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On the Mountain of Light

Al Hajji Robert J. Rowland
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Author : Al Hajji Robert J. Rowland
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781462803262

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This book of songs and poetry, is a look at the world we live in. Love, Religion, Politics, Mental Awareness and Controversy of day to day life. As human beings embark on the 21st century, there will be some challenging times ahead. But we are in control of our planet, and each one of us is responsible for the impact that will change our world. Whether good, bad, happy or sad, your state of being will be very important to the contributions you will make. Diamonds wars and diamond deaths, when will they stop. Oil wars or keeping terrorist under control in the middle east must stop. We still have no cures for Aids and Cancer. Oil producer and production are on a greedy path of taking money out of our pockets. Alternative fuels and their production are a immediate need in our world. Let us hope the next generations of our political leaders, will hear the peoples voice and not the lobbyist fueling millions of dollars in their campaign funds. Love is the key to our world survival, everyone should take a trip On The Mountain Of Light. Al Hajji Robert J Rowland

FOTUS

Kevin Kunundrum
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Author : Kevin Kunundrum
Publisher : Bancroft Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781610884914

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In the very near future, an American fetus named Alexander Jackson Rett becomes self-aware. He sees that the world out there is where everything bad happens, but inside, in the womb, it's safe. It's the safest place to be. So he decides to never come out. And because he's self-aware, and because he's smart and reasonably witty, his Mom and Ernie the next door neighbor make a video. They ask Little Alex questions and he answers from within the womb. And he gets most of them right (although he's not that good at math). And the next day, Ernie posts the video on YouTube and it goes viral. And before ya know it, Little Alex, the world's first and only "Amazing Talking Fetus," is interviewed on Dr. Phyllis: "What's it like in there?" she asks. "It's dark," he replies. "Who's your favorite President?" "Richard Nixon." "Get a load of this kid!" Dr. Phyllis says. "So what's the thing you'd most like to do, Alex?" "I want to run for President!" And the world is amazed. Including an ultra-secret group of billionaire king­ makers known as "The Florists." To keep their party in office, they need someone who's bullet-proof to run against Mallory Blitzen. And who better than Little Alex? He's already world-famous. He's scandal-proof. He's the ultimate single­-issue candidate! And according to the latest poll, Americans will vote for a white male fetus over a woman for President seven out of ten times, and those odds are pretty good. So Alexander Jackson Rett becomes the President of the United States. But he discovers that life on the inside may not be all it's cracked up to be.

Up Jump the Boogie

John Murillo
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Author : John Murillo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1945588500

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Poetry. African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. "Up jumps the boogie. That's almost all one needs to say. Murillo is headbreakingly brilliant. I didn't have a favorite poet for this year: Now I do. But with this kind of verve and intelligence and ferocity Murillo just might be a favorite for many years to come."--Junot Díaz "The feel of now lives in John Murillo's UP JUMP THE BOOGIE, but it's tempered by bows to the tradition of soulful music and oral poetry. The lived dimensions embodied in this collection say that here's an earned street knowledge and a measured intellectual inquiry that dare to live side by side, in one unique voice. The pages of UP JUMP THE BOOGIE breathe and sing; the tributes and cultural nods are heartfelt, and in these honest poems no one gets off the hook."--Yusef Komunyakaa

The BreakBeat Poets

Kevin Coval,Quraysh Ali Lansana,Nate Marshall
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Author : Kevin Coval,Quraysh Ali Lansana,Nate Marshall
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781608464500

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The BreakBeat Poets by Kevin Coval,Quraysh Ali Lansana,Nate Marshall Pdf

Hip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop generation. It has produced generations of artists who have revolutionized their genre(s) by applying the aesthetic innovations of the culture. The BreakBeat Poets features 78 poets, born somewhere between 1961-1999, All-City and Coast-to-Coast, who are creating the next and now movement(s) in American letters. The BreakBeat Poets is for people who love Hip-Hop, for fans of the culture, for people who've never read a poem, for people who thought poems were only something done by dead white dudes who got lost in a forest, and for poetry heads. This anthology is meant to expand the idea of who a poet is and what a poem is for. The BreakBeat Poets are the scribes recording and remixing a fuller spectrum of experience of what it means to be alive in this moment. The BreakBeat Poets are a break with the past and an honoring of the tradition(s), an undeniable body expanding the canon for the fresher.

Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition

Rigoberto Gonzalez
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Author : Rigoberto Gonzalez
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780472036974

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A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

The Anthology of Rap

Adam Bradley,Andrew DuBois
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Author : Adam Bradley,Andrew DuBois
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300163063

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From the school yards of the South Bronx to the tops of the "Billboard" charts, rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of our time. This pioneering anthology brings together more than 300 lyrics written over 30 years, from the "old school" to the present day.

The Adventures of Brisbane and Friends

Garrett Michael Williams
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Author : Garrett Michael Williams
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781638146704

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The Adventures of Brisbane and Friends is a story all about love. The bears come to life from a Da-Da hug that is full of love, and the bears are from different parts of the world and different continents. But it doesn’t matter to these bears; no matter how different they are, they love one another like brothers do. They love to play all kinds of games, and like most bears, they love to eat. Brisbane and friends love Grandpa Rue’s cookies and everything else he fixes. Of course, they have a message of love. To unite is if you show somebody some love. The author will be donating a portion of all proceeds to the following organization: The Immigration Outreach Service Center St. Matthew Catholic Church Baltimore, Maryland

Ordinary Girls

Jaquira Díaz
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Author : Jaquira Díaz
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781643750163

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Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz Pdf

One of the Must-Read Books of 2019 According to O: The Oprah Magazine * Time * Bustle * Electric Literature * Publishers Weekly * The Millions * The Week * Good Housekeeping “There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Julia Alvarez In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of age. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Díaz found herself caught between extremes. As her family split apart and her mother battled schizophrenia, she was supported by the love of her friends. As she longed for a family and home, her life was upended by violence. As she celebrated her Puerto Rican culture, she couldn’t find support for her burgeoning sexual identity. From her own struggles with depression and sexual assault to Puerto Rico’s history of colonialism, every page of Ordinary Girls vibrates with music and lyricism. Díaz writes with raw and refreshing honesty, triumphantly mapping a way out of despair toward love and hope to become her version of the girl she always wanted to be. Reminiscent of Tara Westover’s Educated, Kiese Laymon’s Heavy, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club, and Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries, Jaquira Díaz’s memoir provides a vivid portrait of a life lived in (and beyond) the borders of Puerto Rico and its complicated history—and reads as electrically as a novel.

Rhymes in the Flow

Macklin Smith,Aurko Joshi
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Author : Macklin Smith,Aurko Joshi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472053896

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Despite its global popularity, rap has received little scholarly attention in terms of its poetic features. Rhymes in the Flow systematically analyzes the poetics (rap beats, rhythms, rhymes, verse and song structures) of many notable rap songs to provide new insights on rap artistry and performance. Defining and describing the features of what rappers commonly call flow, the authors establish a theory of the rap line as they trace rap’s deepest roots and stylistic evolution—from Anglo-Saxon poetry to Lil Wayne—and contextualize its complex poetics. Rhymes in the Flow helps explain rap’s wide appeal by focusing primarily on its rhythmic and thematic power, while also claiming its historical, cultural, musical, and poetic importance.

Shiny and New

Dylan Jones
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Author : Dylan Jones
Publisher : Orion
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781474620086

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The Eighties were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid royalty, the rise of urban pop, and ultimately geopolitical chaos. Using a big narrative approach, Dylan Jones' history of the decade in pop frames the decade through some of its most important and popular hits, choosing records which either epitomised their time, or ushered in a new cultural shift. So we move seamlessly from Rapper's Delight and the genre defining moment of hip hop into The Specials' spectral, Ghost Town; from ABC and the apotheosis of New Pop (The Look of Love) to Madonna's breakthrough moment with Like a Virgin, and so on. In the '80s each year brought a new twist as technology shifted and genres snowballed, MTV reigned supreme and the story of pop became globalised. It was a decade of excess in all areas, especially ambition, but it was in the transcendent moments of pop perfection that the '80s found its true art-form. Subjective and idiosyncratic, SHINY AND NEW takes us from downtown New York to post-industrial Manchester, in the first widescreen attempt to weave together the stories, the songs and events that re-shaped music and society.

