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The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems מאת Sherman Alexie stories & poems -- "He's making myth" (Joy Harjo) ...

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Cadenza מאת Charles North "In Charles North's sublime Cadenza, desirables abound - not only beauty, mystery, and wit (as well as humor - oh my!), but knowledge and passion, overtly chaste but no less intense for that. A dazzling profusion of simultaneous passions: he is the master of multitasking - all experience ope...

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First Indian on the Moon מאת Sherman Alexie prose & poetry ...

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Circa מאת Hannah Zeavin "Daggers, ghosts of pirates, 60 lengths of loose lace, ferris wheels, jesters, family dramas and the exigencies and suffering of the WWII death camps. Where are we? This extraordinary first collection by the prodigious Hannah Zeavin is circa another century when the old weird America and the world a...

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Where X Marks the Spot מאת Bill Zavatsky "In poems whose language is as clear and straightforward as that of Williams or Reznikoff, Bill Zavatsky turns the floodlight of honesty onto himself, transforming by the very act of examination, his demons of anger, self-pity, loneliness, and regret. This is brave and mature work, capacious enough ...

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Boy Drinkers מאת Terence Winch "BOY DRINKERS looks with sober eyes at the people, tragedies, and traditions that shaped any of us who grew up in a community where alcohol and God were equally able to bring us to our knees. With his musician's ear and Irishman's humor, Terence Winch pokes fun at the Holy, makes sacred the mundane,...

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If the Delta Was the Sea מאת Dick Lourie "Dick Lourie has written a rich, spacious book. Observing the principles that 'we are all embedded in history' and that the individual 'contains multitudes,' these poems present a portrait of a place, Clarksdale, Mississippi, and its people, through a unique cultural and social perspective. Lourie h...

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The Latest Winter מאת Maggie Nelson

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Psychic Killed by Train מאת Ron Overton "...Ron Overton's poems celebrate what is lost and what is found in the neon rainbowed urban/suburban world of late twentieth century America, life as advertised and life as really lived, life as the soft soap and the hard sell, "life of no deposit/and many happy returns," "the Shutout of Nothingnes...

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The Trapeze Diaries מאת Marie Carter Advance praise for THE TRAPEZE DIARIES"Marie Carter's THE TRAPEZE DIARIES is a tour de force performance this is a writer transforming the things of daily life, the fears and struggles and unexpected glories, into weightless prose. Carter gets at the question we re all trying to get at in one way or...

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Lord, Is This a Psalm? Jack Agueros

Lord, Is This a Psalm? מאת Jack Agueros "Jack Agueros is the wiseguy in the choir who leaves the congregation muffling snorts of hilarity, or slack-jawed with the shock of recognition."--Martin Espada...

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Ugh Ugh Ocean מאת Joanna Fuhrman "Joanna Fuhrman is a novelistic poet who believes in a complete realism. She is skeptical, but never cynical and she is wise without being pedantic. She goes beyond the philosopher's advice; she thinks AND she looks and that is her radical human stance of thought and attention. She makes the humors ...