Author: Dick Bakken
Publisher: Pudding House Publications
ISBN: 9781589983090
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Dick Bakken Greatest Hits
Author: Dick Bakken
Publisher: Pudding House Publications
ISBN: 9781589983090
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher: Pudding House Publications
ISBN: 9781589983090
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
David Chorlton Greatest Hits
Author: David Chorlton
Publisher: Pudding House Publications
ISBN: 9781930755376
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Publisher: Pudding House Publications
ISBN: 9781930755376
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
America Zen
Author: Ray McNiece
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This is an essential collection of contemporary American Zen poetry from thrity poets whose work is shared through biographical statement, Zen statement, photo, and five or more poems each. It's a book that can help you awaken to your natural self.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This is an essential collection of contemporary American Zen poetry from thrity poets whose work is shared through biographical statement, Zen statement, photo, and five or more poems each. It's a book that can help you awaken to your natural self.
The Cost of Loyalty
Author: Tim Bakken
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632868997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020 A courageous and damning look at the destruction wrought by the arrogance, incompetence, and duplicity prevalent in the U.S. military-from the inside perspective of a West Point professor of law. Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty years at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military's insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. The consequences are undeniably grim: failure in every war since World War II, millions of lives lost around the globe, and trillions of dollars wasted. Bakken makes the case that the culture he has observed at West Point influences whether America starts wars and how it prosecutes them. Despite fabricated admissions data, rampant cheating, epidemics of sexual assault, archaic curriculums, and shoddy teaching, the military academies produce officers who maintain their privileges at any cost to the nation. Any dissenter is crushed. Bakken revisits all the major wars the United States has fought, from Korea to the current debacles in the Middle East, to show how the military culture produces one failure after another. The Cost of Loyalty is a powerful, multifaceted revelation about the United States and its singular source of pride. One of the few federal employees ever to win a whistleblowing case against the U.S. military, Bakken, in this brave, timely, and urgently necessary book, and at great personal risk, helps us understand why America loses wars.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1632868997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020 A courageous and damning look at the destruction wrought by the arrogance, incompetence, and duplicity prevalent in the U.S. military-from the inside perspective of a West Point professor of law. Veneration for the military is a deeply embedded but fatal flaw in America's collective identity. In twenty years at West Point, whistleblower Tim Bakken has come to understand how unquestioned faith isolates the U.S. armed forces from civil society and leads to catastrophe. Pervaded by chronic deceit, the military's insular culture elevates blind loyalty above all other values. The consequences are undeniably grim: failure in every war since World War II, millions of lives lost around the globe, and trillions of dollars wasted. Bakken makes the case that the culture he has observed at West Point influences whether America starts wars and how it prosecutes them. Despite fabricated admissions data, rampant cheating, epidemics of sexual assault, archaic curriculums, and shoddy teaching, the military academies produce officers who maintain their privileges at any cost to the nation. Any dissenter is crushed. Bakken revisits all the major wars the United States has fought, from Korea to the current debacles in the Middle East, to show how the military culture produces one failure after another. The Cost of Loyalty is a powerful, multifaceted revelation about the United States and its singular source of pride. One of the few federal employees ever to win a whistleblowing case against the U.S. military, Bakken, in this brave, timely, and urgently necessary book, and at great personal risk, helps us understand why America loses wars.
Paperbound Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1632
Book Description
Criminal Intent
Author: Sheldon Siegel
Publisher: Sheldon Siegel
ISBN: 0983006253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Publisher: Sheldon Siegel
ISBN: 0983006253
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Punk Archaeology
Author: William Rodney Caraher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692281024
Category : Archaeologists
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692281024
Category : Archaeologists
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Mirrorforms
Author: Peter Kline
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
ISBN: 1643171313
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Mirrorforms is a collection of poems in a tiny, eight-lined, intricately rhyming “mirrorform” I invented that begins and ends with the same line. Like John Berryman’s “Dream Songs,” Charles Wright’s “Sestets,” and Terrence Hayes’ “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin,” this collection strives to develop the full range of expressive and sonic possibility in a single poetic form. The mirrorform’s two sets of mirrored envelope rhymes make it reminiscent of the octave of a Petrarchan sonnet – and, indeed, the great English-language tradition of the sonnet sequence is another major influence—but its slender trimeter lines and prominent identical repetition give it a very distinct effect. The form is well-suited to thinking quickly through an idea, turning it over in the light; the repetition allows for both a sharply ironic twist and a haunting echo. The very short lines allow me to put intense pressure on individual words and phrases, making the form apt for all kinds of punning. In addition, the mirrorform’s tendency to establish binaries makes it an especially effective form for creating complex systems of parallelism and antithesis. I’ve written several that are informed by Emily Dickinson’s “definition” poems trying to take advantage of these logical structures. I’ve also written mirrorforms that incorporate quotations from other poets, using the binary structure to emphasize the implicit dialogue that is created. Mirrorforms explores the musical, rhetorical, and expressive possibilities of this form through a series of agnostic psalms, shadowy dramatic monologues, meditative studies, and elegies.
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
ISBN: 1643171313
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Mirrorforms is a collection of poems in a tiny, eight-lined, intricately rhyming “mirrorform” I invented that begins and ends with the same line. Like John Berryman’s “Dream Songs,” Charles Wright’s “Sestets,” and Terrence Hayes’ “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin,” this collection strives to develop the full range of expressive and sonic possibility in a single poetic form. The mirrorform’s two sets of mirrored envelope rhymes make it reminiscent of the octave of a Petrarchan sonnet – and, indeed, the great English-language tradition of the sonnet sequence is another major influence—but its slender trimeter lines and prominent identical repetition give it a very distinct effect. The form is well-suited to thinking quickly through an idea, turning it over in the light; the repetition allows for both a sharply ironic twist and a haunting echo. The very short lines allow me to put intense pressure on individual words and phrases, making the form apt for all kinds of punning. In addition, the mirrorform’s tendency to establish binaries makes it an especially effective form for creating complex systems of parallelism and antithesis. I’ve written several that are informed by Emily Dickinson’s “definition” poems trying to take advantage of these logical structures. I’ve also written mirrorforms that incorporate quotations from other poets, using the binary structure to emphasize the implicit dialogue that is created. Mirrorforms explores the musical, rhetorical, and expressive possibilities of this form through a series of agnostic psalms, shadowy dramatic monologues, meditative studies, and elegies.
Deep Down Things
Author: Ronald E. McFarland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Fifty-six contemporary poets are featured in this anthology of Inland Pacific Northwest poetry. Regional writers -- including Sherman Alexie, Irv Broughton, Anita Endrezze, Caroline Kizer, Robert Wrigley, and others -- celebrate the region's character and its natural wonders and call attention to potential threats to the area's well-being.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Fifty-six contemporary poets are featured in this anthology of Inland Pacific Northwest poetry. Regional writers -- including Sherman Alexie, Irv Broughton, Anita Endrezze, Caroline Kizer, Robert Wrigley, and others -- celebrate the region's character and its natural wonders and call attention to potential threats to the area's well-being.
Police
Author: Jo Nesbø
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099570122
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The police urgently need Harry Hole A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical. But this time, Harry can't help anyone For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the centre of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless people. But now, with those he loves most facing terrible danger, Harry can't protect anyone. Least of all himself.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099570122
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The police urgently need Harry Hole A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical. But this time, Harry can't help anyone For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the centre of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless people. But now, with those he loves most facing terrible danger, Harry can't protect anyone. Least of all himself.