university of pittsburgh press feb 2012 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Looking for The Gulf Motel offers a genealogy of the heart: how Blanco's family's emotional legacy has shaped--and continues shaping--his Latino identity, sexual identity, and understanding of the big questions of life and death.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Animal Eye employs pastoral motifs to engage a discourse on life and love, as Coal Hill Review states 'It is as if a scientist is at work in the basement of the museum of natural history, building a diorama of an entire ecosystem via words. She seems not only interested in using the natural world as a metaphoric lens in her poems but is set on building them item by item into natural worlds themselves.' Winner of the 2013 Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas Voted one of the five best poetry collections for 2012 by Publishers Weekly.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the 1996 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. To author Edith Pearlman, 'The stories in Vaquita aim at an intimacy between writer and reader. That imagined reader wants to know who loves whom, who drinks what, and, mostly, who answers to what summons. Thank Heavens for Spike Lee! Before his movies writers and critics had to natter about moral stances; now I can say with a more tripping tongue that my characters are people in peculiar circumstances, aching to Do The Right Thing if only they can figure out what The Right Thing is. If not, they'll at least Do Their Own Right Thing Right.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sanders examines the rise of environmental activism in Seattle amidst the 'urban crisis' of the 1960s and its aftermath. Seattle's activists came to influence everything from industry to politics, planning, and global environmental movements.