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“ed pavlic”

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  • Call It in the Air

    Poems

    by Ed Pavlic ...
    Somewhere between elegy and memoir, poetry and prose, Ed Pavlić's Call It in the Air follows the death of a sister into song.Pavlić's collection traces the life and death of his elder sister, Kate: a brilliant, talented, tormented woman who lived on her own terms to the very end. Kate's shadow hovers like a penumbra over these pages that unfold a kaleidoscope of her world. A small-town apartment ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Another Kind of Madness

    A Novel

    by Ed Pavlic ...
    "An ode to Chicago, Kenya, and soul music as humanity's worldwide hum . . . [a] remarkable and groundbreaking novel." — Colorado ReviewNdiya Grayson returns to her hometown of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can't protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening, vulnerable and emotionally disarrayed, she goes out and meets Shame ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Visiting Hours at the Color Line

    Poems

    by Ed Pavlic, Dan Beachy-Quick ...
    The acclaimed poet finds many-hued complexity within America's divided black-and-white society in this 2012 National Poetry Series–winning collection.American attitudes and perceptions—of tragedies, major events, each other—are often segregated into two camps by a politicized, racially divided "Color Line." But in this award-winning poetry collection, Ed Pavlic explores the nonlinear aspects of ... Read more

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  • Live at the Bitter End

    by Ed Pavlic ...
    Recasting the "trial of the century," Ed Pavli 's vertiginous new collection puts a century of segregation on trial for its soul Set in the vernacular origins of modernity, Live at the Bitter End puts the racialized logic of 20th century aesthetics on trial. Mixing anonymous voices with the testimonies of figures such as Paul Cézanne, Charles Mingus, Emma Bardac, Erik Satie, Alberto Giacometti, ... Read more

    $10.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Let It Be Broke

    by Ed Pavlic ...
    The poems in Ed Pavlić’s Let It Be Broke are ignited by sonic memories—from Chaka Khan on the radio to his teenaged daughter singing “Stay” at a local café—that spark a journey into personal and ontological questions. Pavlić’s lyric lines are equal parts introspection and inter-spection, a term he coins for the shared rumination that encourages some collective deep thinking about the arbitrary ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Outward

    Adrienne Rich's Expanding Solitudes

    by Ed Pavlic ...
    The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich’s full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationshipsAdrienne Rich is best known as a feminist poet and activist. This iconic status owes especially to her work during the 1970s, while the distinctive political and social visions she achieved during the second half of her career remain ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • This Is Not a Border

    Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

    by J.M. Coetzee, Mr William Sutcliffe, Michael Ondaatje, Teju Cole, Alice Walker, Michael Palin, Deborah Moggach, China Miéville, Jeremy Harding, Henning Mankell, Molly Crabapple, Linda Spalding, Adam Foulds, Gillian Slovo, Geoff Dyer, Chinua Achebe, Mahmoud Darwish, Yasmin El-Rifae, Suheir Hammad, Mercedes Kemp, Najwan Darwish, Suad Amiry, Ms Sabrina Mahfouz, John Horner, Bridget Keenan, Pankaj Mishra, Kamila Shamsie, Atef Abu Saif, Selma Dabbagh, Jehan Bseiso, Omar El-Khairy, Remi Kanazi, Maath Musleh, Dr. Ghada Karmi, Ed Pavlic, Muiz, Ru Freeman, Nancy Kricorian, Nathalie Handal, Mohammed Hanif, Victoria Brittain, Rachel Holmes, Raja Shehadeh, Claire Messud, Jamal Mahjoub, Susan Abulhawa ...
    Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Speculation

    Edited by Ed Pavlić, Ivelisse Rodriguez ...
    How can the speculative imagination help us build a better world?At a world-historical moment of global upheaval, speculative writing is enjoying a renaissance. This collection of poetry, stories, and essays engages speculation as both a ubiquitous feature of financial capitalism and a radical tool of collective imagination. By rejecting dominant ideas about what is possible, speculation empowers ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Allies

    Edited by Ed Pavlić, Evie Shockley ...
    How do we know who is on our side? Is it possible for someone who is not like us to share our same hopes? Can links forged by empathy or mutual interest match those created by shared experience? What can we gain from alliances that we cannot achieve on our own?These are difficult questions to answer even in intimate settings, and more so in arenas of cultural and political struggle. Through ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Repair (Boston Review)

    Edited by Ed Pavlić, Ivelisse Rodriguez ...
    We bear deep wounds, individually and collectively. All have been worsened by a period of destructive politics that left us ill-equipped to respond to a global health catastrophe. As we struggle to recover our footing and grieve our dead, we believe that the arts must have a voice in the conversation about how we heal.This anthology draws together a wide range of artists and thinkers, established ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Ancestors

    Edited by Ed Pavlić, Ivelisse Rodriguez ...
    It is rare now for people to stay where they were raised, and when we encounter one another—whether in person or, increasingly, online—it is usually in contexts that obscure if not outright hide details about our past. But even in moments of pure self-invention, we are always shaped by the past. In Ancestors, some of today’s most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Who Can Afford to Improvise?

    James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners

    by Ed Pavlić ...
    More than a quarter-century after his death, James Baldwin remains an unparalleled figure in American literature and African American cultural politics. In Who Can Afford to Improvise? Ed Pavlić offers an unconventional, lyrical, and accessible meditation on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin and their relationship to the lyric tradition in black music, from gospel and blues to jazz ... Read more

    $23.79 USD