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Gregory Corso: Doubting Thomist

Gregory Corso: Doubting Thomist

Kirby Olson

The virtue of Kirby Olson’s Gregory Corso: Doubting Thomist is that it is the first book to place all of Corso’s work in a philosophical perspective, concentrating on Corso as a poet torn between a static Catholic Thomist viewpoint and ...
The Cambridge Companion to the Beats

The Cambridge Companion to the Beats

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16. KIRBY OLSON ... back to prerecorded history in his poem “In Praise of Neanderthal Man” (1981).2 This Beat as Beatific: Gregory Corso's Christian Poetics is also the 240 240 Beat as Beatific: Gregory Corso's Christian Poetics Kirby Olson.
Andrei Codrescu and the Myth of America

Andrei Codrescu and the Myth of America

Kirby Olson

"This work explores Codrescu's writings and how they are a part of the surrealist tradition.
Temping

Temping

Kirby Olson

The book opens in Seattle and encompasses Hong Kong, France and Finland. It has a love story, rivalries between the hero and other academics, religious ecstacy and several attempted murders.
Violence and Dystopia: Mimesis and Sacrifice in Contemporary ...

Violence and Dystopia: Mimesis and Sacrifice in Contemporary ...

Daniel Cojocaru

Although Kirby Olson in Comedy after Postmodernism recognizes that Home is the most political of the writers he discusses, he still lumps him together with those for whom art is an end in itself. 218 Home suspects that the consensus is based ...
Family Business and Social Capital

Family Business and Social Capital

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Kirby Rosplock, PhD Kirby Rosplock is Director of Research and Development at GenSpring Family Offices. Kirby has extensively researched family wealth and the family enterprise and is a published author and recognized speaker in the ...
Simul

Simul

Mark Patrick Odland

Kirby Olson studied poetry at Naropa Institute with Gregory Corso, Ed Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, and Ed Sanders. He is the author of Comedy After Postmodernism, Andrei Codrescu & The Myth of America, Gregory Corso: Doubting Thomist, ...
The International Journal of Meteorology

The International Journal of Meteorology

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... Photo Editor HOWARD KIRBY ... {bottom) Barton-on- Sea © Paul Hunter, 2006 Rear Cover: © (fop) Towards Wigmore, Cheshire, UK © Howard Kirby, 2006 { bottom) Bringewood, near Ludlow, UK © Howard Kirby, 2006 Send your weather  ...
Comedy After Postmodernism: Rereading Comedy from Edward ...

Comedy After Postmodernism: Rereading Comedy from Edward ...

Kirby Olson

acknowledgments My thanks extend to Steve Shaviro, Raimonda Modiano, Shannon Hengen, Andrei Codrescu, and Gary Handwerk for editorial advice and moral support. "Edward Lear: Deleuzian Landscape Painter," originally appeared in ...
Promoting Great Reads to Improve Teen Reading: Core ...

Promoting Great Reads to Improve Teen Reading: Core ...

Lucy Schall

... http://www.portraitofabook.com/2012/12/bir2012-in-honor-by-jessi-kirby .html http://myramcentire.blogspot.com/2012/06/one-wish-with-jessi-kirby-gccinterview. html http://www.ilikethesebooks.com/2012/05/interview-with-jessi-kirby.html ...
Dash (Dogs of World War II)

Dash (Dogs of World War II)

Kirby Larson

New from Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson, the moving story of a Japanese-American girl who is separated from her dog upon being sent to an incarceration camp during WWII.
Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, ...

Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, ...

David Kirby

In this thoroughly researched book, Kirby follows three families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by immense neighboring animal farms.
"Old Father, Old Artificer": Charles Olson Memorial Lecture

"Old Father, Old Artificer": Charles Olson Memorial Lecture

Diane Di Prima

The text is from Di Prima’s lecture (March 19 or 26, 1985), in the Charles Olson Memorial Lectures in Buffalo, NY. The Charles Olson Memorial Lectures were established by Robert Creeley at the English Department of the State University of ...
What is a Book?

What is a Book?

