The Improbable Swervings of Atoms

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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822990741
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Book Synopsis The Improbable Swervings of Atoms by : Christopher Bursk

Download or read book The Improbable Swervings of Atoms written by Christopher Bursk and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2004 Donald Hall Prize in PoetryThe Improbable Swervings of Atoms follows the comedic, often painful, physical and emotional travails of a young boy growing up in 1950s America. He watches the McCarthy hearings, conquers the Congo, assassinates the president, has his head stuffed into a toilet, drops his uniform on the fifty-yard line, and tries to make sense of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura. The poems engage history in a very intimate way, revealing how a boy, as he matures, attempts to understand the world around him, his own physical development, the people in his life, and what it means to live in a country and time where it is impossible to disengage oneself from world events—where, in fact, the quest for identity is an act that requires one to rewrite history in personal terms.

The First Inhabitants of Arcadia (p)

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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610754163
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book The First Inhabitants of Arcadia (p) written by Christopher Bursk and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The titles sing their lettered songs: "An Ode to j," "M-m-m Good!" and "O in Trouble."" "Here are "reading lessons," the author's exploration of the curses and blessings of the word. It is about the fall from paradise and the gifts that fall makes possible. And over the whole book broods the great lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, that deeply troubled caretaker of the mother tongue. More than an ABC book, this collection asks questions at the very heart of how we understand the world and shows us the glory and silliness at the heart of human life"--

American Poetry Now

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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822978180
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Book Synopsis American Poetry Now by : Ed Ochester

Download or read book American Poetry Now written by Ed Ochester and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2007-04-08 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Poetry Now is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Bob Hicok, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Virgil Suarez, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Wojahn, Dean Young, and many others. Throughout its forty-year history, the Pitt Poetry Series has provided a voice for the diversity that is American poetry, representing poets from many backgrounds without allegiance to any one school or style. American Poetry Now is a true representation of contemporary American poetry. Ed Ochester, series editor for nearly thirty years, has assembled a quintessential selection-along with biographies and photos, an enlightening introduction, and a suggested list for further reading, all in a highly accessible format. American Poetry Now is a sweeping anthology that will delight poetry fans, students, teachers, and general readers alike.

Covid ’19 True Fictions:

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664170979
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Book Synopsis Covid ’19 True Fictions: by : James Andrew Freeman

Download or read book Covid ’19 True Fictions: written by James Andrew Freeman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covid 19: True Fictions; Before, During and After... is a collection of Interconnected short stories, new and revised, peopled by car detailers, carpet cleaners, hospice volunteers, soldiers, teachers, fishermen and just plain real-life fictional folk with names like Michael, Devon, Jeff , Kathy, Cheryl, Sarah, Glen, Ben and Danielle. James Freeman’s friend and mentor, now sorely missed, said of the manuscript of this collection: “Scintillating, heartbreaking and often heartwarming new stories by a master storyteller... Freeman gets inside his characters like no one else. I am proud to call him my friend and fellow writer.”—Bill Hotchkiss, Author of Spirit Mountain, Climb to the High Country, The Medicine Calf, and many, many others (1936-2010).

Seriously Funny

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820330876
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Seriously Funny by : Barbara Hamby

Download or read book Seriously Funny written by Barbara Hamby and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, Seriously Funny ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to those that glow with quiet wit to ones in which a laugh erupts in the midst of terrible darkness. Most of the selections were made in the editors' battered compact car, otherwise known as the Seriously Funny Mobile Unit. During the two years in which Barbara Hamby and David Kirby made their choices, they'd set out with a couple of boxes of books in the back seat, and whoever wasn't driving read to the other. When they found that a poem made both of them think but laugh as well, they earmarked it. Readers will find a true generosity in these poems, an eagerness to share ideas and emotions and also to entertain. The singer Ali Farka Tour said that honey is never good when it's only in one mouth, and the editors of Seriously Funny hope its readers find much to share with others.

