I like poetry! Long poetry, short poetry, new poetry, old poetry, thin poetry, fat poetry. You name it. I also like creative non-fiction and woman-out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-with-no-way-back-who-finds-her-way-back biographies, essays and memoirs. Throw in a photo-essay about the desert or any river and I'm in biblio-nirvana.
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ISBN-13: 9780393342321
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 5/2012
In A Journey With Two Maps , Eavan Boland deftly examines the poetic past and its effects on her as a female poet. Believing that “…until we resolve our relation to both past and tradition, we are still hostages,” she embarks upon a clear-eyed examination of the customs and rules imposed by the “religion of poetry,” making discoveries that enable her to navigate within, around, and beyond its crippling restraints. In the second half of the book, Boland offers fresh and insightful reflections on how, though often neglected, the poetry of select women has profoundly shaped the trajectory of modern poetry and informed her work. Boland concludes with a letter to an imagined young woman poet, a poignant tipping of her hat to Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters To A Young Poet. Boland notes sadly, “For so many women there must be one place where the dream of becoming a poet died.” Hopefully, this book could prevent that from happening again.
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ISBN-13: 9780802139085
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Published: Grove Press, 7/2001
A vivid portrait of life inside a maximum-security prison and an affirmation of one man's spirit in overcoming the most brutal adversity, this award-winning memoir "stands as proof there is always hope in even the most desperate lives"
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ISBN-13: 9780312379094
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin, 6/2010
This book is poignant and hilarious! If ever you've felt the ache of not quite fitting in (and who hasn't?), this book will charm you!
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ISBN-13: 9780061997778
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Published: Ecco, 10/2010
John Fowles is a provocative and spellbinding writer. In this beautifully rendered book he attempts to understand the differences in the way he and his father perceive the natural world. While his father kept immaculately pruned fruit trees in a small yard with an eye on utility and "quantifiable yields," Fowles nurtured a 30-acre "derelict farm," leaving it largely alone and wild. Though this familial rub of value systems occurred over thirty years ago, the issues it raises will resonate with his contemporary reader; issues writ large in the ideological struggles between agri-business and small organic farms, wilderness and development, generation and generation.
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ISBN-13: 9780061239540
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Published: Harper Perennial, 6/2008
If you love language you'll love Annie Dillard's Maytrees , which reads like a love story prose poem with a very surprising ending. The characters are lovable and quirky. Dillard has set her narrative at the tip of Cape Cod and her descriptions of the ocean environment are breathtaking. I didn't want it to end.
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ISBN-13: 9781590305317
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Published: Shambhala, 2/2009
If you eat food, you'll like this book. Written by a pediatrician, it is full of interesting facts, observations and insights into our conditioned eating habits. It also offers exercises to help you discover how food fits into your life enabling you to change your habits if you choose. Though Jan Chozen Bays is a Buddhist, you don't have to be to benefit from this enlightening book!
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ISBN-13: 9781582435435
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Published: Counterpoint, 9/2009
An engaging and instructive collection of essays addressing the many advantages of small family farms over the industrial agri-business mega farms. The section on farmers opened my eyes to the myriad skills, creativity, intelligence and integrity required to be a good steward of the land.
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ISBN-13: 9780816527816
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Published: University of Arizona Press, 6/2009
An enjoyable and informative book about the people who helped build and shape the Summerhaven community on Mount Lemmon.
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ISBN-13: 9780802853028
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Published: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 8/2008
This is a wonderful book for kids about the life of a remarkable poet, William Carlos Williams. A real inspiration for any budding poet--or anyone who loves poetry.
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ISBN-13: 9780816526598
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Published: University of Arizona Press, 3/2008
The essays in Gary Nabhan's Arab/American explore how various threads of Arabian cultures have inextricably woven themselves through his life and the multi-cultured fabric of the deserts of the American Southwest.
As engaging and timely as his subject matter, is the manner in which it's presented. Nabhan employs a variety of elements from travel, adventure, autobiography, fact-finding detective, scientific, and historical (to name a few) writing styles making him one of the most engagingly eclectic storytellers today. (He also visually spices up the text with photographs he has taken on his travels.)
Arab/American is not just for desert dwellers. All readers will walk away with a fresh perspective of place and a deeper appreciation for the complexities of cultural blends and the treasures they bestow--wherever they occur.
