Download or read book Versos sencillos Simple Verses written by Jos? MartÕ and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. SIMPLE VERSES is the first complete English translation of the classic collection VERSOS SENCILLOS, written by the Cuban poet Jose Marti (1853-1895) in the United States during his years of exile and revolutionary struggle. This great political and literary figure of the nineteenth century has been one of the most influential men in all the Americas. A spiritual autobiography, SIMPLE VERSES captures in each poem an experience, a feeling or a moment that formed the poet and the man. The poet, the soldier, the troubadour, the legislator, the searcher for truth, the enraptured and the disenchanted lover, the defender of poetry and its transformer, the genius and the man - all alternate in a modulated and musical flow like life itself, which it embodies. The translations of Manuel Tellechea, a Cuban American living in Union City, New Jersey, have been published by the University of Pittsburgh, Freedom House, Transaction Publishers, and others.

Download or read book Versos Sencillos written by José Martí and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1890, the great Cuban revolutionary leader Jose Marti wrote his most famous poetry, Versos Sencillos, in a small town called Haines Falls in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Sincere and intensely personal in tone, these verses form a unique autobiographical expression yet have world-wide appeal. This dual-language edition of Versos Sencillos offers both the Spanish-language original and a graceful English translation of each poem in the collection. The translation follows the original rhyme scheme where feasible but deliberately chooses meaning over form, staying true to mood and method. In addition to notes on the poems, this edition also includes the particulars of translation and provides a background for the composition of the verses, features lacking in earlier translations. An index of first lines, both English and Spanish, is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Download or read book The Verso Book of Dissent written by Andrew Hsiao and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many years later. This anthology, global in scope, presents voices of dissent from every era of human history: speeches and pamphlets, poems and songs, plays and manifestos. Every age has its iconoclasts, and yet the greatest among them build on the words and actions of their forerunners. The Verso Book of Dissent should be in the arsenal of every rebel who understands that words and ideas are the ultimate weapons.

Download or read book The Verso Book of Feminism written by Jessie Kindig and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented collection of feminist voices from four millennia of global history Throughout written history and across the world, women have protested the restrictions of gender and the limitations placed on women's bodies and women's lives. People–of any and no gender–have protested and theorized, penned manifestos and written poetry and songs, testified and lobbied, gone on strike and fomented revolution, quietly demanded that there is an "I" and loudly proclaimed that there is a "we." The Book of Feminism chronicles this history of defiance and tracks it around the world as it develops into a multivocal and unabashed force. Global in scope, The Book of Feminism shows the breadth of feminist protest and of feminist thinking, moving through the female poets of China's Tang Dynasty and accounts of indigenous women in the Caribbean resisting Columbus's expedition, British suffragists militating for the vote and the revolutionary petroleuses of the 1848 Paris Commune, the first century Trung sisters who fought for the independence of Nam Viet to women in 1980s Botswana fighting for equal protection under the law, from the erotica of the 6th century and the 19th century to radical queer politics in the 20th and 21st. The Book of Feminism is a weapon, a force, a lyrical cry, and an ongoing threat to misogyny everywhere.

