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Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film
Par Julie Chappell, Mallory Young. 2017
This edited volume interrogates the representation of transgressive women in television popular fiction and mainstream film…
from the mid-to-late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries Each of essay concentrates on the perception of women young and old as bad girls those defying or transgressing the traditional social roles attitudes and pursuits defined as appropriate for women and girls In presenting these treatments this volume analyzes longstanding and more recent questions surrounding the role and importance of women who just say no With examples across popular media and literature what remains a constant among all of these bad girls despite their different media and personalities is the will to cross the boundaries of behavior deemed by prevailing authorities to be acceptableAct V Scene I: Poems
Par Stanley Moss. 2020
&“Open Act V, Scene I or any of Stanley Moss&’s books anywhere, and you will come shockingly upon wisdom and beauty, a…
diversity of styles—a unity of voice, a voice that was there since the beginning. I love Stanley Moss&’s work. The pace, the strategy, the wit, the knowledge are astonishing. Of the generation that is gradually leaving us, those born in the mid- and late-1920s, he has a prominent place. He loves donkeys. He owns Ted Roethke&’s raccoon coat. He is an original.&”—Gerald Stern &“Magisterial. . . this book is magnificent. I&’ve read it several times with greater and greater pleasure. Its verbal generosity and bravura, its humanity, the quality and quantity of information which it generates into poetry of the highest order make it a continuing delight.&”—Marilyn Hacker &“. . . In our epoch of turmoil, crisis, and grief, I find that Moss&’s poetry still, always, brings me a little closer to happiness.&” —Forrest Gander &“I&’ve loved Stanley&’s poems since I first encountered a poem of his in Poetry magazine in John Berryman&’s office when I was nineteen.&” —W.S. Merwin &“. . . This is a book to hold onto for dear life.&” —Rosanna Warren I Choose to Write a Poem I choose to write a poemwhen my left ankle&’s broken, purple, and my right ankle&’s swollen blue,both knees banged, twice their usual size, both my long legs &“killing me,&”while a famous angel is really killing me.I separate physical pain from the real thing— the real thing, the soul usually diesbefore the body. My soul is dancing, welcoming spring in the gardenon a beautiful June morning, ready to live forever.The Best American Poetry 2020 (The Best American Poetry series)
Par David Lehman. 2020
The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale,…
proving that this is &“a &‘best&’ anthology that really lives up to its title&” (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has been &“one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world&” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume in the series presents some of the year&’s most remarkable poems and poets. Now, the 2020 edition is guest edited by Utah&’s Poet Laureate Paisely Rekdal, called &“a poet of observation and history...[who] revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries&” by the Los Angeles Times. In The Best American Poetry 2020, she has selected a fascinating array of work that speaks eloquently to the &“contraries&” of our present moment in time.Poems to Make the Soul Sing: A Collection of Mystical Poetry through the Ages
Par Alan Jacob. 0020
A beautifully designed collection of mystical poems to soothe, inspire and rejuvenate the soul. With a body of work spanning…
the centuries, from the Vedas to St Teresa of Avila, Rumi and Rilke, and arranged by transcendent themes, this book will connect readers with nature, with the stillness within themselves and with the Divine. When your soul hungers for peace, knowledge or comfort, there is no answer as profound as poetry. In a world that is increasingly noisy and disconnected from the Divine, this wonderfully inspiring collection of poems for the soul from mystics of all traditions encourages readers to listen to their own hearts, marvel at the wonder of nature and explore profound truths of life, death, eternity and God. With its elegant design and comprehensive selection of poets, the volume is ideal for gifting. Themed chapters allow readers to choose topics to explore, including: DIVINITY – what is the nature of God or the One? TRANSCENDENCE – what deep truths can we find in our spiritual quest? LOVE – how can we give and cherish most profoundly? DEVOTION – how should we explore and affirm our faith? PEACE – how can we find stillness amidst turmoil and loss? NATURE – what lessons can we learn from creation? SPIRIT – what is sacred about the individual self? From the Bhagavad Gita, the Vedas and the Song of Solomon to the Divine Comedy and the Rubaiyat of Mar Khayyam, readers will find all the great mystical writers, including Attar, Ansari, St Francis of Assisi, Lao Tzu, John Donne, John Bunyan, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elizabeth Barratt Browning, Christine Rossetti and Walt Whitman, as well as many fine but lesser-known spiritual writers. A book to give as a thoughtful gift, and also one to treasure.Curly Kids: How to Care for Your Child's Glorious Hair
