Book by
Jeannette Drake
Journey Within: A Healing
Playbook
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Poem for Rudy
By Jeannette Drake
The limp
be
the music
the bunions
that still
ache
the heart
with gas
that burns
etches names
we thought
we'd long forgot
faces we never
want to see
whispers torn
from screams singe
free speeches
in our brain
befo' I'll be a slave
lay me down
to sleep rock me
in the bosom of Abraham
in that great gettin' up
mornin' I'm gonna shout
all over God's heaven
listen to the lambs
a cryin'
a cryin'
a cryin'
all a cryin'
the limp
be
the music.
posted 13 February 2005 |
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Jeannette Drake, a licensed clinical
social worker, specializes in Dream and Expressive work in
group settings. She has conducted individual and group
sessions with adults, adolescents and children in schools,
colleges, hospitals, prisons, churches, shelters, and art
galleries as case worker, counselor, psychotherapist, teacher,
tutor, and writer.
Her writings have been published in Honey
Hush! An Anthology of African American Writer's Humor, Callaloo:
A Journal of African American Arts & Letters, The
Southern Review, New Virginia Review, The Book
of Hope & The World Healing Books, The Sun: A
Magazine of Ideas, Richmond Free Press, Coloring
Book: An Eclectic Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by
Multicultural Writers, DisabilityWorld, a
bilingual international web-zine and other journals and
magazines. |
She has performed as a gospel soloist,
acted in James Baldwin's The Amen Corner and leads a
monthly book discussion and creative writing group at her
church.
Her visual art has been exhibited at
Richmond City Hall, the Carillon at Byrd Park and the Richmond
Public Library (July 1-August 3, 2005).
A graduate of Hampton University and
Virginia Commonwealth University, she lives in Richmond.
May 2005
Journey Within: A Healing
Playbook
By Jeannette Drake
Journey Within: A Healing Playbook
is a fun tool for anyone interested in personal growth,
learning how to be more creative or gaining a deeper insight
into The Divine. Section One includes 13 original color
abstracts that invite the viewer to intentionally go on a
playful, inner journey. An optional guide of play instructions
is included.
In Section Two the author's
spiritual autobiography provides an inspirational explanation
for each drawing.
This Book Is for Someone
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Promise:
Inspirational
Fantasies
By
Jeannette
Drake
In
Promise:
Inspirational
Fantasies, reminiscent
of
Neale
Donald
Walsch's
Conversations
with
God:
An
Uncommon
Dialogue
and
Anne
Lamott's
playful
perspectives
in
Traveling
Mercies:
Some
Thoughts
on
Faith,
Jeannette
Drake approaches
God
with
sass
and
sadness. Her
dialogues
and
vignettes,
often
fantastical
and
humorous,
reflect
wisdom,
faith,
and
intimacy
with
God.
An
appendix
of
questions,
designed
to
help
one
meditate
on
the
concepts
of
prayer,
faith
and
relationship
with
God,
is
included.
Certain
to
delight,
inspire
and
engage
the
curiosity
of
readers,
this
provocative
book
is a
must-read! |
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.—WashingtonPost |
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Becoming American Under Fire
Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship
During the Civil War Era
By Christian G. Samito
In Becoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African American and Irish American soldiers influenced the modern vision of national citizenship that developed during the Civil War era. By bearing arms for the Union, African Americans and Irish Americans exhibited their loyalty to the United States and their capacity to act as citizens; they strengthened their American identity in the process. . . . For African American soldiers, proving manhood in combat was only one aspect to their quest for acceptance as citizens. As Samito reveals, by participating in courts-martial and protesting against unequal treatment, African Americans gained access to legal and political processes from which they had previously been excluded. The experience of African Americans in the military helped shape a postwar political movement that successfully called for rights and protections regardless of race. For Irish Americans, soldiering in the Civil War was part of a larger affirmation of republican government and it forged a bond between their American citizenship and their Irish nationalism. The wartime experiences of Irish Americans helped bring about recognition of their full citizenship through naturalization and also caused the United States to pressure Britain to abandon its centuries-old policy of refusing to recognize the naturalization of British subjects abroad. / For Love of Liberty |
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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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