Download or read book The Actual World written by Jason Tandon and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "Here is spiritual clarity and acute observation fused with the enigmatic, eclectic, and occasionally surreal. The poems in THE ACTUAL WORLD are deeply felt, sometimes funny, often wise, and always capable of reminding us that, as Oscar Wilde said, 'the true mystery of the world is the visible.'"--Katrina Vandenberg "Together the short lyrics of Jason Tandon's THE ACTUAL WORLD intone an aching, celebratory song of the everyday. The fabric of the poems--of rocks and tonics and bathroom tiles, frogspawn, eyelashes, pots of sage--is shot through with strands of dream and loss and imagination that illuminate and intensify everything around them. A meditative and stirring collection."--Maggie Dietz "In poem after poem, Jason Tandon discovers just how mysteriously connected unlike things can become in their transport from the literal to the figurative. These quotidian reports resonate as lyrical meditations on the ironic dramas of daily life in a poetic calculus of luminous details, hard facts, compassionate witness, and original conceits. I am particularly struck by how remarkably little 'irritable reaching' emanates from each poem. Clearly, Tandon has disciplined himself to write as he lives and live as he writes."--Chard deNiord "Jason Tandon's strong lines are at home in the senses, but also keyed to reflective solitude. His pacing is deft and catches the 'double-take' surprise of the important moments."--Sven Birkerts "If you'd like to know how to hold the wide world in your heart, this book is a beginning. Jason Tandon does not offer broad brushstrokes to explain our days, but sharply cut lyrics. I love his sensibility. I love his spirit."--Richard Jones
Download or read book Dear Darkness written by Kevin Young and published by Alfred a Knopf Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sixth compilation of poetry by the acclaimed author of Jelly Roll and For the Confederate Dead pays homage to members of his extended family, celebrates food and its meaning in life, deals with the grief over the death of his father, and counts his losses and blessings, all with a touch of the blues.
Download or read book White Fragility written by Dr. Robin DiAngelo and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
Download or read book Wee Hour Martyrdom written by Jason Tandon and published by sunnyoutside. This book was released on 2008 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Charles Simic has said of the short poem, "Less is always more.... It's about all and everything, the metaphysics of a few words surrounded by much silence." In this collection, Tandon takes up this dictum, juxtaposing the absurd of the everyday with a compassionate, redemptive ideal. His poetry is both accessible and democratic, in the sense that no subject is unworthy of concern--he believes in the grace and nobility of even the simplest object or human behavior. His personas are beset by fear, insecurity, defeat and loss, yet they possess the humor and imagination necessary to endure.
Download or read book The Nuttiest Wackiest Funniest Skits Ever written by Stanley Snickelfoose and published by Piccadilly Books, Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is packed with 50 of the most hilarious comedy skits ever! All of the skits are easy to perform and utilize two or more performers. Are they nutty? Unquestionably! Will audiences enjoy them? Definitely! Are they outrageously fun? Absolutely! These side-splitting comedy skits are sure to tickle your funny bone and get you laughing out loud. Ideal for clowns, family entertainers, school performances, youth groups, or just for fun. The author is a professional clown and children’s entertainer with over twenty years experience amusing children and adults. With a name like Stanley Snickelfoose, you’ve got to be funny!
Download or read book Waking Up Alive written by Richard A. Heckler and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sometimes I feel like crying, but the tears just don't come...." "I had no idea there was a state of mind like this. Everything turned black...." "It was a zombie place where I just couldn't be a part of anything...." These are the words of survivors who have lived through one of the most insidious conditions of our time: the desire to die. Five million Americans have attempted suicide. Every seventeen minutes, one of them succeeds. And the numbers continue to grow. Through fifty startling interviews with suicide survivors of all ages and backgrounds, psychologist Richard A. Heckler takes us into the very heart of despair, documenting the varied paths that lead to that crucial place where one's world seems to stretch, tear, and then break apart. In these intimate accounts we begin to understand the determination and clarity of that fatal choice. But after the failed attempt, healing is possible. For the first time, with great care and penetrating insight, Heckler traces the heroic patterns of recovery. By offering clear, profound portraits of hope, this extraordinary and unprecedented book attests to the resilience of the human spirit, by bearing witness to those who stood at death's door, and found the courage to live. "It's hard to imagine a hopeful or inspiring book on suicide until you begin reading the astonishing Waking Up, Alive." --San Francisco Chronicle "In this sensitive book, Richard Heckler brings compassionate light to a shadowy corner of our psyche." --Ram Dass Author of Journey of Awakening "These moving accounts, written with a great heart of compassion, have a deeply healing effect on the ocean of human tears. This is a wise andultimately life-affirming work!" --Jack Kornfield, Ph.D. Author of A Path With Heart
Download or read book Give Over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt written by Jason Tandon and published by Black Lawrence Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tandon's keen eye and idiosyncratic ear - he picks up shards of language and refashions them, making new wholes from fragments of everyday speech - combine to create a poetry with its own quiet urgency. There is a music that plays beautifully from poem to poem, as the language in subtle ways probes the underlying beauties of casual syntax. I look forward to Tandon's future work with considerable anticipation, although glad to have what he has given us already." - Jay Parini, author of 'Why Poetry Matters' Jason Tandon is the author of one other collection of poetry, 'Wee Hour Martyrdom' (Sunnyoutside, 2008), and his poems and book reviews have appeared in 'Columbia Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Pleiades', and on 'Verse Daily'. He teaches at Boston University.
Download or read book A Lifetime with Shakespeare written by Paul Barry and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the only American to direct and fight-choreograph all of Shakespeare's plays, this text represents an expert and practical guide to the Bard's oeuvre. From the Henry VI plays through The Tempest, each play is explored in its full theatrical complexity, with particular attention paid to directorial and acting challenges, character quirks and development, and the particularities of Shakespearean language. Directing successes are recounted, but the failures are not shied away from, making this work indispensable for anyone interested in producing plays by Shakespeare.
Download or read book Emergent Strategy written by adrienne maree brown and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape that which ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride! adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.
Download or read book The Art of Recklessness written by Dean Young and published by Art Of. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Portions of this book appeared in various forms in American poetry, Poetry, and Poets & writers"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book Speaking My Mind written by Ronald Reagan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important speeches of America's "Great Communicator": Here, in his own words, is the record of Ronald Reagan's remarkable political career and historic eight-year presidency.
Download or read book The One Year Illustrations Club written by Richard Swift and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meaning and Power in the Language of Law written by Janny H. C. Leung and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new perspective on how far law's power derives from socially situated communication rather than from abstract rules.
Download or read book Apex Hides the Hurt written by Colson Whitehead and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "wickedly funny" (The Boston Globe) New York Times Notable Book from the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys is a brisk, comic tour de force about identity, history, and the adhesive bandage industry. The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town’s aristocracy sees no reason to change the name at all. What they need, they realize, is a nomenclature consultant. And, it turns out, the consultant needs them. But in a culture overwhelmed by marketing, the name is everything and our hero’s efforts may result in not just a new name for the town but a new and subtler truth about it as well. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
Download or read book Street Theatre Other Outdoor written by Bim Mason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
