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Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a variety of forms and media since he first exploded onto the scene in the early 1970s, he has been a punk poet, a queercore novelist, a transgressive blogger, an indie filmmaker—each successive incarnation more ingenious and surprising than the last. Cooper’s unflinching determination to probe the obscure, often violent recesses of the human psyche have seen him compared with literary outlaws like Rimbaud, Genet, and the Marquis de Sade. In this, the first book-length study of Cooper’s life and work, Diarmuid Hester shows that such comparisons hardly scratch the surface. A lively retrospective appr...
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The Planters of Colonial Virginia is a historical account on formation of Virginian aristocracy. The author deals with the genesis of colonial landowners who managed to make a fortune in a relatively short period of time thanks to cheap land and slave work-power. Contents England in the New World The Indian Weed The Virginia Yeomanry Freemen and Freedmen The Restoration Period The Yeoman in Virginia History World Trade Beneath the Black Tide
Although 38 of my works survive today, I left no letters, and there is little known about my personal life. Many of my plays were staged at the courts of King James I and Elizabeth I, and are still performed today, almost 400 years after my death. Who am I?Who Am I? II is the sequel to Andrews McMeel's successful Who Am I?r compilations in book and calendar form. These quizzes are culled from Biographyr magazine's popular monthly column of the same name. Each month ten mystery mini-biographies are presented to challenge faithful readers to deduce the identity behind each. Once again, 150 profiles have been collected to test true Biographyr fans and history buffs alike. The biographies featured in Who Am I? II range from those of important historical personalities such as John Quincy Adams and Harriet Beecher Stowe to current-day celebrities including Barbra Streisand and Anne Rice, ensuring there is something for everyone's gray matter. (answer: William Shakespeare)