Author: Frank Stewart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451616341
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Words and images come together in a collaboration between celebrated poet Ntozake Shange and an acclaimed group of photographers, to result in this stunning celebration of contemporary Black life in America. From the first publication of The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava in 1967, to Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats, collaborations between writers and photographers have been important in African American culture. These books examine the issues of identity and representation that have been so central to this group's efforts to thrive. The Kamoinge Workshop photographers who contributed their work to this inspiring collection consist of names that have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), and more. Names such as Anthony Barboza, Adger W. Cowans, Ming Smith Murray, Beuford Smith, John Pinderhuges, and many others. The Workshop’s mission was a response from the bias portrayals of African Americans in the media. They sought to shed positive light on their subjects, as well as to demystify Black life in America. And The Sweet Breath of Life does exactly that.
The Sweet Breath of Life
Author: Frank Stewart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451616341
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Words and images come together in a collaboration between celebrated poet Ntozake Shange and an acclaimed group of photographers, to result in this stunning celebration of contemporary Black life in America. From the first publication of The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava in 1967, to Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats, collaborations between writers and photographers have been important in African American culture. These books examine the issues of identity and representation that have been so central to this group's efforts to thrive. The Kamoinge Workshop photographers who contributed their work to this inspiring collection consist of names that have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), and more. Names such as Anthony Barboza, Adger W. Cowans, Ming Smith Murray, Beuford Smith, John Pinderhuges, and many others. The Workshop’s mission was a response from the bias portrayals of African Americans in the media. They sought to shed positive light on their subjects, as well as to demystify Black life in America. And The Sweet Breath of Life does exactly that.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451616341
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Words and images come together in a collaboration between celebrated poet Ntozake Shange and an acclaimed group of photographers, to result in this stunning celebration of contemporary Black life in America. From the first publication of The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava in 1967, to Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats, collaborations between writers and photographers have been important in African American culture. These books examine the issues of identity and representation that have been so central to this group's efforts to thrive. The Kamoinge Workshop photographers who contributed their work to this inspiring collection consist of names that have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), and more. Names such as Anthony Barboza, Adger W. Cowans, Ming Smith Murray, Beuford Smith, John Pinderhuges, and many others. The Workshop’s mission was a response from the bias portrayals of African Americans in the media. They sought to shed positive light on their subjects, as well as to demystify Black life in America. And The Sweet Breath of Life does exactly that.
Sweet Swing Blues on the Road
Author: Wynton Marsalis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393035148
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A year in the life of the jazz musician and composer includes his views on rap, the road, romance, creativity, politics, culture, and the role of the artist in American society.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393035148
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
A year in the life of the jazz musician and composer includes his views on rap, the road, romance, creativity, politics, culture, and the role of the artist in American society.
Catch My Breath
Author: Paul Briggs
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN: 9781484728376
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Breath . . . it inspires so many silly sayings.Let me catch my breath.You take my breath away.I need a breath of fresh air.And how did little white flowers come to be known as Baby's Breath?Breath is a mystery in more ways than one. And this story is all about breath: losing it, trying to find it, even trying to buy it. In the imagination of Paul Briggs, a boy's breath becomes personified, and it zooms away through farm, forest, and sea, returning only when the boy least expects it.
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN: 9781484728376
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Breath . . . it inspires so many silly sayings.Let me catch my breath.You take my breath away.I need a breath of fresh air.And how did little white flowers come to be known as Baby's Breath?Breath is a mystery in more ways than one. And this story is all about breath: losing it, trying to find it, even trying to buy it. In the imagination of Paul Briggs, a boy's breath becomes personified, and it zooms away through farm, forest, and sea, returning only when the boy least expects it.
Breath of Life
Author: Christine Pope
Publisher: Dark Valentine Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
In the heart of a remote Gaian colony, Anika Jespers, a humble homesteader’s daughter, envisions her future as a series of unending days tending to her family’s farm. But fate weaves an unexpected twist when her father strikes a deal with their enigmatic neighbor, one of the otherworldly Zhore. Unsure what to make of her new life — and the alien who shares it — Anika must let go of everything she’s ever known…and open her heart to the last person she ever thought would claim it. Beauty & the beast, galactic empire, colonization, space opera, alien human romance, science fiction romance, SF romance
Publisher: Dark Valentine Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
In the heart of a remote Gaian colony, Anika Jespers, a humble homesteader’s daughter, envisions her future as a series of unending days tending to her family’s farm. But fate weaves an unexpected twist when her father strikes a deal with their enigmatic neighbor, one of the otherworldly Zhore. Unsure what to make of her new life — and the alien who shares it — Anika must let go of everything she’s ever known…and open her heart to the last person she ever thought would claim it. Beauty & the beast, galactic empire, colonization, space opera, alien human romance, science fiction romance, SF romance
Breath
Author: Martha Mason
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608193209
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
After contracting polio as a young girl Martha Mason of tiny Lattimore, North Carolina, lived a record sixty-one of her seventy-one years in an iron lung until her death in 2009, but she never let the 800-pound cylinder define her. The subject of a documentary film, an NPR feature, an ABC News piece, and a widely syndicated New York Times obituary, Martha enjoyed life, and people. From within her iron lung, she graduated first in her class in high school and at Wake Forest University, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She was determined to be a writer and, with her devoted mother taking dictation, she became a journalist-but had to give up her career when her father became ill. Still, Martha created for herself a vast and radiant world-holding dinner parties with the table pushed right up to her iron lung, voraciously reading, running her own household, and caring for her mother when she became ill with Alzheimer's and increasingly abusive to Martha. When voice-activated computers became available, Martha wrote Breath, in part as a tribute to her mother. "This book is her story," writes Anne Rivers Siddons in her preface, "told in the rich words of a born writer. That she told it is a gift to everyone who will read it. That she told it is also as near to a miracle as most are likely to encounter."
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608193209
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
After contracting polio as a young girl Martha Mason of tiny Lattimore, North Carolina, lived a record sixty-one of her seventy-one years in an iron lung until her death in 2009, but she never let the 800-pound cylinder define her. The subject of a documentary film, an NPR feature, an ABC News piece, and a widely syndicated New York Times obituary, Martha enjoyed life, and people. From within her iron lung, she graduated first in her class in high school and at Wake Forest University, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She was determined to be a writer and, with her devoted mother taking dictation, she became a journalist-but had to give up her career when her father became ill. Still, Martha created for herself a vast and radiant world-holding dinner parties with the table pushed right up to her iron lung, voraciously reading, running her own household, and caring for her mother when she became ill with Alzheimer's and increasingly abusive to Martha. When voice-activated computers became available, Martha wrote Breath, in part as a tribute to her mother. "This book is her story," writes Anne Rivers Siddons in her preface, "told in the rich words of a born writer. That she told it is a gift to everyone who will read it. That she told it is also as near to a miracle as most are likely to encounter."
Breath of Life
Author: Rabbi Rachel Timoner
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 1557258996
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
This essential introduction to Judaism’s notions of spirit as they relate to God is designed to inform both Jews and Christians who are studying what it means when we say that God is spirit. Exploring the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and other rabbinic writings, Rabbi Timoner uncovers surprising insights about how God as spirit influences Jewish ideas of creation, revelation, and redemption. Written with an accessible and engaging voice, full of stories and relevant teachings, Breath of Life speaks to lay readers and scholars alike, as it pursues a new perspective on Judaism’s sacred texts. This book promises Christian readers meaningful insights on their own notions of God as Holy Spirit while giving Jewish readers a new look at their own tradition. "In easy but deceptively profound language, Rachel Timoner deftly savors the essential unknowability of God, the ubiquity of Torah and the mystery of redemption. She’s given us an immensely literate and serious, contemporary Jewish theology. Breath of Life is a spiritual tour de force.” -Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, Scholar in residence at Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco, and author of many books including Kabbalah: A Love Story "Any reader keen to cultivate a robust spirituality should read this little book. Jews and Christians may discover here something to talk about—scriptures we share and a quality of God we have in common.” -John R. (Jack) Levison, author of Filled with the Spirit; Professor of New Testament, Seattle Pacific University
Publisher: Paraclete Press
ISBN: 1557258996
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
This essential introduction to Judaism’s notions of spirit as they relate to God is designed to inform both Jews and Christians who are studying what it means when we say that God is spirit. Exploring the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and other rabbinic writings, Rabbi Timoner uncovers surprising insights about how God as spirit influences Jewish ideas of creation, revelation, and redemption. Written with an accessible and engaging voice, full of stories and relevant teachings, Breath of Life speaks to lay readers and scholars alike, as it pursues a new perspective on Judaism’s sacred texts. This book promises Christian readers meaningful insights on their own notions of God as Holy Spirit while giving Jewish readers a new look at their own tradition. "In easy but deceptively profound language, Rachel Timoner deftly savors the essential unknowability of God, the ubiquity of Torah and the mystery of redemption. She’s given us an immensely literate and serious, contemporary Jewish theology. Breath of Life is a spiritual tour de force.” -Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, Scholar in residence at Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco, and author of many books including Kabbalah: A Love Story "Any reader keen to cultivate a robust spirituality should read this little book. Jews and Christians may discover here something to talk about—scriptures we share and a quality of God we have in common.” -John R. (Jack) Levison, author of Filled with the Spirit; Professor of New Testament, Seattle Pacific University
A Feather on the Breath of God
Author: Sigrid Nunez
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1429944943
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1429944943
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Pages : 1016
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The Law of Life and Human Health
Author: G. R. Clements
Publisher: Health Research Books
ISBN: 9780787301774
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
1926 This was one of the first of Dr. Clements' books. Contents: Life's Great Secret - Unity & Invisibility of Cause; colds & Germs; Why Does Illness Produce Immunity; Does Nature Accept Substitutes; Obedience or Interference; Thou Shalt Surely Di.
Publisher: Health Research Books
ISBN: 9780787301774
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
1926 This was one of the first of Dr. Clements' books. Contents: Life's Great Secret - Unity & Invisibility of Cause; colds & Germs; Why Does Illness Produce Immunity; Does Nature Accept Substitutes; Obedience or Interference; Thou Shalt Surely Di.
The Panorama of Life and Literature
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Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Languages : en
Pages : 876
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