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Air Traffic

A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America

by Gregory Pardlo ...

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition.Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic controllers' strike of 1981, he succumbs to addiction and ... Read more

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From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition.Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic controllers' strike of 1981, he succumbs to addiction and
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Spectral Evidence

Poems

by Gregory Pardlo ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY •FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD • A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air TrafficElegant, profound, and intoxicating—Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo’s first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest, moves fluidly ... Read more

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY •FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD • A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air TrafficElegant, profound, and intoxicating—Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo’s first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest, moves fluidly
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Reflections on the Pandemic

COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed

by Patricia Akhimie, Marc Aronson, Ulla D. Berg, Kimberly Camp, Kelly-Jane Cotter, David Dreyfus, Adrienne Eaton, Katherine Epstein, Paul Falkowski, Rigoberto González, James Goodman0, David Greenberg1, Jonathan Scott Holloway2, James W. Hughes3, Amy Jordan4, Amir Lighty5, Stephen Masaryk6, Yalidy Matos7, Susan Miller8, Yehoshua November9, Joyce Carol Oates0, Katherine Ognyanova1, Gregory Pardlo2, Steve Pikiell3, Benjamin Pukert4, Caridad Svich5, Mary E. O'Dowd6, Angelique Haugerud7, Leslieann Hobayan8, Stephanie Bonne9, Mark Doty0, Leah Falk1, Naomi Jackson2, Louis Masur3, Belinda McKeon4, David Orr5, Mackenzie Kean6, Revathi Machan7, Ms. Teresa Politano9, Dr. Vikki S. Katz, Ph.D.0, Professor Louis P. Masur1 ...

Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community. The project features work from a diverse group of Rutgers scholars, students, staff, and alumni. Reflecting on 2020 from a number of perspectives – mortality, ... Read more

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Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community. The project features work from a diverse group of Rutgers scholars, students, staff, and alumni. Reflecting on 2020 from a number of perspectives – mortality,
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Digest

by Gregory Pardlo ...

Series series Stahlecker Selections
From Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we experience dialogues between the written word and other art forms. Within this dialogue we hear Ben Jonson, we meet police K-9s, and we find children negotiating a sense of the world through a father’s ... Read more

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From Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we experience dialogues between the written word and other art forms. Within this dialogue we hear Ben Jonson, we meet police K-9s, and we find children negotiating a sense of the world through a father’s
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Spectral Evidence

Poems

by Gregory Pardlo ...

Narrated by Gregory Pardlo ...

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2 hours 24 min

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY •FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD • A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air TrafficElegant, profound, and intoxicating—Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo’s first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest, moves fluidly ... Read more

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY •FINALIST FOR THE KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD • A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air TrafficElegant, profound, and intoxicating—Spectral Evidence, Gregory Pardlo’s first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest, moves fluidly
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Digital Horror Fiction Anthology

25 Horror Fiction Short Stories, #1

by Digital Fiction, Gregory L. Norris, Bruce Memblatt, Samuel Marzioli, David M. Hoenig, Aaron Gudmunson, James Dorr, Geoff Brown, Adrian Ludens, Jay Caselberg, Larry Hinkle, Adrian Cole, Tracie McBride, Geoff Gander, Sarah Hans, Jason A. Wyckoff, Jenner Michaud, Bruce Lockhart 2nd & Suzie Lockhart, C.M. Saunders, Rie Sheridan Rose, H.L. Fullerton, Bill Zaget, Michelle Mellon, Don Webb, Rue Karney, Renee Miller ...

Series Book 1 - 25 Horror Fiction Short Stories
DIGITAL HORROR FICTION ANTHOLOGY25 Horror Fiction Short Stories2:51, Behind the Caterpillar — Gregory L. NorrisA Dream for Sugar — Bruce MemblattA Pocket of Madness — Samuel MarzioliAces and Kings — David M. HoenigThe Animals — Aaron GudmunsonThe Borrowed Man — James DorrHis Own Personal Golgotha — Geoff BrownBuilding Condemned (Seeking Asylum) — Adrian LudensCompartmental — Jay CaselbergDemocrac. ... Read more

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DIGITAL HORROR FICTION ANTHOLOGY25 Horror Fiction Short Stories2:51, Behind the Caterpillar — Gregory L. NorrisA Dream for Sugar — Bruce MemblattA Pocket of Madness — Samuel MarzioliAces and Kings — David M. HoenigThe Animals — Aaron GudmunsonThe Borrowed Man — James DorrHis Own Personal Golgotha — Geoff BrownBuilding Condemned (Seeking Asylum) — Adrian LudensCompartmental — Jay CaselbergDemocrac.
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Air Traffic

A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America

by Gregory Pardlo ...

Narrated by Gregory Pardlo ...

Unabridged

7 hours 9 min

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition.Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic controllers' strike of 1981, he succumbs to addiction and ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition.Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic controllers' strike of 1981, he succumbs to addiction and
... Read more

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God's Trombones

Seven Negro Sermons in Verse

by James Weldon Johnson ...

Series series Vintage Classics
A Harlem Renaissance classic: seven inspirational poems inspired by the powerful rhetorical traditions of African-American sermons and spirituals.James Weldon Johnson, the co-author of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and author of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. In God's Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, the rich tradition of ... Read more

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A Harlem Renaissance classic: seven inspirational poems inspired by the powerful rhetorical traditions of African-American sermons and spirituals.James Weldon Johnson, the co-author of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and author of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. In God's Trombones, one of his most celebrated works, the rich tradition of
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For Want of Water

and other poems

by Sasha Roque Pimentel ...

Series Book 2 - National Poetry Series
Searing verses set on the Mexican border about war and addiction, love and sexual violence, grief and loss, from an American Book Award–winning author. Selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the National Poetry Series.El Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States, while across the river, Ciudad Juárez suffers a history of femicides and a horrific drug war. Witnessing this, a Filipina’s ... Read more

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Searing verses set on the Mexican border about war and addiction, love and sexual violence, grief and loss, from an American Book Award–winning author. Selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the National Poetry Series.El Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States, while across the river, Ciudad Juárez suffers a history of femicides and a horrific drug war. Witnessing this, a Filipina’s
... Read more

The Best American Essays 2021

by Robert Atwan ...

Series series The Best American Series
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz"The world is abundant even in bad times," guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, "it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness." The essays Schulz ... Read more

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A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz"The world is abundant even in bad times," guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, "it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness." The essays Schulz
... Read more
The Best American Essays 2011

Edited by Edwidge Danticat, Robert Atwan ...

Series series The Best American Series
The acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory presents an anthology of personal essays by Hilton Als, Christopher Hitchens, Zadie Smith and others.In her selection process for this sterling volume, Edwidge Danticat considers the inherent vulnerability of the essay form—a vulnerability that seems all the more present in today's spotlighted public square. As she says in her introduction, "when we ... Read more

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The acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory presents an anthology of personal essays by Hilton Als, Christopher Hitchens, Zadie Smith and others.In her selection process for this sterling volume, Edwidge Danticat considers the inherent vulnerability of the essay form—a vulnerability that seems all the more present in today's spotlighted public square. As she says in her introduction, "when we
... Read more
The Contemporary American Essay

by Phillip Lopate ...

A dazzling anthology of essays by some of the best writers of the past quarter century—from Barry Lopez and Margo Jefferson to David Sedaris and Samantha Irby—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate.The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America’s best ... Read more

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A dazzling anthology of essays by some of the best writers of the past quarter century—from Barry Lopez and Margo Jefferson to David Sedaris and Samantha Irby—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate.The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America’s best
... Read more

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