The Wichita Poems
Author: Michael Van Walleghen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780252005701
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Van Walleghen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780252005701
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Headley
Publisher:
Published: 1996-12-01
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9781888219043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thad Ziolkowski
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1609458907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A wild rumpus of a book . . . an exuberant American tale of brothers wrestling demons and each other on opposite poles of their grab bag of a family” (PANK Magazine). Lewis Chopik has just graduated from Columbia University. Having been dumped by his girlfriend and in flight from the pressures exerted by his ambitious professor father, Lewis returns to Wichita in search of respite at the home of his New-Ager mother, Abby. But when Abby picks Lewis up from the airport, she reveals that she’s starting a storm-chasing business and indulging a polyamorous lifestyle. Another unexpected arrival is Seth, Lewis’s bipolar younger brother, who shows off a new tattoo on his chest: In Loving Memory of Seth Chopik. Things begin to resemble the land of Oz more than Wichita when Lewis, while minding Seth, joins Abby in the Flint Hills on a storm-chase with her first client. “[An] honest and raw look at brotherhood and what it means to rediscover your family.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “The world of Wichita is rich, subtle, and funny, . . . This is a truly striking novel.”—Sam Lipsyte, New York Times–bestselling author “Wichita is a novel about expectations and outcomes, about what is open and what is veiled. Its emotional terrain is touching and vast.” —The New York Times Book Review “Ziolkowski’s humor and trenchant observations make for startlingly gorgeous (and often hilarious) prose even in the midst of emergencies.” —Interview Magazine “[A] sparkling debut . . . There’s never a dull moment in a novel which fires us up with snappy and often very funny dialogue.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author: Michael Van Walleghen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004-05-12
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780252071782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The title of Michael Van Walleghen's new collection evokes thematic preoccupations that have shadowed him throughout his long career. Appearing as a phrase in the poems themselves, In the Black Window more generally points to Van Walleghen's enduring interest in the intersection between inner and outer worlds of experience--those liminal moments in other worlds where we become aware of ourselves. We live at once in a strictly personal, material dimension but also in a distinctly spiritual one. Yet, when looking from a lighted kitchen into a night-black window on a winter evening, we might perhaps become suddenly aware not only of our own reflection, but also of our complicity in some deeper mystery altogether.
Author: Danny Caine
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2020-03-03
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1948742772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A charming and accessible collection of poems dedicated to one of the most American of inventions--fast food. El Dorado Freddy's may be the first book of fast-food poetry. In poems like "Olive Garden," "Culver's," "Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen," "Cracker Barrel," "Applebee's (after James Wright)," Caine--owner of the Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas--"reviews" chain restaurants, bringing our attention to a slice of American life we often overlook, even though it's everywhere. Along the way, he touches on such topics as parenting, the Midwest, politics, and the pitfalls of nostalgia. Caine's wry, deceptively accomplished poems are paired with Tara Wray's color-drenched photos. The result is a literary yet goofy homage to American food and identity, set in a midwestern landscape dotted by the light of fast-food restaurants' glowing signs. Perfect for those readers who love both poetry and Popeye's.
Author: Michael Van Walleghen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010-10-01
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0252092724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The title of Michael Van Walleghen's new collection evokes thematic preoccupations that have shadowed him throughout his long career. Appearing as a phrase in the poems themselves, In the Black Window more generally points to Van Walleghen's enduring interest in the intersection between inner and outer worlds of experience--those liminal moments in other worlds where we become aware of ourselves. We live at once in a strictly personal, material dimension but also in a distinctly spiritual one. Yet, when looking from a lighted kitchen into a night-black window on a winter evening, we might perhaps become suddenly aware not only of our own reflection, but also of our complicity in some deeper mystery altogether.
Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher: Wave Books
Published: 2006-05-01
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1933517034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An exquisite art book of gentle and elegant found poetry.
Author: William Stanley Merwin
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 155659139X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reintroduces the out-of-print works of one of this century's greatest American poets.
Author: Gene Stone
Publisher:
Published: 1995-02
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780671519520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After a terrifying incident of child abuse, Ruth Finley, as an adult, suffers from suicidal depression and dissociative behavior.