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Poems for Teeth
Poetry. "So now we have Richard Loranger's POEMS FOR TEETH, where every tooth gets its own poem, in one of the most extraordinary and virtuosic poetic feats since Francis Ponge took on Soap.. As the extraordinary poems in this one-of-a-kind venture by a one-of-a-kind poet unwind, the reader's mind gets a much-needed deep flossing, unhidden and totally useful"--Bob Holman. "Nothing quite prepares us for Richard Loranger's POEMS FOR TEETH, a book of poems unlike any other. Occasioned by a severe jaw infection and the resulting dental surgeries, these "crazy odes", "thank-yous to my teeth", he calls them, are meant both as acts of remembrance and restitution. Little lamentations for what is lost, poems of praise for what remains, they sing through their teeth, as it were, the tender, sad, sorry, outrageous comedy of our mortality... And each is brought to us in radiant and goofy word-riffs, arpeggios that ring the rich changes between jeremiad, scat-song, nursery rhyme, elegy, ode, gospel, glo
Travelers with No Ticket Home
Poetry. In this stunning new collection, Mackey offers her readers fifty-eight intensely lyrical poems written with the same skill and passion that made her previous collection Sugar Zone winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Complex yet entirely accessible, the poems in TRAVELERS WITH NO TICKET HOME form a visionary meditation on nature, childhood, the destruction of the rainforest of the Amazon, and the real and psychological landscape of travel. Taking us from a small farm in Western Kentucky to the jungles of Brazil, Mackey touches on the broader human feelings of wonder, displacement, grief, love, and love's endless complications. Here too, for the first time, readers will find Mackey's complete Kama Sutra of Kindness, a series of seven love poems written over the last thirty years. Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dépaysement... recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forró, and death. The lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home.--Dennis Nurske
Sin Against the Race
Alfonso Rutherford Berry III--son of a city councilman, grandson of the state's first African American legislator--believes that history has ordained for him but one life, and it ain't his first love: dancing. But after a series of tragedies, starting with the death of his fierce, out cousin Carlton, his assumptions explode in his face along with his closet door. Alfonso emerges into the life on a blanket of the jazz and blues he shared with Carlton. He hangs on Carver Street, the queer Northside of his largely black neighborhood. There, he is befriended by Carlton's familiars: Sammy, a local storekeeper and neighborhood den mother, Bingo, a leather queen and nurse practitioner, Vera, a tran...
Beating the Commodity Trap
Commoditization-a virulent form of hypercompetition-is destroying markets, disrupting industries, and shuttering long-successful firms. Conventional wisdom says the best way to combat commoditization is differentiation. But differentiation is difficult and expensive to implement, and keeps you ahead of the pack only temporarily. In Beating the Commodity Trap, Richard D'Aveni provides a radical new framework for fighting back. Drawing on an in-depth study of more than thirty industries, he recommends first identifying the commoditization trap you're facing: -Deterioration: Low-end firms enter with low-cost/low-benefit offerings that attract the mass market-as Zara did to high-end fashion comp...
Geographies of Soul and Taffeta
Sarah Sarai's Geographies of Soul and Taffeta takes place in a universe where the real and the unreal meet each other in a careful, ecstatic dance, where words melt into their partners and opposites, and Yin and Yang swirl together like the best kind of soft serve ice cream. The ideas and images here are exact, surprising, and often humorous: in fact, Sarai's poems strike new ground in being intelligent and far reaching while maintaining an air of humility and matter of factness. --Christine Hamm The poems in Sarah Sarai's Geographies of Soul and Taffeta are little transgressions, butterflies a-wing. They present a poetry of surprise. Don't expect candy (though there might be some); don't ex...
Mammal
Another tour de force book of poetry and flash prose from the multi-genre talent, Richard Loranger. MAMMAL is a collection of Richard Loranger's poetry and flash prose that is grounded in his poetics of reexamination and the consistent questioning of the nature of most everything. Starting with a delve into his experience of fluid gender, identity, and self, the work expands to explore protean perspectives of culture, institutions, sex, relationships, self-reflection, and American life, carried by his distinctive and gleeful language-play and stylistics that push the boundaries of connotation and embrace a plurality of meaning. "I avidly look forward to each new Richard Loranger book. Loranger has a very distinctive poetic voice, and it is on full view in MAMMAL. Equally persuasive on the subject of butterflies, pronouns, or insomnia, Loranger takes us all on a wild ride through levels of understanding. 'As long as we think we're our bodies / we're fucked,' Richard offers, and it would be ungrateful to disagree."--Kim Shuck, 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco Emerita Poetry, LGBTQ+ Studies.
American Hungers
Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These insights lay the groundwork for American Hungers, in which Jones uncovers a complex and controversial discourse on the poor that stretches from the antebellum era through the Depression. Reading writers such as Herman Melville, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, James Agee, and Richard Wright in their historical contexts, Jones explores why they succeeded where literary critics have fallen short. These...
Journal
Includes extra sessions.
Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Michigan for the Year ...
Describes the operations of the Michigan militia including rosters of officers and lists of the casualties particularly for the Civil War period.
