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Moving beyond the loss of both his father and brother, E.Ethelbert Miller tells the story of how love survived in his family. When Miller was about ten years old, his father told him how he considered leaving his mother. Years later, now a writer and a father, Miller looks back on the simple remark and how it shaped him. In Fathering Words, Miller explores his development as an African American writer, the responsibility of his chosen career, and his ambitions to raise the consciousness ofBlack people. Miller's poetry often relies on the voices of women. Here inFathering Words, he has chosen to write his memoir in two voices. He places his sister's voice on the page next to his own. The result is a wonderful duet that tells two stories woven into one.Fathering Words is Miller's moving tribute and a powerful memoir.… (más)
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Often the father is more than absent; he is lost, as he has been lost to himself for most of his adult life, crushed by his burdens, rendered impotent by fatigue and anxieties, reduced to a number, a statistical integer, in the army or the factory of the marketplace. The son goes in search of the father, to be reconciled in a healing embrace. In that act of love he restores his father's lost pride and manhood. Perhaps he also finds himself.
Stanley Kunitz
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard
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This book is dedicated to the four women who helped with the mothering of Fathering Words:
Denise King-Miller Jenny Bent Meri Danquah Don Mee Choi
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The day after my brother died, Carmen, one of his neighbors, said she saw him walking his dog.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Moving beyond the loss of both his father and brother, E.Ethelbert Miller tells the story of how love survived in his family. When Miller was about ten years old, his father told him how he considered leaving his mother. Years later, now a writer and a father, Miller looks back on the simple remark and how it shaped him. In Fathering Words, Miller explores his development as an African American writer, the responsibility of his chosen career, and his ambitions to raise the consciousness ofBlack people. Miller's poetry often relies on the voices of women. Here inFathering Words, he has chosen to write his memoir in two voices. He places his sister's voice on the page next to his own. The result is a wonderful duet that tells two stories woven into one.Fathering Words is Miller's moving tribute and a powerful memoir.
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