[2017]
First edition.
A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of
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9780062431783
9781443448437
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Kingdom of olives and ash : writers confront the occupation
The Dovekeeper / One's own people / Bloated time and the death of meaning / Giant in a cage / The land in winter / Mr. nice guy / Sami / Occupied words / Prison visit / Sumud / Journey to the West Bank / Playing for Palestine / Love in the time of Qalandiya / Imagining Jericho / The end of reasons / High places / Storyland / The separation wall / A hundred children / Visible, invisible : two worlds / Hip-hop is not dead / Occupation's untold story / An unsuitable place for clowns / Justice, justice you shall pursue / Two stories, so many stories / H2
Chabon, Michael editor.
Waldman, Ayelet editor.
Rothman-Zecher, Moriel, editor.
Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon -- Geraldine Brooks -- Jacqueline Woodson -- Ala Hlehel -- Michael Chabon -- Madeleine Thien -- Rachel Kushner -- Raja Shehadeh -- Lars Saabye Christensen -- Dave Eggers -- Emily Raboteau -- Mario Vargas Llosa -- Assaf Gavron -- Taiye Selasi -- Colm T́óibín -- Eimear McBride -- Hari Kunzru -- Lorraine Adams -- Helon Habila -- Eva Menasse -- Anita Desai -- Porochista Khakpour -- Fida Jiryis -- Arnon Grunberg -- Ayelet Waldman -- Colum McCann -- Maylis De Kerangal.
Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon, editors ; Moriel Rothman-Zecher, associate editor.
2017
Kingdom of olives and ash : writers confront the occupation
2017.
First edition.
Essays, poetry, and art included in this anthology celebrate the one-hundredth birthday of the late poet and cultural icon Gwendolyn Brooks.
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9781940430867
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Revise the Psalm : work celebrating the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks
Introduction: Of memory and revision / Foreword / Child-free / Barbed wire / I, too, am the mother / The unmother / Dialogue between two women at the clinic / Motherhood / First journey / Daystar / My mother's clothes / Washer woman / Tax deadline / Fixing face / [Untitled] / Milk bath / Horse and carriage on the plaza / A slip into history / My face / blk(s) / The night after you have been fired from your job / A burning lesson / She was my first / Poem for Gwendolyn Brooks on her centennial birthday
Sister Flossie's jam / Recipe / Radio / For the lover who eats my poems ... / To be in love / To be / Knife in the wall / Chalk / When your silence will not save you / Fine art school / Combatives / Stay / Abracadabra / Psalm 23 at 15 / Visitation one / Dog in a dead man's house / Babes / On Spring / Bitter winter / Suicide one / Lovely love / Sweet stalk / Genetic codes / The Samaritan woman / Look behind / Deuce and a quarter / Convenience / Anacostia suite / Sold to the man with the mouth / Kenny's friend / Run Johnny run / Foun(d) poem / Silly stories / Dying of laughter / Sleep smoking / Five belly buttons / Yaakov's jackets / The hammers / Mama Gwendolyn kiss (is) Uncle Ruckus on de forehead / Civility / Tribal differences / Players online dating service / Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. goes to heaven / Looking for Venture Smith / Sonnet for Gordon Parks / Oriki for John Oliver Killens
Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks / Quatrain for Emmett Till/Trayvon Martin/Michael Brown/LaQuan McDonald / Many sons, many mothers / A depraved indifference 2 human life / The short answer / A neighborhood boy / Rite of passag / We real / Roots / News item : police seek African-American man / History of static / East Texas blues / Robert's Hill : San Augustine, Texas / We real / WWW2015 / The tragedies / Skin / Keloid cells / Landscape with chalk-marked silhouette / Everyday horrors / When racism dies / Overheard at tea, near Kensington and DeVeers, London / A feast of whispers / In praise of wisdom / Halloween / Who needs the stars if the full moon loves you? / Prayer for Jordan / The corner / A deaf old lady / Street woman / Black woman in Russia / Artwork gallery ; Recollections / Urban couple / The tenant / Meanwhile, a Lawndale girl burns cornbread / R. Taylor's Project girl / Final frontier / Gwendolyn Brooks stands in the Mecca / The last supper / Second Ave. ceiling / Steel canary / Crime in Bluesville / Eating in the after life / Hotel Hades / Lincoln Cemetery / The blinking apple / & later / Geometry / Cedar / Fun in the backyard / Day 4, somewhere between Athens and Serifos, Greece / June 9, Serifos, Greece / Blackbirding / Seven years
Testifying / Language of the unheard / Jazz June / To the recorder of history / A note on Gwendolyn Brooks / Reading Gwendolyn Brooks / Letter to Gwendolyn Brooks / Nobody knows my name / A haiku for Gwendolyn Brooks / Journaling with Gwendolyn Brooks Kwansaba-style 2016 : a pastiche of poetic reports on her life & works / The weight of the word / Baggage / Smolder / Artist statements. Anecdote / Reflections : experiencing Gwendolyn Brooks / Reflection / Gwendolyn Brooks reminiscence / Being born into Brooks / Description of portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks / My Gwendolyn Brooks experience / Remembrance / Finding my own sunset and thoughts on reading Gwendolyn Brooks / My first contact with Gwendolyn Brook / A slice of prose for Gwendolyn Brooks, poet / To make a thing sing and mean : reflections on Gwendolyn Brooks / Wordweaver (for Gwendolyn Brooks) / A Bluesviile tribute for Gwendolyn Brooks / Brooks biography. We remember Sunday : portrait of the artist as an ancestor / Brooks bibliography. Gwendolyn Brooks : a selected bibliography 1979-2015
Lansana, Quraysh Ali editor.
Jackson-Opoku, Sandra, editor.
Quraysh Ali Lansana & Sandra Jackson-Opoku -- Marita Golden -- Joan Wiese Johannes ; Jodi Joanclair ; Georgia A. Popoff ; Angela Jackson ; Jeanne Towns ; Emily Hooper Lansana ; Diane Glancy ; Rita Dove ; Chirskira Caillouet ; Kimberly A. Collins ; Akua Lezli Hope ; Akua Lezli Hope ; Kimberly Dixon-Mays ; Zoe Lynn Nyman -- Natasha Ria El-Scari ; Crystal Simone Smith ; Aries Hines ; Avery R. Young ; Natasha Ria El-Scari ; Kimberly A. Collins ; Kalisha Buckhanon ; Jessica Care Moore.
Qiana Towns ; L.D. Barnes ; Malaika Favorite ; Jaki Shelton Green ; CM Burroughs ; Keith Wilson ; Mike Puican ; Keith Wilson ; Randall Horton ; Crystal Simone Smith ; David Bublitz ; Jericho Brown ; Randall Horton ; Wayne-Daniel Berard ; David Bublitz ; Adrienne Christian ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Keith Wilson ; Dasha Kelly ; David Bublitz ; Elise Paschen ; Lana Hechtman Ayers ; Jodi Joanclair ; John C. Mannone -- Sandra Jackson-Opoku ; Calvin Forbes ; Monique Hayes ; Tony Medina ; Adrian Matejka ; Judy Dozier ; Calvin Forbes ; Avery R. Young ; Tony Lindsay ; Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; David Bublitz ; Rohan Preston ; Mel Goldberg ; Jericho Brown ; Avery R. Young ; Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Reggie Scott Young ; Calvin Forbes ; Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Jacqueline Johnson ; Carolyn Joyner ; Jacqueline Johnson.
Sam Hamill ; Regina Taylor ; Tara Betts ; Khari B. ; Roger Bonair-Agard ; Devorah Major ; Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; Kevin Coval ; Nile Lansana ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Kevin Stein ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Roger Bonair-Agard ; Deshaunte Walker ; Kevin Stein ; John C. Mannone ; Jodi Joanclair ; Tony Medina ; Esteban Colon ; Kwabena Foli ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Jaki Shelton Green ; Sharan Strange ; Malaika Favorite ; Sheree Renée Thomas ; Jaki Shelton Green -- Keith Wilson ; Marilyn Nelson ; Devorah Major ; Shahari Moore ; Reggie Scott Young ; Opal Palmer Adisa ; Keith Wilson ; Patricia Smith ; Bettina Marie Walker ; Adrian Matejka ; Kevin Coval ; Tina Jenkins Bell ; Zoe Lynn Nyman ; Rohan Preston ; Reggie Scott Young ; Qiana Towns ; Sandra Jackson-Opoku ; Cortney Lamar Charleston ; Rohan Preston ; Adrian Matejka ; Rita Dove ; Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; Lenard D. Moore ; Monica Hand ; Monica Hand ; John Wilkinson ; Quraysh Ali Lansana.
Rita Dove ; Opal Palmer Adisa ; Clifford Thompson ; Randall Horton ; Sharon Olds ; Gwendolyn A. Mitchell ; Sandra Cisneros ; Manuel Muñoz ; Damaris Hill ; Eugene B. Redmond ; Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Lansana/Brooks ; Lansana/Brooks -- Lana Hechtman Ayers ; Khari B. ; Tina Jenkins Bell ; Rose Blouin ; David Bublitz ; Adjoa Jackson Burrowes ; Chirskira Caillouet ; Adrienne Christian ; Kimberly Dixon-Mays ; Judy Dozier ; Natasha Ria El-Scari ; Calvin Forbes ; Diane Glancy ; Jaki Shelton Green ; Monica Hand ; Damaris Hill ; Akua Lezli Hope ; Sandra Jackson-Opoku ; Jodi Joanclair ; Joan Wiese Johannes ; Jacqueline Johnson ; Carolyn Joyner ; Emily Hooper Lansana ; Roy Lewis ; Tony Lindsay ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Devorah Major ; Adrian Matejka ; Gwendolyn A. Mitchell ; Lenard D. Moore ; Joyce Owens ; Elise Paschen ; Mike Puican ; Eugene B. Redmond ; Crystal Simone Smith ; Kevin Stein ; Regina Taylor ; Jeanne Towns ; Qiana Towns ; Keith Wilson ; Avery R. Young ; Reggie Scott Young -- Sandra Jackson-Opoku -- Kathleen E. Bethel.
edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana & Sandra Jackson-Opoku.
2017
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