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Red
Suburb
Red Suburb portrays the neurotic beauty
of a generation squeezed between the Baby
Boomers and Generation X. These poems-ripe
with love and wistfulness-scope the bright,
innocent Kodak colors of suburbia, then
twist like a kaleidoscope, distorting into
the very un-American Dream of coming-of-age
as a seer, a dreamer, a gay man, and a social
iconoclast amidst the abject development
of cul-de-sacs and manicured lawns.
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Vow
to Poetry
Vow to Poetry is a trumpet call that tears down
the walls of prescribed creative processes. Some
books are so forward-thinking that we dont
know how essential they are until they arrive.
This stimulating mix of autobiography, interviews,
essays on poetics, politics, and more, reveals
a life dedicated to the imperatives of experimental
poetry and cultural activism. Youve seen
the "safe" versions, now comes this
unconventional, irreverent, transgressive volume.
This is more than a "how to write" book-
it is a "how to live the life of poetry"
book.
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Summit
Avenue
How can you weave a life from fairy tales? Set in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul
during the First World War, Mary Sharratt’s debut novel is the story of a young
German immigrant experiencing her spiritual and sexual awakening.
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Taking the Wall
The
wildly popular sport of auto racing is a backdrop
for exploration of the creative and destructive
aspects of obsession. In farmhouses, mobile homes,
and roadside trailer courts, fathers and sons,
mothers and daughters all try to figure out how
to keep their families running as smoothly as
their cars. Taking the Wall is rich with
details about racing and rural life, and richer
yet in insight into that part of the human spirit
that just doesn’t know how to quit.
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