Erratic Fire Erratic Passion

Author : Jeff Parker,Pasha Malla
Publisher : featherproof books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781943888030

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Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion by Jeff Parker,Pasha Malla Pdf

Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion is a collection of found poems composed of the words of professional athletes. The content of post-game interviews and sports chatter is so often meaningless, if not insufferable, and yet there are athletes like Metta World Peace who transcend lame clichés and rote patter, who use language in surprising ways, who can be funny and shocking and insightful and alarmingly sincere — pure poetry. Muhammad Ali offered dazzling displays of lexical wizardry, and Allen Iverson’s infamous “practice” rant shifted the post-game press conference from the banal to the absurd. This book is a celebration of these rare and exceptional moments. Various poetic forms and line-breaks highlight — or, in the words of Deion Sanders, “deem to set a candor on” — the sophisticated, sublime, and surprising performances of language made by professional athletes.

Author : Stacey May Fowles,Pasha Malla
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 17-09-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781773050867

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Best Canadian Sports Writing by Stacey May Fowles,Pasha Malla Pdf

38 pieces that will be remembered for seasons to come For 25 years, sports journalists south of the border have been collected in best-of anthologies. With Best Canadian Sports Writing, editors Stacey May Fowles and Pasha Malla offer a long overdue rejoinder from the North, showcasing top literary sports writing from diverse homegrown talent. This extraordinary anthology of recent writing mixes columns and long-form journalism, profiles and reportage, new voices and well-known favourites such as Stephen Brunt, Rachel Giese, Eric Koreen, Morgan Campbell, and Cathal Kelly. The assembled pieces offer polished prose, unusual perspectives, and rare insight into their subjects, whether itÕs a Filipino basketball league in the Yukon, the rise and fall of ski ballet, or a field trip to the Mexican hometown of the JaysÕ Roberto Osuna. With its many voices and approaches, Best Canadian Sports Writing expands the genre into more democratic and conversational territory, celebrating the perspectives of both fans and experts alike. These remarkable pieces offer lasting insight that, like sport itself, excites, inspires, and never fails to reveal the truth about ourselves.

Author : Jessica Hopper
Publisher : Featherproof Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780983186366

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The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper Pdf

Jessica Hopper's music criticism has earned her a reputation as a firebrand, a keen observer and fearless critic not just of music but the culture around it. With this volume spanning from her punk fanzine roots to her landmark piece on R. Kelly's past, The First Collection leaves no doubt why The New York Times has called Hopper's work "influential." Not merely a selection of two decades of Hopper's most engaging, thoughtful, and humorous writing, this book documents the last 20 years of American music making and the shifting landscape of music consumption. The book journeys through the truths of Riot Grrrl's empowering insurgence, decamps to Gary, IN, on the eve of Michael Jackson's death, explodes the grunge-era mythologies of Nirvana and Courtney Love, and examines emo's rise. Through this vast range of album reviews, essays, columns, interviews, and oral histories, Hopper chronicles what it is to be truly obsessed with music. The pieces in The First Collection send us digging deep into our record collections, searching to re-hear what we loved and hated, makes us reconsider the art, trash, and politics Hopper illuminates, helping us to make sense of what matters to us most.

Author : Keegan Jennings Goodman
Publisher : featherproof books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781943888061

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The Tennessee Highway Death Chant by Keegan Jennings Goodman Pdf

In a purgatory at the banks of the Hiwasee River in Southeastern Tennessee, two teenagers—the garrulous John Stone and the young Jenny Evenene—barrel through an endless night in a Firebird Trans Am. Jenny wakes each morning, the same morning, and chronicles the events of her final day, her memory reaching back into the recesses of mythical time, recollecting cosmogonies, eschatologies, and metamorphoses that mingle with the details of her violent end. As the two heroes drive through the night, drinking cold American beer and listening to the soothing tunes of the country music station, the dramatis personae of the process of decomposition encroach upon them from the darkness beyond the headlights: the turkey vultures that soar above them, baited by decaying corpses, are at once the successors of the sacred buzzard whose talons first massaged the earth into being and the double of the screaming chicken emblazoned on the hood of the Firebird, which is itself at once the illustrious automobile of teenage dreams, vehicle of transmigrating souls, and ancient phoenix, millennial sigil of the sun, of biochemical resurrections, and Heraclitean thunderbolt who steers all things.

