Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature – serie
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Motel of the Stars
A Novel
Häftad, 2008
279 kr
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The Motel of the Stars is a novel set in Kentucky and North Carolina on the eve of the 1997 anniversary of the Harmonic Convergence, a mystical alignment of planets and a portending of universal peace first celebrated in 1987. Part satire of New Age philosophy and part commentary on a modern, …
Black Sabbatical
Poems
Häftad, 2009
276 kr
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“Reading these absolutely terrific poems, with their southern colloquial drawl and sober Buddhist insight, is a bit like having a sage old sleepy tiger purr in your ear while you lie at the edge of the swamp in back of Billy-Joes's pickup truck.”—Dazed & Confused Magazine“Sustaining, inspiring, …
Small Fires
Essays
Häftad, 2011
264 kr
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This is a daughter’s story. In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker’s care, then turns that precise attention on herself. There are floating tea lights in the bath, coddled blossoms in the garden, and a mother straddling her teenage daughter’s …
Spoons in the Grass Are There to Dig a Moat
Häftad, 2016
156 kr
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Amelia Martens's prose poems reveal expansive ideas in compressed language. From the domestic to the geopolitical, from the mundane to the miraculous, these brief vignettes take the form of prayers, parables, confessions, and revelations. Intimate and urgent, Martens's poems are strange, darkly …
Name of the Nearest River
Stories
Av Alex Taylor
Häftad, 2010
181 kr
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2011 Eric Hoffer Award in the General Fiction2011 The Thomas & Lillie D. Chaffin AwardAlex Taylor is a fresh new voice, not just in Kentucky, but in American literature.”'--Chris OffuttLike a room soaked in the scent of whiskey, perfume, and sweat, Alex Taylor's America is at once intoxicating, …
Gin & Bleach
Häftad, 2012
156 kr
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"My Reptile"Little frilléd lizardwith your big mouthand your clutch of egg.Pure urge iguanaI wanna wannawannaheavy petin a moist habitat.Your dewlap licksdown my spine;your creep yearns,yearns your crawl,like a small machinethat you rev andrev and rev untilthe engine floods.Gin and bleach: two …
Red Holler
Contemporary Appalachian Literature
Av John Branscum, Wayne Thomas
Häftad, 2013
184 kr
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"Buy this book, it's a barn burner!"Dorothy AllisonIn an extraordinarily diverse anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic narratives by contemporary Appalachian writers, Red Holler takes us over and beyond the stock imagery of rural mountain communities. We travel into housing …
Elegy on Kinderklavier
Häftad, 2014
172 kr
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Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut FictionBarnes & Noble 2014 Discover Great New Writers Selection, Third PlaceThe stories in Elegy on Kinderklavier explore the profound loss and intricate effects of war on lives that have been suddenly misaligned. A diplomat navigates a hostile political …
Make/Shift
Stories
Häftad, 2019
184 kr
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Readers of Make/Shift will find themselves confronting moments in which status and ceremony are shown to be destabilized, contingent—sorting through the suddenly unfamiliar contents of a time capsule, hanging poolside with parents while their hockey player sons devastate a hotel, and wandering the …
