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Amy Lowell, Diva Poet
In her reassessment of Amy Lowell as a major figure in the modern American poetry movement, Melissa Bradshaw uses theories of the diva and female celebrity to account for Lowell's extraordinary literary influence in the early twentieth century and her equally extraordinary disappearance from American letters after her death. Recognizing Amy Lowell as a literary diva, Bradshaw shows, accounts for her commitment to her art, her extravagant self-promotion and self-presentation, and her fame, which was of a kind no longer associated with poets. It also explains the devaluation of Lowell's poetry and criticism, since a woman's diva status is always short-lived and the accomplishments of celebrity women are typically dismissed and trivialized. In restoring Lowell to her place within the American poetic renaissance of the nineteen-teens and twenties, Bradshaw also recovers a vibrant moment in popular culture when poetry enjoyed mainstream popularity, audiences packed poetry readings, and readers avidly followed the honors, exploits, and feuds of their favorite poets in the literary columns of daily newspapers. Drawing on a rich array of letters, memoirs, newspapers, and periodicals, but eschewing the biographical interpretations of her poetry that have often characterized criticism on Lowell, Bradshaw gives us an Amy Lowell who could not be further removed from the lonely victim of ill-health and obesity who appears in earlier book-length studies. Amy Lowell as diva poet takes her rightful place as a powerful writer of modernist verse who achieved her personal and professional goals without capitulating to heteronormative ideals of how a woman should act, think, or appear.
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Amy Lowell, Diva Poet
In her reassessment of Amy Lowell as a major figure in the modern American poetry movement, Melissa Bradshaw uses theories of the diva and female celebrity to account for Lowell's extraordinary literary influence in the early twentieth century and her equally extraordinary disappearance from American letters after her death. Recognizing Amy Lowell as a literary diva, Bradshaw shows, accounts for her commitment to her art, her extravagant self-promotion and self-presentation, and her fame, which was of a kind no longer associated with poets. It also explains the devaluation of Lowell's poetry and criticism, since a woman's diva status is always short-lived and the accomplishments of celebrity women are typically dismissed and trivialized. In restoring Lowell to her place within the American poetic renaissance of the nineteen-teens and twenties, Bradshaw also recovers a vibrant moment in popular culture when poetry enjoyed mainstream popularity, audiences packed poetry readings, and readers avidly followed the honors, exploits, and feuds of their favorite poets in the literary columns of daily newspapers. Drawing on a rich array of letters, memoirs, newspapers, and periodicals, but eschewing the biographical interpretations of her poetry that have often characterized criticism on Lowell, Bradshaw gives us an Amy Lowell who could not be further removed from the lonely victim of ill-health and obesity who appears in earlier book-length studies. Amy Lowell as diva poet takes her rightful place as a powerful writer of modernist verse who achieved her personal and professional goals without capitulating to heteronormative ideals of how a woman should act, think, or appear.
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Selected Poems of Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell (1874-1925), American poet and critic, was one of the most influential and best-known writers of her era. Within a thirteen-year period, she produced six volumes of poetry, two volumes of criticism, a two-volume biography of John Keats, and countless articles and reviews that appeared in many popular periodicals. As a herald of the New Poetry, Lowell saw herself and her kind of work as a part of a newly forged, diverse, American people that registered its consciousness in different tonalities but all in a native idiom. She helped build the road leading to the later works of Allen Ginsberg, May Sarton, Sylvia Plath, and beyond. Except for the few poems that invariably appear in American literature anthologies, most of her writings are out of print. This will be the first volume of her work to appear in decades, and the depth, range, and surprising sensuality of her poems will be a revelation. The poetry is organized according to Lowell's characteristic forms, from traditional to experimental. In each section the works appear in chronological order. Section one contains sonnets and other traditional verse forms. The next section covers her translations and adaptations of Chinese and Japanese poetry, whereby she beautifully renders the spirit of these works. Also included here are several of Lowell's own Asian-influenced poems. Lowell's free, or cadenced verse appears in the third part. The last section provides samples of Lowell's polyphonic prose, an ambitious and vigorous art form that employs all of the resources of poetry. The release of Selected Poems of Amy Lowell will be a major event for readers who have not been able to find a representative sampling of work from this vigorous, courageous poet who gave voice to an erotic, thoroughly American sensibility.
