The Festive Table: Stories and Recipes for Renewing Celebrations

Ronni Lundy

North Point Pr

The author recounts her efforts to become a member of the suburban Boston neighborhood where she moved to raise a family, introducing readers to the extraordinary individuals who taught her the meaning of community life in modern America.

A Home in the Heart of a City: A Woman's Search for Community

Politics & Social Sciences

Hirsch, Kathleen

Social Sciences

Songs from the Alley

Hirsch writes a startling account of life on the streets. Wendy and Amanda both came from the suburbs, both had dreams of lasting love and security. But befoer age 30, both women were homeless.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

The author tells of his summer spent in an isolated Icelandic farmhouse with his wife and young son, where he learns of his mother's murder at her home in Pennsylvania

Summer at Little Lava: A Season at the Edge of the World

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Fergus, Charles

Mystery

Looks at the impact of birth on civilization and offers a selection of folklore about conception, pregnancy, birth, creation, naming, and baptism

Birth: An Anthology of Ancient Texts, Songs, Prayers and Stories

Meltzer, David

The agrarian message has perhaps been the most enduring one of American literature, and we are indeed fortunate to have Wendell Berry continuing in that fine tradition.  Mr. Berry writes of values and qualities that are timeless.  His vision of reality, sourced in the Kentucky farm that has fed and sheltered the Berry family for three generations, is one of caution and warning, blending his work on the land with his love of family, his faith, his anger, his hope.

Part A: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Berry, Wendell

Poetry

This long, complex poem, modeled on the Watts Tower, a Los Angeles folk architecture masterpiece, is the first Living Batch Press "drive, he said" booka series honoring Robert Creeley's "I Know a Man." The title alludes to Noah's ark; to the rainbow ("arc-en-ciel" in French); and by extension to Arkansas and hence to Kansas, where the poet was born. "A work of singular beauty and resolution. It takes its legitimate place with the great works of the century of like kind, Ezra Pound's "Cantos," Louis Zukofsky's "A," Charles Olson's "Maximus," and Robert Duncan's "Passages." Its own specific character is, however, brilliantly singular."Robert Creeley "A late harvest of seeds sown by Blake, L. Frank Baum, the Bible, and Zukofsky, all in a new architecture, a wholly new voice, and even a new chemistry of words and images. It is for those who can see visions, and for those who know how to look well and be taught that they can see them.

Ark: The Foundations, 1-33

JOHNSON, RONALD

An epic tale of the Provence countryside. "In Giono's work is what every sensitive, full-blooded individual ought to be able to recognize at once as `the song of the world.'...The philosophy behind this symphonic production has no name: its function is to liberate, to keep open all the sluices of the soul, to encourage speculation, adventure, and passionate worship." -Henry Miller, The Books in My Life "Peasant civilization possesses as a gift human qualities which philosophical civilizations spend centuries first defining, then desiring, and finally losing." -Jean Giono A true forebear of magical realism, Giono creates men and women rooted in the folklore of provincial France. With a poet's grace and imagination, he weaves a grand story of the earth and of passion, of animals and weather, of the miracles we now call the laws of nature.

Joy of Man's Desiring

GIONO, Jean

Old Friend from Far Away: One Hundred and Fifty Chinese Poems from the Great Dynasties (English and Chinese Edition)

Kwock

History & Criticism

Retells the story of Jesus' life set as a folktale in different parts of the world

Jesus Tales

Linney, Romulus

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