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Counting the Black Angels
Author | : Len Roberts |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 0252063813 |
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"Len Roberts is a poet of unwavering truthfulness and unwavering mercy," commented Sharon Olds about Black Wings, a 1988 National Poetry Series selection. Counting the Black Angels, Roberts's eighth book of poetry, is a piercingly painful and redemptive work in which he probes memories of a violent family history and his covenants with God and the "Black Angels." "Roberts's new work is among the most intelligent, moving, and expressive poetry now being written." -- Hayden Carruth
The Black Angels
Author | : Maria Smilios |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2023-09-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780593544938 |
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New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage. In the pre-antibiotic days when tuberculosis stirred people’s darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting en masse. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island, yet again confronting racism and consigned to a woefully understaffed sanatorium, dubbed “the pest house,” where it was said that “no one left alive.” Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this remarkable true story follows the intrepid young women known by their patients as the “Black Angels.” For twenty years, they risked their lives working under appalling conditions while caring for New York’s poorest residents, who languished in wards, waiting to die, or became guinea pigs for experimental surgeries and often deadly drugs. But despite their major role in desegregating the New York City hospital system—and their vital work in helping to find the cure for tuberculosis at Sea View—these nurses were completely erased from history. The Black Angels recovers the voices of these extraordinary women and puts them at the center of this riveting story, celebrating their legacy and spirit of survival.
In the Black Window
Author | : Michael Van Walleghen |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780252092725 |
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The title of Michael Van Walleghen's new collection evokes thematic preoccupations that have shadowed him throughout his long career. Appearing as a phrase in the poems themselves, In the Black Window more generally points to Van Walleghen's enduring interest in the intersection between inner and outer worlds of experience--those liminal moments in other worlds where we become aware of ourselves. We live at once in a strictly personal, material dimension but also in a distinctly spiritual one. Yet, when looking from a lighted kitchen into a night-black window on a winter evening, we might perhaps become suddenly aware not only of our own reflection, but also of our complicity in some deeper mystery altogether.
Black Angels Red Blood
Author | : Steven McCarthy |
Publsiher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780702250323 |
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Dramatic novel, set in Redfern. On the surface there's not much to distinguish Tim's life from any other on the fringe—where dope, booze and women are his pleasure as well as his pain. He has his family in the busy, and the lives of his city friends are transacted in the face of poverty and police harassment. It is only in Tim's relationship with the Old Man that we glimpse another and little known world where the rules are different. Tim seeks the company of the Old Man, his teacher of the tribal ways and traditional assassin, who eventually asks Tim to kill also. The author is a winner of the David Unaipon Award.
Stealing Candy
Author | : Stewart Lewis |
Publsiher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2017-05-02 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781492638896 |
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Candy hates boarding school. As a junior, graduation is still eons away, and making films is the only way to survive the boredom. Until she is kidnapped. Candy panics. Along Came a Spider, Ransom, Taken, Cellular... Candy knows how these movies end. The only reason anyone would abduct her is to get a payout from her rock star father. Except Candy and her father are estranged. There's no way he's going to pay. But with every hour that passes, Candy's fear slowly recedes. Being on the road is freeing, not to mention great material for a new documentary. And the more time she spends with her mysterious and handsome captor, Levon, the more she learns the whole scheme is not just about ransom. It's about revenge. What began as a kidnapping is spiraling into a crazy road trip adventure as Candy and Levon find a lot of wrong ways to do the right thing.
My Business is Circumference
Author | : Stephen Berg |
Publsiher | : Paul Dry Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780966491395 |
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Twenty-eight contemporary American poets reflect on the poems that have most influenced their own creative vision and offer their best new works in this examination of poetic expression. Each entry includes a new poem from the author, the text of a poem or poems that particularly influenced the development of the new poem, and an essay about that influence. The dialogue created between the new works of the poets and the poems that they love provides insight into the poetic process and speaks to the meaning and endurance of great art.
The Silent Singer
Author | : Len Roberts |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 0252069528 |
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Winner of the Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Poetry Series awards, Len Roberts presents his best past work with a sizable collection of new poems.
The Disappearing Trick
Author | : Len Roberts |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780252092275 |
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In The Disappearing Trick, Len Roberts wrestles with the loss of loved ones--whether that loss be through death, a son moving away to college, or simply how people fade from our lives and memories. Hybrids of the narrative and lyric form, these poems are models of indirect statement that have, as Sharon Olds has said, “emotional courage, powerful music, and a deep balance.” Like the light shining on a face, or a girl’s thigh back in a sixth-grade class, the poems often come as Proustian flashes--lasting just a second, but seeming eternal--amid an increasing darkness.