Author: Eugene FieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Tribune Primer
Author: Eugene FieldThe Tribune Primer
Author: Eugene FieldThe Complete Tribune Primer
Author: Eugene FieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Tribune Primer
Author: Eugene FieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Contains a selection of short witty and humerous quips written by Eugene Field during his time as editor of the Tribune.
The Complete Tribune Primer
Author: Eugene FieldUncle Shelby'S Abz Book
Author: Shel SilversteinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 067121148X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
An adult version of the alphabet!
Wear Sunscreen
Author: Mary SchmichPublisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1449426891
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
"What she wrote was funny and wise and charming, so I would have been proud had the words been mine."--Kurt Vonnegut, New York Times Wear Sunscreen, now a hit video on YouTube.com, has been seen by millions of viewers. It all began with a column titled "Advice, Like Youth, Probably Just Wasted on the Young," written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune on June 1, 1997. Posted on the Web, Schmich's column quickly became an international sensation. Friends e-mailed it to friends, the media picked up on it, and a star was born. There was only one problem: Everyone thought the column was an actual commencement address given by author Kurt Vonnegut. Eventually, Mary Schmich was correctly identified as the author. AMP published her advice as a gift book in 1998. The following year, "Wear Sunscreen" became a hit song.
Illustrated Catalogue of Early English and Later Literature Mainly in First Editions
Author: Edwin Babcock HoldenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A Primer on Parallel Lives
Author: Dan GerberPublisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619320681
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
“Dan Gerber tenderly reels his readers through the ‘beautiful movie’ he calls the passing of time on earth in a language completely unadorned and Zen-like in its quietude. The thing itself carries the weight of these poems, which recall the deep imagery of Vallejo, Neruda and Wright.”—Rain Taxi Dan Gerber is a master of layered, bittersweet imagery. In his seventh book of poems, he writes of childhood misgivings and fears, the oak savannah landscape of California’s central coast, and a near-mystical relationship with nature. As novelist John Nichols once wrote of Gerber’s poetry, “Dan Gerber has an exquisitely muted, yet profound understanding of tragedy, love, family, and the haunting vagaries of nature.” “Some Distance” I wanted to be a stone in the field, simply that, and then I wanted to be the grass around it, and then the cattle grazing under the too blue sky, and then the blue, which has of itself no substance, and yet goes on and on and on. Dan Gerber is the author of a dozen books of poetry, fiction, essays, and memoir. He has earned the Mark Twain Award, Book of the Year honors from ForeWord Magazine, and inclusion in The Best American Poetry. He lives in Santa Ynez, California.
A Primer for Forgetting
Author: Lewis HydePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374710147
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
“One of our true superstars of nonfiction” (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture that prizes memory—how much we can store, the quality of what’s preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fear—be it in the form of illness or simple absentmindedness—but rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to peace and rebirth? A Primer for Forgetting is a remarkable experiment in scholarship, autobiography, and social criticism by the author of the classics The Gift and Trickster Makes This World. It forges a new vision of forgetfulness by assembling fragments of art and writing from the ancient world to the modern, weighing the potential boons forgetfulness might offer the present moment as a creative and political force. It also turns inward, using the author’s own life and memory as a canvas upon which to extol the virtues of a concept too long taken as an evil. Drawing material from Hesiod to Jorge Luis Borges to Elizabeth Bishop to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, from myths and legends to very real and recent traumas both personal and historical, A Primer for Forgetting is a unique and remarkable synthesis that only Lewis Hyde could have produced.