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Mimi's Trapeze

Author : J. Allyn Rosser
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822980274
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Mimi's Trapeze written by J. Allyn Rosser and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosser's poems have always given a squinty sideways glance at cultural foibles and assumptions. Her distinctive brand of cheery skepticism implies that the genuine pursuit of truth is a virtue that renders tolerable the intolerable. These poems achieve a lyricism that gives free reign to the lush energies of language while remaining transparent enough to communicate something precise, fresh, and unsettling. A driving force behind the poems in Mimi's Trapeze is Rosser's profound curiosity about all forms and conditions of life. Without distorting fact or motive, her speakers seek to navigate the mazes of our messy quotidian infelicities, ranging from imperfect love to squashing turtles on the road—from the history of artistic misrepresentations of women to global warming—attempting to calibrate the beautifully complex balance between desire and responsibility. This collection dwells more on mortality and the lamentable state of the planet (and the spiritual unsoundness of its denizens) than her previous work. Another new vein can be traced in several poems that seek to distill a state like adolescence into a single word ("Dyahe"), reduce vast movements and disciplines into epigrammatic nutshells (Miniature Histories of the World"), or isolate a condition like grief in an element as simple as salt ("After the Service, the Widow Considers the Etymology of Salary"). In Mimi's Trapeze, her fourth book, Rosser takes a lighthearted view of dark subjects (see "Final Invitation"), and a dark view of light ones ("Intro to Happiness"). She has refined her vision, reaffirming her belief that poetry is the most direct and effective way for humans to alleviate their loneliness.

The Allure of Grammar

Author : Douglas R. Rutledge
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472125060
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Allure of Grammar written by Douglas R. Rutledge and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Angie Estes, the poet and critic Stephanie Burt has written that she “has created some of the most beautiful verbal objects in the world.” In The Allure of Grammar, Doug Rutledge gathers insightful responses to the full range of Estes’s work—from a review of her first chapbook to a reading of a poem appearing in her 2018 book, Parole—that approach these beautiful verbal objects with both intellectual rigor and genuine awe. In addition to presenting an overview of critical reactions to Estes’s oeuvre, reviews by Langdon Hammer, Julianne Buchsbaum, and Christopher Spaide also provide a helpful context for approaching a poet who claims to distrust narrative. Original essays consider the craft of Estes’s poetry and offer literary analysis. Ahren Warner uses line breaks to explore a postmodern analysis of Estes’s work. Mark Irwin looks at her poetic structure. Lee Upton employs a feminist perspective to explore Estes’s use of italics, and B. K. Fischer looks at the way she uses dance as a poetic image. Doug Rutledge considers her relationship to Dante and to the literary tradition through her use of ekphrasis. An interview with Estes herself, in which she speaks of a poem as an “arranged place . . . where experience happens,” adds her perspective to the mix, at turns resonating with and challenging her critics. The Allure of Grammar will be useful for teachers and students of creative writing interested in the craft of non-narrative poetry. Readers of contemporary poetry who already admire Estes will find this collection insightful, while those not yet familiar with her work will come away from these essays eager to seek out her books.

Best American Poetry 2018

Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501127810
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Best American Poetry 2018 written by David Lehman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry—“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune)—collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia. The guest editor for 2018, Dana Gioia, has an unconventional poetic background. Gioia has published five volumes of poetry, served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently sits as the Poet Laureate of California, but he is also a graduate of Stanford Business School and was once a Vice President at General Foods. He has studied opera and is a published librettist, in addition to his prolific work in critical essay writing and editing literary anthologies. Having lived several lives, Gioia brings an insightful, varied, eclectic eye to this year’s Best American Poetry. With his classic essay “Can Poetry Matter?”, originally run in The Atlantic in 1991, Gioia considered whether there is a place for poetry to be a part of modern American mainstream culture. Decades later, the debate continues, but Best American Poetry 2018 stands as evidence that poetry is very much present, relevant, and finding new readers.

The Women Who Made Early Disneyland

Author : Cindy Mediavilla
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666910554
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The Women Who Made Early Disneyland written by Cindy Mediavilla and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although historians have begun to recognize the accomplishments of Disney Studio’s female animators, the women who contributed to the early success of Disneyland remain, for the most part, unacknowledged. Indeed, in celebrating the park’s ten-year anniversary in 1965, Walt Disney thanked “all the boys . . . who’ve been a part of this thing,” even though hundreds of women had also been instrumental in designing, building and operating Disneyland since before its grand opening in July 1955. Seeking to reclaim women’s place in the early history of Disneyland, The Women Who Made Early Disneyland highlights the female Disney employees and contract workers who helped make the park one of the most popular U.S. destinations during its first ten years. Some, like artist Mary Blair, Imagineers Harriet Burns and Alice Davis, “Slue Foot Sue” Betty Taylor, and Disneyland’s first “ambassador,” Julie Reihm, eventually became Disney “legends.” Others remain less well known, including landscape architect Ruth Shellhorn, parade choreographer Miriam Nelson, Aunt Jemima’s Kitchen hostess Alyene Lewis, and Tiny Kline, who at age seventy-one became the first Tinker Bell to fly over Disneyland. This one-of-a-kind book examines the lives and achievements of the women who made early Disneyland.

