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A powerful story of a young girl stunned into silence after the drowning of her twin brother on Martha's Vineyard. It is the summer of 1974 and eleven-year-old Emily is silently narrating the story of her brother's death and the unrest it has caused. Her older sisters can't understand Emily's silence as they each undergo their own rites of passage. Plagued by the taunts of her sisters, the domination of her alcoholic father and the nagging doubt that her brother's death was not an accident, she struggles to come to terms with her silence and her guilt.
Late in life, Melanie decides to pursue a dream her husband opposes: she will become a skilled ballroom dancer. She persists, entering the glamorous, demanding world of professional dancing with an innocence and a determination that will change her life.
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Cory is a middle-aged Easterner, long-divorced, energetic and fearlessly sensual. Pursuing a dream she has nursed for years, she moves to Taos, New Mexico and buys a famous old house and, in the tradition of its previous owner, turns it into a crucible for the transformation of her guests. Eccentric and charming, with a lover from the Pueblo and lots of turquoise and broomstick skirts, Cory finds her guests, mainly skiers and tourists, bewildered by her particular philosophy, which she calls "The School of As-If." Then her long-time friend is found murdered and Cory is suspicious of the local police's half-hearted attempts to find the murderer. Involving herself in trying to solve the case, ...
Poet and publisher James Laughlin is known in Italy as the Amerian Catullus. Like the Latin poet whom Laughlin calls master, the subject at the heart of his work remains "love/ . . . & the lack of love, /which is what makes evil", but seen now from the wry, often poignant perspective of old age. The nearly 150 poems collected here address his mature theme in a variety of ways.
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This anthology of poetry, short fiction, and essays about coastal life features contributions from a wealth of writers, including Susan Minot, Lucille Clifton, Peter Cameron, Robert Haas, and many others.
In Rane Arroyo's poetry we hear echoes of Whitman, Lorca, Neruda. But more important, we hear Arroyo's own song of self rendered with a lyricism that belies its astonishing and redolent honesty. The Buried Sea: New and Selected Poems is a powerful addition to the American literary landscape. --Connie May Fowler.