Not Waving But Drawing

Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:58024642

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Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith Pdf

Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571311323

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Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith by Stevie Smith Pdf

When Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century's most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and 'Not Waving but Drowning' remains one of the nation's favourite poems to this day. Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, her characteristically lightning-fast changes in tone take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling. In this wholly new edition of her work, Smith scholar Will May collects together the illustrations and poems from her original published volumes for the first time, recording fascinating details about their provenance, and describing the various versions Smith presented both on stage and page. Including over 500 works from Smith's 35-year career, The Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith is the essential edition of modern poetry's most distinctive voice. I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. - 'Not Waving but Drowning'

Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000065461

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A Good Time was Had by All by Stevie Smith Pdf

Author : John Cuneo
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
ISBN : 9781683960348

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Not Waving But Drawing by John Cuneo Pdf

You know John Cuneo from his award-winning illustrations that have graced the pages of Esquire or the covers of The New Yorker, but less known are the over-the-top and hilariously perverse cartoons that fill the pages of Not Waving But Drawing. Assembling Cuneo's best privately drawn sketchbook pages, each page immediately introduces us to unique takes on sex and domestic life in his signature squiggly style. Not Waving But Drawing is full of dark thoughts, lightly rendered.

Author : Edmund Gregory
Publisher : Random House
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780577043

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Not Waving But Drowning by Edmund Gregory Pdf

Not Waving But Drowning tells the harrowing true story of one man's childhood struggle against poverty and his subsequent drive to become a policeman in the Royal Ulster Constabulary. From his earliest days, Edmund Gregory possessed an awareness beyond his years. During the course of his parents' turbulent and doomed marriage, he soaked up the horror of seeing his mother and father tearing each other apart. After they separated, he experienced a lonely boyhood, starved of affection, while living in welfare homes, dingy Belfast bedsits, and a sordid care home for young boys. However, Gregory later found solace in his marriage to Agnes, and in a concerted effort to drag himself and his new family out of poverty, he joined the Royal Ulster Constabulary. After five trauma-filled years serving in Belfast's riot squads, Gregory transferred into the somewhat elitist VIP protection branch of the RUC, where he was involved in providing bodyguard protection to many high-threat members of Northern Ireland's establishment. While working within that unit, he was also involved in teams protecting several members of the Royal family and then US President Bill Clinton throughout the course of their visits to the Province. During his last four years in the force, Gregory was charged with protecting the Reverend Ian Paisley's deputy, Peter Robinson MP, an outspoken personality who was under constant and serious threat of assassination. After 21 years of service, however, Gregory was diagnosed as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, which resulted in his medical retirement. Not Waving But Drowning is an emotionally charged journey through Gregory’s impoverished childhood and the dark underbelly of his later life as a policeman in Northern Ireland performing what was, according to Interpol, the most dangerous policing role in the world.

Author : Stevie Smith,Chris Saunders
Publisher : Greville Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015056479226

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Stevie by Stevie Smith,Chris Saunders Pdf

Author : Ryan North,Matthew Bennardo,David Malki
Publisher : Machines of Death LLC
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780982167120

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Machine of Death by Ryan North,Matthew Bennardo,David Malki Pdf

MACHINE OF DEATH tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die. Prepare to have your tears jerked, your spine tingled, your funny bone tickled, your mind blown, your pulse quickened, or your heart warmed. Or better yet, simply prepare to be surprised. Because even when people do have perfect knowledge of the future, there's no telling exactly how things will turn out.

Author : Susan Brown,Jeanne Perreault,Jo-Ann Wallace,Heather Zwicker
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780888645500

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Not Drowning But Waving by Susan Brown,Jeanne Perreault,Jo-Ann Wallace,Heather Zwicker Pdf

A welcome progress report on the variety of feminisms at work in academe and beyond.

