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Dancing on the Rim of Light
In Dancing on the Rim of Light, Barbara Novack displays a talent for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary. Red checkered tablecloths, Irish soda bread, a mother and child on a bus, gravestones, old photographs: nothing is solid, nothing endures; and, like her favorite painter Magritte, nothing she gives the reader is what it seems to be. Haunted by the dual tragedies of 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy, the poems in this fine collection hover between birth and death, birth again, and death again, as Novack dances on the rim of light defending herself and the world against chaos. About the Author Barbara Novack, Writer-in-Residence at Molloy College and a member of their English Department, is an award-winning, internationally published writer. Her recent books include poetry collections Something Like Life, nominated for a Paterson Poetry Prize and a New Mexico Book Award, Do Houses Dream? and A Certain Slant of Light, both finalists for the Blue Light Press Poetry Prize, and the novel J.W. Valentine, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and finalist for Pushcart Press Editor's Book Award.
Heart Like Leaves
Barbara Novack is Writer-in-Residence and member of the English Department at Molloy University. She founded and hosts Poetry Events there and, off-campus, presents highly regarded creative writing programs and workshops. Her books include the novel J.W. Valentine, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and finalist for Pushcart Press Editor's Book Award, full-length poetry collections Something Like Life, and Dancing on the Rim of Light, and chapbooks Do Houses Dream? and A Certain Slant of Light, both finalists for the Blue Light Press Poetry Prize. I am so moved by these poems, this book. It is a work written by a poet with an enormous heart and a fine talent for expressing emotions, for making t...
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Something Like Life
In this neat and intelligent book of poetry "Something Like Life" author Barbara Novack describes the often subliminal messages that are sent to us every day in the beauty and sadness we often see around us in nature and human experience. This book is poetry at its best.
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A Certain Slant of Light
The poems within A Certain Slant of Light are expertly tuned, perfectly pitched meditations about nature, time, and the seasons -- radiant windows of keen observation that rise up from their surface glimmering, and reveal the talents of a disciplined and skilled artist. I was struck by the ease of her voice, the lush use of sonics, and her compassionate wisdom. This is a marvelous book that reveals a sense of wonder, as though the inspired moment has never been before; its illuminations are bright and timeless. Barbara Novack is Writer-in-Residence and member of the English Department at Molloy College. She founded and hosts Poetry Events and Author Afternoons there and, off-campus, presents creative writing programs and workshops. Her recent books include the novel J.W. Valentine, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and finalist for Pushcart Press Editor's Book Award, full-length poetry collection Something Like Life, and the chapbook Do Houses Dream?, finalist for the Blue Light Press Poetry Prize (2015). She is listed in the Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers and Who's Who of American Women.
A Democracy of Facts
Chronicles the story of American naturalists who came of age and stumbled toward a profession in the years after the American Revolution. --from publisher description.
Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism
Gifford Pinchot is known primarily for his work as first chief of the U. S. Forest Service and for his argument that resources should be used to provide the "greatest good for the greatest number of people." But Pinchot was a more complicated figure than has generally been recognized, and more than half a century after his death, he continues to provoke controversy. Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, the first new biography in more than three decades, offers a fresh interpretation of the life and work of the famed conservationist and Progressive politician. In addition to considering Gifford Pinchot's role in the environmental movement, historian Char Miller sets fort...
Writing Outside The Lines
An Anthology of Poetry from the Wrong Side of the Side of the Tracks Riding the Paumanok Train Poems your mother wouldn't let you read
Only Gypsies Move on Sunday
"Irene McCoy's humorous memoir begins in a blue-collar suburb outside of Chicago. The precocious youngster comes of age during the 1950s while putting up with an authoritative father, fearing the dreaded Commies, and haunted by the horrors of a nuclear holocaust. Later, as a married woman, she resigns herself to repeatedly packing up and following her journalist husband from cramped rooms in the Midwest and New York to accommodations in post-war Germany, none of which were likely to be featured in Better Homes and Gardens. Early on, she finds herself with a two-year-old in a country where she's out of milk and diapers and stores are about to close for the weekend. Aha, so this is what angst is. While the author occasionally embellished a few facts and changed the names of some characters for the sake of privacy, Only Gypsies Move on Sunday will be welcomed by readers who enjoy a sly peek into the often-frantic lives of their contemporaries.
