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The marvelous bones of time
Brenda Coultas unearths the eccentricities and tragedies that congregate along humanity’s borders.Incorporating memoir, folktales, fact, and hearsay into two distinctly moving poems, this collection begins with “The Abolition Journal,” set near the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, and along the Ken...
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Screaming monkeys
Art, fiction, poetry and essays critiquing Asian and Asian American images in media, government, and popular culture.
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Collisions and transformations
Using chant-rhythm beats to create layers of harmony and meaning, Simon weaves poetry from jazz, sex, and geography.
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The mirror of monsters and prodigies
Eminently human and ultimately joyful, The Mirror of Monsters and Prodigies is a compelling novel full of humor, pathos, revulsion, and love. Mixing fact and imagination, this fictional oral history about “human oddities” includes figures such as Aesop, Catherine the Great, Tom Thumb, and Jo-Jo T...
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Minnesota state fair
A lavishly illustrated, fun-filled history of the Minnesota State Fair complete with Blue Ribbon recipes!
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Teducation
A much-awaited collection of poems by one of the greatest African American Beat poets.Black Dues! Black Blues! Black News! Ted Joans trumpets in his tribute to Langston Hughes. What Library Journal wrote in 1969 holds true today: This collection of his work clearly reveals the influence of Langst...
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Pages from a scrapbook of immigrants
Fifty-six narrative poems tell the story of the author's family's migration from Czarist Russia to the United States.
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Green is for world
A National Poetry Series selection chosen by Ange Mlinko, these are virtuosic lyrics for the visionaries among us.
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Unfinished building
Toby Olson considers poetry no less than good talk about important things. With imagery as accessible as the most ordinary of birds and the commonest weather, he performs an alchemy of language. Unfinished Building shows us it is the details that make up a life, that hold the clues to meaning.
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Savings
"Rather than painting a picture of Indian life, Linda Hogan resurrects its symbols and uses them in new ways. The power of the scorpion or the elk in Hogan's work comes...form her orchestrating of these images. This book is startling."--Hungry Mind Review
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The steel veil
Aging, 1940s Brooklyn, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict haunt these elegiac, passionate poems.Soulfully introspective and viscerally engaged, Marshall’s poetry weds timely depictions of Middle Eastern widows “behind veils heavy / as the steel / veil of empire” with timeless expressions of per...
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Bring us the old people
Maimie hid from Hitler during the Holocaust, and from her guilt ever since. A brilliant debut!
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The old ballerina
Dancers and the dance—and the obsession that drives artists to create.In her third novel, Ellen Cooney tells a story about the creative process, and about how art can and must happen anywhere and everywhere—including a small mill town, outside the academy and outside the confines of the art insti...
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Ripple effect
"Deft, delicate, subversive, and more quotable than any American poet who comes to mind."--August Kleinzahler
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Friends in the world
"Friends in the World reminds us how much we need each other to truly be ourselves."--L.A. Reader¶". . . a thoughtful self-depiction of a budding writer of the sixties as well as sympathetic portraits of fellow literary figures such as Ted Berrigan, Allen Ginsberg, and Tom Clark."--Library Journal
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Floating kingdom
A passionate border story involving drug smuggling, illegal immigrants, family, love, and honor.
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Paul metcalf
This volume completes the collected works of an American genius that Coffee House has helped rediscover.
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Errançities
Award-winning poet, Hollywood author, and Miles Davis confidante Quincy Troupe evokes a sheer love of invention.
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The banquet
The complete plays, including never before published work, from one of the major writers of the twentieth century.Kenneth Koch was a prominent American poet of the New York School and one of America’s most diversely talented writers. The Banquet celebrates his work as an avant-garde playwright, g...
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Pretentiousness
Pretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.
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Empty pockets
Easy Rider short fictiongritty, unsparing snapshots of just getting by in barrooms and diners on the margins of 1970s America.
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Streaming
An award-winning poet considers loss, memory, and the fate of the planet.
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Collected poems
Fifty years of poems and wry insight celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth century American poetry.
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Expect delays
From a New York schoolmaster, wide-ranging poems that eyeball mortality with rare equilibrium, appreciating life's richness and inevitable griefs.
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The artist's library
A guide to libraries as creative spaces including exercises, best practices, and examples for artists, librarians, and community members.Creativity, like information, is free to everyone who steps into a library. An offshoot of the Library as Incubator Project, The Artist’s Library offers that an...
