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Guantanamo Voices

Author : Sarah Mirk
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 164700120X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Guantanamo Voices written by Sarah Mirk and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever. In January 2002, the United States sent a group of Muslim men they suspected of terrorism to a prison in Guantánamo Bay. They were the first of roughly 780 prisoners who would be held there—and forty inmates still remain. Eighteen years later, very few of them have been ever charged with a crime. In Guantánamo Voices, journalist Sarah Mirk and her team of diverse, talented graphic novel artists tell the stories of ten people whose lives have been shaped and affected by the prison, including former prisoners, lawyers, social workers, and service members. This collection of illustrated interviews explores the history of Guantánamo and the world post-9/11, presenting this complicated partisan issue through a new lens. “These stories are shocking, essential, haunting, thought-provoking. This book should be required reading for all earthlings.” —The Iowa Review “This anthology disturbs and illuminates in equal measure.” —Publishers Weekly “Editor Mirk presents an extraordinary chronicle of the notorious prison, featuring first-person accounts by prisoners, guards, and other constituents that demonstrate the facility’s cruel reputation. . . . An eye-opening, damning indictment of one of America’s worst trespasses that continues to this day.” —Kirkus Reviews

An Ocean in Iowa

Author : Peter Hedges
Publisher : RosettaBooks
ISBN 13 : 0795343183
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book An Ocean in Iowa written by Peter Hedges and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “funny and supremely moving”novel about a seven-year-old navigating a world of turmoil by the author of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (Harper’s Bazaar). Seven-year-old Scotty Ocean decides that seven is going to be “his year.” But soon after his birthday, his artist-turned-alcoholic mother abandons the family—leaving Scotty and his two older sisters alone with their father. As his perfect year falls apart, Scotty begins to act out during school and takes a series of increasingly wild actions to try to win his mother back—and, when that doesn’t work, to replace her. Funny and deeply affecting, An Ocean in Iowa traces Scotty’s desperate attempt to hold on to his childhood while the foundation of his family disintegrates. As Scotty’s year as a seven-year-old flies by—and the dreaded eight approaches—Peter Hedges explores how Scotty sheds his childhood in a one-eighty of the year he hoped would be so perfect. Beautifully written, and with careful attention to period detail, this compelling coming-of-age novel sets the private turmoil of a disintegrating family against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the turbulent 1960s. “A delightful romp through the age of seven with an endearing character who revels in life’s smallest details.” —The Christian Science Monitor

Beauty was the Case that They Gave Me

Author : Mark Leidner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983520306
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Beauty was the Case that They Gave Me written by Mark Leidner and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. BEAUTY WAS THE CASE THAT THEY GAVE ME is Mark Leidner's first full-length collection of poems. A collection of poems that might make you feel like a flower, like a black hole, like punishment meted out at night by a giant tractor, like you have to get on fire, then slowly walk around your old neighborhood, like the town was real, like she thinks swoon is a funnier word than mulligan, and he thinks swoon is a funny word too, but no way in hell is it funnier than mulligan, like he's searching for the Holy Grail and she has little Holy Grail-shaped pupils, like an effusion of steam, like what's cool changes, like hemisphere paint, like a blue flower, like the house you have lived above forever.

We Heard It When We Were Young

Author : Chuy Renteria
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609388054
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book We Heard It When We Were Young written by Chuy Renteria and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Heard It When We Were Young tells the story of a young boy, first-generation Mexican American, who is torn between cultures: between immigrant parents trying to acclimate to midwestern life and a town that is, by turns, supportive and disturbingly antagonistic.

Soft Science

Author : Franny Choi
Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1948579553
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Soft Science written by Franny Choi and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris Review Staff Pick A Book Riot Must-Read Poetry Collection Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness—how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation. We are dropped straight into the tangled intersections of technology, violence, erasure, agency, gender, and loneliness. "Choi creates an exhilarating matrix of poetry, science, and technology." —Publishers Weekly "Franny Choi combines technology and poetry to stunning effect." –BUSTLE “…these beautiful, fractal-like poems are meditations on identity and autonomy and offer consciousness-expanding forays into topics like violence and gender, love and isolation.” –NYLON

