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I was reared in Okmulgee OK during this time frame. Brought back memories I had completely forgotten. Thank you Mona for this lovely story of the 30s and 40s.
Not only are the stories interesting but they're well written. Williams "I agree with the previous reviewers: Lambert Mona Phipps describes growing up in the state of Oklahoma in the 's and 40's, and the rich family tapestry of being a 12th generation American. From visits to her ancestral home in Kentucky, to working in her father's "great depression" era bakery, from the bloody post civil-war stories told by her grandfather, to the great dust bowl of , the author takes the reader on a touching and heartfelt journey into the experience of growing up amidst the red dirt fields of early 20th century Oklahoma.
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She currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Kindle Edition File Size: Ponca Publishing 4 May Sold by: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a product review. All of which means it was hard to watch. It should go without saying, but: I am horrified that we are seeing these events play out again twenty-freaking-seven years later with Brett Kavanaugh. Like the lawyer she is, she is careful with fact and clear about where she speculates.
She relies on the strengths of her arguments and the truth. I found this careful telling even more moving than the movie.
And a sound shame-on-you for our country still struggling to treat women with respect, like as if we were real human beings , and for punishing and not believing us when we speak up. I hope someday the cases of Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford will cause history students to gasp in disbelief, rather than nodding their heads in recognition of the same old story. Object Lessons is an examination of the conflict Boland has experienced between her self as poet and her self as woman, with the overlay of Irishness on it all.
Not only are the stories interesting but they're well written. Hill, Thomas, and Joe Biden are all played by actors who come remarkably close to their roles not only in physical appearance but in movements, speech patterns, and mannerisms. I reread it recently as part of my first semester reading list see new tag here , many entries to come! Molly Schiot created the Instagram account theunsungheroines to celebrate pioneering female athletes the world has scarcely heard of. She stays in the past tense, but her conclusions, what she sees and what it means to her, stay in character.
She leaves Ireland at age five, to a London that largely rejects her kind, to return to her home country in her teens and to study poetry at Trinity in Dublin, a charged literary atmosphere. It takes some time for this young person, still discovering herself as a woman, a sexual creature, and a person of a nation, not to mention as a poet, to see the holes in the legacy she has inherited: It was not even so much that I was a woman. It was that being a woman, I had entered into a life for which poetry has no name.
Every life depends on them. Over the course of this book, she lays out the problems she found and her own best efforts at solving them, a job she acknowledges is unfinished.
But she hopes that a book like this helps future women poets, by giving them a starting point, something else to point to. Heartbreakingly, by contrast, she relates that the first woman poet she knew of as a young woman was Sylvia Plath, and that name she knew first as a suicide, not a poet at all. I was also very interested in the way this memoir started: The narrator explores the history, the meager records of the woman; she imagines; and she travels to view a grave and a hospital. Boland has plenty of good thoughts about place, sense of place, and nation as aspect of our selves and our writing selves.
She makes much of the Irish poetic tradition to conflate the feminine and the national. I reread it recently as part of my first semester reading list see new tag here , many entries to come! I loved this book again. So, a great story. How does she do it?
But here are some things I see:. This is just the beginning of what I have to learn from Kimmel. This photographic survey of trailblazing female athletes through history celebrates a diverse range of inspirational talents. Molly Schiot created the Instagram account theunsungheroines to celebrate pioneering female athletes the world has scarcely heard of.
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