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Poetry. BREATHING BOLANO is two books in one--Tod Thilleman's BREATHING with Richard Blevins's FROM CORRIDO OF BOLANO. The books are bound tete-beche (or dos-a-dos), that is, without a "back" cover but instead with two front covers and a single spine entitled READING BOLANO. When a reader reaches the end of the text of one of the works, the next page is the (upside-down) final page of the other work. ... Read more

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Transformative Justice illustrates how critical restorative and peacemaking perspectives on crime form the basis of a transformative criminology (a call for personal and institutional transformation of crime and justice). Transformative criminology is explored in terms of theoretical influences, peacemaking and restorative applications, and next steps to be taken in this needs-based and compassionate orientation toward social life. ... Read more

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Poetry. "At once unnervingly learned and boldly feelingful, Richard Blevins is a hero of the contemporary long-form poem, and CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES' driven reconsiderations of the disappeared careers of photographer Fred Holland Day and poet Adelaide Crapsey have a sweep and an intimacy that excite from line to alert line. With their heady synchronies and hyperlucid lyric fragments, their unearthings and upendings, their questing meditations and meditative narratives, their bursts of aphorism and doses of tonic fact, these are poems of an unusually welcoming intelligence and of an unassuming mastery. 'If you want to keep a secret, print it in a poem,' Blevins writes, and fortunate is any reader privy to the confidences volunteered in these generous, essential pages"--Gary Lutz. Richard Blevins' FOGBOW BRIDGE: SELECTED POEMS, 1972-1999 was published by Pavement Saw. ... Read more

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From the book jacket
Anyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows the southern United States offers visitors a rich variety of scenic, cultural, and leisure activities. Tourism has been, and is still, one of the most powerful economic forces in the modern South. It is a multibillion-dollar industry that creates jobs and generates revenue while drawing visitors from around the world to enjoy the regionÒs natural and man-made attractions.

This collection of 11 essays explores tourism as a defining force in southern history by focusing on particular influences and localities. Alecia Long examines sex as a fundamental component of tourism in New Orleans in the early 20th century, while Brooks Blevins describes how tourism served as a modernizing influence on the Arkansas Ozarks, even as the region promoted itself as a land of quaint, primitive hillbillies. Anne Whisnant chronicles the battle between North Carolina officials building the Blue Ridge Parkway and the owner of Little Switzerland, who fought for access and advertising along the scenic highway. One essay probes the racial politics behind the development of Hilton Head Island, while another looks at the growth of Florida's panhandle into a "redneck Riviera," catering principally to southerners, rather than northern tourists.

Southern Journeys is a pioneering work in southern history. It introduces a new window through which to view the region's distinctiveness. Scholars and students of environmental history, business history, labor history, and social history will all benefit from a consideration of the place of tourism in southern life.
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Poetry. Richard Blevins, well known as a publisher (of Zelot Press/Clarel Editions) and as an editor (of the Olson-Creeley correspondence), is also the author of numerous books and chapbooks (including CLAREL'S MOTEL and THE COLLECTED LATER POEMS OF PHILIP MARLOWE, both still available from SPD). This selection spans more than 25 years in the career of a writer noted for his quick psychological discrimination and scatter...The work becomes a luminated graph of sentience across space, a body of prior observations, pulled to focus in the present case (Edward Dorn). Along the way, Blevins finds inspiration in Blaise Cendrars, Robert Duncan, Ezra Pound, Jimi Hendrix, and the landscape of the American Plains. With a foreword by Stephen Ellis. ... Read more

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A Rare Poet
Blevins is a rare poet - - a writer with a casual sense of fine language, a balance in his view of things, and a grace of expression that stands considerably beyond easy formalism. Few living poets make the contribution he makes. I love this book, and encourage anyone with an interest in words and life to try it. ... Read more

