Dragonflies In The Cowburbs
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Dragonflies In The Cowburbs
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Author : Dreese, Donelle
language : en
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
Release Date : 2015-03-12
Dragonflies In The Cowburbs written by Dreese, Donelle and has been published by Anaphora Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-12 with Fiction categories.
Francesca Butler (“Fresca”) is a 17-year-old girl who lives in what she calls the “cowburbs.” Not quite the country and not quite the suburbs, the cowburbs offer Fresca adventure and room to grow, but also confusion and loneliness. The story is told from the point of view of a smart and sometimes sarcastic teenage girl who struggles to find happiness after the tragic death of her father, the mysterious disappearance of her friend Laurel Dee, and her boyfriend’s battle with Internet Addiction Disorder. Fresca loses a friend who dies from inhaling fumes from an aerosol can, and develops a close bond with her best friend, Veronica, who eases her through a case of “textitis” from too much texting. Veronica becomes an inspiring role model for Fresca when she shaves off all of her hair to protest the importance placed on physical attractiveness in their high school. Fresca also depicts a close relationship with her mother, whose “seventh sense” allows her to understand Fresca in intimate ways, but this relationship is challenged when her mother acquires a new boyfriend who doesn’t seem to like Fresca, or teenagers in general. With the help of her mom, her friends, and a sense of humor, Fresca discovers that love and happiness are not only possible, but waiting for her amidst a flock of dragonflies.
Dragonflies In The Cowburbs
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Author : Donelle Dreese
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-09
Dragonflies In The Cowburbs written by Donelle Dreese and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Seventeen-year-old Fresca struggles to find happiness after the tragic death of her father, the mysterious disappearance of a friend, and her boyfriend's battle with Internet Addiction Disorder. She discovers that love and happiness are not only possible, but also waiting for her amidst a flock of dragonflies.
This Mortal Earth
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Author : Waage, Fred
language : en
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
Release Date : 2015-03
This Mortal Earth written by Waage, Fred and has been published by Anaphora Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03 with Nature categories.
The poems in this collection were written one-a-day, during the course of the author’s sixty-seventh year. They seek to express an ecological awareness, the “intense consciousness of land” (Aldo Leopold), a consciousness of the Earth’s land and of that essence that composes the writer’s being.
Handful Of Sand
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Author : Steven P. Stamatis
language : en
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
Release Date : 2015-10-17
Handful Of Sand written by Steven P. Stamatis and has been published by Anaphora Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-17 with Philosophy categories.
"Handful of Sand and Other Poems" is a collection of images and feelings that linger in the conscience and refuse to go away. They evoke emotions the author is compelled to share with the reader in understandable language, without obscurity-plainly, deliberately. Whether it's observing an ant, watching a rocker sway to the breeze, or simply taking a train to the city, these poems help to grasp a deeper meaning in seemingly routine actions and incidents. Many insist we evolve from profound life-altering events that lay their mark on us. However, it's the unpretentious, simple occurrences throughout the years that shape who we are; it's the unimpressive handful of sand we overlook that holds a million lives.
Gender Bias In Mystery And Romance Novel Publishing
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Author : Anna Faktorovich
language : en
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
Release Date : 2015-04-27
Gender Bias In Mystery And Romance Novel Publishing written by Anna Faktorovich and has been published by Anaphora Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-27 with Social Science categories.
Examines gender bias from the perspective of readers, writers and publishers, with a focus on the top two bestselling genres in modern fiction. It is a linguistic, literary stylistic, and structurally formalist analysis of the male and female “sentences” in the genres that have the greatest gender divide: romances and mysteries. The analysis will search for the historical roots that solidified what many think of today as a “natural” division. Virginia Woolf called it the fabricated “feminine sentence,” and other linguists have also identified clear sexpreferential differences in AngloAmerican, Swedish and French novels. Do female mystery writers adopt a masculine voice when they write mysteries? Are femalepenned mysteries structurally or linguistically different from their male competitors’, and vice versa among male romance writers? The first part can be used as a textbook for gender stylistics, as it provides an indepth review of prior research. The second part is an analysis of the results of a survey on readers’ perception of gender in passages from literature. The last part is a linguistic and structural analysis of actual statistical differences between the novels in the two genres, considering the impact of the author’s gender.
Sky Gazer
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Author : Alan Holder
language : en
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
Release Date : 2016-04-04
Sky Gazer written by Alan Holder and has been published by Anaphora Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-04 with Poetry categories.
