New issues press (634 résultats)
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2013
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Paperback. Etat : Good. MOTHERLUNGE is an eloquent and irreverent debut novel about first sex, true love, chronic sibling rivalry; it's about the deepest fear of young (and not-so-young) adulthood: the fear of inheriting a disappointing life. It's motherly advice, too-featuring wigs, dogs, road trips, and medicine-a guide to the… essential experiences of being female, "born unto a librarian, named for the goddess of sight," waiting for the future to arrive. With sly wit and surprising joy, MOTHERLUNGE considers the flaws in the family line and celebrates the promise that staggers alongside.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2013
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. MOTHERLUNGE is an eloquent and irreverent debut novel about first sex, true love, chronic sibling rivalry; it's about the deepest fear of young (and not-so-young) adulthood: the fear of inheriting a disappointing life. It's motherly advice, too-featuring wigs, dogs, road trips, and medicine-a guide t…o the essential experiences of being female, "born unto a librarian, named for the goddess of sight," waiting for the future to arrive. With sly wit and surprising joy, MOTHERLUNGE considers the flaws in the family line and celebrates the promise that staggers alongside.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2002
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. These strong and vital poems are a tribute to water, the source of water and the expression of water in the forms of rivers, bloodstreams and pools of mystery. This extraordinary collection is poetry with teeth that both nibbles and bites hard. It is full of the things of this world scarcely notices…even by most poets, and shared with a marvellous sense of grace and wit.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2020
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. This collection is named for a ?swale,? a shallow channel used to direct the flow of rainwater. Similarly, Swale looks outward to the natural world and directs its focus inward to the landscape of the mind. The past presses in like a thick mist: plundering colonial ships and the cracking edges of emp…ire coincide with contemporary scenes and personal erosions and failures. Alongside humans are animals both living and extinct: manatees, sea turtles, and whales; roaming bears, horses, and lambs; and the flightless dodo and Steller?s sea cow, gone for centuries. What happens when the mind eclipses what the body sees, and neither can be trusted?when demarcations between land and water blur, and one?s sense of self begins to recede?Swale interrogates the violence of colonialism and its reverberations over time, as well as the extinction and the rapid decline of animal species. By turns tidal and cloistered, Swale speaks of science, reliquaries, and lapis lazuli, traversing forests, seascapes, and meadows. Here, the ocean becomes a field, a medieval tapestry transforms into a space that can be entered, and the body is fleshless, struck through with light. The speaker of these poems is ultimately unfixed?and with that comes both imaginative possibility and a personal unmooring. In poems that cast and recast the interior self in different guises?from the perpetually off-kilter Alice to the divergent voices of the shorn lamb and predatory foxhound?an unsettling anxiety grows starker, along with the wish for repair.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2012
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Hardback. Etat : Good. Pascal?s Wager and performing fleas. The Haunted Mansion of Long Branch and an old dockside bar. Raceway Park and a pristine 1971 Plymouth Road Runner. A cat named Altamont. These are all that stand between a young mathematician and madness as she attempts to make sense of her lover?s suicide. Narrow margi…ns, you say? Not much to place between a slip of a broken-hearted Jersey Girl and the Abyss? Indeed, it is a treacherous twelve seconds on the quarter mile, hilarious and harrowing by turn. Blink and you?ll miss it.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2020
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Paperback. Etat : Good. The poems in 2nd Chance are written in the voice of a doctor; the speaker often imagines he is talking to students, residents, patients, families?anyone who is ill or has witnessed illness and suffering. The poet, Daniel M. Becker, has been a physician for over thirty years, working in general medicine, g…eriatric clinics, and addiction clinics, supervising medical students and residents, and more. With poems such as ?Goals of Care,? ?Before Flu Season,? and ?Advance Directives,? 2nd Chance covers the full spectrum of medical care?birth, death, and all the surprising moments in between. Written with warmth and empathy for the human condition, these poems attempt to understand, share, and honor what both patients and medical professionals experience. Serious matters are approached with intelligence, humility, and humor, making this collection an affecting entry into the growing field of medical poetry.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2015
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Paperback. Etat : Good. Poetry. "Olivia Clare keeps what Emily Dickinson called 'Esoteric Time.' In the title poem, a dark berceuse, the hour is 'black bear o'clock,' a spell beyond tell-able time for which not even the 26 letters of the alphabet, evoked by the title, are a guaranteed talisman. 'Cryonics' admonishes a depressed…friend, 'caught / in an hourglass neck / of cells not dividing,' to 'revive: / child the father / of the sand.' References to seconds, minutes, hourglasses, sands, clocks, gnomon, dials, and all manner of measuring, counting, and 'telling' time abound, as the speaker, with widdershins pluck, provocatively reverses, transgresses, and teases such limitations to fashion worlds that exempt themselves from any static or linear notion of past, present, future, or place. By attempting to word this ineffable, manifold 'within' time, Clare conjures a cosmological wunderkammer, '[k]indred, in a flickering place.'"—Lisa Russ Spaar.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2011
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Poetry. By brave and honest recognition, coupled with a deft ability to glide between realms of perception tripped open by memory and emotion, Maxine Scates reconstructs a life undone by the brokenness of family, friends, and self. Nuanced, mysterious, intimate. Beautiful poems Dorianne Laux.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2021
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Paperback. Etat : Good. Poems that acknowledge the existential anxieties of our age while continuing to celebrate the beauty and musicality of language. In Would We Still Be, James Henry Knippen crafts the anxieties that emanate from human existence?grief, fear, hopelessness, uncertainty?into poetic reflections that express a… deep reverence for the musicality and incantational capacity of language. Like a moon or a wren, two of the book?s obsessions, these haunting poems call us to consider beauty?s connection to the transitory. Among the ghosts that wander these pages?those of loved ones, those we are, and those we will become?Knippen asks if image is enough, if sound is enough, if faith is enough. In doing so, these poems seek out the soul?s communion with voice, encouraging us to sing our fate.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2021
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Paperback. Etat : Good. The poems in this powerful new collection explore the history of conflict and resilience?whether it occurs during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the Balkan wars in Bosnia and Croatia, or within the intimate tableaux of a family?s dissonance. Weaving poems into three distinct sections, Linda Nemec Foster p…ays close attention to not only what divides us, but also to what can heal and redeem our common journey: an artist?s notebook; the imagined life of Mary Magdalene; a fascination with Mount Fuji; a mother?s obsession with vintage movie stars; a dead father?s love. The Blue Divide resonates with the landscape of the world and the landscape of the heart.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 1997
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. ?Whether her subject is mental illness, the oppression of one human being by another, or the constantly-cast shadow of our mortality, Marsha de la O?s resilient, unpretentious, sharply intelligent and unsentimental voice speaks to us of what we need to know. This is a disturbing and memorable book.??…Chase Twichell, from the foreword.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2012
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Poetry. LGBT Studies. "If Frank O'Hara had lived to chronicle the post 9/11 decade, he might have written these wonderfully funny, sad, heartbreaking, jaunty, and always delightfully accurate poems by Peter Covino. THE RIGHT PLACE TO JUMP is unique in its immediacy, the tonal range of its love poems…and elegies, its ability to draw the reader into the bittersweet daily round of the 'missed-numbed decade.' Who else would have begun a poem ('Broken Kingdom') with the advice, 'Always check expiration dates'? Here is a poet who so readily laughs at himself that we cannot help sharing in the fun—and the pain."—Marjorie Perloff.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2014
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Paperback. Etat : Good. This collection is about living in the rural North. Inside that, it is about isolation and love and loneliness. Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes is preoccupied with reckoning, with grief and happiness, with divorce and what constitutes family. At its core are people trying to cross the lines between the…m-emotional, physical, intellectual. It is not, however, a book that embraces sadness, making, instead, at every turn it can, a way to lean toward joy.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2017
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. How does one remember a world that literally no longer exists? How do the moral imperatives to do so correspond to the personal needs that make it possible? Told from the point-of-view of Marta Eisenstein Lane on the occasion of her 80th birthday, Barren Island is the story of a factory island in New… York's Jamaica Bay, where the city's dead horses and other large animals were rendered into glue and fertilizer from the mid-19th century until the 1930's. The island itself is as central to the story as the members of the Jewish, Greek, Italian, Irish, and African-American factory families that inhabit it, including those who live their entire lives steeped in the smell of burning animal flesh. The story begins with the arrival of the Eisenstein family, immigrants from Eastern Europe, and explores how the political and social upheavals of the 1930's affect them and their neighbors in the years between the stock market crash of October 1929 and the start of World War I ten years later. Labor strife, union riots, the New Deal, the World's Fair, and the struggle to save European Jews from the growing threat of Nazi terror inform this novel as much as the explosion of civil and social liberties between the two World Wars. Barren Island, finally, is a novel in which the existence of God is argued with a God that may no longer exist or, perhaps, never did.
Seeds of Awakening: Cultivating and Sustaining the Inner Life
Molly Vass-Lehman; Paula W. Jamison; Thomas Holmes; Gayl Walker
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2017
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Hardback. Etat : Good. How does one remember a world that literally no longer exists? How do the moral imperatives to do so correspond to the personal needs that make it possible? Told from the point-of-view of Marta Eisenstein Lane on the occasion of her 80th birthday, Barren Island is the story of a factory island in New York'…s Jamaica Bay, where the city's dead horses and other large animals were rendered into glue and fertilizer from the mid-19th century until the 1930's. The island itself is as central to the story as the members of the Jewish, Greek, Italian, Irish, and African-American factory families that inhabit it, including those who live their entire lives steeped in the smell of burning animal flesh. The story begins with the arrival of the Eisenstein family, immigrants from Eastern Europe, and explores how the political and social upheavals of the 1930's affect them and their neighbors in the years between the stock market crash of October 1929 and the start of World War II ten years later. Labor strife, union riots, the New Deal, the World's Fair, and the struggle to save European Jews from the growing threat of Nazi terror inform this novel as much as the explosion of civil and social liberties between the two World Wars. Barren Island, finally, is a novel in which the existence of God is argued with a God that may no longer exist or, perhaps, never did.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2020
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. In Flyshoals, Georgia, karma is writ small enough to witness. When Doreen Swilley discovers that her boss and lover of thirty years intends to fire her to placate his dying wife, she devises a plan to steal his business from him. Her plan just might work too, if she is not thwarted by a small town?s…enmeshed histories and her family?s own dark secrets. Set during the 2009 recession, The Nature of Remains rests at the intersection of class, gender, education and place. Through extended geological metaphor, readers witness the orogeny, crystallization, and weathering of the human soul. Doreen?s journey reveals the ways even a woman?s most precious connections?her children, her grandchildren, her lover?operate within larger social structures capable of challenging her sovereignty.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2001
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Paperback. Etat : Good. The Republic of Self is a meditation on both the public and private American self. Elizabeth Powell's serious yet sexy and entertaining poems attempt to reconcile the divisions, diversions, and prospects of the self as we know it. Throughout her spirited investigation the poet enlists poems in prose--with…in the larger, more lyrical narration--to comment on the self's predicament, much as one of Shakespeare's fools might comment upon a play. Indeed, the self is a fool of sorts, as the poems infer through their wit, gravity, wistfulness, and desires.The Republic of Self becomes a field guide to all that lives within: nymphs, satyrs, Greco-Roman gods, even the icons of mass media and government are here in this, our forever new/old republic still inventing itself. Elizabeth Powell brings us a wise, outrageous, and surprisingly tender view of who we are.
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Softcover. Etat : As New. First Edition. Book of poems. ; 8vo; 111 pages.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2009
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Hardback. Etat : Very Good.
Seeds of Awakening: Cultivating and Sustaining the Inner Life
Vass-Lehman, Molly; Jamison, Paula W.; Holmes, Thomas; Walker, Gayl
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Etat : good. This book is in good condition. The cover has minor creases or bends. The binding is tight and pages are intact. Some pages may have writing or highlighting.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Poetry & Prose, 2002
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Trade Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2000
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Paperback. Etat : Good. In this volume of poetry, Mark Scott writes of human feelings and human touch in poems about the deaths of two brothers and in poems of love and friendship.
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Softcover. First Edition. Near fine.; Tall 8vo.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Poetry & Prose, Kalamazoo, MI, 1998
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Softcover. First Edition. Review material laid in. Fine.; 8vo.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2002
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Etat : Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A few small marks or stains to the… page edges/pages . Minor shelf wear.
Seeds of Awakening: Cultivating and Sustaining the Inner Life
Vass-Lehman, Molly; Jamison, Paula W.; Holmes, Thomas; Walker, Gayl
Langue : anglais
Edité par New Issues Press, Kalamazoo, MI, 1992
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Ajouter au panierPaperback. Etat : Near Fine. Cover edges lightly worn, else cover and pages near fine.
Langue : anglais
Edité par Western Michigan University, New Issues Press, 2016
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Tadek Gradinski grows up witnessing the multiple invasions and crimes of World War I sweep over his village. After the war, at fourteen, he begins to run messages and guns for the anti-Stalin diehards still hiding in the woods. At seventeen he's leading a double life, falling in love with a village g…irl, and dreaming about marriage and a job, while spying on NKVD agents at night. But someone betrays the partisans: their camp is destroyed; Tadek is arrested, tortured, and swept away into the Gulag with a twenty-five year sentence. History's Child tells the coming-of-age story of a Polish boy born in a village in eastern Poland in 1931, whose childhood is torn apart, first by the Soviet invasion from the east, then by the German invasion from the west, and ultimately by repressive grip of Stalin that sends him to the gulag and subsumes his homeland into the Soviet republic of Belarus. The novel engages - bravely - with an unfashionable place, a chunk of land that is sometimes Belarus, sometimes Poland. History makes cruel visits, and there is sometimes brutal local treatment of outsiders and minorities. And yet the book is told in terms of individual fates, betrayals and survivals. This work has many of the characteristics of the big novel: a historical backdrop, a world war, resistance, hunger. The narrative is riveting, the writing lucid, and the characters compelling. Boyer reveals what it means to remain a moral human being in the face of totalitarian power and brutality. This is a novel that reminds us of the power of fiction to teach us empathy and to help us understand how precarious freedom truly is. It is a masterful novel, one that is necessary for our times. --Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) 2017 fiction winner Judges note.
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Paperback. Etat : Used-Very Good. 1st ed. Pap. Slight shelf wear.
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Paperback. Etat : Used-Very Good. 1st Edition. Pap. Minor shelf-wear.
