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  • New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive

    Lectures from the Naropa Archive

    Edited by Anne Waldman, Emma Gomis ...
    A collection of lectures transcribed from the audio archives of Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program that represent a continuing lineage of experimental literary movements.New Weathers asks us to consider how poetics might embolden deeper engagements with the world. Collected from the alternative education zone founded by Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg with the aim of opening up discourse ... Read more

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  • Recollections of My Nonexistence

    A Memoir

    **Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for BiographyLonglisted for The Orwell Prize for Political WritingAn electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from the author of Orwell's Roses**In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Lives of Animals

    by J. M. Coetzee ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world.Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Sideways Look at Time

    by Jay Griffiths ...
    A brilliant and poetic exploration of the way that we experience time in our everyday lives.Why does time seem so short? How does women's time differ from men's? Why does time seem to move slowly in the countryside and quickly in cities? How do different cultures around the world see time? In A Sideways Look at Time, Jay Griffiths takes readers on an extraordinary tour of time as we have never ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Family Resemblance

    An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres

    When we talk about hybrid literary genres, what do we mean? Unprecedented in both its scope and approach, Family Resemblance is the first anthology to explore the answer to that question in depth, providing craft essays and examples of hybrid forms by 43 distinguished authors. In this study of eight hybrid genres—including lyric essay, epistolary, poetic memoir, prose poetry, performative, short ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What Do Pictures Want?

    The Lives and Loves of Images

    Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray?According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Daily Reader

    366 Selections of Great Prose and Poetry to Inspire a Productive and Meaningful Writing Life

    by Fred White ...
    Let Great Reading Fuel Your WritingGreat writers readvoraciously and across many topics and genres. They read to learn, to research, to study the style of others, and to improve their own work. They read because they love the written word. But becoming well read takes time, dedication, and patience. The thought can be dauntingespecially when you're eager to get to your own writing.Fred White, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Poem Is You

    60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them

    Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty—and sheer variety—leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of the past four decades, from the headline-making ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Appropriate

    A Provocation

    A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Anatomy of Freedom

    Feminism in Four Dimensions

    by Robin Morgan ...
    The classic of feminist vision by one of its greatest writers, with a new preface by the authorWith the advent of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, physics and our world changed forever. In The Anatomy of Freedom, Robin Morgan shows us how the empowerment of women—half of humanity—will have the same transformative power for society that e=mc2 had for the physical world.This is not simply another ... Read more

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  • We, Robots

    Staying Human in the Age of Big Data

    by Curtis White ...
    In the tradition of Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget, a rousing, sharply argued—and, yes, inspiring!—reckoning with our blind faith in technologyCan technology solve all our problems? Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, many of our most famous journalists, pundits, and economists seem to think so. According to them, “intelligent machines” and big data will free us from work, educate ... Read more

    $13.99 USD