Download or read book Of Poetry and Protest From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin written by Michael Warr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning work illuminates today’s black experience through the voices of our most transformative and powerful African American poets. Included in this extraordinary volume are the poems of 43 of America’s most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize–winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Tracy K. Smith, as well as the work of other luminaries such as Elizabeth Alexander, Ishmael Reed, and Sonia Sanchez. Included are poems such as “No Wound of Exit” by Patricia Smith, “We Are Not Responsible” by Harryette Mullen, and “Poem for My Father” by Quincy Troupe. Each is accompanied by a photograph of the poet along with a first-person biography. The anthology also contains personal essays on race such as “The Talk” by Jeannine Amber and works by Harry Belafonte, Amiri Baraka, and The Reverend Dr. William Barber II, architect of the Moral Mondays movement, as well as images and iconic political posters of the Black Lives Matter movement, Malcolm X, and the Black Panther Party. Taken together, Of Poetry and Protest gives voice to the current conversation about race in America while also providing historical and cultural context. It serves as an excellent introduction to African American poetry and is a must-have for every reader committed to social justice and racial harmony.
Download or read book Resistencia Poems of Protest and Revolution written by Red Poppy and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “To read these poems is to be reminded again and again of our true allegiance to each other.” —from the introduction by Julia Alvarez With a powerful and poignant introduction from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution is an extraordinary collection, rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today. The poets of Resistencia explore feminist, queer, Indigenous, and ecological themes alongside historically prominent protests against imperialism, dictatorships, and economic inequality. Within this momentous collection, poets representing every Latin American country grapple with identity, place, and belonging, resisting easy definitions to render a nuanced and complex portrait of language in rebellion. Included in English translation alongside their original language, the fifty-four poems in Resistencia are a testament to the art of translation as much as the act of resistance. An all-star team of translators, including former US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera along with young, emerging talent, have made many of the poems available for the first time to an English-speaking audience. Urgent, timely, and absolutely essential, these poems inspire us all to embrace our most fearless selves and unite against all forms of tyranny and oppression.
Download or read book Love Rise Up written by Steve Fellner and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Introduction by Dale Davis. In LOVE RISE UP, readers will find genuine hope and inspired art in these lyrics, a desire to show the humanity behind the struggle for social justice. With courage, foresight, and even a good dose of humor, the poems in this collection address the causes and concerns of generations past and present, revealing ways to combat adversity with strength and integrity. Beginning with classic poets like Langston Hughes and highly-acclaimed, established poets including Sherman Alexie, Patricia Smith, and Martín Espada, LOVE RISE UP also celebrates new, emerging or never before published writers such as Gabriela Erandi Rico, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, and Patricia Jabbeh Wesley. With subjects ranging from the early Civil Rights movement to Occupy Wall Street and beyond, LOVE RISE UP offers a vivid portrait of resistance, triumph, compassion, and an eternal belief that our futures can be changed for the better.
Download or read book Poetry of Love and Protest written by John ''Ish'' Ishmael and published by John Ish Ishmael. This book was released on 2007 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My four books at this site are:- CHOSEN WORLD - OUR WAR ON ISLAM AND OUR OWN FREEDOMS; US INVASION OF CANADA AND ITS ABSORPTION; THE BLACK BUG - THE GENETIC BOMB & MORE BLACK HOLOCAUSTS; POETRY OF LOVE AND PROTEST. I grew up in a British Colony, British Guiana, and lived through its fight for independence, led by Cheddi Jagan with his wife Janet Rosenberg and Forbes Burnham. I also lived through the dark times of CIA and MI6 interventions. I left Guyana for Canada in 1971, while that county endured 40 years of darkness. After President Jimmy Carter eventually brokered fair elections Guyana is healing itself of its ethnic strife. Canada became my home in the 1970´s and I used my experience as a journalist for the "Guiana Graphic" and the "Chronicle" to research my books. My research for "CHOSEN WORLD - Our war on Islam and our own freedoms" led me to step beyond my own Christian faith and to investigate that of Judaism and Islam, primarily. My self education about Buddism, Hinduism, Zorastrianism and Bahiism was short and requires my followup. CHOSEN WORLD views contemporary events with as a ladder to future sequences and the lover rungs as leading to the origins of the events. This book then takes the reader into various futures that can arise from the events first discussed. One of the most challenging ´Chosen Worlds´ I examined forced me to enter the mind of a future Pope who is being blackmailed to cast the Church´s vote as directed by the world blight that American has become as it has become fully parasatized by foreign influences. My poetry of youth in Guyana and of my adult life in Canada, is also heavily influenced by my deep appreciation of women in my life and my love of nature. It speaks of my teen years when I was fortunate to have been romantically involved with ladies twice my age. Today, these older