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Rain in Plural: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets #154)
By Fiona Sze-Lorrain. 2020
The highly anticipated new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book…
PrizeRain in Plural is the much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, who has been praised by The Rumpus as "a master of musicality and enlightening allusions." In the wholly original world of these new poems, Sze-Lorrain addresses both private narratives and the overexposed discourse of the polis, using silence and montage, lyric and antilyric, to envision what she calls "creating between liberties." With a moral precision embracing us without eschewing I, she rethinks questions of citizenship, the selections of sensory memory, and, by extension, the tether of word and image to the actual. She writes, "I accept the truth in newspapers / by holding the murder of my friends against my chest. // To each weather forecast I give thanks: / merci for every outdated // dusk/dawn." Agrippina the Younger, Franz Kafka, Bob Dylan, a butoh performance, an unnamed Raku tea bowl—each has a place here. Made whole by time and its alteration in timelessness, synchrony, coincidences, and accidents, Rain in Plural beautifully reveals an elegiac yet ever-evolving inner life.The Press Gang: Writings on Cinema from New York Press, 1991-2011
By Godfrey Cheshire, Armond White, Matt Zoller Seitz. 2020
A dialogue about cinema's legacy and best directors through essays by three of the best long-form critics out there, collected…
from the legendary NYPress for the first time.Comprising of the kind of long-form criticism that is all too rare these days, the weekly film columns in the NYPress included polemics, reviews, interviews, festival reports and features. A far cry from what is often derisively termed the "consumer report" mode of criticism, Cheshire, Seitz and White were passionately engaged with the film culture of both their own time, and what had come before. They constituted three distinctly different voices: equally accomplished, yet notably individual, perspectives on cinema. Their distinctive tastes and approaches were often positioned in direct dialogue with each other, a constant critical conversation that frequently saw each writer directly challenging his colleagues. Dialogue is important in criticism, and here you can find a healthy example of it existing under one proverbial roof. This three-way dialogue between Cheshire, Seitz and White assesses the 1990s in cinema, along with pieces on New York's vibrant repertory scene that allow us to read the authors' takes on directors such as Hitchcock, Lean, Kubrick, Welles, Fassbinder and Bresson; as well as topics such as the legacy of Star Wars, film noir, early film projection in New York City, the New York Film Critics Circle, Sundance, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the emerging cinema of Iran and Taiwan.The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays
By Julia Koets. 2019
&“This dazzling writer has created a guidebook for growing up queer in the American South . . . a testament…
to human endurance and dignity.&” —Nick White, author of Sweet & Low Growing up in a small town in the South, Julia and her childhood best friend Laura know the church as well as they know each other&’s bodies—the California-shaped scar on Julia&’s right knee, the tapered thinness of Laura&’s fingers, the circumference of each other&’s ponytails. When Laura&’s family moves away in middle school and Julia gets a crush on the new priest&’s daughter at their church, Julia starts to more fully realize the consequences of being anything but straight in the South. After college, when Julia and her best friend Kate wait tables at a rib joint in Julia&’s hometown, they are forced to face the price of the secrets they&’ve kept—from their families, each other, and themselves. From astronaut Sally Ride&’s obituary, to a UFO Welcome Center, to a shark tooth collection, to DC Comic&’s Gay Ghost, this memoir-in-essays draws from mythology, religion, popular culture, and personal experience to examine how coming out is not a one-time act. At once heartrending and beautiful, The Rib Joint explores how fear and loss can inhabit our bodies and, contrastingly, how naming our desire allows us to feel the heart beating in our chest. &“A brilliant, unsettling book.&” —Paul Lisicky, author of Later &“Engaging, poignant, and at times wryly humorous . . . Julia Koets writes with vulnerability, warmth, and a lyrical style that pulls the reader straight through to the end.&” —Kristen Iversen, author of Full Body BurdenThe IPPY Award–winning anthology of poetry, memoir, and essays—&“accounts of assimilation and nostalgia, celebration and resistance&” (Rick Barot, author of…
