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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist is a zany story of sexual identity, repression, obsession, and the concept of art as both a destructive and redeeming force. Morton Fisk has recently died of dehydration in the family's bathtub. A famous sculptor of Men With Chainsaws, he did all his work sealed away in the basement of their Connecticut home wearing only his torn briefs. On the eve of his daughter Frances's eighteenth birthday, his widow marries the Kingpin, an owner of three bowling alleys. Her mother tries to lure Frances to the life of the middle class - far away from the art world and the dementia that claimed her husband. Soon Frances's life is filled with bowling balls, pins, polyurethaned floors, and pizza. Depressed, Frances visits an aquarium. Witnessing two walruses in the heat of mating, Frances is transformed - she has found her muse! The walruses start to occupy her every thought. She sees them everywhere, including her bedroom. Running in fear, Frances and her friend Bessie take to the open road, with the libidinous beasts close behind. Will Frances and Bessie survive? Can art be controlled? Will the highways be destroyed from the weight of the walruses? Foos, a brilliant young satirist, has the ability to make the bizarre sound matter-of-fact.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Chris Martin details daily delights, sidewalks and subways, and bulldogs at the park, giving equal attention to all. In his poems, the reader witnesses the fragmentation of the speaker's mind into particles swirling and waltzing until eventually rising into the atmosphere. Do you explain ice by acting slippery? Simply by moving we implicate the hoax Chris Martin is the author of American Music, selected by C.D. Wright for the Hayden Carruth Award, and was named one of the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets in 2010. He currently lives in New York.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. From the best-selling, award-winning author of Firmin-a widow tells her side of the story.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. On a transatlantic flight between Bilbao and New York City, a fictional version of Kirmen Uribe recalls three generations of family history?the inspiration for the novel he wants to write?and ponders how the sea has shaped their stories.The day he knew he was going to die, our narrator?s grandfather took his daughter-in-law to the Fine Arts Museum in Bilbao, the de facto capital of the Basque region of northern Spain, to show her a painting with ties to their family. Years later, her son Kirmen traces those ties back through the decades, knotting together moments from early twentieth-century art history with the stories of his ancestors? fishing adventures?and tragedies?in the North Atlantic Ocean. Elegant, fluid storytelling is punctuated by scenes from Kirmen?s flight, from security line to airport bar to jet cabin, and reflections on the creative writing process.This original and compelling novel earned debut author Kirmen Uribe the prestigious National Prize for Literature in Spain in 2009. Exquisitely translated from Basque to English by Elizabeth Macklin, skillfully captures the intersections of many journeys: past and present, physical and artistic, complete and still unfolding. Bilbao?New York?Bilbao is the second book commissioned for the Spatial Species series, edited by Youmna Chlala and Ken Chen. The series investigates the ways we activate space through language. In the tradition of Georges Perec?s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Spatial Species titles are pocket-sized editions, each keenly focused on place. Instead of tourist spots and public squares, we encounter unmarked, noncanonical spaces: edges, alleyways, diasporic traces. Such intimate journeying requires experiments in language and genre, moving travelogue, fiction, or memoir into something closer to eating, drinking, and dreaming.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A brilliant embodiment of America's conflicted soul, with the intensity of Creeley and the political fire of Ginsberg.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Sometimes you don't come out, you just fall in love.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Disarmingly frank essays on sexuality, celebrity, TJ Maxx, acne, off-brand chocolate, almost-little-sisters, Craigslist, wanting to write, and the eternal what-should-I-do-with-my-life.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Disarmingly frank essays on sexuality, celebrity, TJ Maxx, acne, off-brand chocolate, almost-little-sisters, Craigslist, wanting to write, and the eternal what-should-I-do-with-my-life.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Disarmingly frank essays on sexuality, celebrity, TJ Maxx, acne, off-brand chocolate, almost-little-sisters, Craigslist, wanting to write, and the eternal what-should-I-do-with-my-life.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. LFL history, quirky and poignant firsthand stories, a resource guide, and some of the most creative and inspired LFLs around.

Hardback. Condition: Good. LFL history, quirky and poignant firsthand stories, a resource guide, and some of the most creative and inspired LFLs around.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior HOMES. Moheb Soliman traces the coast of the Great Lakes with postmodern poems, exploring the natural world, the experience of belonging, and the formation of identity along borders.Moheb Soliman?s HOMES maps the shoreline of the Great Lakes from the rocky North Shore of Minnesota to the Thousand Islands of eastern Ontario. This poetic travelogue offers an intimate perspective on an immigrant experience as Soliman drives his Corolla past exquisite vistas and abandoned mines, through tourist towns and midwestern suburbs, seeking to inhabit an entire region as home. Against the backdrop of environmental destruction and a history of colonial oppression, the vitality of Soliman?s language brings a bold ecopoetic lens to bear on the relationship between transience and belonging in the world?s largest, most porous borderland.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. LFL history, quirky and poignant firsthand stories, a resource guide, and some of the most creative and inspired LFLs around.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Recovery, motherhood, queerness-Idiophone is a striking meditation on risk-taking in art, from a distinctively feminist angle.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The ivory trade, smallpox, rock-'n'-roll, and one woman's past converge in this gripping, psychological page-turner.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Recovery, motherhood, queerness-Idiophone is a striking meditation on risk-taking in art, from a distinctively feminist angle.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Lyric essays on writing, moving among digression, reflection, imagination, and experience as a lover might, bringing art into the world.

Paperback. Condition: Good. As twelve-year-old Donald Duk burns 108 model airplanes in mid-flight to celebrate the Chinese New Year, Frank Chin torches stereotypes of Asian-Americans. Welcome to Chinatown, Chinese New Year in San Francisco. The day of the dog. The day of the thief. Everybody's birthday. The lantern festival of the fifteenth day. Welcome home. Crashing Cantonese opera, dancing lions, comic book heroes, and a childhood among partying pagans . . . . Little Donald Duk is a twelve-year-old kid with everything, including a name he doesn't like and a family who doesn't deserve him. As he completes his first turn around the Chinese zodiac's cycle of twelve animals, the Mandate of Heaven turns; he takes flight and dreams himself a home. As this novel opens, Donald Duk would rather be Fred Astaire than the son of a Chinatown restauranteur. Through the course of this robust, vigorous work, Donald learns to see himself more clearly as he, and we, see his culture free of distortive stereotypes.…

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