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It’s the most revealing glimpse of Jean-Michel Basquiat I know of – he, the product of Haitian and Puerto Rican parentage who all-too-briefly stalked this earth, crashing the white world of the white cube, only to be toasted with champagne like an over-performing circus animal.Īn idiosyncratic collaboration between the poet Jennifer Clement and Mallouk, a Palestinian-Canadian ingenue and Basquiat’s first great love, Widow reads and feels like a prose poem. Widow Basquiat (2000) is an irreverent animal, a hybrid text, at once a collage and an opera. They’re two wounded souls moving through the gentrifying streets of downtown New York in the company of hobos and bohemians and hungry art dealers named Anina, Mary, Larry. So is her sinewy, coke-addled lover, Jean-Michel. Even before her father threw her down the stairs, she was bathing in it. ‘If you’d never hit me, I wouldn’t know my skeleton.’ Suzanne Mallouk knows that the other side of eros is pathos. Jean-Michel Basquiat with Suzanne Mallouk, 1981. Part of frieze magazine’s 200th issue. Lowell, “Thé Exile’s Return,” Lord Wearÿ s Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs (New York: Meridian Books/Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961 ), p. Jerome Mazzaro, The Poetic Themes of Robert Lowell ( Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1965 ), p. 95.Īllen Tate, “Introduction” to Lowell, Land of Unlikeness (Cummington, Mass.: The Cummington Press, 1944), n.p. 14.Īllen Tate, “Ode to Our Young Proconsuls of the Air,” The Swimmers and Other Selected Poems ( New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970 ), P. 33.Īlan Williamson, Pity the Monsters: The Political Vision of Robert Lowell ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974 ), P. Valéry quoted by Stephen Yenser in Circle to Circle: The Poetry of Robert Lowell (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), p. Lowell, “Charles River,” Notebook (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970 ), p. Michael London and Robert Boyers (New York: David Lewis, 1970),p. 11–46.įrederick Seidel, “An Interview with Robert Lowell” in Robert Lowell: A Portrait of the Artist in His Time, ed. Robert Lowell, “91 Revere Street,” Life Studies (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959 ), pp. Jung Chang, their daughter, was raised in the privileged circles of China’s Communist elite, but was to take the unimaginable step of questioning Mao himself. Following the Communist victory in 1949 she and her husband became senior officials. That daughter grew up to become active in the Communist movement during the civil war against the Kuomintang. As the general lay dying, she fled with her infant daughter. Jung Chang’s grandmother’s feet were bound as a child, and she was given to a warlord general as a concubine. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family – grandmother, mother and daughter – Jung Chang reveals the whole tragic history of China’s twentieth century. Since its first publication it has been published in 37 languages and sold more than 13 million copies (while still banned in mainland China). Few books have ever had such an impact as Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. Meanwhile, she is slighted by her husband Odysseus and harassed by suitors while he is away-hardly the perfect picture of her constancy that we see in Homer's version of the tale. She navigates the obstacles that life gives her with poise and intelligence. As Atwood writes in the introduction to the novel, The Penelopiad deconstructs history's vision of Penelope: "In The Odyssey, Penelope-daughter of Icarius of Sparta, and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy-is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, a woman known for her intelligence and constancy." In The Penelopiad, Penelope is snarky, brave, witty, and powerful. While she is a famous figure throughout Western history for her constancy and patience, we see a different side of Penelope in The Penelopiad, which paints her as a three-dimensional figure. In the novel, Penelope tells her life story, including her version of the events discussed in The Odyssey. it tells the story of Penelope, Odysseus's wife in Homer's The Oddysey. Margaret Atwood's novel The Penelopiadwas published in 2005. The expedition is in enough trouble without this hostile being’s attention. The initial scene immediately introduces the novel’s main supernatural element: a giant bear-like entity (the crew call it the thing) that preys on the explorers and appears invulnerable to their weapons. The author jumbles the chronological sequence, beginning in October 1847 with Terror (one of the expedition’s two ships the other was Erebus) trapped in the ice north of Canada, where they have come in search of the Northwest Passage. Simmons ( Olympos, 2005, etc.) tells the story through the eyes of several characters, including the expedition’s leader, Sir John Franklin, co-commander Captain Francis Crozier and the ship’s surgeon Harry Goodsir. Horror novel based on an ill-fated 19th-century polar expedition. Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds, plenty of stationery, and a passion for gardening to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker5. The Gardener is a 1997 New York Times Book Review Notable Childrens Book of the Year and a 1998 Caldecott Honor Book. By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library. Colored by a Depression-era setting, The Gardener introduces readers to a winsome young heroine, whose generosity will reward all who meet her. Sarah Stewart, David Small (Illustrator) Illustrations by David Small, who won the Caldecott award for illustrations for this.
