The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)
A Fanny Fern Reader
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the highest paid and most famous newspaper writer in the US was a woman known to the world as Fanny Fern, the nom de plume of Sara Payson Willis. A Fanny Fern Reader features a selection of Fern's columns, mostly f
Words to Sing the World Alive
Words to Sing the World Alive celebrates First Nations languages from across the continent. Forty First Nation writers and thinkers, journalists and lawyers, artists and astronomers come together to reveal their favourite and significant words. Words that evoke the power of childhood and the wonder of Country; that explore the essence of mother, of fire, of time. Words that are imbued with family and belonging, and that surprise with their connections. Join contributors including Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, Daniel Browning, Terri Janke, Jeanine Leane, Nardi Simpson, Dan Bourchier, Ellen van Neerven, Alice Skye, Bruce Pascoe, Anita Heiss, Thomas Mayo, Evelyn Araluen, Claire G Coleman and Mykaela Saunders as they share their words to sing the world alive.
Snow Globe Thumbelina
"Snow Globe Thumbelina" is an evocative collection of poems takes you on a journey through the lens of depression that follows after life-altering events. You are in for an emotional ride-from the disorientation and suffocation of being lost, up to the self-reflection and revelation of one's pain. The book explores the cyclical nature of depression-from the moment it starts, to the moments a person tries to heal and therapize themselves, up to the breakthroughs that allowed some ray of happiness to come back in. Chapters titled: System ShockDepression CycleDIY TherapyTick Tock
On Tropical Grounds
On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and their tropical associations figure in the cultural and political imaginaries of the Caribbean and the Atlantic, and identifies genealogies of local responses to continental fantasies of exotic insularity. Examining written and visual works that reflect on the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean and the Canary Islands, as well as critical debates around discourses of insularity in island and metropolitan spaces, this book considers notions of ethnic purity, originality, imitation, appropriation, cosmopolitanism, and self-exoticism to challenge the idea that avant-garde practices were pre-eminently urban and metropolitan cultural forms. The book argues that attention to the relational dimension implicit in exchanges around ideas of anticolonial struggle, radical social transformation, and anti-fascist resistance should inform analyses of cultural production in Caribbean and Atlantic insular spaces. On Tropical Grounds develops a persuasive critical model for the investigation of politically and aesthetically situated archipelagic relations that transgresses disciplinary boundaries and reconfigures our conception of the avant-garde as a global movement that was overdetermined by racial, gender, and colonial conflicts. This book will be of value to anyone interested in Caribbean and Atlantic studies, avant-garde and visual culture studies, and literary and cultural studies.
Hemicrania
In Hemicrania, poet Therese Gleason reaches out through the "half-headed pain" of the migraineur, despite (or rather, because of) "her head a cracked bell/ that wouldn't stop ringing." Like the two halves of the brain, this chapbook succeeds by dualities. Both thematically cohesive and formally expansive, Hemicrania tells the story, on one side, of the mostly male failures of medicine, and on the other, of the matrilineal inheritance of suffering "which women must endure." Borrowing language from medicine but wholly rooted in poetry, the Patient is both reduced to the base elements of piss, salt, bile, and snot and elevated to the mystic, ghostly realm of saints, incantation, and prayer. Gleason asks "what angel, message, lesson" can be found in suffering. But even if, in the end, the Patient resigns, "I'm no more chosen than I am god/forsaken," the poet has made from her suffering this simultaneously delicate and explosive contribution to the literature of women's chronic pain.-Cynthia Marie Hoffman, author of Exploding HeadChronic and episodic migraine patients will agree that they'll do anything and everything to exorcise the migraine demon. Author Therese Gleason attempts just that in Hemicrania via revelatory poems brimming with prayers, incantations, and supplications. The poet gives readers the 4-1-1 from the front lines of Migrainesville in poems that confront medical sexism and medical gaslighting-and in poems that explore the conundrum of genetic inheritance. The vulnerability and daily struggle of the person with migraine are depicted with vivid accuracy and candor. Hemicrania should reside on the nightstands of poetry lovers, patients, physicians, and caregivers.-Rita Maria Martinez, author of The Jane and Bertha in MeTo read Hemicrania is to witness a poet contend with profound spiritual and physical agony. In found poems, hybrid forms, and collages, Gleason traces her family's matrilineal inheritance of migraine alongside an enraging genealogy of the medical establishment's all-too-frequent disregard for migraineurs' suffering. And while Hemicrania is a scorching account of migraine's brutal toll on body and mind, in its pages Gleason offers too a psalter of companionship: invocations, incantations, and charms against pain drawn from a thousand years of belief and experience. The unflinching intimacy of these poems humbled me.-Carolyn Oliver, author of Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the TrembleIn Hemicrania, a gut-wrenching and aesthetically innovative portrait of the matrilineal curse of migraine, Therese Gleason renders the ineffable. Equal parts masterclass in vivifying the medical archive and gripping reportage from the patient's vantage, Gleason's intimate poems shatter migraineurs' isolation to deliver spells for a painless future.-Sarah M. Sala, author of Devil's Lake
Tsunami
Merging waves of feminist thought from established and emerging Mexican women writers, Tsunami arrives with seismic, groundbreaking force.Featuring personal essay, manifesto, creative nonfiction, and poetry, Tsunami gathers the multiplicity of voices being raised in Mexico today against patriarchy and its buried structures. Tackling gender violence, community building, #MeToo, Indigenous rights, and more, these writings rock the core of what we know feminism to be, dismantling its Eurocentric roots and directing its critical thrust towards current affairs in Mexico today. Asserting plurality as a political priority, Tsunami includes trans voices, Indigenous voices, Afro-Latinx voices, voices from within and outside academic institutions, and voices spanning generations. Tsunami is the combined force and critique of the three feminist waves, the marea verde ("green wave") of protests that have swept through Latin America in recent years, and the tides turned by insurgent feminisms at the margins of public discourse.Contributors include Marina Azahua, Y獺snaya Elena Aguilar Gil, Dahlia de la Cerda, Alexandra R. DeRuiz, Lia Garc穩a, Jimena Gonz獺lez, Gabriela Jauregui, Fernanda Latani M. Bravo, Valeria Luiselli, Ytzel Maya, Brenda Navarro, Jumko Ogata, Daniela Rea, Cristina Rivera Garza, Diana J. Torres, Sara Uribe, and the Zapatista Army for National Liberation.
The Laughing String
The Laughing String collects author and playwright Stephen Evans' thoughts on writing and the writing life: what inspires him, what confuses him, and what makes him smile.The title comes from a poem by W. B. Yeats: "Bred to a harder thingThan Triumph, turn awayAnd like a laughing stringWhereon mad fingers playAmid a place of stone, Be secret and exult, Because of all things knownThat is most difficult."This new edition includes an appendix containing the author's undergraduate thesis entitled "A Phenomenology of Art".
Tales from the Jamaican Heartland
The Jamaican heartland is the cradle of countless rural legends, enthralling folktales, and intriguing anecdotes that - like the red-billed streamertail hummingbird, the doctor bird - are endemic to Jamaica. Tales from the Jamaican Heartland: A Short Story Collection is the result of the efforts of two writers to help preserve the folkways of their nation by documenting stories from their youth to add to the growing repertoire of Jamaican literature. The text is a collage of experiences, featuring iconic elements of rural life such as hardworking farmers, entertaining interactions among villagers, and cherished personal moments with loved ones and even pets. The diverse range of stories within the collection captures moments that evoke nostalgia and emotion and might make readers laugh, reflect, and even shed a tear. Though the work is mostly fictional, it drew inspiration from the lived experiences of the writers and many people in their home communities. Through Tales from the Jamaican Heartland: A Short Story Collection, the legacy of those people from the Jamaican heartland will live on and on.
One Autumn at Ril Lake
Julie Wight doesn't like complicated. Her mid-forties, single life is a rhythmic flow of exercise, teaching at the village school, and relaxation in her all-season home at Julie's Haven, on the shores of the tranquil Ril Lake. The most complicated Julie's life gets is deciding which kind of wine she'll drink while watching the sun set over the lake.The village of Baysville has a new doctor and with no rental properties available in town, Julie is persuaded to rent the vacant three bedroom cottage on her property to him.When widower Dr. Michael Adams signs a one-year lease and he and his three daughters, Joy, Faith and Hope, move in, suddenly, for Julie, an uncomplicated life isn't possible anymore, and million questions are whirling through her mind.What does Joy know that her sisters don't? Why is Faith having nightmares? Who is the woman Hope talks to over the fence at school? And why is Michael Adams reluctant to talk about his past?Will Julie's desire for a simple life drive her to unravel the mysteries behind Michael's alluring smile or will she break their lease and send them packing, nightmares, secrets and all?
Train to Mumbai
After graduating from the Doon Academy for Boys, Rajveer (Raj) Singh, an aspiring musician, returns home to domestic violence. One evening, Raj is compelled to flee from his home in Lucknow to escape from his cruel father and brother. Homeless on the streets of Mumbai, Raj triumphs as a successful musician with the encouragement of a kind sex worker, Gul, and an aspiring chef, Dev. During his first world tour, Raj meets Maya, an inspiring and determined girl in Amsterdam who captivates his heart. Yet, Raj is afraid to fall in love with Maya because of the tribulations that love may unleash, as love can encompass hardships, heartbreak and loss. Raj attempts to forget Maya, but certain feelings can't be evaded.
Slavery, Mobility, and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. It will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Latin American Literature, Global Slavery and Postcolonial Studies.
The Monsters Are Here
The thirty stories in this collection give the reader Kelly Link meets Bram Stoker and Nathaniel Hawthorne in a forest or an alternative universe with aliens. The stories rely on both humor and terror to capture the reader's attention. As one literary journal editor noted, "[D'Angelo is] very good at building suspense." Consisting of both flash fiction and full-length stories, this feminist collection will taking you through a gambit of genre-bending tales. From Claudia, a young witch, learning to harness her powers to save her coven from destruction to Leslie trying to balance the challenges of being a vampire at night and an accountant by day to Laura warned not to walk in the wilderness alone, there's a monster and lesson for everyone.
Otrarse
One of Latin American's most important poets of the twentieth century, Juan Gelman (1930-2014) spent much of his life in exile from his native Argentina during the Dirty War. Gelman was a child of Yiddish-speaking Ukrainian immigrants, and a significant, seldom recognized portion of his poetry dealt with Jewish themes. He established a dialogue across time with Santa Teresa de ?vila and San Juan de la Cruz, the sixteenth-century Spanish mystical poets whose ancestry was also Jewish. He rewrote portions of the Bible, medieval Hebrew poetry, and even taught himself Ladino, the language of Sephardic Jews, and wrote a book of poems in it.In this bilingual volume, celebrated scholar Ilan Stavans retraces Gelman's regard for these poetic ancestors, translating into English his Jewish oeuvre by carefully preserving the Hebrew, Spanish, and Ladino echoes of the originals. The result is historically accurate and artistically exhilarating, repositioning Gelman as a major Jewish writer of the last century.
Bits Too
As in Bits off Burning Bridges, in writing the bits that follow I set four main constraints on myself: 1) they had to be short; short enough to fit on a screen without any need to scroll down; 2) they had to be true to the rhythm of everyday, or better, every night speech; 3) they had to somehow have a point or feel or image that made them seem to punch above their weight; 4) they couldn't stray too far from the spontaneous-some next day tweaking might be acceptable but then they're gone. Though they may have a superficial resemblance to poems I resist any temptation to call them that. I like some poetry but I'm not a huge fan and I'm not deeply familiar with the body of poetry. Unlike most poems these bits do not have titles. Titles would be distracting, and in any case, bits don't need titles. They speak for themselves. These things are bits, no more and no less. Also as in Bits off Burning Bridges, they are presented chronologically as written, without any re-arranging.
If You Ask Me
Experience the "heartwarming, smart, and at times even humorous" (Woman's World) wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt in this annotated collection of the candid advice columns that she wrote for more than twenty years. In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt embarked on a new career as an advice columnist. She had already transformed the role of first lady with her regular press conferences, her activism on behalf of women, minorities, and youth, her lecture tours, and her syndicated newspaper column. When Ladies Home Journal offered her an advice column, she embraced it as yet another way for her to connect with the public. "If You Ask Me" quickly became a lifeline for Americans of all ages. Over the twenty years that Eleanor wrote her advice column, no question was too trivial and no topic was out of bounds. Practical, warm-hearted, and often witty, Eleanor's answers were so forthright her editors included a disclaimer that her views were not necessarily those of the magazines or the Roosevelt administration. Asked, for example, if she had any Republican friends, she replied, "I hope so." Queried about whether or when she would retire, she said, "I never plan ahead." As for the suggestion that federal or state governments build public bomb shelters, she considered the idea "nonsense." Covering a wide variety of topics--everything from war, peace, and politics to love, marriage, religion, and popular culture--these columns reveal Eleanor Roosevelt's warmth, humanity, and timeless relevance.
Ninety-Nine Chances
Protecting her from danger is his duty, but losing her again is his greatest fear. Timothy Moore became a cop to protect people like Dakota.His best friend. His soulmate. The girl he couldn't save... until now. They're finally happy, building a life together.But something's wrong.Dakota's pulling away, secrets glinting in her eyes. He's working to take down a dangerous drug ring.Little does he know, they're closer than he thinks.He'll do anything to keep her safe.But can he protect her from a threat he can't see? Their love must survive the secrets of her past, or the demons she thought she'd escaped will destroy them both.
An Old Town By The Sea
"An Old Town by the Sea" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich is a poetic exploration of a seaside town that blends nostalgia, beauty, and a sense of timelessness. Aldrich paints a vivid picture of this coastal community, where the sea plays a central role in shaping both the physical landscape and the emotional tapestry of the town's inhabitants. The poem begins with a lyrical description of the town's setting, emphasizing its serene and picturesque qualities. Throughout the poem, Aldrich weaves together themes of memory and nostalgia. He reminisces about the town's history and reflects on the fleeting nature of time. The old-fashioned houses and narrow streets evoke a sense of tradition and a connection to the past, suggesting that the town holds memories and stories that transcend generation. At its core, "An Old Town by the Sea" is a meditation on the enduring allure of places that hold a special significance in our hearts. It invites readers to contemplate the beauty of natural landscapes and the profound impact they can have on our memories and sense of identity. Aldrich's poetic imagery and lyrical language create a timeless portrait of a coastal town, inviting readers to immerse themselves in its charm and reflect on the deeper meanings hidden within its quiet streets and rolling tides.
Canadian Shields
Newly discovered work by one of Canada's favourite writers The Canadian Shields brings together fifty short writings by Carol Shields (1935-2003), including more than two dozen previously unpublished short stories and essays and two dozen essays previously published but never before collected. Invaluable to scholars and admirers of Shields's work, the writings discovered in the National Library Archives by Nora Foster Stovel and presented to the public here for the first time reflect Shields's interest in the relationships between reality and fiction, mothers and daughters, and gender and genre. They also reveal her love of Canada, especially Winnipeg, her home for twenty years. Originally written for women's magazines, travel journals, convocation addresses, and even graduate school term papers, Shields's imaginative essays explore ideas about home, Canadian literature, contemporary women's writing, and the future of fiction. Whether autobiographical, cultural, or feminist in focus, these works vividly illuminate the multiple chapters of Shields's writing life. Margaret Atwood and Lorna Crozier frame Shields's texts with tributes to her work and impact. An introduction by Stovel situates Shields as a Canadian author and subversive feminist writer, demonstrating how American-born-and-raised Carol Anne Warner became "the Canadian Shields"--a quintessential and beloved Canadian writer and the only author to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General's Gold Medal for Fiction.
Canadian Shields
Newly discovered work by one of Canada's favourite writers The Canadian Shields brings together fifty short writings by Carol Shields (1935-2003), including more than two dozen previously unpublished short stories and essays and two dozen essays previously published but never before collected. Invaluable to scholars and admirers of Shields's work, the writings discovered in the National Library Archives by Nora Foster Stovel and presented to the public here for the first time reflect Shields's interest in the relationships between reality and fiction, mothers and daughters, and gender and genre. They also reveal her love of Canada, especially Winnipeg, her home for twenty years. Originally written for women's magazines, travel journals, convocation addresses, and even graduate school term papers, Shields's imaginative essays explore ideas about home, Canadian literature, contemporary women's writing, and the future of fiction. Whether autobiographical, cultural, or feminist in focus, these works vividly illuminate the multiple chapters of Shields's writing life. Margaret Atwood and Lorna Crozier frame Shields's texts with tributes to her work and impact. An introduction by Stovel situates Shields as a Canadian author and subversive feminist writer, demonstrating how American-born-and-raised Carol Anne Warner became "the Canadian Shields"--a quintessential and beloved Canadian writer and the only author to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General's Gold Medal for Fiction.
Conversations with William Maxwell
Conversations with William Maxwell collects thirty-eight interviews, public speeches, and remarks that span five decades of the esteemed novelist and New Yorker editor's career. The interviews collectively address the entirety of Maxwel's literary work--with in-depth discussion of his short stories, essays, and novels including They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the American Book Award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow--as well as his forty-year tenure as a fiction editor working with such luminaries as John Updike, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, and J.D. Salinger. Maxwell's words spoken before a crowd, some previously unpublished, pay moving tribute to literary friends and mentors, and offer reflections on the artistic life, the process of writing, and his midwestern heritage. All retain the reserved poignancy of his fiction. The volume publishes for the first time the full transcript of Maxwell's extensive interviews with his biographer and, in an introduction, correspondence with writers including Updike and Saul Bellow, which enlivens the stories behind his interviews and appearances.
Transformational
Transformational: Stories of Northern Michigan Arts & Culture is part of a Community Partners project led by the Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network, Michigan Writers and Interlochen Public Radio that uses storytelling to explore the role creativity, arts and culture play in furthering our communities and our lives, and how our unique, scenic corner of Northern Michigan has infused and informed the works-literary, visual, performance, cultural-that are created here. Transformational is supported in part by an award from Michigan Arts & Culture Council.
Grasshoppers in the Field
Grasshoppers in the Fields is dedicated to the author's grandparents who were almond and walnut farmers in Red Bluff, California. They worked hard, loved their family and served God the best they knew how. Its poetry is grounded in a deep love for the land in the Western United States and explores relationships, community, neighbors, worship, injustice, personal growth and development with humor.
Revista Iberoamericana
La aparici籀n del n繳mero doscientos de Revista Iberoamericana representa un acontecimiento digno de celebrarse debido a la continuidad y permanencia de un proyecto editorial que convirti籀 a esta publicaci籀n en una de las m獺s importantes dentro de su campo. Los numerosos art穩culos y trabajos publicados a lo largo de m獺s de sesenta a簽os transformaron la Revista Iberoamericana en una fuente de consulta y referencia obligada. Este ?ndice contribuir獺 a la divulgaci籀n de los m繳ltiples trabajos publicados a lo largo de la historia de la Revista y se convertir獺 en una valiosa fuente de consulta bibliogr獺fica en el campo de los estudios literarios y culturales latinoamericanos. El ?ndice incluye todos los estudios, notas, entrevistas, rese簽as y bibliograf穩as publicados desde 1939 hasta 2002. The appearance of the number two hundred of Revista Iberoamericana represents an event worth celebrating due to the continuity and permanence of an editorial project that made this publication one of the most important within its field. The numerous articles and works published over more than sixty years have transformed Revista Iberoamericana into an obligatory reference and information source. This Index will contribute to the dissemination of the multiple works published throughout the history of the Revista and will become a valuable source of bibliographic consultation in the field of Latin American literary and cultural studies. The Index includes all studies, notes, interviews, reviews, and bibliographies published from 1939 to 2002.
North Carolina Literary Review
The North Carolina Literary Review's 33rd flagship print issue continues illuminating the 2024 feature of North Carolina writings about disabilities, with Guest Feature Editor Dr. Casey Kayser. The feature section contains Delia Steverson's essay on the autobiographical writings by deaf/blind author Mary Herring White and author Audrey Jennifer Smith's interview with James Tate Hill, a writer with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy. From our 2023 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize contest is the essay "Buy Now!" by finalist Ashley Harris, a writer with M.S., and concludes with Taylor Hagood's essay on disability and deformity in Ron Rash's novel Serena and Donna Summerlin discussing mental health in Lee Smith's novel Guests on Earth.In the remainder of the issue, NCLR founding editor Alex Albright remembers Fred Chappell, former NC Poet Laureate, who passed away earlier this year. Award-winning author David Joy talked to Leah Hampton. Mark Powell was interviewed by Zackary Vernon. Donald Paul Haspel explores the impact of Paul Green's World War I experience on The Lost Colony. Also included are an investigative piece by Stephanie Browner on Lorraine Hansberry's planned play based on Charles W. Chesnutt's Marrow of Tradition and Biographer Jean W. Cash writes about the influence of Gail Godwin's Peace College years on her fiction.Contest winners included are the 2023 James Applewhite Poetry Prize contest winning poem by Janis Harrington, and the third-place poem by Debra Kaufman and the Doris Betts Fiction Prize (sponsored by the North Carolina Writers' Network) by Paul D. Reali. Other fiction in the issue is Gary V. Powell's short story.NC visual artists featured within the print issue are Max Herbert (cover), RaeAnn McDonough, Catherine Edgerton, Joan Mansfield, Frank Hunter, Katharin Wiese, Andrea Bruce, Cameron Johnson, Ashley T. Evans, and Kate Nartker.
Aunt Linda
Aunt Linda is an homage to teaching professionals. We never know what influence we have on the lives of other people. That was the case for Linda Roy. She devoted her entire life to teaching. Her work was not just her job, it was her vocation. During her life, Miss Roy was conscient that she helped many children. However, she never realised the extent of the influence she had on hundreds of people. The professional teacher would have been surprised by the impact she had on the young people she had taught. We learn about her successes as well as her failures and her challenges. Teaching is an important role in society and Aunt Linda was exceptional.
Unfortunate In Love
This book is about Denzel's search for true love and describes various relationships that he found himself in as he tries to be a romantic and caring young man. Denzel falls in love with Ronnie as his first love and was betrayed at a critical point in his life. This story highlights how a caring teenager navigates the challenges of growing up and making a life for himself. His relentless desire for true love kept him going as he experiences variation of behaviors in his relationships. Life throws curve balls at this young man and he keeps a positive mind and demeanor regardless of what gets thrown at him. This story is about perseverance despite all odds.
Women in Hispanic Literature
The topics covered by this pioneering collection of essays range from peninsular Spanish to Latin American literature, from the eleventh to the twentieth centuries, and from the subject of women as portrayed in Hispanic literature to the literature of Hispanic women writers. Some pieces present polemical feminist arguments, other are more traditional. All the contributors use their subject to take new stands on old controversies, ask new questions, and reevaluate important aspects of Hispanic literature. While there is ample evidence in these essays of the dual archetype in Hispanic literature of women as icon and woman as fallen idol, the collection reaches beyond these stereotypes to more complex sociological and theoretical concerns. Although such research has ben abundantly pursued by scholars of English and American literature, it has been notably absent from Hispanic studies. This anthology is a comprehensive introduction to its subject and a stimulus to further work in the area. Contributors: Fernando Alegr穩a Electa Arenal Julianne Burton Alan Deyermond Rosalie Gimeno Harriet Goldberg Estelle Irizarry Kathleen Kish Luis Leal Linda Gould Levine Melveena McKendrick Francine Masiello Beth Miller Elizabeth Ord籀簽ez Rachel Phillips Marcia L. Welles This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.
