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  • Escape from the Fat Farm

    Poetry and Prose

    by Sandy McIntosh ...
    A poignant and humorous exploration of memory, identity, and the literary life.Escape from the Fat Farm is a captivating collection of poetry and prose by Sandy McIntosh, featuring both new and acclaimed works. McIntosh's lyrical and funny style shines through as he recounts his experiences, from military school days to encounters with literary giants like Truman Capote and David Ignatow. These ... Read more

    $12.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plan B

    A Poet's Survivors Manual

    by Sandy McIntosh ...
    IN PLAN B: A POET'S SURVIVORS MANUAL, McIntosh offers the answer: you need a Plan B if you want to put food on the table, wear shoes without holes in the soles, and stop living with roommates before you turn sixty. Taking us on a witty, fascinating, no-holds barred romp through his own experiences in the world of commercial writing and publishing, McIntosh reassures us that it is possible to have ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Lesser Lights

    More Tales From a Hamptons' Apprenticeship

    by Sandy McIntosh ...
    Series series The Chapter One Series
    In this second collection of memoirs, award-winning author Sandy McIntosh, continues his coming of age story set in the early 1970's in Long Island's famous Hamptons arts colony. Included are tales of wild adventures in filmmaking with Norman Mailer and Ilya Bolotowsky; the communist influence on the work of the writers and painters; as well as encounters with Truman Capote, Jean Stafford, P. G. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Hole in the Ocean

    A Hampton's Apprenticeship

    by Sandy McIntosh ...
    Sandy McIntosh's A Hole In The Ocean bends time as though on a Mobius band, the fiction of the 'actual' running into, over and around the real of the 'imagined'. His sweet affecting memoir of the late 20th century Hamptons art and poetry scene wraps effortlessly into the latter pages in which McIntosh dreams the works of Hemingway, Goethe and a host of other writers. His 'hole' is a mid-ocean ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Quest: A Writer's Journey

    Edited by Susan Terris, Sandy McIntosh ...
    Series series Chapter One
    Original memoirs by outstanding poets from diverse backgrounds, each recalling how they discovered their beginnings and the experiences, influences, and moments that shaped their voices and creative journeys. ... Read more

    $12.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Selected Poems of H.R. Hays

    With Essays on Translation

    Edited by Sandy McIntosh ...
    H.R. HAYS was a poet, translator, novelist and playwright, an historian of anthropology and zoology, and a teacher. Several of his twenty-two books, reflecting the diversity of his interests, were the pioneering works in their fields. William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Robert Bly and David Ignatow praised his poetry. His translations of Brecht, Vallejo, Borges, Neruda, and many others were ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Edited by Alan Ziegler ...
    Short offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, and addictive.Short prose forms are elusive to define--one writer's prose poem is another's flash fiction or brief essay. Rather than quibble, Short opts for inclusiveness. Here is a dazzling array: 100s of pieces (under 1250 words) ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Great American Prose Poems

    From Poe to the Present

    Edited by David Lehman ...
    A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated poet David Lehman, editor of The Best American Poetry series, traces the form in all its dazzling variety from Poe and Emerson to Auden and Ashbery ... Read more

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  • Due Considerations

    Essays and Criticism

    by John Updike ...
    A page-turning collection of essays and literary criticism on topics ranging from books, writers, poker, cars, faith, and the American libido—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series."[Updike is] one of the best essayists and critics this country has produced in the last century."—The Los Angeles TimesHere Updike considers ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Daily Rituals

    How Artists Work

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    More than 150 inspired—and inspiring—novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do.Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited ... Read more

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  • A Field Guide To Getting Lost

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
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    With a new afterword by the authorIn her map to loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Meandering eclectically through memory and mortality, Hitchcock movies and heartbreak, Solnit’s beloved account of staying off the beaten path sheds glittering new light on the way we live now. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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