340 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
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Diversity and "perspective by incongruity" dene the approach to changing times in this fourth volume of the First of the Year series. Insights come from interesting minds in unobvious juxtapositions. First's roster of irreverent—and holy!—regulars includes Amiri Baraka, Bernard Avishai, Uri Avnery, Chuck D, Diane di Prima, Fr. Rick Frechette, Donna Gaines, Lawrence Goodwyn, Roxane Johnson, W.T.... Read more
I: Changing Times; The Woman in the Sunlight; The Great Predicament Facing Obama; Everything Is Permitted; Grassroots Nuances; Icons and Assassins; Obama in Tucson; My Father’s War; On Present-Mindedness in the Writing of History; Obama Goes Electric; Long and Whining Road; Unmasked & Magnanimous; Double Trouble; Hipsters ‘R Us; From a Notebook; II: First Draft of History IV; The Old Man and the Tsunami; Looking Backward; Whither Iraq (Redux)?; Of Venom and Hope; Libya On My Mind; A Dirty Word; III: The Vanishing American; Workingman’s Blues; Emergency Rooms & Cutting Rooms: What’s Wrong with The Fighter; America by Birth, Rockaway by the Grace of God; It Is Time the Stone Made an Effort to Flower; Norton’s Big Check; Mother Lion; Cosa de Gringos; The Efficient Romance; Hooking Up; Far from Fantasy; Estrellita’s Blackhand Side; Express Yourself; Citizen Jay-Z; A Citizen in Wisconsin; IV: Lives of Learning; Fish and Chips; Mathew Arnold, HMI; A Life of Learning; Charles Olson & Sun Ra; Sphere of Influence; How I Got My EMAIL Name; Clearing the Desk; Beatitudes; Kitten to a Kitten; Puff Peace; Burning Woman; Call It Music; Three Goodbyes; Top Ten; The Yearbook; Savoring the Roots of New York Mambo; A Community-Centered Memory; V: Trips; Passage to Kashmir; Wild Fire in the ’Burbs; Can I Get a Witness?; Mud on the Tracks; Ballad of the Last Hippie Christmas; Coasting; Distance Learning; Purple Power and the Glory; Believers; In Her Time; Massacre of the Innocents; The Shadow Knows; Contributors’ Notes
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Benj DeMott