Par Michele Bender, Lorraine Massey. 2020
Love those curls! &“Embracing your natural curls is essential to self-acceptance. What a gift to be able to start…
children off right––loving their textured hair from the jump––with this beautiful, information-packed celebration of curly kids!&”––Peggy Orenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Boys & Sex On its surface, Curly Kids is a creative, practical handbook about curly hair: how to care for it, how to style it, how to solve problems like frizz and knots. But it&’s also a book about empowering your kids and helping their self-esteem, because how we feel about our hair is more than follicle-deep––and that&’s especially true for curly kids who are known to go through bouts of self-consciousness and straight-hair envy. So by helping you and your kids learn new techniques like the Curly Girl Method of &“co-washing&” (using conditioner to cleanse the hair) and following an easy set of curly dos and don&’ts (never &“blow-fry&” curly hair), Curly Kids delivers a powerful promise: Teach your children how to love those fabulous curls––and with Massey&’s help, those curls will be fabulous––and they&’ll have the confidence to love all of themselves. Includes:The nature and science behind curly hairNames for every curl shapeWhat to tell the hair stylistRecipes for gentle rinses, washes, gels, and detanglersHow to sleep with curlsSpecial curly hairstyles for sportsPlus true tales of Curly Kid inspirationThe Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Par Audre Lorde. 2020
A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new…
generation of readers. Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies in twelve landmark essays and more than sixty poems—selected and introduced by one of our most powerful contemporary voices on race and gender, Roxane Gay. Among the essays included here are: "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" "The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House" "I Am Your Sister" Excerpts from the American Book Award–winning A Burst of Light The poems are drawn from Lorde’s nine volumes, including The Black Unicorn and National Book Award finalist From a Land Where Other People Live. Among them are: "Martha" "A Litany for Survival" "Sister Outsider" "Making Love to Concrete"How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction (Princeton Science Library #108)
Par Beth Shapiro. 2015
An insider's view on bringing extinct species back to lifeCould extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back…
to life? In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist and pioneer in ancient DNA research, addresses this intriguing question by walking readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species should be restored to anticipating how revived populations might be overseen in the wild, Shapiro vividly explores the extraordinary cutting-edge science that is being used to resurrect the past. Considering de-extinction's practical benefits and ethical challenges, Shapiro argues that the overarching goal should be the revitalization and stabilization of contemporary ecosystems. Looking at the very real and compelling science behind an idea once seen as science fiction, How to Clone a Mammoth demonstrates how de-extinction will redefine conservation's future.Mi pasión: Una guía de inspiración by Lola Lolita (Lola Lolita #Volumen 3)
Par Lola Moreno. 2002
Mi pasión. Una guía de inspiración by Lola Lolita. Lola Lolita demuestra cada día en sus redes por qué es…
una inspiración para sus miles de fans. Lola es capaz de transmitir su carisma, su estilo y su pasión en todo lo que comparte con sus seguidores, ya sean bailes, outfits, frases o fotos inspiradoras. En este libro, Lola nos descubre su lado más personal, sus sueños, sus ideas y su visión particular del mundo que nos rodea. Una guía de estilo para descubrir los secretos de esta influencer, y todo aquello que la convierte en un icono generacional. Déjate inspirar por Lola Lolita.¿Por qué, después de más de veinte años con el caso cerrado, el debate sobre la monstruosidad de Woody Allen…
