My Name Is Child of God ... Not Those People

Name: My Name Is Child of God ... Not Those People
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ISBN: 9780806656243

ISBN-10: 0806656247

ISBN-13: 9780806656243

Edition: 2007

Authors: Julia K. Dinsmore

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This personal and provocative look at poverty in America is shaped around the author's own engaging stories, song lyrics, and poems, including the well-known Call Me Child of God ... Not Those People. The story of her growing up in a large Irish Catholic working-class family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, draws together the experiences of living in poverty, the role of the church and music in her life, and the many remarkable people who populated her life and the lives of her family. The author describes economic hardship and social challenges as being as "regular as the turning seasons in my coming up years," and refers to her life in poverty as the "soil of my art." Through her stories and…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication date: 4/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.90" wide x 8.50" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Foreword



Quantum Bridges


Foreword



Preface


My Name Is Not "Those People"


Story of a Poem



Head Winds-The Promise of a Sure Foot


Spring


Coming Up Years


Sown Seed


Baptism Prayer


Peace Poem


I Am the Puppet


I'm a Lot Like You


Food Stories


Oh, Little One


Blame & Shame



There Were Rainbows Somewhere over Our Sorrow


By Grace Go I


Reclaiming Working-Class Men


Introduction to "When We Left Minneapolis"


When We Left Minneapolis


Cold Day Thankfulness


Angels Unaware?


Song for Jerome



Terrible Storms, Night's Weeping Endured


Be Careful What You Pray For


Don't Give Up


Depth Charges


Home


History, Survival, and the Underground Economy


What's in a Poem? Introduction to "A Glimmer of Heaven"


A Glimmer of Heaven


Song for Jacob


If, When, and Did You Know?


Company Came Calling



In the Tail Winds with No Construction Materials in Sight


Born Again?


Birds in the BBQ, Chronic Sorrows, and Speaking Life


Katrina Survivor


When God Created You


The Main Course


Me and the Lutherans


Grace on the Loose!


We the People


Meg's Robin


Birds Live in Nests


Just Like God?


Psoem in Six Movements: Rant/Ode to My Desire for Change



The Muse and I



Freedom Train



Missin' Papa



Motherless Child



Tedious Journey



Strangest Dream


Just This Week


Dear Mother


I Call Myself...