Download or read book My Grandmother s Glass Eye written by Craig Raine and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'By poetry we - we the masses - mean something vague, something untrue, something uplifting, something beautiful, something so eloquent it isn't for everyday. The word "poetry" is up there with "soul". And I am against it.' My Grandmother's Glass Eye deploys its considerable learning, its intelligent expertise, wittily, memorably. It is an exercise in demystification and clarity. If you want to know how poetry works on the page, here are sure-footed accounts of particular poems. There is something Johnsonian in Craig Raine's common sense - an elegant wrecking ball used with precision and delicacy to pick off the pretentious, the platitudinous, the over-promoted. Here, poetry is well read, attentively read, by a practitioner whose range runs from Bion to John Lennon, from Bishop to Balanchine.
Download or read book Down in the Dumps written by Jani Scandura and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA cultural studies account of America during the 1930s as seen through Key West, Harlem, Hollywood, and Reno./div
Download or read book Grandma s Glasses written by Rohini Nilekani and published by Library for All. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandma loses her glasses all the time. Sometimes she needs a smart detective to find them for her! Your purchase of this book supports Library For All in its mission to make knowledge available to all, equally.
Download or read book Grandmothers written by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard and published by . This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the link between grandmother and granddaughter, this collection of stories and vignettes - a multi-cultural anthology of women from diverse ethnic backgrounds - reveals how the mantle of culture and family is passed from woman to woman.
Download or read book Getting Granny s Glasses written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mani’s Granny is seventy and can barely see through her old, scratched glasses. With only a hundred and fifty rupees in their pocket and a thirst for adventure, Mani and Granny set off to buy a new pair. On the way, they get drenched in rain, run into mules and encounter a terrible landslide. Will Granny ever be able to reach the town and get herself a new pair of glasses? This beautifully illustrated edition brings alive the magical charm of one of Ruskin Bond’s most unforgettable tales.
Download or read book Theophylline written by Erín Moure and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is breath for? What is archive? Why write a poem, instead of... something else? Theophylline is a work of poetry motivated by asthma, seeking poetry’s futurity in a queer and female heritage. Moure crosses a border to engage the poetry of three American modernists—Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, and Angelina Weld Grimké—as a translator might enter work to translate it. But what if that work is already in English? I looked for women who had made and were formed by migrations, and who were in some way marked ‘qustionably’ by the socius, and I examined what I could of the forms and shapes of their migrations—
Download or read book The Sound of Glass written by Karen S. White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unexpectedly inheriting her late husband's reclusive grandmother's home in South Carolina, widow Merritt Heyward investigates the Heyward family's shattering history while navigating the challenges of a young stepmother and ten-year-old half-brother.
Download or read book The Way We Were written by Dick Curtis and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Ray Pettit is the story of America. a country of decent and generous people, a country with a heritage and system of government based on liberty and the rights of individuals, a country where opportunity has no bounds. Encouraged by his mill-worker parents, who were lacking in formal education but not in intelligence, character, and love for their children, he used his natural ability in mathematics and high-level academic achievement as a springboard to great accomplishments in engineering, some of which contributed to the development of today's modem cellphone technology .Mill-Village Boy begins with the story of a barefoot boy in overalls, in the small town of Canton, Georgia, during the depression years of the 1930s. Unconditionally loved by his parents, Ray Pettit went from Class Valedictorian to graduation from Georgia Tech with a degree in Electrical Engineering. This was followed by Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees, and outstanding achievements in industry and academia. Mill-Village Boy has elements of intrigue and danger, love and adventure, comedy and sadness, loyalty and betrayal. . . a fascinating description of an exciting and rewarding life!
Download or read book The Practical Seductress written by Camaione Sue and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sexually charged memoir, Sue Camaione sets off on a rebellious course to make her way as a young woman determined to live on her own terms despite societal mores. Full of a precocious curiosity about sexuality, Sue questions her religious education, challenges her school dress code, sets herself on a quest to lose her virginity, and, as she grows older, encounters challenges that at times leave her broke, sick, and homeless. She flees upstate New York, embarking on romantic adventures across the country. She discovers orgasmic joy in the Rocky Mountains, falls in love in Tucson, struggles with open marriage in San Diego, and explores forbidden intimacy in the arms of a Chilean graduate student in Boston. These experiences, men, places, and friendships transform her. Both a coming-of-age story and a depiction of an era, The Practical Seductress exposes the gender double standard and the dangers and joys of sexual freedom that defined the 1970s and ’80s. Filled with humor and learned wisdom, this is a story of desire and survival, navigating treacherous and unpredictable paths, defying social norms, and finding redemption.
Download or read book The Gates to Recovery written by Cathy Sweat and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are just starting your journey to recovery from addiction or have relapsed and feel hopeless, you will definitely find help in Cathy Sweat's The Gates to Recovery. As someone who works one-on-one with addicts, Cathy knows the traps, setbacks, and excuses that are often used when drowning in addiction. But with Scriptural guidance through the Gates of Jerusalem in Nehemiah, Cathy can show you the way to freedom and help set your feet on the path God has planned for you. Learn from the Israelites and see God's merciful hand as you experience your soul's final recovery.
Download or read book First Memory written by Sophie Miller and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Memory: Multiple Me is a chronological journey of memories leading Sophie through a near-death experience, a kidnapping, an angelic intervention, numerous abuses, UFO encounters, and the struggle to accept her choices for this lifetime and ultimately becoming able to offer forgiveness to her abuser.
Download or read book There Will Always Be Boats written by Sayali Patil and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moulding words into visuals, There Will Always Be Boats aims to find the magic in the mundane. It’s a reminder that we have our shores, and we will find them if we just remember to stop diving deep into the sea and blink twice. A reminder that when life pulls you down and you feel like you’re drowning, there will always be a hand, a song, your own self, a boat to save you. And for now, the author hopes it's these poems. Maybe a little broken at their spine but honest, asking you to see the world without tainted glasses and open your eyes to all the tufts of hope floating in the air.
Download or read book A Grandmother s Recollections written by Ella Rodman Church and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Grandmother's Recollections" by Ella Rodman Church. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Meet My Grandmother written by Lisa Tucker McElroy and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the busy life of Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, seen through the eyes of her six-year-old granddaughter.
Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe The Juke Box written by Elizabeth Bishop and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-1930s to 1978 Elizabeth Bishop published some ninety poems and thirty translations. Yet her notebooks reveal that she embarked upon many more compositions, some existing in only fragmentary form and some embodied in extensive drafts. Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box presents, alongside facsimiles of many notebook pages from which they are drawn, poems Bishop began soon after college, reflecting her passion for Elizabethan verse and surrealist technique; love poems and dream fragments from the 1940s; poems about her Canadian childhood; and many other works that heretofore have been quoted almost exclusively in biographical and critical studies. This revelatory and moving selection brings us into the poet's laboratory, showing us the initial provocative images that moved Bishop to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime. Editor Alice Quinn has also mined the Bishop archives for rich tangential material that illuminates the poet's sources and intentions.
Download or read book The Life Of Rah written by Rahimah S. Phillips and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought that you found the love of your life--only to find out that he wasn't? Have you ever thought that your only child would be your one saving grace--only to find out that he wasn't? Have you ever thought that the one man in your life, the only man that you've ever known as a father, would be there to protect you forever--only to find out that he wasn't? Have you ever wished for the perfect mother--only to find out that she wasn't, or the perfect family--only to find out that that they weren't? Have you ever felt like you just want to be normal--only to find out that you aren't? Have you ever felt all alone in the world--only to find out that there are others who feel the same way? Have you ever felt like you wanted to die--only to realize that you have so much to live for? Rahimah shares this compelling story about her life as an amazing young Black girl, who came of age when she was a daughter, a granddaughter, a motherless child, and a mother. Take this journey with her, as she attempts to walk by faith while learning how to live with love and hate; while coping with life and death; while seeking to understand race and religion; while determining the difference between truth and lies, and while overcoming trials and tribulations. Throughout her life, Rahimah has struggled with fear, rejection, and abandonment. This is a story about vulnerability, insecurity, sexuality, and spirituality. This is a story about being torn between loyalty and integrity; and choosing between self-destruction and self-awareness. This is a story about determination and inspiration. Everyone has a story. This is Rahimah's story. This is her life--(The Life of Rah).
Download or read book Jasper non ICSE WB 7 written by Jyotika Gill and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jasper series has been especially designed as per the latest guidelines provided in the National Education Policy. The books are designed to expose learners to real-life situations, enabling them to experience and respond to language in different scenarios. The series aims at the development of communicative proficiency through a graded syllabus of structural patterns, and the rich and varied contexts of English literature.
