The Willies
Title | The Willies PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Falkner |
Publisher | SCB Distributors |
Total Pages | 82 |
Release | 2020-02-04 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 194373576X |
2021 Midwest Book Awards - Poetry Debut Gold Medal Winner 2020 Forewords Reviews INDIES Awards - Poetry Gold Medal Winner “Prophetic in bleak times” —DR. CORNEL WEST The Willies, Adam Falkner's first full-length poetry collection, offers a sharp and vulnerable portrait of the journey into queerhood in America. In a voice that Dr. Cornel West heralds as “prophetic in bleak times,” Falkner departs from a more familiar coming out narrative to center the stories of dueling selves. Masquerading white boy. Child of an addict. Closeted varsity athlete. Drifting seamlessly between the scholarly and conversational, Falkner's poems showcase a versatility of language and a courageous hunger, unafraid of depicting the costumes we use to hide legacies of toxic masculinity. Through snapshots both tragic and humorous, merciless and humane, Falkner offers powerful new ways of understanding the intersectional linkage that binds queer shame to cultural appropriation. At its core, The Willies asks us to consider who we will become if we do not grapple with what scares us most. Advance praise for The Willies Adam Falkner has heard what hums at the marrow of men who deceive themselves in order to survive America. — SAEED JONES This is truth that changes the air it reaches. This is poetry that, damn it, you can't shake. — PATRICIA SMITH In these urgent and sometimes mysterious poems, Falkner traces questions of identity, family, love and the self. His language is angular and surprising, his content intimate and profound. — ANDREW SOLOMON Adam Falkner is a poet with a heart of gold and a spine of steel. We need his prophetic voice in these bleak times. —DR. CORNEL WEST I am thankful for the incisive mind and eye of Adam Falkner. In the poems, the work of balancing several selves at once is done gently, deftly, and with the brilliance of someone curious about how limitless they can become. ― HANIF ABDURRAQIB
The Sad Adventures of Big and Little Willie
Title | The Sad Adventures of Big and Little Willie PDF eBook |
Author | William Kerridge Haselden |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 92 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | English wit and humor, Pictorial |
ISBN |
Paranoia Within Reason
Title | Paranoia Within Reason PDF eBook |
Author | George E. Marcus |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 460 |
Release | 1999-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226504575 |
This text examines conspiracy theories and tackles paranoia as a style of debate within science, psychotherapy, and popular entertainment. A conspiracy theory emerges as a way to address the inadequacies of rational expertise and organization in the face of the changes that undermine them
Transactions and Journal of Proceedings
Title | Transactions and Journal of Proceedings PDF eBook |
Author | Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 392 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Dumfriesshire (Scotland) |
ISBN |
The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English
Title | The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Dalzell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 5135 |
Release | 2018-05-11 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1351765205 |
The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. In terms of content, the cultural transformations since 1945 are astounding. Television, computers, drugs, music, unpopular wars, youth movements, changing racial sensitivities and attitudes towards sex and sexuality are all substantial factors that have shaped culture and language. This new edition includes over 500 new headwords collected with citations from the last five years, a period of immense change in the English language, as well as revised existing entries with new dating and citations. No term is excluded on the grounds that it might be considered offensive as a racial, ethnic, religious, sexual or any kind of slur. This dictionary contains many entries and citations that will, and should, offend. Rich, scholarly and informative, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English is an indispensable resource for language researchers, lexicographers and translators.
Willie Stargell
Title | Willie Stargell PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Garland |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2013-05-06 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0786465344 |
This book brings to life one of baseball's greatest sluggers, Willie Stargell. It examines the factors that shaped him as a man growing up in the tumultuous racial times of the 1950s and '60s, and then recreates the major moments in his Hall of Fame baseball career. His various endeavors during the post-playing days are fully explored as well. Interviews with more than 80 people--family members, childhood friends, teammates, opponents, front office workers and others--combined with dozens of newspaper and magazine articles shed light on the iconic patriarch of one of baseball's last great "families," the 1970s-era Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Slangman Guide to Street Speak 2
Title | The Slangman Guide to Street Speak 2 PDF eBook |
Author | David Burke |
Publisher | SLANGMAN PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9781891888069 |
The Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 2 teaches you more popular American slang and idioms that everyone uses every day!If an American said to you, Could you please crack the window? you are NOT being asked to ¿break the window¿ which is indeed the literal meaning! You are simply being asked to ¿Open the window a little.¿Or if someone tells you to Knock it off! or Cut it out! ¿ that just means ¿Stop doing that!¿he Slangman Guide to STREET SPEAK 2 contains popular chapters on slang and idioms associated with:The WorkplaceShoppingHouseguestsBabysittingBirthday PartiesThe SubwayAches & PainsThe TelephoneThe Slangman Files ¿ a special section in each chapter with slang & idioms used in categories