Crucial Conversations: Interpreting Contemporary American Literary Autobiographies by Women (Athene Series)

Literature & Fiction

Braham, Jeanne

History & Criticism

Teachers College Pr

More than 40 examples of women's life writings - including memoirs, journals, letters and essays - are analyzed in this volume. Concentrating on the writer's use of metaphor and image in these narratives and the reader's empathic engagement, it explores examples from the work of familiar writers.

A Sort of Columbus: The American Voyages of Saul Bellow's Fiction

University of Georgia Press

Few of the 65 million dog owners in the United States would dispute the notion that a dog's presence in their lives nurtures emotional and physical well-being. But for some people with disabilities, the presence of a highly trained assistance dog in their lives is utterly transformative. Another Language focuses on one year in the life of the NEADS/Dogs For Deaf and Disabled Americans program in north-central Massachusetts, one of the oldest and largest assistance dog training centers in the U.S. Through profiles that celebrate the healing bonds between service dogs and their people, these oral histories backed by the power of photographs bring to life the stories of sixteen people who have worked with NEADS. Through these stories told in their own words, you'll meet an Iraq war veteran, people who use wheelchairs or who have balance problems due to debilitating disease, trainers who raise service puppies and others who work with NEADS' human clients, and more. Writer/interviewer Jeanne Braham, along with photographer Robert Floyd, portray these human/canine partnerships in a way that's respectful, compassionate, and compelling.

Another Language: Portraits of Assistance Dogs and Their People

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Bauhan Publishing

Castine, Maine, writes Jeanne Braham, is the place to both begin and to end an exploration of the life and work of the poet Philip Booth. Home to five generations of the Booth family, the coastal town was both working harbor and artists' retreat, and Booth belonged as much to the craggy localsdockworkers, boat builders, and fishermen who weathered its harsh wintersas to the literary luminaries who gathered there in summertime.His poems came to depend, in immediate and sensory ways, on the geography of coastal Maine and the activities associated with living there: rowing boats, navigating through thick fog that obscured normal landmarks, recording the talk of wharf workers, splitting wood and methodically stacking it, writes Braham, who locates Booth's cadence, subject matter, and themes in the people, landscape, and history of Castine.Mentored by Robert Frost and a close friend of Robert Lowell, Booth was an anchor for a circle of writers who gravitated to the mid-Maine coast for short and long visitsLowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Mary McCarthy, W. S. Merwin, and Maxine Kumin among themand Braham's recountings of their friendships and escapades open a window into a tremendously exciting time in late twentieth-century poetry.Through research, careful readings of Booth's poetry, and interviews with his family and friends, Available Light offers an intimate and intelligent look into the life and writing of a major twentieth-century poet, one whose incandescent poems deserve to live and be shared.Table of ContentsIntroductionFirst LessonsNot to Tell LiesHeading OutCodaEnd NotesSelected ReadingsAcknowledgments

Available Light: Philip Booth and the Gift of Place

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Men and Manners in America: (Volume 2) (Travel in America)

History

Americas

Applewood Books

Since the death of Robert Frost, American poetry has seen few major poets create important work in their seventh decade and beyond. Yet today Donald Hall (77), Richard Wilbur (85), Maxine Kumin (81), and, until last year, Stanley Kunitz (100) continue to move from strength to strength. Each has published a new book in the past year and collected further accolades, including the Harvard Arts Medal (awarded to Kumin) and the Ruth Lilly Prize (awarded to Wilbur). These are poets who bear, in individual and collective ways, the imprint of Frost's legacy: a clear commitment to form; a belief that, "like a piece of ice on a hot stove, a poem must ride on its own melting"; a willingness, even an eagerness, to assume the role of poet-as-witness. Perhaps most appealingly, their poems capture a corner of New England imbued with a spirit that is both of the place and of the poet. Against the backdrop of a dark world, all four create poems that are illumined from within, holding a vision of human possibility steady in the light. Each poet-profile in The Light Within the Light is based on intimate personal interviews and explores the landscapes, lives, and artistic achievements of the poet. Several poems are woven into each essay, allowing the reader to experience the poet's world in his or her own words. Since the paths of the four poets cross frequently, the essays "converse" with one another, layering the narrative. Detailed informational endnotes and a list of selected readings cite primary and secondary sources of interest for each poet, making the book useful to the lay reader and literary specialist alike. The book design is by Barry Moser, one of New England's favorite artists and a wood engraver sensitive to poets and their works. He provides a full-page portrait of each of the four poets as well as spot illustrations of great beauty and charm.

The Light Within the Light: Portraits of Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin, and Stanley Kunitz

David R. Godine, Publisher

Contains first-person accounts from activists, community artists, doctors and couple whose lives have been directly affected.

Starry Starry Night: Provincetown's Response to the AIDS Epidemic

Medical Books

Peterson, Pamela

Medicine

Brookline Books

An extraordinary book about artisans of the Pioneer Valley who use traditional tools and techniques.

Made by Hand: Art and Craft in the Heartland of New England

Arts & Photography

Commonwealth Editions

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