Download or read book Versos en Matices written by Maria Aduke Alabi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Versos en Matices es una compilación de poemas, unidos por el concurso de su propia diversidad, los que debido a las diferentes tonalidades subscritas en la vida misma se plasman de forma que abarcan cada una de ellas, con un carácter propio, con estilo y con una cualidad peculiar y especial que se distingue por sus matices, los que transforman letras en sensaciones. Esta colección de poemas colorativos es una luz que se descompone en rayos cada uno con un matiz diferente en vías de reflejar en otros, ya sea por armonía o contraste la combinación perfecta de sensaciones, música, pasiones, recuerdos y sentimientos. Espero con cada verso producir una impresión en el sensorio individual del lector que sea desatada mediante la luz propia que se refleja como rayo rebosante de sensibilidades, dejar sentir la vibración emergente de sus ondas líricas y que estas envuelvan y seduzcan almas con sus cantares rítmicos o arrítmicos, que construyan en la imaginación con fiel apego los colores reflejados por su espectro. El conjunto cromático armónico de esta colección es detallada a continuación para el mejor entendimiento del contenido y la intensión que detallan cada una de sus matices: GRIS Es el símbolo cromático que representa los versos que se identifican con el infortunio, la melancolía, el dolor y el sufrimiento. También representa el desconsuelo. En este caso el poeta utiliza los versos grises dentro del poemario para dar cabida a estos sentires. ROSADO El color rosado en este poemario es símbolo del amor de pareja, el amor puro como sentimiento no como acto. También se utiliza para denotar cariño y respeto. El amor es normalmente representado por el color rojo pero el poeta prefirió separar ambas simbologías en dos tonalidades diferentes. ROJO El rojo por su tonalidad ardiente se destaca dentro de la escala cromática como violencia, pero no es representativo en este poemario. En esta colección este color representa la pasión arrolladora, representados mediante poemas eróticos y pasionales, aquellos en los que tiene lugar el contacto físico entre un hombre y una mujer, narrados de una forma que presentan lo dicho en un plano simbólico incorporando la realidad del acto en cuestión. AMARILLO Es un símbolo cromático que señala la muerte, pero en este poemario representa el cambio (muerte y nacimiento) la transformación, la mutación, la evolución. El amarillo es el elemento ideal para transportar lo malo de su vida hacia algo positivo y más deseado. PURPURA Generalmente el color purpura o violeta ha tenido su representación simbólica dentro de la religión y la espiritualidad con un valor litúrgico poderoso. Es un color frio y muy delicado y de signo idealista que tradicionalmente ha sido símbolo de espiritualidad. El violeta como símbolo cromático representa exactamente eso en esta obra: espiritualidad, sublimación, pasión por lo desconocido. Presenta una imagen netamente subjetiva y mística. VERDE El color verde no es utilizado nominalmente como representación de cosas verdes, más bien como color polifacético la simbología dada en este poemario la relaciona con la creación artística, la inspiración, la fertilidad mental, la naturaleza del pensamiento, la fecundidad de las ideas y simbólicamente representa la capacidad literaria y la creación inusual. AZUL Este color es un símbolo cromático utilizado en la obra como representación del idealismo patriótico, nacionalismo y amor al pueblo de origen. La luz que se desprende del azul, la vemos resplandecer clara e iluminada en identificación con los más altos ideales. NEGRO Este color tradicionalmente ha sido símbolo de oscuridad o maldad, pero esa representación simbólica no tiene cabida en este poemario. El negro aquí representa a una cultura, a una raza, un linaje, una proced

Download or read book Road to Nowhere written by Paris Marx and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley’s vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anywhere; electric cars to make them ‘green’; and automation to ensure transport is cheap and ubiquitous. Such promises are implausible and potentially dangerous. As Paris Marx shows, these technological visions are a threat to our ideas of what a society should be. Electric cars are not a silver bullet for sustainability, and autonomous vehicles won’t guarantee road safety. There will not be underground tunnels to eliminate traffic congestion, and micromobility services will not replace car travel any sooner than we will see the arrival of the long-awaited flying car. In response, Marx offers a vision for a more collective way of organizing transportation systems that considers the needs of poor, marginalized, and vulnerable people. The book argues that rethinking mobility can be the first step in a broader reimagining of how we design and live in our future cities. We must create streets that allow for social interaction and conviviality. We need reasons to get out of our cars and to use public means of transit determined by community needs rather than algorithmic control. Such decisions should be guided by the search for quality of life rather than for profit.

