My Daily Actions, Or the Meteorites
Title | My Daily Actions, Or the Meteorites PDF eBook |
Author | S. Brook Corfman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 88 |
Release | 2020-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780823289493 |
My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites is the result of a daily investigative writing practice, in which I was worried that a poem invested in the particulars of my life would be uninteresting--that the "ordinary" would be mundane. Instead memory, dreams, and the associative power of the imagination filled each moment with meaning, each tv show I watched or friend I spoke with, each outfit I wore or nail polish color I chose. In these poems, a combination of dread (for something approaching) and anxiety (for what might be approaching but isn't yet known) undid a sense of the present separate from climate change, global racial capitalism, whiteness, and gender-based violence, especially as I wrote as I tried to find out how my own gender fit into the world. The prose poem is the vehicle by which a recording practice ("journaling") meets the associative power of the poem.
We Inherit What the Fires Left
Title | We Inherit What the Fires Left PDF eBook |
Author | William Evans |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 2020-03-24 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1982127430 |
William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable poetry collection exploring the themes of inheritances, dreams, and injuries that are passed down from one generation to the next and delving into the lived experience of a black man in the American suburbs today. In We Inherit What the Fires Left, award-winning poet William Evans embarks on a powerful new collection that explores the lived experience of race in the American suburbs and what dreams and injuries are passed from generation to generation. Fall under the spell of Evans’s boldly intimate, wise, and emotionally candid voice in these urgent, electrifying poems. This eloquent collection explores not only what these inheritances are composed of, but what price the bearer must pay for such legacies, and the costly tolls exacted on both body and spirit. Evans writes searingly from the perspective of the marginalized, delivering an unflinching examination of what it is like to be a black man raising a daughter in predominantly white spaces, and the struggle to build a home and a future while carrying the weight of the past. However, in beautiful and quiet scenes of domesticity with his daughter or in thoughtful reflection within himself, Evans offers words of hope to readers, proving that resilience can ultimately bloom even in the face of prejudice. Readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Hanif Abdurraqib will find a brilliant, fresh new talent to add to their lists in William Evans.
Meteors
Title | Meteors PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Stewart |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 52 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1426319436 |
Describes what are meteorites, and where do they come from?
The Book of the Damned
Title | The Book of the Damned PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Fort |
Publisher | Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | 442 |
Release | 2020-09-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1613106424 |
"Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you"--Taken from Good Reads website.
The Rock from the Sky
Title | The Rock from the Sky PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Klassen |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 2021-04-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1536222682 |
Look up! From the Caldecott Medal–winning creator of the hat trilogy comes a new deadpan gem. There is a spot. It is a good spot. It is the perfect spot to stand. There is no reason to ever leave. But somewhere above there is also a rock. A rock from the sky. Here comes The Rock from the Sky, a hilarious meditation on the workings of friendship, fate, shared futuristic visions, and that funny feeling you get that there’s something off somewhere, but you just can’t put your finger on it. Merging broad visual suspense with wry wit, celebrated picture book creator Jon Klassen gives us a wholly original comedy for the ages.
A More Perfect Union
Title | A More Perfect Union PDF eBook |
Author | Teri Ellen Cross Davis |
Publisher | Journal Cbwheeler Poetry Prize |
Total Pages | 74 |
Release | 2021-02-10 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780814257784 |
Poems at once angry and tender explore motherhood, race, sexuality, and a Black woman's complicated relationship with her country.
Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo's Mission to Pluto
Title | Dr. Dee Dee Dynamo's Mission to Pluto PDF eBook |
Author | Oneeka Williams |
Publisher | Mascot Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-03-05 |
Genre | Pluto (Dwarf planet) |
ISBN | 9781620861851 |
Dee Dee, a girl surgeon with special powers, travels to Pluto to perform a surgical operation that will allow Pluto to regain its status as a planet.