Storm Lake

Author : Art Cullen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525558888
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Storm Lake written by Art Cullen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A reminder that even the smallest newspapers can hold the most powerful among us accountable."—The New York Times Book Review Watch the documentary Storm Lake on PBS. Iowa plays an outsize role in national politics. Iowa introduced Barack Obama and voted bigly for Donald Trump. But is it a bellwether for America, a harbinger of its future? Art Cullen’s answer is complicated and honest. In truth, Iowa is losing ground. The Trump trade wars are hammering farmers and manufacturers. Health insurance premiums and drug prices are soaring. That’s what Iowans are dealing with, and the problems they face are the problems of the heartland. In this candid and timely book, Art Cullen—the Storm Lake Times newspaperman who won a Pulitzer Prize for taking on big corporate agri-industry and its poisoning of local rivers—describes how the heartland has changed dramatically over his career. In a story where politics, agriculture, the environment, and immigration all converge, Cullen offers an unsentimental ode to rural America and to the resilient people of a vibrant community of fifteen thousand in Northwest Iowa, as much survivors as their town.

Machine

Author : Susan Steinberg
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555978916
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Machine written by Susan Steinberg and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning, the first novel by the author of Spectacle Susan Steinberg’s first novel, Machine, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book, Spectacle, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate, she pieces together the details of this tragedy, as well as the breakdown of her own family, and learns that no one, not even she, is blameless. A daring stylist, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender, class, privilege, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel—relentless and bold—that only Susan Steinberg could have written.

Spectacle

Author : Susan Steinberg
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970648
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Spectacle written by Susan Steinberg and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inventive new collection from the author of Hydroplane and The End of Free Love * A San Francisco Chronicle, Complex, Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy and Slaughterhouse 90210 Best Book of the Year * In these innovative linked stories, women confront loss and grief as they sift through the wreckage of their lives. In the title story, a woman struggles with the death of her friend in a plane crash. A daughter decides whether to take her father off life support in the Pushcart Prize-winning "Cowboys." And in "Underthings," when a man hits his girlfriend, she calls it an accident. Spectacle bears witness to alarming and strange incidents: carnival rides and plane crashes, affairs spied through keyholes and amateur porn, vandalism and petty theft. These wounded women stand at the edge of disaster and risk it all to speak their sharpest secrets. In lean, acrobatic prose, Susan Steinberg subverts assumptions about narrative and challenges conventional gender roles. She delivers insight with a fierce lyric intensity in sentences shorn of excessive sentiment or unnecessary ornament. By fusing style and story, Steinberg amplifies the connections between themes and characters so that each devastating revelation echoes throughout the collection. A vital and turbulent book from a distinctive voice, Spectacle will break your heart, and then, before the last page is turned, will bind it up anew. "Experimental but never opaque, Steinberg's stories seethe with real and imagined menace." —Publishers Weekly

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy

Author : W. P. Kinsella
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618340804
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Iowa Baseball Confederacy written by W. P. Kinsella and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling "Shoeless Joe" comes another vintage baseball tale that "like magic . . . holds together and entices you from one page to the next, until at the end you ache for more" ("Milwaukee Journal").

By the Iowa Sea

Author : Joe Blair
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451636067
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book By the Iowa Sea written by Joe Blair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's transformation from an idealistic, freedom-loving youth to a jaded and financially struggling father of four and how a catastrophic flood helped him to reconnect with the faith and courage of his childhood.

Frontierswomen

Author : Glenda Riley
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontierswomen written by Glenda Riley and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1994 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for the general public interested in the pioneer life in Iowa history, this book traces the daily life of an average woman on the American frontier.

Wolf Hall: Winner of the Man Booker Prize (The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 1)

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007322747
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Wolf Hall: Winner of the Man Booker Prize (The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 1) written by Hilary Mantel and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the the Orange Prize Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award `Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good' Daily Mail ‘Our most brilliant English writer’ Guardian

Iowa

Author : Jenny Schwartz
Publisher : Samuel French , Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780573704673
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Iowa written by Jenny Schwartz and published by Samuel French , Incorporated. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mom found her soul-mate on Facebook, and he lives in Iowa. So Becca says goodbye to her beloved math teacher, bulimic best friend, neighborhood pony and her mildly deficient teenage life, and she follows her wayward mother to a new, uncharted beginning. But in this fanciful, absurdist, and intoxicating musical play from the imagination of Jenny Schwartz and Todd Almond nothing can prepare them for what they'll find.

