Scott withiam (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. Condition Notes: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

perfect. Zustand: Very Good. Softcover. Bound in matte pictorial wrap. Cover is neat and clean. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. 172 pages. Fairleigh Dickinson University. Copyright page dated 2014. A very nice copy. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it's properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Strange, you Googled waste management facility in search of recent developments in that industrial art and came upon this book. It's poetry. And you're reading it. Might it be that the range of poems in Waste Management Facility (WMF) lend voice to industry's working-class families who feel unheard or forgotten or quietly suffer So artfully staggered, so particular in their annotated moments, the poems . declare 'it could only have been this way.' Scott Withiam finds surprise in the ordinary and, by finding it, attaches the extra-. His syntax creates a steady live vibration as he assesses the damages found in family and the scrabble of the working life. -Sven Birkerts, author of The Miro Worm and the Mysteries of Writing. a sustained engagement . that produces wonder after surreal wonder. ('No words, just bubbles./ And what did that make me A greasy dumpster raccoon/ feeling around for a clam underwater.') Quirky and quizzical, familiar and strange at once, Withiam's poems raise the kind of questions that refresh and restore the potential for meaning-making. -Richard Hoffman, author of People Once Real . a keen observer of . what we like to call 'reality.' . Withiam . demands both outward skepticism and internal contemplation, and in the end sends the reader into the downward (or upward) spiral of the detritus of 'seeing-is-believing.' -Gian Lombardo, Director, Quale Press and Editor-in-Chief, Solstice Literary Magazine . what distinguishes Waste Management Facility is the poet's portrayal of working-class employment-the temp jobs, multiple shifts, and abusive bosses that are a fact of life for so many Americans. Read these poems . because they are, simply, so damn good, their language and music rooted in what Whitman called the permanent flowing. -Clare M. Rossini, author of Lingo . For Scott Withiam, the past is the present, and it's peopled by those looking after their best interests, striving and stumbling. His compassion is steady and so is his streetwise eye. His poems offer 'delight / considering the strange gifts I'd bring, / if allowed to visit.' I'd let him in if I were you.-Ron Slate, author of Joy Ride.…

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | In Scott Withiam's Doors Out of the Underworld, marvelous things occur: a pear talks to a man and a woman talks to a book. German restaurants dissolve into empty lots and surf clams teach life lessons. His magic touch shines a stark beam into our lives which illuminates both the pains and pleasures of growing older, of discovering more than we knew was there or perhaps wanted to know. -John Skoyles.…