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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga writes, "the complex confluence of identities--race, class, gender, and sexuality--systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.""
Series
Publisher
The University of Arkansas Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This book surveys two centuries of Ozarks literature, from an Osage creation story to contemporary poetry and fiction. This anthology presents writings from more than forty authors and connects these works to major literary movements while exploring their regional themes and their contributions to the social construction of the Ozarks"--
Publisher
Fulcrum Pub
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
The Colorado Historical Society is home to a mother lode of Colorado's literary legends. This compilation of the best of the best in Colorado writing commemorates 125 years of dedication to Colorado's history. *25 essays cover a panorama of people and events from Colorado's distant and recent past. *Features outstanding writing by the best and best-known authors published by the Society over the course of its history, including Louis L'Amour, Wallace...
4) Imaginary numbers: an anthology of marvelous mathematical stories, diversions, poems, and musings
Publisher
J. Wiley
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
"Enter the wildly inventive world of Imaginary Numbers, in which a marvelous roster of acclaimed writers conjure up magical happenings, fantastic visions, and brainteasing puzzles, all based in some way on mathematical ideas. This anthology offers a connoisseur's selection of a special brand of creative writing in which the authors play with a vast array of mathematical notions - from the marvels of infinity to the peculiarities of space-time to quantum...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1945]
Language
English
Description
As James Thurber writes in his preface, "This book contains a selection of the stories and drawings the old boy did in his prime, a period which extended roughly from the year Lindbergh flew the Atlantic to the day coffee was rationed. He presents this to his readers with his sincere best wishes for a happy new world." The Thurber Carnival, which the Saturday Review called "one of the absolutely essential books of our time," was a phenomenal bestseller...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear--both here and back home"--
9) Pragmatism
Author
Publisher
Hackett Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
"The lectures that follow were delievered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in November and December, 1906, and in January, 1907, at Columbia University, in New York. ... The pragmatic movement, so called -- I do not like the name, but apparently it is too late to change it -- seems to have rather suddenly precipitated itself out of the air. ... I have sought to unify the pictture as it presents itself to my own eyes, dealing in broad strokes, and...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Smash Cut, Flannery, and City Poet delivers the first popular biography of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet revered by contemporary Western readers.
Ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born over eight centuries ago, are beloved by millions of readers in America as well as around the world. He has been compared to Shakespeare for his outpouring of creativity and to...
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