Whispers from the Wild

Amelia Kinkade
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Author : Amelia Kinkade
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781608683970

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One of the world’s most renowned animal communicators, Amelia Kinkade has brought thousands into closer contact with their beloved dogs, cats, birds, and horses. Now she shares the wonders of her recent work communicating with wild, and in some cases endangered, animals. Amelia takes readers on a rollicking ride as she visits with tigers, elephants, lions, great white sharks, black mamba snakes, whales, and bees. Traveling all over the world, Amelia reveals the inner thoughts and feelings of these extraordinary animals and shares the advice she has gleaned — words about tenderness, reconnection with nature, life after death, and the possibilities of magical awakenings inside the brains of an ever-evolving human race. Anyone with a heart, mind, and funny bone will delight in this invitation to understand and appreciate our fellow inhabitants of planet Earth.

Living Testimony

Johnnie Lee Moore Jr.
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Author : Johnnie Lee Moore Jr.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462859764

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December 26, 1999. The Reverend Ananias Divine couldn’t believe his eyes. The Church was so enormously packed that they had to bring in about two hundred more chairs to accommodate the mass of the Congregation. While the whole nation and the people in the rest of the world were overwhelmingly concerned about Y2K, the people in the small town of Prairie View, Texas had only one major concern on their mind: Reverend Divine was retiring as the Pastor of the Divine Temple Holiness Church, and the Reverend Bruce Baltimore was to take over. Reverend Divine was a godly man whom everybody looked up to with the outmost respect. People loved and respected him all their lives. Reverend Baltimore, on the other hand, did some things in his life that many would feel would make him unworthy to be Pastor. Bruce Baltimore constantly reminded the Congregation that he was a living testimony, that if God could show grace and mercy, and save a wretched and useless man like him, that he could save anybody who trust in Him and call upon His name. Like the prodigal son, Bruce Baltimore was on the verse of losing everything: his job, his ball games, his marriage, his son, his daughter, respect from his dog, his fi nance and material things, his sanity, and even his own life, both spiritually and physically. But Bruce fi nally comes to himself and accepts God’s amazing grace. Readers can fi nd out more about the life of Bruce and his family as his story unravels in Living Testimony.

What they couldn't see

Adam R Gervis
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Author : Adam R Gervis
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781665750639

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Trinnie is due to celebrate her thirtieth birthday in March of 2020 which is an important milestone for her. Over the last five years Trinnie has made some close friends, all seven of whom are invited to the party. She chooses where to go and has one of the friends make all the arrangements at some of her favorite hangout spots. Then Covid hits, everything has to be cancelled and the birthday celebration becomes a Zoom party. Amy, who is making the arrangements, decides to throw a creative wrinkle into things (unbeknownst to Trinnie) by asking each friend to create a T-shirt which visually explains their relationship to Trinnie. They will then reveal their designs at the party through an unboxing. Each chapter begins with a party goer unboxing their T-shirt revealing their connection with Trinnie. As the party begins all of the guests realize that other than Trinnie, they are looking at six strangers. Though the story is set in Seattle the reader is transported to other parts of America and to Europe through each character’s relationship with Trinnie. Each party guest describes their personal journey in becoming friends with Trinnie and the impact she’s had on their life. Each individual history has twists and turns which shine light on who these friends are as well as giving the reader insight into Trinnie’s inner thoughts.

A Bigger Boat

Susan McAllister
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Author : Susan McAllister
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0826344836

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Exciting words by talented poets who have made Albuquerque's poetry slams so successful.

Spoken Soul

John Russell Rickford,Russell John Rickford
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Author : John Russell Rickford,Russell John Rickford
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470247846

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In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English "Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture." –Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown university "A lively, well-documented history of Black English . . . that will enlighten and inform not only educators, for whom it should be required reading, but all who value and question language." –Kirkus Reviews "Spoken Soul is a must read for anyone who is interested in the connection between language and identity." –Chicago Defender Claude Brown called Black English "Spoken Soul." Toni Morrison said, "It's a love, a passion. Its function is like a preacher’s: to make you stand out of your seat, make you lose yourself and hear yourself. The worst of all possible things that could happen would be to lose that language." Now renowned linguist John R. Rickford and journalist Russell J. Rickford provide the definitive guide to African American vernacular English–from its origins and features to its powerful fascination for society at large.