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Maleea AckerPoems in Maleea Acker's second collection range over continents and countries, asking an essential question for our time: How do we live in the world?
The Malahat Review
More editionsPOETRY MALEEA ACKER, The Reflecting Pool (Toronto: Pedlar, 2009). Paperbound, 90 pp., $20. Reading Maleea Acker's first collection, The Reflecting Pool, packaged in a beautiful, textured volume, is a dreamy journey into image and ...
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More editionsMaleea Acker Calles de Merida a las Tres de la Mariana This is a time of grace: we remember the weaving, occasional lights of sepia cars during our hours of night translation. The yellow streetlamps' glimmer falls deeply, purifies each ...
The Fiddlehead
More editionsLori Maleea Acker Mechanic During the day there is work, the forcing of metal against metal in the engine practice rooms, a net of diagrams catching him endless, scoring the tender parts of his fingers. He imagines double hulled tankers, ...
Gardens Aflame: Garry Oak Meadows of BC's South Coast
Maleea Ackerphoto by frank cyril swannell, courtesy royal bc museum, bc archives image no. i- 33651 meadows. The dried seed pods were used as incense, to mark and strengthen the boundary between the living and the dead. It could be, he muses, ...
After Kathy Acker: A Biography
Chris KrausAt once forensic and intimate, After Kathy Acker traces the extreme discipline and literary strategies Acker used to develop her work, and the contradictions she longed to embody.
Kathy Acker and Transnationalism
More editionsChapter Nine Kathy Acker's Terrorist Network: Re-mapping Transnational Resistance Leif Sorensen The complexity of Kathy Acker's transnational imagination defies simple description. There is no existing terminology that sums up the ...
The Hieronymus story, 1997
Kenneth McClanahan7/7/1988 FJ( 13)65822 NATHAN TYLER SCHUMACHER b. 7/25/1991 FJ( 13) 659 LONNIE LELAND ACKER m. IRENE MARGARET HEISTERBURG (1st) b. 12 /13/1927 b. 2/1/1928 m. 10/10/1954 d. 1/20/1984 Children: Surname ACKER FJ( ...
Wegweiser durch die Herzogthümer Schleswig und Holstein, für ...
Wilh Hirschfelddem Haupthofe an Acker und Wiesen 1051 Tonnen und an Holzungen 500 Tonnen ; der Meierhof Henningrode, an Acker und Wiesen 300 Tonnen; der Meierhof Rockefort, an Acker und Wiesen 200 Tonnen, und die Dorfländereien 1009 ...
Kathy Acker and Transnationalism
PreviewShannon Rose Riley shrewdly probes the association of Acker's text with older popular culture texts that use the “goes to” trope, such as Cole Porter's 1939 hit “ Katie went to Haiti,” Hollywood flicks such as “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” Mr. Smith ...
When She Does what She Does: Intertextual Desire and ...
Douglas A. Martin... 2000), Nicola Pitchford's Tactical Readings: Feminist Postmodernism in Kathy Acker and Angela Carter (2004), and Maureen F. Curtin's Out of Touch: Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker (2003). paper accepted; ...
Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice
James R. Acker... NC: Carolina Academic Press 2006). Marsha Kimble, “My Journey and the Riddle,” in Acker & Karp, Wounds That Do Not Bind, supra note 74, at 127, 138. See generally Jody Lynee Madeira, Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and ...
I'm Very Into You: Correspondence 1995--1996
Kathy AckerI'm Very Into You is a text of incipience, a text of beginnings, and a set of notes on the short, shared passage of two iconic individuals of our time.
Gerhard Schroeder
Kerry AckerElected in 1998, Schroeder and his pro-business platform promised to breathe new life into Germany's stagnant political landscape.
Dorothea Lange
Kerry AckerDiscusses the life and work of the twentieth century American photographer, Dorothea Lange.
Nina Simone
Kerry AckerTraces the life and accomplishments of Nina Simone, singer, pianist, and civil rights activist, who was known for her unique sound.
Everything You Need to Know about the Goth Scene
Kerry AckerIntroduces the characteristics of the lifestyle and look known as "Goth," and explains that for many of its followers it is more of a stylistic choice while for others it is a way of life, and that most are sensitive and tolerant, not ...
Madeleine Albright
Kerry AckerMadeleine Albright came to the United States as an eleven-year-old Czechoslovakian refugee and grew up to become the highest-ranking woman ever to serve in the U.S. government.
Women in Politics Set
Kerry AckerWomen in Politics offers inspiring profiles of women who broke through gender barriers to become successful in the political realm--not only in the United States, but around the world.
Exploring the Solar System: The History and Science of ...
PreviewFor a discussion, withdocuments concerning theexpendable launch vehicle situation, seeJohn M. Logsdon,gen. ed.,with Ray A. Williamson, RogerD. Launius , Russell J. Acker, Stephen J. Garber, and Taylor, of NASA's Mission to Jupiter ( New ...
Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American ...
Larry McCafferyReviews and Commentanes about Ackers Work [Note: The 1989 special Acker issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction, edited by Ellen Friedman and Miriam Fuchs, is probably the best single source of critical discussions of her work.
The Virgin encyclopedia of jazz
Colin LarkinHere is all you could want to know about everybody from John Coltrane to Johnny Ball, from Charlie Parker to Acker Bilk. With The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz you are an instant master of pure beatnik cool.
Pink Pirates: Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright
Caren IrrStudies in the Novel 36:3 (Fall 2004): 352–73. Mintcheva, Svetlana “To Speak with the Voices of Others: Kathy Acker and the Avant-Garde,” in He Said, She Says: An RSVP to the Male Text. Ed. Mica Howe and Sarah Appleton Aguiar. Madison ...
Pynchon Notes
More editionsCurtin, Maureen F. Out of Touch: Skin Tropes and ldentities in WooIf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker. New York: Routledge, 2003. Dalsgaard, lnger Hunnerup. " Gravity's Rainbow: 'An Historical Novel of a Whole New Sort.'" Blissful Bewilderment: ...
Thomas Pynchon
Simon MalpasMaureen F. Curtin, Out of Touch: Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon and Acker, New York: Routledge, 2003, 70. Curtin persuasively argues that Pynchon's story represents a response to the question of black invisibility posed ...
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