The Story of the Milkman and Other Poems

The Story of the Milkman and Other Poems PDF Author: Alan Walowitz
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1925536769
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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""Alan Walowitz's poetry can provoke out-loud laughter and pensive melancholy; better still, he can even do both in the same poem. He has a particular talent for reconstructing recollections, quietly showing us what is moving about them and why, as in this volume's splendid title poem."" Robert Wexelblatt, author of 'The Posthumous Papers of Sidney Fein' ""What I love about Alan Walowitz's poems, is the very relatable way in which he captures so many of life's important moments with astute observation, wry humor, and empathy. He has a distinctive voice which infiltrates my synapses and resonates with my heart."" Betsy Mars, author of 'Alinea' ""Alan Walowitz is neither withholding nor unnecessarily oblique. And then there's the welcome wit, as he juggles the sometimes Jewish-blues in deft narratives that never cease to surprise. In his refusal to claim wisdom, he is wise. And oh, so rare to turn a breath into a gasp."" Estha Weiner, author of 'at the last minute'

The Story of the Milkman and Other Poems

The Story of the Milkman and Other Poems PDF Author: Alan Walowitz
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1925536769
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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Book Description
""Alan Walowitz's poetry can provoke out-loud laughter and pensive melancholy; better still, he can even do both in the same poem. He has a particular talent for reconstructing recollections, quietly showing us what is moving about them and why, as in this volume's splendid title poem."" Robert Wexelblatt, author of 'The Posthumous Papers of Sidney Fein' ""What I love about Alan Walowitz's poems, is the very relatable way in which he captures so many of life's important moments with astute observation, wry humor, and empathy. He has a distinctive voice which infiltrates my synapses and resonates with my heart."" Betsy Mars, author of 'Alinea' ""Alan Walowitz is neither withholding nor unnecessarily oblique. And then there's the welcome wit, as he juggles the sometimes Jewish-blues in deft narratives that never cease to surprise. In his refusal to claim wisdom, he is wise. And oh, so rare to turn a breath into a gasp."" Estha Weiner, author of 'at the last minute'

Milkman

Milkman PDF Author: Anna Burns
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644450003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize “Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique.”—The Guardian In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes “interesting,” the last thing she ever wanted to be. Despite middle sister’s attempts to avoid him—and to keep her mother from finding out about her maybe-boyfriend—rumors spread and the threat of violence lingers. Milkman is a story of the way inaction can have enormous repercussions, in a time when the wrong flag, wrong religion, or even a sunset can be subversive. Told with ferocious energy and sly, wicked humor, Milkman establishes Anna Burns as one of the most consequential voices of our day.

Don't Call Us Dead

Don't Call Us Dead PDF Author: Danez Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 1555977855
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 101

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Digte. Addresses race, class, sexuality, faith, social justice, mortality, and the challenges of living HIV positive at the intersection of black and queer identity

The Arid Sky

The Arid Sky PDF Author: Emiliano Monge
Publisher: Restless Books
ISBN: 163206135X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149

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Described as “a literary atomic bomb” (Luisán Gámez), Mexican literary star Emiliano Monge’s English-language debut is the Latin American incarnation of Cormac McCarthy: an artistically daring, gorgeously wrought, and eviscerating novel of biblical violence as told through the story of a man “who, though he did not know it, was the era in which he lived.” Set on a desolate, unnamed mesa, Emiliano Monge’s The Arid Sky distills the essence of a Latin America ruthlessly hollowed out by uncontainable violence. This is an unsparing yet magnificent land, whose only constants are loneliness, hatred, loyalty, and the struggle to return some small measure of meaning to life. Thundering and inventive, The Arid Sky narrates the signature moments in the life of Germán Alcantara Carnero: a man who is both exaltedly, viscerally real and is an ageless, nameless being capable of embodying entire eras, cultures, and conflicts. Monge’s roadmap—an escape across borders, the disappearance of a young girl, the confrontation between a father and his son, the birth of a sick child, and murder—takes readers on a journey to the core of humankind that posits a challenge of the kind only great literature can pose. “A blood-soaked yet lyrical story of regrets, memories, and the faint possibility of redemption, set in a parched Mexican mesa. Monge's first novel to be translated into English will open one of Mexico's most talented young writers to a new audience... Monge's sentences reflect the meandering structure, dizzying the reader with complexity and beauty….this style reflects Monge's overall message about the morphing shape of memories and how they all combine to form a person….Monge's novel is a brutal gem of a book concerned with the burdens of the past.” —Kirkus Reviews “Rarely can we witness literature like this.” —Miguel Ángel Ángeles, Rolling Stone

The Book of a Thousand Poems

The Book of a Thousand Poems PDF Author: Donald A MacKenzie
Publisher: Peter Bedrick Books
ISBN: 9780872260849
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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Book Description
A collection of poems by writers ranging from William Blake and Henry W. Longfellow to Emily Dickinson and Robert L. Stevenson, arranged by topics such as The Seasons, Nursery Rhymes, and Lullabies and Cradle Songs.

Minotaur and Other Stories

Minotaur and Other Stories PDF Author: Salvatore Difalco
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1925536793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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"Salvatore Difalco's fiction is a finely blended mix of toughness, street-smart insights and violence, along with flashes of tenderness and compassion. (His stories) are thoughtful, enigmatic ... drawing the reader in with sharp detail, poetic phrasing and recognizable characters. Though we're dealing with thugs, prostitutes and crackheads, they are all folks you'll feel uncomfortably at home with. That's Difalco's magic: scrape characters from the bottom of society's bowl and reveal them in literary daylight as powerless dreamers, failed mothers, caged creatures." Matthew Firth, 'Front & Centre'

Little Glass Planet

Little Glass Planet PDF Author: Dobby Gibson
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555978894
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 87

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The poems in Dobby Gibson’s new book transform the everyday into the revelatory Little Glass Planet exults in the strangeness of the known and unknowable world. In poems set as far afield as Mumbai and Marfa, Texas, Dobby Gibson maps disparate landscapes, both terrestrial and subliminal, to reveal the drama of the quotidian. Aphoristic, allusive, and collaged, these poems mine our various human languages to help us understand what we might mean when we speak to each other—as lovers, as family, as strangers. Little Glass Planet uses lyric broadcasts to foreshorten the perceived distances between us, opening borders and pointing toward a sense of collectivity. “This is my love letter to the world,” Gibson writes, “someone call us a sitter. / We’re going to be here a while.” Elegiac, funny, and candid, Little Glass Planet is a kind of manual for paying attention to a world that is increasingly engineered to distract us from our own humanity. It’s a book that points toward hope, offering the possibilities of a “we” that only the open frequency of poetry can create, possibilities that are indistinguishable from love.

The Last Free Man and Other Stories

The Last Free Man and Other Stories PDF Author: Lewis Woolston
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1925536882
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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"A spectacularly understated page-turner. Each story enters a world apart, often spoken with a poetic dry wit, sometimes acerbic to the point of controversial, honest to the point of brutal. Some people and situations are so funny you'll wish you'd been there. Many times you wonder how some have survived - some don't. From Ceduna, Madura, Mundrabilla, Kimba, and Yalata near the dog fence, Lewis has met, worked, and lived with the creme-de-la-creme of drifters and transients, as well as the fourth and fifth generational outback station owners. In the great Australian outback - among the dry red soil, the mulga and saltbushes, where the kestrels observe and keep their secrets - beware who you're talking to." Helen Travers, author of 'A Little Lower Than Angels'

Stories My Gay Uncle Told Me

Stories My Gay Uncle Told Me PDF Author: Truth Serum Press
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1925536866
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Book Description
27 stories told by gay uncles ... and featuring the talents of RubinA, Alex Reece Abbott, Sara Abend-Sims, Henry Bladon, Steve Bogdaniec, Steve Carr, Helen Chambers, Carl Chapman, Chuka Susan Chesney, Carolyn Cordon, Ruth Z. Deming, EG Downs, Tom Fegan, Nod Ghosh, Jan Haag, Chris Hall, Alisdair Hodgson, Eddy Knight, Lance Manion, Colleen Moyne, Edward O'Dwyer, DeLeon Peacock, Matt Potter, Melisa Quigley, Michèle Saint-Yves, E. M. Stormo and Susan Whitmore

Easy Money and Other Stories

Easy Money and Other Stories PDF Author: Steve Evans
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1925536815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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""In a terrifically impressive collection of short short-fictions, Steve Evans takes us on a tour of the metaphorical sinkholes of suburbia. Via his observant eye and febrile imagination, we behold the mischievous and manic, the tawdry and tragic, and more. We come upon familiar scenes that then glow in a broadband delivery of hyper-realism. Second-hand books become a successful stalking strategy. A private letter-burning becomes a communal cleansing. In a final afternoon tea, a potential inheritance is consumed in gold-leaf-infused cakes. A deposit-secured wedding cake, a promised book of window paintings, a normal Bay-City tram ... never arrive."" Moya Costello, author of 'The Office as a Boat: a chronicle'