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Featuring 25 drawings in charcoal, conte crayons, and pastels, this
handbook pairs portraits of people who live and work along the
U.S.-Mexico border with bilingual poems that have been inspired by
each of the drawings. A testimony to the people of the Rio Grande
Valley, these drawings and poems capture their spirit, their quest
for happiness, and their struggles to overcome economic hardship.
This remarkable book highlights characters such as the "young
street musician," the "six-year-old street vendor," and the "wise
woman with rings." Compassionate and aesthetically compelling, this
record raises awareness about social and cultural issues associated
with border life, such as education, literacy, and poverty, and
fosters cross-cultural understanding.
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Unexpected Guests (Paperback)
Steven P. Schneider; Created by 1stworld Publishing; Edited by 1stworld Library
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R435
Discovery Miles 4 350
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Steven Schneider is an extraordinary poet. Each of the poems in
this collection is crafted with inspiration, dedication and a skill
that exemplifies the best of contemporary poetry. Unexpected Guests
is a powerful and beautifully written book that explores the
meaning of faith, remembrance and creativity. -Marjorie Agosin,
author of Dear Anne Frank and Always from Somewhere Else Is it any
coincidence that in Unexpected Guests Steven Schneider-whose
surname means "tailor"-dresses his poems to fit a variety of roles:
husband, father, historian, traveler, spiritual seeker, aesthete,
lover of the natural world? Wherever he wanders-be it Nebraska
prairie, Texas-Mexico border, or Biblical times-he relates his
desire to be rooted, truly at home, employing a voice that's
plain-spoken and calm, a welcoming voice that gets out of the way
of its subjects, so as to ease our way into them. -Thomas
Centolella, author of Terra Firma and Lights and Mysteries Steven
Schneider's poetry is deeply informed by Jewish philosophy, history
and art and is also deeply multicultural as his speaker interacts
and learns from a wide range of representatives from other
cultures. Through the cultural cross-currents and Biblical
resonances, he writes poetry that encompasses ancient and modern
history and culture in a deeply personal idiom. In one poem, the
author has a chance meeting on the prairie with a group of Hasidic
Jews. In another, he whimsically connects his experience of
Nebraska to ultra-urbane stylings of Frank O'Hara. It is an
outstanding collection of poetry, one that readers will both learn
from and enjoy. -Daniel Morris, author of Bryce Passage and
Remarkable Modernisms Unexpected Guests is a collection of poems
notable for the quiet intensity of its language as well as its
sweeping engagement with place and history. I am deeply engaged by
the voice throughout this collection, at once playful and serious,
attuned to the world and its occasions of wonder and loss, as well
as to Schneider's desire for something more enduring than the
world's ephemera. Unexpected Guests is full of clear, urgent poems,
sensitive to the threats of violence and terror that characterize
our times as well as an abiding sense of wonder at the ordinary
miracles in the natural world. -Daniel Tobin, author of The Narrows
and Where the World Is Made
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