Poets & Writers

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The American Scholar

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis The American Scholar by : William Allison Shimer

Download or read book The American Scholar written by William Allison Shimer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Roque Dalton Redux

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Publisher : Cedar Hill Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Roque Dalton Redux written by Maggie Jaffe and published by Cedar Hill Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evensong

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Evensong by : Gerry LaFemina

Download or read book Evensong written by Gerry LaFemina and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This anthology, Evensong, is a celebration of the rich spiritual tapestry that is contemporary American religious experience. If this book is flawed recall that to be spiritual is to have faith even when one doubts, to see the flaws yet find belief. "When I write poetry, I try to give myself over to the sublime, to that which is great within, to that which knows what I don�t know I know. When I participate in the writing life, I try to be giving to that which has given to me. And, let�s face it, being a poet in America sometimes feels like taking a vow of poverty! But it also provides a community of others who share a belief in the power of poetry to be redemptive, to change the moral, emotional or spiritual landscapes if only for a brief moment. "Please consider this anthology a meeting house: not everyone has shown up to services, but they�re all here in spirit." from "Introduction" by Gerry LaFemina

The Manhattan Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Manhattan Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Of the Nature of Things

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
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Book Synopsis Of the Nature of Things by : Titus Lucretius Carus

Download or read book Of the Nature of Things written by Titus Lucretius Carus and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aberrant Movements

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1584351950
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Aberrant Movements written by David Lapoujade and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first comprehensive treatments of Deleuzian thought. There is always something schizophrenic about logic in Deleuze, which represents another distinctive characteristic: a deep perversion of the very heart of philosophy. Thus, a preliminary definition of Deleuze's philosophy emerges: an irrational logic of aberrant movements. —from Aberrant Movements In Aberrant Movements, David Lapoujade offers one of the first comprehensive treatments of Deleuzian thought. Drawing on the entirety of Deleuze's work as well as his collaborations with Félix Guattari, from the “transcendental empiricism” of Difference and Repetition to the schizoanalysis and geophilosophy of Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, Lapoujade explores the central problem underlying the delirious coherence of Deleuze's philosophy: aberrant movements. These are the movements that Deleuze wrests from Kantian idealism, Nietzsche's eternal return, and the nonsense of Lewis Carroll; they are the schizophrenic processes of the unconscious and the nomadic line of flight traversing history—in short, the forces that permeate life and thought. Tracing and classifying their “irrational logics” represent the quintessential tasks of Deleuzian philosophy. Rather than abstract notions, though, these logics constitute various modes of populating the earth—involving the human as much as the animal, physical, and chemical—and the affective, mental, and political populations that populate human thought. Lapoujade argues that aberrant movements become the figures in a combat against the forms of political, social, philosophical, aesthetic, and scientific organization that attempt to deny, counter, or crush their existence. In this study of a thinker whose insights, theoretical confrontations, and perverse critiques have profoundly influenced philosophy, literature, film, and art over the last fifty years, Lapoujade invites us to join in the discordant harmonies of Deleuze's work—and in the battle that constitutes the thought of philosophy, politics, and life.

Ovid at Fifteen

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Publisher : New Issues Poetry and Prose
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ovid at Fifteen written by Christopher Bursk and published by New Issues Poetry and Prose. This book was released on 2003 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Bursk's latest collection is not just profoundly honest; it is profoundly brave. These astonishing poems explore the space between sensuality, sexuality, and love--a landscape in which flawed human beings give birth to the flawed human beings who will one day take care of them, each generation screwing up even as it adds to the universal fund of beauty and compassion. Above all, Ovid at Fifteen reminds us what it means to feel the wonder of life too keenly--to "want to throw yourself / off the cliff, plunge / into the very heart of color." If Bursk's ordinary yet mythic heroes hold back, they do so not out of cowardice but because they remember what happened to Icarus. And so they watch, and dream, and feel, and thus "make a living / out of aching . . ." The greatness of this book lies in its immortalizing that ache, that delicious pain.

