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28 produkter
To Sound Like Yourself
Essays on Poetry
Häftad, 2002
250 kr
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In his first collection of essays on poetry in 27 years, W.D. Snodgrass goes after that seminal quality, the poet’s individual voice, that separates the best poetry from the merely technical and pedantic. Beginning with an essay on the poetic impulse, and continuing through prosody and musicality, …
Breaking the Alabaster Jar
Conversations with Li-Young Lee
Av Li-Young Lee, Earl G. Ingersoll
Häftad, 2006
197 kr
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In the foreword to Li-Young Lee’s first book, Rose (BOA Editions, 1986), Gerald Stern wrote, “What characterizes Li-Young Lee’s poetry is a certain kind of humility, a kind of cunning, a love of plain speech, a search for wisdom and understanding. . . . I think we are in the presence of a true …
I Carry A Hammer In My Pocket For Occasions Such As These
Häftad, 2007
190 kr
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“Reading Anthony Tognazzini is like having a surprise party thrown in your honor on every page. I Carry A Hammer In My Pocket For Occasions Such As These turns cartwheels, plants daisies, and sings love songs in honor of all that is strange, sad, serious, and sublime about being alive.”—Myla …
Unlucky Lucky Days
Häftad, 2008
230 kr
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"These are funny, bizarre, moving stories-a pleasure to read."-Lydia Davis "Grandbois is a master of the double-edged word, of stories that both cut through the world like butter and double-back to saw themselves to bits."-Brian Evenson "Grandbois' trembling leaflets bring to life all the rejecta …
Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters
Häftad, 2009
150 kr
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Jessica Treat's stories invite readers in, only to make them complicit in transgressive acts, real or imagined: adultery, trespassing , sexual jealousy. Her dark humor and portrayal of consciousness recall authors as diverse as Amy Hempel, Mary Caponegro, and Lydia Davis. Comic, skillful, and …
On the Winding Stair
Häftad, 2009
150 kr
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"Howard (In the Colorless Round) upends some traditional literary conventions in these 14 tales of startling description and beauty. Her settings are bucolic, such as an abandoned farm house, a hilltop mansion and the ruins of a cider mill, each depicted in romantic language ('in a lavender …
This New & Poisonous Air
Av Adam McOmber
Häftad, 2011
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
236 kr
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She admits she is pleased when the new placard is raised, "Madame Tussaud's House of Wax." She stands in the crowd with Francois at her side. He leans close enough to touch her ear with the fringe of his mustache and whispers, "What part of the museum would the famous Madame Tussaud like to survey …
To Assume a Pleasing Shape
Häftad, 2011
232 kr
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A body-pierced goth girl cage-dances for a living while putting herself through school. A New York City academic reevaluates her closest relationships while considering breast-reduction surgery. A chatty Gulf War veteran is plagued by a sexual identity crisis. The characters in this debut short …
The Innocent Party
Häftad, 2012
148 kr
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From "The Glass Girl": On certain evenings in dark motels, she could transform her lip into the edge of the bottle, imagining her face was made of amber glass and the men paused above her only to take a drink of breath. Over the years, men drank and drank until there were only two sips left inside. …
Passwords Primeval
20 American Poets in their Own Words
Av Tony Leuzzi
Häftad, 2012
298 kr
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Passwords Primeval sets aside the artificial boundaries of poetry "schools" and "movements" to cut to the art of the matter. Tony Leuzzi's astounding knowledge of poetry draws new insights from such luminaries as Billy Collins, Gerald Stern, Jane Hirshfield, Patricia Smith, and Martin Espada. These …
Winged Seed
A Remembrance
Av Li-Young Lee
Häftad, 2013
164 kr
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"It has true spiritual importance for contemporary American literature."--Edward Hirsch Upon its initial publication, acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's memoir The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995), received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. In lyrical prose, Lee's …
Era of Not Quite
Häftad, 2013
150 kr
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Douglas Watson's debut story collection is chock-a-block with deaths, births, sea and land voyages, excursions to the library, philosophical asides, and things like wolves. People fall in and out of love, walk in and out of buildings, take two steps forward and two steps back. Futility is a theme …
Jewelry Box
A Collection of Histories
Häftad, 2013
146 kr