Download or read book Versi Tricolori Versos Tricolores Tricolor Verses written by Salvatore Poeta and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El ttulo de esta coleccin potica tiene menos que ver con un patriotismo explcitamente poltico que con la trayectoria de la asimilacin de su autor a las tres culturas representadas. Inmigr a Estados Unidos desde mi Piazza Armerina nativa a los seis aos de edad, para corretear en las calles y rascacielos de Nueva York. Mi madre, Salvatrice, y dos hermanos, Mara y Concetto, tardamos once das en cruzar el Atlntico a bordo del Giulio Cesare para reunirnos con nuestro padre, Filippo, quien haba hecho el viaje dos aos antes a bordo de la Bianca Mano. A los nueve meses nacera mi tercera y ms joven hermana, Roseann, la cual nos servira simblicamente para anclarnos ya defi nitivamente en nuestra nueva tierra. No sabiendo la lengua y desconociendo la cultura norteamericana el proceso de asimilacin, desde luego, fue lento y no sin sus peridicas peleas y traumas con vecinos y compaeros. No me daba cuenta entonces que estos mismos muchachos con quienes peleaba casi diariamente acabaran ms tarde siendo mis ms fi eles y queridos amigos; entre ellos Carmine Glorioso que muri, a mi misma edad de diez aos, atropellado por un coche mientras cruzaba el Sunrise Highway, en Long Island, Nueva York. Todava hoy da siento el estrecho y desesperante abrazo de un padre lloroso en la sala del funeral, como si tratara de recuperar en mi cuerpo el cuerpecito destrozado de su propio hijo ante la inevitable realidad de que dentro de pocos das tendra que devolverle a la tierra lo suyo. No hara falta decir que, despecho a mis tiernos diez aos de edad, tuve muy serias discusiones con un Dios cuya insensata y arbitraria crueldad no lograba entender en aquella poca. Hoy da agradezco a ese mismo Dios la viva presencia de Carmine, cuyo compaerismo espiritual sigue a mi lado y al cual me dirijo frecuentemente en busca de consolacin en mis momentos de mayor desolacin. Me sent atrado al espaol por primera vez en la escuela media. No recuerdo precisamente si fuera a causa de los muchachos que llegaban, como yo anteriormente, a mis clases de otras tierras para sentarse a mi lado, como especies de sordomudos, sin poder entender ni responder a las ruidosas garruleras que pretendan ser ingls, o simplemente porque el espaol me sonaba al italiano y, as, a algo por fi n familiar. De todos modos, yo me pona al servicio de estos chicos traduciendo continuamente entre ellos y los maestros. Mi capacidad como traductor ofi cial de la clase me gan algunas amistades entre los recin llegados de la tierra que habamos dejado atrs. Tambin ganaba en que estos servicios hacan que me sintiera algo menos extranjero en mi recin adoptada tierra. Termin la escuela secundaria ya decidido a ser maestro de lenguas extranjeras; ms concretamente del italiano y del espaol. Y as fue. Hoy da soy profesor de lengua y literatura espaolas en Villanova University, en Pennsylvania, casado con mi amada esposa Valerie, y con dos esplndidas y bonitas hijas Lauren y Kristen. Despecho a lo que he vivido y sufrido en este nuevo mundo, nunca he tomado por hecho el entraable reconocimiento de que todo lo que he pensado, sentido y logrado hasta el momento lo debo a esa singular decisin de mis padres de abandonar su tierra nativa para emprender aquel largo viaje a travs del Atlntico, en busca de una nueva aunque desconocida suerte en aquella tierra al otro lado del mundo; en aquella tierra de grandes promesas y oportunidades, en estos Estados Unidos de Amrica.

Download or read book The Tailor of Ulm written by Lucio Magri and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years have passed since the Italian Communists’ last Congress in 1991, in which the death of their party was decreed. It was a deliberate death, accelerated by the desire for a “new beginning.” That new beginning never came, and the world lost an invaluable, complex political, organizational and theoretical heritage. In this detailed and probing work, Lucio Magri, one of the towering intellectual figures of the Italian Left, assesses the causes for the demise of what was once one of the most powerful and vibrant communist parties of the West. The PCI marked almost a century of Italian history, from its founding in 1921 to the partisan resistance, the turning point of Salerno in 1944 to the de-Stalinization of 1956, the long ’68 to the “historic compromise,” and to the opportunity—missed forever—of democratic transformation. With rigor and passion, The Tailor of Ulm merges an original and enlightening interpretation of Italian communism with the experience of a militant “heretic” into a riveting read—capable of broadening our insights into contemporary Italy, and the twentieth-century communist experience.

