Ice On A Hot Stove

Author : Denise Duhamel,Rick Mulkey
Publisher : Clemson University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781638041160

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Ice on a Hot Stove by Denise Duhamel,Rick Mulkey Pdf

For more than a century, Converse College has held a unique position in the literary history of South Carolina. Converse graduate Julia Mood Peterkin is the only South Carolinian to be selected for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (1929), and alumna and poet Ellen Bryant Voigt, a National Book Award and Pulitzer finalist, and a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipient, has been credited with starting the low-residency MFA model for graduate writing students. These writers, plus a significant number of others over the last century, have been hallmark authors in the literary history of this state. With the start of the Converse Low Residency MFA in the earlier part of the twenty-first century, the only low-residency MFA in South Carolina, Converse has added a new chapter to South Carolina’s literary history. This anthology highlights the last decade of outstanding poetry presented in the Converse MFA program and produced by our program faculty, visiting faculty, and graduates.

Author : Rajendra Nath Mishra
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8170172918

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Search for Belief in the Poetry of Robert Frost by Rajendra Nath Mishra Pdf

This Book Plans To Discuss Robert Frost S Constructive Attitude Towards Life As Portrayed In Most Of His Poems. The Author Has Given A New Perspective To Frost S Criticism. The Sense Of Death, Decay, Degeneration, Devaluation, Disintegration And Alienation Has Been The Prominent Wing Of Modern Poetry. Frost Is Conscious Of All These Aspects Of Modern Life. It Is Not That He Is Unaware Of The Modern Predicament. Rather He Is Useless To Call Our Time Bad. In His Poetry One Finds A Different Approach To The Problems Of Life. In Spite Of The Fact That Life Is Full Of Distressing Aspects, Frost Describes Life Worth Living . In Birches He Declares: Earth S The Right Place For Love: / I Don T Know Where It S Likely To Go Better. This Reveals The Fact That He Is Not One Among The Palayana Panthis, Neither Is He A Nirashavadi: He Is An Ashavadi Who Believes In This Creation.

Author : Denise Duhamel,Rick Mulkey
Publisher : Clemson-Converse Literature
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1638040044

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Ice on a Hot Stove: by Denise Duhamel,Rick Mulkey Pdf

Includes poetry by Claire Bateman, Suzanne Cleary, David Colodney, Sarah Cooper, Tyree Daye, Denise Duhamel, Gabrielle Brant Freeman, Albert Goldbarth, Lisa M. Hase-Jackson, Gary Jackson, Melissa Dickson Jackson, Ashley M. Jones, Dorianne Laux, Lilith Mae McFarlin, Juan J. Morales, Rick Mulkey, Kathleen Nalley, Zoraida Ziggy Pastor, Richard Tillinghast, and Julie Marie Wade.

Author : Al Strachan
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781982147013

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Hockey's Hot Stove by Al Strachan Pdf

Stories from behind the scenes of one of hockey’s longest running and most popular broadcasts, Hockey Night in Canada’s Satellite Hot Stove, from an insider who’s seen it all. For more than twenty years, hockey fans tuned in during intermission on Saturday nights to watch one of the most popular segments in the game’s long broadcasting history. They’d hear news from around the league, the latest rumours and gossip, and—of course—some of the most controversial opinions of the day. No, we’re not talking about Coach’s Corner. The Satellite Hot Stove was a revolutionary show for talking about the game we love. Here, during the second intermission of the first game of every Hockey Night in Canada broadcast, pundits, and insiders would convene in studios across North America—in arenas and other locales—to discuss the biggest topics. Hot Stove was the best place to get news, opinions, and a good laugh. And Al Strachan was in the middle of it all. A bestselling author and award-winning sports journalist, he has been writing and talking about hockey for more than forty years. As a regular TV pundit on Hot Stove, he witnessed the most exciting and talked-about episodes in the modern game. And more than once, his unfiltered, say-it-as-it-is style added controversy of its own, too. In this new book, he relives the best stories of his long career, from working with some of the biggest personalities, on and off the ice, to the hijinks that went on behind the cameras. From embarrassing himself in front of Scotty Bowman, to cooking up a plan with Wayne Gretzky to save hockey, and frank conversations with Ken Dryden and hockey’s elite, Hockey’s Hot Stove delivers all new hockey stories you won’t hear anywhere else.

