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From To Room Nineteen, a study of a controlled middle class marriage grounded in intelligence, to the shocking A Woman on the Roof, where a workman becomes obsessed with a pretty sunbather, this collection of stories bears witness to Doris Lessing's perspective on the human condition.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai—also known as Li Po In his own time (701–762), Li Bai's poems—shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life—were never given their proper due by the official literary gatekeepers. Nonetheless, his lines rang out on the lips of court entertainers, tavern singers, soldiers, and writers throughout the Tang dynasty, and his deep desire for a higher, more perfect world gave rise to his nickname, the Banished Immortal. Today, Bai's verses are still taught to China's schoolchildren and recited at parties and toasts; they remain an inextricable part of the Chinese language. With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the great poet's life story. He follows Bai from his origins on the western frontier to his ramblings travels as a young man, which were filled with filled with striving but also with merry abandon, as he raised cups of wine with friends and fellow poets. Ha Jin also takes us through the poet's later years—in which he became swept up in a military rebellion that altered the course of China's history—and the mysterious circumstances of his death, which are surrounded by legend. The Banished Immortal is an extraordinary portrait of a poet who both transcended his time and was shaped by it, and whose ability to live, love, and mourn without reservation produced some of the most enduring verses.
Out of Now Way, A Poetic Drama, tells the the story of Madam C.J. Walker's rise from poverty to prosperity through the deeply personal lens of an orphan, a wife, a mother, and a black woman who succeeded against all odds. Told via different poetic forms, each chapter addresses an issue relevant to her life at that time. Written against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Out of No Way is ultimately an examination of what W.E.B Dubois called "conflicting identities." Sarah was a proud African American on the one hand and a woman seeking America's acceptance on the other. She was a pauper who achieved the American Dream while denied the rights and protections of the American Constitution. She was a wife, mother, sibling and businesswoman who juggled the demands of family with the demands of career. And she was an orphan who had to transcend a painful childhood in order to be a good mother to her child. As Dubois stated at the time, "One ever feels a two-ness. An American, A Negro...Two warring ideals in one dark body." Indeed Sarah Breedlove/Madam CJ Walker was an American and a Negro, as was her daughter - both of whom likely viewed herself through their own conflicting identities. What did they see?