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Ephemeral lives, and souls lost in the tattered fabric of war, displacement, and ruined love find hope, redemption, and a common voice in Eugene Gloria's artful concoction of American and Filipino vernaculars. While some of these thirty poems deal with the landscape and folkways of contemporary Filipinos, others locate themselves on the streets and byways of present-day America. Like many poets of dual heritage, Gloria's work is concerned with self-definition, with the attempt to reconcile a feeling of exile and homelessness. Frequently taking the form of character studies and first-person narratives, Gloria's poems poignantly illuminate the common man's search for connection to the self and to the world.

"Eugene Gloria's Drivers at the Short-Time Motel is propelled by an imagistic sincerity and paced lyricism. Each poem seems to embody the plain-spoken as well as the embellishments that we associate with classical and modern Asian poetry. Though many of the poems address the lingering hurt of cultural and economic imperialism, worlds coexist in the same skin through magical imagery. Gauged by a keen eye, history is scrutinized, but through a playful exactness. These wonderful poems are trustworthy." --Yusef Komunyaaka ... Read more

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This was a challenging book of poems to read. It maps out an intelligent and complex world--the bicultural experience. Nostalgic and unidealistic, here is a Filipino-American voice struggling through the painful, alwaysimportant memories attached to contrasting landscapes--those of the U.S.and the Philippines. My favorite poems were those that dealt with thespeaker's immediate family. And though the language is beautiful in many ofthe poems, what really strikes hard is the honesty with which speaker tellshis (and his family's) stories.

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Willis Barnstone's third book of memoirs begins with his childhood and ends with his brother's death in 1987. A central theme is labels--names, ethnicities, all distinctions that cause suspicion, anger, and destruction.

Barnstone speaks as a Jew who has from early in his life shared parallel experiences with African Americans. He dwells on his own experience of "passing," already present in the name Barnstone, a name changed before his birth to conceal--or not to advertise--that he was a Jew, which might affect admission to private schools and college, his integration into society, and his professional life. But the price of dissembling was self-deprecation, fear of rejection, and guilt. Barnstone makes the analogy to the African American experience explicit. He speaks of his black step-grandmother, of childhood playmates, of the activist Bayard Rustin and the turbulent and exhilarating integration of his Quaker boarding school, of his first publication--a letter to The Nation--protesting the racial and religious exclusionary practices of the Bowdoin fraternities, of being a soldier with blacks in the segregated South, and of the 18th-century slave memoirist Olaudah Equiano.

Finally, there is a dialogue with Yusef Komunyakaa and a small selection of Komunyakaa's Jewish Bible poems. We Jews and Blacks is also a dramatic and whimsical literary memoir. It contains a number of Barnstone's poems, which give a second view of an event, a crystallization of his thinking. Both sorrowful and joyful, Barnstone's memoir is a fresh and significant contribution to American letters. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Stephen Ambrose, Philip James Devries, Yusef Komunyakaa, David Wojahn, Andreas Maislinger, Niyi Osundare, Joseph Boyden, Jim Grimsley, Toussaint Hočevar, Robert Denhardt, Robert Cashner, Amanda Boyden. Excerpt:Amanda Boyden is an American novelist. Born in Northern Minnesota and raised in Chicago and St. Louis , she studied creative writing at the University of New Orleans , where she and her husband, Canadian writer Joseph Boyden , are faculty members. In addition to writing, Amanda Boyden is a trapeze artist who founded Aerialists, Inc., her own all-female troupe, and performed as Lady Hummingbird. Works References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Beate Klarsfeld (left), Andreas Maislinger (middle). Andreas Maislinger (born 26 February 1955 in St. Georgen near Salzburg , Austria ) is an Austrian historian and the founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service . Maislinger studied law and political science in Salzburg and political science and eastern-European history in Vienna , with study visits in, amongst others, Frankfurt am Main and Innsbruck . In 1980 he received his doctorate for a dissertation on the problems of Austrian defence policy. He subsequently held posts at the Institute for Political Science at Innsbruck University, the University of New Orleans as visiting assistant professor, the Humboldt University of Berlin for a research visit, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In 1982 he co-founded the working group of independent peace initiatives of Austria and in 1986 he became a member of the founding committee of the Austrian -Israeli society Tirol . Since 1992, Maislinger has served as the scientific director of the annual Braunau Contemporary History Days in Braunau am Inn . Together with Andreas Hörtna... ... Read more

