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Going Thoreau
Memoir.Autobiography. Twenty years old--and with a summer of working on oceangoing merchant ships under my belt--already a dropout, I headed with a friend to a tar-paper shack in country north of the town where our college was located--this was in central New York state--where we intended to go Thoreau. Thus begins Michael Gregory Stephens' account of his brief foray out of the world of commerce and corner stores and into a rugged and chilly Walden. This deftly-written memoir gives Stephens, author of more than 15 books including GREEN DREAMS: ESSAYS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE IRISH, winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction, the opportunity not only to reminisce about his post-college days, but also to ruminate on the impulses that initially led him to the ill-fated tar-paper shack, and the possibilities for going Thoreau even in a setting as urban as New York City. Perfectbound chapbook.
Our Father
Drama. Irish American Studies. A one-act play that originally ran off-broadway for five years, OUR FATHER is about sons lamenting the death of their father at an Irish wake in a New York City bar. "The script is intellectual, brilliant and irreverently caustic. Each brothergives a eulogy which describes, through improbable fantasies which in any people but the Irish would be called hallucinations, how he murdered the dear departed. A tour-de-force"--The Scotsman.
The Falcon
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Irish Literature
Irish literature's roots have been traced to the 7th-9th century. This is a rich and hardy literature starting with descriptions of the brave deeds of kings, saints and other heroes. These were followed by generous veins of religious, historical, genealogical, scientific and other works. The development of prose, poetry and drama raced along with the times. Modern, well-known Irish writers include: William Yeats, James Joyce, Sean Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, John Synge and Samuel Beckett.
Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?
What happens to a little girl who grows up without a father? Can she ever feel truly loved and fully alive? Does she ever heal—or is she doomed to live a wounded, fragmented life and to pass her wounds down to her own children? Fatherlessness afflicts nearly half the households in America, and it has reached epidemic proportions in the African-American community, with especially devastating consequences for black women. In this powerful, searingly intimate book, accomplished journalist, poet, and fiction writer Jonetta Rose Barras breaks the code of silence and gives voice to the experiences of America's fatherless women—starting with herself. "We are legions—a choir of wounded—liste...
Penguin Readers Level 5: Brooklyn (ELT Graded Reader)
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language, each title includes carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills...
Border States in the Work of Tom Mac Intyre
This work analyses the prose and drama of the Irish writer Tom Mac Intyre and the concept of paleo-postmodernism. It examines how Mac Intyre balances traditional themes with experimentation, which in the Irish literary canon is unusual. This book argues that Mac Intyre’s position in the Irish literary canon is an idiosyncratic one in that he combines two contrary aspects of Irish literature: between what Beckett terms as the Yeatsian ‘antiquarians’ who valorize the ‘Victorian Gael’ and the ‘others’ whose aesthetic involves a European-influenced ‘breakdown of the object’ which is associated with Beckett. Mac Intyre’s experimentation involves a breakdown of the object in order to uncover an unconscious Irish mythological and linguistic space in language. His approach to language experimentation is Yeatsian and this is what the author terms as paleo-postmodern. Thus the project considers how Mac Intyre incorporates Yeatsian revivalism with postmodern deconstruction in his drama and short stories.
American Short-story Writers Since World War II.
Focuses on how the declining market for short-story writers after World War II saw the migration of these writers to universities where they not only continued to write, but established creative writing classes that would in turn inspire and develop new generations of writers of various genres.
The Kirkus Service
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International Who's Who in Poetry 2004
Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
