Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems
9 best books like Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems (June Jordan): The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, All About Love: New Visions, The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life, An Unknown Woman, Art Is a Way of Knowing, My Brother, The Dangerous Old Woman, Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
| Author | Michelle Alexander |
| ISBN | 1595581030 |
"Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot...
All About Love: New Visions
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0688168442 |
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood....
| Author | Thomas Moore |
| ISBN | 0060928247 |
Starting from the premise that we can no longer afford to live in a disenchanted world, Moore shows that a profound, enchanted engagement with life is not a childish thing to be put away with adulthood, but a necessity for one's personal and collective survival. With his lens focused on specific aspects...
| Author | Alice Koller |
| ISBN | 0553354825 |
"I walk: desk to couch, couch to table, table to fireside chair, chair to stove, stove to refrigerator, and there I lean, crying... Why am I here? There's no place else to be. What am I doing here? I don't really know. What am I trying to do here? To find some way to live."This is the true story of a courageous...
| Author | Pat B. Allen |
| ISBN | 1570620784 |
Making art—giving form to the images that arise in our mind's eye, our dreams, and our everyday lives—is a form of spiritual practice through which knowledge of ourselves can ripen into wisdom. This book offers encouragement for everyone to explore art making in this spirit of self-discovery—plus...
| Author | Jamaica Kincaid |
| ISBN | 0374525625 |
Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes...
| Author | Clarissa Pinkola Estés |
| ISBN | 0712672133 |
Dr. Estés asks, "Did you know, you were born as the first, and the last and the best and the only one of your kind, and that eccentricity is the first sign of giftedness? These are two of the crone truths I have to offer you." If you have any doubt, come join us at the fireside of The Dangerous Old Woman for the...
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
| Author | Alfie Kohn |
| ISBN | 0395710901 |
The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way we train the family pet. Drawing on a wealth of psychological...
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
| Author | Eli Clare |
| ISBN | 0822362872 |
In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort,...
