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Pandexicon: How the Language of the Pandemic Defined Our New Cultural Reality
Par Wayne Grady. 2023
Did you keep a list of the words coined by Covid? Wayne Grady did! They're deftly woven into a journal/timeline,…
taking us through two years of surrealism and limbo.—Margaret AtwoodThis exploration of the many new terms of the Covid-19 pandemic provides insight into the ways an ever-evolving vocabulary helped us cope with our anxiety and adapt to a new reality When the pandemic struck in early 2020, Wayne Grady started collecting the words and phrases that arose from our shared global experience. Some, such as "uptick" and "pivot," had existed before but now took on new meaning, and others, such as "covidivorce," "quarantini," "covexit," and "shecession," appeared for the first time, their meaning instantly clear. Through this new vocabulary, we became more able to adapt to change, to domesticate it in a sense, and to reduce our fears. Moving from the very beginning of the pandemic (the "Before Times") and our early response to it through the peaks and troughs of the various waves in countries throughout the world, and ending with a contemplation of what the "After Times" might look like, this book takes us on a journey through the pandemic and illuminates both how this new language has unfolded and how it has changed the way we think about ourselves and each other.Gay rights
Par Judith Galas. 1996
This history of the modern gay rights movement looks at such topics as the struggle for family rights, discrimination in…
the workplace, gays in the military, referendums and legislation, and the impact of AIDS. Includes organizations to contact and suggestions for further reading. For junior and senior high readersThe figured wheel: new and collected poems, 1966-1996
Par Robert Pinsky. 1996
A compendium of the first four books by the U.S. poet laureate, with twenty-one new poems. The title poem, The…
Figured Wheel, with its image of the wheel of life, illustrates the all-encompassing scope of the poemsAnts on the melon: a collection of poems
Par Virginia Adair. 1996
First collection of poetry from the octogenarian American poet. These eighty-three poems explore a broad range of subject matter and…
are organized into the following sections: "Ants on the Melon," "By Old Maps," "Driving Westward," "The Genesis Strain," "Exit Amor," and "Make Light of Darkness." Some descriptions of sexExtensive collection of poetry featuring the work of fifteen poets, such as Annie Dillard and Daniel Berrigan. Poems are divided…
into the following sections: The Cross, Transformation, Death, Injustice, Presence, God's Body, Fools, Wayfarers, Love, The Dark, Grace, Praise, The Mystical Body, Sacrament, The Leap, and HolyEven in quiet places: poems
Par William Stafford. 1996
Posthumous collection of four chapbooks from 1990 to 1995 by an award-winning poet. Stafford's poem "Pretty Good Day" supplies the…
line for the title Even in Quiet Places, which alludes to secluded areas of retreat. Nature is an important force in many of Stafford's poems. Contains an afterword by Stafford's son, Kim, who is his literary executorNew & selected poems
Par Donald Justice. 1995
Works of Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet written between 1959 and 1995. Includes selections from The Summer Anniversaries (1960), Night Light…
(1967), Departures (1973), Selected Poems (1979), and The Sunset Maker (1987), as well as a group of more recent poemsSonnets from the Portuguese: a celebration of love
Par Elizabeth Browning. 1986
These forty-four sonnets by the Victorian author were probably written mostly during her courtship with Robert Browning. They represent one…
of the most famous sonnet sequences executed in English and include the well-known "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." For high school and older readersEdna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition
Par Edna St. Vincent Millay. 1991
This gathering of poems begins with "Renascence," a poem Millay entered in a contest in 1912 and that brought her…
immediate recognition. The simplicity and accessibility that sometimes prompted critics to pass over her poems is the very skill that also created her appeal and made her work popular for nearly forty years. Her lyricism is discussed in an extensive introductionBlake
Par Peter Ackroyd. 1996
Life of the eighteenth-century English poet, painter, and engraver who died in 1827. Ackroyd examines the influence of William Blake's…
dissenting parents on his philosophical and religious views. He also frames the complex and challenging body of Blake's work, which went largely unnoticed in his lifetime, within the great social and political changes of his eraThe collected poems
Par Reynolds Price. 1997
The South's well-known contemporary writer combines three of his older works of poetry with an additional collection. The latter poems…
were written after his near-fatal bout with spinal cancer. Throughout the work are themes of friendship, family, and deathForty-one essays by gay and lesbian youth ranging in age from twelve to twenty-four. The authors relate their experiences in…
dealing with their sexuality and the difficulties encountered in "coming out" to family and friends and finding a network of support. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. For senior high and older readersClass: A memoir
Par Stephanie Land. 2023
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick "Raw and inspiring." — People "Land is not just exploring her own story,…
but also the larger implications of what it means to fall between the cracks of American capitalism." — The New York Times From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner—a gripping memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid . When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid , she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" ( People ). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid , which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie's escape out of poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions. Maid was a story about a housecleaner, but it was also a story about a woman with a dream. In Class , Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn't understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line—Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties. Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. Who has the right to create art? Who has the right to go to college? And what kind of work is valued in our culture? In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class grapples with these questions, offering a searing indictment of America's educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother's triumph against all oddsFist, stick, knife, gun: a personal history of violence in America
Par Geoffrey Canada. 1995
Canada recounts his experiences growing up in the South Bronx and the culture of violence that governed daily survival. He…
reflects on the increase of inner-city youth violence and discusses programs such as New York's Beacon Schools as a way to help America's troubled youth. Strong language and violenceSo forth: poems
Par Joseph Brodsky. 1996
Rural Massachusetts, Manhattan, and the great cities of Europe provide some of the settings in these sixty-four poems, which comprise…
the final volume of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning poet. Brodsky composed this body of work during the last eight years of his life by self-translating from his native Russian and also by writing directly in EnglishWalking the black cat: poems
Par Charles Simic. 1996
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents poems depicting both the ordinary and the surreal. For example, "Little Unwritten Book" laments the…
disappearance of Rocky, a bird-tolerating black cat, while "Dogs Hear It" has Hamlet walking through "a motel in Vegas."The Idylls
Par Theocritus. 1988
English translations of verse by Theocritus, a Greek born in Sicily around 300 B.C. His works range from bucolic idylls…
depicting the simple lives of country herdsmen, to mythological narratives, to accounts of urban affairs in the city of Alexandria. These poems helped inspire the development of later European literatureThe words of Martin Luther King, Jr (The Newmarket Words Of Pocket Edition Series)
Par Martin King. 1987
Selections from King's speeches and writing arranged in seven areas of concern: the community of man, racism, civil rights, justice…
and freedom, faith and religion, nonviolence, and peace. Introduction by Coretta Scott King provides personal and historical background for King's words. Also includes a chronology of his lifeThe crack in everything
Par Alicia Ostriker. 1996
Oscar Wilde (Lives of notable gay men and lesbians)
Par Jeff Nunokawa. 1995
Shows how Wilde achieved fame in London as a poet, playwright, and the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray…
(BR 9281), though he was later imprisoned for his homosexuality. Born in 1854 to a prominent Irish family, Wilde first gained notoriety at Oxford for his flamboyant manner and nontraditional religious views. For senior high and older readers