Author: Annemarie SelinkoPublisher: Fontana Press
ISBN: 9780006134435
Category : German fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Know the Mother
Author: Desiree CooperPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814341500
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Short, searing glimpses of how race and gender shadow even the most intimate moments of women’s lives. While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector—at the center of each mother is an individual who is attempting to manage her own fears, desires, and responsibilities in different and sometimes unexpected ways. In Know the Mother, author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype of the mother in all of her incarnations. In a collage of meditative stories, women—both black and white—find themselves wedged between their own yearnings and their roles as daughters, sisters, grandmothers, and wives. In this heart-wrenching collection, Cooper reveals that gender and race are often unanticipated interlopers in family life. An anxious mother reflects on her prenatal fantasies of suicide while waiting for her daughter to come home late one night. A lawyer miscarries during a conference call and must proceed as though nothing has happened. On a rare night out with her husband, a new mother tries convincing herself that everything is still the same. A politician's wife's thoughts turn to slavery as she contemplates her own escape: "Even Harriet Tubman had realized that freedom wasn't worth the price of abandoning her family, so she'd come back home. She'd risked it all for love." With her lyrical and carefully crafted prose, Cooper's stories provide truths without sermon and invite empathy without sentimentality. Know the Mother explores the intersection of race and gender in vignettes that pull you in and then are gone in an instant. Readers of short fiction will appreciate this deeply felt collection.
What Noise Against the Cane
Author: Desiree C. BaileyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300256531
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of what it means to fight for yourself “Bailey invites us to see what twenty-first-century life is like for a young woman of the Black diaspora in the long wake of a history of slavery, brutality, and struggling for freedoms bodily and psychological.” —Carl Phillips, from the Foreword The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation, and womanhood. Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey’s “poems argue for hope and faith equally. . . . These are powerful poems, indeed, and they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of steady defiance.”
SINK
Author: Desireé DallagiacomoPublisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1943735514
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Desireé Dallagiacomo's debut book grapples with the intersections of family and mental health. Sink asks and answers hard questions about grief, lineage, death and all manner of inheritance. What is one left with when they come from a family that has nothing to its name but loss? Throughout, Dallagiacomo weighs the cost of what it is to be alive and a woman in a landscape that makes being alive and a woman uninviting. Sink approaches grief and depression not as a tourist, but instead with the power and nuance of someone who has survived and made the most of their survival.
Author: Desiree MangandogDesiree's Rehabilitation
Author: Regine DubonoPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329852087
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book demonstrates what happens to a diagnoses schizophrenic when she stops taking psychiatric drugs. Her amazing clarity, thirst for knowledge, exuberance, ability to make desicions will amaze you. Contrast what hppens to her when she returns to the group home and is swept back into their traditional drug maintenance. Readers can make their own judgment as to how our current tradition of administering psychiatric drug cocktails to these residents is serving our people (25%% of them) or destroying their lives needlessly in a consortium between drugcompanies, psychiatrists, and the government. No wonder schizophrenia runs 1%% of world populatin, but in the US it affects 3%% of our population.
Author: Barbara VaracchiDesiree's Search for the Perfect Christmas
Author: Debra Van AlstinePublisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1644686600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Desiree is like every little girl! She loves to run and jump and play with her friends. And today she was wondering about Christmas. What is the true meaning of Christmas? She seeks the truth from the lady at the Christmas store, the man at the department store, her grandparents, her parents, and her best friend. Is the truth of Christmas found in the tree and decorations, in Santa Claus and his elves, maybe the big dinner with all her family and the presents?
Desiree’S Night Flight
Author: Jacquie FaberPublisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504328191
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Desiree has a problem: shes a butterfly, and she wants to fly at night. She wants to follow her dreams and dance in the dark. But her mother and father have told her that only bats, owls, and moths fly at night. Should she risk following her dreams and face the unfamiliar? Or should she be like the other monarchs that only fly during the day? Desirees Night Flight is an enlightening read for both spiritual seekers and lovers of childrens literature. This magical story takes readers on a journey from doubt to belief in our hopes and dreams. Jacquie Faber has created, with her lyrical text, a timeless dancefrom shadow to light. Truly inspiring! Anjali Andrea Alban Childrens Author, Speaker and Mentor. When Desiree follows her dream into the unfamiliar she learns that love, trust and belief in herself can all work together. She discovers an inner light all living things share and can then draw on strengths she didnt know she had. Ms. Fabers beautiful tale delivers this powerful message with great charm. Grace W Rogers Ph.D. Retired Psychologist and Columnist in West Marin Citizen.
A Study Guide for Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410344177
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
A Study Guide for Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
