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Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother

Contexts in Confessional and Postconfessional Poetry

by Hannah Baker Saltmarsh ...

A thoughtful exploration of male poets' contributions to the literature of motherhoodIn the late 1950s the notion of a "mother poem" emerged during a confessional literary movement that freed poets to use personal, psychosexual material about intimate topics such as parents, childhood, failed marriages, children, infidelity, and mental illness. In Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother, Hannah ... Read more

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A thoughtful exploration of male poets' contributions to the literature of motherhoodIn the late 1950s the notion of a "mother poem" emerged during a confessional literary movement that freed poets to use personal, psychosexual material about intimate topics such as parents, childhood, failed marriages, children, infidelity, and mental illness. In Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother, Hannah
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Hysterical Water

Poems

by Hannah Baker Saltmarsh ...

Series series Georgia Review Books
Hysterical Water is a collection of fierce, funny, feminist poems, prose poems, and essays with poems woven through them, all connected by threads associated with female “hysteria” and motherhood. Hannah Baker Saltmarsh troubles the historic pseudodiagnostic term hysteria as both a constraining mode used to contain and silence women and as a mode that oddly freed women to behave outside the bounds ... Read more

$22.79 USD

Hysterical Water is a collection of fierce, funny, feminist poems, prose poems, and essays with poems woven through them, all connected by threads associated with female “hysteria” and motherhood. Hannah Baker Saltmarsh troubles the historic pseudodiagnostic term hysteria as both a constraining mode used to contain and silence women and as a mode that oddly freed women to behave outside the bounds
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Psychosocial Elements of Physical Therapy

The Connection of Body to Mind

by Hannah Johnson, Hannah Baker ...

Physical therapists know that their patients are more than just a list of symptoms. They are people first, often with a complex mix of medical and psychiatric circumstances, who may receive a wide range of care from a team of professionals. Keeping this in mind, Psychosocial Elements of Physical Therapy: The Connection of Body to Mind is both a textbook and a clinical resource for physical ... Read more

$77.99 USD

Physical therapists know that their patients are more than just a list of symptoms. They are people first, often with a complex mix of medical and psychiatric circumstances, who may receive a wide range of care from a team of professionals. Keeping this in mind, Psychosocial Elements of Physical Therapy: The Connection of Body to Mind is both a textbook and a clinical resource for physical
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BECOMING K-9

A bomb dog's memoir

by Rada Jones ...

Narrated by Hannah Baker ...

Series Audiobook 1 - K-9 Heroes
Unabridged

4 hours 2 min

"Until you hoomans learn to sniff each other's butts so you can read each other's thoughts, you'll need us, dogs, to guide you, love you and set you straight." Corporal K-9 GuinnessKirkus Review: Excitement, tears, and many chuckles in a winning story about a courageous K-9."Guinness is an irresistible lead character—smart and steadfast but also soulful and delightfully snarky. While the narrative ... Read more

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"Until you hoomans learn to sniff each other's butts so you can read each other's thoughts, you'll need us, dogs, to guide you, love you and set you straight." Corporal K-9 GuinnessKirkus Review: Excitement, tears, and many chuckles in a winning story about a courageous K-9."Guinness is an irresistible lead character—smart and steadfast but also soulful and delightfully snarky. While the narrative
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Bionic Butter

A Three-Pawed K-9 Hero

by Rada Jones ...

Narrated by Hannah Baker ...

Series Audiobook 2 - K-9 Heroes
Unabridged

4 hours 5 min

A feel-good dog story."Countless deadly mines lay in wait under the smoldering Afghan desert. In Kandahar, every car could be a bomb; every man, woman and child could be your killer. There, the only one standing between you and your death is me, Corporal K-9 Butter. Day after scorching day, my K-9 friends and I scour the desert to uncover your killer. But it only takes one mistake. And one bullet… ... Read more

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A feel-good dog story."Countless deadly mines lay in wait under the smoldering Afghan desert. In Kandahar, every car could be a bomb; every man, woman and child could be your killer. There, the only one standing between you and your death is me, Corporal K-9 Butter. Day after scorching day, my K-9 friends and I scour the desert to uncover your killer. But it only takes one mistake. And one bullet…
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LOVELY K-9

A Prison Puppy

by Rada Jones ...

Narrated by Hannah Baker ...

Series Audiobook 4 - K-9 Heroes
Unabridged

3 hours 43 min

A feel-good dog story."I tried to be good, but I got bored.""So, what if I grew up behind bars? It's not about where you start; it's all about the journey. Mine took me to Kandahar, where a sea of mines lies in wait under the hot Afghan desert. There, every car could be a bomb; every human your killer. The only thing standing between you and death is me, K-9 Lovely, scouring the desert to detect ... Read more

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A feel-good dog story."I tried to be good, but I got bored.""So, what if I grew up behind bars? It's not about where you start; it's all about the journey. Mine took me to Kandahar, where a sea of mines lies in wait under the hot Afghan desert. There, every car could be a bomb; every human your killer. The only thing standing between you and death is me, K-9 Lovely, scouring the desert to detect
... Read more
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Fish Heads and Duck Skin

A Novel

by Lindsey Salatka ...

Narrated by Hannah Baker ...

Unabridged

8 hours 33 min

On the advice of a five-dollar psychic, Tina Martin, a zany, overworked mother of two, quits her high-powered job and moves her family to Shanghai. Tina yearns for this new setting to bring her the zen-like inner peace she’s always heard about on infomercials. Instead, she becomes a totally exasperated fish out of water, doing wacky things like stealing the shoes of a shifty delivery man, spraying ... Read more

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On the advice of a five-dollar psychic, Tina Martin, a zany, overworked mother of two, quits her high-powered job and moves her family to Shanghai. Tina yearns for this new setting to bring her the zen-like inner peace she’s always heard about on infomercials. Instead, she becomes a totally exasperated fish out of water, doing wacky things like stealing the shoes of a shifty delivery man, spraying
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Sparkey to the Parkey

by Kalena ...

Narrated by Hannah Baker ...

Unabridged

8 min

Listen to this sweet heartwarming true story about a runaway dog who arrived late one stormy night at my home nestled in the forest on a hilltop on the island of Maui. He had a frayed yellow nylon cord rope wrapped tightly around his neck, and his fur was filled with mud. Most likely he had fled from an abusive environment. He found refuge at my home. He stepped into my life and opened my heart, ... Read more

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Listen to this sweet heartwarming true story about a runaway dog who arrived late one stormy night at my home nestled in the forest on a hilltop on the island of Maui. He had a frayed yellow nylon cord rope wrapped tightly around his neck, and his fur was filled with mud. Most likely he had fled from an abusive environment. He found refuge at my home. He stepped into my life and opened my heart,
... Read more

Ex Libris

Confessions of a Common Reader

by Anne Fadiman ...

Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because ... Read more

$9.99 USD

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Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because
... Read more

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The Best American Essays 2020

Edited by André Aciman ...

Series series The Best American Series
A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name."An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name."An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts,
... Read more
Crazy English

by Richard Lederer ...

In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet. You ... Read more

$13.99 USD

In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet. You
... Read more
The Anthologist

A Novel

by Nicholson Baker ...

Paul Chowder is trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of rhyming verse, but he’s having a hard time getting started. The result of his fitful struggles is The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker’s brilliantly funny and exquisite love story about poetry.* * *A New York Times Notable Book, 2009Favorite Fiction of 2009–Los Angeles TimesBest Books of 2009–The Christian Science MonitorBest of ... Read more

$9.99 USD

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Paul Chowder is trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of rhyming verse, but he’s having a hard time getting started. The result of his fitful struggles is The Anthologist, Nicholson Baker’s brilliantly funny and exquisite love story about poetry.* * *A New York Times Notable Book, 2009Favorite Fiction of 2009–Los Angeles TimesBest Books of 2009–The Christian Science MonitorBest of
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