Partial Genius
Partial Genius

Author: Mary Biddinger

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781625570062

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Poetry. "I love this book so much. A work of meticulous craft and profound originality, Mary Biddinger's newest collection of prose poems is one of the best books I've read on our historical moment and the decades that led to it. PARTIAL GENIUS reads like a dossier of the psychological landscape of late capitalist America and the end of empire. In the tradition of John Ashbery, but wholly original in her own vision and voice, Biddinger draws from a deep well of poetic intellect and wit to illuminate the existential threats and imaginative possibilities of our collective self-destruction. In 'The Subject Pool' the speaker watches a man tattoo AU COURANT around her thigh. The tattoo artist has no idea. Every poem is chock-full of revelations in every detail. Reading this book felt like sitting by the fire in some secret location with a double agent, smoking her pipe telling tales of all that went down right in front of our faces, while we were all driven to distraction by outrage. To paraphrase Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, She's got it all in this book."--Heather Derr-Smith "'How many days since you began your last panic...?' Mary Biddinger asks in her latest collection. Quirky, imaginative, and wry in tone, PARTIAL GENIUS is a book that thwarts expectation, turns convention on its head, surprises and delights. Within a narrative scaffolded like a twisting stairway or maze-like hall, these fascinating poems feature high school reunions, job interviews, broken dioramas, and birth control pills; they showcase apologies, parlor games, and consolation prizes, intricacies, illusions, and tricks. Comfort is found in a bar of bathroom soap. An assistant manager wonders why a blazer is named for fire. A radio is implanted in the chest as a companion to the heart. Spheres of uncertainty juxtaposed against landscapes of failure create the book's complex beauty and dangerous edge, as Biddinger claims, 'The best part of figure skating was getting cut.' PARTIAL GENIUS comes to us as both a study of despair and a gleaming beacon of hope."--Jennifer Militello

Damned If You Don't
Damned If You Don't

Author: Randall Garrett

Publisher: VM eBooks

Published: 2016-01-21

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13:

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You can and you can't; You will and you won't. You'll be damn'd if you do; You'll be damn'd if you don't. --LORENZO DOW; "Definition of Calvinism" We've all heard of the wonderful invention that the Big Corporation or the Utilities suppressed...? Usually, that Wonderful Invention won't work, actually. But there's another possibility, too.... The workshop-laboratory was a mess. Sam Bending looked it over silently; his jaw muscles were hard and tense, and his eyes were the same. To repeat what Sam Bending thought when he saw the junk that had been made of thousands of dollars worth of equipment would not be inadmissible in a family magazine, because Bending was not particularly addicted to four-letter vulgarities. But he was a religious man--in a lax sort of way--so repeating what ran through his mind that gray Monday in February of 1981 would be unfair to the memory of Samson Francis Bending. Sam Bending folded his hands over his chest. It was not an attitude of prayer; it was an attempt to keep those big, gorillalike hands from smashing something. The fingers intertwined, and the hands tried to crush each other, which was a good way to keep them from actually crushing anything else. He stood there at the door for a full minute--just looking.

DAMNED IF YOU DON'T
DAMNED IF YOU DON'T

Author: GORDON RANDALL GARRETT

Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13:

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You can and you can't; You will and you won't. You'll be damn'd if you do; You'll be damn'd if you don't.--LORENZO DOW; "Definition of Calvinism"We've all heard of the wonderful invention that the Big Corporation or the Utilities suppressed...? Usually, that Wonderful Invention won't work, actually.

The Interfaces
The Interfaces

Author: Kerstin Schwabe

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2003-03-20

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 902729691X

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The Interfaces: Deriving and Interpreting Omitted Structures is a collection of never-before-published papers that explore the nature of the interfaces of syntax with semantics, phonology, and discourse. The papers investigate the various ways in which elliptical structures are related to these interfaces. As such, they not only make a valuable contribution to generative linguistic research but, more generally, help to deepen our understanding of the relation between form and meaning in natural language. In the book’s introductory chapter, the editors address general issues related to current work on ellipsis and the syntax/semantics, syntax/phonology and syntax/discourse interfaces. The rest of the book is organized into three parts. The first examines PF-deletion accounts of elliptical structures; the second investigates these structures from the perspective of the syntax/semantic interface; and the third explores these from a perspective that concentrates on the relation between semantics and focus and discourse structure. Together the papers collected in this volume offer a convincing demonstration of the value of collaborative research on the ‘interfaces’.

The Randall Garrett MEGAPACK®
The Randall Garrett MEGAPACK®

Author: Randall Garrett

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2013-02-26

Total Pages: 1085

ISBN-13: 1434447057

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"The Randall Garrett Megapack" (and its companion volume, "The Second Randall Garrett Megapack") together encompass 42 classic-era science fiction tales by Randall Garrett. Readers interested in works by the author of the Lord Darcy and the Queen's Own F.B.I. series will find much of interest here! [Note that we omit one story--an early magazine version of a novel included in the second volume--as unnecessary.] "The Randall Garrett Megapack" -- focusing primarily on shorter words --collects 25 stories from the pages of Astounding Science Fiction Stories, Analog, and Amazing Stories. Included are: BELLY LAUGH HEIST JOB ON THIZAR THE MAN WHO HATED MARS THE JUDAS VALLEY THE PENAL CLUSTER DESPOILERS OF THE GOLDEN EMPIRE CUM GRANO SALIS BUT, I DON’T THINK DEAD GIVEAWAY ...OR YOUR MONEY BACK THE DESTROYERS IN CASE OF FIRE THE MEASURE OF A MAN DAMNED IF YOU DON’T BY PROXY THE HIGHEST TREASON A SPACESHIP NAMED McGUIRE HANGING BY A THREAD FIFTY PER CENT PROPHET HAIL TO THE CHIEF THE BRAMBLE BUSH ...AFTER A FEW WORDS... ANCHORITE ANYTHING YOU CAN DO THE UNNECESSARY MAN If you like this volume, you will definitely want to add "The Second Randall Garrett Megapack" too. (Available on this ebook store.) And don't forget to search for "Wildside Megapack" in this store to see the whole series, ranging from science fiction and fantasy to westerns, mysteries, ghost stories -- and much, much more!