Download or read book Capital Is Dead written by McKenzie Wark and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not capitalism, it's not neoliberalism - what if it's something worse? In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that information has empowered a new kind of ruling class. Through the ownership and control of information, this emergent class dominates not only labour but capital as traditionally understood as well. And it’s not just tech companies like Amazon and Google. Even Walmart and Nike can now dominate the entire production chain through the ownership of not much more than brands, patents, copyrights, and logistical systems. While techno-utopian apologists still celebrate these innovations as an improvement on capitalism, for workers—and the planet—it’s worse. The new ruling class uses the powers of information to route around any obstacle labor and social movements put up. So how do we find a way out? Capital Is Dead offers not only the theoretical tools to analyze this new world, but ways to change it. Drawing on the writings of a surprising range of classic and contemporary theorists, Wark offers an illuminating overview of the contemporary condition and the emerging class forces that control—and contest—it.

Download or read book Heroes written by Franco Berardi and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wave of American mass murders - the prominent Italian thinker Franco Berardi Bifo traces the social roots of the mental malaise of our age. His darkest and most unsettling book to date, Berardi proposes dystopian irony as a strategy to disentangle ourselves from the deadly embrace of the neoliberalism.

Download or read book Fully Automated Luxury Communism written by Aaron Bastani and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive crises, the proposed response from the mainstream remains the same. Against the confines of this increasingly limited politics, a new paradigm has emerged. Fully Automated Luxury Communism claims that new technologies will liberate us from work, providing the opportunity to build a society beyond both capitalism and scarcity. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happiness. For everyone. In his first book, radical political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision of a world of unimaginable hope, highlighting how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of nine billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology and build meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a society heralds the beginning of history. Fully Automated Luxury Communism promises a radically new left future for everyone.

Download or read book The Future is Degrowth written by Matthias Schmelzer and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modernity, The Future Is Degrowth argues that the ideology of growth conceals the rising inequalities and ecological destructions associated with capitalism, and points to desirable alternatives to it. Not only in society at large, but also on the left, we are held captive by the hegemony of growth. Even proposals for emancipatory Green New Deals or postcapitalism base their utopian hopes on the development of productive forces, on redistributing the fruits of economic growth and technological progress. Yet growing evidence shows that continued economic growth cannot be made compatible with sustaining life and is not necessary for a good life for all. This book provides a vision for postcapitalism beyond growth. Building on a vibrant field of research, it discusses the political economy and the politics of a non-growing economy. It charts a path forward through policies that democratise the economy, “now-topias” that create free spaces for experimentation, and counter-hegemonic movements that make it possible to break with the logic of growth. Degrowth perspectives offer a way to step off the treadmill of an alienating, expansionist, and hierarchical system. A handbook and a manifesto, The Future Is Degrowth is a must-read for all interested in charting a way beyond the current crises.

