Download or read book The Handyman s Guide to End Times written by Juan J. Morales and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Place Winner of the 2019 International Latino Book Award for Poetry, One Author, in English In Morales's newest collection, an imagined zombie apocalypse intertwines with personal narrative. From zombie dating to the sin of popcorn ceilings, these poems investigate the nature of impermanence while celebrating the complexities of life.
Download or read book Dear America written by Simmons Buntin and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is at a crossroads. Conflicting political and social perspectives reflect a need to collectively define our moral imperatives, clarify cultural values, and inspire meaningful change. In that patriotic spirit, nearly two hundred writers, artists, scientists, and political and community leaders have come together since the 2016 presidential election to offer their impassioned letters to America, in a project envisioned by the online journal Terrain.org and collected, with 50 never-before-published letters, in Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. In the inaugural piece in Terrain.org’s Letters to America series, Alison Hawthorne Deming writes, “Think of the great spirit of inventiveness the Earth calls forth after each major disturbance it suffers. Be artful, inventive, and just, my friends, but do not be silent.” Joining Deming are renowned artists and thinkers including Seth Abramson, Ellen Bass, Jericho Brown, Francisco Cantú, Kurt Caswell, Victoria Chang, Camille T. Dungy, Tarfia Faizullah, Blas Falconer, Attorney General Bob Ferguson, David Gessner, Katrina Goldsaito, Kimiko Hahn, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Linda Hogan, Pam Houston, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Karen An-hwei Lee, Christopher Merrill, Kathryn Miles, Kathleen Dean Moore, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Naomi Shihab Nye, Elena Passarello, Dean Rader, Scott Russell Sanders, Lauret Savoy, Gary Soto, Pete Souza, Kim Stafford, Sandra Steingraber, Arthur Sze, Scott Warren, Debbie Weingarten, Christian Wiman, Robert Wrigley, and others. Dear America reflects the evolution of a moral panic that has emerged in the nation. More importantly, it is a timely congress of the personal and the political, a clarion call to find common ground and conflict resolution, all with a particular focus on the environment, social justice, and climate change. The diverse collection features personal essays, narrative journalism, poetry, and visual art from nearly 130 contributors—many pieces never before published—all literary reactions to the times we live in, with a focus on civic action and social change as we approach future elections. As Scott Minar writes, we must remain steadfast and look to the future: “Despair can bring us very low, or it can make us smarter and stronger than we have ever been before.”
Download or read book Infinite Constellations written by Khadijah Queen and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 43 innovative fictions in Infinite Constellations showcase the voices and visions of 30 remarkable writers, both new and established, from the global majority: Native American/First Nation writers, South Asian writers, East Asian writers, Black American writers, Latinx writers, and Caribbean and Middle Eastern writers. These are visions both familiar and strange, but always rooted in the mystery of human relationships, the deep honoring of memory, and the rootedness to place and the centering of culture"--
Download or read book Ice on a Hot Stove written by Denise Duhamel and published by Clemson University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Toxic Feedback written by Joni B. Cole and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2023-05-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From veteran teacher and acclaimed author Joni B. Cole comes a revised and expanded edition of her popular writing guide Toxic Feedback. Successful writers know that feedback is often the difference between writing and not writing, and between writing and writing well. But feedback mismanaged is more likely to leave the writer confused, intimidated, or even deflated. This book not only detoxifies the feedback process with humor, but it also shows writers and feedback providers how to make the most of this powerful resource at every stage of the writing and publishing process. This new edition includes a second preface, four new chapters, updates throughout the original material, and several additional exercises. Cole also includes new and previous interviews with authors such as Khaled Hosseini, Juan Morales, Grace Paley, Jodi Picoult, and Matthew Salesses. Toxic Feedback remains essential reading for all writers, critique groups, MFA programs, and teachers of writing at every level.
Download or read book Handyman s Handbook written by David Koenigsberg and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ONLY book available that provides a blueprint for running a successful handyman business. Filled with hands-on, how-to information and dozens of time-saving tips, this resource is valuable to anyone who enjoys working with their hands and wants to be happily - and profitably - self-employed.
Download or read book Can I Kick It written by Idris Goodwin and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning poet and playwright Idris Goodwin interrogates and remixes our cultural past in order to make sense of our present and potential futures.