Firmly rejecting the unabashed subjectivity and accompanying impenetrability of much contemporary verse , Alan Holder’s Sky Gazer, from first to last, makes its poems steadily available to the reader, assumed to be “a creature of feeling” and addressed directly. The reader is onboard for a train ride or in-step for a woodland walk. It continually registers that great commonality of human experience, the four seasons. The poems share the sights that come the poet’s way—so much of what he sees assumes the status of spectacle—the source of many of those arresting sights being the heavens, which Holder never tires of contemplating. He has a fondness for long, winding verse sentences; some poems consist of but a single one. Again and again, Holder alludes, sometimes implicitly, to works by great figures of the literary past—Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Melville, Twain, Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Eliot, Dylan Thomas—using them as springboards to go his own way. Repeatedly, his poems raise questions that do not admit of answers. Sky Gazer takes seriously one of the prescriptions for poetry that Stevens sets forth in Notes toward a Supreme Fiction: “It Must Give Pleasure.” “Firmly rejecting the unabashed subjectivity and accompanying impenetrability of much contemporary verse, Alan Holder’s Sky Gazer, from first to last, makes his free form verse steadily available to the reader, assumed to be ‘a creature of feeling’ and often addressed directly. The reader is onboard for a train ride or in-step for a woodland walk. Sky Gazer continually registers that great commonality of human experience, the four seasons. The poems share the sights that come the poet’s way-so much of what he sees assumes the status of spectacle-the source of many of those arresting sights being the heavens, which Holder never tires of contemplating. He has a fondness for long, winding verse sentences; some poems consist of but a single one. Again and again, Holder alludes, sometimes implicitly, to works by great figures of the literary past-Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Melville, Twain, Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Eliot, Dylan Thomas-using them as springboards to go his own way. Repeatedly, his poems raise questions that do not admit of answers. Sky Gazer is very highly recommended for personal reading lists, as well as community, college, and university Contemporary American Poetry collections.” —Midwest Book Review, Wisconsin Bookwatch: March 2016, James A. Cox
Eternal Life
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Author : Terence Culleton
language : en
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
Release Date : 2015-08-23
Eternal Life written by Terence Culleton and has been published by Anaphora Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-23 with Poetry categories.
Sparkles with a poetry that is witty and passionate, inspired and urbane, exploring life’s mysteries—family, love, religion, work—with compassion and faith. Each story is at heart an affirmation of what the heart knows best. A contemporary “Passionate Shepherd” incites his wife to frolic; a boy feels desire’s burgeoning against cruelty’s backdrop; a couple contends with the triumphs and catastrophies of childbirth and parenthood. The dead are memorialized, the ugly and neglected flash with beauty, and longsuppressed voices rise to the throat. Culleton celebrates what is essential about the human soul: its fortitude, its eccentricity, its grace. The ephemera of the everyday yield inevitably to what’s eternal and heartbreaking and enduringly ecstatic about our soultime here in this garden we call Earth.
A Pomegranate And The Maiden
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Author : Tamara Agha-Jaffar
language : en
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
Release Date : 2015-10
A Pomegranate And The Maiden written by Tamara Agha-Jaffar and has been published by Anaphora Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10 with Fiction categories.
A multi-faceted re-telling of Homer’s Hymn to Demeter. The many characters speak directly to the reader, presenting multiple perspectives of the same event. Among the voices we hear is that of the mother grieving for her lost child, the daughter struggling for independence, the father who tramples on a mother’s rights, and the lover who resorts to nefarious means to win his beloved. Each perspective is deeply rooted in the character’s psychology and gender. Woven within their narratives are stories familiar to readers of Greek mythology. Against the backdrop of our own culture, which still diminishes the value of motherhood and marginalizes women of all ages, these voices speak to us through the centuries and offer new ways of seeing the world we inhabit.
Lombard Street
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Author : Bruce Colbert
language : en
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
Release Date : 2015-06-15
Lombard Street written by Bruce Colbert and has been published by Anaphora Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-15 with Fiction categories.
Diving to the very depths of human feeling and then scrambling desperately to the surface for that last breath of air, Lombard Street weaves the riveting tale of a man’s dangerous and emotional journey through marriage, addiction, madness, countless misfires, and across seas of broken promises from San Francisco to Singapore to Hong Kong.
The Blessing Of The Bikes Other Life Cycles
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Author : Anthony Labriola
language : en
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
Release Date : 2015-04-30
The Blessing Of The Bikes Other Life Cycles written by Anthony Labriola and has been published by Anaphora Literary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with Poetry categories.
The Blessing of the Bikes & Other LifeCycles is a themed collection in three parts that catalogues and values urban life. It chronicles the way we imagine and reimagine the city. In so doing, the poems become urban praise songs. What would we miss if it were all to go missing? Even if we left the place behind for new cities (or the wilderness), what would always remain dear to us? What would our lives be without the places we have known, including public and private spaces? These poems measure and chart the value of our neighbourhoods and the spirit of the city that we wish to preserve. By meditating on our storied past, the poems in The Bless of the Bikes & Other LifeCycles measure and chart the value of where we live and consider pathways to the city’s future.