The Galleons). This collection contains contributions from sixty-five writers who were either born and/or raised in the United States by one or more immigrant parent. Their work describes the many contradictions, discoveries and life lessons one experiences when one is neither seen as fully American nor fully foreign. Contributors include Richard Blanco, Tina Chang, Joseph Lagaspi, Li-Young Lee, Timothy Liu, Naomi Shihab Nye, Oliver de la Paz, Ira Sukrungruang, Ocean Vuong, and many other talented writers from throughout the United States. Winner of a Bronze Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Multicultural Nonfiction &“When you hold in your DNA two countries—the cultures, the languages, the delicious foods and stories—you embody richness. These writers know on the cellular level many-layered ways to live, to struggle, to love. Here are voices we need to hear, writers we need to read. This is a brilliant, timely book, an antidote to divisiveness.&” —Peggy Shumaker, former Alaska State Writer Laureate &“The poets and writers in Two-Countries show that one result of our ongoing national experiment is a rich deepening in our literature. We may be in perilous times as a country, but our writers have never been in more ferocious health.&” —Rick Barot, author of The GalleonsYąnomamö (Sixth Edition: The Legacy Edition) (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology Series)
By Napoleon A. Chagnon. 2013
The Yanomamo of Venezuela and Brazil are a truly remarkable people, and one of the few sovereign tribal societies left…
on earth. This classic ethnography, based on the authors extensive fieldwork, includes a brief discussion of events and changes that have occurred since 1996. The Legacy 6th Edition of The Yanomamo also includes a Q&A interview with the author, which reveals his own perspective on his life's work, reflects changes within the field of anthropology itself, and presents the authors views on the recent decade of controversies that his work has inspired among critics (including some anthropologists).In 1763 King George III of Great Britain, victorious in the Seven Years War with France, issued a proclamation to…
organize the governance of territory newly acquired by the Crown in North America and the Caribbean. The proclamation reserved land west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indians, and required the Crown to purchase Indian land through treaties, negotiated without coercion and in public, before issuing rights to newcomers to use and settle on the land. Marking its 250th anniversary Keeping Promises shows how central the application of the Proclamation is to the many treaties that followed it and the settlement and development of Canada. Promises have been made to Aboriginal peoples in historic treaties from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries in Ontario, the Prairies, and the Mackenzie Valley, and in modern treaties from the 1970s onward, primarily in the North. In this collection, essays by historians, lawyers, treaty negotiators, and Aboriginal leaders explore how and how well these treaties are executed. Addresses by the governor general of Canada and the federal minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development are also included. In 2003 Aboriginal leaders formed the Land Claims Agreements Coalition to make sure that treaties – building blocks of Canada – are fully implemented. Unique in breadth and scope, Keeping Promises is a testament to the research, advocacy, solidarity, and accomplishments of this coalition and those holding the Crown to its commitments.The Arctic is ruled by ice. For Inuit, it is a highway, a hunting ground, and the platform on which…
life is lived. While the international community argues about sovereignty, security, and resource development at the top of the world, the Inuit remind us that they are the original inhabitants of this magnificent place - and that it is undergoing a dangerous transformation. The Arctic ice is melting at an alarming rate and Inuit have become the direct witnesses and messengers of climate change. Through an examination of Inuit history and culture, alongside the experiences of newcomers to the Arctic seeking land, wealth, adventure, and power, Our Ice Is Vanishing describes the legacies of exploration, intervention, and resilience. Combining scientific and legal information with political and individual perspectives, Shelley Wright follows the history of the Canadian presence in the Arctic and shares her own journey in recollections and photographs, presenting the far North as few people have seen it. Climate change is redrawing the boundaries of what Inuit and non-Inuit have learned to expect from our world. Our Ice Is Vanishing demonstrates that we must engage with the knowledge of the Inuit in order to understand and negotiate issues of climate change and sovereignty claims in the region.Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton
By Mary Chapman. 2016
When her 1912 story collection, Mrs. Spring Fragrance, was rescued from obscurity in the 1990s, scholars were quick to celebrate…
