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Does This Book Make My Head Look Fat?

Author : Mack Dryden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937875039
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Does This Book Make My Head Look Fat? written by Mack Dryden and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mack Dryden, born and educated in Mississippi, has made a living making people laugh since an air purifier was a box of matches. As a comedian, he's performed on dozens of TV shows, including The Tonight Show and his own show, Comedy Break. He was handpicked by Bill Maher for the writing staff of Politically Incorrect, and his cartoons have appeared in numerous publications, including his first illustrated book, Remember When Safe Sex Meant All the Car Doors Were Locked? Does This Book Make My Head Look Fat? is a collection of this world-class humorist's funniest columns, cartoons, standup riffs, and lyrics, and every page is crammed with belly laughs.

Hard Damage

Author : Aria Aber
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496218957
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Hard Damage written by Aria Aber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations. Drawing on material dating back to the 1950s, she considers the consequences of these relations--in particular the funding of the Afghan mujahedeen, which led to the Taliban and modern-day Islamic terrorism--for her family and the world at large. Invested in and suspicious of the pain of family and the shame of selfhood, the speakers of these richly evocative and musical poems mourn the magnitude of citizenship as a state of place and a state of mind. While Hard Damage is framed by free-verse poetry, the middle sections comprise a lyric essay in fragments and a long documentary poem. Aber explores Rilke in the original German, the urban melancholia of city life, inherited trauma, and displacement on both linguistic and environmental levels, while employing surrealist and eerily domestic imagery.

The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry

Author : Cecilia Vicuña
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195124545
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry written by Cecilia Vicuña and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most inclusive single-volume anthology of Latin American poetry intranslation ever produced.

Ward

Author : Ryan Vine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781680032598
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Ward written by Ryan Vine and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rumpus, in a review of his work, labeled poet Ryan Vine "a raconteur," and his superior story-telling skills are on full display in WARD. The poems are witty, teeming with dark humor, political, playful, and the sardonic tone is pitch-perfect for our times, when we seem to have forgotten that an important survival strategy is the ability to laugh at ourselves. In its heart of hearts, WARD is a book about ethos and mythos, about the creation of a character and the investigation of voice. As one critic, Taylor Collier, wrote: "In the tradition of Kees's Crusoe poems, Berryman's Henry poems, and to some degree Yeats's Crazy Jane poems, [Vine] builds a series of poems around a central character as a means of investigating both interior and exterior contemporary realities." WARD also reads like a book concerned with the beginning, middle, and end. The poet Connie Wanek wrote, "the character Ward, part sage, part drunk, part father, part amigo, part real and part myth, meanders through the book, and his recurring presence, and the interplay between the persona of the poet and Ward, lend it a narrative quality."

The Andrew Poems

Author : Shelly Wagner
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896723191
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book The Andrew Poems written by Shelly Wagner and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is poetry about a parent losing a child -- and so much more. The author takes us on a journey through sorrow and love into healing and understanding.

Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club

Author : Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN 13 : 1935955322
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Everything Begins & Ends at the Kentucky Club written by Benjamin Alire Sáenz and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Benjamin Alire S enz's stories reveal how all borders--real, imagined, sexual, human, the line between dark and light, addict and straight--entangle those who live on either side. Take, for instance, the Kentucky Club on Avenida Ju rez two blocks south of the Rio Grande. It's a touchstone for each of S enz's stories. His characters walk by, they might go in for a drink or to score, or they might just stay there for a while and let their story be told. S enz knows that the Kentucky Club, like special watering holes in all cities, is the contrary to borders. It welcomes Spanish and English, Mexicans and gringos, poor and rich, gay and straight, drug addicts and drunks, laughter and sadness, and even despair. It's a place of rich history and good drinks and cold beer and a long polished mahogany bar. Some days it smells like piss. "I'm going home to the other side." That's a strange statement, but you hear it all the time at the Kentucky Club. Benjamin Alire S enz is a highly regarded writer of fiction, poetry, and children's literature. Like these stories, his writing crosses borders and lands in our collective psyche. Poets & Writers Magazine named him one of the fifty most inspiring writers in the world. He's been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN Center's prestigious award for young adult fiction. S enz is the chair of the creative writing department of University of Texas at El Paso. Awards: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Lambda Literary Award Southwest Book Award

Pickers and Poets

Author : Craig E. Clifford
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623494478
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Pickers and Poets written by Craig E. Clifford and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on an essential thread in this tapestry: the Texas singer-songwriters to whom the contributors refer as “ruthlessly poetic.” All songs require good lyrics, but for these songwriters, the poetic quality and substance of the lyrics are front and center. Obvious candidates for this category would include Townes Van Zandt, Michael Martin Murphey, Guy Clark, Steve Fromholz, Terry Allen, Kris Kristofferson, Vince Bell, and David Rodriguez. In a sense, what these songwriters were doing in small, intimate live-music venues like the Jester Lounge in Houston, the Chequered Flag in Austin, and the Rubaiyat in Dallas was similar to what Bob Dylan was doing in Greenwich Village. In the language of the times, these were “folksingers.” Unlike Dylan, however, these were folksingers writing songs about their own people and their own origins and singing in their own vernacular. This music, like most great poetry, is profoundly rooted. That rootedness, in fact, is reflected in the book’s emphasis on place and the powerful ways it shaped and continues to shape the poetry and music of Texas singer-songwriters. From the coffeehouses and folk clubs where many of the “founders” got their start to the Texas-flavored festivals and concerts that nurtured both their fame and the rise of a new generation, the indelible stamp of origins is inseparable from the work of these troubadour-poets. Please see the listing for the print edition to view the table of contents for this title.

The Last Resort

Author : Jack Crocker
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Last Resort written by Jack Crocker and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems fall overlapping silos: poems about the making of poems; about time's abrasions; about nature's benign/malevolent indifference; about the cultural tattoos of growing up in the Mississippi Delta; about women, guilt, and love; and about the inescapable separateness of the first-person pronoun.

The Ghost Stories of Terrell, Texas

Author : Brenda Newby
Publisher : Brenda-Newby
ISBN 13 : 9781733741002
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Stories of Terrell, Texas written by Brenda Newby and published by Brenda-Newby. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange orbs, ghostly apparitions, unsettling noises from invisible sources... all of the things you want in a great ghost story. Allegedly, true paranormal events by those that shared them with us (and some experienced by us first hand). A collection of spooky, eerie stories that seem to be abundant in and around this little town's small business district. Ghost stories for adults that will leave you with chills but appropriate enough to tell the kids by the campfire.

Hey, Marfa

Author : Jeffrey Yang
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 9781555978198
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book Hey, Marfa written by Jeffrey Yang and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary lyric and visual meditation on place, nature, and art rippling out from Marfa, Texas Situated in the outreaches of southwest Texas, the town of Marfa has long been an oasis for artists, immigrants looking for work, and ranchers, while the ghosts of the indigenous and the borders between languages and nations are apparent everywhere. The poet and translator Jeffrey Yang experienced the vastness of desert, township, sky, and time itself as a profound clash of dislocation and familiarity. What does it mean to survive in a physical and metaphorical desert? How does a habitat long associated with wilderness and death become a center for nourishment and art? Out of those experiences and questions, Yang has fashioned a fascinating, multifaceted work—an anti-travel guide, an anti-Western, a book of last words—that is a lyrical, anthropological investigation into history, culture, and extremity of place. Paintings and drawings of Marfa’s landscapes and substations by the artist Rackstraw Downes intertwine with Yang’s texts as mutual nodes and lines of energy. Hey, Marfa is a desert diary scaled to music that aspires to emit particles of light.

Why I Am Like Tequila

Author : Lupe Mendez
Publisher : Willow Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781732209176
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Why I Am Like Tequila written by Lupe Mendez and published by Willow Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-05 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry collection by Lupe Mendez, poet, teacher and activist. Why I Am Like Tequila is a collection of poetry spanning a decade of writing and performance. This collection exists in 4 parts - each a layered perspective, a look through a Mexican/ Mexican-American voice living in the Texas Gulf Coast. Set within spaces such as Galveston Island, Houston, the Rio Grande Valley and Jalisco, Mexico, these poems peel away at all parts, like the maguey, drawing to craft spirits, quenching a thirst between land and sea.