se ha recrudecido? En 2017 Woody Allen fue declarado culpable por una parte de la opinión pública. Con el auge del movimiento Me Too, el testimonio de su hija Dylan sobre los supuestos abusos sexuales que sufrió por parte de su padre hizo revivir con virulencia la antigua acusación de su madre, Mia Farrow, de principios de los noventa. La confesión de la niña arrancó entonces una serie de investigaciones policiales y de los servicios sociales que, sin ni siquiera llegar al juzgado, acabaron exonerando al cineasta. ¿Por qué, después de más de veinte años con el caso cerrado, el debate sobre la monstruosidad de Allen se ha recrudecido? El síndrome Woody Allen recorre los síntomas que explican esta cuestión: el omnipresente sentimentalismo y victimismo; las nuevas formas de activismo; los tabúes sociales; la irrupción de internet y sus consecuencias comunicativas y psicológicas; el falso recuerdo; la intrincada relación entre ficción y realidad; la tiranía del sujeto-cliente en nuestra época; o la relevancia actual de la causocracia, donde parece justificable eliminar los derechos de las personas en pos de una causa mayor. El crítico Edu Galán, uno de los creadores de la revista satírica Mongolia, también se coloca en la diana: ¿podría volver a celebrar los cursos universitarios que organizó en 2008 y 2009 sobre la obra de Allen sin que los boicoteasen? ¿Qué ha cambiado en la universidad en tan corto tiempo? Alternándolo al análisis de la cuestión, este ensayo incluye además el relato periodístico de lo que ocurrió en la familia Farrow-Allen en aquella etapa convulsa de separación, acusaciones y juicios y su retorno a las portadas durante la pasada década.Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Dinosaur Extinction and the Transformation of Modern Geology (Extinction of Dinosaurs)
Par James Lawrence Powell, James L. Powell, D. Powell. 1998
What killed the dinosaurs? For more than a century, this question has been one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in…
science. But, in 1980, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, Walter, proposed a radical answer: 65 million years ago an asteroid or comet as big as Mt. Everest slammed into the earth, raising a dust cloud vast enough to cause mass extinction. A revolutionary idea that challenged the ice-age extinction theory, the asteroid-impact theory was scorned and derided by the science community. But after years of bitter debate and intense research, an astonishing discovery was made-an immense impact crater in the Yucatn Peninsula that was identified as Ground Zero. The Alvarezes had their proof. A dramatic scientific detective story, Night Comes to the Cretaceous is a brilliant example of science at work-in the trenches, complete with passionate struggles and occasional victories.Aim High: How to Style Your Life and Achieve Your Goals
Par Sydney Sadick. 2020
TV fashion and lifestyle expert Sydney Sadick (TODAY, E!, Inside Edition, Good Morning America) offers an indispensable guide to finding…
your unique style—from the inside out. Fashion is full of highs and lows. We&’ve become experts at blending the two together—a Gucci belt with a blazer from Zara, a Chanel bag with an old pair of Levi&’s—but fashion is so much more than what you wear, how you look, or how much money you spend. In Aim High, style savant and fashion expert Sydney Sadick delivers an important message for women everywhere: what you wear on the outside can influence who you are and how you feel, and help you live a more meaningful life. At just 26, Sydney has experienced enough fashion highs (and lows) to last a lifetime. Combined with her experience interviewing some of the world&’s most coveted celebrities, designers, and stylists, she uses her insider knowledge and candid voice to break down fashion like you&’ve never read before. Sydney goes behind her scenes, from the blog that started it all (created at 1 a.m. from her college dorm), to the first time she interviewed a celebrity (Rihanna, who else?), to every wardrobe malfunction and challenge in between. You&’ll learn:· How personal style and what you wear can influence your mood· How to live a fulfilled life you love—even when your weight fluctuates· How to pack like a fashion expert· The remedy for the &“I have nothing to wear&” syndrome· How to dress for your Bumble profile or Zoom date (you&’re welcome)Aim High is a relatable, heart-filled, and inspiring blend of unfiltered stories and expert advice to help you live fearlessly, dress effortlessly, and find your style from within.Caw (American Poets Continuum Series #181)
Par Michael Waters. 2020
In passionate poems about sin, obsession, and mortality—an artist’s infatuation with a doll, an interspecies relationship, an ex-lover whose presence…
lingers in recipes, ecclesiastical birds, and a sex toy holding a loved one’s ashes—Waters delivers impeccably crafted narratives infused with his signature lyrical gestures. At the book’s core is a sequence of twenty-five poems on aging, dementia, and caregiving, chiseled phrase by phrase toward unflinching and memorable closure. Caw is a brilliant, intimate and moving addition to Waters’s body of work and may be his most powerful collection yet.Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution
Par Mark Eisner and Tina Escaja. 2020
“To read these poems is to be reminded again and again of our true allegiance to each other.” —from the…
