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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “shara mccallum”
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  • Behold

    by Shara McCallum ...
    Born of the poet’s longstanding love of visual art, especially painting, Behold examines why we love what we love, and how we see (and are seen) by art. When we say we “saw” something, McCallum asks, what is it that we saw—outside of us, and within?Over two years spent working on this book, McCallum traveled to museums in the U.S. and abroad with the explicit goal of standing before works of art ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Ruined Stone

    by Shara McCallum ...
    No Ruined Stone is a verse sequence rooted in the life of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1786, Burns arranged to migrate to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation, a plan he ultimately abandoned. Voiced by a fictive Burns and his fictional granddaughter, a "mulatta" passing for white, the book asks: what would have happened had he gone? ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Strange Land

    by Shara McCallum ...
    These poems probe the definition of Motherland. Shara McCallum homogenizes childhood memories of her native Jamaica with a revised understanding of danger and corruption, teasing out notions of history, language, motherhood, rupture, memory, and identity. She weaves new cloth of oral tradition, struggling to arrange a comfort zone within the foreign manufactures of suburbia. Hers is the skilled ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Madwoman

    by Shara McCallum ...
    Haunting, alarming, transformative, and elusive, these poems bridge together the gaps between development stages: from girl, to woman, and then mother. With the complexities that intertwine them, can you be all three at once? Who shapes our identity, and who is in control here? How do we recognize, acknowledge, and honor the changing of who we are? ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Song Of Thieves

    by Shara McCallum ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Song of Thieves delves into issues of racial identity and politics, the immigrant experience, and the search for "home" and family histories. In this follow-up to her award-winning debut collection, The Water Between Us, Shara McCallum artfully draws from the language and imagery of her Caribbean background to play a haunting and soulful tune. ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • The Water Between Us

    by Shara McCallum ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize winner.Shara McCallum is the eighteenth winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, one of the nation's most prestigious awards for a first book of poetry. The Water Between Us is a poetic examination of cultural fragmentation, and the exile's struggle to reconcile the disparate and often conflicting influences of the homeland and the adopted country. The book ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Sign & Breath

    by Christal Brown, Dante DiStefano, Michael Waters, Bruce Bond, Shara McCallum, Tim Seibles, Claire Bateman, Dominique Christina, Rita Banerjee, Bianca Stone, Nell-Lynn Perera, D. M. Aderibigbe, William Heyen, Diana Whitney, Kristina Marie Darling, Cynthia Hogue, Arthur Sza, Christine Gelineau, H.L. Hix, Colum McCann, Haleh Liza Gafori, Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, Shin Yu Pai, Ru Freeman, Felice Belle, Alycia D. Jenkins, Jerome Rothenberg, Fred D'Aguiar, Diane Raptosh, Sheryl St. Germain, Bruce Smith, Jeff Talarigo, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Lynn Kozak, Carolyn Finney, Remica Bingham-Risher, Carol Moldaw, Steven Reese, Nin Andrews, Jeff Diteman, Angelique Palmer, Philip Metres, Damon Honeycutt, Tanure Ojaide, Morowa Yejide, Kazim Ali, Rashidah Ismaili Abu-Baker ...
    Sign & Breath is a new critical anthology that takes a different approach to exploring these questions: What is poetry? What defines voice? Featuring a range of contemporary artists, many of whom work across different mediums and genres, Sign & Breath introduces the reader to one page that sings in any genre – prose, fiction, poetry, spoken word, hybrid forms, and song – across diverse traditions. ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • A Slant of Light

    Reflections on Jack Wheatcroft

    by Peter Balakian, Bruce Smith, Jan Balakian, Philip Brady, Tom Gardner, Cynthia Hogue, Kurt Landefeld, Teresa Leo, Jane Maas0, Shara McCallum1, Dennis O’Brien2, Dierdre O’Connor3, Anne Rogers Poliakoff4, John Ramsay5, Philip Roth6, Betsy Sholl7, Gary Sojka8, Matthew Stevenson9 ...
    Jack Wheatcroft (1925-2016) had a transformative impact on five decades of Bucknell students (1952-1996). He served the institution with great generosity of a kind that was rare for a teacher so immersed in his writing. He founded the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, the Philip Roth Visiting Writers Residency, and the magnificent Stadler Center for Poetry. He over saw the restoration of ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia

    by Todd Davis, Noah Davis, Carolyn Mahan, janan alexandra, David Baker, Susan Barba, Sarah Barber, Robin Becker0, Lisa Bellamy1, Dave Bonta2, Elizabeth Bradfield3, Joseph J. Capista4, Stacie Cassarino5, George David Clark6, Grant Clauser7, J.L. Conrad8, Geffrey Davis9, Alison Deming0, Chard deNiord1, Rebecca Foust2, Hannah Fries3, Michael Garrigan4, Adam Giannelli5, Margaret Gibson6, Charity Gingerich7, Andrew C. Gottlieb8, Willard P. Greenwood II9, Jeff Gundy0, K.A. Hays1, John Hodgen2, Henry Hughes3, M.J. Iuppa4, Julie Swarstad Johnson5, Kasey Jueds6, Julia Spicher Kasdorf7, Daniel Lassell8, Sydney Lea9, Diane LeBlanc0, Xiaoly Li1, Anni Liu2, Marjorie Maddox3, Kerrin McCadden4, Abby Minor5, Roger Mitchell6, Nik Moore7, Aimee Nezhukumatathil8, Leah Poole Osowski9, Sean Prentiss0, L. Renée1, Jack Ridl2, Christina Seymour3, Neil Shepard4, Julia Shipley5, Betsy Sholl6, David Shumate7, Matthew J. Spireng8, Eleanor Stanford9, Jordan Temchack0, Philip Terman1, Chase Twichell2, Lee Upton3, Judith Vollmer4, Ryan Walsh5, Henry Walters6, Jerry Wemple7, Karen J. Weyant8, Joe Wilkins9, Emily Beam0, Joe Beam1, Allyson Comstock2, Roberto D’Amanda3, Ashley Hamersma4, Gary Hawkins5, Talley V. Kayser6, Gwen Noll7, Ray Noll8, Henry Shearon9, Quinlin Taylor0, Sarah E. Allen1, Carl Engstrom2, Jerry D. Hassinger3, Andrew L. Shiels4, Hannah L. (Cave) Stout5, Sarah Blake6, Shara McCallum7 ...
    Series Book 59 - Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
    Northern Appalachia is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth and home to a broad range of ecological and human cultures. With A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, editors Todd Davis and Noah Davis recognize and celebrate this diversity and the fact that humans are storytelling creatures who develop relationships with their landscapes at the intersection of art and science.A ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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