Author: Haley Erin Thompson
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Venus on a Half-shell and Other Poems
Author: Haley Erin Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Venus on the Half Shell
Author: Deborah P. Cooper
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A chapbook of witty verse by Deborah P. Cooper who uses rhyme skillfully in these clever poems as she follows in the footsteps of Carroll, Nash, Silverstein and Dr. Seuss.
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A chapbook of witty verse by Deborah P. Cooper who uses rhyme skillfully in these clever poems as she follows in the footsteps of Carroll, Nash, Silverstein and Dr. Seuss.
Voyage of the Sable Venus
Author: Robin Coste Lewis
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1101911204
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" (The New York Review of Books) meditation on the black female figure through time. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. In the center of the collection is the title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present—titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewis's own autobiographical poems, "Voyage" is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know. A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly begin—five hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who adores her culture and the beauty to be found within it. Yet she is also a cultural critic alert to the nuances of race and desire—how they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history. Lewis's book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of race—a full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1101911204
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This National Book Award-winning debut poetry collection is a "powerfully evocative" (The New York Review of Books) meditation on the black female figure through time. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems meditating on the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. In the center of the collection is the title poem, "Voyage of the Sable Venus," an amazing narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present—titles that feature or in some way comment on the black female figure in Western art. Bracketed by Lewis's own autobiographical poems, "Voyage" is a tender and shocking meditation on the fragmentary mysteries of stereotype, juxtaposing our names for things with what we actually see and know. A new understanding of biography and the self, this collection questions just where, historically, do ideas about the black female figure truly begin—five hundred years ago, five thousand, or even longer? And what role did art play in this ancient, often heinous story? Here we meet a poet who adores her culture and the beauty to be found within it. Yet she is also a cultural critic alert to the nuances of race and desire—how they define us all, including her own sometimes painful history. Lewis's book is a thrilling aesthetic anthem to the complexity of race—a full embrace of its pleasure and horror, in equal parts.
Venus on the Half-shell and Others
Author: Philip José Farmer
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The controversial Kilgore Trout episode was neither the first nor the last time Farmer would impishly slip out of his own skin and assume the persona of another author. In Venus on the Half-Shell and Others, Philip Jose Farmer transforms himself into fictional personalities as compelling as they are diverse: Cordwainer Bird, Paul Chapin, Rod Keen, Harry "Bunny" Manders, Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor, John H. Watson, M.D. and even the real-life author William S. Burroughs.
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The controversial Kilgore Trout episode was neither the first nor the last time Farmer would impishly slip out of his own skin and assume the persona of another author. In Venus on the Half-Shell and Others, Philip Jose Farmer transforms himself into fictional personalities as compelling as they are diverse: Cordwainer Bird, Paul Chapin, Rod Keen, Harry "Bunny" Manders, Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor, John H. Watson, M.D. and even the real-life author William S. Burroughs.
The Count of Concord
Author: Nicholas Delbanco
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785092
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
A fictional account of the life of eighteenth-century American physicist and inventor Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, as seen by his last surviving relative.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785092
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
A fictional account of the life of eighteenth-century American physicist and inventor Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, as seen by his last surviving relative.
Venus Invisible
Author: Nathalia Crane
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Venus on the Half-Shell
Author: Philip Jose Farmer
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1781163073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned spaceship. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during an interlude with a cat-like alien queen. Now Simon must chart a 3,000-year course to the most distant corners of the multiverse, to seek out the answers to the questions no one can seem to answer.
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1781163073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned spaceship. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during an interlude with a cat-like alien queen. Now Simon must chart a 3,000-year course to the most distant corners of the multiverse, to seek out the answers to the questions no one can seem to answer.
The Vigil of Venus
Author: Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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The Venus of Milo
Author: Edward Rowland Sill
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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The Vinedresser, and Other Poems
Author: Thomas Sturge Moore
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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