introduction by Julia Alvarez With a powerful and poignant introduction from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution is an extraordinary collection, rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today. The poets of Resistencia explore feminist, queer, Indigenous, and ecological themes alongside historically prominent protests against imperialism, dictatorships, and economic inequality. Within this momentous collection, poets representing every Latin American country grapple with identity, place, and belonging, resisting easy definitions to render a nuanced and complex portrait of language in rebellion. Included in English translation alongside their original language, the fifty-four poems in Resistencia are a testament to the art of translation as much as the act of resistance. An all-star team of translators, including former US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera along with young, emerging talent, have made many of the poems available for the first time to an English-speaking audience. Urgent, timely, and absolutely essential, these poems inspire us all to embrace our most fearless selves and unite against all forms of tyranny and oppression.What the Chickadee Knows (Great Lakes Books Series)
Par Margaret Noodin. 2020
Margaret Noodin explains in the preface of her new poetry collection, What the Chickadee Knows (Gijigijigaaneshiinh Gikendaan), "Whether we hear…
giji-giji-gaane-shii-shii or chick-a-dee-dee-dee depends on how we have been taught to listen. Our world is shaped by the sounds around us and the filter we use to turn thoughts into words. The lines and images here were conceived first in Anishinaabemowin and then in English. They are an attempt to hear and describe the world according to an Anishinaabe paradigm." The book is concerned with nature, history, tradition, and relationships, and these poems illuminate the vital place of the author’s tribe both in the past and within the contemporary world. What the Chickadee Knows is a gesture toward a future that includes Anishinaabemowin and other indigenous languages seeing growth and revitalization. This bilingual collection includes Anishinaabemowin and English, with the poems mirroring one another on facing pages. In the first part, "What We Notice" (E-Maaminonendamang), Noodin introduces a series of seasonal poems that invoke Anishinaabe science and philosophy. The second part, "History" (Gaa Ezhiwebag), offers nuanced contemporary views of Anishinaabe history. The poems build in urgency, from observations of the natural world and human connection to poems centered in powerful grief and remembrance for events spanning from the Sandy Lake Tragedy of 1850, which resulted in the deaths of more than four hundred Ojibwe people, to the Standing Rock water crisis of 2016, which resulted in the prosecution of Native protesters and, ultimately, the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline on sacred land. The intent of What the Chickadee Knows is to create a record of the contemporary Anishinaabe worldview as it is situated between the traditions of the past and as it contributes to the innovation needed for survival into the future. Readers of poetry with an interest in world languages and indigenous voices will need this book.Zorro's Shadow: How a Mexican Legend Became America's First Superhero
Par Stephen J. C. Andes. 2020
Long before Superman or Batman made their first appearances, there was Zorro. Born on the pages of the pulps in…
1919, Zorro fenced his way through the American popular imagination, carving his signature letter Z into the flesh of evildoers in Old Spanish California. Zorro is the original caped crusader, the first hero to have a band called the Avengers, and the character who laid the blueprint for the modern American superhero: the mask, the alter-ego, extraordinary physical skills, and a struggle against arch-villains. Famed comics pioneer Bob Kane even wrote that "Zorro was a major influence on my creation of Batman."In Zorro's Shadow, historian and Latin American studies expert Stephen J. C. Andes investigates the legends behind the mask of Zorro, revealing that the origin of America's first superhero lies in Latinx history and experience. Andes begins his investigation in Mexico City at a statue of William Lamport, the so-called "Irish Zorro," who was burned at the stake by the Mexican Inquisition. There, he discovers new documents at the Mexican National Archives and travels to the Sonoran desert to find the birthplace of Joaquín Murrieta, a California Gold Rush bandit who many claim inspired the creation of Zorro. Based on the never-before-seen letters of Zorro creator Johnston McCulley, Andes describes how the legends around Lamport and Murrieta influenced the development of the masked hero in black, and further, how Zorro went from a real life Mexican bandido to a distinctly white, aristocratic hero. Revealing the length of Zorro's shadow on the superhero genre is a reclamation of the legend of Zorro for a multiethnic and multicultural America.Hosts and Guests: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets #152)
