David Jennings
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English
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Someday, Somewhere is a compilation of sixty-eight paired original photographs and poems. Each photograph is paired with a poem written for and inspired by its photograph. The book deals with common themes of the human condition--love and loss, belief and doubt, joy and sadness. Working within the confines of rhyme and meter, the poetry is written to be appreciated by readers who share the matters of humanity.
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English
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For so many years I wrote essays, long before I wrote novels, before I went back to school to study history and study it further on my own. Before that I wrote technical manuals and instructions. Inexplicably, few read those, while they are needed for some practical purpose. But essays – narrations of ideas – have always been at the heart of my writing, even when infused within my characters and their stories in my novels. So here then are my...
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English
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Josiah Ashford struggled through his early life as a slave in Missouri and Savannah Oaks plantation near Natchez, Mississippi. Marcus Taylor grew up in Savannah, Georgia as a privileged dilettante. Rebecca Stanley from Charleston desired a grand life full of refinement and social graces. David Wexley sailed the Atlantic coast in topsail schooners as a merchant marine, wrote in a journal sad lonely private thoughts, was impassioned for social justice...
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English
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In war's aftermath Americans are disheartened, suffering, cruel and selfish, while God watches in dismay. The races struggle for their places in the sun. Their salvation is grace and their only hope in the end. That moment in time finds Hanna, who never knew her father, newly freed and orphaned without family. With the care and love of two affluent former slaveholding southern families, her unwavering faith and a spiritual event only she and the reader...
Publisher
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sanford Biggers (b. 1970) is a Harlem-based artist working in various media including painting, sculpture, video, and performance. He describes his practice as 'code-switching'--mixing disparate elements to create layers of meaning--to account for his wide-ranging interests. This catalogue focuses on a series of repurposed quilts (many made in the 19th century) that embodies this interest in mixture. Informed by the significance of quilts to the...