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  • The Manifesto Project

    Edited by Rebecca Hazelton, Alan Michael Parker ...
    Series series Contemporary poetics
    The poetic manifesto has a long, rich history that hasn't been updated until now. What does a poetic manifesto look like in a time of increased pluralism, relativism, and danger? How can a manifesto open a space for new and diverse voices? Forty-five poets at different stages of their careers contribute to this new anthology, demonstrating the relevance of the declarative form at the intersection ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bingo, Bango, Boingo

    by Alan Michael Parker ...
    “A book to read slowly and to return to often, not just for its content but also its cheekily daring form." –Southern Review of BooksAward-winning author Alan Michael Parker displays his love for playful narrative and breaking all the rules in Bingo Bango Boingo, a collection of flash fiction and stories told through Bingo cardsFlip the page. Choose your game. Is it “Community Garden Bingo”? “High ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Cry Uncle

    by Alan Michael Parker ...
    In the darkness of a May night in the middle of rural Ohio, Ray Stanton is thrown, naked and injured, from a pickup truck. For hours, he struggles to get back to town, unable to make sense of what has just happened until, half-conscious and in pain, he collapses at the door of his neighbor, Mae Reeves.So begins Cry Uncle, a novel of small-town politics, racism, and love, the soul-searching story ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Committee on Town Happiness

    by Alan Michael Parker ...
    A lyrical and funny look at democracy and bureaucracy, The Committee on Town Happiness consists of ninety-nine linked stories about disappearing townsfolk. Hot air balloons are launched to search for the missing; galas proliferate; laws are imposed ad absurdum; and a guerilla group forms. Absurdity and beauty reign; the Committee shapes this future of small-town America. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Elephants & Butterflies

    by Alan Michael Parker ...
    Series series
    Elephants & Butterflies combines the imaginative forays of The Vandals with the more meditative approach of Love Song with Motor Vehicles. Both wild and calm, boisterous and quiet, the poems in Elephants & Butterflies use surprise, song, and startling metaphor while allowing the ideas to simmer just below the surface of the lyric. The poems manage the difficult task of being highly readable and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Love Song with Motor Vehicles

    by Alan Michael Parker ...
    Series series
    In Love Song with Motor Vehicles, Alan Michael Parker marshals a penetrating wit and sharp irony that mirrors that of Charles Simic and John Berryman. Parker’s robust imagination explores the music in places poetry doesn’t usually travel. His poems find their epiphanies early on, and, most strikingly, do not close at their endings but, rather, open.Alan Michael Parker is the author of two books of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Christmas in July

    by Alan Michael Parker ...
    Thirteen-year-old Beatrice Danzig has terminal cancer. When her junkie mom checks into rehab, she’s sent to live with her aunt in the quiet suburban town of Saxon Hills, where she fits about as well as her baggy button-down and thrift-store plaid.In honor of her impending death, Beatrice changes her name to Christmas and plows into the town like a wrecking ball. She is an enigma: a project for the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse

    Edited by Alan Michael Parker, Mark Willhardt ...
    Both male and female poets cross the gender line: men assume a female voice and women a male voice.The Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse is a fascinating collection of such poems, beginning in the age of Chaucer and working its way through to the present day. Together these poems offer a unique collection of masks, personae and voices, rife with issues of class, gender and race.Alan ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive

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    She thought she’d have more time. Laurie Notaro figured she had at least a few good years left. But no–it’s happened. She has officially lost her marbles. From the kid at the pet-food store checkout line whose coif is so bizarre it makes her seethe “I’m going to kick his hair’s ass!” to the hapless Sears customer-service rep on the receiving end of her Campaign of Terror, no one is safe from ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • An Idiot Girl's Christmas

    True Tales from the Top of the Naughty List

    by Laurie Notaro ...
    IT’S LAURIE NOTARO’S HOLIDAY HANDBOOK.PREPARE TO LAUGH YOUR TINSEL OFF.It’s the most wonderful–and most dreadful–season of the year, when boxes of truffles attack your thighs, drunken holiday revelers stay long past their welcome, and your grandmother has conniptions at the department store over the price of hand lotion. Welcome to Laurie Notaro’s Christmastime.In ten brand-new stories and three ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Twenty Funny Stories, Book 6

    by Margaret Radisich Sleasman ...
    Ever wonder about people who are always laughing? They are usually remembering stories they have read in the TWENTY FUNNY STORIES books.What do these things have in common? Juicy-Fruit gum, crazy drivers, the look, the social security office - they are stories in Twenty Funny Stories, book Six along with many more to make you laugh out loud ... Read more

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  • More Life's Little Frustration Book

    A Parody

    by G. Gaynor McTigue ...
    From G. Gaynor McTigue, the author who brought you the original commendium of life's annoying problems-- Life's Little Frustration Book--come 365 even more ignominious irritants and aggravations that suck the joy out of life. More Life's Little Frustration Book shares even more ridiculous problems that you'd rather live without.For even more annoying problems, read the original: Life's Little ... Read more

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