Download or read book Gather the Night written by Katherine DiBella Seluja and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This debut collection reads like an elegy, not just for the author's brother Lou, stricken with schizophrenia, but for all families affected by mental illness. Through multiple personae and a variety of styles, Seluja offers a gritty authenticity and empathy to the subjects and themes. These poems grieve for a world of the lost while extending solace to those who remain and remember.
Download or read book The Handyman s Guide written by Paul N. Hasluck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 1479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide to the tools and techniques of woodworking has been a favorite of both amateur and professional woodworkers for over a century. Readers will learn to make almost anything using only hand tools. With nearly 3,000 illustrations, this definitive guide is an invaluable resource for any do-it-yourselfer. From identifying and holding tools properly to constructing your own household furniture, The Handyman’s Book is your trusted resource for all things related to woodwork. Precise illustrations and design details provide a map for hundreds of woodworking projects, including gates, sheds, trellises, tables, yard and garden accessories, fences, porches, furniture, cabinets, and much more. If it’s wood, and there’s work to be done, don’t start without Paul N. Hasluck’s essential guide.
Download or read book The Music of Her Rivers written by Renny Golden and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Her rivers are urgent witnesses; her rivers sing truths, shimmer in the darkness. Here are songs pure as water to nourish and cleanse us in the season of lies."--Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
Download or read book To Cleave written by Barbara Rockman and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning collection Rockman explores the themes of aging; our relationships to our bodies; marriage; and the surprises, griefs, and joys of motherhood.
Download or read book After Party written by Noah Blaustein and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geography of After Party includes married life and fatherhood, a childhood survived if not fully understood, the transition from youth to an adulthood filled with responsibilities, and the dangers of our current world and culture—on a personal and global scale—that can distract and disrupt life and our idea of home. By turns funny and heartbreaking, flirtatious and frank, Blaustein never lets his aggravation or confusion overwhelm his sense of gratitude for the life he leads and those he loves.
Download or read book The News as Usual written by Jon Kelly Yenser and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The News as Usual showcases the work of a gifted poet who employs language at its richest. Yenser captures lyrics and blues, ballads and villanelles, and even a crown of sonnets. Sonically rich and filled with detail, these poems link mortality with fishing, nature with protoplasm—constantly finding ways to explore the inner and outer worlds in ways at once understated and wise.
Download or read book The Shadowgraph written by James Cihlar and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In poems that meditate on American film, James Cihlar explores how images, performance, and memory shape LGBTQ identity. Golden age Hollywood cinema-in particular the career of fiercely independent actress Barbara Stanwyck-provides the screen on which Cihlar projects lives bravely led despite risks. Cihlar's commentary of individual films-as well as human identity and desire-are intense, smart, and right on target"--
Download or read book Crosscut written by Sean Prentiss and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sean Prentiss takes readers into what it means to be a rookie trail-crew leader guiding a motley collection of at-risk teens for five months of backbreaking work in the Pacific Northwest. It is a world where the sounds of trail tools--Pulaskis, McLeods, and hazel hoes--filter into dreams and set the rhythm of each day. In this memoir-in-poems, Prentiss shares a music most of us will never experience, set to tools swung and sharpened, backdropped by rain and snow and sun, as individuals transform into crew.
Download or read book The Definition of Empty written by Bill O'Neill and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Definition of Empty is the story of a dedicated advocate trying to help adolescents facing incarceration and newly released parolees navigate imperfect and seemingly indifferent legal systems and societies. Told from the point of view of a public servant trying his best to work with people at various levels of brokenness, these poems are compassionate, heartbreaking, and even sometimes brutal while the voice is gentle, outraged, and naïve in turns. With this collection O’Neill insists that readers bear witness to the struggles of disenfranchised people they might otherwise ignore.
Download or read book Grief Land written by Carrie Shipers and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Grief Land Carrie Shipers explores the paradoxical nature of bereavement as both a universal human experience and an intensely personal one. The poems interrogate and dismiss common notions of loss and recovery through a series of letter-poems--to authors who have written about grief, to the speaker's dead husband, and to a society that believes it has the right to dictate how a widow should feel and act. The collection explores living with grief without being consumed by it and how to emerge into a new life.