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Title: Yusef Komunyakaa: Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems.
Author: Ashley Brown
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 76Issue: 1Page: 153(2)

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Yusef Komunyakaa, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1710 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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This digital document is an article from Poetry, published by Modern Poetry Association on June 1, 2001. The length of the article is 787 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: NEWS NOTES.(Yusef Komunyakaa, poet)(Review)(Brief Article)
Publication: Poetry (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2001
Publisher: Modern Poetry Association
Volume: 178Issue: 3Page: 177

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Chapters: Professor Longhair, Sixty Rayburn, Otto Passman, Tom Colten, Jared Y. Sanders, Sr., Yusef Komunyakaa, Henry "Tank" Powell, Benny Rayburn, Tom Thornhill, Snoozer Quinn, Kenderick Allen, Bruce Plummer, Charlie Spikes, Sid Fournet, John Mcgeever, Charles Armstrong, Skip Manning. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 82. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: (2) Rayburn's voice and mannerisms as well as his political philosophy and even his religious affiliation were said to mirror those of his mentor, Earl Kemp Long. (3) Rayburn was perhaps the staunchest legislative defender of the Louisiana charity hospital system and worked to bring such a facility to Bogalusa. (4) The Rayburn School of Veterinary Science in Baton Rouge honors his commitment to the establishment of the Louisiana State University's School of Veterinary Medicine, the only in the state. (5) Rayburn was known unofficially as the "Dean of the Louisiana Senate". Benjamin Burras Rayburn, Sr., known as B. B. "Sixty" Rayburn (August 11, 1916 - March 5, 2008), was a veteran politician from Bogalusa, an incorporated city in Washington Parish in southeastern Louisiana in the United States. He was a firm supporter of the region's public hospitals, highways, and its indigenous Southeastern Louisiana University. He served as a populist Democrat in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from 1948-1996. Rayburn's political roots were imbedded in the administrations of Governor Earl Kemp Long, but he was also friendly with later chief executives John J. McKeithen and Edwin Washington Edwards. Even his loud and raspy voice was often compared to that of Earl Long. Rayburn survived generations of social and political change in his adopted home state, including the collapse of legal segregation as well as the rise of women and...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16311357 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Mississippi State University on January 1, 2009. The length of the article is 5890 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Remaking myth in Yusef Komunyakaa's Talking Dirty to the Gods, Taboo, and Gilgamesh: an interview.(Interview)
Author: Daniel Cross Turner
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2009
Publisher: Mississippi State University
Volume: 62Issue: 1-2Page: 335(15)

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Softcover with Pastel Portrait of Komunyakaa on front cover. ... Read more

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A collection of works published in association with the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. ... Read more

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BOMB 65, Fall 1998, featuring: Interviews with Ian McKellen by Scott Mendelsohn, Alexander Nehamas by David Carrier, Sam Taylor-Wood by Bruce Ferguson, Mark Richard by J.D. Dolan, Geoffrey O'Brien by Luc Sante, Thomas Nozkowski by Francine Prose, Clifford Ross by Betsy Sussler, and Yusef Komunyakaa and Paul Muldoon. Fiction and poetry by David Ryan, Terese Svoboda, Sheila Kohler, Tom Sleigh, Elisa Albo, Neal Durando, Robert Lopez, Lynn Freed, and Jim Thompson. Art by Rita McBride, Tom Butter, and Y.Z. Kami. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Poetry, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 3502 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
Author: Reginald Gibbons
Publication: Poetry (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 185Issue: 2Page: 143(10)

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This digital document is an article from Cross Currents, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2007. The length of the article is 2699 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sorrow songs and flying away: religious influence on black poetry.(POETRY)(Essay)
Author: Yusef Komunyakaa
Publication: Cross Currents (Newsletter)
Date: June 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 57Issue: 2Page: 281(9)

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