Solid Ground - Couverture souple

WritersCorp

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1879960710 ISBN 13 : 9781879960718

Editeur : Aunt Lute Books, 2006

Synopsis

One hundred years after San Francisco's Great Earthquake of 1906, WritersCorps gathers the powerful voices of San Francisco youth reflecting on solidity, violence, upheaval, and regeneration in their lives and in the world. The poems on these pages are a moving story, eloquent, fragile, courageous, and shattering.

Amazing metaphors dance in between the seamless lines and white spaces of these poems, proof once again that young people are natural to poetry, that they are carrying most of the poetry of our time, and that something is amiss when we don't respond poetically as a world, as community, to their dreams, their ideas, their sentiments, and their hopes. Solid Ground is solid work deserving of serious attention. -- Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Always Running and My Nature is Hunger

The tectonic upheavals of adolescence, urban living and adult/civic failures have sparked these fierce and tender poems. Each one articulates its own universe; using words as light to help us scramble across the frightful chasms that exist between all of us. -- Jewelle Gomez, poet

WritersCorps and its bright young poets make San Francisco a city of possibility, where the imagination truly leads us to a more solid future. -- Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco

WritersCorps has found some remarkable voices, as pure and beautiful as any you might find in the most acclaimed journals. As we commemorate the centennial of one of the world's great disasters, let us celebrate another phenomenon for which San Francisco is known: it is the birthplace of great writers. As long as marvelous voices like these continue to emerge, there is hope. -- James Dalessandro, author of 1906 and Canary in a Coal Mine

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Judith Tannenbaum is a writer and teacher who cares very deeply about a vision and practice of art-making that includes all of us. She has received two California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence grants. The first of these allowed her to teach poetry at San Quentin for three years; the second was for a three- year poetry project at the continuation high school in Albany, California, and at one of the town's primary schools. Each of these grant cycles lead to a book, Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin, is a memoir and Teeth, Wiggly as Earthquakes: Writing Poetry in the Primary Grades is a book for teachers. Both books were published in the year 2000. She currently serves as training coordinator for San Francisco's WritersCorps program. Judith edited two books for WritersCorps: Jump Write In!, Creative Writing Exercises for Diverse Communities, Grades 6-12 (Jossey-Bass, 2005) and Solid Ground (Aunt Lute Books, 2006). Judith has a strong commitment to prisoners and prison issues. She wrote and edited California's Arts-in-Corrections' newsletter, their book-length Manual For Artists Working In Prison (available free at her website), and the Handbook for Arts in the Youth Authority Program. She has also completed a feasibility study for arts programming in Minnesota state prisons, taught in prisons across the country, and been a featured speaker at numerous prison arts conferences nationally. Judith writes a great deal about the field of teaching art; many of her essays appear in Teaching Artist Journal. She has published five collections of poems, has recently completed a novel (Day's Light Beginning to Deepen) and has just started another (Life Without). She also has published five small poetry collections.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aunt Lute Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1879960710
• ISBN 13: 9781879960718
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Éditeur: Tannenbaum Judith
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible