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Leaving orbit : notes from the last days of American spaceflight / by Dean, Margaret Lazarus,1972-author.(CARDINAL)348108; Polito, Robert,1951-author of afterword.(CARDINAL)766884;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-309).Prologue: Air and space -- The beginnings of the future: This is Cape Canaveral -- What it felt like to walk on the Moon -- Good-bye, Discovery -- A brief history of the future -- Good-bye, Endeavour -- A brief history of spacefarers -- Good-bye, Atlantis -- The end of the future: Wheel stop -- The future -- Epilogue -- Timeline of American spaceflight -- Judge's afterword / Robert Polito.Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.
Subjects: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.; Space flight.; Space shuttles;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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On compromise : art, politics, and the fate of an American ideal / by Smith, Rachel Greenwald,Author(DLC)n 2014060596;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-210).Call and response: an introduction -- Welcome to the jungle -- Compromiser in chief -- Her hand on my octave -- The Missouri Compromise -- In a box -- Bad people -- Selling out -- A riot of one -- Trucker hats and torches -- My neighbor's heart -- Compromise in lockdown."On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal society's tendency to view compromise as an unalloyed good--politically, ethically, and artistically. In a series of clear, convincing essays, Rachel Greenwald Smith discusses the dangers of thinking about compromise as an end, rather than as a means. To illustrate her points, she recounts her stint in a band as a bass player, fighting with her bandmates about 'what the song wants,' and then moves outward to Bikini Kill and the Riot Grrrl movement, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Poetry magazine, the resurgence of fascism, and other wide-ranging topics."--.
Subjects: Essays.; History.; Compromise (Ethics); Liberalism; Integrity;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Raised by wolves : fifty poets on fifty poems : a Graywolf anthology. by Giménez Smith, Carmen,1971-writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)494424; Graywolf Press,editor.(CARDINAL)755614; Graywolf Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)755614;
Raised by Wolves is a unique and vibrant gathering of poems from Graywolf Press's fifty years. The anthology is conceived as a community document: fifty Graywolf poets have selected fifty poems by Graywolf poets, offering insightful prose reflections on their selections. What arises is a choral arrangement of voices and lineages across decades, languages, styles, and divergences, inspiring a shared vision for the future. Included here are established and emerging poets, international poets and poets in translation, and many of the most significant poets of our time. There are extraordinary pairings: Tracy K. Smith on Linda Gregg; Vijay Seshadri on Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Robert Bly; Natalie Diaz on Mary Szybist; Diane Seuss on D. A. Powell; Elizabeth Alexander on Christopher Gilbert; Ilya Kaminsky on Vénus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker; Mai Der Vang on Larry Levis; Layli Long Soldier on Solmaz Sharif; Solmaz Sharif on Claudia Rankine. In these poets' championing of others, fascinating threads emerge: Stephanie Burt writes on Monica Youn, who selects Harryette Mullen, who writes on Liu Xiaobo, translated by Jeffrey Yang, who chooses Fanny Howe, who writes on Carl Phillips, who selects Danez Smith, who chooses Donika Kelly, who writes on Natasha Trethewey. With an introduction by Graywolf publisher Carmen Giménez, Raised by Wolves is an echoing outward of poetry's possibilities.
Subjects: Poetry.; Essays.; Graywolf Press; Publishers and publishing; Publishers and publishing; American poetry; American poetry; Poetry;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The house of rust : a novel / by Bajaber, Khadija Abdalla,author.;
"When Aisha's fisherman father goes missing, she takes to the sea on a skeleton boat to rescue him. Guided by a talking scholar's cat, who sparks her interest in the mysterious House of Rust, she encounters three monsters hidden beneath the waves. All Aisha wants is for things to return to normal. But a showdown with the father of all sharks looms, and at home, things only grow stranger"--Page 4 of cover.Winner of the inaugural Graywolf Press Africa Prize, 2018.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Fathers and daughters; Missing persons; Imaginary wars and battles; Cats; Monsters;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Out stealing horses / by Petterson, Per,1952-(CARDINAL)528999;
An early morning adventure out stealing horses leads to the tragic death of one boy and a resulting lifetime of guilt and isolation for his friend, in this moving tale about the painful loss of innocence and of traditional ways of life that are gone forever.
Subjects: Fiction.; Social isolation;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Sleeping on Jupiter : a novel / by Roy, Anuradha,author.(CARDINAL)494807;
On a train bound for the seaside town of Jarmuli, three women in their sixites witness an assault on a young documentary filmmaker named Nomi. The women are disturbed, but shrug off the encounter. Among Jarmuli's pilgrims, priests, and temples, the three women live out their long-planned holiday together, while Nomi searches for clues to her past in a local ashram. As their lives overlap and collide, the town's serene surface is punctured by violence as its long, dark history becomes impossible to ignore.
Subjects: Novels.; Women motion picture producers and directors; Older women; Orphans; Adult child abuse victims; Ashrams;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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My uncle Silas / by Bates, H. E.(Herbert Ernest),1905-1974.(CARDINAL)148925; Ardizzone, Edward,1900-1979.(CARDINAL)142634; Graywolf Press.(CARDINAL)755614;
The lily -- The revelation -- The wedding -- Finger wet, finger dry -- A funny thing -- The sow and Silas -- The shooting party -- Silas the good -- A happy man -- Silas and Goliath -- A Silas idyll -- The race -- The death of Uncle Silas -- The return.
Subjects: Fiction.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Notes from no man's land : American essays / by Biss, Eula.(CARDINAL)422378;
Time and distance overcome -- Relations -- Three songs of salvage -- Land mines -- Goodbye to all that -- Black news -- Letter to Mexico -- Babylon -- Back to Buxton -- Is this Kansas -- No man's land -- Nobody knows your name -- All apologies.A volume of essays by the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize-winning author of The Balloonists considers her mixed heritage as the daughter of a Jamaican father and white mother who embraces a West African faith, the legacy of the Reconstruction as taught in public schools, and the nation's misconceptions about pioneer nobility.
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Black glasses like Clark Kent : a GI's secret from postwar Japan / by Svoboda, Terese.(CARDINAL)181947; Graywolf Press.(CARDINAL)755614;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-222).After her Uncle's suicide, Terese Svoboda investigates his stunning claim that MPs may have executed their own men during the occupation of Japan after World War II.
Subjects: Biographies.; Kent, Clark.; United States; United States. Army; Military police;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Heed the Hollow : poems / by Tariq, Malcolm,author.(CARDINAL)826284; Abani, Chris,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)753265; Graywolf Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)755614;
Subjects: Poetry.; American poetry; African Americans; American poetry; Gay erotic poetry, American.; Self-acceptance; Gender identity; Black people; Gender identity.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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