Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

Item(s) unavailable for purchase

Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.

itemsitem

- Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  
  Unlimited access to eBooks
  
  Unlimited access to audiobooks
  
  No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
  Audiobook
  by ,
  
  Available:
  
  . No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.
  
  Pre-order
  1 audiobook monthly
  
  + FREE 30-day trial
  
  Special Offer
  
  Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice
  
  *No commitment, cancel anytime
  
  FREE

itemsitem

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Get 1 credit every month for the audiobook of your choice

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions

Unlimited access to eBooks

Unlimited access to audiobooks

No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions
Audiobook
by ,

Available:
. No commitment, cancel anytime at kobo.com/account/subscriptions.

Pre-order
1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Special Offer

Get 1 credit every month to exchange for an audiobook of your choice

*No commitment, cancel anytime

FREE

Recommended For You

Skip side bar filters

Gephyromania

by TC Tolbert ...

*Gephyromania was selected as one of the top poetry books of 2014 by Entropy and was listed by Eileen Myles as one of her favorites for 2014 in The Gay and Lesbian Review. Kerri Webster wrote a generous introduction to the book for The Poetry Society of America *Author was a co-editor of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award ... Read more

$10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

*Gephyromania was selected as one of the top poetry books of 2014 by Entropy and was listed by Eileen Myles as one of her favorites for 2014 in The Gay and Lesbian Review. Kerri Webster wrote a generous introduction to the book for The Poetry Society of America *Author was a co-editor of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
... Read more
Writing the Self-Elegy

The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink

by Teresa Leo, Jennifer McCauley, John Chavez, Katherine C. Jueds, Catherine Kyle, Adam Crittenden, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Kyle McCord, Jane Wong, Naomi Ortiz, Denise Leto, Carol Berg, Kristy Bowen, Floydd Michael Elliot, Jehanne Dubrow, Carl Phillips, Bruce Bond, Kevin Prufer, Rusane Morrison, Sheila Black, Lauren Shellberg, Anne Kaier, TC Tolbert, Raymond Luczak, Stephanie Heit, Juliet Cook, Tanaya Winder ...

An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selvesHonest, aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame, multiple selves can coexist—wise and naïve, angry and resigned—along with multiple timelines, each possible path stemming from one small choice ... Read more

$13.69 USD

An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selvesHonest, aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame, multiple selves can coexist—wise and naïve, angry and resigned—along with multiple timelines, each possible path stemming from one small choice
... Read more

The Book of Alchemy

A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life

by Suleika Jaouad ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A guide to the art of journaling—and a meditation on the central questions of life—by the bestselling author of Between Two Kingdoms, with contributions from Hanif Abdurraqib, Jon Batiste, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem, George Saunders, and many more“The Book of Alchemy proves on every page that a creative response can be found in every moment of life—regardless of ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A guide to the art of journaling—and a meditation on the central questions of life—by the bestselling author of Between Two Kingdoms, with contributions from Hanif Abdurraqib, Jon Batiste, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem, George Saunders, and many more“The Book of Alchemy proves on every page that a creative response can be found in every moment of life—regardless of
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
The Empathy Exams

Essays

by Leslie Jamison ...

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

by Andrea Gibson, Megan Falley ...

Series series The HOW Series
A simple guide to the transformative power of reading and writing poems, from two acclaimed spoken-word artists.How can a poem transform a life? Could poetry change the world? In this accessible volume, spoken-word stars Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley roll out the welcome mat and prove that poetry is for everyone. Whether lapsed poetry lovers, aspiring poets, or total novices, readers will learn ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A simple guide to the transformative power of reading and writing poems, from two acclaimed spoken-word artists.How can a poem transform a life? Could poetry change the world? In this accessible volume, spoken-word stars Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley roll out the welcome mat and prove that poetry is for everyone. Whether lapsed poetry lovers, aspiring poets, or total novices, readers will learn
... Read more
Writing What You Know

How to Turn Personal Experiences into Publishable Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

by Meg Files ...

