![]() Nominated for a slew of awards, including New York Public Library's Best Books for the Teen Age and the Great Lakes Book Award (source), A Mango-Shaped Space is about searching for your place in a world full of vibrant colors and sounds. In the end, she finds it comes with some serious perks-even if it does make solving math problems nearly impossible. This book is all about Mia coming to understand her condition, and her struggle to figure out how to deal with it on a day-to-day basis. ![]() Sound kind of overwhelming? It definitely can be. Specifically, she has colored hearing, which means she sees figures and colors whenever she hears a sound. Mia Winchell, the heroine of Wendy Mass's 2003 novel, A Mango-Shaped Space, has synesthesia. And for synesthetes (people with synesthesia), a taste might trigger a swirl of shapes and colors, or a number might come across as snotty or shy. So instead of just hearing music, you might be able to feel, taste, or see it, too. ![]() We're talking about synesthesia, a big word for a condition where two different perceptions are grouped together. No, don't worry-we haven't lost our minds (and there's no need to lick your mom's purse). ![]() What color is Monday? How does the word handbag taste? What personality does the number three have? ![]()
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![]() The key is that it be speculative, not that it fit some arbitrary genre guidelines. ![]() History, Postmodern Lit., and more are all welcome here. Not sure what counts as speculative fiction? Then post it! Science Fiction, Fantasy, Alt. 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Caldecott Honor–winner Holmes’s ( Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer) textured-paper collages use bold, angular forms and sunlit colors to spotlight poets and their subject matter, such as the dancers in a poem inspired by Ugandan poet Okot p’Bitek, their outstretched fingers echoed in the rays of the sun above. ![]() Cummings (“It is such a happy thing to yes the next with you/ to walk on magic love rugs beneath the what”). The results range from simple description (“a trendsetter, and a rule breaker,” writes Colderley about William Carlos Williams) to Alexander’s fresh and startling love song à la E.E. This item: Out Of Wonder by Kwambe Alexander Paperback 13.95 The Undefeated (Caldecott Medal Book) by Kwame Alexander Hardcover 9.74 The Undefeated (Caldecott Medal Book) Kwame Alexander 2,351 Hardcover 136 offers from 1. ![]() ![]() Together, they supply poems honoring-and in the style of-20 poets, including Rumi, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Wisdom from Lucille Clifton (“Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing”) inspires the title for this collection from Newbery Medalist Alexander ( The Crossover) and collaborators Colderley and Wentworth. ![]() ![]() ![]() The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father - an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist - who was murdered under mysterious circumstances and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Bipolar II, Terese Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. ![]() Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island reserve in British Columbia. ![]() ![]() ![]() But that didn't seem appropriate to what I was doing here. As you know, in most SF about unknown planets, the author is forced to invent wonders and then to name them. Wolfe: I should clarify the fact that all the words I use in The Book of the New Sun are real (except for a couple of typographical errors). Could you talk about why you chose to use mainly "real" words rather than inventing your own? I'm sure a lot of readers had the same mistaken impression I did that you were making up these wondrous, bizarre words-especially since the use of neologisms is so common in SF. LM: That kind of suggestive use for archaic or unfamiliar words is evident throughout the tetralogy. 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![]() ![]() The years of intense academic training drew Al to teaching as a profession, which took him to Xavier University of Louisiana, an African American Catholic university in New Orleans, Louisiana, to assume his first teaching post. He completed a degree in theology at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, two years later. After finishing college in 1964, Al enrolled at the University of California– Berkeley to study English, completing his M.A. Excelling in his studies, Al graduated from a Franciscan high school and entered what is now Loyola Marymount University at age sixteen. Woods, an African American former priest, who left the priesthood because of racism in the Catholic Church, would have lasting impact on Al, teaching him Latin and Greek and, in a sense, starting his intellectual journey. When he was four years old, his mother remarried. The man claimed self-defense and the case was never prosecuted, prompting Al’s mother, Mabel, to leave the South, taking Al and his sisters first to the Midwest and then to California. Three months before his birth, a white man killed his father. ![]() Property of the Trustees of Princeton University.Īlbert Jordy Raboteau was born in Bay St. ![]() |