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At the Pond
A lyrical narration and breathtaking illustrations transport us to the world of a pond with all its sights, sounds, and pulsing life. The red-winged blackbird spreads his tail and sings his hello morning song; he has sung it since the bright and misty world began. When the soft pink of the dawn sun starts peeking over the pond, a new day has begun for all the animals who live in it and around its watery edges. The friendly duck family, the mysterious water striders, and the busy beaver are a few of the many fascinating and familiar animals included in this glowing poetic tribute to the lively ecosystem of the pond. A companion to In the Sea, In the Wild, On the Farm, and In the Woods, At the Pond brings readers to the pond's sun-dappled shores, pairing David Elliott's witty and enchanting animal poems with Amy Schimler-Safford's luminous and evocative scenes of pond life. Back matter notes about the animals and plants will further captivate young nature lovers.- Shop: buecher
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Over Easy
A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970s Over Easy is a brilliant portrayal of a familiar coming-of-age story. After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret finds salvation from the straightlaced world of college and the earnestness of both hippies and punks in the wisecracking, fast-talking, drug-taking group she encounters at the Imperial Café, where she makes the transformation from Margaret to Madge. At first she mimics these new and exotic grown-up friends, trying on the guise of adulthood with some awkward but funny stumbles. Gradually she realizes that the adults she looks up to are a mess of contradictions, misplaced artistic ambitions, sexual confusion, dependencies, and addictions. Over Easy is equal parts time capsule of late 1970s life in California-with its deadheads, punks, disco rollers, casual sex, and drug use-and bildungsroman of a young woman who grows from a naïve, sexually inexperienced art-school dropout into a self-aware, self-confident artist. Mimi Pond's chatty, slyly observant anecdotes create a compelling portrait of a distinct moment in time. Over Easy is an immediate, limber, and precise semi-memoir narrated with an eye for the humor in every situation.- Shop: buecher
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On Autumn Lake: Collected Essays
*Author is a beloved, cult figure of American poetry, who's first book, The Revisionist, earned the author a MacArthur "Genius” Fellowship, Whiting Award, and Guggenheim Fellowship, the Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year twice (2017 and 2019) among other prizes. *When Nightboat published Crase's collected poems Publishers Weekly called it "a lasting contribution” to American poetry. *Subjects of essays in this collection include poets of the New York School, painting, "A Brief History of Memes,” "A Hidden History of the Avante-Garde,” writers James Schuyler, Marianne Moore, Lorine Niedecker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Ashbery, Marjorie Welish, Anne Lauterbach, Donald Britton, and artists Dwight Ripley, Richard Poirier, Robert Dash *Of interest to people interested in non-academic essays that take a personal approach to the subject of poetry *Author grew up reading Whitman and is interested in landscape and egalitarian democracy *John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Marjorie Welish were close personal friends of the author and are discussed in these essays. *Author is a beloved essayist about poetry, editor of a book of Emerson's writing for the Library of AMerica, and a memoir/biography, Both *Author is a revered member of the New York School of Poets, was close friends with John Ashbery, John Schuyler, among many others. Schuyler's poem, "Dining Out with Doug and Frank,” is about Crase and his husband, Frank Polach. *Author worked as a free-lance writer of speeches, industrial filmscripts, and multimedia presentations for clients including Eastman Kodak, General Electric, United Technologies, Johnson & Johnson, Chesebrough-Pond's, and others. *The Revisionist & The Astropastorals was named a 2019 Book of the Year in Times Literary Supplement *Author holds a AB from Princeton *His first book, The Revisionist, was named a Notable Book of the Year in 1981 by The New York Times and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and a National Book Award in poetry. His collected poems, The Revisionist and The Astropastorals, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and named a Book of the Year for 2019 in both the Times Literary Supplementand Hyperallergic. His dual biography of influential aesthetes Rupert Barneby and Dwight Ripley, Both: A Portrait in Two Parts, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association. He has received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur "genius” award. He lives with his husband, Frank Polach, in New York and Carley Brook, Pennsylvania.- Shop: buecher
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