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A nice companion piece to the world of ElfQuest
A richly drawn journey through the World of Two Moons, this collection ofstories spanning thousands of years is a fine addition to the everunfolding ElfQuest saga. "The Blood of Ten Chiefs" gives us anall too brief glimpse into the lives of the wolfriders before the familiardays of Cutter and his family. Like the best of the ElfQuest tales, thesestories are well written, beautifully drawn and easily capture emotionswithout the need for excess dialogue and narration. The change in stylesfrom story to story, artist to artist, can be distracting at first, butafter the first few pages the reader is fully involved and captivated byeach artist's unique vision of these wonderful elves and their magicalworld. Wendi Pini's creative absence, so terribly and painfully obvious inmany of the other recent entries in the series, in no way diminishes thiscollection which features some of the finest work of the "guest"artists I have yet seen.

The stories are varied in style and scope,ranging from the visually stunning "Colors" which tells the epictale of Timmorn and his struggle to reconcile his elfin and wolf heritage,to the whimsical and innocent "At the Oak's Root" which tells ofa young Tanner and his misfit "wolf"-friend who is not a wolf atall.

Taken together the stories serve as an engaging glimpse at thelegendary Ten Chiefs. Newcomers to ElfQuest should probably save thiscollection for last, as the stories assume that the reader comes to themwith a full and comfortable command of World of Two Moons and itsinhabitants.

Good pick
I really enjoy Elf Quest comics, but they don't tell you much about what life was like before Cutter's tribe.This book provides you with exelent, well written background information, and detailed drawings of the elves andthe incredible world of two moons.It tells you different stories aboutall the ten cheiftens that came before cutter.

The many chiefs - and glimpses - of the World of Two Moons
In the twenty-one years since Wendy and Richard Pini introduced the graphic series "Elfquest", many readers have been curious about the background of Cutter and his Wolfrider tribe.The Pinis took a firststep toward answering these questions by endorsing a fantasy-novel series,"The Blood of Ten Chiefs", which appeared throughout the 1980s;this collection of short prose stories brought to light major events in thelives of the chieftains who lived in the 10,000 years before we meet theelves for the first time.From 1993 to 1995, the spirit - and some of thesubstance - of these tales was brought into a new EQ graphic serial,"Blood of Ten Chiefs"; the first nine issues retold stories fromthe prose-books, the last eleven were original tales created specially forthis new series.Book 9b reprints issues 1 to 7, and 10-11 (a two-partstory).

In these episodes published here the storytelling is always ofquality, and two of the tales - "Colors" (issue 1) and "TheBroken Circle" (issues 10-11) are among the most memorable andsignificant in the series."Colors" is the visual version ofRichard Pini's tale about the struggle of the half-wolf Timmorn, the firstWolfrider chieftain, to reconcile the elfin and lupine sides of his soul. The difficulty of illustrating states of mind is handled beautifully here;profound as the prose is, the drawing is even more eloquent, particularlyin the last few pages.Even the coloring-work, though reprinted only inblack-and-white, yet adds to the total effect (a pleasant surprise inalmost all the issues here is the graceful transfer of these originallycolorized drawings).No issue in BoTC was less than solid, but this debutissue remains the best of the series.

Other stories include anothercarryover from the novels, "The Phantom of the Berry Patch" - atale about the young Bearclaw (the father of Cutter);the grim, disturbing"Swift-Spear", an account of Two-Spear's madness and hisresulting campaign against the humans; and the last story in this volume,"The Broken Circle", about young Skywise's discovery of a greatrelic of the High Ones, ancestors of the elves - and the havoc it wreakswith him and his tribe. Drawn in a completely different style from that of"Colors", it too is ambitious, far-reaching and thought-provoking- with a more unsettling conclusion.

The series - and this book - are, bydesign, a literary and artistic grab-bag, with contributions from severaldifferent artists, but the level of inspiration is high all around; aboutthe only flaw is a certain blockiness of pencil-work in two of the stories("Swift-Spear" admittedly being one of those two).As I havesaid, the art has transferred very well to this lower-price format (notalways the case with other volumes in the EQ Reader's Collection).

