For You For You I Am Trilling These Songs

Author : Kathleen Rooney
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781582435459

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For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs by Kathleen Rooney Pdf

In this collection about life as a twentysomething in the twenty–first century, Kathleen Rooney writes with the finesse of someone well beyond her years, but with fresh insights that reveal a girl still making discoveries at every turn. Varied and original, the tales in For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs recount the perils of falling in love with the unlikeliest of people, of visiting the New York apartments of a vanished poet, and of touring an animal retirement home with her parents. Of getting a Brazilian wax, and of chauffeuring a U.S. senator around town. Of saying good–bye to a cousin who's joining a convent, and of trying to convince herself that she's not wasting her life. This is a book about love and longing, poetry and plagiarism, death and democracy, mountain floods and Midwestern cicadas. Here is a young woman struggling to find her place as an adult and a citizen in an America that rarely manages to live up to Whitman's dream of it. With this book, Rooney sings—yes, in fact, she trills—loud and clear.

Author : Kathleen Rooney
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781582436838

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For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs by Kathleen Rooney Pdf

In this collection about life as a twentysomething in the twenty–first century, Kathleen Rooney writes with the finesse of someone well beyond her years, but with fresh insights that reveal a girl still making discoveries at every turn. Varied and original, the tales in For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs recount the perils of falling in love with the unlikeliest of people, of visiting the New York apartments of a vanished poet, and of touring an animal retirement home with her parents. Of getting a Brazilian wax, and of chauffeuring a U.S. senator around town. Of saying good–bye to a cousin who's joining a convent, and of trying to convince herself that she's not wasting her life. This is a book about love and longing, poetry and plagiarism, death and democracy, mountain floods and Midwestern cicadas. Here is a young woman struggling to find her place as an adult and a citizen in an America that rarely manages to live up to Whitman's dream of it. With this book, Rooney sings—yes, in fact, she trills—loud and clear.

Author : Rodney Wallace Kennedy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666712995

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Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy by Rodney Wallace Kennedy Pdf

Democracy faces threats from an emerging right-wing movement in democratic governments around the world. This may be even more prevalent in the United States because there is an evil that uses rhetorical tropes to undermine the anchor institutions of democracy: press, courts, universities, and Congress. This evil has a personification—former President Donald Trump. All the rhetorical critiques of Trump, that he is a demagogue, an authoritarian, a serial liar, a populist on steroids, fail to take into account the evil that is fomented by his angry and vengeful rhetoric. Pictures of evil in Scripture, philosophy, and rhetoric bear a striking resemblance to Trump. It is not enough to say that he is dangerous to democracy. Kennedy claims that he is the evil seed in democracy that is even now sprouting new versions of the Trump rhetoric as each acolyte attempts to outrage the next. Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy screams at the evil, fights against the evil, and then attempts to sing the songs of goodness and democracy from poets, prophets, and rhapsodes. For the health of democracy these words have been written.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781587299599

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Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love by Walt Whitman Pdf

In his 1859 “Live Oak, with Moss,” Walt Whitman’s unpublished sheaf of twelve poems on manly passion, the poet dreams of a city where men who love men can live and love openly. The revised “Live Oak, with Moss” poems became “Calamus,” Whitman’s cluster of poems on “adhesive” and manly love, comradeship, and democracy, in Leaves of Grass. Commemorating both the first publication of the “Calamus” poems and the little-known manuscript of notebook poems out of which the “Calamus” cluster grew, Whitman scholar Betsy Erkkila brings together in a single edition for the first time the “Live Oak, with Moss” poems, the 1860 “Calamus” poems, and the final 1881 “Calamus” poems. In addition to honoring the sesquicentennial of the “Calamus” cluster, she celebrates the ongoing legacy of Whitman’s songs of manly passion, sex, and love. The volume begins with Whitman’s elegantly handwritten manuscript of the “Live Oak, with Moss” poems, printed side by side with a typeset transcription and followed by a facsimile of the 1860 version of the “Calamus” poems. The concluding section reprints the final version of the “Calamus” poems from the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. In an afterword, Erkkila discusses the radical nature of these poems in literary, sexual, and social history; the changes Whitman made in the “Live Oak” and “Calamus” poems in the post–Civil War and Reconstruction years; the literary, political, and other contests surrounding the poems; and the constitutive role the poems have played in the emergence of modern heterosexual and homosexual identity in the United States and worldwide. The volume closes with a selected bibliography of works that have contributed to the critical and interpretive struggles around Whitman’s man-loving life. One hundred and fifty years after Whitman’s brave decision to speak publicly about a fully realized democracy, his country is still locked in a struggle over the rights of homosexuals. These public battles have been at the very center of controversies over the life, work, and legacy of Walt Whitman, America’s (and the world’s) major poet of democracy and its major singer of what he called “manly love” in all its moods. Together the poems in this omnibus volume affirm his creation of a radical new language designed to convey and affirm the poet’s man love.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9788027233793

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SONG OF MYSELF (The Original 1855 Edition & The 1892 Death Bed Edition) by Walt Whitman Pdf

"Song of Myself" is a poem by Walt Whitman that is included in his work Leaves of Grass. It has been credited as "representing the core of Whitman's poetic vision". The poem was first published without sections as the first of twelve untitled poems in the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. The first edition was published by Whitman at his own expense. In 1856 it was called "A Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" and in 1860 it was simply termed "Walt Whitman." Walter "Walt" Whitman (1819 – 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1137 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9788074849770

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Song of Myself: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892 by Walt Whitman Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: “Song of Myself: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Song of Myself" is a poem by Walt Whitman that is included in his work Leaves of Grass. It has been credited as "representing the core of Whitman’s poetic vision". The poem was first published without sections as the first of twelve untitled poems in the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. The first edition was published by Whitman at his own expense. In 1856 it was called "A Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" and in 1860 it was simply termed "Walt Whitman." Walter "Walt" Whitman (1819 – 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.