His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

Author : Mimi Mondal
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250237548
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light written by Mimi Mondal and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am not a fighter. I am a trapeze master. An act of compassion puts a trapeze artist in India on a collision course with a terrifying supernatural power in His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light: a Tor.com Original from Dalit writer Mimi Mondal. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Misfits #1: A Royal Conundrum

Author : Lisa Yee
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1984830325
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Misfits #1: A Royal Conundrum written by Lisa Yee and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a notorious thief is out for priceless treasure (gems! cats! general decorum!)—who're you gonna call? An elite team of crime-fighting underdogs, that's who! The Misfits are on the case in this hilarious illustrated series from Newbery Honoree Lisa Yee and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat! “For any kid who’s felt like a misfit, this crackling adventure packs a wallop!” —Lincoln Peirce, creator of Big Nate and Max & the Midknights Olive Cobin Zang has . . . issues. And they mostly aren’t her fault. (No, really!) Though she often slips under the radar, problems have a knack for finding her. So, imagine her doubts when she’s suddenly dropped off at the strangest boarding school ever: a former castle turned prison that's now a “reforming arts school”! But nothing could’ve prepared Olive for RASCH (not “rash”). There, she’s lumped with a team of other kids who never quite fit in, and discovers that the academy isn’t what it seems—and neither is she. In fact, RASCH is a cover for an elite group of misfits who fight crime . . . and Olive has arrived just in time. Turns out that RASCH is in danger of closing, unless Olive’s class can stop the heist of the century. And as Olive falls in love with this wacky school, she realizes it’s up to her new team to save the only home that’s ever welcomed them.

Danger on the Flying Trapeze

Author : Dave Jackson
Publisher : Bethany House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781556614699
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Danger on the Flying Trapeze written by Dave Jackson and published by Bethany House Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casey convinces his family to join the circus but a terrifying accident leaves him paralyzed with fear. Ages 8-12.

The Cambridge Companion to the Circus

Author : Gillian Arrighi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108617689
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Circus written by Gillian Arrighi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Circus provides a complete guide for students, scholars, teachers, researchers, and practitioners who are seeking perspectives on the foundations and evolution of the modern circus, the contemporary extent of circus studies, and the specialised literature available to support further enquiries. The volume brings together an international group of established and emerging scholars working across the multi-disciplinary domain of circus studies to present a clear overview of the specialised histories, aesthetics and distinctive performances of the modern circus. In sixteen commissioned essays, it covers the origins in commercial equestrian performance during the late-eighteenth century to contemporary inflections of circus arts in major international festivals, educational environments, and social justice settings.

Mimi and Bear Make a Friend

Author : Janee Trasler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466897066
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Mimi and Bear Make a Friend written by Janee Trasler and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mimi is used to being the best mountain climber, the best treasure hunter, and the best trapeze artist in the park—that is, until a new kid turns up. What's worse is that he is better than her at all of these things. But when a need for a friend arises, Mimi learns that she is a really good one. Mimi and Bear Make a Friend brings a sweet, charming story to little ones learning what it means to be a friend.

Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler

Author : Alexandra Pierce
Publisher : Twelfth Planet Press
ISBN 13 : 1922101435
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler written by Alexandra Pierce and published by Twelfth Planet Press. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the science fiction genre who paved the way for future African American writers and other writers of colour. Original essays and letters sourced and curated for this collection explore Butler’s depiction of power relationships, her complex treatment of race and identity, and her impact on feminism and women in Science Fiction. Follow the luminescent threads that connect Octavia E. Butler and her body of work to the many readers and writers who have found inspiration in her words, and the complex universes she created.

The Georgia Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1110 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Georgia Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Green Mountains Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Green Mountains Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Harper's Weekly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harper's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mimi and Toutou Go Forth

Author : Giles Foden
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141946571
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Mimi and Toutou Go Forth written by Giles Foden and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon 'Tanganjikasee', as the Germans called it. This mattered: it was the longest lake in the world and of great strategic advantage. In June 1915, a force of 28 men was despatched from Britain on a vast journey. Their orders were to take control of the lake. To reach it, they had to haul two motorboats with the unlikely names of Mimi and Toutou through the wilds of the Congo. The 28 were a strange bunch -- one was addicted to Worcester sauce, another was a former racing driver -- but the strangest of all of them was their skirt-wearing, tattoo-covered commander, Geoffrey Spicer-Simson. Whatever it took, even if it meant becoming the god of a local tribe, he was determined to cover himself in glory. But the Germans had a surprise in store for Spicer-Simson, in the shape of their secret 'supership' the Graf von Gotzen . . . Unearthing new German and African records, the prize-winning author of The Last King of Scotland retells this most unlikely of true-life tales with his customary narrative energy and style. Fitzcarraldo meets Heart of Darkness, this is rich, vivid and flashmanesque in its appeal - military history at its most absorbing and entertaining

