Best African American Essays 2010
Author | : Gerald Lyn Early |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0553806920 |
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Author | : Gerald Lyn Early |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2009 |
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ISBN | : 0553806920 |
Author | : Andr Aciman |
Publisher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0358359910 |
Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.
Author | : Mary Oliver |
Publisher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : American essays |
ISBN | : 9780618982721 |
Presents an anthology of the best literary essays published in 2014, selected from American periodicals.
Author | : Mary Oliver |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2005-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0786739487 |
Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy the old books. But, no, that would never do, for always the new self swimming around in the old world feels itself uniquely verbal. And that is just the point: how the world, moist and bountiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. 'Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?' This book is my comment.--from the Foreword.
Author | : Robert G. Weiner |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2009-06-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786453400 |
For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and justice. The assassination of his alter ego, Steve Rogers, rocked the comic world, leaving numerous questions about his life and death. This book discusses topics including the representation of Nazi Germany in Captain America Comics from the 1940s to the 1960s; the creation of Captain America in light of the Jewish American experience; the relationship between Captain America and UK Marvel's Captain Britain; the groundbreaking partnership between Captain America and African American superhero the Falcon; and the attempts made to kill the character before his "real" death.
Author | : Mary Oliver |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2012-03-28 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0807095397 |
This collection of poems by Mary Oliver once again invites the reader to step across the threshold of ordinary life into a world of natural and spiritual luminosity. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (one of the poems in this volume) Winner of a 1991 Christopher Award Winner of the 1991 Boston Globe Lawrence L. Winship Book Award
Author | : David Foster Wallace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : American essays |
ISBN | : 9780618709267 |
Published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., -
Author | : Mary Oliver |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2004-09-15 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0807096601 |
For poet Mary Oliver, nature is full of mystery and miracle. From the excitation of birds in the sky to the flowers and plants that are "the simple garments" of the earth, the natural world is her text of both the earth's changes and its permanence. In Blue Iris, Mary Oliver collects ten new poems, two dozen of her poems written over the last two decades, and two previously unpublished essays on the beauty and wonder of plants. The poet considers roses, of course, as well as poppies and peonies; lilies and morning glories; the thick-bodied black oak and the fragrant white pine; the tall sunflower and the slender bean. James Dickey has said of her, "Far beneath the surface-flash of linguistic effect, Mary Oliver works her quiet and mysterious spell. It is a true spell, unlike any other poet's, the enchantment of the true maker." In Blue Iris, she has captured with breathtaking clarity the true enchantment and mysterious spell of flowers and plants of all sorts and their magnetic hold on us.
Author | : Rebecca Brown |
Publisher | : City Lights Books |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2021-02-24 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0872868249 |
"Everything and nothing is sacred in Rebecca Brown's essays. Tongue, word, thought, and intellect all conspire in a free language love of living history, divination, sex, solitude and amusement. She is America's only real rock 'n' roll schoolteacher. Lessons layered with profundity and protracted parallels. Where old world religion, Gertrude Stein and Oreo cookies co-exist in an actual and mystic world of wonder."—Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth "If Rebecca Brown's talent for prose were any tighter, it would be a lyric—to a pop standard. An homage—a menage—to America, exposing what's laid bare in a comic tragic redux. I laughed till it hurt."—Van Dyke Parks, Composer/Arranger "Anyone who can get from the Eucharist, to a Necco Wafer, to the goo beween the Oreo wafers, to the Inquisition, to the goo between the legs of excited young women is a distant sibling of mine. She can dash and she can drift and she is not much interested in the really bad parts that might qualify as confession. She likes the float of quotidian living and I like to read the words upon which she floats."—Dave Hickey, author of Air Guitar The impulse to tell our worst to a bunch of strangers has been fueling American self-hood for 300 years: there's a direct line from the Puritan confession narrative to today's lurid, inescapable exhibitionism. But whose stories are we telling? This collection of mordant, poignant, and playful essays shows Rebecca Brown at the height of her imaginative and intuitive powers. A wry, incisive social and literary critique is couched in a gonzo mix of pop culture, autobiography, fiction, literary history, misremembered movie plots, and fantasy that plays with the notion of what it is to be “American.” Fantastical connections and unlikely meetings span the course of America’s cultural history in a manic remix, featuring appearances by Brian Wilson, Gertrude Stein, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Invisible Man, the Abligensian Crusade, John Wayne, Felix Mendelssohn, JFK, Shane, and God. Rebecca Brown’s books include The Gifts of the Body, The Last Time I Saw You, The Haunted House, Terrible Girls, and The End of Youth.
Author | : John Updike |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2006-02-23 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 014192182X |
In Still Looking, John Updike has collected together his thoughts and observations on American art to produce an eye-opening follow-up to his 1989 art criticism classic Just Looking. Beginning with early American portraits and landscapes, he goes on to extol two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, considers the eccentric pre-modern painter and graphic artist James McNeill Whistler, discusses the competing American Impressionists and Realists of the early twentieth century - and concludes with appreciations of the art of Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. The resulting collection of essays is proof that Updike is still looking and seeing what only he can describe. 'As a writer Updike can do anything he wants' Margaret Atwood 'John Updike writes with a steady brilliance about the world out there' Guardian