Download or read book We Own the Future written by Kate Aronoff and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly original and timely collection that makes the case for "socialism, American style" It's a strange day when a New York Times conservative columnist is forced to admit that the left is winning, but as David Brooks wrote recently, "the American left is on the cusp of a great victory." Among Americans under thirty, 43 percent had a favorable view of socialism, while only 32 percent had a favorable view of capitalism. Not since the Great Depression have so many Americans questioned the fundamental tenets of capitalism and expressed openness to a socialist alternative. We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism—American Style offers a road map to making this alternative a reality, giving readers a practical vision of a future that is more democratic, egalitarian, inclusive, and environmentally sustainable. The book includes a crash course in the history and practice of democratic socialism, a vivid picture of what democratic socialism in America might look like in practice, and compelling proposals for how to get there from the age of Trump and beyond. With contributions from some of the nation's leading political activists and analysts, We Own the Future articulates a clear and uncompromising view from the left—a perfectly timed book that will appeal to a wide audience hungry for change. Table of Contents Part I: Is a New America Possible? Introduction Kate Aronoff, Peter Dreier, and Michael Kazin How Socialists Changed America Peter Dreier and Michael Kazin Toward a Third Reconstruction Andrea Flynn, Susan Holmberg, Dorian Warren, and Felicia Wong A Three-Legged Stool for Racial and Economic Justice Darrick Hamilton Democratic Socialism for a Climate-Changed Century Naomi Klein Part II: Expanding Democracy Governing Socialism Bill Fletcher Jr. We the People: Voting Rights, Campaign Finance, and Election Reform J. Mijin Cha Confronting Corporate Power Robert Kuttner Building the People's Banks David Dayen Democracy, Equality, and the Future of Workers Sarita Gupta, Stephen Lerner, and Joseph A. McCartin Who Gets to Be Safe? Prisons, Police, and Terror Aviva Stahl On Immigration: A Socialist Case for Open Borders Michelle Chen On Foreign Policy: War from Above, Solidarity from Below Tejasvi Nagaraja Part III: The Right to a Good Life Livable Cities Thomas J. Sugrue What Does Health Equity Require? Racism and the Limits of Medicare for All Dorothy Roberts The Family of the Future Sarah Leonard Defending and Improving Public Education Pedro Noguera Reclaiming Competition: Sports and Socialism David Zirin What About a Well-Fed Artist? Imagining Cultural Work in a Democratic Socialist Society Francesca Fiorentini How Socialism Surged, and How It Can Go Further Harold Meyerson Afterword: A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen Michael Walzer

Download or read book Planet Cuba written by Rachel Price and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel era Cuba has been in a state of massive transformation over the past decade, with its historic resumption of diplomatic relations with the United States only the latest development. While the political leadership has changed direction, other forces have taken hold. The environment is under threat, and the culture feels the strain of new forms of consumption. Planet/Cuba examines how art and literature have responded to a new moment, one both more globalized and less exceptional; more concerned with local quotidian worries than international alliances; more threatened by the depredations of planetary capitalism and climate change than by the vagaries of the nation’s government. Rachel Price examines a fascinating array of artists and writers who are tracing a new socio-cultural map of the island.

Download or read book Metaphilosophy written by Henri Lefebvre and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading French thinker with his key work on philosophical thought In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx’s revolutionary thought to consider philosophy’s engagement with the world. Lefebvre takes Marx’s notion of the “world becoming philosophical and philosophy becoming worldly” as a leitmotif, examining the relation between Hegelian–Marxist supersession and Nietzschean overcoming. Metaphilosophy is conceived of as a transformation of philosophy, developing it into a programme of radical worldwide change. The book demonstrates Lefebvre’s threefold debt to Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, but it also brings a number of other figures into the conversation, including Sartre, Heidegger and Axelos. A key text in Lefebvre’s oeuvre, Metaphilosophy is also a milestone in contemporary thinking about philosophy’s relation to the world.

Download or read book The End of Policing written by Alex S. Vitale and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics. It also made The End of Policing a bestseller and Alex Vitale, its author, a leading figure in the urgent public discussion over police and racial justice. As the writer Rachel Kushner put it in an article called "Things I Can't Live Without", this book explains that "unfortunately, no increased diversity on police forces, nor body cameras, nor better training, has made any seeming difference" in reducing police killings and abuse. "We need to restructure our society and put resources into communities themselves, an argument Alex Vitale makes very persuasively." The problem, Vitale demonstrates, is policing itself-the dramatic expansion of the police role over the last forty years. Drawing on first-hand research from across the globe, The End of Policing describes how the implementation of alternatives to policing, like drug legalization, regulation, and harm reduction instead of the policing of drugs, has led to reductions in crime, spending, and injustice. This edition includes a new introduction that takes stock of the renewed movement to challenge police impunity and shows how we move forward, evaluating protest, policy, and the political situation.

Download or read book Aesthetics and Politics written by Theodor Adorno and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature. With an afterword by Fredric Jameson No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.