Author: Sam Tatum
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462839312
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Elegy to Black Diva is a series of poetry that is a journey into the many phases of love gained, lost and sought after. Written by author Sam Tatum, it is a grand voyage of emotions that can only be fully appreciated by reading and submerging yourself into the mind of a true romantic. Elegy is a book for lovers that can be read alone, enjoyed when read together and definitely to be shared. Elegy reads like a song with the music rising out of the heart. Prepare to fall in love with fantasies that can come true. A pearl sparkling in a rippling stream under the noon sun. The sound of the wind as it brushes the surface of the ocean. The softness of a babys breath. All of these are your name. In my mind, you sit atop my thoughts. In my heart, you rest easy on the lulling beats. In my eye, you consume my vision. And my ear hears nothing but your voice calling my name.
Author: Jean-Paul Daoust
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9780920717547
Category : Gays
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Concerned with the quest for love, this selection, specially translated by Daniel Sloate from various collections of the poet's work, is a lyrical exploration of homosexual love and the angst of solitude.
Author: Deborah Paredez
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324035315
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 221
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An impassioned homage to the divas who shake up our world and transform it with their bold, dazzling artistry. What does it mean to be a “diva”? A shifting, increasingly loaded term, it has been used to both deride and celebrate charismatic and unapologetically fierce performers like Aretha Franklin, Divine, and the women of Labelle. In this brilliant, powerful blend of incisive criticism and electric memoir, Deborah Paredez—scholar, cultural critic, and lifelong diva devotee—unravels our enduring fascination with these icons and explores how divas have challenged American ideas about feminism, performance, and freedom. American Diva journeys into Tina Turner’s scintillating performances, Celia Cruz’s command of the male-dominated salsa world, the transcendent revival of Jomama Jones after a period of exile, and the unparalleled excellence of Venus and Serena Williams. Recounting how she and her mother endlessly watched Rita Moreno’s powerhouse portrayal of Anita in West Side Story and how she learned much about being bigger than life from her fabulous Tía Lucia, Paredez chronicles the celebrated and skilled performers who not only shaped her life but boldly expressed the aspiration for freedom among brown, Black, and gay communities. Paredez also traces the evolution of the diva through the decades, dismayed at the mid-aughts’ commodification and juvenilizing of its meaning but finding its lasting beauty and power. Filled with sharp insights and great heart, American Diva is a spirited tribute to the power of performance and the joys of fandom.
Author: Sabine Gruber
Publisher: Haus Publishing
ISBN: 1908323361
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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It is 2009: writer Clara Burger arrives in Rome to sort out the affairs and clear the flat of her school friend Ines, prematurely dead from cancer. Sorting through Ines's belongings, Clara finds a manuscript containing not only an autobiographical account of Ines's strange experiences while working as a chambermaid in Rome in the summer of 1978, but also the life story of her former employer, the hotelier Emma Manente. Originally from Italy's German-speaking enclave South Tyrol (like Clara and Ines), Emma first comes to Rome in the late 1930s and becomes an eyewitness to the capital's turbulent past and present: Mussolini's fascist regime, the Nazi occupation and an uneasy postwar democracy threatened by corruption and extremism. In a sweeping tale of remembrance and reconciliation, of lives unfulfilled and loves unrequited, Roman Elegy interweaves the personal stories of three resilient women with a fascinating historical narrative of the Eternal City, in all its contrasting squalor and beauty, compassion and savagery.
Author: Derrick Harriell
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1734827343
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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In this follow-up volume in the Black Fire—This Time series, over seventy-five poets and writers come together on the ongoing theme of "Black is Beautiful, Black is Powerful, Black is Home." Works ranging from poetry, fiction, essays, and drama cover a wide range of Black literature. This "continuum" of writing, as coined by Volume 1 editor Kim McMillon, brings together legends of the Black Arts era with contemporary writers in the tradition. This edition includes a hallmark work from the Black Arts era, We Own the Night by playwright and one of the last living legends Jimmy Garrett. Volume 2 of Black Fire—This Time will educate and inspire the next generation.
Author: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author: Askia M. Touré
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Poetry using the landscape of Egypt, ancient gods and goddess, historical events, heroes and queens.
Author: Deborah Paredez
Publisher: American Poets Continuum
ISBN: 9781950774012
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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A Latina feminist chronicle of the Vietnam War era in documentary poems that highlight the voices of women relegated to the margins of history.
Author: Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Publisher: Arlen House
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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iDivas!: A Sense of Place—the second volume in Arlen House's iDivas! series—is a bilingual portrait of contemporary women 's writing in Galway It features poetry, fiction, drama, memoir, song-writing and translation from more than fifty writers. Alongside the more established names, this cross-generational anthology showcases some of the county's emerging and less well-known voices— the calibre of their work augers well for the future of women's writing in Ireland. We are particularly honoured to include work by two writers who were important voices in our literary and cultural world—Anne Kemiedy (1935-1998), and the recently-deceased Briel Cummins, whose previously unpublished poems are printed here in her honour.
Author: Malin Pereira
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033734X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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Malin Pereira's collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post-Black Arts Movement generation. This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells previously in print. Largely published since 1980, each of these poets has at least four books. Their influence on new generations of poets has been wide-reaching. The work of this group, says Pereira, is a departure from the previous generation's proscriptive manifestos in favor of more inclusive voices, perspectives, and techniques. Although these poets reject a rigid adherence to a specific black aesthetic, their work just as effectively probes racism, stereotyping, and racial politics. Unlike Amiri Baraka's claim in "Home" that he becomes blacker and blacker, positioning race as a defining essence, these poets imagine a plurality of ideas about the relationship between blackness and black poetry. They question the idea of an established literary canon defining black literature. For these poets, Pereira says, the idea of "home" is found both in black poetry circles and in the wider transnational community of literature. A Sarah Mills Hodge Foundation Publication.
