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Basinski, Michael

Poetry

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<p>Three stories from Gina Apostol, Eric Gamalinda, and Lara Stapleton.</p>

The Thirdest World: 3 Stories by Filipino Writers

Apostol, Gina

Stapleton, Lara

Gamalinda, Eric

Cultural Writing. Education. Anarchism. Elizabeth Byrne Ferm (1857-1944) was principal of the Modern School at Stelton, a utopian-anarchist colony in New Jersey. Stating that "Education, free from outer interference, would flow as normally through human life as the sun, moon and stars move on their way and so fulfill their use and destiny," Ferm proposes an educative practice distinct from pedagogy, one where the task of the educator is to get out of the way of the self-directed child. If at first this book seems addressed only to young teachers or parents, consider the first sentence: "If human life had been left free to reveal itself, there would be no need to consider the question of education."

Freedom in Education

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Ferm, Elizabeth Byrne

Psychology & Counseling

Fiction. Set in the red light district of Athens in the late 1980s, NIKE is a dark modern retelling of the story of the goddess of Victory. Maya Brennan returns to Athens after a trip to the Middle East to find that her boyfriend Jezz is dead, their money is gone, and their roommate has disappeared. Haunted by images of Jezz, and beset with memories exultant and brutal, Maya is drawn again into a violent and surreal subculture of hotel running and passport trafficking.

Nike

Hoffman, Cara

Fiction. THE WEDDING is a book of short stories in which a crime-scene reporter is confronted by a talking dog, prisoners of war are forced to keep bees, mice ponder the ethics of their educational system, and a little girl passes herself off as a retired feather-weight boxer. "To read Hoffman's stories is to stumble through the looking glass into a gothic pastoral, a world of such beauty ans menace that you scarcely recognize it as your own. Like Ambrose Bierce and Shirly Jackson, Hoffman has rediscovered America. Welcome Home" - Annia Ciezadlo.

The Wedding and Other Stories

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Cultural Writing. Politics. Shor's incisive commentaries and essays survey the spectacles that have come to dominate the political and cultural landscape of Bushwhacked America. "Combining an academic's careful research and a political activist's quest for justice, Shor speaks plainly and speaks with passion in these essays that analyze the political and cultural crisis of the contemporary United States"--Robert Jensen, author of Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity. "Shor really helps us to understand how we got into the current mess and what might be done to create a much more humane future. He encourages us to leave illusions behind and get on with confronting grim realities of this era"--Norman Solomon, Author of War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. Fran Shor, a Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, teaches historical and cultural studies at Wayne State University.

Bush-League Spectacles: Empire, Politics, and Culture in Bushwhacked America

Politics & Social Sciences

Shor, Fran

Social Sciences

Poetry. YESTERDAY'S NEWS, the second full-length book from Taylor Brady, notates the year 2003, offering one poem a day for that violence-ridden year. Not entirely "poems against the war" (though not not that), these are poems up against the war, testing against that limit the scattered prospects for a daily life of love and sex, work, the Oakland school system, insects, infants, Sun Ra, Melville, container shipping and the fossil record. In these poems, the open question is whether a poet who is the subject of empire can speak anything besides the imperial decree. "It seems/the digging in drives engines of/siege, not the reverse, no matter how/you beep with crisis rolling back."

Yesterday's News

Brady, Taylor

Poetry. Reprint of the 1996 Meow press edition. Standing at the crossroads of New York School immediacy, high linguistic theory, radical Left politics, and Objectivist prosody, Ron Silliman's XING wants to make a deal with your poetic soul.

Xing

Silliman, Ron

Literary Nonfiction. Cultural Studies. "Although the prevailing winds of thought continually warn and admonish us about the unreliability of narratives and narrators and the need to distrust them, all of the texts collected here are stories, in one form or another. But, very importantly, they are also stories about stories that never give up this very basic and ancient rite of passage, in which any story is, at the very least, also a commentary about itself. What had been a very deep conflict ('if the poetry comes out in a variety of forms, there is always certain punishment for the betrayal of one form by another,' as Morgan once wrote) finds resolution in the range and variety of the writing gathered here: stories, fable like pieces, fieldwork, anthropological investigation, literary criticism, scholarly research, reportage, and poetry"—from the afterword by Ammiel Alcalay.

Circles and Boundaries

Morgan, Kate

History & Criticism

Poetry. The latest short volume of poetry from San Francisco bookseller and human rights advocate Sarah Menefee. Widely published in journals and magazines in Europe and the US, Menefee is the author of two full-length books of poetry and several short volumes. HUMAN STAR, her latest work, touches upon former themes of struggle and memory. It is a collection of poetry that starkly illuminates the fragmented lives of those caught in a war that is both domestic and international, moving poetically from the rainy streets of San Francisco to the "holocausted space" of the Middle East.

Human Star

Menefee, Sarah

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