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Three pivotal works conceived by the avant-garde poet as a trilogy and now together in one volume at last.

Rosmarie Waldrop's Curves to the Apple brings together three highly praised and influential titles: The Reproduction of Profiles, Lawn of Excluded Middle, and Reluctant Gravities. Though originally published separately, these prose poems have always been intended as a loose trilogy of thought and feeling—or of thought manifested as feeling. The author comments: "Just as the title Curves to the Apple combines the organic and geometry (not to mention myth and history of science) the poems navigate the conflicting, but inextricable claims of body and mind, especially the female body and feelings in a space of logic and physics. The poems could all be called dialogic, reaching out across a synaptic (sometimes humorous) gap to a possible 'you' (though it may be rhetorical, another point of view in the same mind). But while the 'I' dominates the first two volumes, the third gives both voices equal space and chance.".
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In southern Ethiopia, there are craftworkers and hunters who are vigorously excluded from mainstream society. As blacksmiths, potters, tanners, woodworkers, weavers, and hunters of wild animals, they fulfill important roles in society, yet many of them are considered by local people to be not "real people." They are feared as purveyors of evil and supernatural powers. Despised as outcasts, they face discrimination across the whole social, political, and economic spectrum. The marginalization of these groups is not new or localized and occurs in both the towns and the countryside of Ethiopia and across Africa.

This book has three main aims. First, it provides the most detailed history and ethnography of these groups to date. With comparative data about fourteen different ethnic groups in southern Ethiopia, many of which have never been documented before, it offers new information about the lives of the people who "live on the edge." Second, it offers a radically new understanding of these groups and the marginalization they face. Peripheral People shatters some of the myths about them that have dominated scholarly approaches and provides a new framework for understanding occupational marginalization in Ethiopia and Africa generally. And third, it considers how the plight of marginalized groups might be alleviated, both by their own efforts and by the interventions of governments and NGOs..
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This book deals with one of the most urgent, damaging, and complex issues affecting young lives and contemporary society in general—the escalating high school dropout rate. Though against the wishes of teachers and school administrators, young people's decision to leave school is usually made under circumstances that provide little time or space for discussion. This book provides a disturbing account of how students' voices are over-ridden—lost in the imposition of curriculum and the rush to impose testing, accountability, and management regimes on schools. Dropping Out, Drifting Off, Being Excluded reveals the complex stories that surround identity formation in young lives and the "interactive trouble" as young people struggle to be heard within inhospitable schools and an equally unhelpful education system..
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