Author: Forrest Gander
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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A new collection by one of America's most respected young experimental poets.

Author: Ian Wood
Publisher: Ian Wood
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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It might surprise many people to learn that the USA is, in its grass roots, just as fundamentalist a nation as is any Islamic republic. Passionate religious fervor drives at least forty percent of the electorate and through it, faith is striving to push back hard-won freedoms on every front. Belief is working to defeat or contain advances in so many areas, including scientific research and medicine. What if, in this blinkered horse-race, the reins were lost and in the future, through one blunder after another, the USA became even more deeply invested in fundamentalism? It's already on the way of late. When blind and power-hungry people adorn themselves with the raiment of gods, it's ordinary, everyday people whose lives become Hell. This is the story of someone, in the not-too-distant future, who fought that good fight.

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Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Author: Reginald Shepherd
Publisher: Counterpath Press
ISBN: 1933996064
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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Poetry. LYRIC POSTMODERNISMS gathers many well established poets whose work transcends the boundaries between traditional lyric and avant-garde experimentation. Some have been publishing since the 1960s, some have emerged more recently, but all have been influential on newer generations of American poets. Many of these poets are usually not thought of together, being considered as members of different poetic "camps," but they nonetheless participate in a common project of expanding the boundaries of what can be said and done in poetry. This anthology sheds new light on their work, creating a new constellation of contemporary American poetry. This collection provides an opportunity for readers to get to know the work of many writers who may not have received the attention their work and its impact on newer writers deserve. Unlike many anthologies that offer only snippets of writers' work, it contains substantial selections from each poet. Uniquely, it also includes aesthetic statements from each author, which can offer an entryway for readers unfamiliar with the work. Contributors: Nathaniel Mackey, Suzanne Paola, Bin Ramke, Donald Revell, Martha Ronk, Aaron Shurin, Carol Snow, Susan Stewart, Cole Swensen, Rosmarie Waldrop, Marjorie Welish, Elizabeth Willis, Bruce Beasley, Martine Bellen, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Gillian Conoley, Kathleen Fraser, Forrest Gander, C. S. Giscombe, Peter Gizzi, Brenda Hillman, Claudia Keelan, Timothy Liu.

Author: Anne Michaels
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593536878
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE GILLER PRIZE • A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault—a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate 1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls—a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near a different river. He is alive but still not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and tries to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts with messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations of connections and consequences that ignite and reignite as the century unfolds. In radiant moments of desire, comprehension, longing, and transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later. Held is affecting and intensely beautiful, full of mystery, wisdom, and compassion, a novel by a writer at the height of her powers.

Author: Edgar S. Werner
Publisher:
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Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 684

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Author: Bruce Bauman
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590514491
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 657

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Spanning 1940s to 2020s America, a Pynchon-esque saga about rock music, art, politics, and the elusive nature of love Meet everyman Moses Teumer, whose recent diagnosis of an aggressive form of leukemia has sent him in search of a donor. When he discovers that the woman who raised him is not his biological mother, he must hunt down his birth parents and unspool the intertwined destinies of the Teumer and Savant families. Salome Savant, Moses’s birth mother, is an avant-garde artist who has spent her life in and out of a mental health facility. Her son and Moses’s half-brother, Alchemy Savant, the mercurial front man of the world-renowned rock band The Insatiables, abandons music to launch a political campaign to revolutionize 2020s America. And then there’s Ambitious Mindswallow, aka Ricky McFinn, who journeys from juvenile delinquency in Queens to being The Insatiables’ bassist and Alchemy’s Sancho Panza. Bauman skillfully weaves the threads that intertwine these characters and the histories that divide them, creating a postmodern vision of America that is at once sweeping, irreverent, and heartbreaking.

Author: North Dakota
Publisher:
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Category : North Dakota
Languages : en
Pages : 1726

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Author: Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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