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The sixty-eight short works in this collection (some only a paragraph, others a few pages) straddle memoir and fiction, exploring the nuances of sexuality, motherhood, love, and ambition. Like Lydia Davis, Aurelie Sheehan's stories are potent miniatures that blossom out from seemingly insignificant …
Tao of Humiliation
Av Lee Upton
Häftad, 2014
177 kr
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014 Best New Fiction of May 2014, Typographical Era Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, these 17 stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to …
Gravity Changes
Av Zach Powers
Häftad, 2017
177 kr
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WINNER OF THE BOA SHORT FICTION PRIZEON THE WASHINGTON POST'S 2017 'A SUMMER BOOK LIST LIKE NO OTHER'Gravity Changes is a collection of fantastical, off-beat stories that view the quotidian world through the lens of the absurd. Set in a surreal, fictional world that is populated by strange, …
My House Gathers Desires
Av Adam McOmber
Häftad, 2017
177 kr
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Adam McOmber's lush, hallucinatory stories are both familiar and wholly original. Drawn from the historical record, Biblical lore, fairy tales, science fiction, and nightmares, these offbeat and fantastical works explore gender and sexuality in their darkest and most beautiful manifestations. In …
Orchard in the Street
Häftad, 2017
187 kr
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This new collection by award-winning author Reginald Gibbons explores human experience and memory in ordinary settingscity apartments, rural roads, soap operas, and juvenile courtas way to understand the depths of thought and feeling in our everyday encounters. These narrative meditations explode …
Science of Lost Futures
Häftad, 2018
177 kr
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The Science of Lost Futures is a prize-winning collection full of quirky humor and intelligent absurdity. Ryan Habermeyer is a yarn spinner of the first order. Drawing on urban legends, internet hoaxes, and ancient medical folklore, these stories go beyond science fiction and magical realism to …
Rapture Index
A Suburban Bestiary
Av Molly Reid
Häftad, 2019
190 kr
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“Thought-provoking, unthinkable, and fun, Reid’s debut is perfect for fans of David Lynch, Alissa Nutting, and George Saunders.”—BooklistLoosely based on the medieval bestiary, The Rapture Index examines the relationship between animals, humans, and storytelling. Harnessing the bestiary’s …
Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone
Häftad, 2020
190 kr
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Winner of the BOA Short Fiction PrizeFinalist for the the Big Other Award for FictionThe Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone is a Midwestern mythology that celebrates facts, fiction, and the impermanence of art. Inspired by the real-life pioneer of …
Alien Stories
Av E.C. Osondu
Häftad, 2021
190 kr
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“A vital voice in the short story, telling us new truths with deep humanity."–George SaundersCelebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers a short-story collection of nimble dexterity and startling originality in his BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning Alien Stories. These eighteen startling …
Are We Ever Our Own
Häftad, 2022
142 kr
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Moving between Cuba and the U.S., the stories in Are We Ever Our Own trace the paths of the women of the far-flung Armando Castell family.Related but unknown to each other, these women are exiles, immigrants, artists, outsiders, all in search of a sense of self and belonging. The owner of a …
Visibility of Things Long Submerged
Häftad, 2023
145 kr
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From poet George Looney comes a new short story collection that explores the essential nature of faith while plumbing the gritty secrets of the human heart. With swamps, alligators, revival tents, faith healers, sex, death, guilt, sin and snakes, Looney leads us through a dark landscape brimming …
Where Can I Take You When There's Nowhere To Go
Av Joe Baumann
Häftad, 2023
184 kr
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In Joe Baumann’s newest collection Where Can I Take You When There’s Nowhere To Go, queer men explore their sense of who they are and what they want, often in worlds that are tilted askew from what we might expect. Thirteen surreal short stories utilize the strange and the bizarre as a backdrop for …
Pig Notes & Dumb Music
Prose on Poetry
Häftad, 1997
129 kr
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William Heyen was the first poet in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace on Long Island.
Walking Light
Memoirs and Essays on Poetry
Av Stephen Dunn
Häftad, 2001
184 kr
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Committed to exploring the role of poetry and poets in our culture, Stephen Dunn provides new, expanded versions of the essays originally published by W. W. Norton in 1993, now out of print. In Walking Light, Dunn discusses the relationship between art and sport, the role of imagination in writing …
