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The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 3My story opens in the classic presinks of Bostin. In the parler of a bloated aristocratic mansion on Bacon street sits a luvly young lady, whose hair is cuvered ore with the frosts of between 17 Summers. She has just sot down to the piany, and is warblin the popler ballad called Smells of the Notion, in which she tells how, with pensiv thought, she wandered by a C beat shore. The son is settin in its horizon, and its gorjus light pores in a golden meller flud through the winders, and makes the young lady twict as beautiful nor what she was before, which is onnecessary. She is magnificently dressed up in a Berage basque, with poplin trimmins, More Antique, Ball Morals and 3 ply carpeting. Also, considerable gauze. Her dress contains 16 flounders and her shoes is red morocker, with gold spangles onto them. Presently she jumps up with a wild snort, and pressin her hands to her brow, she exclaims: Methinks I see a voice! |
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A Century of HopeA Century of Hope |
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DriftThe world is touched and stands forth, writes Mary Kinzie in this book of seductive poetic experiment. In lines by turns fragmented and reflective, she shatters and reassembles such curiosities as an engraving by Albrecht Durer and the portrait of a notorious suicide whose children develop a secret telepathy. In one of her many powerful longer pieces, she collects glittering shards from myriad versions of the Cinderella story: Was the young girl running out of it because--recall the blood within the shoe?--it hurt her? Kinzie's verse moves mysteriously between folk-lore and urban devastation, between white magic and the concoction of mood drugs in the modern laboratory. In each poem, she draws our attention to the chinks of light in the dark narratives that surround us, in a language animated by her sympathy and deep moral intelligence. From the Hardcover edition. |
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The Radiation SonnetsDESCRIPTION When her husband of forty years was diagnosed with a brain tumor, Jane Yolen, like other caregivers, was filled with confusion, grief, and heartache. As her husband went through a tumultuous 43 days of radiation treatment, Jane meditated on their situation by spending each evening crafting a sonnet that not only captured her emotions, but also described the day-to-day trials and tribulations that come with cancer. Taken together they are a testament to the hope, pain, courage, and most importantly, the love that surfaces in the face of illness. |
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10 Moons and 13 Horses: PoemsGary Short's new collection is the work of a mature poet at the peak of his powers, confident of his ability to move us without histrionics, to speak of human betrayal and the fragility of all life without bitterness or cheap sentiment, to find poignancy and beauty in loss and exaltation in the outwardly mundane. His voice is lyrical, tough, honest, and capable of touching us profoundly. Short knows Nevada's austere and daunting landscape, its ephemeral beauty, and its stoic people as few writers in any genre do. He also understands the complexities of the human soul and the contradictions of love. So he tells of how his mother, dying of cancer after a life marked by cruelty and disappointment, revisits a day thirty years in the past when her sons trapped a trout and kept it in their father's horse trough and how now, in her mind's eye, she carries the boxed-in fish to the stream to release it, a moment/of having, not loss. And of how the feathers of a dead owl in a long-dead oak tree have blown loose, caught |
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Good Girls Stay Empty-HandedThe author expresses her feelings about men and how their behavior in relationships would be different if the tables were turned. |
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A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan PoeDisplaying scant interest in native scenes or materials, Edgar Allan Poe seems the most un-American of American writers during the era of literary nationalism; yet he was at the same time a pragmatic magazinist, fully engaged in popular culture and intensely concerned with the republic of letters in the United States. This Historical Guide contains an introduction that considers the tensions between Poe's otherwordly settings and his historically marked representations of violence, as well as a capsule biography situating Poe in his historical context. The subsequent essays in this book cover such topics as Poe and the American Publishing Industry, Poe's Sensationalism, his relationships to gender constructions, and Poe and American Privacy. |
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Ed McGowin, Name Change: One Artist, Twelve Personas, Thirty-Five YearsAn overview of creations from the many identities of one artist |
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SolipsistThis completely new volume of more than 170 new gritty prose works and poems by self-declared Anti-Man , Henry Rollins, presents a literary x-ray of the landscape of modern America and the walking wounded who inhabit it. |
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