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Author: Maria Damon Publisher: University of Iowa Press ISBN: 1587299577 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 285
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p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } In this capacious and challenging book, Maria Damon surveys the poetry and culture of the United States in two distinct but inextricably linked periods. In part 1, "Identity K/not/e/s," she considers the America of the 1950s and early 1960s, when contentious and troubled alliances took shape between different marginalized communities and their respective but overlapping bohemias--Jews, African Americans, the Beats, and gays and lesbians. Damon then turns to more contemporary issues and broader topics of poetics in part 2's "Poetics for a Postliterary America" which goes on to paint a wider picture, dwelling less on close readings of individual poems and more on asking questions about the nature of poetry itself and its role in community formation and individual survival. Discussions of counterperformance, kinetics, the Nuyoricans, Latino identity, and electronic poetics enliven this section.
Author: Maria Damon Publisher: University of Iowa Press ISBN: 1587299577 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 285
Book Description
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } In this capacious and challenging book, Maria Damon surveys the poetry and culture of the United States in two distinct but inextricably linked periods. In part 1, "Identity K/not/e/s," she considers the America of the 1950s and early 1960s, when contentious and troubled alliances took shape between different marginalized communities and their respective but overlapping bohemias--Jews, African Americans, the Beats, and gays and lesbians. Damon then turns to more contemporary issues and broader topics of poetics in part 2's "Poetics for a Postliterary America" which goes on to paint a wider picture, dwelling less on close readings of individual poems and more on asking questions about the nature of poetry itself and its role in community formation and individual survival. Discussions of counterperformance, kinetics, the Nuyoricans, Latino identity, and electronic poetics enliven this section.
Author: Piers Anthony Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780765343123 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 356
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This brand-new tale set in the land of Xanth--the 30th in the series--is a rollicking and revealing new fantasy adventure, lusciously laced with dozens of dangers and delights, and lovingly fashioned with all of Piers Anthonys celebrated storytelling skills.
Author: William Gibson Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141904461 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 419
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'Part-detective story, part-cultural snapshot . . . all bound by Gibson's pin-sharp prose' Arena -------------- THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ ZERO HISTORY AND SPOOK COUNTRY FOR MORE Cayce Pollard has a new job. She's been offered a special project: track down the makers of an addictive online film that's lighting up the internet. Hunting the source will take her to Tokyo and Moscow and put her in the sights of Japanese hackers and Russian Mafia. She's up against those who want to control the film, to own it - who figure breaking the law is just another business strategy. The kind of people who relish turning the hunter into the hunted . . . A gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer. Part prophesy, part satire, Pattern Recognition skewers the absurdity of modern life with the lightest and most engaging of touches. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks won't be able to put this book down. -------------- 'Fast, witty and cleverly politicized' Guardian 'A big novel, full of bold ideas . . . races along like an expert thriller' GQ 'Dangerously hip. Its dialogue and characterization will amaze you. A wonderfully detailed, reckless journey of espionage and lies' USA Today 'A compelling, humane story with a sympathetic heroine searching for meaning and consolation in a post-everything world' Daily Telegraph 'Electric, profound. Gibson's descriptions of Tokyo, Russia and London are surreally spot-on' Financial Times
Author: Andrew Macrae Publisher: Twelfth Planet Press ISBN: 1922101044 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 237
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In a post-apocalyptic Australian landscape dominated by free-wheeling cyborgs, a young man goes in search of his lost lover who has been kidnapped by a rogue AI truck – the Brumby King. Along the way, he teams with Sinnerman, an independent truck with its own reasons for hating the Brumby King. Before his final confrontation with the brumbies, he must learn more about the broken-down world and his own place in it, and face his worst fears. .The strange and playful voice of the first-person narrator keeps the story kicking along as he comes to his final realisation that the only meaning to be found in a world in slow decay is that which you make for yourself..This genre-bending work of literary biopunk mixes the mad fun of Mad Max II with the idiosyncratic testimony of works like Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang or Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. Shortlisted for Aurealis Award for Best SF Novel 2014
Author: Matt Stephens Publisher: ISBN: 9781980702498 Category : Languages : en Pages : 451
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The Human Race was facing Extinction after total ecological collapse. As a final, desperate attempt to save the future, an Ark was built, and hidden in the one safe place left: The Bottom of the Ocean.After centuries of restoration, The Oceans now provide everything the last colony of humans could ever need. After three hundred years, humanity has made a home for itself, living as an Aquatic species. So much so, that most people have forgotten there was once life above the surface. Secrets fill every corner of the Ark-Hive. The wrong word can get you Bagged, never to be heard from again. But in a world where every breath is counted, and every conversation is monitored, and every association is calculated, there are always those who dream of something better.Cora Bridger has lived her whole life on the ocean floor. She loves it. She loves the water, she loves the Dolphin's she works with, she loves the wide open Ocean. The submariner's life has provided her with home, and love, and family. But when the surface probes report that the Surface is liveable again, Cora unexpectedly becomes the most important player in a brewing conflict over where Humanity belongs: Above, or Below.WHAT THE READERS ARE SAYING:"The Ark-Hive story just keeps getting better and better. Matthew Stephens is an awesome writer.""The Twists left me speechless!"
Author: Kevin Ahern Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0359477305 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 688
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A compilation of humor and other writings from Kevin Ahern. Includes all six of the Limerick A Day For A Year series as well as hundreds of new verses and other content.
Author: Marthe Reed Publisher: ISBN: 9781946031471 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 210
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"There are locations-like Hawai'i, like Louisiana-where cultures are unique to the place, and outsiders are made to know themselves from insiders. As a poet familiar with issues of appropriation and theft, Marthe Reed asked herself how a Californian who had lived in Providence and Perth, could write about Louisiana, a place she loved over her many years of living in Lafayette. "Writing Louisiana, outsider-inside, poles of affection and alienation push and pull against me." Her answer was to piece together an archive, and to write an epic from its documents: photographs, maps, names of birds, travel journals, histories, languages. What ultimately brings this material to life are the heart-lyrics stitched through the whole: from "threnody": "I keep the contents of my heart / stacked in wet clay / heavy with downpour," where "behind the grate the small / eyes of an armadillo / muted reek / of urine and feces[.]" The threnody she wrote was for a beautiful, fraught, and fragile place. It grieves me to write my paragraph in the past tense. Shortly before she died she told me, "We're all going to die and no one will remember us; it's ok." We are here to remember her and this ravishing, important, necessary work." --Susan M. Schultz""Marthe's Reed's 'Ark Hive,' is a poetic approach to life in south Louisiana. In the opening pages, Reed approaches her predicament as if she were a researcher placed in a foreign land, situating herself among her surroundings, in the midst of a condition of place that is both physically distant and so very different from the places she had previously lived. From there, she leans into language, the language of water, of floods and earth reclaimed, only to be lost again as the seasons change in places that are far away, the words occasionally scattered across the pages like the silt that drives the Mississippi water to the Gulf of Mexico. Ark Hive is the memoir of a person but it is also the narrative of a place, how it came to exist in the time that Reed was living there." - Amish Trivedi
Author: Stephen Paul Miller Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 0817355634 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 474
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This collection of essays is the first to address this often obscured dimension of modern and contemporary poetry: the secular Jewish dimension. Editors Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller asked their contributors to address what constitutes radical poetry written by Jews defined as "secular," and whether or not there is a Jewish component or dimension to radical and modernist poetic practice in general. These poets and critics address these questions by exploring the legacy of those poets who preceded and influenced them--Stein, Zukofsky, Reznikoff, Oppen, and Ginsberg, among others.
Author: Maria Damon
Author: Maria Damon
Author: Piers Anthony
Author: William Gibson
Author: Andrew Macrae
Author: Matt Stephens
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Author: Kevin Ahern
Author: Jacob Bryant
Author: Marthe Reed
Author: Stephen Paul Miller