Author : Ann Braybrooks
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486798189

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Poems and Songs Celebrating America by Ann Braybrooks Pdf

A celebration of American ideals and accomplishments, this anthology features inspiring verse by Sandburg, Frost, Whitman, Longfellow, Emerson, and other noteworthies. Includes "Paul Revere's Ride," "Concord Hymn," "Old Ironsides," and much more.

Author : Leo J. Eiden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1298 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015029477174

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Education in the United States by Leo J. Eiden Pdf

Author : Byrne Fone
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231096712

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The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature by Byrne Fone Pdf

Here at last is a single volume that reveals the bright thread of gay literature throughout the Western tradition. With hundreds of works by authors ranging from Ovid to James Baldwin, from Plato to Oscar Wilde, "The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature" presents a wide range of poetry, fiction, essays, and autobiography that depict love, friendship, intimacy, desire, and sex between men.

Author : Birmingham Carr's lane young men's Bible class
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555026557

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Number ten by Birmingham Carr's lane young men's Bible class Pdf

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770489547

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Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman Pdf

This compact edition offers a substantial selection of Whitman’s writing. Highlights include the full text of the 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass, the 1855 text of the poem later titled “Song of Myself,” the complete “Live Oak, with Moss” sequence, numerous selections from the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass, and several samples of Whitman’s early and late prose. The appendices include nineteenth-century reviews of Leaves of Grass, a selection of illustrations showing Whitman’s design choices for various editions of the book, and numerous portraits of the author. This volume is one of a number of editions that have been drawn from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature. The series is designed to make selections from the anthology available in a format convenient for use in a wide variety of contexts; each edition features an introduction and explanatory footnotes, and is designed to meet the needs of today’s students. This edition departs from most other editions in the series in one important respect—its format. The large page size of the edition facilitates the reading of Whitman’s long lines of verse.

Author : David Harsanyi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781621572275

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The People Have Spoken (and They Are Wrong) by David Harsanyi Pdf

Democracy may be one of the most admired ideas ever concocted, but what if it’s also one of the most harebrained? After many years of writing about democracy for a living, David Harsanyi has concluded that it’s the most overrated, overused, and misunderstood idea in political life. The less we have of it the better. “Democracy” is not synonymous with “freedom.” It is not the opposite of tyranny. In fact, the Founding Fathers knew that democracy can lead to tyranny. That’s why they built so many safeguards against it into the Constitution. Democracy, Harsanyi argues, has made our government irrational, irresponsible, and invasive. It has left the American people with only two options—domination by the majority or a government that can’t possibly work. The modern age has imbued democracy with the mystique of infallibility. But Harsanyi reminds us that the vast majority of political philosophers, including the founders, have thought that responsible, limited government based on direct majority rule over a large, let alone continental scale was a practical impossibility. In The People Have Spoken, you’ll learn: Why the Framers of our Constitution were intent on establishing a republic, not a “democracy” How democracy undermines self-government How shockingly out of touch with reality most voters really are Why democracy is an economic wrecking ball—and an invitation to a politics of envy and corruption How the great political philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Burke and Tocqueville predicted with uncanny accuracy that democracy could lead to tyranny Harsanyi warns that if we don’t recover the Founders’ republican vision, “democracy” might very well spell the end of American liberty and prosperity.

Author : Kathleen Burk
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0802144292

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Old World, New World by Kathleen Burk Pdf

A history of the relationship between Great Britain and the United States ranges from the establishment of the first English colony in the New World to the present day, examining both nations in terms of what connected them and what drove them apart.

Author : Charlotte Brontë;Walt Whitman;Jane Austen
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Popular Classic Collection: Jane Eyre/ Leaves of Grass/ Pride and Prejudice by Charlotte Brontë;Walt Whitman;Jane Austen Pdf

This Combo Collection (Set of 3 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: Jane Eyre Leaves of Grass Pride and Prejudice

Author : Kirsten Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317634812

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Walt Whitman and British Socialism by Kirsten Harris Pdf

This is the first sustained examination of Walt Whitman’s influence on British socialism. Harris combines a contextual historical study of Whitman’s reception with focused close readings of a variety of poems, books, articles, letters and speeches. She calls attention to Whitman’s own demand for the reader to ‘himself or herself construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay’, linking Whitman’s general comments about active reading to specific cases of his fin de siècle British socialist readership. These include the editorial aims behind the Whitman selections published by William Michael Rossetti, Ernest Rhys, and W. T. Stead and the ways that Whitman was interpreted and appropriated in a wide range of grassroots texts produced by individuals or groups who responded to Whitman and his poetry publicly in socialist circles. Harris makes full use of material from the C. F. Sixsmith and J. W. Wallace and the Bolton Whitman Fellowship collections at John Rylands, the Edward Carpenter collection in the Sheffield Archives, and the Archives of Swan Sonnenschein & Co. at the University of Reading. Much of this archive material – little of which is currently available in digital form – is discussed here in full for the first time. Accordingly, this study will appeal to those with interest in the archival history of nineteenth-century literary culture, as well as the connections to be made between literary and political culture of this era more generally.