Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

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The sense of style: the thinking person's guide to writing in the 21st century

By Pinker, Steven

Publishing Date: ©2014

Classification: 800

Call Number: 808.042 PIN

"A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the 21st century, Pinker doesn't carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose. In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse-engineer the good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish. Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right."--Publisher information.

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How to read a poem: and fall in love with poetry

By Hirsch, Edward

Publishing Date: [1999]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 808.1 HIR

This volume presents an exploration of poetry and feeling, introducing poems selected by the author as emblematic because they suggest something crucial about the nature of poetry itself, and offering his insights on how the poems should be read. In this guide, the author reaches out to all those who may be disaffected by the mere mention of poetry and instructs the reader to focus on a personal, emotional response.

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McSweeney's no. 38

Publishing Date: ©2011

Classification: 800

Call Number: 808.8005

Presents an anthology of short stories set in real and imaginary places around the world, including Paris, Ghana, Vermont, and Ireland.

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Less than one: selected essays

By Brodsky, Joseph

Publishing Date: 1986

Classification: 800

Call Number: 809.104 BRO

Includes essays on Russian writers, Western poets, politics, and the author's native city, Leningrad.

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Gain

By Powers, Richard

Publishing Date: 2009

Classification: 800

Call Number: 810 POW

Gain braids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown. Clare's stunning growth reflects the kaleidoscopic history of America; Laura Body's life is changed forever by Clare. The novel's stunning conclusion reveals the countless invisible connections between the largest enterprises and the smallest lives.

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The collected poems of Weldon Kees

By Kees, Weldon

Publishing Date: ©2003

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.52 KEE

Kees is one of the bitterest poets in history. Yet he appears to accept whatever is, however terrifying or ridiculous it may seem, with the serenity of a saint. Shows calm in the face of certain doom, the ultimate expression of the bitterness at the center of his work.

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New and collected poems

By Wilbur, Richard

Publishing Date: [1988]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.52 WIL

A collection including six earlier volumes of Wilbur's poetry, twenty-seven new poems, and a cantata.

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Dearly: new poems

By Atwood, Margaret

Publishing Date: [2020]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 ATW

In Dearly, Margaret Atwood?s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived. While many are familiar with Margaret Atwood?s fiction?including her groundbreaking and bestselling novels The Handmaid?s Tale, The Testaments, Oryx and Crake, among others?she has, from the beginning of her career, been one of our most significant contemporary poets. And she is one of the very few writers equally accomplished in fiction and poetry. This collection is a stunning achievement that will be appreciated by fans of her novels and poetry readers alike. --

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A timbered choir: the sabbath poems, 1979-1997

By Berry, Wendell

Publishing Date: ©1998

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 BER

"For more than two decades, Wendell Berry has spent his Sonday mornings in a kind of walking meditation, observing the world and writing poems."--Jacket. This volume gathers all of these poems written to date.

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The selected poems of Wendell Berry

By Berry, Wendell

Publishing Date: ©1998

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 BER

Contains one hundred poems by award-winning American poet Wendell Berry, drawn from nine previous collections.

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Toward the distant islands: new & selected poems

By Carruth, Hayden

Publishing Date: 2006

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 CAR

Collects works by American poet Hayden Carruth, including lyrics; narratives; comic, meditative, and erotic poems; and reflections on the natural world.

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Collected poems: 1974--2004

By Dove, Rita

Publishing Date: [2016]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 DOV

Showcases the diversity of the poet's work, including such topics as love, Greek myths, and America's kaleidoscopic cultural heritage.

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Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: the rebel as poet

By Fowlie, Wallace

Publishing Date: ©1993

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 FOW

Fowlie, presents a study of the similarities in the lives of French poet, Rimbaud and rock singer, Morrison. Both were alienated rebels, were associated with poetry and Africa, and died young. Morrison's lyrics were influenced by Rimbaud's poetry.

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Late in the day: poems, 2010-2014

By Le Guin, Ursula K

Publishing Date: [2016]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 LEG

There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Ursula K. Le Guin's. --Grace Paley Late in the Day, Ursula K. Le Guin's new collection of poems (2010-2014) seeks meaning in an ever-connected world. In part evocative of Neruda's Odes to Common Things and Mary Oliver's poetic guides to the natural world, Le Guin's latest give voice to objects that may not speak a human language but communicate with us nevertheless through and about the seasonal rhythms of the earth, the minute and the vast, the ordinary and the mythological. As Le Guin herself states, science explicates, poetry implicates. Accordingly, this immersive, tender collection implicates us (in the best sense) in a subjectivity of everyday objects and occurrences. Deceptively simple in form, the poems stand as an invitation both to dive deep and to step outside of ourselves and our common narratives. The poems are bookended with two short essays, Deep in Admiration and Some Thoughts on Form, Free Form, Free Verse.

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Bells in winter

By Miłosz, Czesław

Publishing Date: 1981, ©1978

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 MIŁ

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Fidelity

By Paley, Grace

Publishing Date: 2008

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 PAL

Just before her death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Grace Paley completed this wise and poignant book of poems. Full of memories of friends and family and incisive observations of life in both her beloved hometown, New York City, and rural Vermont, the poems are sober and playful, experimenting with form while remaining eminently readable. They explore the beginnings and ends of relationships, the ties that bind siblings, the workings of dreams, the surreal strangeness of the aging body--all imbued with her unique perspective and voice. Mournful and nostalgic, but also ruefully funny and full of love, Fidelity is Grace Paley's passionate and haunting elegy for the life she was leaving behind. -- Publisher's description.

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On Elizabeth Bishop

By Tóibín, Colm

Publishing Date: [2015]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 TÓI

"In this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own. What emerges is a compelling double portrait that will intrigue readers interested in both Bishop and Tóibín"--

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Memorial Drive: a daughter's memoir

By Trethewey, Natasha D

Publishing Date: [2020]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 TRE

"At nineteen, the author's world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma. Here she explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. Moving through her mother's history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a 'child of miscegenation' in Mississippi, she plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985." --

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Dear darkness: poems

By Young, Kevin

Publishing Date: 2009, ©2008

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.54 YOU

A sixth collection of poems in which Kevin Young meditates on food, family, and loss.

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Run the red lights

By Skoog, Ed

Publishing Date: [2016]

Classification: 800

Call Number: 811.6 SKO

""Skoog [is] fashioning a poetry that fluctuates and ripples as incessantly as open water." -Boston Review "Ed Skoog is a master of mischief and misdirection." -Prairie Schooner "Ed Skoog's poetry is so ambitious it takes my breath away." -The Stranger "Run the red lights" were the last words the musician Alex Chilton spoke to his wife on the way to the hospital. In Ed Skoog's new book the poems are running all the lights, the way that talking casually runs and flows over itself and intertwines with what others are saying. These plainspoken poems rediscover the relationship between talking and thinking, as they weave among enthusiastic jags about sex and love, theater, music, New Orleans, numbness, ghosts, wolves, history, violence, rescue, art, marriage, mothers, fathers, and children. After Katrina, I took the diet where you eat meat, and lost almost a hundred pounds from a surfeit of bacon, sauteed pork medallions, beef & lamb. The weight fell away like a knight's armor after a joust. I bought shirts at a regular store. I played softball and ran bases, bounded them, as if on a new, more forgiving planet. And I went crazy, evened out, broke down again. Ed Skoog was born in Topeka, Kansas, and earned his MFA at the University of Montana. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review and Ploughshares, and earned the Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poetry Award and the Washington State Book Award. He lives in Portland, Oregon"--

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