Author : Mikhail Iossel,Jeff Parker
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1564783561

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Amerika by Mikhail Iossel,Jeff Parker Pdf

For half of the twentieth century, there were two superpowers in the world and a gulf of silence between them. Knowledge of Russian culture was based on propaganda and rumour, and their knowledge of the West was no better. When the Soviet Union fell, Russians began to travel to America more regularly, and what they discovered was a very different place to the one they had imagined, but, at the same time, not exactly the one that Americans think they know. This collection of beautifully written and entertaining literary essays by a wide range of Russian writers - young and old, funny and sombre, angry and celebratory, many being translated for the first time - offers readers a unique chance to see Americans in a whole new light, to question how the American dream stands up to the American reality, and to experience the wit and generosity of today's Russian writers.

Author : Mikhail Iossel,Jeff Parker
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124105763

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Rasskazy by Mikhail Iossel,Jeff Parker Pdf

Featuring some of Russia's most prestigious post-Soviet writers, Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia portrays the range of aesthetics and subject matter faced by a generation that never knew Communism. Few countries have undergone more radical transformations than Russia has since the fall of the Soviet Union. The stories in Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia present twenty-two depictions of the new Russia from its most talented young writers. Selected from the pages of the top Russian literary magazines and written by winners of the most prestigious literary awards, most of these stories appear here in English for the first time.

Author : Annie Liontas,Jeff Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1625341822

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A Manner of Being by Annie Liontas,Jeff Parker Pdf

What do the punk singer Henry Rollins, the Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa, the American authors Tobias Wolff, Tayari Jones, and George Saunders, the Canadian writer Sheila Heti, and the Russian poet Polina Barskova have in common? At some point they all studied the art of writing deeply with someone. The nearly seventy short essays in A Manner of Being, by some of the best contemporary writers from around the world, pay homage to mentors--the writers, teachers, nannies, and sages--who enlighten, push, encourage, and sometimes hurt, fail, and limit their protégés. There are mentors encountered in the schoolhouse and on farms, in NYC and in MFA programs; mentors who show up exactly when needed, offering comfort, a steadying hand, a commiseration, a dose of tough love. This collection is rich with anecdotes from the heartfelt to the salacious, gems of writing advice, and guidance for how to live the writing life in a world that all too often doesn't care whether you write or not. Each contribution is intimate and distinct--yet a common theme is that mentors model a manner of being. Selections include: Arthur Flowers on John O'Killens James Franco on Harmony Korine Mary Gaitskill on an Ann Arbor bookstore owner Noy Holland and Sam Lipsyte on Gordon Lish Tayari Jones on Ron Carlson Henry Rollins on Hubert Selby Jr. Rodrigo Rey Rosa on Paul Bowles George Saunders on Douglas Unger and Tobias Wolff Christine Schutt on Elizabeth Hardwick Tobias Wolff on John L'Heureux . . . and many more

Author : Devendra Obi Banhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1943888183

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Weeping Gang Bliss Void Yab-Yum by Devendra Obi Banhart Pdf

This book is the most personal work Devendra Banhart has ever done, more so than any album.

Author : Laura Otis
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532075285

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Refiner’s Fire by Laura Otis Pdf

Julia Martens has a rich, powerful voice that could make her one of the world’s finest altos. Ever since she met the brilliant yet erratic conductor, Arno Weber, during her first audition in a church basement in Berlin, his insistent fingers have been shaping her sound. Now Handel’s “Refiner’s Fire” has become his obsession. Unfortunately during last two years, Julia has disappointed him with her inability to correctly sing every note of the challenging aria. As a single, working mother of two-year-old Bettina, Julia is doing her best to balance her life while rejecting the father’s attempts to control Bettina’s care. But everything changes one night while she is rehearsing the aria and Bettina tumbles out their fifth-floor apartment window onto the courtyard below. Suddenly with Julia’s competence as a mother in question, Bettina’s grandmother sues for custody. Refusing to relinquish her daughter or her music, Julia fights to retain what is rightfully hers. As she is led through her memories and into a new chapter where nothing is certain, Julia must somehow find a way to pursue her dreams while fulfilling her duties as a mother. Refiner’s Fire is the tale of a gifted alto and single mother living in Berlin as she struggles to balance her daughter’s needs with her passion for music.

