Joanstown And Other Poems
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Jonestown Other Madness
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Author : Pat Parker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Jonestown Other Madness written by Pat Parker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with African American lesbians categories.
Straightforward, no-nonsense poetry about being Black, female and gay.
Jonestown Remembered And Other Shorter Tragedies
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Author : Erwin Brewster
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017-01-19
Jonestown Remembered And Other Shorter Tragedies written by Erwin Brewster and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-19 with Poetry categories.
The main poem in this book is the story of the Jonestown massacre which took place in Guyana in 1978. It is related in poetic form so as to lend greater emphasis to the incidents that led up to tragedy and attempts to portray the effect it had on the lives of the members of the commune before it occurred. Shorter poems of the loss of love are also included.
Jonestown Remembered And Other Shorter Tragedies
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Author : Erwin Brewster
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2016-12-15
Jonestown Remembered And Other Shorter Tragedies written by Erwin Brewster and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-15 with Poetry categories.
Jonestown Remembered is a poem about those who lost their lives as a result of the machinations of one individual who sought to direct the lives of some 912 persons in an isolated region of Guyana during the period of 1976 to 1978. Having formed the Peoples Temple in California, he transferred his activities to a country that was anxious to accommodate him without reserve or supervision. His name was Jim Jones. He felt that his view on how life was to be lived was unique and admired the socialist ideology. But all was not well with the administration of the community, which eventually climaxed with the deaths by suicide and murder of all its members save a few who had escaped. The poem seeks to recount the trials of the occupants of the Temple, their sense of abandonment at having been removed from the comfort and camaraderie of their friends, and their feelings of impotence to do anything about it. But still, for some, this experience was a deliverance from a much worse condition of life that they had experienced in the US. These felt that they owed allegiance to their leader, who had made their lives worthwhile for the first time. The poem seeks to explore both these responses and how the final sacrifice or deliverance was accomplished. Other poems of tragic loss are included in the book that suggests that life is not always a bed of roses; that the joy and happiness derived from love is often a prelude to tragedy and sorrow. That the love and contentment derived from a life well spent will come to an end, inevitably, with the final parting, and loved ones are left in their solitude.
Marrow
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Author : darlene anita scott
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2022-03-08
Marrow written by darlene anita scott and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-08 with Poetry categories.
"Grape is the sweetest betrayal. There is no removing the stain of it say moms everywhere & even if kids choose it last, they choose it, as loyal to its sugar as any." When authorities converged on the Guyanese settlement of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project—founded by James "Jim" Jones and popularly known as Jonestown—on November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members were found dead, the result of murder-suicide. The massacre was the largest mass loss of American lives before September 11, 2001. Although the events at Jonestown inspired a common idiom in "Don't drink the Kool-Aid," the personal histories of those who were lost have been treated as a footnote to the tragedy—little has been written about those individuals and their lived experiences. In this profound and provocative poetry collection, darlene anita scott foregrounds that which has been disremembered and honors the people who perished at Jonestown. She amplifies the voices of the children, teenagers, and adults whose hopes, dreams, and lives were just as hopeful and mundane as any others yet have been overlooked and overshadowed by the circumstances of their untimely loss. The distinct, haunting, and unforgettable poems in Marrow cut to the bone while also acknowledging and giving tribute to the people who were lost on that fateful day.
Jonestown Lullaby
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Author : Teri Buford O’Shea
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-09-14
Jonestown Lullaby written by Teri Buford O’Shea and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
At age nineteen, author Teri OShea joined Peoples Temple in California led by Jim Jones. A member for seven years, she escaped Peoples Temple three weeks before the massacre in Jonestown, Guyana. The raw and powerful poems in Jonestown Lullaby explore her experience in Jonestown and the aftermath of her survival. A personal confidant to Jim Jones for seven years, OShea writes about the harrowing nightmare of Jonestown with an intensity and passion seldom captured in poetic form. Teri was the last person to escape Peoples Temple before the massacre in Jonestown; now, she turns to writing to help find her way back to a more peaceful life. Jonestown Lullaby records her voyage, with vivid, stark images of the bewildering world that was Jonestown and the pathological madness of Jim Jones. Teri includes photographs of some of the Peoples Temple members who lived and lost their lives there; revealing an aspect of Jonestown rarely seen. This is her tribute to those who died so tragically. I Write I write from the poor side of silence Of an unholy priesthood that Captured my soul for a time These poems Neither confession nor biography Follow the voyage of a lonely spirit Into a realm where there are no answers
Jonestown
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Author : Fraser Sutherland
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2014-10-14
Jonestown written by Fraser Sutherland and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-14 with Poetry categories.
Haunted by the People's Temple tragedy, Fraser Sutherland has, in this extraordinary long poem, reconstructed Jonestown in all its horror and dark comedy, as well as the career of its monstrous architect. Like a cracked mirror image of Christ, the shadow of Jones falls on every page—a hollow man who could not live outside the din of his own voice, a voice that Sutherland renders in the third person. Tracking Jones's perverse pilgrimage from Indiana to California to Guyana, Sutherland shows him melting at the edges so he becomes only a blundering instrument of control, a social chameleon, a monkey in the jungle.
Jonestown
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Author : Carmen Gillespie
language : en
Publisher: Lotus Press (WI)
Release Date : 2011
Jonestown written by Carmen Gillespie and has been published by Lotus Press (WI) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Poetry categories.
Winner of the 2011 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.
A Jonestown For Worms
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Author : Washington S. McCuistian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-08-01
A Jonestown For Worms written by Washington S. McCuistian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-01 with Poetry categories.
Bill Of Rights
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Author : Fred D'Aguiar
language : en
Publisher: Random House UK
Release Date : 1998
Bill Of Rights written by Fred D'Aguiar and has been published by Random House UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
A narrative poem which tells the story of the Guyanese Jonestown massacre (1978) through the views of a young man who is enthralled by Rev. Jim Jones' rhetoric.
Black Macho And The Myth Of The Superwoman
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Author : Michele Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1999
Black Macho And The Myth Of The Superwoman written by Michele Wallace and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Psychology categories.
Originally published in 1978, this book caused a storm of controversy as Michele Wallace blasted the masculinist bias of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by the patriarchal culture of Black Power and the ways in which a genuine female subjectivity was blocked by the traditional myths of black womanhood. In 1990 the author added a new introduction examining the debate the book had sparked between intellectuals and political leaders; an extensive bibliography of contemporary black feminist studies was also added. Black Macho raised issues and arguments that framed the terms of current feminist and black theory and continues to be relevant today.