![]() She told me that my sweet kisses could make any problem in the world just that little bit easier. I rubbed it between my hands and kissed her on her cheek to make her feel better. She took my small hand in hers and I jumped at how cold it felt. She made me laugh as she scurried out every morning still wearing her pink rollers in her grey hair and her purple house apron. I knew it was to hide the smell of her cigarettes that she sneaked out into the alley to smoke. I dropped my pink rucksack on the floor, walked over, and jumped up onto her lap. Sit on my lap,” she said, waving for me to come to her, placing the picture frame on the red-carpeted floor. ![]() Grandma said Mammy will see me doing that from heaven. I still make sure to kiss her picture beside my bed every night, though. Mammy died when I was born, and Grandma and Daddy just get upset whenever I ask about her, so I don’t ask anything anymore. I loved my grandma so much.Īs I walked closer, I noticed she was holding an old picture of Mammy. ![]() My grandma had the kindest smile that I’d ever seen she could light up the room with just one grin. My grandma lifted her head and smiled a sad smile. He was always in the pub since the scary lady that was sometimes on the television shut down the mines the year I was born and my daddy got sad. I moved forward and looked around the room. My grandma was in the front room of our small house, sitting on her old brown armchair with her head in her hands. ![]()
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Her novels have won 13 of the Golden Crown Literary Society's Goldie Awards, including six awards for romance, two Ann Bannon Popular Choice awards, two awards for non-erotic short story collections, and two awards for erotica.īeers has lived in Rochester, New York her entire life and currently has a miniature Australian Shepherd, Finley. Her novel Fresh Tracks won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance. Georgia Beers is the author of nine novels of lesbian romance, one novella, and several short stories. Georgia Beers is an American writer of lesbian romance. ![]() ![]() It was edited by Bradley and Andrew DuBois, another English professor (he teaches at the University of Toronto Bradley is at the University of Colorado), who together have compiled thirty years of hip-hop lyrics, starting with transcribed recordings of parties thrown in the late nineteen-seventies-Year Zero, more or less. This campaign for respect enters a new phase with the release of “The Anthology of Rap” (Yale $35), a nine-hundred-page compendium that is scarcely lighter than an eighties boom box. Though some of his comparisons are strained (John Donne loved punning, and so does Juelz Santana!), his motivation is easy to appreciate: examining and dissecting lyrics is the only way to “give rap the respect it deserves as poetry.” Bradley is right to think that hip-hop fans have learned to appreciate all sorts of seemingly obscure poetic devices, even if they can’t name them. Picking through this thicket, Bradley paused to appreciate Monch’s use of apocopated rhyme, as when a one-syllable word is rhymed with the penultimate syllable of a multisyllabic word (last / blast / fastball). ![]() Smash any splitter or fastball-that’ll be it The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip ![]() ![]() ![]() Symons had some interesting things to say about this list not long before his death in the introduction to his essay collection Criminal Practices, published in 1994:Įarly in 1958 I received a note from Leonard Russell, literary editor of the Sunday Times, asking if I would like to become the paper's crime reviewer, writing two pieces a month for L600 a year. ![]() This would certainly be in keeping with Symons' view, expressed in his genre history Bloody Murder, that writers began moving more and more away from classic detection at that time. When we get to the Forties, however, classic detection very much moves to the back seat, with only a few titles really qualifying. A fan of Victorian/Edwardian crime fiction might argue that the first 123 are underrepresented compared to the last 37.įrom the Twenties and Thirties we find a pretty comprehensive mix of detection and thrills, with some crime novels thrown in. It includes 12 books from the Twenties and 25 books from the Thirties (confirming my view that everyone talks about the two decades as the Golden Age of detective fiction, but they like the Thirties much better), as well as 16 from the Forties and 23 from the Fifties, for a breakdown of 37 from the Twenties and Thirties and 39 from the Forties and Fifties. See for yourself what you think of the list. Here is a link to Julian Symons' 100 Best Crime Stories, from William Godwin's Caleb Williams (1794) to Quiet Horror by Stanley Ellin (1957). ![]() ![]() “Can I then but pray / Others may never feel tyrannic sway?” Mastering the Bible, Greek and Latin translations, and the works of Pope and Milton, she composed elegies for local elites, celebrated political events, praised warriors, and used her verse to variously lampoon, question, and assert the injustice of her enslaved condition. ![]() ![]() Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. Tuesday, March 7, 6:30 pm, the Skylight Room, the Graduate CenterĪdmired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. David Waldstreicher on Phillis Wheatley in conversation with Elizabeth McHenry ![]() |