David Kirby

Deeply learned and wonderfully entertaining, What Is a Book? is a lucid look at the whole of literary culture. Kirby makes us think about the books we love and why we love them.
Understanding Family Businesses: Undiscovered Approaches, ...

Understanding Family Businesses: Undiscovered Approaches, ...

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... Kirby Rosplock GenSpring Family Offices, Jupiter, FL, USA kirby.rosplock ...
The House on Boulevard St: New and Selected Poems

The House on Boulevard St: New and Selected Poems

David Kirby

Features poems by David Kirby, done in a three-part scheme as the author puts everything together from youth to mixed blessings.
The Graying of the World: Who Will Care for the Frail Elderly?

The Graying of the World: Who Will Care for the Frail Elderly?

Laura Katz Olson

Who Will Care for the Frail Elderly? Laura Katz Olson. #. : - - - --- Edited by Laura Katz Olson Laura Katz Olson, PhD Editor The Graying of the World: Front Cover.
I Have to Live with Myself, and so,: A Personal Narrative

I Have to Live with Myself, and so,: A Personal Narrative

Armando Monroy

Before I was married, it would have been an offer I might have accepted. But now ? I thanked them but declined their offer. Howard Kirby Comes to My Rescue Somehow or other, Howard Kirby heard about me looking for a permanent position.
Never Mock God: An Unauthorized Investigation Into ...

Never Mock God: An Unauthorized Investigation Into ...

Kirby Robinson

By the end of this fast-paced but thorough book, Kirby Robinson proves that the paranormal doesn't mix with the theological. You'll travel along with the team to Quincy where they interview neighbors and tour Lara's now-former home.
Saving the Young Men of Vienna

Saving the Young Men of Vienna

David Kirby

Winner of the 1987 Brittingham Prize in Poetry In 'The Peaceable Kingdom' of a David Kirby poem the framing of an identifiable voice and a strong, encompassing closure brings and blinds together the paradoxical, the funny, the sad, the ...
Duke (Dogs of World War II)

Duke (Dogs of World War II)

Kirby Larson

Will Hobie ever see Duke, or his father, again? With powerful storytelling and gripping emotion, critically acclaimed author Kirby Larson explores the many ways bravery and love help us to weather the most difficult times.
Dear America: The Fences Between Us

Dear America: The Fences Between Us

Kirby Larson

With this sweeping tale of life on the World War II homefront, Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson brings her incredible talent to the Dear America series.
David Lynch: Beautiful Dark

David Lynch: Beautiful Dark

Greg Olson

To fully delineate the director's life and art, Olson received unprecedented participation from Lynch, his parents, siblings, old school friends, romantic partners, children, and decades of professional colleagues, as well as on-set access ...
A Concise History of Finland

A Concise History of Finland

David Kirby

David Kirby here sets out the fascinating history of this northern country, for centuries on the east-west divide of Europe, a country not blessed by nature, most of whose inhabitants still earned a living from farming fifty years ago, but ...
Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour:

Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour:

Eric Nolen-Weathington

(above) Fightin' Marines #3 cover. kirby: [“It was just a routine drill. kayo kirby wasn't. ... (8) [rJerry Iger's Famous Features #1] FOur cOlOr cOMics (dell) 588 (10/ 1954) King Richard and the Crusaders (34) [pencils only] FOx gianTs (Fox ...
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

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2. ZACHARY P. BILES ... thrived in the archaic period and earlier. From this. 1 Olson (2007) 379–91; Millis and Olson (2012). 2 For the evidence and criticism, see Storey (2002). 3 43 The rivals of Aristophanes and Menander zachary p biles .
Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales ...

Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales ...

David Kirby

Following the story of marine biologist and animal advocate at the Humane Society of the US, Naomi Rose, Kirby tells the gripping story of the two-decade fight against PR-savvy SeaWorld, which came to a head with the tragic death of trainer ...
Audacity Jones Steals the Show (Audacity Jones #2)

Audacity Jones Steals the Show (Audacity Jones #2)

Kirby Larson

Will she manage to save the show in time? Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson brings readers a magical romp of a mystery that will delight and thrill to the very last page.

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