Language & Literature

ISBN: 9781789259018
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems
Volume: 7
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Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practised by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context that affects what they do and how... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822947295
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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ISBN: 9780819500168
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
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A trailblazing lesbian poet, child Holocaust survivor, and political activist whose work is deeply informed by socialist values, Irena Klepfisz is a vital and individual American voice. This book is the first complete collection of her work. For f... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966975
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Blessing the Exoskeleton is a southerner’s book about Michigan. Written over a two-year period in Kalamazoo, Andrew Hemmert’s poems address climate change, labor, love, and his attempts to live joyfully in a deteriorating world. Though th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966951
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
In Endurable Infinity, Tony Kitt creates his own tangential surrealism through wonder, intuition, and surprising connections. If the original surrealists of the 1930s sought to unleash the unconscious mind by bringing elements of dreams t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780813196459
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Kentucky Voices
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When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark Expedition from the point of view of Clark's personal slave, York. The fictionalized poems in Buffalo Dance... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822947233
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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Disability and literacy are often understood as incompatible. Disability is taken to be a sign of illiteracy, and illiteracy to be a sign of disability. These oppositions generate damaging consequences for disabled students (and those labeled as s... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780822966968
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Territorial explores the bargains that women make to stay safe from violence. Set in a landscape of looming ecological ruin, the poems bear witness to the effects of drought on the California chaparral region and delve into difficult personal terr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819500120
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
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In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful is a meditation on water, land, women, and violent environmental changes as they affect both the natural world and human migration. The poet reckons with the unsettling realities that women experience, qu... .... Learn More