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Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee
Observations on Not Fitting In
E-bok, 2007
160 kr
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When you come from a mixed race background as Paisley Rekdal does — her mother is Chinese American and her father is Norwegian– thorny issues of identity politics, and interracial desire are never far from the surface. Here in this hypnotic blend of personal essay and travelogue, Rekdal journeys …
Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens
On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically
Häftad, 2024
267 kr
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What makes reading a poem unlike reading anything else? While there are as many ways to read a poem as there are types of poetry, every poem demands a conscious attention to language. Reading poems forensically helps us bring that attention to our own writing.In Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens, …
Broken Country
On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam
Häftad, 2017
330 kr
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The Broken Country uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effects of the Vietnam War. To make sense of the shocking and baffling incident—in which a young homeless man born in Vietnam stabbed a …
Invention of the Kaleidoscope
Häftad, 2007
297 kr
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The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of the body; failures of science, art and technology; failures of nature, imagination, memory and, most importantly, the failures inherent to elegiac narratives …
Animal Eye
Häftad, 2012
297 kr
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Voted one of the five best poetry collections for 2012 by Publishers Weekly, Animal Eye employs pastoral motifs to engage a discourse on life and love, as Coal Hill Review states "It is as if a scientist is at work in the basement of the museum of natural history, building a diorama of an entire …
Appropriate
A Provocation
Häftad, 2021
182 kr
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How do we properly define cultural appropriation and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the idea of …
Nightingale
Häftad, 2019
271 kr
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“Here, Rekdal translates pain into redemption, so that a loss is not an ending but a transformation, in this riveting poetic alchemy.” ― Publishers Weekly , starred review“ Nightingale explores what few writers since Ovid have reminded us: metamorphosis is a violent act, requiring dismemberment, …
Imaginary Vessels
E-bok, 2016
164 kr
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"Compelling, appealing, cinematic . . . Rekdal refreshes the meaning and the image of being displaced in this world." The Boston Globe"Rekdal's work deeply satisfies, for it witnesses and wonders over the necessary struggles of human awareness and being." Rain Taxi"In acknowledging the …
Nightingale
E-bok, 2019
183 kr
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Nightingale is a book about change. This collection radically rewrites and contemporizes many of the myths central to Ovid’s epic, The Metamorphoses, Rekdal’s characters changed not by divine intervention but by both ordinary and extraordinary human events. In Nightingale, a mother undergoes cancer …
West
A Translation
E-bok, 2023
335 kr
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Punctuated by historical images and told through multiple voices, languages, literary forms and documents, West: A Translation explores what unites and divides America , drawing a powerful, necessary connection between the completion of the transcontinental railroad and the Chinese Exclusion Act …
Heritance
E-bok, 2026
245 kr
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Writing from a mixed heritage, Paisley Rekdal voices both the sins of our fathers and the suffering of our mothers.In Paisley Rekdal's latest collection, Heritance, the body and its meanings are ever shiftingit is, at once, a legacy, an obligation, and a means of generating more bodies. Summoning …
Intimate
An American Family Photo Album
Häftad, 2012
199 kr
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Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Asian American Studies. Native American Studies. INTIMATE is a hybrid memoir and "photo album" that blends personal essay, historical documentary, and poetry to examine the tense relationship between self, society, and familial legacy in contemporary America. …
Intimate
An American Family Photo Album
Inbunden, 2012
386 kr
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A Tupelo Press Lineage Series publicationIntimate is a hybrid memoir and “photo album” that blends personal essay, historical documentary, and poetry to examine the tense relationship between self, society, and familial legacy in contemporary America. Typographically innovative, Intimatecreates …
Best American Poetry 2020
Av Paisley Rekdal, David Lehman
E-bok, 2020
80 kr
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The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale , proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” ( Chicago Tribune ). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has …
Crash of Rhinos
Poems
Häftad, 2000
407 kr
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In these quizzically probing and provocative poems, atoms and torture, tattoos and laundromats, mug shots, the theory of light, and such personalities as Joe Louis and Bruce Lee join in shaping a simultaneously personal and historical narrative of love, family, and desire. The tension between the …
