Bright Felon

Author : Kazim Ali
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0819569933

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Bright Felon by Kazim Ali Pdf

This groundbreaking, transgenre work—part detective story, part literary memoir, part imagined past—is intensely autobiographical and confessional. Proceeding sentence by sentence, city by city, and backwards in time, poet and essayist Kazim Ali details the struggle of coming of age between cultures, overcoming personal and family strictures to talk about private affairs and secrets long held. The text is comprised of sentences that alternate in time, ranging from discursive essay to memoir to prose poetry. Art, history, politics, geography, love, sexuality, writing, and religion, and the role silence plays in each, are its interwoven themes. Bright Felon is literally “autobiography” because the text itself becomes a form of writing the life, revealing secrets, and then, amid the shards and fragments of experience, dealing with the aftermath of such revelations. Bright Felon offers a new and active form of autobiography alongside such texts as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee, Lyn Hejinian’s My Life, and Etel Adnan’s In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country. A reader’s companion is available at http://brightfelonreader.site.wesleyan.edu/

Author : Christopher Hennessy
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299295639

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Our Deep Gossip by Christopher Hennessy Pdf

This book presents interviews with eight gay men who are celebrated American poets and writers, discussing their early lives, friends and communities that shaped their work, histories of gay writers before them, how sex and desire connect with artistic production, and what coming out means to a writer.

Author : John Waldmeir
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004382541

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In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing by John Waldmeir Pdf

Using Islamic tradition as a resource, the poets, novelists, playwright, filmmaker, and illustrator in this study discover signs of God’s creative actions amid the tensions of contemporary Muslim American identity.

Author : Stanley Cohen
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781632208132

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Convicting the Innocent by Stanley Cohen Pdf

“A landmark in the fight against the death penalty. Extensively researched and brilliantly written . . . The Wrong Men is a gem.” Martin Garbus, criminal defense attorney Every day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives—either by decades-long sentences or the death penalty itself. Injustice tarnishes our legal process from start to finish. From the racial discrimination and violence used by backwards law enforcement officers, to a prison culture that breeds inmate conflict, there is opportunity for error at every turn. Award-winning journalist Stanley Cohen chronicles over one hundred of these cases, from the 1973 case of the first ever death row exoneree, David Keaton, to multiple cases as of 2015 that resulted from the corrupt practices of NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella (with nearly seventy Brooklyn cases under review for wrongful conviction). In the wake of these unjust convictions, grassroots organizations, families, and pro bono lawyers have battled this rampant wrongdoing. Cohen reveals how eyewitness error, jailhouse snitch testimony, racism, junk science, prosecutorial misconduct, and incompetent counsel have populated America’s prisons with the innocent. Readers embark on journeys with men who were arrested, convicted, sentenced to life in prison or death, dragged through the appeals system, and finally set free based on their actual innocence. Although these stories end with vindication, there are those that have ended with unjustified execution. Convicting the Innocent is sure to fuel controversy over a justice system that has delivered the ultimate punishment nearly one thousand times since 1976, though it cannot guarantee accurate convictions.

Author : Kazim Ali
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780472051274

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Orange Alert by Kazim Ali Pdf

An American poet takes on Eastern philosophy, Western culture, and his Muslim heritage

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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University Press of New England: Fall 2012 New Titles by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ward Farnsworth,Mark F Grady
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781543811261

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Torts by Ward Farnsworth,Mark F Grady Pdf

The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience, including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities; practice questions from your favorite study aids; an outline tool and other helpful resources. The unique approach of Torts: Cases and Questions, Third Edition, by Ward Farnsworth and Mark F. Grady provides extraordinary teaching cases that are presented concisely and positioned in tandem, challenging students to compare the cases and draw connections and distinctions between them. Teachers across the country enjoy the lively and instructive classroom experience promoted by this fresh and innovative format. New to the Third Edition: A more streamlined presentation that removes some inessential material and makes coverage easier New material from the Third Restatement of Torts Additional chapters from the earlier edition available for free to download, distribute, and use as you like Professors and students will benefit from: An exceptionally strong collection of cases arranged in pairs that challenge students to explain the distinctions between them Logical organization that starts with intentional torts A balance of classic and contemporary cases chosen to stimulate active student engagement Intermediate cases—shorter than principal cases, but presented in enough detail to support great class discussions Problems integrated throughout the book that help students apply new concepts and prepare for exams A compatible pedagogical approach that supports a variety of teaching objectives

Author : Kara Wittman,Evan Kindley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009021821

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The Cambridge Companion to The Essay by Kara Wittman,Evan Kindley Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to the Essay considers the history, theory, and aesthetics of the essay from the moment it's named in the late sixteenth century to the present. What is an essay? What can the essay do or think or reveal or know that other literary forms cannot? What makes a piece of writing essayistic? How can essays bring about change? Over the course of seventeen chapters by a diverse group of scholars, The Companion reads the essay in relation to poetry, fiction, natural science, philosophy, critical theory, postcolonial and decolonial thinking, studies in race and gender, queer theory, and the history of literary criticism. This book studies the essay in its written, photographic, cinematic, and digital forms, with a special emphasis on how the essay is being reshaped and reimagined in the twenty-first century, making it a crucial resource for scholars, students, and essayists.