El Creacionismo

Author : Vicente Huidobro
Publisher : Lune
ISBN 13 : 9781732874145
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book El Creacionismo written by Vicente Huidobro and published by Lune. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro's el creacionismo ("Creationism")-conceived circa 1912-holds that a new object of the imagination is universally translatable because its substance is free of all laws that would otherwise govern its meaning. Transnational, multilingual, extradisciplinary-el creacionismo fomented a body of work that remains essential to understanding the poet's visionary, disruptive role in a world increasingly destabilized by the insularity of human technique. El Creacionismo collects Jonathan Simkins widely published and acclaimed English translations alongside Huidobro's original Spanish texts in a new bilingual edition, with a foreword by Leo Lobos.

Iowa, the Definitive Collection

Author : Zachary Michael Jack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781888160383
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Iowa, the Definitive Collection written by Zachary Michael Jack and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iowa, the Definitive Collection gathers for student, teacher, researcher, and leisure reader alike a rich harvest of Iowa lore as told by a bevy of its most famous and forgotten voices Iowa history as made and told by Iowans, for Iowans. Totaling over 500 browsable pages and nearly 100 highly readable, classic and contemporary selections, this mammoth compendium of Iowa history, literature, and lore captures the Hawkeye State more diversely and more comprehensively than ever before. Here is a book a big book of Iowa readings of every conceivable kind (campaign platforms, creeds, diaries, editorials, ethnographic studies, fictions, government documents, history, humor, journalism, legal opinions, letters, memoirs, pamphlets, speeches, travel narratives, and more) and of every historical vintage (from Black Hawk s lament on being ordered to move west to Iowa in 1831 to Iowa writer-anthropologist Robert Leonard s freshly-penned roll call of the many different Iowans he has known). Between these covers, world-famous sons and daughters of Iowa, including Carrie Chapman Catt, Bob Feller, Susan Glaspell, Herbert Hoover, Ted Kooser, Aldo Leopold, Glenn Miller, Wallace Stegner, Henry Wallace, Grant Wood, and many others join a chorus of forgotten or neglected native greats to tell the story of their home state as only Iowans can tell it. Perfect fodder for Iowa history and literature classes, book clubs, civic organizations, museums, libraries, and visitor centers across the Land Between Two Rivers, Iowa, the Definitive Collection offers a first-of-its-kind, popular documentary history suitable for singing loudly, proudly, and circumspectly across the State, and across generations.

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

Author : Marguerite Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Miss MacIntosh, My Darling written by Marguerite Young and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel--a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare. It is an epic of what might be called the Arabian Nights of American life. Marguerite Young's method is poetic, imagistic, incantatory; in prose of extraordinary richness she tests the nature of her characters--and the nature of reality. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling is written with oceanic music moving at many levels of consciousness and perception; but the toughly fibred realistic fabric is always there, in the happenings of the narrative, the humor, the precise details, the definitions of the characters. Miss MacIntosh herself, who hails from What Cheer, Iowa, and seems downright and normal, with an incorruptible sense of humor and the desire to put an end to phantoms; Catherine Cartwheel, the opium lady, a recluse who is shut away in a great New England seaside house and entertains imaginary guests; Mr. Spitzer, the lawyer, musical composer and mystical space traveler, a gentle man, wholly unsure of himself and of reality; his twin brother Peron, the gay and raffish gambler and virtuoso in the world of sports; Cousin Hannah, the horsewoman, balloonist, mountain-climber and militant Boston feminist, known as Al Hamad through all the seraglios of the East; Titus Bonebreaker of Chicago, wild man of God dreaming of a heavenly crown; the very efficient Christian hangman, Mr. Weed of the Wabash River Valley; a featherweight champion who meets his equal in a graveyard--these are a few who live with phantasmagorical vividness in the pages of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. The novel touches on many aspects of life--drug addiction, woman's suffrage, murder, suicide, pregnancy both real and imaginary, schizophrenia, many strange loves, the psychology of gambling, perfectionism; but the profusion of this huge book serves always to intensify the force of the central question: "What shall we do when, fleeing from illusion, we are confronted by illusion?" What is real, what is dream? Is the calendar of the human heart the same as that kept by the earth? Is it possible that one may live a secondary life of which one does not know? In every aspect, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling stands by itself--in the lyric beauty of its prose, its imaginative vitality and cumulative emotional power. It is the work of a writer of genius.

The Iowa Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Iowa Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: