The Greensboro Reader

The Greensboro Reader PDF Author: Robert Watson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469644282
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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This volume of distinguished stories and poems brings together a number of writers who have either taught or studied at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro during the past thirty years. The fiction includes work by Fred Chappell, Caroline Gordon, Hiram Haydn, Peter Taylor, and Allen Tate. The poets include Robert Watson, Randall Jarrell, Heather Miller, and Gibbons Ruark. Originally published in 1968. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The Greensboro Review

The Greensboro Review PDF Author: Terry L. Kennedy
Publisher: Unc Greensboro, Mfa Writing Program
ISBN: 9781469666365
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The Greensboro Review 109 features the Robert Watson Literary Prize-winning story, Casey Guerin's "What Consumes You," and the Prize-winning poem, Chelsea Harlan's "Some Sunlight." This spring 2021 issue also includes an Editor's Note by Terry L. Kennedy and new work from Rachel Abramowitz, Allyn Bernkopf, Melissa Bowers, Michelle Poirier Brown, Colin Dekeersgieter, Amina Gautier, Isabel Geary Phelps, Emily Greenberg, Miah Jeffra, Louisa Lam, Gary Percesepe, Simon Perchik, Lucas Daniel Peters, Kimm Brockett Stammen, Beth Weinstock, The Cyborg Jillian Weise, Jim Whiteside, Kris Whorton, Kathleen Winter, and Joe Woodward.

The Greensboro Reader

The Greensboro Reader PDF Author: Robert Watson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469644282
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Book Description
This volume of distinguished stories and poems brings together a number of writers who have either taught or studied at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro during the past thirty years. The fiction includes work by Fred Chappell, Caroline Gordon, Hiram Haydn, Peter Taylor, and Allen Tate. The poets include Robert Watson, Randall Jarrell, Heather Miller, and Gibbons Ruark. Originally published in 1968. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Lock & Load

Lock & Load PDF Author: Deirdra McAfee
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826359086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Nothing says America louder than a gun. As the short stories assembled here demonstrate, firearms loom as large in our imaginations as in the news. In this unforgettable anthology, the common theme, and the essential object, is the gun. These striking stories, from such famous authors as Annie Proulx, Bonnie Jo Campbell, and John Edgar Wideman, plus a talented group of newcomers, range widely--from tender to violent, from chilling to hilarious. Tales of love, war, coming of age, and revenge, they occur in landscapes familiar or ordinary, distant or dystopian, and reflect Americans' particular obsession with, and paranoia about, guns. This masterful and thought-provoking collection moves beyond the polarized rhetoric surrounding firearms to spark genuine discussion.

After the Pledge of Allegiance

After the Pledge of Allegiance PDF Author: Charles Mann
Publisher: Pudding House Publications
ISBN: 9781930755017
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Last Known Position

Last Known Position PDF Author: James Mathews
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574412523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2008. Most of the nine stories in Last Known Position were written upon James Mathews' return from combat deployment to the Middle East with the D.C. Air National Guard. Life under fire provided the author with both dramatic events and a heightened sense of observation, allowing him to suggest the stress of combat as the driving factor behind extreme yet believable characterization and action. Military experiences and settings cause certain human elements and truisms to emerge more profoundly and dramatically. These stories portray desperate characters driven to make desperate choices. Always on the edge of a dark and unpleasant reality, Mathews' characters survive by embracing fantasy, humor, violence, and sometimes redemption. Each story bears its own brand of hopeless quirkiness. Four teenagers on an army base steal a grenade and are stalked by a parade horse. A drifter returns home to rob the grandparents who raised him. A national guardsman faces a homicidal superior officer in Iraq on the eve of war. An elderly man worries that his wife's new house guests are unrepentant cannibals. Always tense, sometimes ridiculous, and never dull, Last Known Position brings the reader to places unknown before and unforgettable after.

Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive

Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive PDF Author: Bethany Hicok
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 164315012X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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In a life full of chaos and travel, Elizabeth Bishop managed to preserve and even partially catalog, a large collection—more than 3,500 pages of drafts of poems and prose, notebooks, memorabilia, artwork, hundreds of letters to major poets and writers, and thousands of books—now housed at Vassar College. Informed by archival theory and practice, as well as a deep appreciation of Bishop’s poetics, the collection charts new territory for teaching and reading American poetry at the intersection of the institutional archive, literary study, the liberal arts college, and the digital humanities. The fifteen essays in this collection use this archive as a subject, and, for the first time, argue for the critical importance of working with and describing original documents in order to understand the relationship between this most archival of poets and her own archive. This collection features a unique set of interdisciplinary scholars, archivists, translators, and poets, who approach the archive collaboratively and from multiple perspectives. The contributions explore remarkable new acquisitions, such as Bishop’s letters to her psychoanalyst, one of the most detailed psychosexual memoirs of any twentieth century poet and the exuberant correspondence with her final partner, Alice Methfessel, an important series of queer love letters of the 20th century. Lever Press’s digital environment allows the contributors to present some of the visual experience of the archive, such as Bishop’s extraordinary “multi-medial” and “multimodal” notebooks, in order to reveal aspects of the poet’s complex composition process.

Candy

Candy PDF Author: Dan Albergotti
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807182834
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 65

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Dan Albergotti’s Candy is a book steeped in sound and silence. Sound in the form of song, of chaotic cacophony, and of the drone (sometimes natural, sometimes manufactured) that creates the ambient soundtrack of history and the seemingly apocalyptic present. Silence in the sense both of the void’s innate quietude and of the failure to speak—of people either dumbstruck or in denial, not speaking because they cannot or will not. Throughout this collection, these sounds and intermittent silences provide the rhythm for poems that question the nature of truth and myth, and that restlessly search for meaning in a reticent universe, ultimately unwilling to take no for an answer as they strive to find an ever-elusive yes.

The Coal Life

The Coal Life PDF Author: Adam Vines
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557289808
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83

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Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize Finalist

Notes for My Body Double

Notes for My Body Double PDF Author: Paul Guest
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803257993
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Who would guess that Godzilla, the Invisible Man, Elvis, Donald Duck, Ted Williams, and the Three Stooges might have something to say about the love and loss that shape the way we see the world? And yet these are the pop-culture coordinates that chart the emotional life brilliantly mapped out in Paul Guest?s second book of poems. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Prize in Poetry, this collection plumbs the depths of nature and culture (how, for instance, ?gar? in Old English means ?spear,? and an octopus can lose a limb during mating) to give form to the darkness and the light that make us human. ø In poetry whose tone is largely one of lament tempered by a wry and intelligent humor, Paul Guest does what a poet does best: he gives us the moments of his life refashioned to reflect the larger arc and meaning of our own?of life, that is, writ large.

Revising the Storm

Revising the Storm PDF Author: Geffrey Davis
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1938160290
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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This debut collection by Cave Canem fellow Geffrey Davis burrows under the surface of gender, addiction, recovery, clumsy love, bitterness, and faith. The tones explored—tender, comic, wry, tragic—interrogate male subjectivity and privilege, as they examine their "embarrassed desires" for familial connection, sexual love, compassion, and repair. Revising the Storm also speaks to the sons and daughters affected by the drug/crack epidemic of the '80s and addresses issues of masculinity and its importance in family. Some nights I hear my father's long romance with drugs echoed in the skeletal choir of crickets. Geffrey Davis teaches at Penn State University.