Author : Carmella J. Braniger,Rebekah M. Icenesse
Publisher : Critical Storytelling
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Education
ISBN : 9004441638

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Critical Storytelling from Behind Invisible Bars by Carmella J. Braniger,Rebekah M. Icenesse Pdf

"Critical stories are narratives that recount the writer's experiences, situating those experiences in broader cultural contexts. In this volume of Critical Storytelling, marginalized, excluded, and oppressed peoples share insights from their liminality to help readers learn from their perspectives on living from behind invisible bars. Female inmates at Decatur's Correctional Center and the undergraduate Millikin University students who worked with them come together to give voice to their specific histories of living from behind invisibile bars and pose important questions to the reader about inciting change for the future. Specifically, the voices in this volume seek to expose, analyze, and challenge deeply-entrenched narratives and characterizations of incarcerated women, whose histories are often marked by sexual abuse, domestic violence, poverty, PTSD, a lack of education, housing insecurity, mental illness, and substance addiction. These silenced female inmate voices need to be heard and contextualized within the larger metanarrative of prison literature. Through telling critical stories, these writers attempt to: sustain recovery from trauma, make positive changes and informed decisions, create a real sense of empowerment, strengthen their capacity to exercise personal agency, and inspire audiences to create change far outside the reaches of physical and metaphorical bars. Contributors are: Anonymous, Soren Belle, Megan Batty, Dwight G. Brown, Jr., Sandra Brown, Kathryn Coffey, Kelly Cunningham, Paiten Hamilton, Kathlyn J. Housh, Rebekah Icenesse, Kala Keller, Jelisa Lovette, Bric Martin, Amanda Minetti, Laura Nearing, Angie Oaks, Claire Prendergast, Cara Quiett, J. M. Spence, Noah Villarreal and Alisha Walker"--

Author : Sandra Danby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0993113419

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Ignoring Gravity by Sandra Danby Pdf

Rose is adopted and doesn't know it. 'Ignoring Gravity' connects two pairs of sisters separated by a generation of secrets. Finding her mother's lost diaries, Rose begins to understand why she has always seemed the outsider in her family, why she feels so different from her sister Lily. Then just when she thinks there can't be any more secrets... This is the first in a series of novels about Rose Haldane, identity detective. This is what some of the early reviewers said: "Drama? Check. Suspense? Check. Romance? Check. Will-they-won't-they? Check. Great twists? Check, check, check! I am pleased to say this story has them all and then some." "'Ignoring Gravity' is just the book to take with you to the beach this summer. It has everything you need: romance, family drama, humour - and some moments guaranteed to make you tearful." "There is a twist at the end which unexpectedly gave me the shivers as I contemplated history repeating itself. A well written book with a story which will keep you turning the pages. Thoroughly recommended." "This is the perfect summer read; I read this sprawled in the garden, under the sun. It really is the perfect mix of drama, family, love, discovery and friendship."

Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0860681467

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Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith Pdf

Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater, Bt. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church in England, shattering conventions in their wake.

Author : Sarah Krasnostein
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781743822098

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Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in AustraliaQuarterly Essay 85 by Sarah Krasnostein Pdf

Around one-fifth of Australians will suffer from mental illness in any given year. And the pandemic is making things worse, especially in schools. Our mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose. What is to be done? In this brilliant mix of portraiture and analysis, Sarah Krasnostein tells the stories of three women and their treatment by the state while at their most unwell. What do their experiences tell us about the likelihood of institutional and cultural change? Krasnostein argues that we live in a society that often punishes vulnerability, but shows we have the resources to mend a broken system. But do we have the will to do so, or must the patterns of the past persist into the future?

Author : Mamie McCullough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0970213832

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I'm Not Waving, I'm Drowning by Mamie McCullough Pdf

Author : Stephanie Burt
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780465094516

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Don't Read Poetry by Stephanie Burt Pdf

An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genre In Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another--and how they can speak to our lives. She shows readers how to find more poems once they have some poems they like, and how to connect the poetry of the past to the poetry of the present. Burt moves seamlessly from Shakespeare and other classics to the contemporary poetry circulated on Tumblr and Twitter. She challenges the assumptions that many of us make about "poetry," whether we think we like it or think we don't, in order to help us cherish--and distinguish among--individual poems. A masterful guide to a sometimes confounding genre, Don't Read Poetry will instruct and delight ingénues and cognoscenti alike.

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780544931886

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100 Poems to Break Your Heart by Edward Hirsch Pdf

100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering--not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a record. And poets are people who are determined to leave a trace in words, to transform oceanic depths of feeling into art that speaks to others. In 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, poet and advocate Edward Hirsch selects 100 poems, from the nineteenth century to the present, and illuminates them, unpacking context and references to help the reader fully experience the range of emotion and wisdom within these poems. For anyone trying to process grief, loneliness, or fear, this collection of poetry will be your guide in trying times.