Sui Sin Far as a pioneering chronicler of Asian American Chinatowns. Newly discovered works, however, reveal that Edith Eaton (1865–1914) published on a wide variety of subjects – and under numerous pseudonyms – in Canada and Jamaica for a decade before she began writing Chinatown fiction signed “Sui Sin Far” for US magazines. Born in England to a Chinese mother and a British father, and raised in Montreal, Edith Eaton is a complex transnational writer whose expanded oeuvre demands reconsideration. Becoming Sui Sin Far collects and contextualizes seventy of Eaton’s early works, most of which have not been republished since they first appeared in turn-of-the-century periodicals. These works of fiction and journalism, in diverse styles and from a variety of perspectives, document Eaton’s early career as a short story writer, “stunt-girl” journalist, ethnographer, political commentator, and travel writer. Showcasing her playful humour, savage wit, and deep sympathy, the texts included in this volume assert a significant place for Eaton in North American literary history. Mary Chapman’s introduction provides an insightful and readable overview of Eaton’s transnational career. The volume also includes an expanded bibliography that lists over two hundred and sixty works attributed to Eaton, a detailed biographical timeline, and a newly discovered interview with Eaton from the year in which she first adopted the orientalist pseudonym for which she is best known. Becoming Sui Sin Far significantly expands our understanding of the themes and topics that defined Eaton’s oeuvre and will interest scholars and students of Canadian, American, Asian North American, and ethnic literatures and history.Harlequin Desire October 2020 - Box Set 2 of 2
By Maureen Child, Cat Schield, Kianna Alexander. 2020
Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings…
you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes:Untamed PassionDynasties: Seven SinsBy Cat SchieldAfter one mind-blowing night together, bad boy photographer Oliver Lowell never expected to see Sammi Guzman again. Now, she’s pregnant. Passion has never been their problem, but can this black sheep tame his demons for a future together?Temptation at ChristmasBy USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen ChildTheir divorce papers were never filed! So, Mia Harper tracks down her still husband, Sam Buchanan, aboard his luxury cruise liner. Now, two weeks at sea tempts them into a hot holiday affair…or will it become something more?After Hours Seduction404 SoundBy Kianna AlexanderA tempting new music venture reunites songwriter Eden Voss with ex-boyfriend, record label executive Blaine Woodson. He wronged her in the past, so they vow to keep things strictly business this time. But there is nothing professional about the heat still between them…For more stories filled with scandal and powerful heroes, look for Harlequin® Desire’s October 2020 Box set 1 of 2.Harlequin Desire October 2020 - Box Set 1 of 2
By Kira Sinclair, Andrea Laurence, Karen Booth. 2020
Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all—wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings…
you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes:Billionaire Behind the MaskTexas Cattleman’s Club: Rags to RichesBy Andrea LaurenceA Cinderella makeover for busy chef Lauren Roberts leads to an unforgettable night of passion with a masked stranger — commanding CEO Sutton Wingate. But when the masks come off and startling truths are revealed, can these two find happily ever after?High Society SecretsThe Sterling WivesBy Karen BoothStar architect Clay Morgan knows betrayal. Now, he keeps his feelings — and beautiful women — at bay. Until he meets his new office manager, Astrid Sterling. Their sizzling chemistry is undeniable, but will a secret from her past destroy everything they’ve built?The Devil’s BargainBad BillionairesBy Kira SinclairThe last person Genevieve Reilly should want is charming jewelry thief, Finn DeLuca — even though he’s the father of her son. But desire still draws her to him. And when old enemies resurface, maybe Finn is exactly the kind of bad billionaire she needs…For more stories filled with scandal and powerful heroes, look for Harlequin® Desire’s October 2020 Box set 2 of 2.Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene
By Natale A. Zappia, Ashkan Soltani Stone. 2020
Rez Metal captures the creative energy of Indigenous youth culture in the twenty-first century. Bridging communities from disparate corners of…
