Poetry Collections by Gillian Conoley
Woman Speaking Inside Film Noir
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Some Gangster Pain
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Tall Stranger
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Beckon /
Lovers in the Used World /
Profane Halo
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Suddenly the Graves
By Gillian Conoley
I would never say anything against
the dead.
I would drop my clothes to them
and say yes, see how the sun
won't leave me alone
what we cover. my neighborhood
is startling luminous.
Yesterday yellow tanks
steamshovelled
for the underworld. Otters dove
to sleek back their hair.
On the bench a man old as dirt
sat over his death
while teenagers, their hair
lit with color, chased the greased
and iridescent ducks.
There is no peace in my mind
anywhere.
If I nap in this light my
grandparents rise
and mix their dominoes, their
hands
rinsed of sun but bone-pure.
What if I left with them,
and shed my body? Would I
hear a single, melodious siren
singing the power,
the glory? Or would I
live on, as the earth continues.
With that singing in me.
Source: Some Gangster Pain (1987) |
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the Jerome J. Shestack Award from The American Poetry Review—is Poet-in-Residence and Associate Professor at Sonoma State
University, where she is the founder and editor of Volt
magazine. Conoley is the author of four poetry
collections, including the highly praised Some Gangster
Pain and Tall Stranger.
Conoley's poetry has appeared in the American
Poetry Review, the Kenyon Review, Ironwood, Zyzzyva,
Ploughshares, the Denver Quarterly, the Missouri Review and
other publications.
Her honors and awards include four Pushcart
Prize publications, the Academy of American Poets Award, a
fellowship from the Washington State Arts Commission, residency at
the MacDowell Colony and a grant from Northwest Institute for
Advanced Study.
Conoley's work has been anthologized in
"Best American Poetry," "Poets of the
Northwest," "The Carnegie-Mellon Anthology of
Poetry," "American Poetry Annual" and "Jazz
Poetry Anthology."
Conoley has taught literature and poetry at several
universities. She also has worked as a curator, a literary
editor and a professional journalist. The
American Book Review says of Conoley's poetry: "Even
above the powerfully inventive language and clear,
compressed style is a poetic vision that seems utterly
transforming. These are poems born of Flannery O'Connor's
short stories, with their oddball grace, their undeniable
redemption. Combined with Gillian Conoley's dark humor are
an eye for detail and a sensibility that are mysteriously
compelling. Her characters discover the power of the
transforming image and in so doing create an inner life that
is rich, surprising, transcendent. It is this odd
hopefulness, this recourse to the imagination which
transforms the landscape of ordinary lives and longing into
something rare, mysterious, and dangerous that are Conoley's
special talent."
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
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Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
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update 22
November 2011
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