts where the c...
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Food for Thought
ISBN: 9781604142730 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I have always written about something. I write from inspiration, behavior and voices of others. I seem to be motivated by almost anything to write. I feel that my writing is an ability that I was born with and I love to do it. No matter how I feel my writing helps me or allows me to release stress and be happier. Writing helps me to keep my perspective of life in balance. It is wonderful to be able to not only have a gift and we all do but, to use that gift by sharing with others.
I have always written about something. I write from inspiration, behavior and voices of others. I seem to be motivated by almost anything to write. I ...
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The Works of James M. Whitfield: America and Other Writings by a Nineteenth-Century African American Poet
ISBN: 9780807871782 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S. Levine and Ivy G. Wilson restore this African American poet, abolitionist, and intellectual to his rightful place in the arts and politics of the nineteenth-century United States.
Whitfield's works, including poems from his celebrated America and Other Poems (1853), were printed in influential journals and newspapers, such as Frederick Douglass's The North Star. A champion of the black emigration movement during the 1850s, Whitfield was embraced by African Americans as... In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S. Levine and Ivy G. Wilson restore this African Am...
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Who Shall Hear My Voice
ISBN: 9780976745068 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All creation has a voice. The key is finding it among all the chatter. "Journey with Leonard Fairley as he discovers God's voice speaking child-like whispers, weaving wondering walks, crafting new creation waters, carrying words penetrating deep into memories awakening listeners to adventures revealing Redeemer's finger prints covered over with wrinkles and currents of time. ..." Leonard E. Fairley, the third of nine children, is a native of Laurinburg, North Carolina. He presently serves as the Rockingham District Superintendent of The North Carolina Annual Conference of the United Methodist...
All creation has a voice. The key is finding it among all the chatter. "Journey with Leonard Fairley as he discovers God's voice speaking child-like w...
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When Angels Speak of Love
ISBN: 9781451639759 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From writer, critic, and popular cultural icon bell hooks comes a seductive portrait of passion in fifty soul-stirring poems.
"When Angels Speak of Love" heralds the debut of a major new poet: bell hooks. World renowned for her courageous, provocative intellectual writing and her alluring charisma, hooks poetically engages the erotic imagination -- creating a tapestry of words that are sensual, lush, and profoundly inspiring. In this beautiful new collection, hooks illuminates our experiences with love -- tracing the link between seduction and surrender; the intensity of desire; and... From writer, critic, and popular cultural icon bell hooks comes a seductive portrait of passion in fifty soul-stirring poems.
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In Purple Ink: Poetry for the Spirit
ISBN: 9780980100259 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The poems in this edition are designed to reconcile one's spirit to God's. This powerful reconciliation re-ignites the definition of love and confirms the covenant relationship which exists between the God and man.
The poems in this edition are designed to reconcile one's spirit to God's. This powerful reconciliation re-ignites the definition of love and confirms...
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The Blue Print: Poetry for the Soul
ISBN: 9780980100273 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In her first poetic work, Gage challenges the mediocrity of her own life and thus shares those challenges with others so that her testimony may inspire them to seek God for their life's calling.
In her first poetic work, Gage challenges the mediocrity of her own life and thus shares those challenges with others so that her testimony may inspir...
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The Bloods
ISBN: 9781848611511 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Bloods, his third poetry collection, D.S. Marriott's recurrent theme is that of memory and absence: 'bound to what is remembered/ what is absent'. In poems that both embody and inhabit this double obligation, memory and absence prove to be equally central to the mysteries of ordinary language, the politics and philosophy of enslavement, as well as markers-typographic, archival, ethical-respecting the borders of what cannot, finally, be known. Spare, lyrical, and deeply haunting, and yet not without irony or hope, The Bloods continues Marriott's pursuit of a style and concept of the...
In The Bloods, his third poetry collection, D.S. Marriott's recurrent theme is that of memory and absence: 'bound to what is remembered/ what is absen...
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Laced Bloodline
ISBN: 9780982282267 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Laced Bloodline is a road map through testimony which leads to renewal of the spirit. Karasi Burgundi shares part of her life's story, filled with unrest, to remind us that faith guides our feet, but only if we move them. She tells a story that shows her determination to move forward regardless of any hardship. Laced Bloodline is filled with realism which demands laughter, tears, and strength. It is a guide to emotional healing and nourishment.
Laced Bloodline is a road map through testimony which leads to renewal of the spirit. Karasi Burgundi shares part of her life's story, filled with unr...
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Erotic & Romantic Poetry
ISBN: 9781456863173 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Four poets, who have never met, collaborated via a social network site to present this volume of poetry. The authors live in Indiana, Canada via Kenya, and Trinidad. 214 pp.
Four poets, who have never met, collaborated via a social network site to present this volume of poetry. The authors live in Indiana, Canada via Kenya...