Cell Count

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Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cell Count written by Christopher Bursk and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, 1.2 million citizens were incarcerated in U.S. prisons for violent crimes and other felonies. By the year 2000, that number is expected to exceed 2 million. In response to this crisis, throughout the nation, programs built largely on the work of volunteers have risen to challenge traditional concepts about the prison system and rehabilitation, and to engender a new awareness of possibilities. Cell Count, an eloquent and sensitive collection of poems, is the product of one such program. Cell Count’s teacher-persona struggles to come to terms with his inmate-students who are tragically much more than the sum of their crimes. “Cell Count is not a book for Sunday afternoon reading. Innocently, I stepped across the line into Christopher Bursk’s world. An iron gate clanged shut, and I was alone, a red beam. . .aimed straight into my eyes, ‘digging a tunnel into my brain./I had to stare into the center of that burning/till it was all I could see.’ “Cell Count is not just a book about the prison system. When the guard-tower floodlights snap on, trapped in its crossbeams is the book’s persona—a college instructor engaged in directing a poetry workshop in a reconverted storage closet in jail or counseling individual inmates in an interview room more cramped than a cell. He is teacher, poet, political activist, a man committed to making a difference in the lives of his students, yet he doesn’t seem certain why he feels compelled to do so; he is not entirely sure he wants to try this hard. Cell Count details the life-quest of this activist who, despite his fears, his hatred of evil, his repugnance for violence, his despair at what may be a hopeless endeavor, still acts, still takes a stand.” —Robert A. Fink

Hyperboreal

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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822979144
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Book Synopsis Hyperboreal by : Joan Naviyuk Kane

Download or read book Hyperboreal written by Joan Naviyuk Kane and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyperboreal originates from diasporas. It attempts to make sense of change and to prepare for cultural, climate, and political turns that are sure to continue. The poems originate from the hope that our lives may be enriched by the expression of and reflection on the cultural strengths inherent to indigenous culture. It concerns King Island, the ancestral home of the author's family until the federal government's Bureau of Indian Affairs forcibly and permanently relocated its residents. The poems work towards the assembly of an identity, both collective and singular, that is capable of looking forward from the recollection and impact of an entire community's relocation to distant and arbitrary urban centers. Through language, Hyperboreal grants forum to issues of displacement, lack of access to traditional lands and resources and loss of family that King Island people—and all Inuit—are contending with.

A Jigsaw Puzzle

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Publisher : Finishing Line Press
ISBN 13 : 9781646626045
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book A Jigsaw Puzzle written by Neil Kennedy and published by Finishing Line Press. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Kennedy's new book, A Jigsaw Puzzle is like no other book of poetry I have ever read. From the very beginning-Flower on the floor./Somebody has lost their bloom./I am very careful.-Kennedy pulls you in, though really, as with any jigsaw puzzle, you can enter anywhere and find yourself unable to stop being enchanted by this world that gets put together one tercet at a time. Birds of all species, one chickadee setting up its home into two birdhouses, music from next door, problematic snow, little Jesus at the gas station, hourglasses, cats and dogs, timepieces and shoelaces, software malfunctions in the forgiveness machine, hammer and teacup going home together, hesitating clouds deciding whether to cast shadows or not, daffodils breaching their contract, card catalogue in the junkyard with one drawer open-this poignantly quiet rhythm and boldly observant eye unfold a landscape that is defined often by the spaces between places and moments in time. In one of the occasional breaks of the tercet form the poet writes "Behind one man's voice" and then then there's space and then "Another man's voice." In the poems to which we turn for insight and illumination we often sense poet and shadow self, the two voices talking to each other and including us in the conversation. Kennedy's A Jigsaw Puzzle, offers you a conversation to which you will want to return again and again. -Christopher Bursk, author of The Improbable Swervings of Atoms

The Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics

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Total Pages : 640 pages
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Download or read book The Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics written by Eduard Zeller and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: