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  • The Writer's Portable Mentor

    A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, Third Edition

    by Priscilla Long ...
    The third edition of a comprehensive writing guide that has been a game changer for thousands of writers.From writing the virtuoso sentence to structuring your story, essay, or book, The Writer’s Portable Mentor offers deeply craft-oriented guidance to writers at all levels, from beginner to advanced. Readers of this new edition will find thoroughly revised chapters on structure and two new ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Dancing with the Muse in Old Age

    by Priscilla Long ...
    Dancing with the Muse in Old Age uses current science to present old age as a potentially happy, creative, and productive time. Numerous models-including many elders active in the arts-illustrate the possibilities. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Interview with a Neandertal

    by Priscilla Long ...
    Heres what National Magazine Award-winning writer Priscilla Long always wanted to ask our distant cousins about love and death, sorrow and dinner. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Spaces and Colors

    by Priscilla Long ...
    Master of the essay form and master of the sentence, Priscilla Long combines memoir and science to explore the spaces we live in, the spaces we go to in our imagination, and the colors that surround us.In On Spaces and Colors,Priscilla Long reflects on the spaces we inhabit and the colors that surround us. The essays occur in threes: space (such as a garden, an alley, a living room); color (does ... Read more

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  • My Brain on My Mind

    by Priscilla Long ...
    The Brain, wrote Emily Dickinson, is wider than the Sky, since it contains both Sky and You. National Magazine Award winning writer Priscilla Long meditates and shares the latest research - on her brain, her mind, and her grandfather, a reporter who lost his memory along with all of his writing. Its a book we should all keep in mind. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Writer's Portable Mentor

    A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, Second Edition

    by Priscilla Long ...
    Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer’s Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author’s twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a book, story, or essay. It trains writers in observation and in developing a poet’s ear for sound in prose. It scrutinizes the sentence ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Crossing Over

    Poems

    by Priscilla Long ...
    Series series Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
    Long’s work begs to be read aloud in order to savor the rich language and rhythm she instills in each poem. She explores the beauty of specific bridges while employing them as a metaphor for crossings to death (a sister’s suicide), eros, and art. Part elegy, the book also explores living, remembering, and celebrating. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Fire and Stone

    Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

    by Priscilla Long ...
    Series series Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction
    The questions that drive Priscilla Long’s Fire and Stone are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? These questions look beyond everyday trivialities to ponder the essence of our origins.Using her own story as a touchstone, Long explores our human roots and how they shape who we are today. Her ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Minding the Muse

    by Priscilla Long ...
    A practical handbook for the artist or writer—experienced, aspiring, or somewhere in between. Long draws from her extensive background as a poet, writer, and master teacher, but also gathers the insights and practices of a wide range of high-achieving artists, including mystery writer Raymond Chandler, choreographer Twyla Tharp, poet and performance artist Patti Smith, and the painter Joan Miró. ... Read more

    $6.95 USD

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    by Kayleb Rae Candrilli ...
    Both radically tender and desperate for change, Water I Won’t Touch is a life raft and a self-portrait, concerned with the vitality of trans people living in a dangerous and inhospitable landscape. Through the brambles of the Pennsylvania forest to a stretch of the Jersey Shore, in quiet moments and violent memories, Kayleb Rae Candrilli touches the broken earth and examines the whole in its ... Read more

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  • Legitimate Dangers

    American Poets of the New Century

    Edited by Cate Marvin, Michael Dumanis ...
    This groundbreaking anthology offers a broad and representative introduction to some of the most exciting, fresh voices on the contemporary poetry landscape by gathering together generous selections from the work of 85 younger American poets.The poets selected were born after 1960, published their first book within the last 10 years, and have no more than three books published. Some are the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Songs of Exotic Birds

    by Merle Fischlowitz ...
    Songs of Exotic Birds contains poems written over a span of sixty years, forming an arc of life and capturing moments the writers memory stubbornly cannot lose. Merle Fischlowitz also writes in the voices of others that his psychologists ear has caught at special moments or rites of passage, where irony imbues the experiences. From childhood memories to todays cyber-news, these poems invite you ... Read more

    $3.99 USD