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Free Download Waiting to Be Arrested at Night : A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide
by Tahir Hamut Izgil and Joshua L. Freeman
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0593491793 | 272 Pages | True ePUB | 1.07 MB

Free Download Jacqueline Mulhallen, "Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary (Revolutionary Lives)"
English | 2015 | pages: 193 | ISBN: 074533461X, 0745334628 | PDF | 9,0 mb
Today, Percy Bysshe Shelley is an emblem of the Romantic movement and one of the lights of English culture-his poems memorized by schoolchildren, his life honored with a memorial in Westminster Abbey’s Poets’ Corner. That wasn’t always the case, however. In his own day, Shelley was widely loathed, seen as an immoral atheist and a traitor to his class for his revolutionary politics. His work was damned as well, receiving scathing reviews rooted as much in disapproval of his politics and personal life as in the verse itself. That’s the Shelley that Jacqueline Mulhallen brings to life in this accessible, political biography: the Shelley who, though writing when the working class was in its infancy, clearly grasped-and wanted to change-the system of oppression under which laborers and women lived. The revolutionary Shelley, Mulhallen shows, has long served as an inspiration to figures from Karl Marx to W. B. Yeats to the poets and writers of today, and for popular movements like the Chartists and the suffragettes, even as his public image and poetry became part of the establishment.

Free Download Sean Qualls, "The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano"
English | 2011 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 0312659288, 0805077065 | EPUB | 1,5 mb
A lyrical biography of a Cuban slave who escaped to become a celebrated poet, from Newbury Honor author Margarita Engle.

Free Download Victor Kiernan, Michael Wood, "Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen"
English | 2016 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 1783606711, 1783607343 | EPUB | 1,1 mb
‘This book rests on a lifetime’s thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in "a more realistic light".’

Free Download Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BP57FCLX | 2023 | 7 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 224 MB
Author: Tahir Hamut Izgil
Narrator: Greg Watanabe
A poet’s account of one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family’s escape from genocide. One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil’s friends disappeared. The Chinese government’s brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century, amplified by China’s establishment of an all-seeing high-tech surveillance state. Over a million people have vanished into China’s internment camps for Muslim minorities. Tahir, a prominent poet and intellectual, had been no stranger to persecution.

Free Download Whitman in Washington: Becoming the National Poet in the Federal City by Kenneth M. Price
English | December 2, 2020 | ISBN: 0198840934, 0198889526 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 4.9 MB
During Walt Whitman’s decade in Washington, DC, 1863-1873, he labored intensely, at times seeming to have three lives at once. He wrote the most distinguished journalism of his career; came into his own as a writer of letters; crafted memorable Civil War poetry, Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps and later folded it into heavily revised and expanded versions of Leaves of Grass; and produced his searching but also flawed critique of American culture, Democratic Vistas. Whitman’s work through the first three editions of Leaves often receives the highest praise, yet his writing in the Washington years is exceptional, too, by any reckoning-and is all the more remarkable given that he also cared for thousands of wounded and sick soldiers in Washington hospitals, serving as an attentive visitor. In addition, he served as a government clerk in various positions, most notably in the attorney general’s office when much was accomplished on the road toward a multi-racial democracy including efforts to suppress the Ku Klux Klan, and much was also missed (both by the attorney general’s office and by Whitman) in the efforts to advance a more just and vibrant union.

Free Download Schiller: National Poet-Poet of Nations: A Birmingham Symposium By Martin, Nicholas
2006 | 341 Pages | ISBN: 9042020032 | PDF | 2 MB
To mark the 200th anniversary of Schiller s death, leading scholars from Germany, Canada, the UK and the USA have contributed to this volume of commemorative essays. These were first presented at a symposium held at the University of Birmingham in June 2005. The essays collected here shed important new light on Schiller s standing as a national and transnational figure, both in his own lifetime and in the two hundred years since his death. Issues explored include: aspects of Schiller s life and work which contributed to the creation of heroic and nationalist myths of the poet during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; his activities as man of the theatre and publisher in his own, pre-national context; the (trans-)national dimensions of Schiller s poetic and dramatic achievement in their contemporary context and with reference to later appropriations of national(ist) elements in his work. The contributions to this volume illuminate Schiller s achievements as poet, playwright, thinker and historian, and bring acute insights to bear on both the history of his impact in a variety of contexts and his enduring importance as a point of cultural reference."

Free Download Edward Hirsch, "Poet’s Choice"
English | 2006 | pages: 448 | ISBN: 0156032678, 015101356X | PDF | 8,6 mb
Edward Hirsch began writing a column in the Washington Post Book World called "Poet’s Choice" in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry; Poet’s Choice includes the work of more than 130 poets-from Asia and the Middle East to Europe and America, from ancient times to the present-and demonstrates how poetry responds to the challenges of our modern world. Rich, relevant, and inviting, the book reveals how poetry both puts us in touch with ourselves and connects us to each other.

Free Download James Whitcomb Riley: Young Poet By Mitchell, Minnie Belle;Dunham, Montrew;Morrison, Cathy(Illustrations)
2002 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 1882859103 | PDF | 3 MB
Active and restless, "Bud" Riley, the boy who would grow to be one of the 19th century’s most popular and respected poets, had a hard time sitting still in school-unless he was drawing or writing the "poems he heard in his head." Fine illustrations and text rich with history draw young readers into James Whitcomb Riley’s world on the edge of the Midwestern wilderness. Children fully experience Riley’s lively youth, from learning to swim (nearly drowning in the process) to acting as ringmaster in his own circus, complete with animal acts, music, and acrobats. Fun facts about James Whitcomb Riley provide children with a preview of the poet’s adult accomplishments and little-known facts about the man greatly admired by novelist Mark Twain and President Benjamin Harrison.

Free Download Dominic Hibberd, "Harold Monro: Poet of the New Age"
English | 2001 | pages: 313 | ISBN: 0312224214, 0333779347 | PDF | 1,5 mb
No one did more than Monro (1879-1932) for the development of 20th-century poetry, says Hibberd, but his reward has been near oblivion. He presents a biography of the London poet, publisher, and book seller, who published a manifesto, Before Dawn , in 1911 that advocated sexual fulfillment, personal and artistic freedom, and a wonderful future shaped by poets. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)