Author : Jeff Parker
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781443415859

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Where Bears Roam The Streets by Jeff Parker Pdf

“Parker’s exquisitely titled book is as off-kilter as a Kurt Vonnegut novel, and wholly absorbing.” —Maclean’s Jeff Parker went to Russia intending to write a book about the country’s resurgence as a major global superpower under President Vladimir Putin and about the emergence, for perhaps the first time in history, of a Russian middle class. But Russia tends to resist any attempt to pin it down. In the midst of the social and financial upheaval of the years that followed, the answers Parker sought only raised more questions: What was Russia? How did it work? How did people live? And how could they eat kholodetz (meat jelly)? As tensions strain once again between Russia and the West, Parker looks beyond the global politics to the heart of everyday life by giving us the story of his friendship with Igor, a barkeep and draft dodger. Igor is not the model perestroika-generation man nor some kind of Putin-era everyman; he is, like The Dude in The Big Lebowski, a man for his time and place. He is the metaphor for a Russia in crisis, and, as Keith Gessen wrote, “his story is the story of Russia over the last twenty years.” Where Bears Roam the Streets gives a moving account of a friendship between two people who grew up on the opposing sides of the Cold War and paints a smart, funny, revealing portrait of a country that continues to beguile.

Author : Anaïs Nin
Publisher : HMH
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547539546

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Fire by Anaïs Nin Pdf

The renowned diarist continues the story begun in Henry and June and Incest. Drawing from the author’s original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin’s journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally. While referring to her relationships with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and author Henry Miller, as well as a new lover, the Peruvian Gonzalo Moré, she also reveals that her most passionate and enduring affair is with writing itself.

Author : Zakhar Prilepin
Publisher : Disquiet
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1938604512

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Sankya by Zakhar Prilepin Pdf

Sank'ya is an examination of the elements of rebellion and protest. Compare to the recent large-scale actions against Vladimir Putin.

Author : Amanda Bailey,Mario DiGangi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137561268

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Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts by Amanda Bailey,Mario DiGangi Pdf

The first book to put contemporary affect theory into conversation with early modern studies, this volume demonstrates how questions of affect illuminate issues of cognition, political agency, historiography, and scientific thought in early modern literature and culture. Engaging various historical and theoretical perspectives, the essays in this volume bring affect to bear on early modern representations of bodies, passions, and social relations by exploring: the role of embodiment in political subjectivity and action; the interactions of human and non-human bodies within ecological systems; and the social and physiological dynamics of theatrical experience. Examining the complexly embodied experiences of leisure, sympathy, staged violence, courtiership, envy, suicide, and many other topics, the contributors open up new ways of understanding how Renaissance writers thought about the capacities, pleasures, and vulnerabilities of the human body.

Author : John Ogilvie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433081987954

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The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language by John Ogilvie Pdf

Author : Nadine Jane
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780525508267

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Magic Days by Nadine Jane Pdf

From celebrated astrologer Nadine Jane, a guide to the journey of every day and birthday of the year, revealing how the current astrological season, along with the wisdom of tarot and numerology, can help you lead a happier and more fulfilled life Fans and celebrities alike flock to Nadine Jane for custom astrological readings that focus on self-understanding, self-empowerment, and self-care. Now, for the first time, readers have access to her insights in this comprehensive guide to the inherent magic of every day of the year, unveiling the daily inspirations, challenges, and guides that will help you take care of yourself every day. For each day of the year, you’ll discover guidance for the day’s particular journey based on the astrology, tarot, and numerology, along with a mantra, a ritual, and a journaling prompt, so you can home in on the lessons and wisdom that come from that particular moment in time, whether it's Capricorn or Aries season. You’ll also find special information if it’s your birthday, so you can take the day’s celestial wisdom to heart when it comes to your personal journey, relationships, goals, and dreams. Whether you’re a novice looking for your first introduction to spiritual practices, a lost soul who could use some direction in life, a jaded expert looking for a bird's-eye view of the topics you know far too well, an empathic people-reader who loves to understand others, or a complete skeptic who considers this “spiritual nonsense” while secretly delighting in the inexplicable accuracy of it all, you’ll find something for every day of your luminous life in Magic Days.