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Perfect Touch [Large Print]
The New York Times bestselling queen of romantic suspense returns with a heart-racing tale in which a former soldier turned rancher and a beautiful designer race to stop a vicious killer--a battle for survival that threatens to explode in an intense and irresistible passion.An art dealer and owner of her own design studio, Perfect Touch, Sara Medina travels the world to find the ideal artwork for her clients. Her sophisticated, comfortable life in San Francisco is light years away from the poverty of her family's dairy farm, and Sara will do whatever it takes to keep her business strong. A dedicated urban career woman focused on her work, she doesn't have time or energy for a family or distracting romantic entanglements.Jay Vermillion recently inherited Vermillion Sky, a working ranch near Wyoming's breathtaking Grand Teton Mountains--and the estates of the rich and restless. While he was fighting in two wars, his father tried to keep the homestead running, until illness stole his fight and then his life. Jay's determined to restore Vermillion Sky, but first he's got to settle a vicious battle with his former stepmother over some of his late father's paintings. The last thing on his mind is a finding a wife and creating a seventh generation of Vermillions.When Jay hires Sara to handle his father's artwork, it's love at first sight--a mutually inconvenient attraction that is soon complicated by a double murder at the edge of the ranch and a potential betrayal even closer to home. Working together to unmask a murderer, Sara and Jay try to fight the intense heat between them. Then the killer targets Sara. And suddenly, Jay, the war-weary soldier, finds something he's once again willing to die for . . .
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Capitalism's Handmaidens
When we think of a “woman entrepreneur”, what comes to mind? Women entrepreneurs hold a dominant presence in political, social, economic and development imaginaries, as a global class of workers typifying the contemporary, neoliberal era. Their enterprise is readily proffered as the evidence of a nation’s progress, inclusion and development. International institutions, development banks, states, civil society groups, corporations and international financial institutions promote women’s enterprise in nearly every corner of the globe. A powerful mythology has grown up around the idea of women as empowered, financial saviour-mothers who benefit the prosperity, inclusivity, and security of a nation and the global economy.In this book, Melissa Langworthy exposes these myths for what they are and in offering a political economy of women’s enterprise, she asks what value women’s enterprise gives, not to women, but to the institutions that have shaped them and placed them in the centre of the global imaginary.
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Always Time to Die
From multi "New York Times" bestselling author, Elizabeth Lowell comes another exhilarating novel of nail-biting suspense, reminding us that some family secrets are better left buried. Carolina May - Carly to her friends - never knew her biological family. Yet ironically, she makes her living as a family historian and has just been hired by the eccentric aunt of the multi-millionaire governor of New Mexico. The future looks bright, until things start going wrong. Then, she learns the true meaning of fear. Daniel Duran made a career out fighting for other people's beliefs, beliefs people died for. Then, he came back to his childhood home in Taos to see if there was anything worth living for. The stir about Carly May and her family history of the Quintrells amuses him, we're all survivors descended from survivors, so what's the fuss? But Dan knows what Carly doesn't: in New Mexico, genealogy is a blood sport.
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Melissa
Murder mystery and drama. Based in the 1940's where poverty is rife, Melissa, Molly and Megan leave the orphanage that had been their home since birth. They are not related but class each other as sisters. Nuns run the orphanage and become the only parental figure in their lives. A surprise inheritance brings wealth to the 3Ms, but when their lives are set to hit prosperity, death divides them. Little did they realize that their happiest time was when they were homeless, poor and surviving the Second World War. Living in a deceitful existence was bound to be difficult, even more so with a serial killer on the loose. Melissa is riddled with guilt but she seeks revenge on the serial killer who murdered her sister. She has to be resilient to cope with unforseen consequences that she wouldn't inflict on her worst enemy.
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Melissa
Formally titled George, this is the unforgettable debut from Alex Gino "Allow me to introduce you to a remarkable book, full of love, wonder, hope, and the importance of getting to be who you were meant to be. You must read this." - David Levithan, author of Every Day and editor of George. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can't even try out for the part . . . because she's a boy. The timely and touching story from Stonewall Award Winning author Alex Gino Author of Rick and You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P! Gino's latest book, Alex Austen Lived Here, is out in April 2022
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Melissa Explains it All
Melissa Joan Hart, the star of Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, explains it all - onscreen and behind the scenes. Melissa Joan Hart explained it all-from dating to bullies-in her ground breaking role as Clarissa Darling on Clarissa Explains It All. She cast a spell on millions more viewers as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Now, in Melissa Explains It All, Melissa tells the frank and funny truth about her extraordinary past and her refreshingly normal present. From the moment four-year-old Melissa decided she wanted to be on television, she has shown a singular determination and focus-whether it's for booking three national commercials so her dad would build her a tree house or for nailing the Clarissa audition. And she never let fame go to her head.With one foot in Hollywood and one foot in reality, Melissa makes us laugh along with her as she talks about: guest appearances in shows like Saturday Night Live and The Equalizer; auditioning for Punky Brewster and Clarissa; her early Broadway days; wacky parties she's thrown and attended; the actors who influenced her and whom she befriended, worked with and competed against; her experiences both on off-set-with Sabrina's Salem the Cat and Elvis the Alligator on Clarissa; and, how she met the love of her life at the Kentucky Derby.
