[PDF] Year Of Blue Water eBook

Author : Yanyi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300242646

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Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize How can a search for self‑knowledge reveal art as a site of community? Yanyi’s arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective. Between the contrast of high lyric and direct prose poems, Yanyi invites the reader to consider how to speak with multiple identities through trauma, transition, and ordinary life. These poems constitute an artifact of a groundbreaking and original author whose work reflects a long journey self‑guided through tarot, therapy, and the arts. Foregrounding the power of friendship, Yanyi’s poems converse with friends as much as with artists both living and dead, from Agnes Martin to Maggie Nelson to Robin Coste Lewis. This instructive collection gives voice to the multifaceted humanity within all of us and inspires attention, clarity, and hope through art-making and community.

Author : Michael Dorris
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2003-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312421854

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Follows three generations of Indian women beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably bound together by kinship.

Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1400034582

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In Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts, acclaimed journalist Robert D. Kaplan continues his exploration of the American military's challenging and varied commitments around the world. From protecting sea lanes, to providing disaster relief, to preparing for potential military confrontation with North Korea and Iran, Kaplan describes the astonishing, vital, and often unacknowledged operations regularly performed by American military personnel in the air, at sea, and on the ground. Vivid and illuminating, this book takes us deep into the highly technical and exotic cultures of the armed forces, telling soldiers' stories from the perspective of the troops on the ground.

Author : Yanyi
Publisher : One World
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 059323099X

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From an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity. FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY • “Written with great tenderness and intimacy, Dream of the Divided Field reveals what we do (and do not) owe to others, and what we owe to ourselves.”—Poets & Writers The poems in Yanyi’s latest book suggest that we enter and exit our old selves like homes. We look through the windows and recognize some former aspect of our lives that is both ours and not ours. We long for what we had even as we recognize that we can no longer live there. Yanyi conjures the beloved both within and without us: the beloved we believe we know, the beloved who is never the person we imagine, and the beloved who threatens to erase us even as we stand before them. How can we carry our homes with us? Informed by Yanyi’s experiences of immigration, violent heartbreak, and a bodily transition, Dream of the Divided Field explores the contradictions that accompany shifts from one state of being to another. In tender, serene, and ethereal poems, Dream of the Divided Field examines a body breaking down and a body that rebuilds in limitless and boundary-shifting ways. These are homes in memory—homes of love and isolation, lust and alienation, tenderness and violence, suffering and wonder.

Author : Wallace J. Nichols
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0316252077

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A landmark book by marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols on the remarkable effects of water on our health and well-being. Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In BLUE MIND, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water. Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with compelling personal stories from top athletes, leading scientists, military veterans, and gifted artists, he shows how proximity to water can improve performance, increase calm, diminish anxiety, and increase professional success. BLUE MIND not only illustrates the crucial importance of our connection to water-it provides a paradigm shifting "blueprint" for a better life on this Blue Marble we call home.

Author : James M. Volo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742561205

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"The purpose of this book is to document the naval operations that took place during the American Revolution. These can be divided into two parts: those that took place before the French intervention of 1778, and those that took place thereafter"--Introduction

Author : Kate Coombs
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 081187284X

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Collection of poems about the sea, accompanied by watercolors by the artist Meilo So.

Author : Maude Barlow
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1595589481

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Water is a human right: “A rousing case for what will be one of the key environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.” —Booklist The United Nations has recognized access to water as a basic human right—but there is still much work to be done to stem this growing environmental crisis. In this book, water activist Maude Barlow draws on her extensive experience to lay out a set of key principles that show the way forward to what she calls a “water-secure and water-just world.” Not only does she reveal the powerful players even now impeding the recognition of the human right to water, she argues that water must not become a commodity to be bought and sold on the open market. Focusing on solutions, she includes stories of struggle and resistance from marginalized communities, as well as government policies that work for both people and the planet. At a time when climate change has moved to the top of the national agenda and the stage is being set for unprecedented drought, mass starvation, and the migration of millions of refugees in search of water, Blue Future is an urgent call to preserve our most valuable resource for generations to come. “In a book as clear as a pristine mountain stream, Maude Barlow lays out a practical and inspiring vision for how we can defend water—the source of all life—from the forces of death.” —Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine

Author : Shelley Birse
Publisher : Pan Australia
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780330423663

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Based on the television series "Blue Water High"--The story of twelve months at the academy seen through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Fly Watson, whose is passionate about surfing.

Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1101599286

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series tells the true story of his journey sailing alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this self-proclaimed novice go from small ponds to the big sea? Now with a new afterword that looks back at how one transatlantic race changed his life, Woods takes readers on a spectacular journey—not just of traveling across the world, but of being tried in fire, learning by accepting challenges, appreciating the beauty of the open water, and living to tell about it.