Charles Harvey
Americana
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Read a Poem a Day! Introduction to AmericanaPoems can be reflective or reactionary. In a reflective mood, the poet comments on past events. Our voices may be calm, wistful, and longing. We are preservers of the moment. When poets put on their reactionary mantle, they are more vocal and want to move themselves and others to action. This boasts the reflective voice and the force of the reactionary. Viewing the Vietnam War, race relations, and the cultural renaissance of the 1960's and 1970's through the prism of a child's eye shaped Harvey's views and points of view. The poets Allen Ginsburg, Amiri Baraka, Langston Hughes, and Ai shaped his voi…
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Read a Poem a Day! Introduction to AmericanaPoems can be reflective or reactionary. In a reflective mood, the poet comments on past events. Our voices may be calm, wistful, and longing. We are preservers of the moment. When poets put on their reactionary mantle, they are more vocal and want to move themselves and others to action. This boasts the reflective voice and the force of the reactionary. Viewing the Vietnam War, race relations, and the cultural renaissance of the 1960's and 1970's through the prism of a child's eye shaped Harvey's views and points of view. The poets Allen Ginsburg, Amiri Baraka, Langston Hughes, and Ai shaped his voice. Two new pieces have been added to bring Americana closer to current events. However, the truth is always right on time. Excerpt: New York!Herds of humanity Graze on street corner slop and ride in the belliesOf silver worms beneath city guttersStreet people are ragged and unfashionably stinky.Everyone else is fashionably ragged.Andy sells me a beaded sweateroff an old lady's dead shoulders.A roguish Puerto Rican painter copiesA Robert Colescott painting as his own black creation.Got all dressed up to go to the theatre in Harlem.Got there stinky and hot--Harlem,Who bombed it?Noise all night long in Brooklyn.No ugly people live in New YorkEveryone is Cafe' au lait. Tall boy with five-inch hairSits wide-legged on the sub in baggy trousers.His throat is stiff with defiance, But his darkEyes linger in mine for a moment.Everything is for sale in New YorkEven a hug from daddy long legs.*****Other Notable poetry volumes by the author: The Last Supper3AM: Poems and Stories From the Other MindBark Too
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5163-6021-5
- EAN: 9781516360215
- Produktnummer: 31421885
- Verlag: Wes Writers and Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Charles W. Harvey is a native Houstonian and a graduate of the University of Houston. At UofH he studied fiction under the guidance of Rosellen Brown and Chitra Divakaruni. In 1987, Charles was a 1st place prize recipient of PEN/Discovery for his short story Cheeseburger, which went on to be published in the Ontario Review. In 1989 Charles Harvey was awarded the Cultural Arts Council of Houston Grant for Writers and Artists. Also in 1989 he was a finalist in the MacDonald's Literary Achievement Awards. Charles has been published in Soulfires, Story Magazine SHADE, High Infidelity, The James White Review, and others. He is the author of the novels The Butterfly Killer, The Road to Astroworld, and Boy For Hire. He is also the author of several story and poetry collections.
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