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Serving Grace
My goal with this book is to prove that healthy food doesn't have to be complicated and time-consuming to be delicious. Developed over two years of a healthy lifestyle and changing recipes that fit our lifestyle. With the added bonus of meal plans. These Meals are from Keto to Vegan and gluten-free.
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Conversation Pieces
Conversation Pieces sketches an object-oriented lineage for modernism, showing that Virginia Woolf's passion for objects was fuelled by her participation in a widespread conversation about philosophical empiricism's affective and aesthetic legacies--one involving a variety of eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century thinkers, such as David Hume, Leslie Stephen, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Henri Bergson, William James, G.E. Moore, and Bertrand Russell. While empiricism has been largely neglected by literary scholars, its view of objects powerfully shaped modernist sensibilities and aesthetics. Woolf's and other early-twentieth-century writers and philosophers' multifaceted responses to the evolving character of empiricist philosophy reveal that empiricism continued into the twentieth century as one of the most ubiquitous and vigorous elements energizing modern thought. However, modernism was also defined by an important departure from empiricism. While traditional empiricism had suggested that experience is profoundly circumscribed because we can only know our own sense impressions, many sought to radicalize empiricism by making the preliminary acceptance of mind-independent objects the necessary foundation for intersubjectivity and the acknowledgement of otherness. Woolf describes the scene of shared attention to an object as an exemplary starting point for engaging with the complexities, contradictions, and tensions of living in a more-than-human world. As writers continually turned to the object for its promise of a conversable world, the conversation piece came to encapsulate modern aspirations for relationality.
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Innocent as Sin
Rand McCee just wants to be able to lose himself in his painting. After his twin brother is shot before his eyes while on a scouting mission for St. Kilda Consulting, a Manhattan-based, global business that concentrates on the shadow world where governments can't go. He has finally come to terms with the fact that he will never be able to find the man who shot his twin, the man known as The Siberian. Kayla Shaw is an Arizona banker. Little does she realize that as she has been helping a rich socialite plan how to finance an art exhibition she has been unwittingly caught up in a web of lies and money laundering. When her employer tries to buy her silence, she realizes that she is in way over her head, with no way out. Equally suspicious of and attracted to each other, Rand and Kayla must work together to stop the Siberian before they both wind up in jail - or the grave.
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Dark Horses and Black Beauties
In a phenomenon too prevalent to be mere chance, little girls all over the Western world wake one day to find themselves completely taken over by the love of all things equine. Melissa Holbrook Pierson was one of those horse-crazy girls who later returned to riding with a new appreciation for the nature of horses. Melding memoir, sociology, history, anecdote, and a bit of prose poetry, Dark Horses and Black Beauties delves beneath the shallow hypotheses explaining women's connection to horses to look at how this communication with another animal opens us up to a new apprehension of the larger "natural" world.
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All You That Labor
“Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”Mathew 11:28 (AKJV)In the early 1990s, a grassroots coalition of churches in Baltimore, Maryland helped launch what would become a national movement. Joining forces with labor and low-wage worker organizations, they passed the first municipal living wage ordinance. Since then, over 144 municipalities and counties as well as numerous universities and local businesses in the United States have enacted such ordinances.Although religious persons and organizations have been important both in the origins of the living wage movement and in its continuing success, they are often ignored or under analyzed. Drawing on participant observation in multiple cities, All You That Labor analyzes and evaluates the contributions of religious activists to the movement. The book explores the ways religious organizations do this work in concert with low-wage workers, the challenges religious activists face, and how people of faith might better nurture moral agency in relation to the political economy. Ultimately, C. Melissa Snarr provides clarity on how to continue to cultivate, renew, and expand religious resources dedicated to the moral agency of low-wage workers and their allies.
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Mediterranean Women Stay Slim Too
Mediterranean women live lives free from empty calories, empty diet promises, impossible standards, and a "say no to food" mentality. Thanks to the influence of cooking lessons in her Italian grandmother's kitchen, Melissa Kelly, co-owner and executive chef of Primo Restaurant, has learned how every woman can extract the essence of the Mediterranean spirit and make it uniquely her own.She shares these lessons in Mediterranean Women Stay Slim, Too, along with more than one hundred diverse and mouth-watering recipes, as well as a detailed menu planner. While sampling everything from traditional Hummus to Prosciutto, Fennel, and Pear Salad with Persimmon Vinaigrette, you'll join women in enjoying the timeless, artful Mediterranean way of eating well and living a long, sensuous, beautiful life.
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