Bøger af Nathaniel Perry

Joy (Or Something Darker, but Like It), the first book of nonfiction by poet Nathaniel Perry, is a group of essays that considers poetry in the context of parenting-what poems and poets might teach us about parenting, what parenting might teach us about poetry, and also, what either of those things might have to teach us about simply being a relatively successful human being. While other poets have written about parenthood, few books consider how parenthood and poetry themselves intersect. The essays are affable and never technical, but take seriously the idea that thinking about poems might help us all think about our other roles in life, as parents, lovers, citizens, and friends. The book, in the end, imagines that this kind of insight is maybe one of the things most useful about poetry. It isn't, or at least doesn't have to be, always about itself; it can instead, surprisingly and wonderfully, be about us. Each of the twelve essays considers a different poet-Edward Thomas, Henry W. Longfellow, George Scarbrough, Elizabeth Bishop, Geoffrey Hill, Primus St. John, Robert Hayden, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Frost, E.A. Robinson, and Belle Randall-and, alongside them, different concerns of parenting and living. Organized in chronological order, they track the growth of Nathaniel Perry's own children who pop up from time to time in a believable way. Essays consider the idea of devotion and belief, the idea of imperfection, the small details we can focus on as parents, and the conceptions of the world we pass along to our children. Together these essays not only represent the author's personal canon of poets who have been important to him in his life and work, but also present a diverse slice of American poetry, in voice, form, identity, origin, and time period.

Winner of the 2011 American Poetry Review/APR Honickman First Book Prize.

This book-length poem in six sections takes readers to five Trappist monasteries in the southeast United States to consider the intersections of solitude, family, music, and landscape.

South Africa. Political Environment, Ethnicity and Race. The Parliament of South Africa is a bicameral legislature, consisting of the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces (NCOP). The Parliament sits in Cape Town. The National Assembly, by far the most important house, is made up of 400 directly-elected members who serve a five-year term. According to Article 50 of the Constitution, the National Assembly may be dissolved by the President before the end of its term if a majority of its members have voted to dissolve and it has been three years since the last election. The Acting President may dissolve the National Assembly if there is no sitting President and the National Assembly has failed to elect a new President within 30 days after the vacancy occurred. The National Assembly has never been dissolved before the end of its term. Race and the related concepts of ethnicity and language has been at the heart of South African history, politics, society, culture and economy since the European colonization. Although South Africa is by no means the most ethnically diverse country in the world, the country remains a complex mix of different races, cultural identities, languages and ethnic bonds. Race and ethnicity became particularly explosive ideas during the apartheid era, when the government used it for political and racial purposes, although racially discriminatory policies and segregation had been in place long before the beginning of apartheid in 1948. The apartheid government created four official racial categories: black, Coloured, white and Asian/Indian