Can I Touch Your Hair?

Can I Touch Your Hair?
Author: Irene Latham
Publisher: Lerner Digital ™
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541589491

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Two poets, one white and one black, explore race and childhood in this must-have collection tailored to provoke thought and conversation. How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don't know each other . . . and they're not sure they want to. Irene Latham, who is white, and Charles Waters, who is Black, use this fictional setup to delve into different experiences of race in a relatable way, exploring such topics as hair, hobbies, and family dinners. Accompanied by artwork from acclaimed illustrators Sean Qualls and Selina Alko (of The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage), this remarkable collaboration invites readers of all ages to join the dialogue by putting their own words to their experiences.

Race

Race
Author: D. H. Groberg
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-05-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781608106189

All the Colors of the Race

All the Colors of the Race
Author: Arnold Adoff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1982-02
Genre: Children's poetry
ISBN:

A collection of poems written from the point of view of a child with a black mother and a white father.

The Best American Poetry 1996

The Best American Poetry 1996
Author: David Lehman
Publisher: Scribner
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1996-09-16
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780684814513

From Simon & Schuster, in its ninth year, The Best American Poetry 1996 is universally acclaimed as the best anthology in the field. The compilation includes a diverse abundance of poems published in 1995 in more than 40 publications ranging from The New Yorker to The Paris Review to Bamboo Ridge.

The Father

The Father
Author: Sharon Olds
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2012-12-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0307760731

A searing sequence of poems about a daughter’s vision of a father’s illness and death—by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won’t back down" (San Francisco Chronicle). The Father chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The book is, most of all, a series of acts of understanding. The poems are impelled by a passion to know, and a freedom to follow wherever the truth may lead. The book goes into area of feeling and experience rarely entered in poetry. The ebullient language, the startling, far-reaching images, the sense of extraordinary connectedness seize us immediately. Sharon Olds transforms a harsh reality with truthfulness, with beauty, with humor—and without bitterness. The deep pain in The Father arises from a death, and from understanding a life. But there is joy as well. In the end, we discover we have been reading not a grim accounting but an inspiriting tragedy, transcending the personal. The radiance and daring that have always distinguished Sharon Old’s work find here their most powerful expression.

A Sense of Regard

A Sense of Regard
Author: Laura McCullough
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0820347612

How do poets engage issues of race? This timely collection of essays brings together the voices of living poets and scholars, including Garrett Hongo and Major Jackson, to discuss the constraints and possibilities of racial discourse in poetic language, offering new insights on this perennially vexed issue.

Letters to America

Letters to America
Author: Jim Daniels
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780814325421

A collection of poems that explore the issues surrounding race relations in American society, told from the experience of Black, Native American, Asian, Arabic, Hispanic, and white cultures.

Madwoman

Madwoman
Author: Shara McCallum
Publisher: Alice James Books
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2017-02-13
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1938584414

Haunting, alarming, transformative, and elusive, these poems bridge together the gaps between development stages: from girl, to woman, and then mother. With the complexities that intertwine them, can you be all three at once? Who shapes our identity, and who is in control here? How do we recognize, acknowledge, and honor the changing of who we are?

Light For The World To See

Light For The World To See
Author: Kwame Alexander
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0358566193

From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events. A book in the tradition of James Baldwin’s “A Report from Occupied Territory,” Light for the World to See is a rap session on race. A lyrical response to the struggles of Black lives in our world . . . to America’s crisis of conscience . . . to the centuries of loss, endless resilience, and unstoppable hope. Includes an introduction by the author and a bold, graphically designed interior.

Race and the Avant-Garde

Race and the Avant-Garde
Author: Timothy Yu (Ph. D.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0804759979

Race and the Avant-Garde investigates the relationship between identity and poetic form in contemporary American literature, focusing on Asian American and experimental poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Ron Silliman, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and John Yau.