Author : Al Strachan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781982147020

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Hockey's Hot Stove by Al Strachan Pdf

Stories from behind the scenes of one of hockey’s longest running and most popular broadcasts, Hockey Night in Canada’s Satellite Hot Stove, from an insider who’s seen it all. For more than twenty years, hockey fans tuned in during intermission on Saturday nights to watch one of the most popular segments in the game’s long broadcasting history. They’d hear news from around the league, the latest rumours and gossip, and—of course—some of the most controversial opinions of the day. No, we’re not talking about Coach’s Corner. The Satellite Hot Stove was a revolutionary show for talking about the game we love. Here, during the second intermission of the first game of every Hockey Night in Canada broadcast, pundits, and insiders would convene in studios across North America—in arenas and other locales—to discuss the biggest topics. Hot Stove was the best place to get news, opinions, and a good laugh. And Al Strachan was in the middle of it all. A bestselling author and award-winning sports journalist, he has been writing and talking about hockey for more than forty years. As a regular TV pundit on Hot Stove, he witnessed the most exciting and talked-about episodes in the modern game. And more than once, his unfiltered, say-it-as-it-is style added controversy of its own, too. In this new book, he relives the best stories of his long career, from working with some of the biggest personalities, on and off the ice, to the hijinks that went on behind the cameras. From embarrassing himself in front of Scotty Bowman, to cooking up a plan with Wayne Gretzky to save hockey, and frank conversations with Ken Dryden and hockey’s elite, Hockey’s Hot Stove delivers all new hockey stories you won’t hear anywhere else.

Author : Flo Wadlow
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780749015763

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Over a Hot Stove by Flo Wadlow Pdf

This delightful memoir provides a unique 'Upstairs, Downstairs' account of what life was really like in a bygone era. At the age of sixteen, Flo Wadlow left her family to begin what would become a distinguished life 'in service'. Starting as a kitchen maid in London, she soon rose through the ranks and worked at many of England's great houses including Woodhall in Hilgay where she met scullery maid Mollie Moran, author of Aprons and Silver Spoons; Hatfield House and Blicking Hall. By her early twenties, Flo was in charge of the kitchen and cooked for prime ministers and royalty. Including some of Flo's cherished recipes and photographs from her life, Over a Hot Stove is a must-read for fans of Downton Abbey.

Author : Sarah Cooper
Publisher : Clemson University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781638041153

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89% by Sarah Cooper Pdf

89% narrates the love story of a mother and daughter: one has cancer while the other grapples with her sexuality. This collection documents the mother, using her words as quotes, floating between poems. The daughter explores her body as she witnesses her mother and experiences the bodies of other women. While sexuality and disability are central to the formulation of this collection, these poems resist single-issue narratives. There is humor and light alongside enduring loss. This collection asks its audience to sit in the lines of its poems as we listen to the mother and hear the voice of the daughter.

Author : Owen D.V. Sholes
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781476673189

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Stopping by Woods by Owen D.V. Sholes Pdf

Robert Frost was a practicing farmer, a skilled naturalist and one of America's best-loved poets. His body of work provides a vivid and compelling narrative of New England's changing environment--though it can be hard to discern when its parts are scattered through hundreds of different poems, voices and moods. This book pieces together Frost's environmental commentary, examining his poems thematically and in a logical order. In them, homesteads are carved out of the forest, families make their living from an obdurate land, property is abandoned when it fails to sell, and plants and animals reclaim deserted farms. Frost bemoaned the loss of people from the land but also celebrated the flora and fauna that thrived in fallow fields and empty barns.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : English language
ISBN : IOWA:31858046269480

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English Teaching Forum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : English language
ISBN : MINN:30000010769853

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Forum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Miriam Pawel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781632867353

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The Browns of California by Miriam Pawel Pdf

