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Melanie CrowderAudacityMelanie CrowderAudacityHARD COVER
UPC: 9780399168994Release Date: 1/8/2015
Biographical note:Melanie Crowder (www.melaniecrowder.net) lives on the Colorado Front Range where she is a writer and educator. She teaches English to non-native-English-speaking students at her local school and holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Follow Melanie on Twitter at @MelanieACrowder. Excerpt from book: clouds
Over the grey plain of the sea winds are gathering the storm-clouds Words float like wayward clouds in the air in my mind. Now his wing the wave Wait or was it, Now the wave his wing caresses I dip a hand into my apron pocket unfold a square of paper against my palm, hunch my shoulder, hide it from view. Ah, yes. Now his wing the wave caresses, now he rises like an arrow cleaving clouds and The poem is ripped from my hand and the air, where only wayward clouds had been, is full of shouting, accusations a hand raised in anger ready to strike the world slows in the second before pain blooms in my jaw; a second to hope the poem is safe in my mind where fists and fury cannot shake it free. ordinary Just because I am small boned and short, brown haired and brown eyed, just because I look common as a wren meek as a robin that does not mean what is inside me is also common as a wren meek as a robin. Everything I wish for is strange aberrant even wrong in this place but I know I cannot be the only one blanketing her bright feathers hooding her sharp eyes hiding in pla The inspiring story of Clara Lemlich, whose fight for equal rights led to the largest strike by women in American history A goregously told novel in verse written with intimacy and power, Audacity is inspired by the real-life story of Clara Lemlich, a spirited young woman who emigrated from Russia to New York at the turn of the twentieth century and fought tenaciously for equal rights. Bucking the norms of both her traditional Jewish family and societal conventions, Clara refuses to accept substandard working conditions in the factories on Manhattan's Lower East Side. For years, Clara devotes herself to the labor fight, speaking up for those who suffer in silence. In time, Clara convinces the women in the factories to strike, organize, and unionize, culminating in the famous Uprising of the 20,000. Powerful, breathtaking, and inspiring, Audacity is the story of a remarkable young woman, whose passion and selfless devotion to her cause changed the world. |
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