The Weight of Love

Pat Schneider was born in the Ozark mountains of Missouri where she became intimate with fossils, creek bed grasshoppers and box turtles. After a search for work took her single mother to St. Louis, from age ten Pat lived in tenements and in an orphanage until she was given a scholarship to college. Those early experiences deeply influenced her writing, and fueled her passion for those who have been denied voice through poverty and other misfortunes. Pat's books, poetry, plays, and libretti have been praised by the most prestigious publications and authors in America: The New York Times, the Library Journal, the Atlanta Journal, Small Press Magazine, St. Louis Dispatch, the North Dakota Review, Oprah Magazine, Vanity Fair, the North Dakota Quarterly, the Kentucky Monthly, the Bellingham Review, the Louisville Times, and many others. Peter Elbow said that Pat Schneider is "the wisest teacher of writing I know." Julia Cameron, author of The Right to Write and The Artist's Way, noted that Pat is "a fuse lighter. Her work is gentle, playful, brilliant, and revolutionary" and Janet Burroway, author of Writing Fiction, notes that Pat's work is "heartening and practical, a rich variety . . . that celebrates both difference and difficulty as the gifts they are.

Schneider, Pat

Religion & Spirituality

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it was never Eden

Literature & Fiction

Willert, Jeanette

Poetry

An uncharted inch: Poems

Politics & Social Sciences

Gandy, Maurice

Philosophy

Travelling My Shadow

Tom Woodward

And finding no mouse there: Poems

Smallwood, Vivian

And Finding No Mouse There

Little Gears of Time

Little Gears of Time is a collection of poems following the lives of six generations of mothers and daughters. A stunning evocation of their experiences, ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present day and from Europe to America, Martinello's collection is one that can strengthen generations. Susan Martinello is an award-winning poet with roots in New England. She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College before moving to Europe, and currently resides in the South. Her work has appeared in POEM, Birmingham Arts Journal, the medical journal CHEST, Connotation Press, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, among others. She writes and practices Tai Chi in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

Martinello, Susan

Parenting & Relationships

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Skeeter, our narrator, is a boy lost between his hard-knock childhood and the mysteries of a larger world. Framed by the strain of war and the growing pains of the New South, this novel is part coming of age tale, part ghost story, and, at every moment, a searching evocation of small-town life in America.

Jordan, Donald

United States

Without seeming to at first glance, Jim Murphy's Versions of May succeeds in speaking to the anxieties that move beneath the surface waters of our times. It is a collection of tremendous depth and breadth, piercing insight and tenderness. Global, and yet attentive to particulars of nature and human spirit, these poems artfully blend elements of elegy, Zen, jazz, and popular music. In line after line that resonate with echoes of terror and loss, but simultaneously with stunning celebrations of beauty, they sweep us off center, in the traditions of Zen or jazz masters, leaving us almost breathless, startled by the silence and light. "No truths / but this bright and noble moment," Murphy writes, and elsewhere, "We vanished. We left in total silence." These are poems to be savored, ones that will stay with us long after our reading. -Anand Prahlad, Curators Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-Columbia

Versions of May

MURPHY, JIM

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