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Norms, Realities and Lies
Juan Antonio Rodriguez
出版Variocity, 2005
主題Poetry / General
ISBN193303758X9781933037585
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Bo9IsFbbNfIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Norms, Realities and Lies is a poetry collection that explores some current social, religious and personal issues in verse. It is a call for the recognition of the oppression of social norms and religious dogmas on the individual. The author stresses emphasis on individualism and spiritualism as factors that can truly free humanity to live a happier life. Furthermore, it confronts stereotypes that are based on weight, height, physical attraction, language and culture just to name a few. Norms, Realities and Lies overtly points out how most of us have preconceived notions of others based on some imaginary measure of human worth that uses physical appearance as its foundation without actually getting to personally know an individual. The importance of the recognition of each matchless individual as a cure for prejudice is also evident. Dr. Rodriguez maintains the same precision and beauty in Norms, Realities and Lies as he does in all of his previous seven poetry collections. Juan Antonio Rodriguez (BA, MA, Ph.D.) was born in the Dominican Republic and was raised in New York City. He has written six academic books on English instruction and seven collections of poetry, five in Spanish and two in English. One of his books won an international sonnet prize (El Premio Internacional El Eria de Sonetos, 2003) in Spain.