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“joseph bathanti”

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  • Steady Daylight

    Poems

    by Joseph Bathanti ...
    Steady Daylight, the latest volume of poetry from Joseph Bathanti, returns to the place he grew up, the now-vanished neighborhood of East Liberty in Pittsburgh. The speaker traipses fearlessly between real and imagined realms, in the face of often conflicted sensibilities, secrets, and silence. While the physical touchstones of the “old” East Liberty have evanesced, Bathanti invents a world ample ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Light at the Seam

    Poems

    by Joseph Bathanti ...
    Winner of the Roanoke-Chowan Award for PoetryWinner of the Brockman-Campbell AwardLight at the Seam, a new collection from North Carolina poet Joseph Bathanti, is an exploration of mountaintop removal in southern Appalachian coal country. The volume illuminates and champions often invisible people residing, in a precarious moment in time, on the glorious, yet besieged, Appalachian earth. Their ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Too Glorious to Even Long for on Certain Days

    by Joseph Bathanti ...
    In working-class Pittsburgh, a young man confronts an existential crisis and the absurdity of life.Fritz Sweeney grapples with the meaninglessness of his job at Acme Toy Warehouse, a feeling amplified by his introduction to Camus's philosophy. His relationship with the enigmatic Claire Raffo further complicates his search for purpose. Set in 1973, Fritz navigates moral crossroads, challenging his ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • East Liberty

    A Novel

    by Joseph Bathanti ...
    A fatherless boy is conflicted by his Catholic upbringing and his dreams in this coming-of-age novelEast Liberty is a poetic, passionate coming-of-age novel spanning 1955 to 1963, set in an Italian-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh. Roberto (Bobby) Renzo, the novel's fatherless narrator and main character, lives with Francene Renzo, his beautiful, mysterious, and unconventional mother who gave ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Act of Contrition and Other Stories

    by Joseph Bathanti ...
    Joseph Bathanti's THE ACT OF CONTRITION & OTHER STORIES, a series of linked stories and one novella, continues the adventures of Fritz Sweeney and his outrageously memorable parents, Travis and Rita, that began in Bathanti's earlier award-winning volume of stories, THE HIGH HEART. Spanning the mid-fifties to the mid-seventies, in an Italian American working class neighborhood in Pittsburgh, THE ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Life of the World to Come

    A Novel

    by Joseph Bathanti ...
    An intrepid road novel stretching from the steel mills and gambling dens of Pittsburgh to the rough-hewn small-town SouthIn a weaving together of contradictory realms—past and present, rustbelt city and rural/urban South, old-world Catholicism and backwoods Protestantism—Joseph Bathanti draws readers into the 1970s as protagonist George Dolce faces major upheaval in The Life of the World to Come ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 13th Sunday after Pentecost

    Poems

    by Joseph Bathanti ...
    In The 13th Sunday after Pentecost, Joseph Bathanti offers poems that delve deep into a life reimagined through a mythologized past. Moving from his childhood to the present, weaving through the Italian immigrant streets of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to his parochial school, from the ballpark to church and home again, these contemplative poems present a situation unique to the poet but familiar to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Anthology of Black Mountain College Poetry

    Edited by Blake Hobby, Alessandro Porco, Joseph Bathanti ...
    Founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina, Black Mountain College fostered experimentation and interdisciplinary learning, placing the arts at the heart of its curriculum. As such, the college was home to and served as inspiration for many modern and postmodern American poets. Some of them, including Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Denise Levertov, appeared in Donald Allen’s groundbreaking ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Sound of Poets Cooking

    by richard krawiec, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Joseph Bathanti ...
    “This is the most delicious book on my bookshelf. The poems will make you laugh, cry and wax nostalgic. And the recipes will make your mouth water. No wonder the little stone Buddha on the cover has such a satisfied smile on his face."NC Poet Laureate Cathy Smith BowersThis fun combination cookbook/poetry anthology features work by five dozen poets, including NC Poet Laureates Fred Chappell and ... Read more

    $6.98 CAD

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    1974-2004

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    **Finalist for the 2016 National Book AwardFinalist for the 2017 NAACP Image AwardThree decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.**Rita Dove’s Collected Poems 1974–2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U.S. poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Medal of Art. Gathering ... Read more

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  • What Are Big Girls Made Of?

    Poems (ALA Notable Books for Adults)

    by Marge Piercy ...
    Opening with a powerful cycle of elegies for her long-distant, half-brother, this major new collection by one of our bestselling poets then goes on to include both serious and funny poems about women and poems about the precarious balance of nature, ending with the beautiful, life-affirming "The Art of Blessing the Day." 160 pp. ... Read more

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  • Nightmare Carnival

    by Katherine Dunn, N. Lee Wood, Priya Sharma, Nick Mamatas, A.C. Wise, Terry Dowling, Joel Lane, Glen Hirshberg, Jeffrey Ford, Dennis Danvers, Genevieve Valentine, Stephen Graham Jones, Robert Shearman, Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Livia Llewellyn ...
    Encounter the scariest clowns and freakiest curiosities under the big top, in stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Laird Barron, Priya Sharma, and others.With an introduction from Katherine DunnLadies and gentlemen, step right up for fifteen tales of terrifying rides, supernatural sideshows, and petrifying performers guaranteed to keep you up all night—with Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor ... Read more

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