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Ivy Breedlove's family is driving her crazy. Generations of Breedloves have been prominent lawyers and her relatives expect her to follow suit. "We'll make her a lawyer yet!" they pronounce at a family reunion. Well, not if Ivy has her say. But how do you have your say when the voices surrounding you are so loud? Ivy's passion for the past provides an answer. As she works on completing a history of her illustrious family, she discovers other Breedlove women who broke the mold, including her father's sister Josephine. No one will talk about the reclusive Aunt Jo, so when Ivy hires a wilderness guide to find her, her family is less than thrilled. Armed with her thirst for knowledge, Ivy undertakes a dramatic journey up an icy mountain and into the backwater to try to find someone, perhaps, like herself..
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A practical guide to the poet's life, including chapters on getting published, finding your own writing style, learning how to lead the life of a poet, by an award-winning, self-taught, and widely published poet..
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A year before the much-heralded second front was opened in Normandy in 1944, the Allies waged a campaign in Sicily and Italy--an assault that was marked by intra-Allied argument and dissent from beginning to end. This is the story of the "backwater war" that resulted: a fierce, drawn-out campaign that began with the invasion of Sicily, continued with the landings at Salerno and Anzio in Italy, and included the controversial bombing of Monte Cassino.

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Conversational interviews with Nebraska poets and writers including United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn, as well as Don Welch, Brent Spencer, New York Times Best-selling novelist Jonis Agee, Barbara Schmitz, Charles Fort, Hilda Raz, Ron Block, Eammon Wall, Twyla Hansen, and J.V.Brummels. Each interview is followed by representative pieces of the interviewee's writing. Each interview includes a picture of the poet or author. Edited by Shelly Clark and Marjorie Saiser..
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Remarkable first book by a seasoned Chicago poet..
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Wild and freely imaginative poems by this Whitman- and Neruda-influenced poet who celebrates the life of the Milwaukee area where she lives and grew up..
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"My poems are often dreams; my dreams are poems," Alexandria Peary tells us in her marvelous first book. These poems describe a world resembling out own, beneath which she finds endless off-kilter surprise and beauty. "Outside," she writes in one in one startling moment, "the driftwood struggled like arms & legs" and, later, a recorded voice "looks just like a piece of tinfoil lying in the sun / in which you could go swimming." I've long admired Alexandria Peary's intelligence, her evocative skills, and her gift for discovering in the everyday such dreamlike, frequently frightening, moments..
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Andrew Mulvania's Arcadia lies tucked into the rich landscape of rural central Missouri-its cornfields and falling-down barns, its rickety old river towns with their repair shops and crackling blacktop roads. Like the earliest Arcadians, this fine young poet renders the rough, precarious world with formalizing grace, odic, elegiac, tender, and dignified. He fuses high literary allusiveness with hands-on knowledge of farm life, and he writes so well he makes the complexity of his project, its "strict and tangled intricacies," as clear as the glassy mirror of a morning pond. Also in Arcadia is a belated pastoral, a new gift brought forward from an old, enchanted, living world..
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