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  • Small Town, Big Music

    The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and Roll

    by Prufer ...
    Relying on oral histories, hundreds of rare photographs, and original music reviews, this book explores the countercultural fringes of Kent, Ohio, over four decades. Firsthand reminiscences from musicians, promoters, friends, and fans recount arena shows featuring acts like Pink Floyd, The Clash, and Paul Simon as well as the grungy corners of town where Joe Walsh, Patrick Carney, Chrissie Hynde, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Travis Kurowski, Wayne Miller, Kevin Prufer ...
    "A primer on big and small presses, literary magazines and all things digital, diversity, and economics . . . lively, timely, and indispensable." —Rob Spillman, editor and co-founder of Tin HouseGutenberg's invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by persistent ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kansas City Noir

    by J. Malcolm Garcia, Kevin Prufer, Grace Suh ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    Dark and gritty tales set in the "Paris of the Plains," including Nancy Pickard's "Lightbulb"—selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2013.Akashic Books' groundbreaking, globetrotting noir anthology series sets all-new stories in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective metropolitan area. Now "Kansas City, famous for its jazz, its barbecue, and its shady history, provides ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Maw of the Earth Monster

    Studies of Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use

    Edited by James E. Brady, Keith M. Prufer ...
    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    As portals to the supernatural realm that creates and animates the universe, caves have always been held sacred by the peoples of Mesoamerica. From ancient times to the present, Mesoamericans have made pilgrimages to caves for ceremonies ranging from rituals of passage to petitions for rain and a plentiful harvest. So important were caves to the pre-Hispanic peoples that they are mentioned in Maya ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Summer of Shooting Stars

    by Kevin Prufer ...
    It is the summer of 1989—but not the summer you remember. This is the summer of shooting stars, when every evening the Ohio sky blazes with hundreds of meteors burning high in the atmosphere, a season that begins in wonder and ends in terror.Fourteen-year-old Hustle spends his days with his best friend Dmitri, peering through neighbors’ windows, hanging around the record store on Lee Road, and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Caves and Culture

    10,000 Years of Ohio History

    Edited by Spurlock, Olaf H. Prufer, Thomas R. Pigott ...
    A collection of the last forty years of research on Ohio’s caves and rocksheltersCaves and Culture seeks to address a number of important problems, specifically the use of rockshelters by humans through time and transcontinental continuities. It presents new and updated, unreported research from such Ohio caves and rockshelters as Stow Rockshelter (Stow), Peters Cave (Ross County), Hendricks Cave ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Germany's Covert War in the Middle East

    Espionage, Propaganda and Diplomacy in World War I

    Translated by Kevin Morrow ...
    by Curt Prüfer ...
    Ultimately these cross purposes brought disaster, pulling a fatally weak and woefully unprepared Ottoman state into a global war, and unleashing vicious, internal ethnic repression that brought it defeat and dismemberment. The diaries and official reports of German spy and propagandist Curt Prufer - translated here into English in their entirety for the first time - chronicle the complexities of ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • Writing the Self-Elegy

    The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink

    by Teresa Leo, Jennifer McCauley, John Chavez, Katherine C. Jueds, Catherine Kyle, Adam Crittenden, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Kyle McCord, Jane Wong, Naomi Ortiz, Denise Leto, Carol Berg, Kristy Bowen, Floydd Michael Elliot, Jehanne Dubrow, Carl Phillips, Bruce Bond, Kevin Prufer, Rusane Morrison, Sheila Black, Lauren Shellberg, Anne Kaier, TC Tolbert, Raymond Luczak, Stephanie Heit, Juliet Cook, Tanaya Winder ...
    An innovative roadmap to facing our past and present selvesHonest, aching, and intimate, self-elegies are unique poems focusing on loss rather than death, mourning versions of the self that are forgotten or that never existed. Within their lyrical frame, multiple selves can coexist—wise and naïve, angry and resigned—along with multiple timelines, each possible path stemming from one small choice ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Art of Fiction

    by Kevin Prufer ...
    An investigation, performed through storytelling, of the constructed beliefs of society and individualsIn this his eighth collection of poetry (and fifth with Four Way Books), Prufer’s career-spanning talent for estranging the familiar—and also for recording the unthinkable with eerie directness—recurs, enhanced and transformed by the collection’s meta-level attention to the role of fiction in our ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Fears

    by Kevin Prufer ...
    An unflinching study of death, Kevin Prufer’s The Fearsinvites us to consider what it means to matter.Editor, publisher, and poet Kevin Prufer presents his ninth poetry collection,The Fears, an intimate meditation on storytelling and mortality. "Ghostlit by streetlights” and filtered through tale and recollection, Prufer examines our fears of loss, death, and obscurity. Narratives are braided ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Sleepaway

    A Novel

    by Kevin Prufer ...
    A haunting debut novel from celebrated poet Kevin Prufer.It’s 1984, and the invisible mists are falling, mists that cause people to slip into dreamless slumber—sleeps from which most, but not all, awaken. Those who do wake live in fear of the next mist, and the next, each a little longer and more dangerous than the last.Alternating between the perspectives of a kleptomaniac waitress named Cora and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    by Kimmy Santiago Baca, Ana Castillo, James Reich, Miriam Sagan, Israel Francisco Haros Lopez ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    Seventeen storytellers take readers on a dark tour of the arty New Mexican city in this collection of crime tales.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.With stories by: Ana Castillo, Jimmy Santiago Baca, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus