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Eyes with Winged Thoughts: Poems and Photographs Kindle Edition

by Gordon Parks (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
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In Eyes with Winged Thoughts, the forty-four photographs and fifty-eight poems, reflecting on his long and extraordinary life, offer a rare glimpse of his thoughts and feelings about everything from romantic love to the Iraq war and the passing of Pope John Paul II.

He has done it all. Gordon Parks's life was an astonishing litany of firsts: in the 1940s he was the first African American photographer to work for the Farm Security Administration and for Vogue and Life magazines; in the 1960s he would become the first African American director of a major motion picture. A dominating figure in contemporary American culture, he was an artist of uncompromising vision and creativity.

In 2002 Parks received the Jackie Robinson Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame, just a few in a series of honors that began when he received a prestigious Julius Rosenwald Fellowship in 1941 and which now includes an Emmy, a National Medal of the Arts, and over fifty honorary doctorates. In his nineties, he revealed the luminous photographs on display in Eyes with Winged Thoughts and the poems—some meditative and lyrical, some raw with emotion about the war in Iraq and the tragedy of the tsunami—show that he is still a true American Renaissance man.
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  1. Print length
    138 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Atria Books
  4. Publication date
    November 1, 2007
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    2022 KB
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4.7 out of 5 stars
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LorrieGay
5.0 out of 5 stars A Genius Distilled into Fearless Images & Words
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2006
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Gordon Parks is a national treasure. That surely isn't news. But of all his many volumes (not to mention films, symphonies, photos, journalism, and on and on) this slender and profound volume stands alone in its fearlessness, poetic and heartbreaking beauty, and its unflinching spareness. If not for the wisdom and gravity of his words and images, one would think that the sheer spareness of this book came from a young firebrand. Timeless!

He speaks of war, peace, empathy. On a more personal note, there is love: Love of family, friends, the beauty of the world we live in despite -- and sometimes because of -- the squalor or desperate circumstances that coexist with being human.

If you never buy another Gordon Parks book, or if you just aren't up to a physically "big" book right now, treat yourself to this. It will be among one of the truly BIGGEST books you will ever luxuriate in.
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T. L. Marsters
4.0 out of 5 stars Two sides of genius
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2011
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This book reveals another side of famed photographer Gordon Parks. He has accompanied arresting photographic shots with poetry -- his own original works. Poetry, it seems, came to him as naturally as his picture taking. It was an innate gift.

Parks, born black and the last child of many produced by his sharecropper parents, transcended all the limitations set upon him in his time and place. I suspect he even surprised himself. He was not only a prize-winning photographer, but a poet, musician, film director, and author.

This book gives glimpses into his complicated and fascinating soul through combining two forms of his artistic talents.
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K. Colvin
5.0 out of 5 stars Eyes with Winged Thoughts: Poems and Photographs
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2009
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I've been an admirer of Gordon Parks for some years. This was a replacement copy of his book - my first copy was loaned out and never returned.

His poems are wonderful in their simplicity and perception. One need not be of African descent to appreciate his words and be stirred by them. It is comforting to me that a human being named Gordon Parks exists and has shared himself with us, to our betterment.
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amc
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2018
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Very good poems,
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ina r.
5.0 out of 5 stars eyes with winged thoughts
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2013
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Love the book, and sent a copy to a friend. The photographer is one of the finest artists and this includes his poems.
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Brian J. Vicker
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2015
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Wonderful purchase
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MichaelOne
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2015
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GREAT!!!!
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