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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A beloved poet captures the beauty that attention to the public and private offersIn his latest collection, Dobby Gibson explores the strangeness of the everyday with fresh urgency, inviting us to reawaken and reclaim our fuller selves. Hold Everything moves at the speed of breaking news as it makes a plea for grace in a world running short on mercy. Its epistolary poems put us in correspondence with Edo-period poets and 1980s hair-metal gods, artificial intelligence and hotel soaps. Gibson's poems remain on alert, demonstrating the many ways a deeper attention to the marvels and horrors of the contemporary world can form a kind of civil disobedience.Hold Everything gathers up the harbingers of our turbulent world as it reaches for hope and evinces wonder.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From a 'brilliant, one-of-a-kind maestro' (Booklist), a vibrant tapestry of memoir, research, and criticismAgain, today, if I must choose between love and memory, I choose memory.What would you risk to know yourself Which stories are you willing to follow to the bitter end, revise, or, possibly, begin all over In this collection of five interrelated essays, Lucy Ives explores identity, national fantasy, and history. She examines events and records from her own life-a childhood obsession with My Little Pony, papers and not Elektronisches Buch from college, an unwitting inculcation into the myth of romantic love, and the birth of her son-to excavate larger aspects of the past that have been suppressed or ignored. With bracing insight and extraordinary range, she weaves new stories about herself, her family, our country, and our culture. She connects postmodern irony to eighteenth-century cults, Cold War musicals to a great uncle's suicide to the settlement of the American West, museum period rooms to the origins of her last name to the Assyrian genocide, and the sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem to the development of modern obstetrics. Here Ives retrieves shadowy sites of pain and fear and, with her boundless imagination, attentiveness, and wit, transforms them into narratives of repair and possibility.…