Passwords Primeval 20 American Poets In Their Own Words

Author : Tony Leuzzi
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1934414964
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passwords Primeval written by Tony Leuzzi and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passwords Primeval sets aside the artificial boundaries of poetry "schools" and "movements" to cut to the art of the matter. Tony Leuzzi's astounding knowledge of poetry draws new insights from such luminaries as Billy Collins, Gerald Stern, Jane Hirshfield, Patricia Smith, and Martín Espada. These new interviews provide insights into the poets and their poems without losing any of their mystery. Whether you're looking for deeper understanding of your favorite poets or simply interested in the lives of contemporary artists, Passwords Primeval reveals the interconnectedness of these masters whose voices echo each other from opposite ends of the same canyon.

Author : Adam McOmber
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1942683421
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My House Gathers Desires written by Adam McOmber and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam McOmber's lush, hallucinatory stories are both familiar and wholly original. Drawn from the historical record, Biblical lore, fairy tales, science fiction, and nightmares, these offbeat and fantastical works explore gender and sexuality in their darkest and most beautiful manifestations. In the tradition of Angela Carter or Kelly Link, My House Gathers Desires is covertly funny and haunting, seeking fresh ways to consider sexual identity and its relation to history. In "Sodom and Gomorrah," readers encounter a subversive, ecstatic new version of the Old Testament story. In "The Re'em," a medieval monk's search for a mythic beast conjures forbidden desire. And in "Notes on Inversion," the German psychiatrist Kraft-Ebbing receives a surreal retort to his clinical descriptions of same-sex desire. From "Sodom and Gomorrah": The strangers then are no longer like two men at all. They have undressed themselves, giving up the pretense of skin and becoming a denser part of the air. We are hungry for them. Ours is a sacred desire that was buried too long in our chests, like some city beneath the sand. Adam McOmber is the author of The White Forest (Touchstone, 2012) and This New & Poisonous Air (BOA, 2011), from which he had stories nominated for two 2012 Pushcart Prizes. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, and Fairy Tale Review. He served as the managing and associate editor of Hotel America at Columbia College Chicago from 2007-2015. He now lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he teaches at Loyola Marymount University.

Author : Miro Roman
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035624054
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play Among Books written by Miro Roman and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.

Author : Reginald Gibbons
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1942683502
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Orchard in the Street written by Reginald Gibbons and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection by award-winning author Reginald Gibbons explores human experience and memory in ordinary settings—city apartments, rural roads, soap operas, and juvenile court—as way to understand the depths of thought and feeling in our everyday encounters. These narrative meditations explode with imagery, looking and listening deeply into our everyday experience—the extraordinary within the ordinary, the impossible within the possible. Reginald Gibbons is the author of numerous collections of poetry and fiction. His book Creatures of a Day was a poetry finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Evanston, IL, where he teaches at Northwestern University.

Author : James McManus
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 193816086X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Education of a Poker Player written by James McManus and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In writing about poker Jim McManus has managed to write about everything, and it's glorious."—David Sedaris New York Times-bestselling author James McManus offers up a collection of seven stories narrated by Vincent Killeen, an Irish Catholic altar boy, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Persuaded at age eight by his grandmother that entering the priesthood will guarantee salvation for every member of his family, Vince eagerly commits to attending a Jesuit seminary for high school. As the meaning of a vow of celibacy becomes clearer to him, however, and he is exposed to the irresistible temptations of poker and girls, life as a seminarian begins to seem less appealing. These autobiographical stories are enlightening and evocative, providing keen, often humorous insight into Catholicism, faith, celibacy and its opposite, as well as America's—and increasingly the world's—favorite card game. James McManus has been called "poker's Shakespeare." He is the New York Times-bestselling author of Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker and Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, among others. He has been the poker columnist for the New York Times and currently writes the history column for CardPlayer. His work has also appeared in Harper's, The Believer, Paris Review, Esquire, and in Best American anthologies for poetry, sports writing, science and nature, and magazine writing. He has spoken about poker at Yale, Harvard, Google, Goldman Sachs, and on numerous media outlets, and is the recipient of the Peter Lisagor Award for Sports Journalism and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, among other awards. He teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Author : Robin McLean
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160665
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reptile House written by Robin McLean and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The characters in these nine short stories abandon families, plot assassinations, nurse vendettas, tease, taunt, and terrorize. They retaliate for bad marriages, dream of weddings, and wait decades for lovers. How far will we go to escape to a better dream? What consequences must we face for hope and fantasy? Robin McLean's stories are strange, often disturbing and funny, and as full of foolishness and ugliness as they are of the wisdom and beauty all around us. Robin McLean holds an MFA from UMass Amherst. She teaches at Clark University and lives in Bristol, New Hampshire, and Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Author : Lee Upton
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160339
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tao of Humiliation written by Lee Upton and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, these twenty stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a woman who searches through her past lives to recall a romantic encounter with the poet W. B. Yeats; a student who contends with her predatory professor; and the poignant scenario of the last satyr meeting his last woman. Writer-in-residence and a professor of English at Lafayette College, Lee Upton is author of twelve books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Author : Aurelie Sheehan
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160258
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewelry Box written by Aurelie Sheehan and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewelry Box is a collection of intimate histories, concentrated renderings of getting older, leaving, remembering. Here, “history” is twinned with “story,” where microcosms of daily life, drenched in the past, blossom from objects: a tube of mascara, a cat’s tail, mushroom paté. This collection explores nuances of sexuality, motherhood, and what it means to know life and tell a story.

Author : Li-Young Lee
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1938160053
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winged Seed written by Li-Young Lee and published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It has true spiritual importance for contemporary American literature."—Edward Hirsch Upon its initial publication, acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's memoir The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (1995), received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. In lyrical prose, Lee's extraordinary story begins in the 1950s when his parents fled China's political turmoil for Indonesia. Along with many other Chinese members of the population, his family was persecuted under President Sukarno. Falsely accused and charged for crimes against the state, his father spent a year and a half in jail as a political prisoner, half of that time in a leper colony. While his entire family was being transported to a prison colony, they escaped and fled to Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, and back to Hong Kong where his father rose to prominence as an evangelical preacher. Eventually, the family sought asylum in the United States in 1962. When the author was six, they emigrated to a small town in western Pennsylvania where his father became a Presbyterian minister. This reissued edition contains a new foreword by the author and never-before-seen photos of the family from different stages of their journey. Li-Young Lee is the author of four critically acclaimed books of poetry that have garnered such awards as the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University; the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; the Writer's Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation; and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Author : Gregory Gerard
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300218444
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ImageOutWrite 2012 written by Gregory Gerard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 20 years ImageOut has been recognized and respected as a major arts and cultural organization celebrating LGBT artists and themed work. This special collection of poetry and short fiction by 23 contemporary writers celebrates ImageOut's 20th Anniversary.