Author: Adrienne Rich File Type: epub Relationships—partingsreconciliations, solidaritiesruptures, trustbetrayal, exposurewithdrawal—are the deep fabric of this forceful work.In the intimate address of Axel Avákar, the black humor of Quarto, and the underground journey of Powers of Recuperation, compressed lyrics flash among larger scenarios where images, dialogues, blues, and song spiral into political visions. Adrienne Rich has said, I believe almost everything I know, have come to understand, is somewhere in this book.brbrfrom Ballade of the Povertiesbr Theres the poverty of wages wired for the funeral youbr Cant get to the poverty of bodies lying unburiedbr Theres the poverty of labor offered silently on the curbbr The poverty of yard sale scrapings spreadbr And rejected the poverty of eviction, wedding bed out on streetbr Prince let me tell you who will never learn through wordsbr There are poverties and there are poverties.

Author: Howard Brick File Type: pdf Transcending Capitalism explains why many influential midcentury American social theorists came to believe it was no longer meaningful to describe modern Western society as capitalist, but instead preferred alternative terms such as postcapitalist, postindustrial, or technological. Considering the discussion today of capitalism and its global triumph, it is important to understand why a prior generation of social theorists imagined the future of advanced societies not in a fixed capitalist form but in some course of development leading beyond capitalism. Howard Brick locates this postcapitalist vision within a long history of social theory and ideology. He challenges the common view that American thought and culture utterly succumbed in the 1940s to a conservative cold war consensus that put aside the reform ideology and social theory of the early twentieth century. Rather, expectations of the shift to a new social economy persisted and cannot be disregarded as one of the elements contributing to the revival of dissenting thought and practice in the 1960s. Rooted in a politics of social liberalism, this vision held influence for roughly a half century, from its interwar origins until the right turn in American political culture during the 1970s and 1980s. In offering a historically based understanding of American postcapitalist thought, Brick also presents some current possibilities for reinvigorating critical social thought that explores transitional developments beyond capitalism. **

Author: Merle Miller File Type: mobi Originally published in 1971, Merle Millers On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States. Just two years after the Stonewall riots, Miller wrote a poignant essay for the New York Times Magazine entitled What It Means To Be a Homosexual in response to a homophobic article published in Harpers Magazine. Described as the most widely read and discussed essay of the decade, the article was developed into the remarkable short book On Being Different - one of the earliest memoirs to affirm the importance of coming out. Merle Miller (1919-1986) was an editor at Harpers Magazine, Time and The Nation and was the bestselling author of several books, including the novel A Gay and Melancholy Sound and Plain Speaking, a biography of Harry S Truman. Dan Savage is the internationally syndicated columnist of Savage Love and the author of several books. Charles Kaiser is an author, journalist and blogger. His books include 1968...

Author: Alfonso Rey File Type: pdf Francisco de Quevedo (Madrid, 1580-1645) was well known for his rich and dynamic style, achieved through an ingenious and complex manipulation of language. Yet he was also a consistent and systematic thinker, with moral philosophy, broadly understood, lying at the core of his numerous and varied works. Quevedo lived in an age of transition, with the Humanist tradition on the wane, and his writing expresses the characteristic uncertainty of a moment of cultural transition. In this book Alfonso Rey surveys Quevedos ideas in such diverse fields as ethics, politics, religion and literature, ideas which hitherto have received little attention. New information is also provided towards a reconstruction of the cultural evolution of Europe in the years prior to the Enlightenment, and thus the scope of the book extends beyond that of Spanish literature. **