Photographing Eden: Poems (Hollis Summers Poetry Prize)

Winner of the 2008 Hollis Summers Poetry PrizePhotographing Eden presents the first full-length collection of poems by a major new talent. The work meditates on several ideas, the crux of which is Eden: spirituality, environmentalism, and the relationships between men and women. Observing,   often through the lens of a camera, our state in the world, the poems try to focus sharply on what often seems a blur. The poems are always attentive to artistic mediums and the craft behind them because our struggle is to make something perfect in the imperfect world in which we live, while acknowledging the impossibility of that quest. Gray’s poems range all over, from adventures in Egyptian ruins with machine-gun-toting tourist police to the western edge of the foggy Irish coastline, and to the mythic past, where Adam and Eve visit a zoo and Eden has become a nature preserve.

Literature & Fiction

Gray, Jason

Poetry

Ohio University Press

“Jason Gray’s How to Paint the Savior Dead rethinks the complex traditional connections among women’s bodies, spirituality, and art. Gray is not afraid of hard work, hard thought, and big vision just because the subject of his fascination has been both exalted and besmirched by tradition, both enriched and impoverished by the hands of our predecessors. Gray throws himself into the mix of muses, amore, and immortality with more―much more―than common wit, passion, and intelligence. As he separates out mortal beauty from immortal, he ignores, as one of his poems says, ‘what is heavenly for what is Heaven.’” ― Andrew Hudgins “Jason Gray ends his sequence ‘Meditations of the Tomb Painters’ with the lines: ‘Here is my heart in paint, a stowaway / Inside the art that only God would see.’ And indeed, in all of Gray’s work there is a sense that the heart, the faithful and abiding heart, is best (and most safely) transported via the artifice of poetry. From the heart-wrenching, blank-verse ekphrastic ‘My Daughter as the Angel Gabriel . . .’ to the heartily clever nonce ‘You Put Your Right Hand In. . . ,’ this is work that is always worshipful of its medium.” ― Kathy Fagan “The ekphrastic poems in How to Paint the Savior Dead celebrate and enact the power of words to exhume a living body―a human’s or a god’s―from the stilled depths of the painted image. Jason Gray, a chiaroscurist drawn to the drama at the border between light and dark, the seen and the hidden, and the sacred and the profane, writes wisely, wryly, wonderfully, and, at times, wickedly about the ‘common beauty’ of the quotidian and the ‘mundane miracle’ of the divine.” ― Eric Pankey

How to Paint the Savior Dead (Wick Chapbook Series 4)

The Kent State University Press

Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo

Dream Horse Press

Ten years in the making, Radiation King, the second full-length collection by poet Jason Gray, takes us to the beginning and the possible futures of the atomic world we created at the start of the twentieth century. In a time when the Cold War has heated back up, his intense lyric poems engage a past filled with Civil Defense and radioactive quack cures and a future that could bring a radioactive wasteland or limitless energy. Gray?s poems explore the world from the smallest atom of hydrogen to the giant Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula and find that the only thing that will save us is love for one another.

Radiation King

Lost Horse Press

UPDATED and EXPANDED 2nd Edition. The Epic U.S. History Review Book was written with students in mind by an AP teacher that finds it fun, fascinating, and exciting to teach. A chief complaint often heard of most commercial review books is that they're too long and that it's almost like reading the textbook over again. This book is straight-forward, to the point, and informative. It covers the full range of U.S. History chronologically as well as provides sections on important themes and topics. We trust that you will find it useful, engaging and even entertaining. The Epic Review book will help your test date be an Era of Good Feelings and not a Trail of Tears!

Epic U.S. History Review Book

Test Preparation

College & High School

Independently published

After the events of INFINITE CRISIS, the city of Blüdhaven was destroyed when the Secret Society of super-villains dropped a giant, toxic villain named Chemo into the heart of the city. 
When mysterious levels of radiation are detected, the Teen Titans, Green Lantern and other super-heroes must go to Blüdhaven to uncover the source. The fate of the city hinges on the heroes solving this mystery, and winning their battle with a secret government agency called SHADE!

Crisis Aftermath: The Battle for Bludhaven

Comics & Graphic Novels

Palmiotti, Jimmy

Graphic Novels

DC Comics

The Epic U.S. History Review Book was written with students in mind by an AP teacher that finds it fun, fascinating, and exciting to teach. A chief complaint often heard of most commercial review books is that they're too long and that it's almost like reading the textbook over again. This book is straight-forward, to the point, and informative. It covers the full range of U.S. History chronologically as well as provides sections on important themes and topics. There are writing tips and sample essays included as well. We trust that you will find it useful, engaging and even entertaining. May your test date be an Era of Good Feelings and not a Trail of Tears!

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Building on the information presented in volume I, this book/CD-ROM guide covers the most challenging elements of 3D Studio MAX, with some 50 step-by-step tutorials, real-world examples, and advice from experienced users. Contains sections on advanced modeling, character modeling, material and texture mapping, production animation techniques, and video post. The CD-ROM contains exercise and example files, still and animated texture maps, a shareware graphics browser, and many demos. Assumes previous experience with the software. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Inside 3d Studio Max

Computers & Technology

Minton, Larry

Vernon, Andrew

Maestri, George

Peterson, Michael Todd

Andersen, Joshua R.

Frantz, Ralph

Greene, Jason

Greenleir, Eric

Harbison, William

Kakert, Paul

Kennedy, Sanford

Kreitzman, Randy

Lamb, Bob

Miguel, Jesse K.

Neil, Michael J.

Peterson, Eric C.

Robertson, Ken Allen

Ruffo, Jarod

Sawyer, Jonathan

Silverthorne, Adam

Steel, Lee

Espinosa-Aguilar, Dave

Programming

New Riders Pub

Situated in Central Africa, the nation of Gabon is a vibrant and mysterious place full of rich history, diverse culture, and stunning biodiversity. In the midst of the African rainforest, a Peace Corps volunteer from Montana is thrust into a new life of adventure and discovery. From close encounters with forest elephants to classroom teaching challenges, this vivid retelling of one man’s experiences takes readers on an extraordinary journey through daily life, cultural events, and ongoing conservation efforts, and shares his love affair with a country that will forever own a piece of his heart. An enthralling account of life in Gabon, particularly around the Ndougou Lagoon, this new book by Jason Gray leaves us with a powerful impression of having shared in his experiences. Gray’s underlying reverence for Gabon and its people comes out strongly in this recounting of his three years of work there with the Peace Corps and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF International), and shows the importance of understanding other cultures while enhancing individual awareness of the global community. Glimpses through the Forest: Memories of Gabon is an engaging read for eco and cultural travel enthusiasts, conservationists, nature lovers, and other adventure seekers.

Glimpses through the Forest: Memories of Gabon

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Peace Corps Writers

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