by rgonzalezr
“Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and Adderall), you blindfold them and lead them by the hand into a labyrinth made from bones. Then you tell them their assignment: ‘Find the Grail. You have a New York minute to get it.’”–The Poetry Lesson The Poetry Lesson is a hilarious account of the first day of […]
by rgonzalezr
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Beacon Press; 20 Anv edition (December 12, 1997) Language: English ISBN-10: 0807010391 The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and their influence in Jamaica, The Rastafarians is an important contribution to the sociology of religion and to our knowledge of the variety of religious expressions that have grown up during […]
by rgonzalezr
Paperback: 225 pages Publisher: Commonwealth Books, Black Widow (June 15, 2008) Language: English, French ISBN-10: 0979513790 In 1908 a small volume of poetry was published in Paris by an unknown author named A. O. Barnabooth-who in fact did not exist. Only after the book received favorable reviews by major French writers and critics did its real author, Valery Larbaud, step forward to claim Barnabooth as his alter ego. The revised and expanded 1913 edition of the book, with Larbaud credited as its author, has […]
Categories: Poesía