women would be called predators. Like all of my country people of those years, I grew up very close to nature and travelling in the tropical rain forests and on the mighty rivers of Guyana also influenced my POETRY OF LOVE AND PROTEST. The "protest" in the title of my poetry and in my novels stems my period of journalism in Guyana, writing about about the Amerindian, Chinese, Black and East Indian condition and of our overall poverty and despair. That protest reaches to my mid and later years. I experienced the same emotions of protest as I visited Canadian Reservations of slow genocide and experienced the fierce hatred that my Arab-Islamic name evoked among a small but active group in Winnipeg Manitoba. This group was weaned on the biblical stories of Ishmael and Isaac and carry with them their interpretation that they were short changed by God, in favour of the descendants of the biblical Ishmael. Millions of these nutcases are determined to contol the oil and water resources of the Islamic Middle East that they claim is their inheritance. CHOSEN WORLD addresses some of this. My Canadian experience is also shaped by experiences such as that with a former employer, who, when I gave him notice, played a Ben Franklin tape for me that said that to be successful I must not be like "Arabs who are dirty, lazy and failures."My name evoked passion simply by my speaking it, in Manitoba. Over the past decades, after Pierre Elliot Trudeau, I have been aghast at Canada´s steady morphing into an armed appendage of the Empire next door and at General Rick Hillier sending our lads and lasses to "kill the scum" in Afghanistan and to be sent back as dead "heroes.´ I flinch at the horror told by Palestinian survivors and Israeli journalists of the Sharon engineered genocides at Sabra and Chatilla. I am inured to the actions of those who react with outrage at criticism especially of the Occupation of Palestine. These antagonists were formed with their own prejudices and I came by min
Download or read book Enough written by Agnes Bushell and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of poems by 26 Maine poets inspired by and responding to the Black Lives Matter protests and calls for social and racial justice. The third book in Littoral Books' Contemporary Maine Poetry Series.
Download or read book Passion written by Judith Weinshall Liberman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PASSION presents a collection of 150 poems and lyrics written by Judith Weinshall Liberman during 2012. This collection is a sequel to REFLECTIONS, her previous anthology of poems, lyrics, and stories, created with her daughter, Dr. Laura Liberman. Illustrated with photographs that highlight some of the people depicted in the verses, this collection covers a wide array of topics arranged in categories from love and relationships to looking back and remembering. Some of the writings are humorous, while others are somber. From the poignancy of First Love to the heartbreak of Losing a Sibling, Liberman captures the essence of what we feel when these changes occur in our lives. Like life itself, PASSION covers the whole gamut of human experience. Two-Way Street Somewhere along the line I learned Loves not a one-way street, For if you take but do not give, Youll end up in defeat. So dont forget to give your love To those of whom youre fond. For true love is a two-way street. Your love will seal your bond.
Download or read book Harlem Shadows written by Claude McKay and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlem Shadows (1922) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Shadows earned praise from legendary poet and political activist Max Eastman for its depictions of urban life and the technical mastery of its author. As a committed leftist, McKay—who grew up in Jamaica—captures the life of Harlem from a realist’s point of view, lamenting the poverty of its African American community while celebrating their resilience and cultural achievement. In “The White City,” McKay observes New York, its “poles and spires and towers vapor-kissed” and “fortressed port through which the great ships pass.” Filled him with a hatred of the inhuman scene of industry and power, forced to “muse [his] life-long hate,” he observes the transformative quality of focused anger: “My being would be a skeleton, a shell, / If this dark Passion that fills my every mood, / And makes my heaven in the white world’s hell, / Did not forever feed me vital blood.” Rather than fall into despair, he channels his hatred into a revolutionary spirit, allowing him to stand tall within “the mighty city.” In “The Tropics in New York,” he walks past a window filled with “Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root, / Cocoa in pods and alligator pears,” a feast of fresh tropical fruit that brings him back, however briefly, to his island home of Jamaica. Recording his nostalgic response, McKay captures his personal experience as an immigrant in America: “My eyes grew dim, and I could no more gaze; / A wave of longing through my body swept, / And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, / I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.” With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Claude McKay’s Harlem Shadows is a classic of Jamaican literature reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book Poems of Power written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the transformative force of words in 'Poems of Power' by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Drawing inspiration from theosophic and new thought principles, Wilcox's collection of poems empowers readers to embrace their personal power and cultivate a sense of independence. Through poignant verses and evocative imagery, she guides readers on a journey of self-discovery and inner strength. Here's an excerpt from of the included poems, 'The Pessimist': "However the battle is ended / Though proudly the victor comes / With fluttering flags and prancing nags / And echoing roll of drums."
Download or read book Love Is My Protest written by Dana Sarah and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2019-01-20 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Is My Protest is a collection of short verses, poems and doodles exploring the complex journey of finding love again, within self.
Download or read book Love s protest a poem written by Robert Calignoc and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book C nto written by Joelle Taylor and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE 2021 WINNER OF THE POLARI PRIZE 2022 'Visionary and powerful. I loved it.' Hollie McNish The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the private lives of women from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests they led in the '90s to reclaim their bodies as their own – their difficult balance between survival and self-expression. History, magic, rebellion, party and sermon vibrate through Joelle Taylor's cantos to uncover these underground communities forged by women. Part-memoir and part-conjecture, Taylor explores sexuality and gender in poetry that is lyrical, expansive, imagistic, epic and intimate. C+nto is a love poem, a riot, a late night, and an honouring. minds. Here is poetry that defends our right to walk without fear, wear what we choose, be who we uniquely are." - - Diana Souhami
Download or read book Counting Descent written by Clint Smith and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Harvard Doctorate in Poetics launches poetry that explores modern blackness. Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear. His poems move fluidly across personal and political histories, all the while reflecting on the social construction of our lived experiences. Smith brings the reader on a powerful journey forcing us to reflect on all that we learn growing up, and all that we seek to unlearn moving forward. - Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award - Finalist, 2017 NAACP Image Awards - 2017 'One Book One New Orleans' Book Selection
Download or read book Poems of Hope Love and Freedom written by Arlyne Rojas and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of Hope, Love and Freedom with a Dash of Protest is Arlyne Rojas's first book of poetry. It is a collection of introspective, tender and passionate poems, laced with various themes, interesting rhythms, and enticing emotive alliterations. Themes include romantic love, jaded love, friendship, forgiveness, longing for home; protestations of workers' plights, freedom and praises for everyday miracles, etc. To offer strength, hope and inspiration is the author's desire and purpose.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism written by Rebecca Ruth Gould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism provides an accessible, diverse and ground-breaking overview of literary, cultural, and political translation across a range of activist contexts. As the first extended collection to offer perspectives on translation and activism from a global perspective, this handbook includes case studies and histories of oppressed and marginalised people from over twenty different languages. The contributions will make visible the role of translation in promoting and enabling social change, in promoting equality, in fighting discrimination, in supporting human rights, and in challenging autocracy and injustice across the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, East Asia, the US and Europe. With a substantial introduction, thirty-one chapters, and an extensive bibliography, this Handbook is an indispensable resource for all activists, translators, students and researchers of translation and activism within translation and interpreting studies.
Download or read book Protest Poetry written by Anserath Elric and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protest Poetry is a poetry about politics, love, economic strife experienced by the working and middle class, the endless American wars overseas, LGBT Pride, and so much more. It is the little book of poems with a packed punch and pointed remarks, that pulls no punches or makes any apologies.
Download or read book Asian American Poetry written by Victoria Chang and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern poetry anthology that includes the work of a second generation of Asian American poets who are taking the best of the prior generation, but also breaking conventional patterns.
Download or read book Where are the Love Poems for Dictators written by E. Ethelbert Miller and published by Open Hand Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using simple, accessible and direct language, the poems of this book display a profound concern for humanity and challenge the proposition that anything is ordinary. Miller opens people's minds, shaking them to think and to be free.
