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Fierce with Reality: Literature on Aging.
Fierce with Reality presents a diverse range of literature on aging that demonstrates the challenges, complexities and pleasurable aspects of late life. Many facets of aging are explored, revealing the challenges and complexities of late life, and demonstrating that the aging process is both individ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Hamilton Books (R and L) : Hamilton Books,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Old Poets of China, Mary Oliver; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; 1 A Kaleidoscope of Images; Paciencia, Judith Ortiz Cofer; Concert, Josephine Miles; Poems by Po Chu-I, translated by Arthur Waley; Though You Are Yoong, Thomas Campion; Pawnee Buffalo Dance Song; Our old women gods, we ask you, Tewa; Grandfather's Prayer, Wintu; Those Wild Fauves, Tillie Friedenberg; Old Woman in Triumph, Claire J. Baker; The Welcome Table, for sister Clara Ward Alice Walker; 2 Homage to Grandmothers; Matmiya (for my Grandmother), Mary TallMountain; Grandma Jessie, William Oandasan
- Lineage, Margaret WalkerFor My Grandmother, Marie-Anne Maillet, Susann Pelletier; Free to Live, Jane Rule; 3 Strength and Wisdom; Old Age in Vietnamese Culture: Two Views, Danh Ho and Tan Luong; Aging in My Culture, Ponloeu Lao; Folktale, Annie P. Truong; The Older, the Stronger, Kern Peng; YuGong Moved the Mountains, Steven Li; The Jizos Wore Sedge Hats, Masako Saigo Cohen; The Old Couple and Their Goat, Iraqi Folktale; Annie at 109, Tom Domek; Promise for 65, Jacqueline Lapidus; Drought, Linda Hogan; 4 Aging Is Not for Sissies; miss rosie, Lucille Clifton
- The King of the Tables, Andrew McNabbA Day with Dad, Lynn Scott; There She Goes, Adair Lara; Senior Citizen Trio, Pat Mora; Old Age, Paul Moran; Oyasuteyama or the Mountain of the Old, Masako Saigo Cohen; 5 Growth and Change; Who Says an Older Woman Can't/Shouldn't Dance? Gloria Wade-Gayles; The Flame, Helen Earle Simcox; Red Shoes at Sixty, Helen Earle Simcox; Just Keep Breathing, Anna Morgan; Free Range, Ida VSW Red; Being Old, Nina Draxten; Excerpt from Else Gidlow's autobiography, Elsa: I Come with My Songs, Introduction, Celeste West; Memory Is as Uncertain as Grace, Mary Meigs
- Mrs. Sheldon's Gift, Jane DiMilloLike a Tide, Elaine G. McGillicuddy; 6 Defiance and Self-Determination; The Last Words of My English Grandmother, William Carlos Williams; Birthday Check, Marilyn J. Boe; A Mistaken Charity, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The House on Fell Street, Isabelle Maynard; The Blessing of Solomon, Irene Paull; 7 Loss; A Sort of Death, Josephine Alexander; Pool with Dad, Nancy A. Henry; Retrospect, Peary Cleage; Window Watching, Jacqueline Moore; Resistance Ages, Patricia Flaherty; Six Years After-Death of a Spouse, Lisa Asnis; Sickroom, Robert Winner
- Reminders, Elaine G. McGillicuddy8 Humor; Postscript, Sandra Hochman; On Life, Death, and My Cadaver, Josephine Alexander; Save It, Helen Kivnick; Old Man Coyote and His Mother-in-Law, Brule Sioux; The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, excerpts, Oliver Wendell Holmes; 9 Ageism; Nursery Rhyme, Victorian England; From Glamour Girl to Social Pariah, Marie Mitchell Olesen Urbanski Whittaker; Old in Spirit: A Gerontology Internship, Margaret Cruikshank; Interview with Jordan Lee from Quiet Fire, Keith Vacha; 10 The Fountain of Youth: Two Asian Versions; The Magical Spring, Tamae Nakahara