Indian Country and across generations, heavy metal has touched a collective nerve on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona in particular. Many cultural leaders—including former Navajo president Russell Begaye—have begun to recognize heavy metal&’s ability to inspire Navajo communities facing chronic challenges such as poverty, depression, and addiction. Heavy metal music speaks to the frustrations, fears, trials, and hopes of living in Indian Country.Rez Metal highlights a seminal moment in Indigenous heavy metal: when Kyle Felter, lead singer of the Navajo heavy metal band I Dont Konform, sent a demo tape to Flemming Rasmussen, the Grammy Award–winning producer of several Metallica albums, including Master of Puppets. A few months later, Rasmussen, captivated by the music, flew from Denmark to Window Rock, Arizona, to meet the band. Through a series of vivid images and interviews focused on the venues, bands, and fans of the Navajo Nation metal scene, Rez Metal provides a window into this fascinating world.Mass Murder in California&’s Empty Quarter exposes a story of mass murder, a community&’s racism, and tribal treachery in a…
small Paiute tribe. On February 20, 2014, an unseasonably warm winter day for the little agriculture town of Alturas, California, Cherie Rhoades walked into the Cedarville Rancheria&’s Paiute tribal offices. In the space of nine minutes she killed four people and wounded two others using two 9mm semiautomatic handguns. In that time she slayed half of her immediate family and became only the second woman, and the first Native American woman, to commit mass murder in the United States. Ray A. March threads the story through the afternoon of the murders and explores the complex circumstances that led to it, including conditions of extreme economic disparity, privations resulting from tribal disenrollment, ineptness at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and family dysfunction coupled with a possible undiagnosed mental illness. This account of the tragic murders and the deplorable conditions leading up to them shed light on the formidable challenges Native Americans face in the twenty-first century as they strive to govern themselves under the guise of U.S.-sanctioned sovereignty.Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future: Recent Generations of Canadian Women Writing
By Karen McPherson. 2006
In Archaeologies of an Uncertain Future, McPherson explores the memory work, alternative historiographies, and feminist aesthetics by which women writers…
revisit the past and reimagine the future. Grounded within critical discourses across many discplines, McPherson's analysis engages contemporary discussions about autobiographical genres, post-modern historiographies, memoirs, and literary genealogies.The Longman Anthology Of British Literature: The Early Modern Period (Damrosch British Series)
By David Damrosch, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Clare Carroll, Constance Jordan, Andrew David Hadfield. 2010
The Fourth Edition of The Longman Anthology of British Literature continues its tradition of presenting works in the historical context…
in which they were written. This fresh approach includes writers from the British Isles, underrepresented female authors, “Perspectives” sectionsthatshed light on the period as a whole and link with immediately surrounding works to help illuminate a theme, “And Its Time” clusters that illuminate a specific cultural moment or a debate to which an author is responding, and “Responses” in which later authors respond to one or more texts from earlier works.The Norton Introduction To Literature
By Kelly J. Mays. 2019
This unparalleled collection offers the trusted writing guidance students need, along with the exciting mix of the stories, poems, and…
plays instructors want. The Thirteenth Edition adds more contemporary and diverse works to engage today’s students, and new pedagogical tools―in print and online―help foster close reading and careful writing, making this book the best choice for helping students appreciate, analyze, and write about literature.Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds (Barnes And Noble Digital Library)
By Frank Aydelotte. 1834
La vida mentidera dels adults
By Elena Ferrante. 2020
L'autora de la saga «L'amiga genial» torna per recordar-nos per què fascina a 30.000.000 de lectors en 42 països i…
per què és l'enigma més gran de la literatura actual. «Dos anys abans de marxar de casa, el meu pare va dir a la meva mare que jo era molt lletja.» Així comença aquesta novel·la extraordinària sobre el descobriment de la mentida, de l'amor i del sexe, narrada per la inoblidable Giovanna, una jove que s'entesta a conèixer la seva tieta Vittoria, incomprensiblement desapareguda de les converses i dels àlbums de fotografies familiars. Amb això desencadenarà, sense saber-ho, l'enfonsament de la seva família intel·lectual i burgesa, perfecta només en aparença. Mestra absoluta de la intriga, Ferrante nodreix la trama de sorpreses i lliga prodigiosament la misteriosa història familiar i amorosa a un braçalet que passa de mà en mà. No hi ha ningú com l'autora per descriure la complexitat de les passions humanes i totes les intermitències del pensament i del cor. Ressenyes:«La veu de Ferrante ens guia, ens sacseja, ens arrossega [...] i ens fa estimar i odiar cadascun dels seus personatges. La Giovanna no pot deixar de mirar. Nosaltres tampoc: volem, hem de saber, costi el que costi.»Antonella Lattanzi, La Stampa «La revelació més transcendent de la narrativa europea durant l'últim quart de segle.»Robert Saladrigas, La Vanguardia «A la meva tauleta de nit hi tinc els diaris de Virginia Woolf, els relats de Txékhov i les novel·les d'Elena Ferrante.»Leïla Slimani «Una força evocadora, despietada i inèdita fins avui.»Titti Marrone, Il Mattino «Aquesta vegada Ferrante va directa a guanyar el Premi Strega. [...] Una nova saga imprescindible.»Davide Turrini, Il Fatto Quotidiano «La seva veu narrativa té un timbre inequívoc i personalíssim: és capaç de [...] crear unjo que inunda la pàgina fins a tornar-se de carn i ossos davant dels nostres ulls.»Laura Fortini, Il Manifesto «La protagonista està tan ben dibuixada i el seu patiment és tan palpable que ens fa desitjar la redempció, o almenys una mica de pau per a aquesta ànima amiga, pròxima, familiar, germana. Una gran novel·la, densa i complexa, per llegir subratllant cada pàgina, amb una profunditat que provoca vertigen.»Critica Letteraria «Les novel·les d'Elena Ferrante m'han lligat a la butaca, llegint i celebrant.»Juan Marsé «Res del que llegim sobre Ferrante ens prepara per a la ferocitat de les seves novel·les.»The New York Times «Soc fan de les seves novel·les.»Zadie Smith «Els seus personatges femenins són veritables obres d'art.»El PaísWords of the Inuit: A Semantic Stroll through a Northern Culture (Contemporary Studies on the North #8)
By Louis-Jacques Dorais. 2020
"Words of the Inuit" is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of…
the author’s decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear on what he fashions as an amiable, leisurely stroll through words and meanings. Inuit words are often more complex than English words and frequently contain small units of meaning that add up to convey a larger sensibility. Dorais’ lexical and semantic analyses and reconstructions are not overly technical, yet they reliably evince connections and underlying significations that allow for an in-depth reflection on the richness of Inuit linguistic and cultural heritage and identity. An appendix on the polysynthetic character of Inuit languages includes more detailed grammatical description of interest to more specialist readers. Organized thematically, the book tours the histories and meanings of the words to illuminate numerous aspects of Inuit culture, including environment and the land; animals and subsistence activities; humans and spirits; family, kinship, and naming; the human body; and socializing with other people in the contemporary world. It concludes with a reflection on the usefulness for modern Inuit—especially youth and others looking to strengthen their cultural identity —to know about the underlying meanings embedded in their language and culture. With recent reports alerting us to the declining use of the Inuit language in the North, "Words of the Inuit" is a timely contribution to understanding one of the world’s most resilient Indigenous languages.The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Volume 1
By Henry Louis Gates, Valerie Smith. 2014
The much-anticipated Third Edition brings together the work of 140 writers from 1746 to the present writing in all genres,…
as well as performers of vernacular forms--from spirituals and sermons to jazz and hip hop. Fresh scholarship, new visuals and media, and new selections--with an emphasis on contemporary writers--combine to make The Norton Anthology of African American Literature an even better teaching tool for instructors and an unmatched value for students.The Heart of a Great Nation: Timeless Wisdom from Ronald Reagan
By Ronald Reagan. 2020
With a foreword from Senator Marco Rubio, a stirring collection of Ronald Reagan's most inspiring speeches, offering his timeless wisdom…
and guidance for our day.In his 1989 farewell address, Ronald Reagan said, "I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the heart of a great nation--from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief in principles that have guided us for two centuries."The Heart of a Great Nation brings together Reagan's most powerful speeches, as relevant to our chaotic world as they were when he first gave them. In a period of our country's history consumed by economic stagnation, national instability, and the looming threat of communism, Reagan spoke directly to the hearts of everyday Americans. His wisdom on matters of family, freedom, and nationhood helped guide the country back to its founding principles and ushered in an era of prosperity and national pride. Today, as we find our country treading similar ground, Reagan's wisdom speaks to us once again, offering guidance to everyone looking to navigate the present and remember the legacy of this great nation--which can one day be reclaimed.