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Paperback. Condition: Good. Playful and serious, unforgiving and compassionate, Poetry: A Survivor's Guide offers an original take on a subject both loved and feared. In a series of provocative and inspiring propositions, the act of reading a poem is made new, and the act of writing one is made over. Questions of poetry?s difficulty, pretension, and relevance are explored with insight and daring. In an age of new media and social networking, this handbook-cum-manifesto provides fresh reverence for one of our oldest forms of art.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. An unconventional collection from a National Poetry Series award-winning poet, author ofSpiritual Exercises Mark Yakich 's acclaimed debut collection, Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross, examined the blessing and curse of romantic love in its multiplicities. The poems in his new collection approach questions of suffering and atrocity (e.g., war, genocide, fallen souffles) with discerning humor and unconventional comedy. These poems show how humor can be taken as seriously as straight-ahead solemnity and how we can re-envision solemnity in terms other than lamentation, protest, and memorial.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Interviews from the Edge presents a selection of conversations, drawn from 50 years of the international journal New Orleans Review, that dive head-first into the most enduring aesthetic and social concerns of the last half century. From reflections on the making of literature and films to personal accounts of writing inside racial divides and working against capital punishment, the writers, poets, and activists featured in this book offer not only a fresh perspective on our present struggles but also perhaps a way through them?for writers and readers alike. ?I think it?s frightfully important, and this is really much more difficult than it sounds, only to say what you absolutely believe.? ? Christopher Isherwood ?Most American writers probably do not think of their writing as a kind of activism. And it shouldn?t have to be?I don?t think we can impose that on writers?but it can be. I think for many writers, the ones I admire?it is.? ? Viet Thanh Nguyen?Do you become a writer because you desire to become famous and make a lot of money? Or do you become a writer because there?s something you discovered, this spark, this flash, that you want to share with other human beings knowing that they can enter into the words too?? ? Sister Helen Prejean ?The hardest part of developing a style is that you have to learn to trust your voice. If I thought of my style, I?d be crippled. Somebody else said to me a long time ago in France, ?Find out what you can do, and then don?t do it.?? ? James Baldwin?As I have grown older, I have come to see that the romantic notion of the outsider in love with death doesn't solve a thing. It only makes life worse. We have to find ways to create communities.? ? Valerie Martin.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Playful and serious, unforgiving and compassionate, Poetry: A Survivor's Guide offers an original take on a subject both loved and feared. In a series of provocative and inspiring propositions, the act of reading a poem is made new, and the act of writing one is made over. Questions of poetry?s difficulty, pretension, and relevance are explored with insight and daring. In an age of new media and social networking, this handbook-cum-manifesto provides fresh reverence for one of our oldest forms of art.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. An unconventional collection from a National Poetry Series award-winning poet, author ofSpiritual Exercises Mark Yakich 's acclaimed debut collection, Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross, examined the blessing and curse of romantic love in its multiplicities. The poems in his new collection approach questions of suffering and atrocity (e.g., war, genocide, fallen souffles) with discerning humor and unconventional comedy. These poems show how humor can be taken as seriously as straight-ahead solemnity and how we can re-envision solemnity in terms other than lamentation, protest, and memorial.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Interviews from the Edge presents a selection of conversations, drawn from 50 years of the international journal New Orleans Review, that dive head-first into the most enduring aesthetic and social concerns of the last half century. From reflections on the making of literature and films to personal accounts of writing inside racial divides and working against capital punishment, the writers, poets, and activists featured in this book offer not only a fresh perspective on our present struggles but also perhaps a way through them?for writers and readers alike. ?I think it?s frightfully important, and this is really much more difficult than it sounds, only to say what you absolutely believe.? ? Christopher Isherwood ?Most American writers probably do not think of their writing as a kind of activism. And it shouldn?t have to be?I don?t think we can impose that on writers?but it can be. I think for many writers, the ones I admire?it is.? ? Viet Thanh Nguyen?Do you become a writer because you desire to become famous and make a lot of money? Or do you become a writer because there?s something you discovered, this spark, this flash, that you want to share with other human beings knowing that they can enter into the words too?? ? Sister Helen Prejean ?The hardest part of developing a style is that you have to learn to trust your voice. If I thought of my style, I?d be crippled. Somebody else said to me a long time ago in France, ?Find out what you can do, and then don?t do it.?? ? James Baldwin?As I have grown older, I have come to see that the romantic notion of the outsider in love with death doesn't solve a thing. It only makes life worse. We have to find ways to create communities.? ? Valerie Martin.…

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine copy of the first edition paperback. // 'This is a delightful book, one as quirkily insightful as it is entertaining. - Kirkus Reviews Little Data turns like an Alfa Romeo racing Formula One. Here, says the title, take a nut of an idea then squeeze it until the juice comes out. Each bit of data here is extracted, transformed, crushed, then palpated back to life. Who knew so much love could be drawn from airports and backpacks, obstacle courses and salami? Schaberg and Yakich are excellent drivers and take the turns with mad skill - a high-speed Dickinson, an autobahn Basho, a freeway Rimbaud. - NICOLE WALKER, author of Processed Meats ' -- publisher.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A new collection from a poet of "wily verve" whose work is "filled with more satire and jeopardy than anything going today" (Terrance Hayes) Mark Yakich's fifth collection of poetry is a dynamic and discerning journey of devotion and temptation in pursuit of the divine. Not trifling in ambiguity but diving headlong into it, Spiritual Exercises wrestles with popular gods as much as with personal ghosts. From autism to eroticism, from benediction to excommunication, and from grief to gratitude, this collection lays bare a full spectrum of emotional life, showing us how grace can be as playful as it is sincere.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A new collection from a poet of "wily verve" whose work is "filled with more satire and jeopardy than anything going today" (Terrance Hayes) Mark Yakich's fifth collection of poetry is a dynamic and discerning journey of devotion and temptation in pursuit of the divine. Not trifling in ambiguity but diving headlong into it, Spiritual Exercises wrestles with popular gods as much as with personal ghosts. From autism to eroticism, from benediction to excommunication, and from grief to gratitude, this collection lays bare a full spectrum of emotional life, showing us how grace can be as playful as it is sincere.…

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