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Sour Grapes

The Wrath of UNemployment

By: Patricia Ellyn Powell

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Sour Grapes

The Wrath of UNemployment

By: Patricia Ellyn Powell

There are not many books written about poverty, and for good reasons. Who wants to read about it? Those suffering the most, probably can't read at all. Those educated enough to write about the dilemma, will often realize that a fairly small audience will respond to such a topic, especially in capitalistic America. Rarely does a poor person get the opportunity to have a voice. But that just changed! Sour Grapes: The Wrath of UNemployment follows the real-life attempts of a Louisiana child to make

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1634178645

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We've Made Wormsmeat of Education

By: Patricia Ellyn Powell

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We've Made Wormsmeat of Education

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Poetry, one of history's oldest art forms, gives social credibility to creation. Within every culture, past or present, poetry gives insight into collective identity. Poetry is a universal language that all human beings hear, speak, and understand. Brother David Sawyers belongs to the human family. And he loves, feels, and knows great truths and lyrically expresses them in the pages that follow. As a creative Ethiopian descendant from Jamaica, David Sawyers' nature is unquestionably dynamic. He came forward from the mighty mountains and rolling hills, which suggest in itself a firm commitment to the struggles for unity. This skillful brother uses the word as power to convey life's realities. He dialectically utilizes the power of words ugly and beautiful, weak and strong. His words are convictions, commitments, truth of old-don't cry, rejoice. Herein are Ethiopian realities-confinement, chaotic experiences and dreams of mystery Babylon. Brother David, like David in the Bible, best describes his observations when he chants that "it's over 400 years and we (INI) have not been broken . . . still striving . . . nor begging anything . . . now demanding . . . Judah rules" (21). Like black poet Langston Hughes, his stylistic approach represents continuity and empathy. Rare poetry. Forerunners of new black poetry are Amiri Baraka, formerly LeRoi Jones, but there are also others whose impacts are tremendously important. Poet such as David Sawyers, a good man and scholar, humble, patient, angry at times, and always . . . Exodus (Movement of Jah people). One may have heard the rhythmic lyrics of dub poets, including Mutaburuka, Sam Brown, Oku Onuora, and Ras Pidow to name a few; now read Sawyers "The Heroes of my Country" (24). He brings to life Paul Bogle and Quashi, in myth and wit in Briar Anancy and Tacoma, Sam Sharp, Nanny, Chugghu, and Marcus Garvey. Combined is history and class, working people rights, and survival in the multiracial nonracial way. These poetic words pull many forward in life. Read on, I say in a "Terrible Thing to Waste" (7). His confinement today is of no surprise when so many are whisked off to prisons because of mans inhumanity to man: Caribbean phenomena of which glimpses are heard in his poetic voice . . . Caribbean Basin Initiative ... Caricom and heads of Caribbean judgments/politics, and their failure to find economic answers "The Calamities of Yesterday" a legacy of colonialism (39). Then Migration- the problems encountered by many migrants on another plantation (U.S.A.) "O That's an Amusing Hell"(60). David is a black man of principle, undoubtedly an Ethiopian intellectual, who if given a fair and equal chance could help mankind find salvation. For his uniqueness is his answers/identity to Ethiopianism, that cannot be stopped delayed yes! But not stopped . . . read on. Takuma Umoja (ndk) Guyana

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1403371148

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9781403371140

Goodbye Candy Gold

By: Patricia Ellyn Powell

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Goodbye Candy Gold

By: Patricia Ellyn Powell

Candy Gold is the code name of a young, married compulsive gambler. Through this fictional account of one woman's struggle with the prospect of a gambling addiction, many will come to recognize the symptoms of problem gaming and realize the truth. Women are now at a greater risk for gambling addiction that is exacerbated by unemployment and deadbeat dads. The recent troubled economy provides a springboard for countless novices who will soon go from recreation to wreck at the casino! Not even fiscal disaster can stop the march south. The gambler in the family might not be ready for treatment, but could respond to a light romantic novel that treats a serious subject. Set on the outskirts of New Orleans at the fictional plantation rehab center, Lampe de Lac, the story is zestfully told by a real life compulsive gambler. It chronicles the actual treatment that one might experience in such a program. Though best seller, Josh Clark asked his fellow author of Louisiana in Words, Do compulsive gamblers really want to read about stopping? Patricia's resounding response is, Yes!

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