Revolutionary Letters

Author : Diane di Prima
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0867195509

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Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima Pdf

Author : City Lights Books,Diane Di Prima
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0872868796

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Revolutionary Letters: Expanded 50th Anniversary Edition by City Lights Books,Diane Di Prima Pdf

Expanded 50th anniversary edition of the City Lights classic of eco-feminist-Zen Beat poetry, featuring fifteen new poems. Simultaneously released with Diane di Prima's Spring and Autumn Annals on the one-year anniversary of her passing.

Author : Diane Di Prima
Publisher : Last Gasp
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0867196602

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Revolutionary Letters by Diane Di Prima Pdf

This edition is the new volume of DiPrima's classic Revolutionary Letters. There are some new pieces added in and new edits on older pieces, done by the author. A new expanded edition of Loba (twice as long as the 1978 Wingbow Press edition) was published in the Penguin Poets series in August 1998. Her autobiographical memoir, Recollections of My Life as a Woman, was published by Viking in April 2001.

Author : Ernesto Che Guevara
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644210963

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I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor by Ernesto Che Guevara Pdf

The first-ever edition of Che Guevara's letters, the vast majority never-before published in English in any form. Ernesto Che Guevara was a voyager—and thus a letter writer—for his entire adult life. The letters collected in I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959 (from which the book's title comes), from the most personal to the intensely political, revealing someone who not only thought deeply about everything he encountered, but for whom the process of social transformation was a constant companion from his youth until shortly before his death. His letters give us Che the son, the friend, the lover, the guerrilla fighter, the political leader, the philosopher, the poet. Che in these letters is often playful, funny, sometimes sarcastic, and deeply affectionate. His life was short, and these twenty years, from when he was 19 until days before his death, show it was also incredibly rich and full. As his daughter Aleida Guevara, also a doctor like her father, writes, "When you write a speech, you pay attention to the language, the punctuation and so on. But in a letter to a friend or a member of your family, you don't worry about those things. It is you speaking, in your authentic voice. That's what I like about these letters; they show who Che really was and how he thought. This is the true political testimony of my father."

Author : Lisa Grunwald,Stephen J. Adler
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307493330

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Women's Letters by Lisa Grunwald,Stephen J. Adler Pdf

Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Gary M. Lepper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Bibliographical Introduction to Seventy-Five Modern American Authors by Gary M. Lepper Pdf

Author : Tom Chaffin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250113740

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Revolutionary Brothers by Tom Chaffin Pdf

In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette. Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions—and two nations. Jefferson first met Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state’s governor, in fighting off the British. The charismatic Lafayette, hungry for glory, could not have seemed more different from Jefferson, the reserved statesman. But when Jefferson, a newly-appointed diplomat, moved to Paris three years later, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest. As Lafayette opened doors in Paris and Versailles for Jefferson, so too did the Virginian stand by Lafayette as the Frenchman became inexorably drawn into the maelstrom of his country's revolution. Jefferson counseled Lafayette as he drafted TheDeclaration of the Rights of Man and remained a firm supporter of the French Revolution, even after he returned to America in 1789. By 1792, however, the upheaval had rendered Lafayette a man without a country, locked away in a succession of Austrian and Prussian prisons. The burden fell on Jefferson, along with Lafayette's other friends, to win his release. The two would not see each other again until 1824, in a powerful and emotional reunion at Jefferson’s Monticello. Steeped in primary sources, Revolutionary Brothers casts fresh light on this remarkable, often complicated, friendship of two extraordinary men.

Author : Diane di Prima
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780872868571

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Spring and Autumn Annals by Diane di Prima Pdf

