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Poetics and Praxis 'After' Objectivism examines late twentieth-and early twenty-first-century poetics and praxis within and against the dynamic, disparate legacy of Objectivism and the Objectivists. This is the first volume in the field to investi...

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Bix Beiderbecke was one of the first great legends of jazz. Among the most innovative cornet soloists of the 1920s and the first important white player, he invented the jazz ballad and pointed the way to "cool" jazz. But his recording ca...

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In When Mystical Creatures Attack!, Ms. Freedman's high school English class writes essays in which mystical creatures resolve the greatest socio-political problems of our time. Students include Janice Gibbs, "a feral child with excessive eye...

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As the good little girl in an unhappy family who hid her darker troubles, Deb Abramson felt like she was living with another girl, a shadowy being who would neither leave nor make herself known. Crushed beneath the burden of her parents' rigid exp...

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Thirteen short stories reveal the author's Irish-American roots as well as his understanding of human frailty.

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Originally published in 1972, A Literary History of Iowa, which features writers published in book form between 1856 and the late 1960s, returns to print. One of Iowa's native sons, Ellis Parker Butler, once said that in Iowa 12 dollars were spent...

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Fifteen stories deal with divorce, family life, death, wealth, suicide, alienation, communication, and indifference.

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Ten stories tell of an elderly South American woman, a teenage suicide, a divorced couple, and two lovers listening to sounds from a neighbor's apartment.

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Eight stories deal with a teenager practicing martial arts, a photojournalist's encounter with zombiism, a paper mill worker, and a hospital patient on New Year's Day.

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Leroy Daniels was born in 1882 near Adair, Iowa. When he was ten, his father gave him a pony and a checkbook and sent him out to buy cattle. By the time he was sixteen, he was alone on a ranch in Montana with a herd of seventy wild horses to break...

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Robert Frost's ovenbird question was, 'What to make of a diminished thing?' This new volume of poetry by Elton Glaser answers that question on a personal level, by broadening the sense of loss and exile until it envelops our common concerns of the...

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Essays describe life in small towns, farming communities, and suburbs in states from Ohio to North Dakota.

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How do historians represent the past? How do theatre historians represent performance events? The fifteen challenging essays in Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography focus on the fundamental epistemological conditions and pro...

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An anti-war activist tells his experiences in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

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"Hewing to Experience"acharts Sherman Paul's course of coming to know William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder and the critical scholarship devoted to them as it provides an assessment of recent...

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"Reefer Charlie" Fox rode the rails from 1928 to 1939; from 1939 to 1965 he hitched rides in automobiles and traveled by foot. From Indiana to British Columbia, from Arkansas to Texas, from Utah to Mexico, he was part of the grand hobo t...

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Meditations on mortality, modernity, and contemporary poetry, informed by the work of a large number of modern and postmodern poets. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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The Loess Hills lie in a narrow band just east of the Missouri River and define most of the western boundary of Iowa. This is the natural history of these hills of wind-deposited silt. Some 100 illustrations (eight color and 60 b&w photos) enh...

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