The Virginia Quarterly Review

Author : Sara Eliza Johnson
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781571319197

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Bone Map by Sara Eliza Johnson Pdf

Sara Eliza Johnson's stunning, deeply visceral first collection, Bone Map (2013 National Poetry Series Winner), pulls shards of tenderness from a world on the verge of collapse, where violence and terror infuse the body, the landscape, and dreams: a handful of blackberries offered from bloodied arms, bee stings likened to pulses of sunlight, a honeycomb of marrow exposed. “All moments will shine if you cut them open. / Will glisten like entrails in the sun.” With figurative language that makes long, associative leaps, and with metaphors and images that continually resurrect themselves across poems, the collection builds and transforms its world through a locomotive echo—a regenerative force—that comes to parallel the psychic quest for redemption that unfolds in its second half. The result is a deeply affecting composition that will establish the already decorated young author as an important and vital new voice in American poetry.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCD:31175035241747

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The Virginia Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Art Spiegelman
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780375423956

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Breakdowns by Art Spiegelman Pdf

The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form ... and how it formed him! This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the artist's evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park, Queens, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son. The second part presents a facsimile of Breakdowns, the long-sought after collection of the artist's comics of the 1970s, the book that triggers these memories. Breakdowns established the mode of formally sophisticated comics that transformed the medium, and includes the prototype of Maus, cubist experiments, an essay on humor, and the definitive genre-twisting pulp story "Ace Hole-Midget Detective." Pulling all this together is an illustrated essay that looks back at the sixties as the artist pushes sixty, and explains the obsessions that brought these works into being. Poignant, funny, complex, and innovative, Breakdowns alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780547525150

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The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux Pdf

The acclaimed author recounts his epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international bestselling classic of travel literature: “Compulsive reading” (Graham Greene). In 1973, Paul Theroux embarked on a four-month journey by train from the United Kingdom through Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. In The Great Railway Bazaar, he records in vivid detail and penetrating insight the many fascinating incidents, adventures, and encounters of his grand, intercontinental tour. Asia's fabled trains—the Orient Express, the Khyber Pass Local, the Frontier Mail, the Golden Arrow to Kuala Lumpur, the Mandalay Express, the Trans-Siberian Express—are the stars of a journey that takes Theroux on a loop eastbound from London's Victoria Station to Tokyo Central, then back from Japan on the Trans-Siberian. Brimming with Theroux's signature humor and wry observations, this engrossing chronicle is essential reading for both the ardent adventurer and the armchair traveler.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Virginia Quarterly Review
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : American literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Virginia Quarterly Review, 1931 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Virginia Quarterly Review
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Virginia Quarterly Review, 1941 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Virginia Quarterly Review
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Virginia Quarterly Review, 1947 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Emily Ruskovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780812994049

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Idaho by Emily Ruskovich Pdf

A tale told from multiple perspectives traces the complicated relationship between Ann and Wade on a rugged landscape and how they came together in the aftermath of his first wife's imprisonment for a violent murder.

Author : Natasha Trethewey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780820349022

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Beyond Katrina by Natasha Trethewey Pdf

Beyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Trethewey’s attempt to understand and document the damage to Gulfport started as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia that were subsequently published as essays in the Virginia Quarterly Review. For Beyond Katrina, Trethewey expanded this work into a narrative that incorporates personal letters, poems, and photographs, offering a moving meditation on the love she holds for her childhood home. In this new edition, Trethewey looks back on the ten years that have passed since Katrina in a new epilogue, outlining progress that has been made and the challenges that still exist.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : American poetry
ISBN : OCLC:6892943

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Poems from the Virginia Quarterly Review, 1925-1967 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : PURD:32754083987796

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The Virginia Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Reyes
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0805091238

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Exiles in Eden by Paul Reyes Pdf

An on-the-ground, intimate tour of the human toll of the nation's foreclosure crisis While working with his father's small company that "trashes out"— enters and empties—foreclosed homes in Florida, Paul Reyes wrote Exiles in Eden, a hard-hitting, personal, and poetic portrayal of his own family and the people and communities affected by the foreclosure crisis. Grounded in Florida and Reyes family history, and with character-driven visits to the dark corners of this crisis—including with those who are calling for revolution—Reyes explores the human element of this frightening rattling of the American Dream. From examining the unique "ecosystems" of each failed mortgage to witnessing parts of abandoned Florida returning to its wild natural state, Reyes takes the reader far from the machinations of Wall Street to the sun-baked side streets where the true costs of this crisis can be seen. The result is an extraordinary book about the allure and dream of home—and a portrait of an America where the exiled insist on the right to their own America dreams, even as the terms are forcibly redrawn.

Author : Charles Wright
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374719821

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Oblivion Banjo by Charles Wright Pdf

The selected works of one of our finest American poets The thread that dangles us between a dark and a darker dark, Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided. Don’t touch it here, and don’t touch it there. Don’t touch it, in fact, anywhere— Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing. —from “Scar Tissue” Over the course of his work—more than twenty books in total—Charles Wright has built “one of the truly distinctive bodies of poetry created in the second half of the twentieth century” (David Young, Contemporary Poets). Oblivion Banjo, a capacious new selection spanning his decades-long career, showcases the central themes of Wright’s poetry: “language, landscape, and the idea of God.” No matter the precise subject of each poem, on display here is a vast and rich interior life, a mind wrestling with the tenuous relationship between the ways we describe the world and its reality. The recipient of almost every honor in poetry—the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, to name a few—and a former poet laureate of the United States, Wright is an essential voice in American letters. Oblivion Banjo is the perfect distillation of his inimitable career—for devout fans and newcomers alike.

Author : Lauren Elkin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781635901535

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No. 91/92 by Lauren Elkin Pdf

A love letter to Paris and a meditation on how it has changed in two decades, evolving from the twentieth century into the twenty-first, from analog to digital. Your telephone is precious. It may be envied. We recommend vigilance when using it in public. --Paris bus public notice In fall 2014 Lauren Elkin began keeping a diary of her bus commutes in the Notes app on her iPhone 5c, writing down the interesting things and people she saw in a Perecquian homage to Bus Lines 91 and 92, which she took from her apartment in the 5th Arrondissement to her teaching job in the 7th. Reading the notice, she decided to be vigilant when using her phone: she would carry out a public transport vigil, using it to take in the world around her and notice all the things she would miss if she continued using it the way she had been, the way everyone does--to surf the web, check social media, maintain her daily sense of self through digital interaction. Her goal became to observe the world through the screen of her phone, rather than using her phone to distract from the world. During the course of that academic year, the Charlie Hebdo attacks occurred and Elkin had an ectopic pregnancy, requiring emergency surgery. At that point, her diary of dailiness became a study of the counterpoint between the everyday and the Event, mediated through early twenty-first century technology, and observed from the height of a bus seat. No. 91/92 is a love letter to Paris, and a meditation on how it has changed in the two decades the author has lived there, evolving from the twentieth century into the twenty-first, from analog to digital.

Author : Brian Teare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015061102359

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The Room where I was Born by Brian Teare Pdf

Winner of the 2003 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Brian Teare's poetry is turning the lyric on its ear, along with the Southern Gothic, the fairy tale, the Old Testament--anything that gets in the way of his powerful voice gets pulled in, chewed up, spit out as a new and frightening (and sexy!) utterance. No one is safe in any of these poems, in any sense of the word. What a brave new voice, livid and gutsy and fresh. --D.A. Powell.