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Publisher
Autumn House Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry. Showcasing over two hundred queer writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Queer Nature offers a new context for and expands upon the canon of nature poetry while also offering new lenses through which to view queerness and the natural world."--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habits, and other prescribed, finely calibrated "subtle maneuvers" that help them use time, summon up willpower, exercise self-discipline and keep themselves afloat with optimism. Artists considering how they work--in letters, diaries, interviews, beguilingly compiled and edited by Mason Currey. Portraits...
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of new essays and columns published in the wake of the 2015 Charleston, SC, massacre, along with excerpts from key scholarly books. It draws from a variety of disciplines--history, sociology, urban studies, law, critical race theory--and includes discussion questions and a selected and annotated bibliography for further reading"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Calvin Trillin can write just about anything -- and has. He covered the Civil Rights movement in the South for Time, chronicled stories from small towns and cities for The New Yorker, and wrote comic poetry for The Nation. He has been called "perhaps the finest reporter in America" (The Miami Herald), "our funniest food writer" (The New Yorker), and "one of the most brilliant humorists of our time" (Charleston Post and Courier). But one of his favorite...
Author
Publisher
Libre Expression
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"C'est fou, vous me faites penser à mon grand-père... -- C'est parce que je suis ton grand-père, p'tit con ! -- Pachou ? Qu'est-ce que tu fais là ? » Après l'avoir aperçu dans un campement au journal télévisé, Henri est venu chercher son Gillou, amoché par la pandémie. En désespoir de cause, Gilles, qui a perdu travail, logement et repères, suit le vieil homme dans sa petite ferme des Cantons-de-l'Est. Le citadin et voyageur dans l'âme...
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
Tracing the movement from its origins in the 1920s to its decline in the 1950s and 1960s, Durozoi tells the history of Surrealism through its activities, publications, and reviews, demonstrating its close ties to some of the most explosive political, as well as creative, debates of the twentieth century. Unlike other histories, which focus mainly on the pre-World War II years of the movement in Paris, Durozoi covers both a wider chronological and...
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