Rich in opinion and theory, After Confession offers the first thorough
discussion on the lyric "I"—the boundaries between literal and
emotional truth, memory and imagination, person and persona, narcissism
and revelation.
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" The Black Interior, a critical look at some of black America's
most influential cultural voices, may be another such
masterpiece....Best known for her poetry, it may be that poet's
lyricism and eye for nuance that makes this new work so compelling." —SAVOY
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"Scholar and writer Gerald Early has compiled an anthology of personal
essays from a wide-ranging group of fiction writers, poets and
academics about their own encounters with sports. The result is a rich
collection on topics as far-flung as rodeo riding, playing tennis in a
tornado and pool hustling." —Chicago Tribune
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"In nine brilliant essays, Baxter displays his characteristic wit and
intelligence as he muses about the influences of culture and politics
on the art of storytelling." —Ploughshares
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FORTHCOMING SEPTEMBER 2008
The reissue of a classic book on writing, now with two new essays and a new preface
“[The book] is a pleasure to read, and it performs an important function—by mucking around in the problems that plague contemporary fiction, Burning Down the House may spur both readers and writers first to a recognition of guilty complicity and then to constructive thought.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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"Beautifully written essays that deftly explore the act of
memoir-making and the art of storytelling. Ranging from tales of trauma
and loss to quotidian and even banal events, they probe the tension
between memory and forgetting and the mysteries of how we do each." —Library Journal
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"No poet will read this book without learning something new about the
nuances of the craft, and no critic will read it without realizing the
need for such liveliness." —Library Journal
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"Can Poetry Matter? is an important book, and anyone who professes to
care about the state of American poetry will have to take it into
account." —World Literature Today
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"Readers of Carl Phillips's poetry will have some preparation for the
pleasures and insights of this volume, particularly its subtlety,
originality, and historical range. Yet Coin of the Realm will also be
admired as a prose work that stands alone. Incisive essays on George
Herbert, the Psalms, the place of race and identity in habits of
perception and reading, and the author's growth as a writer are unified
by central questions of beauty and ethics that will be of interest to
anyone who cares about literature." —Susan Stewart
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"In these insightful essays, even the writing itself is cinematic, as
Sprengnether's memories and quick film summaries meld into one another,
making it seem as if the author hasn't just seen many movies, but has
actually lived one." —Publishers Weekly
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This moving, eighteen-month exchange of correspondence chronicles the friendship-through-the-mail
of two extraordinary writers.
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The whole of The Catcher in the Rye is in the Oxford English Dictionary, waiting to be unscrambled, and so are all the novels of our past, present, and immediate future.
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Celebrated poet and author of Can Poetry Matter? offers another bold
and insightful collection of essays on literature's changing place in
contemporary culture.
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In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine
explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century.
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"John Haines is a master writer, as we have known for years. Now this
book reveals more: a range of intelligence and affection such that I
cannot imagine any reader being unmoved by them. It is a great and
splendid book." —Hayden Carruth
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“A book of unparalleled beauty, sharpness of observation, wit, delicacy, strength of vision and rare exactness of language.” —The Daily Telegraph
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"Here is an essayist who fears nothing." —Andrei Codrescu
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"Kenyon writes prose the way she writes poetry, turning simple or
frankly unbeautiful things sideways and inviting us to see what they
offer us to love." —The New Yorker
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A witty and fiercely original book about poetry, the body, and the life
of the artist by a poet whose writing "refuses to cut emotional corners
and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution" (Seamus Heaney).
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"Goldbarth marries emotions, thoughts, and events we never thought to
see in proximity to one another; through his genius we rediscover the
world's history and our own. No one else now is writing what Albert
Goldbarth gives us because no one else can." —Frederick Busch
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"A challenging collection of essays that demonstrate the vitality of
those on the margin—women and people of color—and reassert the value of
multi-ethnicity on America's intellectual landscape" —Seattle Times
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"An empathetic writer who can do justice to simple happiness and complicated
love." —Ms.
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“In these crisp, sharp-edged essays David Treuer dares to question the usefulness, let alone the validity, of the term ‘Native American Fiction.’” —Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Grey, Jr. Professor Emeritus of English Yale University
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An innovative and engaging nonfiction debut by “an original new voice” ( Publishers Weekly) and the second winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.
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"Reading in it is like taking a leisurely stroll through the history of
writing in New York City alongside a brilliant local historian who is
as droll and sharp as he is learned." —Russell Banks
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"Readers, listen up, then: Here is a book that makes some beautiful music." —Publishers
Weekly, starred review
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“You may never again see the American West in quite the same way if you take the time to view it through the eyes of William Kittredge.” —Seattle Times
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"Grover writes movingly of the North Country in the fine tradition of
Sigurd Olson and Aldo Leopold. Hers is a voice to be listened to, and,
frankly, she is one of the most gifted new writers to come along in
years." —John Murray
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" Northern Waters is my favorite kind of fishing book: part
memoir, part history, and all engaging commentary on what makes
fishermen the way we are. It is also a splendid celebration of the
north woods and their often imperiled magic." —Paul Schullery
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"A provocative collection of 19 edgy essays that reflect 19 unique
visions. . . . The overarching recognition that emerges from this
compelling forum is that the one home these insightful writers, and
their grateful readers, can count on is literature." —Booklist
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