This Earth, That Sky
This is a generous, long-overdue presentation of the major Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968) to the English-speaking reader. Well over a hundred poems appear here in both Portuguese and English, together with a critical overview that introduces the poet and Brazilian poetry to the nonspecialist and contributes significantly to the existing body of Bandeira scholarship. Bandeira's poetry not only stands among the most important in twentieth-century Brazil but also embodies the experience of transition from one literary movement to another. The poems span a half century of writing, from the publication of Bandeira's first book in 1917 to the definitive edition of his collected work in 1966. Because critics agree that the poet's most influential creative efforts began in 1930 with the publication of Libertinagem (Libertinism), the collection concentrates on the later period. A smaller number of poems drawn from the three books published before this date provide a useful basis for comparison. Candace Slater's fine versions of the poems are augmented by a translator's note that considers Bandeira's poetic language in terms of the particular challenges it offers the translator into English. Her introduction offers a fresh and comprehensive look at the poet whose artistic transformation from nineteenth-century modes of expression to experimental twentieth-century Modernism paralleled the transformation of his country. It focuses on the poet's continuing alternation between an acceptance of, if not allegiance to, the material world and a desire for something more. This fundamental though often subtle opposition is reflected in the title, This Earth, That Sky. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil Finds Work
A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's most brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenary Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This Everyman's Library collection includes his bestselling, galvanizing essay The Fire Next Time--which gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement of the 1960s and still lights the way to understanding race in America today--along with three additional brilliant works of nonfiction by this seminal chronicler and analyst of culture. From No Name In the Street's extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies to the "passionate, probing, controversial" (The Atlantic) Nobody Knows My Name and the incisive criticism of American movies in The Devil Finds Work, Baldwin's stunning prose over and over proves relevant to our contemporary struggle for equality, justice, and social change. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
The Maine Standard Vol. 1
Maine has always been steeped in ingenuity and boldness. Perhaps it is the mix of granite coast and balsam breezes that gives rise to this inspiration, but whatever it is, the state has long held an abundance of world-class writers and artists. Honoring this deep tradition of great writing, The Maine Standard is an annual journal celebrating the uniqueness of Maine, the unusual and the unexpected. Perhaps our founder Duane Doolittle said it best: "We don't pretend that we can define this evocative term, Down East . . . All that we can honestly say is that we are tuned to this particular parcel of land, and that we like its music." The Maine Standard publishes stand-out writing that captures the true character of Maine, writing that sings!
Life Outside The Lines
After graduating from University, Kylee Camara is starting to feel the pressure. She knows that she should be excited about the great writing internship she landed at FLARE magazine, but instead, she feels looming fear and uncertainty.Kylee embarks on a two-week escapade to Thailand, seeking solace from her own apprehensions. Little does she know, a chance encounter with a fellow traveler who leaves their journal behind, will unravel a poetic journey of transformation.As Kylee grapples with the verses that challenge her perception, 'Life Outside the Lines' paints a vivid portrait of a young woman's pursuit to redefine her path and embrace the limitless possibilities that lie beyond our comfort zones. A riveting exploration of life, friendship, and the unexpected twists that shape us.
War and Imagination
Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challenges the canon with essays, short stories, and a wide variety of perspectives. Paying particular attention to the twentieth century and prioritizing the writings of civilians, the works highlighted in War and Imagination offer an opportunity to challenge representations of well-known conflicts with a wide variety of pieces from the frontlines and beyond, such as letters from German soldiers at the siege of Stalingrad, a Holocaust memoir by physicist Abraham Pais, a previously unpublished story by Tennessee Williams, a haunting tale of the Spanish Civil War, and a fresh translation of the final act of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The selections chosen from this anthology make real the unimaginable horrors of survival during wartime while showcasing unique interpretations that allow readers to ponder the mystery from another point of view. War and Imagination includes selections from Tennessee Williams, Louis Simpson, Nina Bogin, Leo Tolstoy, Lara Prescott, Maxine Kumin, Benjamin Fondane, Maria Terrone, Brooke Allen, and more.
The James Baldwin Collection
For the first time in a collector's boxed set, the definitive three-volume Library of America James Baldwin edition gathering all his essential writings, including the collected essays and complete fiction. With the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a distillation of his own experiences as a preacher's son in 1930s Harlem, and the essay collection Notes of a Native Son (1955), James Baldwin established himself as a prophetic voice of his era. Some such voices may grow fainter with the passage of time, but Baldwin remains an inescapable presence, not only a chronicler of his epoch but a thinker who helped shape it. One of the great modern prose stylists, he applied his passion, wit, and relentlessly probing intelligence to the fault lines and false fronts of American society while remaining true to his early credo: "One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give." THE JAMES BALDWIN COLLECTION includes: Collected Essays (LOA #98)Notes of a Native SonNobody Knows My NameThe Fire Next TimeNo Name in the StreetThe Devil Finds Workother essays Early Novels & Stories (LOA #97)Go Tell It on the MountainGiovanni's RoomAnother CountryGoing to Meet the Man (including "Sonny's Blues") Later Novels (LOA #272)Tell Me How Long the Train's Been GoneIf Beale Street Could TalkJust Above My Head Edited by Toni Morrison (#97 & 98) and Darrly Pinckney (#272), each volume contains a textual essay, a chronology of Baldwin's life and career, and detailed notes.
Memorias
Porfirio D穩az escribi籀 estas Memorias, contando su vida entera desde su nacimiento hasta julio de 1867. En ellas reserva el primer cap穩tulo a sus antepasados. Se incluyen, adem獺s, trece a簽os de sus aventuras militares, hasta el momento en que fue candidato a las elecciones presidenciales de su pa穩s, por primera vez.Porfirio D穩az fue un l穩der mexicano que desarroll籀 una intensa actividad militar y pol穩tica durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Particip籀 en dos conflictos b矇licos: la guerra de Reforma (1858-1861);y la guerra contra el Segundo Imperio Mexicano (1863-1867).Se rebel籀 contra el gobierno federal en dos ocasiones: la primera contra el presidente Benito Ju獺rez, en 1871; y, posteriormente, contra Sebasti獺n Lerdo de Tejada, en 1876.Porfirio D穩az fue cuatro veces gobernador de Oaxaca y nueve veces presidente de M矇xico, entre 1876 y 1911. Su larga gesti籀n de gobierno ha sido motivo de controversia: unos historiadores resaltan el crecimiento econ籀mico sin precedentes que registr籀 la econom穩a mexicana bajo su mandato; otros ponen el foco en su autoritarismo, la manipulaci籀n electoral y la expropiaci籀n de los ejidos, que conden籀 a los ind穩genas a vivir en la pobreza y la indigencia. La figura de Porfirio es clave en la historia mexicana: pol矇mica, aclamada y cuestionada por igual.
A Fanny Fern Reader
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the highest paid and most famous newspaper writer in the US was a woman known to the world as Fanny Fern, the nom de plume of Sara Payson Willis. A Fanny Fern Reader features a selection of Fern's columns, mostly from her years as a weekly columnist for the New York Ledger, along with an introduction that shares the remarkable story of Fern's perseverance and success as a woman in a male-dominated profession. For readers in her own time, Fern's frank and unbridled social commentary and boldly satirical voice made her a household name. Fern's subversive and witty commentary about social mores, gender roles, childhood, authorship, and family life transcend time and continue to resonate with and entertain readers today. A Fanny Fern Reader is the most extensive collection of Fern's newspaper writings to date and includes several works that have been out of print for over a century, making this author's writing on a wide range of issues accessible for readers within and outside of classrooms and academic settings.
Seasons
Robert Sieviec's poetry encompasses family dynamics; the past and present as it relates to ongoing experience; observations of seasonality and the saeculum (circle or turnings) of life. He is always looking for the insightful, saddening wonderment of life with hope and resignation running throughout. Life is a long time, sometimes too long. (Oni tehan, watohanl osungye tehan.)
Conversations with Tim Gautreaux
Louisiana writer Tim Gautreaux (b. 1947) writes fiction that mixes equal parts dry humor, tall tales, and deep tragedy. His stories and novels of working-class Acadiana portray lives of inimitably poignant love, loss, and longing. The depth and complexity of Gautreaux's writing invite scholarly appraisals as well, as critics mine the richness of his moral vision. These interviews reveal the intensity of his sense of place, his deep connection to the mechanical and working world, his commitment to the craft of writing, and his Catholic view that has been shaped by Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy. Conversations with Tim Gautreaux collects interviews from 1993 to 2009 with the author of The Missing, The Clearing, Welding with Children, and many other vital works of fiction. Readers who have been engaged with the themes in his stories and novels will find themselves equally taken with the kind and thoughtful voice they discover in interviews.
Contrarian Commentary
How did bananas come to be? Who is the most useless member of society? What do language fads tell us about the history of human development? What would space aliens say about our well-kept lawns?These short pieces and essays provide thought-provoking and entertaining social commentary from a point of view not usually seen-that is, Contrarian. Written for a small-town (Dryden, Ontario) newspaper and the author's blog between 2012 and 2023, Mel Fisher appeals to the "common sense of the common people," writing about everything from breakfast cereal to Darwin to global warming to God. Contrarian Commentary pokes fun at the foibles of modern life, questions mainstream media, and celebrates the profound strangeness of humanity on the blue-and-green planet we call home.
