Download or read book To Float in the Space Between written by Terrance Hayes and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air.” —NPR In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation “as speculative, motley, and adrift as Knight himself.” Personal yet investigative, poetic yet scholarly, this multi-genre collection of writings and drawings enacts one poet’s search for another and in doing so constellates a powerful vision of black literature and art in America. The future Etheridge Knight biographer will simultaneously write an autobiography. Fathers who go missing and fathers who are distant will become the bones of the stories. There will be a fable about a giant who grew too tall to be kissed by his father. My father must have kissed me when I was boy. I can’t really say. . . . By the time I was eleven or even ten years old I was as tall as him. I was six inches taller than him by the time I was fifteen. My biography about Knight would be about intimacy, heartache. Terrance Hayes is the author of How to Be Drawn, which received a 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry; Lighthead, which won the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; and three other award-winning poetry collections. He is the poetry editor at the New York Times Magazine and also teaches at the University y of Pittsburgh. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin will also be forthcoming in 2018.

Download or read book The Book of the Knight Zifar written by Charles L. Nelson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the Knight Zifar (or Cifar), Spain's first novel of chivalry, is the tale of a virtuous but unfortunate knight who has fallen from grace and must seek redemption through suffering and good deeds. Because of a curse that repeatedly deprives him of that most important of knightly accoutrements—his horse—Zifar and his family must flee their native India and wander through distant lands seeking to regain their rank and fortune. A series of mishaps divides the family, and the novel follows their separate adventures—alternatively heroic, comic, and miraculous—until at length they are reunited and their honor restored. The anonymous author of Zifar based his early fourteenth-century novel on the medieval story of the life of St. Eustacius, but onto this trunk he grafted a surprising variety of narrative types: Oriental tales of romance and magic, biblical stories, moralizing fables popular since the Middle Ages, including several from Aesop, and instructions in the rules of proper knightly conduct. Humor in the form of puns, jokes, and old proverbs also runs through the novel. In particular, the foolish/wise Knave offers a comic contrast to the heroic Knight, whom he must continually rescue through the application of common sense. Zifar was to have an important influence on later Spanish literature, and perhaps on Cervantes' great tale of a knight and his squire, Don Quixote. All those with an interest in Spanish literature and medieval life will be grateful for Mr. Nelson's excellent translation, which brings to life this extraordinary early novel.

Download or read book The Knight Before Glasses written by Robert L. Antrim and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1973 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Storybook Knight written by Helen Docherty and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age Level: 4 to 8 | Grade Level: K to 4 What's a knight's greatest power? Stories, of course! From the beloved author/illustrator team behind The Snatchabook comes the ultimate storytime book about castles, knights, dragons, and the power of stories! Even dragons love a good story... Leo was a gentle knight in thought and word and deed. While other knights liked fighting, Leo liked to sit and read... When Leo's mom and dad pack him off to fight a dragon, he takes a shield, a sword—and a pile of his favorite books. But can a story be as mighty as a sword? This delightful rhyming story about books and the joy of reading is also perfect for kids who love dragon books, adventures, brave knights, and books about castles! An Autumn 2016 Kids Indie Next Pick A 2017-2018 SSYRA Jr. List Title Praise for The Snatchabook: #1 Indie Next Pick "I dare you to try to read The Snatch-a-book silently to yourself. You can't do it. The book is so wonderful it demands to be read out loud. And besides, if you didn't read the book out loud, how would the Snatch-a-book hear it?"—Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick "This ever-so-sweet story begs to be read out loud." —Booklist " The gorgeous illustrations are a perfect match for the lively text. This book is a fabulous fit for both storytime and one-on-one reading. Children will be begging for this book to be read to them every night–clever ones will claim they want to keep the Snatchabook happy." —School Library Journal "The husband-and-wife team of the Dochertys have a winner in this heartwarming tribute to the essential role of bedtime reading in the lives of families." —Publishers Weekly "The story is sweet and the illustrations darling." —Kirkus "This whodunit with an uplifting ending will appeal to fans of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! . . . [it] celebrates bedtime reading as a ritual to be revered, and features a thief who merely wants to share in the fun." —Shelf Awareness Pro

Download or read book A Book of Verses written by William Ernest Henley and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Home Book of Verse American and English 1580 1920 written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 2046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Essential Etheridge Knight written by Etheridge Knight and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1986-12-15 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1987 American Book Award The Essential Etheridge Knight is a selection of the best work by one of the country’s most prominent and liveliest poets. It brings together poems from Knight’s previously published books and a section of new poems.

Download or read book The Knightly Years written by W. M. Ardagh and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight written by Elisabeth Brewer and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1992 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' is a great poem that gives some powerful twists to traditional materials. The story combines two ancient elements, beheading and seduction, in a fresh and remarkable way; it takes familiar medieval themes -- the feast, the seasons, the arming of the warrior, the hunt -- and gives them a new glamor. The 'intertextuality' of this brilliant poem can be most clearly seen through Elisabeth Brewer's modern English versions of other related medieval writings. Her book is a delightful and unusual small anthology of medieval literature; but its greatest success lies in providing a context for a fuller understanding of "Sir Gawain" through its presentation of extracts and poems (including translations from Celtic and French originals) illustrating the tradition in which the Gawain-poet wrote, underscoring his own great achievement. -- From publisher's description.

Download or read book The Knight of Gwynne written by Charles Lever and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shadow of the Knight written by Paul Smith and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain things in life are inevitable. Petrol prices will rise, summer follows spring and Sir Alex Ferguson will retire.Eventually. Where next for Manchester United once the club's legendary manager retires? Shadow Of The Knight, prepared ready for Ferguson's retirement, will look to the past for answers about the future. By studying the legacy left at Aberdeen and the fate of those who have worked alongside him at United, the book paints a picture of what lies ahead for a club entering an era without its most iconic figurehead and celebrates the most successful club management career in the history of British football.Key features- A fresh take on the life and times of the game's greatestever manager presented in a new and unique way- For the first time in print, expert analysis of what the future holds for Manchester United and football as Sir Alex approaches retirement- A glimpse into the past through interviews with those whose lives have been touched by the man - and some who were left behind on the great journey to the top- Featuring previously untold stories and rare insights into the formative years in management that marked Sir Alex out for greatness- Rare pictures from those early days and iconic images from the glorious Old Trafford era

Download or read book Frank H Knight in Iowa City 1919 1928 written by Ross B. Emmett and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection that includes both refereed articles and review essays of books in the history of economic thought and methodology. It highlights research the historiography and methodology of the English Poor Laws, behavioural economics, and the socialist calculation debate; as well as AD Roy and portfolio theory.

Download or read book The book of the knight of La Tour Landry written by Geoffroy de La Tour Landry and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States of America written by Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Encampment of the United States of America and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three Thousand Years written by Henry Coppée and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Music of the Knight written by Mel Bossa and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-20 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easily pleased, Micah enjoys a career in non-profit work and gets through his days one lame joke at a time. Then his friend Lou introduces him to her musical family and the Knights pull Micah into their world of resilience and sorrow. Soon, Micah understands that in the face of grief, optimism isn't always enough. Lei was once revered for his tremendous talent. But one day the music died, and the scars under his leather bracelets are a reminder of what he lost. These days, he's nothing but a phantom. Shut away from the world, Lei tunes instruments in the Knights' music store. Then charismatic Micah enters his life, charming his family and slowly coaxing his way into Lei's heart with steadfast devotion. With Micah at his side, it may yet be possible for Lei to reclaim the spotlight he'd thought permanently abandoned.