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My Pen Speaks: Poetic Mind Vibes
ISBN: 9781609113254 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My Pen Speaks is a collection of rhythmic thoughts, observations and life experiences brought together in a powerful reflection of free-form poetry. Resonating with power, passion and conviction, these poems show Patrice Watley-Williams' focus on paying it forward. We often think that the only ones that need us are the less fortunate. This is far from the truth. With success comes negativity and hardship, which can turn the triumph to loneliness and often misery. The poet welcomes the reader to share the joys as well as the hardships of her life, to learn to love and embrace the trials as...
My Pen Speaks is a collection of rhythmic thoughts, observations and life experiences brought together in a powerful reflection of free-form poetry. R...
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Soul Clothes
ISBN: 9781615990955 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heres your invitation to join a literary as well as a personal relationship with the deeply insightful and profoundly expressive perspectives of Regina Diane Jemison. As you encounter these soul-stirring pieces, you may imagine listening to one of Gods own trombones. The poetry, prose and personality in Soul Clothes, may rub up on a curious and compassionate place within you, a place of stark reality drenched in divine hope. Imagine a John Coltrane solo, with words instead of tenor sax.
Acclaim for Soul Clothes "Soul Clothes dances naked and unabashed... Heres your invitation to join a literary as well as a personal relationship with the deeply insightful and profoundly expressive perspectives of Regin...
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Soul Clothes
ISBN: 9781615990962 / Angielski / Twarda / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heres your invitation to join a literary as well as a personal relationship with the deeply insightful and profoundly expressive perspectives of Regina Diane Jemison. As you encounter these soul-stirring pieces, you may imagine listening to one of Gods own trombones. The poetry, prose and personality in Soul Clothes, may rub up on a curious and compassionate place within you, a place of stark reality drenched in divine hope. Imagine a John Coltrane solo, with words instead of tenor sax.
Acclaim for Soul Clothes "Soul Clothes dances naked and unabashed... Heres your invitation to join a literary as well as a personal relationship with the deeply insightful and profoundly expressive perspectives of Regin...
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One Sexy B. I. C. H. E.
ISBN: 9781483661865 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Words of Protest, Words of Freedom: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement and Era
ISBN: 9780822351030 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. "Words of Protest, Words of Freedom" is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955 75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, and Derek Walcott alongside lesser-known poets, activists, and ordinary citizens, this anthology presents a varied and vibrant set of voices, highlighting the tremendous...
Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. "Words of Protest, Words of Freedom" is the fi...
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A Man in Transition
ISBN: 9780615205144 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Real Niggas In Training (RNIT)
ISBN: 9780692758380 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Real Niggas in Training (RNIT) is a collective work of poetry and critical opinion pieces that discuss the most disproportionately targeted species on the planet earth: The Black male. It provides a poetic and editorial scope, from one Black man's perspective, on the thinking within the Black male subculture --- dissecting and probing beneath the complex layers of Black masculinity.
Real Niggas in Training (RNIT) is a collective work of poetry and critical opinion pieces that discuss the most disproportionately targeted species on...
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Gorée's Unwavering Songs Poetry
ISBN: 9780989491785 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Femi Ojo-Ade’s new poetry collection, Gorée’s Unwavering Songs comes a few years after his first, the honourably mentioned Exile at Home. The wait, one daresay, is worth it. This collection is poignant and thought-provoking. The poems delve into the innermost confines of Africa’s soul to address myriad issues stemming from the dual tragedies of slavery and colonialism. At the basis lie the multifarious forms of black experience in Africa and the Diaspora. There is none other more qualified to explore the bitter-sweet life of the continental and... Femi Ojo-Ade’s new poetry collection, Gorée’s Unwavering Songs comes a few years after his first, the honourably mentio... |
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We're On: A June Jordan Reader
ISBN: 9781938584350 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "June Jordan was not the blacksmith's daughter. June Jordan was the blacksmith. . . . She never waited around, not for anyone's permission, to write or act or be. . . . For this book to have its birth now, in the lopsided moment when we need it most, is no chance occurrence. This great woman blacksmith is still sweetly hammering us on." --Nikky Finney Poet, activist, and essayist June Jordan is a prolific, significant American writer who pushed the limits of political vision and moral witness, traversing a career of over forty years. With poetry, prose, letters, and more, this reader... "June Jordan was not the blacksmith's daughter. June Jordan was the blacksmith. . . . She never waited around, not for anyone's permission, to writ... |
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Every Single One
ISBN: 9781905233359 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Feeling a way through the electric, breathless experiences of young adulthood, 'Every Single One' is the debut pamphlet from Nina Bahadur. From New Year's Eve to the stretches of summer, dealing with prickly relationships and an exhaustive search for identity, these poems are an honest and unabashed exploration of youth, intimacy, and growth.
Feeling a way through the electric, breathless experiences of young adulthood, 'Every Single One' is the debut pamphlet from Nina Bahadur. From New Ye...
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