clarityandchaos's reviews
420 reviews

Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions by Paul Mason

5.0

Brilliant account of the uprisings of 2011 from Iran to OWS. Sometimes a bit optimistic about the use and relevance of social media and possibly a bit drastic in the lookout to the future. I highly recommend it to everyone who wants to understand contemporary struggles.

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

4.0

Dinge, die wir heute sagten by Judith Zander

4.0

The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities by Ching-In Chen

3.0

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

5.0

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

5.0

Against Love Poetry by Eavan Boland

5.0

Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 by Robert Hass

4.0

The Half-Finished Heaven by Tomas Tranströmer

4.0

Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education by Robert Bensen

5.0

Great anthology of stories - autobiographical, fictional, traditional - poems and other texts about growing up Native American. It's a strong reminder of how colonialist behavior by the US & Canada ( esp. the respective governments) against Native American was/is still present in the 20th century. At times the stories are post-colonial in a "writing-back" sense: Using the colonizers language (which in this case English is) to write of distinctly Native American (colonized) experience.
More about my reading of the book at my blog.