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Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Poe Ballantine's risky personal essays are populated with odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer. He takes us along on his Greyhound bus journey through small town America (including a detour to Mexico) exploring what it means to be human. Written with piercing intimacy and self-effacing humor, Ballantine's stories provide entertainment, social commentary, and completely compelling slices of life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Rhythm of the Heart is a compelling memoir about Kim Heacox's 30+ year relationship with the most iconic landscape in Alaska, a sister book to his 2005 Lyons book The Only Kayak, a PEN USA Literary Award finalist now in its seventh printing. Woven throughout the personal narrative will be stories on the human and natural histories of the Denali National Park, garnished with a conservation polemic, much as Edward Abbey did with Desert Solitaire, and...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Comprehensive collection of the writings of America's native radical tradition, from Thomas Paine's Common sense to Kate Millett's Sexual politics. The documents in this book sparked, guided and distilled some of the most influential movements in American history. Entries, dating from 1764-2003.
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Provides a roadmap for incarcerated people and their allies to have a thriving writing life behind bars--and through walls--drawing on the unique insights of over 50 justice-involved contributors and their allies to offer advice, inspiration, and resources. The Sentences That Create Us draws from the unique insights of over fifty justice-involved contributors and their allies to offer inspiration and resources for creating a literary life in prison....