Download or read book Blood Sisters of the Republic written by Wendy Willis and published by Press 53. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is this creature Wendy Willis calls Blood Sisters of the Republic? Let me offer a few excited observations: a compendium, an almanac, a miscellany. A genealogy both personal and broadly American. An investigation of loss. A lush, lyrical hymn to maddening and beloved communities that define us. Willis deftly inhabits a tremendous number of drives-the lyrically sensual, the intimately epistolary, the historiographic-but most central to the spirit of this stunning first collection is the drive to pay unceasing attention to the ruined and tender world. Blood Sisters of the Republic explodes all well-behaved notions of what a collection of poetry might contain, insisting on a vaster and more civic notion of the art form." -Lia Purpura, author of King Baby, 2008 Beatrice Hawley Award winner

Download or read book Blood Sisters written by Marilyn Yalom and published by . This book was released on 1993-08-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The promises of "liberty, equality, and fraternity" did not extend to women, but with the publication of Blood Sisters, the voices of the women who witnessed the French Revolution are finally restored to history." "They left us an invaluable legacy - some eighty accounts of what they saw and experienced. These chronicles range from the sixteen-page testimonial of the Widow Bault, wife of the concierge in Marie-Antoinette's prison, to the ten-volume memoirs of the prolific writer Mme de Genlis; from the dictated life story of an illiterate peasant to acknowledged classics by Mme Roland and Mme de Stael. No other literature in the Western world offers such an early treasury of women recording their personal histories within the context of a great political cataclysm." "Their stories describe how they participated, individually and collectively, in the revolutionary saga and how they sometimes succeeded in manipulating a political system designed to exclude them. Whatever their political loyalties, the women saw themselves as victims, and their accounts document the connection between gender and victimization. Yet they did not accept their victimization passively. The memoirists of Blood Sisters portray themselves as active participants cheering the Revolution on its course or, more frequently, resisting it." "Marilyn Yalom singles out those who authored the most unforgettable chronicles: the governess of the royal children; the servant attending Marie-Antoinette in her last days; Robespierre's sister, Charlotte; the peasant woman from the Vendee who fought as a soldier; and, of course, Mme Roland, whose autobiography has enchanted readers for centuries. Aristocrats and bourgeois women, royalists and republicans, even the few peasant and working-class women who left accounts of their experiences - all were bound together by a common nightmare." "These compelling human dramas - moving accounts of survival on the cusp of catastrophe - add suffering faces to the canvas of lofty thinkers and fiery orators who dominate the historiography of the Revolution. They tell us what it was like to suffer a miscarriage as the result of a street demonstration, to choose between nursing a baby and following a husband to war, to resist jailers' demands for sexual favors. A tragic note prevails: the sense of having survived when so many others perished often produced what we might now call "survivor's guilt." Their testimonies, Yalom argues, spring from an inner urgency to bear witness for those who were sacrificed on the revolutionary altar. Their writings eloquently attest to the human costs of radical social change."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book Blood Sisters written by Graham Masterton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katie Maguire never thought Ireland's nuns would need her protection... In a nursing home on the outskirts of Cork, an elderly nun has been suffocated in her sleep. It looks like a mercy-killing – until another sister from the same convent is found floating in the Glashaboy river. The nuns were good women, doing God's work. Why would anyone want to kill them? But then a child's skull is unearthed in the garden of the nuns' convent, and DS Katie Maguire discovers a fifty-year-old secret that just might lead her to the killer... if the killer doesn't find her first.

Download or read book Blood Sisters written by Barbara Keating and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During their childhood years in the Kenya Highlands of the 1950s, three girls from vastly different backgrounds become blood sisters, promising that nothing will ever destroy the bond between them. But as they grow up love rivalries, broken promises and the tensions and violence of a newly independent Kenya threaten to tear their childhood dreams apart.

Download or read book Blood Sisters written by Mark Manley and published by Ace Books. This book was released on 1985-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen-year-old Eric Langer and his brother Carl are plunged into a nightmare from beyond the grave, trapped by the strange possession affecting his sister and mother

Download or read book Our Sister Republic written by Col. Albert S. Evans and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Download or read book Blood Sisters written by Cristina Fernández Cubas and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Sister Republic written by Albert S. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blood Sisters written by Dennis J. Bershaw and published by Sisters in Arms. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught in an alternate war-torn United States, our heroines must rescue their twin daughters and bring down an oppressive government.

Download or read book These Are Strange Times My Dear written by Wendy Willis and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these pointed and wide–ranging essays, Wendy Willis explores everything from personal resistance to the rise of political podcasts, civic loneliness to the exploitation of personal data, public outrage to the opioid crisis—all with a poet's gift for finding the sacred in the mundane, a hope in the dark. One of the country's sharpest observers of politics, art, and the American spirit, Willis returns often to the demanding question posed by Czech writer, activist, and politician Václav Havel: What does it mean to live in truth? Her view is honed by her place as a poet, as a mother, and, when necessary, as an activist. Together, the essays in These Are Strange Times, My Dear work within that largely unmapped place where the heartbreaks and uncertainties of one's inner life brush up against the cruelties and responsibilities of politics and government and our daily lives."

Download or read book Blood Sisters written by Jane Corry and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un matin ensoleillé de mai, trois petites filles sont sur le chemin de l'école. Une heure plus tard, l'une d'entre elles est morte. Quinze ans passent. Kitty vit aujourd'hui recluse dans une maison de repos et en elle-même. Elle n'a en effet aucun souvenir de l'accident qui lui a fait perdre l'usage de la parole. Alison, quant à elle, enseigne l'art et semble bien aller. Pourtant, les apparences sont trompeuses. Instable et fauchée, elle décide de postuler à un emploi d'enseignante dans une prison pour hommes. C'est l'occasion idéale de se remettre à flot et de réparer les pots cassés. Mais quelqu'un, dans l'ombre, les observe. Quelqu'un qui cherche à se venger de l'accident survenu ce fameux matin de mai et qui n'arrêtera devant rien pour faire éclater la vérité.

Download or read book The Blood Sisters written by Ambra Maltauro and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Charming Gardeners written by David Biespiel and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formally nuanced and wise epistolary poems in David Biespiel’s new collection are grounded in friendship, camaraderie, and the vulnerability and boldness that defines America. Roving from the old Confederacy of Biespiel's native South to Portland, Oregon, Charming Gardeners explores the wildness of the Northwest, the avenues of Washington, D.C., the coal fields of West Virginia, and an endless stretch of airplanes and hotel rooms from New York to Texas to California. These poems explore the “insistent murmurs” of memory and the emotional connections between individuals and history, as well as the bonds of brotherhood, the ghosts of America’s wars, and the vibrancy of love, sex, and intimacy. We are offered poems addressed to family, friends, poets, and political rivals — all in a masterful idiom Robert Pinsky has called Biespiel’s “own original grand style.” I should stop back there And stand on both feet in the grazing sunlight And hear this chorus of America singing. But I am so afraid of the testament of the delivered. from “TO __________ FROM THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN WILLIAMSON, WEST VIRGINIA

Download or read book Our sister republic a gala trip through tropical Mexico in 1869 70 written by Albert S. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blood Sisters written by Marc Andreyko and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blood Sisters written by Sue Wilsea and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood and the Evolution of the Catholic Church written by Cindy Yik-yi Chu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origins of the Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood in Hong Kong and their history up to the early 1970s, and contributes to the neglected area of Chinese Catholic women in the history of the Chinese Catholic Church. It studies the growth of an indigenous community of Chinese sisters, who acquired a formal status in the local and universal Catholic Church, and the challenge of identifying Chinese Catholic women in studies dealing with the Chinese Church in the first half of the twentieth century, as these women remained "faceless" and "nameless" in contrast to their Catholic male counterparts of the period. Emphasizing the intertwining histories of the Hong Kong Church, the churches in China, and the Roman Catholic Church, it demonstrates how the history of the Precious Blood Congregation throws light on the formation and development of indigenous groups of sisters in contemporary China.