In Those Years No One Slept
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In Those Years No One Slept
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Author : Claudia Serea
language : en
Publisher: Broadstone Books
Release Date : 2023-02-15
In Those Years No One Slept written by Claudia Serea and has been published by Broadstone Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-15 with Poetry categories.
Romanian-American poet Claudia Serea documents the end of the Ceausescu regime in these poems of first-hand witness. Romanian-American poet Claudia Serea was a witness to the last days of the Ceausescu reign of terror and a participant in the revolution that toppled his regime, so her first-hand account of living through those times is an essential historical document as well as vital, vivid verse. "I could draw the details from memory," she says of her childhood, and she does, including surprisingly revealing details. Of the dangerous days following the Chernobyl disaster, she recalls that after a "Summer came quickly / with no birds" her mother bought a rare treat of cherries that "glistened on the plate"--the absence of birds having increased the yield of fruit. Explaining "How I earned 10 lei in second grade" by following her music teacher's instruction to keep playing no matter what, she recounts playing her violin in a recital despite a neon ceiling fixture "crashing / with a bang / at my feet." These childhood experiences prepared Serea well to survive many other crashes to come, including the crash of tyrants; and to learn to seek joy in the midst of tragedy. "We never talk about the past," she says of her family, and of a past beset with famine and hunger; but she breaks with that tradition and speaks powerfully of her past, in the process finding her way back to her roots. "The road home belongs / to those who dare"--Claudia Serea dares to take that road, and to take us along on her journey. "The poems in Claudia Serea's new book, In Those Years, No One Slept, might keep you awake all night. They are beautifully made, haunting, often incantatory, and always searingly honest."--Lloyd Schwartz, author of Who's on First? New and Selected Poems "From the threshold of her American life and with a poetic sensibility unlike any other's, Serea takes stock of a past shaped by the terrors and austerities of authoritarianism to survey the damage, but also to feed the ghosts and salvage beauty from rubble, to resist and testify. Listen in, so we may never again have to count the dead 'like cornmeal and beans,' exhale 'a small cloud' in the murderous cold to prove we are alive, or 'hang on the clotheslines / silhouettes of unborn children.' Both 'prayer pinned to the moon' and dazzling ode to the wound, this is a haunting collection of bold tenderness."--Mihaela Moscaliuc, author of Cemetery Ink "In Claudia Serea's startling new collection, the intersection of life and death is beauty: the eyes of the dead bloom chicory and milkweed, the moon searches for baby teeth in the dark crevices of a thatch roof, and glistening cherries are coveted by a Romanian mother for her children during the birdless summer after Chernobyl. Even the quiet beauty of a young girl reading alone in a shed is touched by impermanence and mortality: she reads 'old books stinking of mice, falling apart.' And yet mortals still spread luminous wings, starlight sprouting on their hands."--Sharon Mesmer, author of Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place "No one wears the 'shackles' of memory as palpably as Claudia Serea in this lyric testament to the poetry of small survivings in Ceausescu's Romania. The motion of her gaze passes seamlessly across the village, the darned socks, the harrow of years in which everyone 'slept standing,' but what astonishes me most is her refusal of the tragic, her insistence on the life as it was lived--on the scents of sunflower seeds, the dry of red poppies, the language of the landscape speaking despite the fear and silence. To write despite the burying is to write to spite the dictator. Serea's evocations of memory leave no tree's language unheard. She leaves no silence lyre-less."--Alina Stefanescu, author of Dor Poetry. History.
Nod
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Author : Adrian Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Titan Books
Release Date : 2016-03-04
Nod written by Adrian Barnes and has been published by Titan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-04 with Fiction categories.
Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no-one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no-one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand can still sleep, and they've all shared the same golden dream. A handful of children still sleep as well, but what they're dreaming remains a mystery. After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four weeks, the body will die. In the interim, panic ensues and a bizarre new world arises.
The Man Who Slept All Day
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Author : Craig Rice
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2018-03-20
The Man Who Slept All Day written by Craig Rice and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-20 with Fiction categories.
A weekend getaway among friends becomes an occasion for murder in this “entertaining tantalizer” of a whodunit (Kirkus Reviews). Eccentric brothers Frank and George Faulkner are hosting a weekend house party at the legendary Ravensmoor estate. The guests include a pair of struggling newlyweds, a brutal criminal attorney, a fading chorus girl, and a freeloading couple who live off the fat of their friends. All of them are acquaintances save for a mousy stranger who’s more shadow than man. Then, one by one, each visitor makes the same startling discovery: George’s corpse snuggled under the covers of his bed. It could’ve been another of his tasteless practical jokes—if not for the gaping wound in his neck. Why everyone’s been assembled to partake in a murder is only the first mystery. Because the party at Ravensmoor is just getting started . . .
All The Men Are Sleeping
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Author : D.R. MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Release Date : 2010-04-30
All The Men Are Sleeping written by D.R. MacDonald and has been published by Anchor Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-30 with Fiction categories.
Bestselling and award-winning writer D. R. MacDonald gives us a searing and muscular collection of short fiction reminiscent of Richard Ford and Alistair MacLeod. With All the Men Are Sleeping, celebrated author D. R. MacDonald delivers a haunting collection of short fiction remarkable for its restrained passion and eloquence. As he did with Cape Breton Road, MacDonald writes of disruption and loss with brusque tenderness. He deftly explores the misunderstandings between men and women, the nature of seduction and infidelity, the way geography shapes identity, and the heartache of longing -- for home, family, love. For a fisherman in “The Flowers for Bermuda” time has not repaid the loss of his young son’s life. In “The Wharf King” a man returns to Cape Breton to bury his brother, and performs a dangerous rite of passage in an attempt to recapture the past. Little Norman in “Work” is rudderless without the companionship of his lifelong workmate. The brilliant force of the fiction collected here -- some of it published in MacDonald’s award-winning Eyestone -- will delight MacDonald’s fans just as it will astonish new readers. Each of the stories in All the Men Are Sleeping stands alone, but together they offer a heartrending elegy for lost loves and time-forgotten places.
Yesterdays Sorrows
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Author : J Louise
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date :
Yesterdays Sorrows written by J Louise and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
All The Year Round
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
All The Year Round written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with categories.
Sleeping In Velvet
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Author : Thaisa Frank
language : en
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Release Date : 1997
Sleeping In Velvet written by Thaisa Frank and has been published by David R. Godine Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.
The blurred lines between enchantment and illusion takes on new magic-realist resonances in this collection of twenty-three stories and a novella. Ms. Frank creates subtle calibrations of the inner spaces and silences separating people, and the haunting undercurrents of feeling that hold them together. In the concluding novella, The Map Maker, those undercurrents exert an especially powerful tow, washing up a lost cargo of familial misunderstandings.
Running With Walker
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Author : Robert Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Release Date : 2003
Running With Walker written by Robert Hughes and has been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Family & Relationships categories.
Annotation A deeply personal account of raising a child with low functioning autismBeautifully written by a respected journalist and teacherOffers hands-on advice to parents in an entertaining and easy-to-read manner.
The Year The Lights Came On
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Author : Terry Kay
language : en
Publisher: Untreed Reads
Release Date : 2012-08-20
The Year The Lights Came On written by Terry Kay and has been published by Untreed Reads this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-20 with Fiction categories.
Revolving around the electrification of rural northeast Georgia shortly after the end of World War II, the novel has become a classic coming-of-age story. Kay, now an acclaimed writer with an international following, has reread the novel with the eyes of a seasoned storyteller. Cutting here and adding there, Kay has enriched an already highly comical and poignant work.
100 Or So Boyhood Memories Of The Real West Endies
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Author : Malcolm Lindsay Allen Sr.
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2007-07-06
100 Or So Boyhood Memories Of The Real West Endies written by Malcolm Lindsay Allen Sr. and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is written to share some experiences of a person who has survived being born as colored, graduating from high school as a Negro, working half his life in corporate America as a Black, and finally arriving at old age as an African-American. Whew! The paths through those personas have led through many precious persons lives. Their interaction with me may have seemed insignificant to them. But, I cherished each experience as part of the learning-howto-live-and-get-along-with-others life course. Even the places and spaces, the landmarks, the neighborhood haunts, the nooks and the crannies of a wonderful community mentioned in this collection of stories are highly significant in my development as a man, and a husband, a father, a grandfather. All these are cherished in my heart... in my life. I respectfully salute the West Endies. That is the area in Cincinnati bounded on the south by the Ohio River, on the north and east by the curving Central Parkway and on the west by the Western Hills Viaduct to State Avenue. Thanks for the memories. So, as you readand I feel privileged that you doplease reminisce along with me. Thanks.