Tosummarize: if the "Blood of Ten Chiefs" book had been a merehistory of a tribe of elves, it would have been much less interesting.Butbecause it focuses on the major events in the chiefs' lives - and, throughthem, illuminates their characters and times - these stories will bearrepeated reading.Recommended.

I'mglad I found this!
The stories in these books are really great and fill in a lot of gaps in the story.Keep it up! I want more!

A good book for background on ElfQuest, or as an intro.
This book is a history of ElfQuests first 10 chiefs, from Timmorn Yellow-Eyes to Bearclaw. This book was a "breaking in" period for the BOTC series. It focuses on the hardships of chiefhood. It offers insight into the difficult struggle many of the earlier chiefs experienced between the wolf-song and their elven sides.It also goes in depth about the beginning of the bond between Wolf-Riders and their wolf-friends If you're a long time fan of ElfQuest it answers questions you may have about th 10 chiefs. If you aren't than this is oneof the best places to start ... Read more

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Chapters: Adrian Blevins, Richard Russo, Debra Spark, Ira Sadoff, Albion Woodbury Small. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Adrian Blevins (born 1964 Abingdon, Virginia ) is an American poet. Author of three collections of poetry, her most recent is Live from the Homesick Jamboree (Wesleyan University Press, 2009). She graduated with a BA from Virginia Intermont College, a MA in Fiction from Hollins University, and a MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in 2002. She taught at Roanoke College, Hollins University, and teaches at Colby College and lives in Waterville, Maine. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares. She has published personal essays in The Utne Reader, Salon, and the now-defunct Internet magazine, Conversely. Full-length Poetry Collections Chapbooks Essays Live from the Homesick Jamboree is a brave, brash, funny, and tragic hue and cry on growing up female during the 1970s, when everything was always so awash that the speaker finds herself adrift among adults who act like children. The book moves from adolescence through a dry-eyed, poignant exploration of two marriages, motherhood, and the larger world, with the headlong perceptiveness and brio characteristic of Adrian Blevinss work. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23489616 ... Read more

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This edition represents the third year of correspondence between Creely and Olson; Creely is now roaming around the Mediterranean with his young family, and Olson is mentor at Black Mountain and writer in Washington. The letters reveal the intensity with which the two poets expressed themselves.Amazon.com Review
Whenever I become intrigued by a writer, I tend to readeverything I can get my hands on that he or she has written --including their letters.Correspondence presents the uniqueopportunity to become closer to your writer. The guard is down, thelanguage is conversational, the ideas fly by fresh and uncrafted bymonths of revisions. This collection of letters between two of thefamous Black Mountain poets bares their souls in everything fromwriter's block to religions to saving each other's lives through thenear-forgotten art of written correspondence. ... Read more

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Only Butterick and Creely could have demonstrated the significance that Charles Olson imparted upon the world of post-modern poetry.For those familiar and unfamiliar with the works of this poet, this collection,although only a mere smattering of the magnitude of Olson, provides animposing insight to the depth and mastery of modern poetry. ... Read more

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Poetry. Richard Blevins, well-known editor of the CHARLESOLSON-ROBERT CREELEY LETTERS and former publisher of ZelotPress/Clarel Editions, has a long track-record of distinguished booksand chapbooks ranging from COURT OF HALF-KING (1980) to CLAREL'S MOTEL(1987) to LONGPLAYING (1994). He is also the editor of GeorgeF. Butterick's COLLECTED EARLY POEMS. A professor of English atUniversity of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, his essays on poetry andpoetics have appeared in SAGETRIEB, TALISMAN, and POETICS JOURNAL,among others. "Low in the seat of my car in your street/ I doze, belowthe snapbrim horizon, // the dream of not having to/ make love withour shoes on." ("Poem Noire") Perfectbound chapbook. Also available aspart of an 8 book set. ... Read more