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Sheila A.: IMG On Storytelling: The Powells.com Interview with Donald Miller

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Other titles in the White Pine Press Poetry Prize series:

  1. A Gathering of Mother Tongues
  2. Bodily Course
  3. In Advance of All Parting
  4. Paper Pavilion
  5. Zoo and Cathedral
  6. Winged Insects
  7. Trouble in History
  8. My Father Sings, to My Embarrassment
  9. Watching Cartoons Before Attending a Funeral
  10. The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels
  11. The Trouble with a Short Horse in Montana

Ghost Alphabet (White Pine Press Poetry Prize)

by Al Maginnes

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Publisher Comments:

"Al Maginnes effortlessly merges the experimental and the metaphysical, the erotic and the spiritual. His wit, humor, and command of metaphor far surpass the fashionable, talky cynicism of his contemporaries."-Peter Johnson

The speakers of these poems find themselves "coming to our destination / from the wrong direction."And because we arrive from the wrong direction, we must witness the ruins of landscapes and people. Yet each of these catastrophes is balanced by the understanding that humans are contradictory creatures, capable of creating beauty as well as chaos.

Al Maginnesis the author of several collections of poetry. He teaches at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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About the Author

Al Maginnes is the author of several collections of poetry including Taking Up Our Daily Tools, The Light In Our Houses, and Film History. He teaches at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina. He lives in Raleigh with his wife Jamie and their daughter Isabel.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781893996212
Author:
Maginnes, Al
Publisher:
White Pine Press (NY)
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Single Author / American
Series:
White Pine Press Poetry Prize
Series Volume:
13
Publication Date:
October 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
107
Dimensions:
8.80x5.90x.40 in. .40 lbs.
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