"Untamed has started a movement" (Barnes & Noble), selling over one million copies in fewer than 20 weeks, and is required reading with "the power to set us up to get through this period of quarantine" (Nicole Richie). Glennon Doyle, "patron saint of female empowerment" (People) published her Blockbuster #1 Bestseller Untamed precisely when we needed it most. She lives in Florida with her wife and three children. An activist and "patron saint of female empowerment" (People), Glennon is the founder and president of Together Rising, an all-women led nonprofit organization that has revolutionized grassroots philanthropy - raising over $25 million for women, families, and children in crisis. She's also the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior, an Oprah's Book Club selection, and Carry On, Warrior. Glennon Doyle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed, a Reese's Book Club selection, which has sold over one million copies in fewer than 20 weeks, and "started a movement" (Barnes & Noble). Author, Activist, Founder of Together Rising With guidance from a wizened Russian grandmaster and his old school Soviet tactics, Moses and friends recognize the value in strong friendships-how loyalty blossoms, how it can solidify them as a united, butt-kicking team. In the most diverse neighborhood in New York City, chess intersects with classism, as Moses and his team of vibrant friends square off across their boards against a privileged school of rich kids. Smart, witty banter with a socially-aware Gen Z voice, the novel is fun, vivid at every turn. PUSHING PAWNS is an absolute powerhouse of a YA novel from start to finish. But real-life drama threatens the existence of their newly tight-knit Furious Five-can their friendships and teamwork see them through to the endgame when the stakes are so high? The change is swift and successful, like one of Moses’ clever moves in the heat of a difficult match. Fearing their impending split, he employs a Russian grandmaster to coach their comeback revenge tour with Soviet chess strategy against a preppy school of rich kids. After a scholastic chess tournament goes sideways for Moses Middleton and his disjointed team, his aspirations for greatness are nearly dashed. DuPuis worked for 10 years with Power Economics as a member of a consulting firm management team that provided economics witnesses in energy and environmental administrative and judicial procedures, including testimony against Enron. Prior to coming to Pace, DuPuis held academic and administration positions at the University of California, Washington Center, in Washington, DC, and University of California in Santa Cruz, CA. She was a founding member of the Farm and Food Project, a food policy group in the New York Capital Region. DuPuis has been involved in environmental, energy, and sustainable food policy issues and organizations since the 1990s. She is also the co-editor, with Matthew Garcia and Don Mitchell, of Food Across Borders.ĭr. Her latest book, Dangerous Digestion: The Politics of American Dietary Advice, was published by UC Press in October of 2015. She is the author of Nature’s Perfect Food: How Milk Became America’s Drink, the co-author of Alternative Food Politics: Knowledge, Practice, and Politics, with David and Mike Goodman, and the editor of two edited collections: Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution and Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and Environmental Discourse. She has a BA in anthropology from Harvard University and a PhD in development sociology from Cornell University. Melanie DuPuis is a professor and the chair of Environmental Studies and Science at Pace University and a professor emerita from University of California, Santa Cruz. |