Texas... To Get Horses

Author : Kimberly G Wieser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781928708018
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Texas... To Get Horses written by Kimberly G Wieser and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kimberly Wieser takes us on an expansive journey across mixedblood Indian Americana in this collection of poetry. Home is a place where our surroundings are familiar, an embodiment of one's very own being. It represents a sacred place for healing. "Na he dum--Cheyenne for 'I'm telling the truth'--is the phrase that lingers after reading Kimberly Wieser's no-holds-barred roaring whirlwind of a collection. This is the poetry of a woman, unabashed and unafraid, speaking from her whole mind and whole heart, emphatically declaring, here is the truth of my history, my people, my family, my body, my sex, my languages, my being, my very spirit. Written with unflinching eyes, this is work without hesitation or doubt, that refuses suffering and victimization, that celebrates survival and memory." --ire'ne lara silva, author of Flesh to Bone and Blood Sugar Cantos

Your Blue and the Quiet Lament

Author : Lubna Safi
Publisher : Walt McDonald First-Book Poetr
ISBN 13 : 9781682831397
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Your Blue and the Quiet Lament written by Lubna Safi and published by Walt McDonald First-Book Poetr. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on grief, death, and distance.

Writer's Market 100th Edition

Author : Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593332032
Total Pages : 913 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Writer's Market 100th Edition written by Robert Lee Brewer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most trusted guide to getting published, fully revised and updated Want to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer's Market, 100th edition guide you through the process. It's the ultimate reference with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards, and literary agents—as well as new playwriting and screenwriting sections, along with contact and submission information. Beyond the listings, you'll find articles devoted to the business and promotion of writing. Discover 20 literary agents actively seeking writers and their writing, how to develop an author brand, and overlooked funds for writers. This 100th edition also includes the ever-popular pay-rate chart and book publisher subject index. You'll gain access to: Thousands of updated listings for book publishers, magazines, contests, and literary agents Articles devoted to the business and promotion of writing A newly revised "How Much Should I Charge?" pay rate chart Sample query letters for fiction and nonfiction Lists of professional writing organizations

Harbingers of Books to Come

Author : Dave Oliphant
Publisher : Wings Press
ISBN 13 : 1609400690
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Harbingers of Books to Come written by Dave Oliphant and published by Wings Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major autobiography by a Texas poet, this noteworthy account traces the life and times of a poet, publisher, critic, and teacher from his childhood to the present day. This remarkable life is examined through the works it produced--25 books in the fields of poetry, fiction, translation, jazz history, and book reviewing. Proving that the literary and intellectual life in Texas far surpasses the state's stereotypes, this record shows how the poet was instrumental in connecting Texas with many Latin American writers as well as with a wide world of music.

Texas in Poetry 2

Author : Billy Bob Hill
Publisher : TCU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875652672
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Texas in Poetry 2 written by Billy Bob Hill and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And, of course, one poem about Texas that is magnificent in its awfulness, "Lasca," with memorable lines like "Scratches don't count/In Texas down by the Rio Grande."".

Writer's Market 2019

Author : Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440354510
Total Pages : 1638 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Writer's Market 2019 written by Robert Lee Brewer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 1638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer's Market 2019 guide you through the process with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, including listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards, and literary agents--as well as new playwriting and screenwriting sections. These listings feature contact and submission information to help writers get their work published. Beyond the listings, you'll find all-new material devoted to the business and promotion of writing. Discover the secrets to ten-minute marketing, how to make money covering live events, and seven steps to doubling your writing income. Plus, you'll learn how to do video effectively, create a business plan for success, and so much more. This edition includes the ever-popular pay-rate chart and book publisher subject index! You also gain access to: • Lists of professional writing organizations • Sample query letters