Diversity and Change in Early Canadian Women’s Writing

Author : Jennifer Chambers
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443815055
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Diversity and Change in Early Canadian Women’s Writing written by Jennifer Chambers and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diversity and Change in Early Canadian Women’s Writing is a collection of nine essays, thematically arranged, dedicated to the works of women writing between 1828 and 1914. It is for all those readers who were certain that there had to be diverse, interesting, socially relevant voices in early Canadian women’s writing. It is, equally, for sceptics, who will find that early Canada is not bereft of women writers, or of writing of substance. When Lorraine McMullen published the collection of essays Re(dis)covering Our Foremothers in 1990, she considered the field in its infancy. As keen as literary historians and critics have been to assess the contributions of women to Canada’s early cultural scene, this collection moves beyond listing which women were writing in early Canada, and brings together a study of their journalistic and literary works. For a nation caught up in projects to enhance nation-building, and concerned with the development of its national literature, the essays reconnect with early literary works by women. Eighteen years after McMullen’s, this collection shows the progression along the path that hers initiated. Working with theories of genre, gender, socio-politics, literature, history, and drama, the essayists make cases not only for the women writing, but also for the literary voices they created to work for diversity and social change in Canada.

Surrealism

Author : Penelope Rosemont
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 0872868265
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Surrealism written by Penelope Rosemont and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of personal and historical encounters with surrealism from one of its foremost practitioners in the United States. "Penelope Rosemont has given us, better than anyone else in the English language, a marvelous, meticulous exploration of the surrealist experience, in all its infinite variety."—Gerome Kamrowski, American Surrealist Painter One of the hallmarks of Surrealism is the encounter, often by chance, with a key person, place, or object through a trajectory no one could have predicted. Penelope Rosemont draws on a lifetime of such experiences in her collection of essays, Surrealism: Inside the Magnetic Fields. From her youthful forays as a radical student in Chicago to her pivotal meeting with André Breton and the Surrealist Movement in Paris, Rosemont—one of the movement's leading exponents in the United States—documents her unending search for the Marvelous. Surrealism finds her rubbing shoulders with some of the movement's most important visual artists, such as Man Ray, Leonora Carrington, Mimi Parent, and Toyen; discussing politics and spectacle with Guy Debord; and crossing paths with poet Ted Joans and outsider artist Lee Godie. The book also includes scholarly investigations into American radicals like George Francis Train and Mary MacLane, the myth of the Golden Goose, and Dada precursor Emmy Hennings. Praise for Surrealism: "Rosemont is not delivering dry abstractions, as so many academic 'specialists,' but telling us about warm and exciting human encounters, illuminated by the subversive spirit of Permanent Enchantment."—Michael Löwy, author of Ecosocialism "This compelling and well-drawn book lets us see the adventures, inspirations, and relationships that have shaped Penelope Rosemont's art and rebellion."—David Roediger, author of Class, Race, and Marxism "The broad sampling of essays included here offer a compelling entry point for curious readers and an essential compendium for surrealist practitioners."—Abigail Susik, professor of art history, Willamette University "Rosemont's welcome memoir has a double virtue, as testament to the enduring radiance of Surrealism, and as a memento to the Sixties, revealing a sweetly beating wonderment at the heart of that absurdly maligned decade."—Jed Rasula, author of Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century "Artist, historian, and social activist, Rosemont writes from the inside out. Like a rare, hybrid flower growing out of the earth, she complicates, expands, and opens the strange and beautiful meadow where Surrealism continues to live and thrive.”—Sabrina Orah Mark, author of Wild Milk "In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Penelope Rosemont, long a keeper of surrealism's revolutionary flame, shows how a penetrating look into the past can liberate the future."—Andrew Joron, author of The Absolute Letter "Rosemont recreates the feverish antics and immediate reception her close-knit, sleep-deprived, beat-attired squad find in the established, moray-breaking Parisian and international surrealists. Revolution is here, between the covers."—Gillian Conoley, author of A Little More Red Sun on the Human: New and Selected Poems and translator of Thousand Times Broken: Three Books by Henri Michaux

The Spy Who Came in from the Circus

Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785908863
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book The Spy Who Came in from the Circus written by Christopher Andrew and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost half a century, Bertram Mills Circus was a household name throughout Britain among both children and adults and it's Director, Cyril Bertram Mills, was one of the best-known and most influential names in the country's entertainment business. But for forty years, Cyril Mills had also enjoyed a top-secret and wide-ranging career in British intelligence: obtaining the best aerial intelligence on Nazi rearmament for MI6 before the Second World War; becoming the first case officer to monitor the best double agent (Garbo) of the war after joining MI5; and working part-time during the Cold War 'for MI5 or 6 or both without being paid a penny'. Remarkably, no word of Mills's secret career appeared in public until he was over eighty. Nobody suspected that the glamorous world of pre-war circus entertainment had been an extraordinarily fitting rehearsal for the lethal arena of deception and surveillance. In this remarkable true story, Christopher Andrew, best-selling official biographer of MI5, brings to life one of the most surprising and fascinating tales of espionage ever told.