"Miriam Pawel's fascinating book . . . illuminates the sea change in the nation's politics in the last half of the 20th century."--New York Times Book Review California Book Award Gold Medal Winner * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A Los Angeles Times Bestseller * San Francisco Chronicle's "Best Books of the Year" List * Publishers Weekly Top Ten History Books for Fall * Berkeleyside Best Books of the Year * Shortlisted for NCIBA Golden Poppy Award A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist's panoramic history of California and its impact on the nation, from the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley--told through the lens of the family dynasty that led the state for nearly a quarter century. Even in the land of reinvention, the story is exceptional: Pat Brown, the beloved father who presided over California during an era of unmatched expansion; Jerry Brown, the cerebral son who became the youngest governor in modern times--and then returned three decades later as the oldest. In The Browns of California, journalist and scholar Miriam Pawel weaves a narrative history that spans four generations, from August Schuckman, the Prussian immigrant who crossed the Plains in 1852 and settled on a northern California ranch, to his great-grandson Jerry Brown, who reclaimed the family homestead one hundred forty years later. Through the prism of their lives, we gain an essential understanding of California and an appreciation of its importance. The magisterial story is enhanced by dozens of striking photos, many published for the first time. This book gives new insights to those steeped in California history, offers a corrective for those who confuse stereotypes and legend for fact, and opens new vistas for readers familiar with only the sketchiest outlines of a place habitually viewed from afar with a mix of envy and awe, disdain, and fascination.

Author : Carol A. Mullen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0820471461

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Fire & Ice by Carol A. Mullen Pdf

Fire & Ice presents the educational inquiry process to school practitioners and aspiring leaders. The context for this study is unusual because it addresses inquiry learning at both the master's and doctoral level and within group settings. The picture that emerges illustrates ways for mentors to engage graduate students in learning, writing, and research through collaborative structures, with an emphasis on learning communities as the primary vehicle for growth and success. In the book, graduate students have served as research participants, focus group members, and survey respondents in their dual role as peer mentor. Because graduate education is being challenged to meet the changing needs of the twenty-first century, the influence of the professions on academic degrees has meant that students must develop as scholar practitioners instead of strictly intellectual academics. Metaphorically, the fire (possibility, desire, and content) and ice (restraint, structure, and form) of scholarly inquiry is used as a literary device to capture what it might mean for students to perform inquiry.

Author : Angela Leighton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846314841

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Critical Essays on Anne Stevenson by Angela Leighton Pdf

Voyages over Voices is the first book length critical exploration of the internationally acclaimed American-British poet Anne Stevenson. A past winner of the The Poetry Foundation's Neglected Masters Award, the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award for Poetry and the Northern Rock FoundationWriter's Award, Stevenson has long been admired by poets and critics alike as one of the most important contemporary poets on either side of the Atlantic. Angela Leighton brings together a distinguished list of contributors, including Jay Parini, Carol Rumens, Tim Kendall and John Lucas, in a collection that provides a significant and invaluable contribution to understanding Stevenson's work as poet and critic. Voyages over Voices will be requiredreading for scholars contemporary British and American poetry.

Author : Donald Anderson
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780826359834

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Below Freezing by Donald Anderson Pdf

Below Freezing is a unique assemblage of scientific fact, newspaper reports, and excerpts from novels, short stories, nonfiction, history, creative nonfiction, and poetry--a commonplace book for our era of altering climate.

Author : Henry Hart
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119103677

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The Life of Robert Frost by Henry Hart Pdf

The Life of Robert Frost presents a unique and rich approach to the poet that includes original genealogical research concerning Frost’s ancestors, and a demonstration of how mental illness plagued the Frost family and heavily influenced Frost’s poetry. A widely revealing biography of Frost that discusses his often perplexing journey from humble roots to poetic fame, revealing new details of Frost’s life Takes a unique approach by giving attention to Frost’s genealogy and the family history of mental illness, presenting a complete picture of Frost’s complexity Discusses the traumatic effect on Frost of his father’s early death and the impact on his poetry and outlook Presents original information on the influence of his mother’s Swedenborgian mysticism