Author : Neelanjana Banerjee,Summi Kaipa,Pireeni Sundaralingam
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781610752077

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Indivisible by Neelanjana Banerjee,Summi Kaipa,Pireeni Sundaralingam Pdf

The first anthology of its kind, Indivisible brings together forty-nine American poets who trace their roots to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Featuring award-winning poets including Meena Alexander, Agha Shahid Ali, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Vijay Seshadri, here are poets who share a long history of grappling with a multiplicity of languages, cultures, and faiths. The poems gathered here take us from basketball courts to Bollywood, from the Grand Canyon to sugar plantations, and from Hindu-Muslim riots in India to anti-immigrant attacks on the streets of post–9/11 America. Showcasing a diversity of forms, from traditional ghazals and sestinas to free verse, experimental writing, and slam poetry, Indivisible presents 141 poems by authors who are rewriting the cultural and literary landscape of their time and their place. Includes biographies of each poet.

Author : Tina Schumann
Publisher : Red Hen Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781597095723

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Two-Countries by Tina Schumann Pdf

The IPPY Award–winning anthology of poetry, memoir, and essays—“accounts of assimilation and nostalgia, celebration and resistance” (Rick Barot, author of The Galleons). This collection contains contributions from sixty-five writers who were either born and/or raised in the United States by one or more immigrant parent. Their work describes the many contradictions, discoveries and life lessons one experiences when one is neither seen as fully American nor fully foreign. Contributors include Richard Blanco, Tina Chang, Joseph Lagaspi, Li-Young Lee, Timothy Liu, Naomi Shihab Nye, Oliver de la Paz, Ira Sukrungruang, Ocean Vuong, and many other talented writers from throughout the United States. Winner of a Bronze Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Multicultural Nonfiction “When you hold in your DNA two countries—the cultures, the languages, the delicious foods and stories—you embody richness. These writers know on the cellular level many-layered ways to live, to struggle, to love. Here are voices we need to hear, writers we need to read. This is a brilliant, timely book, an antidote to divisiveness.” —Peggy Shumaker, former Alaska State Writer Laureate “The poets and writers in Two-Countries show that one result of our ongoing national experiment is a rich deepening in our literature. We may be in perilous times as a country, but our writers have never been in more ferocious health.” —Rick Barot, author of The Galleons

Author : Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501131684

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The Sleeping World by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes Pdf

"Spain, 1977. Military rule is over. Bootleg punk music oozes out of illegal basement bars and fascists fight anarchists for political control. Students perform protest art in the city center, rioting against the old government, the undecided new order, against the university, against themselves ... Mosca is a disillusioned university student, whose younger brother is among the "disappeared," taken by the police two years ago, now presumed dead. Spurred by the turmoil around them, Mosca and her friends commit an act that carries their rebellion too far and sends them spiraling out of their provincial hometown. But the further they go, the more Mosca believes her brother is alive and the more she is willing to risk to find him"--Back cover

Author : Margot Singer,Nicole Walker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441195265

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Bending Genre by Margot Singer,Nicole Walker Pdf

Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. This debate over ethics, however, has sidelined important questions of literary form. Bending Genre does not ask where the boundaries between genres should be drawn, but what happens when you push the line. Written for writers and students of creative writing, this collection brings together perspectives from today’s leading writers of creative nonfiction, including Michael Martone, Brenda Miller, Ander Monson, and David Shields. Each writer’s innovative essay probes our notions of genre and investigates how creative nonfiction is shaped, modeling the forms of writing being discussed. Like creative nonfiction itself, Bending Genre is an exciting hybrid that breaks new ground.

Author : Ilya Kaminsky,Katherine Towler
Publisher : Tupelo Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781936797332

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A God in the House by Ilya Kaminsky,Katherine Towler Pdf

Editors Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler have gathered conversations with nineteen of America’s leading poets, reflecting upon their diverse experiences with spirituality and the craft of writing. Bringing together poets who are Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, Native American, Wiccan, agnostic, and otherwise, this book offers frank and thoughtful consideration of themes too often polarized and politicized in our society. Participants include Li-Young Lee, Jane Hirshfield, Carolyn Forché, Gerald Stern, Christian Wiman, Joy Harjo, and Gregory Orr, and others, all wrestling with difficult questions of human existence and the sources of art.

Author : Wenying Xu
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810855779

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Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater by Wenying Xu Pdf

Asian American literature is one of the most recent forms of ethnic literature and is already becoming one of the most prominent, given the large number of writers, the growing ethnic population from the region, the general receptivity of this body of work, and the quality of the authors. In recent decades, there has been an exponential growth in their output and much Asian American literature has now achieved new levels of popular success and critical acclaim. Nurtured by rich and long literary traditions from the vast continent of Asia, this literature is poised between the ancient and the modern, between the East and West, and between the oral and the written. The Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater covers the activities in this burgeoning field. First, its history is traced year by year from 1887 to the present, in a chronology, and the introduction provides a good overview. The most important section is the dictionary, with over 600 substantial and cross-referenced entries on authors, books, and genres as well as more general ones describing the historical background, cultural features, techniques and major theatres and clubs. More reading can be found through an extensive bibliography with general works and those on specific authors. The book is thus a good place to get started, or to expanded one's horizons, about a branch of American literature that can only grow in importance.

Author : Judith Rauscher
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839469347

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Ecopoetic Place-Making by Judith Rauscher Pdf

American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass mobility and global ecological crisis. In Ecopoetic Place-Making, Judith Rauscher analyzes the works of five contemporary American poets of migration, drawing from ecocriticism and mobility studies. The poets discussed in her study challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment and engage in ecopoetic place-making from different perspectives of mobility, testifying to the potential of poetry as a means of conceptualizing alternative environmental imaginaries for our contemporary world on the move.