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You animal machine
A memoir of Melena, five times married, mother, burlesque dancer, and “the hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails.”This is the tale of Melena, five times married, mother of three, burlesque dancer, and “the toughest, hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails.” Located in hi...
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The abyss of human illusion
The final novel from the postmodern American master.Titled after a line from Henry James, The Abyss of Human Illusion consists of fifty narrative set pieces full of savage humor and cathartic passion—an elegiac paean to the bleak world Gilbert Sorrentino so brilliantly captured in his long and st...
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Horse, flower, bird
Eight marvelous, melancholy new fairy tales for daring readers.
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American visa
1996 Book for the Teen Age, The New York Public Library. Seaweed's story, from Maoist China to her New York emigration. "In this first collection of 11 linked stories, the intimate drama of one traditional Chinese family plays against the
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Before elvis there was nothing
With joyful and satirical irreverence, Laurie Foos navigates the wild terrain of our beauty-obsessed culture.
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The annotated "here" and selected poems
A retrospective of this challenging New York School / Language poet’s life work in poetry, The Annotated “Here” features poems in sequences that meditate on words and sentences, as well as on themes found in existing texts of poems and paintings. Welish’s poems blur the lines between art criticis...
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The moon in its flight
A series of miniature masterpieces sealing Gilbert Sorrentino’s reputation as the master of American avant-garde fiction.Bearing his trademark balance between exquisitely detailed narration, groundbreaking form, and sharp insight into modern life, Gilbert Sorrentino’s first-ever collection of sto...
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Boarded windows
Almost Famous meets Portnoy’s Complaint: A record store clerk in search of his origins confronts his con-man father figure.
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Taking the wall
A behind-the-scenes look at the fans and heroes of auto racing—their dreams and obsessions.As the engines roar and the green flag waves, these stories tear across their rural landscape with the energy of a Winston Cup race. Like W.P. Kinsella’s minor league ballplayers, Jonis Agee’s drivers, pit ...
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How to leave a country
A PEN/Nelson Algren award winner, this intensely absorbing first novel of an artist told by his lover questions accepted notions of love, reality, and imagination. "A portrait of the artist as a young man in our times. Highly recommended."--Library Journal "Engaging and innovative."--Publishers W...
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It was today
Andrei Codrescu's new work is the perfect tonic for America's political, literary, and cultural hangovers.
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Anime wong
Giant foam rubber sushi and cyborg kungfu fighters populate performances that reflect questions of gender, identity, orientalism, and racial politics.
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Necessary distance
This first collected essays of a National Book Award finalist for Poetry is a portrait of the artist's rise to prominence in American letters.
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For keepsies
"A nostalgic trip through American culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s . . . . Draft dodging, the nuclear threat, and Martin Luther King, Jr. are among the major issues evoked, but the stories also vividly depict the popular culture of an era."--Library Journal
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Find the girl
A poetic exposé of girlhood, obsession, and the CSI industry.
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Joe: a memoir of joe brainard
Ron Padgett remembers the life and times of his friend, the brilliant artist Joe Brainard.
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Paul metcalf
The first of three comprehensive volumes to present the lifetime work of Paul Metcalf, one of the Black Mountain Writers.
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So recently rent a world
A poetry selection that follows the upswell, downfall, and wake of 41 years of wrestling the muse.
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Sông i sing
A rhapsodic exploration of immigration, race, and class by Vietnamese American phenom and National Poetry Slam star Bao Phi.
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The pink institution
Beautiful and violent, spare and ominous, this wholly original novel explodes mythologies of Southern femininity.In a multigenerational family saga that captures the rich beauty and passionate despair of the land and its inhabitants, The Pink Institution is a riveting, visceral novel written in a...
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Gorgeous chaos: new and selected poems: 1965-2001
A major collection that evocatively explores science and ecology, progress and compassion.
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Red suburb
Like a gay Wonder Years, Red Suburb is a poignant collection of memory, love, and longing.
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Dancing on main street
Scintillating, cinematic poems synthesize the irony, absurdity, and passions of American life.A major figure in the Black Arts Movement and a founding member of the Umbra workshop, Lorenzo Thomas is one of the most heralded authors of his generation. Dancing on Main Street, Thomas’s long-awaited ...
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Sesame
1994 National Book Critic's Circle Award for Poetry nominee and winner of the PEN Center USA/West Literary Award for Poetry, 1994. "Marshall's . . . meticulously selected words hit their target dead center while readers are still caught up in the atmosphere he so beautifully paints."--Publishers ...
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Acts of love on indigo road
In this stellar collection, Jonis Agee explores all the detours on the crooked road of love.
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