Now in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wright's best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new "retablos" and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing authentically erotic verse, Wright--with her Southern accent and cinematic eye--couples strangeness with uncanny accuracy to create poems that "offer a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning."
from "Our Dust"
You didn't know my weariness, error, incapacity, I was the poet of shadow work and towns with quarter-inch phone books, of...
Now in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wright's best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new "retablos" and a bracing vigil o...
"For a long while now, C. D. Wright has been writing some of the greatest poetry-cum-prose you can find in American literature. One Big Self does to the contemporary prison-industrial complex what James Agee did to poverty -- it reacts passionately and lyrically (and idiosyncratically) to a sociopolitical abomination. This book, while angry and sorrowful and bewildered, has humor, constant levity and candor, and countless moments of incredible beauty." --Dave Eggers, The New York Times Book Review
"Wright has found a way to wed fragments of an iconic America to a...
"For a long while now, C. D. Wright has been writing some of the greatest poetry-cum-prose you can find in American literature. One Big Self...
This book is based on the contributions to a course, entitled Applied Magnetism, which was the 25th Course of the International School of Materials Science and Technology. The Course was held as a NATO Advanced Study Institute at the Ettore Majorana Centre in Erice, Sicily, Italy between the 1st and 12th July 1992, and attracted almost 70 participants from 15 different countries. The book deals with the theory, experiments and applications of the main topical areas of applied magnetism. These selected areas include the physics of magnetic recording, magnetic and magneto-optic recording...
This book is based on the contributions to a course, entitled Applied Magnetism, which was the 25th Course of the International School of Materials Sc...
The book deals with the theory, experiments and applications of the main topical areas of applied magnetism. These selected areas include the physics of magnetic recording, magnetic and magnetooptic recording devices, systems and media, magnetic fine particles, magnetic separation, domains and domain walls in soft magnetic materials, permanent magnets, magnetoresistance, thin film magnetooptics, and finally, microwave, optical and computational magnetics. The material is organised into ten self-contained chapters which together provide a comprehensive coverage of the subject of applied...
The book deals with the theory, experiments and applications of the main topical areas of applied magnetism. These selected areas include the physics ...
Honored in "Best Books of the Year" listings from "The New Yorker," National Public Radio, "Library Journal," and The Huffington Post.
""One With Others" represents Wright's most audacious experiment yet.""The New Yorker"
" A] book . . . that defies description and discovers a powerful mode of its own." National Public Radio
" A] searing dissection of hate crimes and their malignant legacy.""Booklist"
"Today, Gentle Reader, the sermon once again: "Segregation After Death." Showers in the a.m. The threat they say is moving from the east. The sheriff's club says Not now....
Honored in "Best Books of the Year" listings from "The New Yorker," National Public Radio, "Library Journal," and The Huffington Post.
"The poet wants to know what happened next. After the flood subsides, when the world grew back, in the place of dials and switches, inside the constraints of earthly time where faces crack, flesh sags and fish stink. She understands that conflict is easier than kindness."from the introduction by C.D. Wright
"Divinity School," winner of the prestigious Honickman First Book Award from the "American Poetry Review," is a wide-ranging exploration of spirituality, sex, travel, food, holy texts, and coming of age. Poet Alicia Jo Rabins brings a searing eye for surreal beauty in everyday life...
"The poet wants to know what happened next. After the flood subsides, when the world grew back, in the place of dials and switches, inside the cons...
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