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House Of Fact House Of Ruin

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Author : Tom Sleigh
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2018-02-06

House Of Fact House Of Ruin written by Tom Sleigh and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Poetry categories.

Tom Sleigh’s brilliant new collection is “full of the wonder and eloquence driving profound poetry” (Los Angeles Times) You’ve got to put your pants on in the house of fact. And in the house of fact, when you take off your shirt, you can hear your shirt cry out, Facts are the floor, facts are how you make the right side talk to the left. I’m washing my naked belly clean, and doing it with dignity. I’m turning around, trying to see the filthiness that keeps making me filthy. —from “House of Fact, House of Ruin” “I hate to admit it, but even the house of fact is a house of ruin,” writes Tom Sleigh in the title sequence of this extraordinary new collection. Very much of our present moment, in which fact can so easily be manufactured and ruin so easily achieved by pressing "Send" or pulling a trigger, these poems range across the landscapes of contemporary experience. Whether a militia in Libya or a military base in Baghdad, a shantytown in East Africa or an opulent mall on Long Island, these subjects and locations resonate with the psychic and social costs of having let the genie of war, famine, and climate change out of the lamp in the first place. The book ultimately turns on conundrums of selfhood and self-estrangement in which Sleigh urges us toward a different realm, where we might achieve the freedom of spirit to step outside our own circumstances, however imperfectly, and look at ourselves as other, as unfamiliar, as strange. House of Fact, House of Ruin is Sleigh’s most engaging and virtuosic collection to date.

Bitter English

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Author : Ahmad Almallah
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-09-03

Bitter English written by Ahmad Almallah and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with Poetry categories.

Imagine you are a Palestinian who came to America as a young man, eventually finding yourself caught between the country you live in with your wife and daughter, and the home—and parents—you left behind. Imagine living every day in your nonnative language and becoming estranged from your native tongue, which you use less and less as you become more ensconced in the United States. This is the story told by Ahmad Almallah in Bitter English, an autobiography-in-verse that explores the central role language plays in how we construct our identities and how our cultures construct them for us. Through finely crafted poems that utilize a plainspoken roughness to keep the reader slightly disoriented, Almallah replicates his own verbal and cultural experience of existing between languages and societies. There is a sense of displacement to these poems as Almallah recounts the amusing, sad, and perilous moments of day-to-day living in exile. At the heart of Bitter English is a sense of loss, both of home and of his mother, whose struggle with Alzheimer’s becomes a reflection of his own reality in exile. Filled with wit, humor, and sharp observations of the world, Bitter English brings a fresh poetic voice to the American immigrant experience.

Ruin Islanders

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Author : Karen Margrethe McCullough
language : en
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Release Date : 1989-01-01

Ruin Islanders written by Karen Margrethe McCullough and has been published by University of Ottawa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Social Science categories.

A discussion of the archaeological research in the Bache Peninsula region of eastern Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories which has produced a substantial amount of data relating to this poorly defined phase of Thule culture

Navaho Houses

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Author : Cosmos Mindeleff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

Navaho Houses written by Cosmos Mindeleff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Indian architecture categories.

The Land Between Two Rivers

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Author : Tom Sleigh
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2018-02-06

The Land Between Two Rivers written by Tom Sleigh and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Literary Collections categories.

Essays on the urgency of our global refugee crisis and our capacity as artists and citizens to confront it Tom Sleigh describes himself donning a flak jacket and helmet, working as a journalist inside militarized war zones and refugee camps, as “a sort of Rambo Jr.” With self-deprecation and empathetic humor, these essays recount his experiences during several tours in Africa and in the Middle Eastern region once called Mesopotamia, “the land between two rivers.” Sleigh asks three central questions: What did I see? How could I write about it? Why did I write about it? The first essays in The Land between Two Rivers focus on the lives of refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Somalia, and Iraq. Under the conditions of military occupation, famine, and war, their stories can be harrowing, even desperate, but they’re also laced with wily humor and an undeluded hopefulness, their lives having little to do with their depictions in mass media. The second part of the book explores how writing might be capable of honoring the texture of these individuals’ experiences while remaining faithful to political emotions, rather than political convictions. Sleigh examines the works of Anna Akhmatova, Mahmoud Darwish, Ashur Etwebi, David Jones, Tomas Tranströmer, and others as guiding spirits. The final essays meditate on youth, restlessness, illness, and Sleigh’s motivations for writing his own experiences in order to move out into the world, concluding with a beautiful remembrance of Sleigh's friendship with Seamus Heaney.

Houses And House Life Of The American Aborigines

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Author : Lewis Henry Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-25

Houses And House Life Of The American Aborigines written by Lewis Henry Morgan and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-25 with Fiction categories.

Lewis Henry Morgan's 'Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines' is an exploration of the design of the dwellings and buildings used by Native Americans and what they tell us about their way of life. The author reveals that Native Americans tended towards equalization of subsistence with a law of hospitality that ensured hunger and destitution could not exist in one part of a village while plenty prevailed elsewhere. Morgan argues that the family was too weak an organization to face alone the struggle of life and thus formed large households composed of several families. The book explains how the communal house forms one system of works and represents these several conditions of Native American life with reasonable completeness.

Our House Is Not In Paris

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Author : Susan Cutsforth
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Books
Release Date : 2018-09-01

Our House Is Not In Paris written by Susan Cutsforth and has been published by Melbourne Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Susan Cutsforth and her husband, Stuart, are 'ordinary' people living an extraordinary life. They both work full-time: one is a teacher librarian of thirty years, and the other, a middle-level clerk in the public service. But, as Susan recounts in Our House is Not in Paris, they own a holiday house in France - the other side of the world. And not only that, this petite maison required significant renovating, which they accomplished almost singlehandedly during their working holidays. Our House is Not in Paris is a story of pushing boundaries, aiming high and, most of all, taking risks. With humour, poetry and insight, Susan's story shows that you can do more than simply dream: if you work hard, anything is possible.