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The House on Figueroa
"The five-story Victorian house on Figueroa in this book of short stories is both a real place and a mythical way station where people must face changing fortunes that complicate even the most ordinary lives. Immigrants struggle to adapt, failure looms at the edges of happy marriages, even the most benign circumstances threaten sanity itself. The defining conflicts in The House on Figueroa are sharply delineated in crisp prose fresh imagery: wind that smells like a chainsaw, a Mexican sweetcake in a jewelry box, a painting with crushed roses broken glass. A dying woman banishes her husband from her sick-bed, a scientist fudges an important experiment. What happens next? How do people survive irrevocable changes? Delve into this collection find out"--
Lilith's Cave
Tales of terror and the supernatural hold an honored position in the Jewish folkloric tradition. Howard Schwartz has superbly translated and retold fifty of the best of these folktales. Gathered from countless sources ranging from the ancient Middle East to twelfth-century Germany and later Eastern European oral tradition, these captivating stories include Jewish variants of the Pandora and Persephone myths.
Household Lies
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Savage Baggage
Poetry. "The poems in this book are full of sharp detail, words that seem like one-celled creatures with a life of their own, keen wit, and observations on 'getting the soul arranged in space' that cut to the chase. In these mostly short pieces, each tight as a fist and clear as a windowpane, Mitchell redefines love and nature, in a style that is a kind of meditative activism" - Terence Winch. "What emerges from Mitchell's original combination of glacial remove and after-shocked elegance is wry humor, a battered, haunted dignity and a chromatic timbre devoid of pretense" - Dean Young. "What makes much of [Mitchell's] work so memorable is the respect he has for language's slow workings. Though Mitchell's poems are often memory narratives, they are as much about our need for narrative as they are about any particular subject matter, and they are quiet poems never insisting on our attention" - James Harms.
Notorious Identity
Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, were significant figures before Shakespeare revitalized them on stage. When he did, Charnes argues, he used these legendary figures to explore the emergence of a new kind of fame, "notorious identity".
The Ecocriticism Reader
This book is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cutting-edge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology. Exploring the relationship between literature and the physical environment, literary ecology is the study of the ways that writing - from novels and folktales to U.S. government reports and corporate advertisements - both reflects and influences our interactions with the natural world.
Braid
Poetry. "Looking and observing are different. According to Wittgenstein, 'One observes in order to see what one would not see if one did not observe.' With that in mind, I would say that Roger Mitchell's poems are full of revelatory observations on nature, culture, and language. Breezy, skeptical, and elegiac by turn, in BRAID, Mitchell intertwines what's most elusive with what's closest at hand, and we come away from his work having seen very much indeed" -Elaine Equi.
In the Mind's Eye
The author of Archetypal Light explores the natural and human history of sites in the American Southwest, the caves of southern France, the Kansas grasslands, and the forests of the Pacific Northwest, in a collection of exquisite essays.
The Blackberry Tea Club
Mid-life crisis is not a crisis-it is a passage into joy. This was the essential truth discovered by the four women of a certain age, founding members of the Blackberry Tea Club, which began as late-night conversations while sipping blackberry tea with a little kick added. Those conversations about children, men, jobs, weight, clothes, food, travel, gossip, politics, medicine, healing, spirituality, adventure, and books grew slowly, beautifully into the Blackberry Tea Club and the discovery of the Glory Years. The Blackberry Tea Club weaves together essays, stories, and poetry, celebrating mid-life in all its silliness, sorrow, and glory. Bottom line: middle age is much more than menopause. ...
New Catholic Women
"Weaver fills an important gap in women's studies through her investigation of the intersection of the women's movement with the lives of contemporary Roman Catholic women." -- Iris "Mary Jo Weaver has charted the course of this new consciousness among Roman Catholic women." -- Rosemary Radford Ruether "This is the first full-scale study of how the U.S. women's movement has intersected with the lives and aspirations of American Roman Catholic women."Â -- Elizabeth Johnson, Religious Studies Review