Par Nate Klug. 2020
An exciting new collection from a poet whose debut was praised by Colorado Review as “a seduction by way of…
small astonishments”Nate Klug has been hailed by the Threepenny Review as a poet who is “an original in Eliot’s sense of the word.” In Hosts and Guests, his exciting second collection, Klug revels in slippery roles and shifting environments. The poems move from a San Francisco tech bar and a band of Pokémon Go players to the Shakers and St. Augustine, as they explore the push-pull between community and solitude, and past and present. Hosts and Guests gathers an impressive range: critiques of the “immiserated quiet” of modern life, love poems and poems of new fatherhood, and studies of a restless, nimble faith. At a time when the meanings of hospitality and estrangement have assumed a new urgency, Klug takes up these themes in chiseled, musical lines that blend close observation of the natural world, social commentary, and spiritual questioning. As Booklist has observed of his work, “The visual is rendered sonically, so perfectly one wants to involve the rest of the senses, to speak the lines, to taste the syllables.”Omeros
Par Derek Walcott. 1990
A poem in 7 books, of circular narrative design. Omeros is the Greek name for Homer, invoked here by a…
Greek girl in exile in America, the invocation marking the beginning of a long journey home, through an intricate web of places, histories and associations, for the poem's characters. Achille and Philoctete are simple fishermen, but they and their tribulations take on the specific gravity and resonance of their mythic Greek counterparts.The Aeneid (Focus Classical Library)
Par Virgil. 2020
Rising to the challenge of rendering the poem's Latin hexameters by adopting English iambic ones, Len Krisak's Aeneid doubles down…
on the English poetic tradition by also featuring rhyme. In Krisak's hands, these devices provide not only a superb kind of music but the snap and power of an epic adventure that glories in what only formal poetry can do. Enhanced by an Introduction and an extensive set of notes by Christopher M. McDonough, this Aeneid works as story, voice, and verse.La piel en los labios
Par Miguel Gane. 2019
Miguel Gane, autor referente de la nueva generación de poetas, nos transporta en su tercer poemario a un universo lleno…
de sensualidad, en el que los sentidos son protagonistas esenciales. Poemas que cuentan el inicio y fin del amor desde el erotismo y lo corpóreo como un susurro leve que enarbola la piel. Desde Madrid a Londres pasando por París, el mundo fue nuestro por un instante. Nos quemamos en el fuego, nos revolcamos en la tierra y nos empapamos en el mar. Tan vivos, tan libres; todo lo probamos. Pero entendimos que estábamos ante el fin cuando aquello que nos había unido empezó a separarnos y, en el aire, fuimos dos aviones con rutas diferentes. Lo que queda después del amor es lo que nos define. Llevas mi piel en los labios, pero, nunca lo supe con seguridad, ¿los usaste para morderme o para besarme?Astro Poets: Tu guía del Zodiaco
Par Dorothea Lasky, Alex Dimitrov. 2019
El primer gran manual de astrología del siglo XXI es divertido y útil, está salpicado de versos, contiene un mundo…
para cada signo y ¡llega de la mano del fenómeno Astro Poets! Si alguna vez te has preguntado por qué tu amiga géminis no te deja mediar palabra cuando salís a tomar algo, cuándo el «¿Sigues despierto?» que te escribe esa escorpio a las dos de mañana se convertirá en algo más (spoiler: no va a pasar), o cómo es que tu novio cáncer se deshace en lágrimas con los anuncios de pañales, estás en el lugar adecuado. En estas páginas llenas de grandes dosis de información, consejos, humor, lirismo y poesía, los Astro Poets te ayudarán a leer lo que han escrito las estrellas sobre ti para que lo uses a la hora de lidiar con tus amistades, tu carrera y tu complicada (¡o no!) vida amorosa. La crítica ha dicho...«Los Astro Poets iluminan internet.»The New York Times «Una guía deastrología como no has visto otra igual.»Bustle «Dimitrov y Lasky saben de lo que hablan y tienen un don para hacer que el etéreo mundo de la astrología parezca claro y cercano.»Vogue «Los lectores que quieran saber más sobre su signo quedarán encantados con este espléndido manual.»Publishers Weekly «Ha surgido una nueva voz popular en el firmamento del horóscopo, y tiene algo de la sensibilidad de Piscis y de la férrea autoestima de Leo, y es ingeniosa y amorosa.»Elle «El mapa astrológico definitivo... Un curso intensivo perfecto para principiantes, a la vez lírico, ingenioso y con el conocimiento suficiente para cautivar incluso a los ya iniciados.»Booklist «Una guía de signos divertida, accesible y supermoderna. Ricemos el rizo, ¡es astrología escrita por poetas! Si alguna vez te has preguntado qué dice tu horóscopo de ti (o cómo puede ayudarte a entender a los que te rodean), deberías empezar por aquí.»BookRiot