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9 produkter
Catching a Storyfish
Häftad, 2023
184 kr
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This lyrical middle-grade novel-in-verse celebrates the power of story and of finding one's individual voice.
Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone
Häftad, 2007
185 kr
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“Memory and its embodiment in a colloquial, yet highly wrought musical language are what originally drew me to Harrington’s manuscript and what continues to pull me back. We learn the story of Lillian and Webster and their children and grandchildren, a black family living a hardscrabble life in the …
The Hands of Strangers
Poems from the Nursing Home
Häftad, 2011
177 kr
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As people live longer, we face the challenges that come with caring for, and living as, an aging population. This collection focuses on the sad, funny, mundane reality of life in a nursing home. In her own words, Janice N. Harrington worked her way through college as a nurses' aide and wrote The …
Hands of Strangers
Poems from the Nursing Home
E-bok, 2011
122 kr
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The Hands of Strangers portrays the tensions and moments of grace between aged nursing home residents and their healthcare workers.
Primitive
The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin
Häftad, 2016
246 kr
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A lyrical and biographical reflection on the art and life of Horace H. Pippin--the best-known African American artist of his time--Primitive offers a searching critique of the condescension to African American folk art as supposedly "primitive," and it also critiques the underestimation of African …
Primitive
The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin
E-bok, 2016
110 kr
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A biographical reflection on the art and life of Horace H. Pippin—the best-known African-American artist of his time— Primitive is a critique on current perceptions surrounding African-American folk art, as well as the absence of key African-American history in present-day curricula. Award-winning …
Yard Show
Häftad, 2024
197 kr
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Winner of the 90th Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWinner of the 2025 PEN/Voelcker AwardFinalist for the Midland Authors Award (Poetry)Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle AwardNamed one of the top 25 Best New Poetry Books by the New York Public LibraryBlack history, cultural expression, …
Yard Show
E-bok, 2024
290 kr
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Black history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington’s Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern United States. As seen through the documentation of objects found within yard shows, this collection …
Yard Show
Inbunden, 2024
617 kr
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Winner of the 90th Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWinner of the 2025 PEN/Voelcker AwardFinalist for the Midland Authors Award (Poetry)Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle AwardNamed one of the top 25 Best New Poetry Books by the New York Public LibraryBlack history, cultural expression, …
