Maya's notebook [sound recording]

Cuaderno de Maya. English

The boy who was raised as a dog : and other stories from a child psychiatrist's notebook : what traumatized children can teach us about loss, love, and healing

A manual for cleaning women : selected stories

Foreword: "The story is the thing" / Introduction / Angel's laundromat -- Dr. H.A. Moynihan -- Stars and saints -- A manual for cleaning women -- My jockey -- El Tim -- Point of view -- Her first detox -- Phantom pain -- Tiger bites -- Emergency room notebook -- Temps perdu -- Carpe diem -- Toda luna, Todo Ano -- Good and bad -- Melina -- Friends -- Unmanageable -- Electric car, El Paso -- Sex appeal -- Teenage punk -- Step -- Strays -- Grief -- Bluebonnets -- La vie en rose -- Macadam -- Dear Conchi -- Fool to cry -- Mourning -- Panteón de Dolores -- So long -- A love affair -- Let me see you smile -- Mama -- Carmen -- Silence -- Mijito -- 502 -- Here it is Saturday -- B.F. and me -- Wait a minute -- Homing.

An explorer's notebook : essays on life, history & climate

In the field, 1985-2002. Beginnings ; Australia's oldest marsupial? ; Journey to the stars ; Prickled, not pricked ; Emperor, king and little pig ; The fall and rise of Bulmer's fruit bat ; The case of the missing meat eaters ; Irian Jaya's new tree kangaroo ; Men of the forest ; Frenchmen dreaming ; Sydney gone wrong? It's Werrong ; What is love? ; Australia : overpopulated or last frontier? ; A hostile land ; The day, the land, the people ; After the future : Australia's new extinction crisis -- On other people's words, 1999-2012. Wonders of a lost world ; Glow in the dark ; The mneme-ing of life ; Who came first? ; The lady or the tiger? ; Flaming creatures ; The heart of the country ; The priest and the hobbit ; When a scorpion meets a scorpion ; What is a tree? ; Getting to know them ; A heroine in defense of nature -- Climate, 2006-2007. Lies about power ; Australian of the year 2007 ; Saving water and energy ; Tropical forests ; A new adventure.

We are all so good at smiling

Narrator (interlude) -- The wilting: Call me magic : call me (Whimsy) -- Hospital : the whimsy girl: Outside my hospital window ; Car (silver) like a broadsword ; Shadow-wings ; Things I know about fae ; Morning (bathroom) ritual ; Mom & Dad visit ; Reasons it's easier for Mom & Dad ; Break-fast ; The fae (Faerry) ; Group therapy ; Group therapy : tell us a secret ; My answer : cemetery of leaves ; Everyone (in therapy) is silent after my soliloquy ; Last week in the hospital -- Whimsy comes home: Back home on Marsh Creek Lane ; My old notebook stuffed with fairy tales ; The (haunting) forest ; Outside my house on Marsh Creek Lane : October 28 ; Faerry (still annoying) : on Marsh Creek Lane ; What (I think) Faerry does next ; Marsh Creek Lane (home) -- Fairy tales : Faerry tales: What's wrong with a monster? : Whimsy's fairy tale essay/poem ; I like my poem ; Doorbell rings : Faerry on my stoop again ; Faerry reads my poem ; Faerry's fairy tale essay/poem ; Good night, Faerry ; Locket ; Dinnertime chat ; Sleep, nightmare, wake, repeat -- Stone Ridge High School: Morning (October 29) ; Morning (October 29) outside my house ; High school ; Before AP English class (teacher chat) ; Things I hear my classmates say ; Things I hear Valda (the bully) say ; Inferno by Dante ; (Faerry) in my AP English class ; Teacher questions for new kid? ; Questions on the reading? ; Circles of Hell ; Faerry gathers his things too -- Runaway: We walk ; Car ride ; We keep driving ; Home ; Cole is missing? -- The forest with the garden: tConsequences at dinner ; After 10 p.m. there is a knock ; Things I did not tell the officer ; October 30 ; October 30 (midday) ; October 30 (nighttime) ; October 31 ; Evening: October 31 (of my 18th year) -- What I remember: Haunting forest ; Finding Cole ; This is what I remember ; The candy house ; Inside the candy house ; The clearing -- Pinky promise: The edge ; In haunting forest again ; Whimsy in sorrow's garden ; The house sorrow built ; Meeting sorrow again ; The only way ; Abandon all hope : in the garden sorrow built ; Enter here ; Hope sinks. --

The tears: Baba Yaga's house: (My sorrow garden) ; (When it rains ice) ; (Sorrow & memories) ; (Grandma's twin house in the garden) ; (Meeting Baba Yaga) ; (Outside Baba Yaga's house) -- Escaping sorrow (again): (Back at the start) ; (I deserve the garden) ; (Hooting & breaking) ; (Through the fire again) ; (Faerry grabs my hand) -- Anansi the spider's den: (The webs of Anansi) ; (Anansi cried) ; (Faerry & I discuss) ; (The answer) -- Mama Wata: (Catching magic) ; (Walking memories) ; (Fae wings) ; (What I see) ; (Back on the yellow brick road) ; (Mama Wata & the ocean in a globe) ; (Under the water of words, I hear them [the bullies] say) ; (Whimsy the mermaid) -- Don't eat the apple: (Apples of the sky) ; (Bruises) ; (Riddle) ; (Names of giant apples) -- Adze & the blood moon: (Amorphophallus titanum : corpse flower) ; (Never trust a firefly) ; (Hospital room) ; Clinical (major) depression ; (Forgiveness) ; (Faerry's story) ; (Forgiveness again) -- Voicelessness & the siren Ursula: (We stay cocooned) ; (Ursula : voice-taker) ; (Thanatosis) ; (Panic attacks feel like...) -- The griot with stories: (A griot) ; (Story one : what the children saw) ; (Falling again) ; (Story two : what the parents saw) ; (Story three : what actually happened) ; (Whimsy & Faerry scream) -- Faerry (tale) & Whimsy (Cole): (Bigger than bravery) ; (Tale & Cole) ; (We've been watching you) ; (Truth). --