It's easy for people to write about their feelings in a journal. It's more difficult, however, to convert personal experiences into stories worthy of publication-fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Filled with engaging exercises, Write from Life guides writers in identifying story-worthy material and transforming their raw material into finished pieces, through conquering fears associated with ... Read more

$1.99 USD

It's easy for people to write about their feelings in a journal. It's more difficult, however, to convert personal experiences into stories worthy of publication-fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Filled with engaging exercises, Write from Life guides writers in identifying story-worthy material and transforming their raw material into finished pieces, through conquering fears associated with
... Read more
The Best American Essays 2016

Edited by Jonathan Franzen ...

Series series The Best American Series
The National Book Award–winning author compiles a "thought-provoking volume" of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others ( Publishers Weekly).As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 "was whether an author had taken a risk." The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from ... Read more

$9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The National Book Award–winning author compiles a "thought-provoking volume" of essays by Joyce Carol Oates, Oliver Sacks, Jaquira Diaz and others ( Publishers Weekly).As Jonathan Franzen writes in his introduction, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 "was whether an author had taken a risk." The resulting volume showcases authorial risk in a variety of forms, from
... Read more
Views from the Loft

A Portable Writer's Workshop

Edited by Daniel Slager ...

"Packed with inspirational, useful, and thought-provoking essays on the craft of writing from some of the best writers around." — Minneapolis Star TribuneTeachers, exercises, mentors, critiques, humor, and inspiration: these form the fuel all writers need when they get down to work every day. For decades the Loft Literary Center has provided this fuel to an enormous community of writers. Views ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"Packed with inspirational, useful, and thought-provoking essays on the craft of writing from some of the best writers around." — Minneapolis Star TribuneTeachers, exercises, mentors, critiques, humor, and inspiration: these form the fuel all writers need when they get down to work every day. For decades the Loft Literary Center has provided this fuel to an enormous community of writers. Views
... Read more
How to Be Weird

An Off-Kilter Guide to Living a One-of-a-Kind Life

by Eric G. Wilson ...

A guidebook for beating the monotony of the everyday by purposefully cultivating the surprising joys that come from living an off-kilter lifeIt's all too easy to get caught up in the often monotonous nature of our day to day--moving from one rote task to the next, only to rinse and repeat the next day. Weirdness, however, is an easily accessible antidote to these feelings of languishing. The ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

A guidebook for beating the monotony of the everyday by purposefully cultivating the surprising joys that come from living an off-kilter lifeIt's all too easy to get caught up in the often monotonous nature of our day to day--moving from one rote task to the next, only to rinse and repeat the next day. Weirdness, however, is an easily accessible antidote to these feelings of languishing. The
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Family Resemblance

An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres

by Marcela Sulak, Jacqueline Kolosov ...

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

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
We Want It All

An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

Edited by Andrea Abi-Karam, Kay Gabriel ...

Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics as an experiment into how far literature, written from an identitarian standpoint, can go as a fellow traveler with social movements and revolutionary demands. Writing in dialogue with emancipatory political movements, the intergenerational writers assembled here imagine an altogether overturned ... Read more

$11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics as an experiment into how far literature, written from an identitarian standpoint, can go as a fellow traveler with social movements and revolutionary demands. Writing in dialogue with emancipatory political movements, the intergenerational writers assembled here imagine an altogether overturned
... Read more
Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within

A Guide for the Poet Within

by Kim Addonizio ...

This all-new book, by the co-author of Companion, invites you to discover and enjoy your poetic self.Inspired by the gratifying success of Companion, Kim Addonizio presents exciting new insights into the creative process, craft, and the lessons of her own creative subjects--love, loss, identity, community--are here, along with a heady variety of writing exercises (and innovative ways to use the ... Read more

$12.99 USD

This all-new book, by the co-author of Companion, invites you to discover and enjoy your poetic self.Inspired by the gratifying success of Companion, Kim Addonizio presents exciting new insights into the creative process, craft, and the lessons of her own creative subjects--love, loss, identity, community--are here, along with a heady variety of writing exercises (and innovative ways to use the
... Read more

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

“tc tolbert”

Gephyromania

Writing the Self-Elegy

People who read these also enjoyed

The Book of Alchemy

The Empathy Exams

How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

Writing What You Know

The Best American Essays 2016

Views from the Loft

How to Be Weird

Family Resemblance

We Want It All

Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

“tc tolbert”

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed