Poetry. "The phrase 'Russian novel' suggests thickness, density, and richness. All those terms apply to Cantwell's poetry or, more precisely, to the life in the poems. These are active pieces that plunge into the thick of things and pulse with motion, regardless of whether the setting is past or present. They show as they describe or recollect, and they don't recollect in any apparent tranquility or with regret. 'A late cousin speaks,' walking and talking the life of addiction--the needle, coffee, cannabis, the white rock--that culminates in the recognition of happiness, however sordid, however self-isolating. Old friends reconnect at a convention's hotel bar, last to be seated and staying so far beyond closing that the management gives them an unsubtle hint, 'and yet we linger.' Three poems realize incidents from the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, a big paragraph of which is this book's epigraph. Poems on the deaths of artists and friends, even when they're very long gone, indeed--see 'Marlowe in Italy'--hail their subjects' follies and vices equally with their achievements. This is poetry teeming with light, darkness, color, movement, heat, cold, sound, and silence. Reading it is like watching a complicated, demanding movie or, in full consciousness, life--Ray Olson, Booklist.

One of Those Russian Novels

Literature & Fiction

Cantwell, Kevin

United States

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If you want your child to succeed in youth basketball, you can’t be just a spectator. Get involved—the right way—and help him or her prepare for games at the high school and college levels.  In the Parent’s Guide to Youth Basketball and Beyond, authors Kevin Cantwell and Pat Alacqua offer their coaching and parenting expertise, outlining the role parents need to take, providing information and history on youth basketball in the United States, highlighting the pitfalls of the US system, and showing you how to gain access to the resources needed to most effectively help your child.  Cantwell, who spent his career coaching at the college level, pulls back the veil and shows curious readers exactly how the recruitment process for college basketball works, how to recognize and develop their children’s most important skills, and how to best showcase their children’s talent.  The current youth basketball system in the United States is not tailored to help individual children reach their full potential. The responsibility to research and plan for success, therefore, rests on parents and family members. Cantwell and Alacqua’s step-by-step instructions will help you effectually shape and support your child’s journey.

Parent's Guide to Youth Basketball and Beyond: How to Navigate Your Child's Path to College Basketball

Parenting & Relationships

Alacqua, Pat

Parenting

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Poetry. "So focused, so distilled the articulation of these poems-the details of country matters so strangely noticed, the dreams so strongly nourished-that initially we are at a loss (though quite happy to be there) to know what to make of this new diction..Though spoken out of a solitude and into one, Cantwell's fresh-cut verses achieve a sort of community of perception, 'untethered from familiar darkness,' as the poet says. This new poet says it all. Anew" -Richard Howard.

Something Black in the Green Part of Your Eye (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

Poetry

New Issues Poetry and Prose

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