The rebirth: Fairy tales in the secret garden: (Candy house : final time) ; (Explosion) ; (Fairy tales celebrate in the garden sorrow built) ; (To home we go) -- Happy endings : Whimsy & Faerry: (Whimsy & Faerry) -- Narrator (interlude) -- Fairy tales in this story -- Whimsy & Faerry's playlist --

The BreakBeat poets : new American poetry in the age of hip-hop

New American poetry in the age of hip-hop

An (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand / Turning the tables ; Wednesday poem / An excerpt from Crank shaped notes / Mascot ; Crack house ; Seventy-first & King Drive / Duck, duck, redux ; Post-white / Everything you wanted to know about hip hop but were afraid to be hipped for fear of being hopped ; The keepin' it real awards / Shit to write about ; Word to everything I love ; Writing about what you know / Agate / Honorific or black boy to black boy ; Fast -- how I knew ; In defense of the code-switch or why you talk like that or why you gotta always be cussing / Shine (for Joe Bataan) ; All night / B-boy infinitives ; Kundiman ending on a theme from t la rock ; A note to Thomas Alva ; Ode to the cee-lo players / Untitled / America's pastime / Who you callin' a jynx? (after mista popo) ; Damn right it's betta than yours ; Gamin' gabby -- / Hood / Manifesto, or ars poetica #2 ; Preface to a twenty volume homicide note / Beat boxing ; Robot music / mic check, 1-2 / Ode to the crossfader ; 1989 ; Renegades of funk / Stitches ; Pull down the earth ; This is a test / How to get over (senior to freshman) ; how to get over (for my niggas) ; how to get over (for Kanye) / Break (rebirth) ; Break (sister) ; Break (embargo) / The world tells how the world ends ; Object / Bronx bombers ; What I saw was not your funeral ; At my best / Paper bag poems ; Global warming blues ; Sunday ; Possible (for Amiri Baraka) / Hip hop analogies ; Switch / From all convulsions / Quantum spit ; No homo ; Drop it like it's hottentot venus / A prayer fo mama Brenda Matthews (warrior brew) ; After an artis(t) talk / The future / The message ; Astronomy (8th light) / The crossover ; Jewtown ; Molemen beat tapes ; White on the block / Motherland / When 12 play was on repeat ; Upon viewing the death of Basquiat ; nameless / Elegy in gold ; Break / Say my name ; Old ladies and dope boys ; These are the breaks / Corners / It's just begun / Ciphers pt. 1 ; Vigil pt. 1 / I have a drone / Crews ; Slang ; O.P.P. / 100 bells ; Nocturne in need of a bitch ; Blossoms in the dark ; Self-portrait as slinky / Elegy for a trojan ; Ode to a star fig ; Ode to gentrification ; Ode to a killer whale / Harbor / Evolution of my block ; Evolution of my profile ; GTA : San Andreas (or, 'Grove Street bitch!') / Bint ibrahim / Ha ha hum ; Adventures / If you don't know / Small poems for big / Stakes is high ; When I'm alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call ; Ars poetica in the mode of j-live Bonita applebum / Self portrait with gunshot vernacular ; Self portrait from the other side ; Thaumaturgy / To the notebook kid / A remix for remembrance, Stockholm syndrome / In search of black birds / Let me handle my business, damn / When asked about my hometown : an admission ; When asked about my hometown : an anecdote ; Love letter to Zack, the black power ranger / When I put my hands in the air it's praise / Winthrop Ave. ; We house : after Krista Franklin's definition of funk / Legend ; Ghazal for my sister ; Conspiracy : A suite ; Gravity / Ode to the first white girl I ever loved ; Home court / No country for black boys / Always & forever ; Self-portrait as exit wounds ; Prayer for the newly damned ; Daily bread / When tip drill comes on at the frat party or, when refusing to twerk is a radical form of self-love ; Unemployment ; Pluto shits on the universe / Pussy monster ; Impulse buy / On caskets ; Prelude ; Picking flowers; juke / Broken ghazal in the voice of my brother jacob / Cue the gangsta rap when my knees bend ; Twerk (v.) ; Dinosaurs in the hood ; Dear white America / Defense ; Blk girl art ; Deep in the homeroom of doom ; Daddy dozens / What the eyes saw / A suite for ol' dirty Juicy (an erasure) / Badu interviews Lamar (an erasure) ; Police / Beat writers / Four elements of ghostdance / Grand slam / This, here / My niece's hip-hop / Murder is my name / Lesson one / Art. artifice, & artifact / Artist statement / Artist statement / Artist statement / Douglas Kearney -- Artist statement / A locus of control and the erasure / Life is good : How hip-hop channels duende / Journeying to the break : The cost of the pilgrimage / The art of the mistake: some notes on breaking as making / Blueprint for breakBeat writing