One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of 2021. Lyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima's classic Revolutionary Letters on the one-year anniversary of her passing. In the autumn of 1964, Diane di Prima was a young poet living in New York when her dearest friend, dancer, choreographer, and Warhol Factory member, Freddie Herko, leapt from the window of a Greenwich Village apartment to a sudden, dramatic, and tragic death at the age of 29. In her shock and grief, di Prima began a daily practice of writing to Freddie. For a year, she would go to her study each day, light a stick of incense, and type furiously until it burned itself out. The narrative ranges over the decade from 1954—the year di Prima and Herko first met—to 1965, with occasional forays into di Prima's memories of growing up in Brooklyn. Lyrical, elegant, and nakedly honest, Spring and Autumn Annals is a moving tribute to a friendship, and to the extraordinary innovation and accomplishments of the period. Masterfully observed and passionately recorded, it offers a uniquely American portrait of the artist as a young woman in the heyday of bohemian New York City. Praise for Spring and Autumn Annals: "The book is a treasure. Moving between the East Village, San Francisco, Topanga Canyon and Stinson Beach with young children, di Prima's life is unbelievably rich. She studies Greek, writes, prepares dinners and feasts, and co-edits Floating Bear magazine. Diane di Prima is one of the greatest writers of her generation, and this book offers a window into its lives."—Chris Kraus "Extolled by a writer who radically devoted herself to the experiential truth of beauty and intellect, in poverty and grace, in independent dignity, and in the community of Beat consciousness, Diane di Prima's Spring and Autumn Annals arrives as a long-lost charm of illuminated meditations to love, life, death, eros and selflessness. An essential 1960s text of visionary rapaciousness."—Thurston Moore "Freddie Herko wished for a third love before he died; and what a love is in this book's beholding, saying, and release. Di Prima's dancing narrative, propelled and circling at the speed of thought, picking up every name and detailed perception as a rolling tide, fills me with gratitude for the truth of her eye. Nothing gets past it, not even the 'ballet slippers letting in the snow.'"—Ana Božičević "A masterpiece of literary reflection, as quest to archive her dancer friend's life, to make art at all costs and the price dearly paid. Di Prima's observational capacity is profound, her devotion and loyalty assures her deserved place as a national treasure. She generously instills in us the call of poetic remembrance as an act of resistance, and gives voice to the marginalized participants in experimental cultural movements that carried courage in creative rebellion while envisioning freedom of the human spirit. Di Prima’s poetic memoir of the artist journey is a triumph. A must read and reread for years to come."—Karen Finley

Author : Timothy Tackett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400864317

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Becoming a Revolutionary by Timothy Tackett Pdf

Here Timothy Tackett tests some of the diverse explanations of the origins of the French Revolution by examining the psychological itineraries of the individuals who launched it--the deputies of the Estates General and the National Assembly. Based on a wide variety of sources, notably the letters and diaries of over a hundred deputies, the book assesses their collective biographies and their cultural and political experience before and after 1789. In the face of the current "revisionist" orthodoxy, it argues that members of the Third Estate differed dramatically from the Nobility in wealth, status, and culture. Virtually all deputies were familiar with some elements of the Enlightenment, yet little evidence can be found before the Revolution of a coherent oppositional "ideology" or "discourse." Far from the inexperienced ideologues depicted by the revisionists, the Third Estate deputies emerge as practical men, more attracted to law, history, and science than to abstract philosophy. Insofar as they received advance instruction in the possibility of extensive reform, it came less from reading books than from involvement in municipal and regional politics and from the actions and decrees of the monarchy itself. Before their arrival in Versailles, few deputies envisioned changes that could be construed as "Revolutionary." Such new ideas emerged primarily in the process of the Assembly itself and continued to develop, in many cases, throughout the first year of the Revolution. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Lindsay A. H. Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199931033

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Writing the Revolution by Lindsay A. H. Parker Pdf

Writing the Revolution is a microhistory of a middle-class Parisian woman, Rosalie Jullien, whose nearly 1,000 familiar letters have never before been studied. The Jullien name is not new to histories of the French Revolution. Rosalie's son, Marc-Antoine, known in the family as Jules, was closely connected to the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. However, despite being the wife and mother of revolutionary elites, Rosalie led a private life. Connected to the Revolution in very personal ways, she was also distanced from the lime light because of her gender and her proclivity for modesty. Her correspondence allows readers to enter her private world and see the intellectual, emotional, and familial life of a revolutionary in all of its complexity. The prevailing thesis in the field holds that the revolutionary elite constructed the New Regime against women, effectively excluding them from the political sphere, although nearly every existing study of women has approached the subject through oblique sources and mostly male voices. Rosalie Jullien's long missives to her husband and son, however, document her relationship to politics as she explained it. Despite never seeking a public role, Rosalie developed a political identity that included a revolutionized understanding of womanhood. Writing the Revolution builds on the innovative scholarship on the history of the family during the Revolution and demonstrates how the family sphere was revolutionized even in cases where the wife maintained a traditional family role. Jullien's correspondence boasts many values as an artifact of the Revolutionary experience, of women's lives, and of epistolary culture. Rosalie demonstrates the individual's experience within the evolving structures of a modernizing state, family, and gender identity. The period covered spans from 1775 to 1810. A portrayal of Rosalie's early married life, and the decade she spent with her husband and children in a small town north of Grenoble, begins the book, and is followed by a chapter on the couple's reading practices and their views toward religion prior to the Revolution. The heart of the research focuses on Rosalie's life and experiences in Revolutionary Paris and her decision, in the aftermath of the Terror, to emphasize private, domestic life over politics.

Author : C.A. Davids
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781839760877

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How to Be a Revolutionary by C.A. Davids Pdf

Winner of the 2023 UJ Prize Winner of the 2023 Sunday Times Literary Award An extraordinary, ambitious, globe-spanning novel about what we owe our consciences Fleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city she hopes to lose herself in books, wine, and solitude, and to dodge whatever pangs of conscience she feels for her fealty to a South African regime that, by the 21st century, has betrayed its early promises. At night, she hears the sound of typing, and then late one evening Zhao arrives at her door. They explore hidden Shanghai and discover a shared love of Langston Hughes--who had his own Chinese and African sojourns. But then Zhao vanishes, and a typewritten manuscript--chunk by chunk--appears at her doorstep instead. The truths unearthed in this manuscript cause her to reckon with her own past, and the long-buried story of what happened to Kay, her fearless, revolutionary friend... Connecting contemporary Shanghai, late Apartheid-era South Africa, and China during the Great Leap Forward and the Tiananmen uprising--and refracting this globe-trotting and time-traveling through Hughes' confessional letters to a South African protege about the poet's time in Shanghai--How to Be a Revolutionary is an amazingly ambitious novel. It's also a heartbreaking exploration of what we owe our countries, our consciences, and ourselves.

Author : Amy Bobeda,Emily Trenholm,Christina Chady,Stephanie Hempel,Chloe Tsolakoglou,Ada McCartney,Andrew Schelling,Diane di Prima,Anne Waldman,J'Lyn Chapman,Diana Lizette Rodriguez,Lisa Jarnot,Eleni Sikelianos,Thick Code,Matt Clifford,Tommi Avicolli Mecca,May June,Peter Belly,Obinna Chilekezi,Sarah Escue,Robert Eric Shoemaker,Max Henninger,Mitch Manning,Sharlyn Page,Michael Mosher,Timotha Doane,Jayne Marek,Ana Anu,Chani di Prima,Lisa Alvarez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736977008

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More Revolutionary Letters by Amy Bobeda,Emily Trenholm,Christina Chady,Stephanie Hempel,Chloe Tsolakoglou,Ada McCartney,Andrew Schelling,Diane di Prima,Anne Waldman,J'Lyn Chapman,Diana Lizette Rodriguez,Lisa Jarnot,Eleni Sikelianos,Thick Code,Matt Clifford,Tommi Avicolli Mecca,May June,Peter Belly,Obinna Chilekezi,Sarah Escue,Robert Eric Shoemaker,Max Henninger,Mitch Manning,Sharlyn Page,Michael Mosher,Timotha Doane,Jayne Marek,Ana Anu,Chani di Prima,Lisa Alvarez Pdf

A poetry collection by friends, fans, and students of the late Diane di Prima furthering her call for revolution. This book features work by Anne Waldman, Lisa Jarnot, and Andrew Schelling among many others.

Author : George Washington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Generals
ISBN : 0813930235

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This Glorious Struggle by George Washington Pdf

Originally published: New York: Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, c2007.

Author : Alan M. Wald
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807815357

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The Revolutionary Imagination by Alan M. Wald Pdf

Revolutionary Imagination: The Poetry and Politics of John Wheelwright and Sherry Mangan

Author : Shane Claiborne,Tony Campolo
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400204182

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Red Letter Revolution by Shane Claiborne,Tony Campolo Pdf

Expounds the ideas of Red Letter Christianity, or, following Jesus' words exactly in order to live a better and more faithful life.