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Language & Literature Poetry, Essays, Humor, etc. Spring 2020
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Love unknown : the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
by Thomas J. Travisano
Shedding new light on one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century, this biography shows how she was able to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems, prose and letters. Illustrations.
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Pity the reader : on writing with style
by Kurt Vonnegut
The art and craft of writing as explained by one of the few grandmasters of American literature is a bonanza for writers and readers. Never before has an entire book been devoted to Kurt Vonnegut the teacher. Here is pretty much everything Vonnegut ever said or wrote about writing—37 chapters filled with his words, essays, letters, speeches, and more, introduced and woven together by his former student, a teacher and lifelong friend.
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Ralph Ellison : a life in letters
by Ralph Ellison
A collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man traces the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft and the story of a changing nation over six decades. Illustrations.
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Virginia Woolf : and the women who shaped her world
by Gillian Gill
A portrait of the complex literary master draws on the perspectives of the extraordinary women closest to her, from her French-Anglo-Indian great-grandmother to the aunt who helped inspire Woolf’s literary ambitions.
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Busted in New York and other essays
by Darryl Pinckney
A collection of 25 essays from the celebrated literary critic and novelist provides a view of our recent racial history that blends the social and personal and wonders how we arrived at our current moment.
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The depositions : new and selected essays on being and ceasing to be
by Thomas Lynch
The award-winning author of The Undertaking presents a compassionate selection of essays reflecting on mortals and mortality, drawing on his personal experiences as a funeral director to explore the less-recognized connections between the literary and mortuary arts.
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The bad side of books : selected essays
by D. H. Lawrence
The author of Paris Trance draws on the full range of Lawrence’s published essays to introduce a new generation of readers to his multifaceted achievements as a book reviewer, travel writer, memoirist, novelist and essayist.
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Crush : Centenary Edition
by Richard Siken
Richard Siken’s Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Glück hails the “cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and] purgatorial recklessness” of Siken’s poems. She notes, “Books of this kind dream big. . . . They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form.”
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Summer snow : new poems
by Robert Hass
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author presents a new volume of poetry in which he pays careful attention to the natural world and exhibits his virtuosic abilities, expansive intellect and tremendous readability.
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Aviva-no
by Shimon Adaf
In the original text alongside the English translation, Adaf blends contemporary colloquial Hebrew, Arabic, and old Aramaic with biblical, Talmudic, and Rabbinic intertextualities. The collection is a powerful lamentation for Adaf’s sister, Aviva, who died at 43. Written from a witness of Israeli society, the daily violence taking place makes the grief reverberating through the poems both personal and palpable.
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Writer's market 2020
by Robert Lee Brewer
A latest edition of the leading reference explains how to get published professionally, sharing extensive listings of book and magazine publishers, writing contests and literary agents as well as a new section for scriptwriters.
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