Author: Carlina Duan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780299331344
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
In her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen "spangling with light." Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants, exploring the fraught complexities of identity, belonging, and linguistic reclamation. Alien Miss brings forth beautifully powerful voices: immigrants facing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first Chinese American woman to vote, and matriarchal ancestors. The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland. I browse through archives full of men and women with long black hair, throwing themselves into the land. thread of grass. thread of immaculate touch. paper son, or paper daughter. my own papers marked with wings, the pointed tip of an eagle's beak. here, I'm made prey. I pledge allegiance. --Excerpt from "Alien Miss Confronts the Author"
Alien Miss
Author: Carlina Duan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780299331344
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
In her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen "spangling with light." Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants, exploring the fraught complexities of identity, belonging, and linguistic reclamation. Alien Miss brings forth beautifully powerful voices: immigrants facing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first Chinese American woman to vote, and matriarchal ancestors. The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland. I browse through archives full of men and women with long black hair, throwing themselves into the land. thread of grass. thread of immaculate touch. paper son, or paper daughter. my own papers marked with wings, the pointed tip of an eagle's beak. here, I'm made prey. I pledge allegiance. --Excerpt from "Alien Miss Confronts the Author"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780299331344
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
In her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen "spangling with light." Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants, exploring the fraught complexities of identity, belonging, and linguistic reclamation. Alien Miss brings forth beautifully powerful voices: immigrants facing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first Chinese American woman to vote, and matriarchal ancestors. The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland. I browse through archives full of men and women with long black hair, throwing themselves into the land. thread of grass. thread of immaculate touch. paper son, or paper daughter. my own papers marked with wings, the pointed tip of an eagle's beak. here, I'm made prey. I pledge allegiance. --Excerpt from "Alien Miss Confronts the Author"
Deportation of Alien Criminals, Gunmen, Narcotic Dealers, Defectives, Etc
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
My Gym Teacher Is an Alien Overlord
Author: David Solomons
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698192435
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
When Luke's annoying older brother became a superhero instead of him, Luke thought he couldn't get any more disgruntled-- until his friend Lara became a superhero, too. Now Luke's feeling totally left out; even his best friend gets mad at him when Luke's attempts at crime-solving without superpowers go terribly awry. So when Luke discovers an alien plot to overthrow the world, he's got nobody to turn to who'll listen...nobody but his sworn enemy. In this hilarious sequel to My Brother is a Superhero, Luke will have to put on his big-boy Daredevil underpants and find out what heroes and villains are truly made of.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698192435
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
When Luke's annoying older brother became a superhero instead of him, Luke thought he couldn't get any more disgruntled-- until his friend Lara became a superhero, too. Now Luke's feeling totally left out; even his best friend gets mad at him when Luke's attempts at crime-solving without superpowers go terribly awry. So when Luke discovers an alien plot to overthrow the world, he's got nobody to turn to who'll listen...nobody but his sworn enemy. In this hilarious sequel to My Brother is a Superhero, Luke will have to put on his big-boy Daredevil underpants and find out what heroes and villains are truly made of.
Hush, Little Alien
Author: Daniel Kirk
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN: 9780786807598
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Based on the bedtime favorite Hush, Little Baby, this adorable board-book edition takes a trip complete with goonie birds and shooting stars as an alien dad sings his little alien a good-night lullaby.
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN: 9780786807598
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Based on the bedtime favorite Hush, Little Baby, this adorable board-book edition takes a trip complete with goonie birds and shooting stars as an alien dad sings his little alien a good-night lullaby.
Illegal Aliens
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illegal aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illegal aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Deportation of Aliens
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Life and Light for Heathen Women
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Sessional Papers ... of the ... Parliament of the Dominion of Canada ...
Author: Canada. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Author: North Carolina. Department of Public Instruction
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description