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- Whispers of Love: Daily Talks With God About Your Friends
by William Craig Iii - Will Someone Please Adopt Me
by Carollyne Fitzgerald - The Italian Soda Man
by C. A. Beninati - Frazzled
by Peter Johansen - Long Gone
by Greenpoint Press - New York in the Fifties
by Greenpoint Press - Art Education in a Climate of Reform
by Penelope Orr - My Mourning Turned to Laughter
by Robert Champ
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- My Mourning Turned to Laughter
- by Robert Champ
In My Mourning Turned to Laughter, Robert Champ's third book of poetry, the harshness and philosophical bankruptchy of the postmodern era are depicted in both narrative and lyric verse. In equal measure, Champ also writes of the pleasures of art, the comfort and challenge of human relationships, the beauties of nature, and the approach to God. As Champ writes in the preface, "For all the darkness in which we have wrapped ourselves, there are still sources of joy, moments of connection during which we see that everything fits, is orderly." The poem produce no answers to the human dilemma, a task for which they are, in any case, unsuited. Poetry, as W. H. Auden said, makes nothing happen. And yet, at its best, poetry can offer solace and hope that "all manner of things will be well." The poet attempts in these pages to offer exactly that.
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- Art Education in a Climate of Reform
- by Penelope Orr
In an era of national school reform and accountability, it is more critical than ever for educators to agree on the major goals of education. Without clear and measurable goals, educators cannot provide data to show whether those goals are being achieved, making it difficult for teachers to be seen as accountable in today's reform climate.
Art Education in a Climate of Reform first analyzes the changes in the social context of art and how these changes have impacted K-12 and university level-education. These changes,plus the current culture of accountability, have led many arts educators to question the goal or message of arts-based curriculum. Charles Dorn and Penelope Orr reaffirm art's place in education by describing it as not just a discipline or form, but as an idea, even a language. Finally, they contend that art is a social enterprise essential to a a complete education.
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- Will Someone Please Adopt Me
- by Carollyne Fitzgerald
Unfortunately, there are millions of little girls that suffer at the hands of cruel parents. For Carollyne, however, there was no refuge. No family relations that wanted her, no social services to come to her assistance - she was alone. In a house filled with people who took no interest in her, she retreated within herself and stayed there for years.
When she ultimately broke free she realized that she didn't know how to raise her own children. From Canada to Australia and back, Carollyne travelled a road of uneasiness and confusion until she settled into retirement and began writing. The detachment with which Carollyne describes her life is an extraordinary rendering of a mind filled with constant turmoil and regret.
Will Someone Please Adopt me is a story worth reading.
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- New York in the Fifties
- by Greenpoint Press
While Allen Ginsberg howled that the best minds of his generation were being destroyed by madness, Wakefield, who lived in the same town, was high on just being there, on making it as a freelance writer if not yet as a novelist, on the camaraderie he found in Greenwich Village, on hanging around with James Baldwin, Vance Bourjaily, Norman Mailer, Seymour Krim, John Gregory Dunne, Gay Talese, William Buckley and other "writer writers" who would later become our eminences grises of letters. Wakefield had fled Indianapolis in 1952 to study at Columbia; yet eight years later, "all scratched out," he would flee New York City--and end up in Boston, permanently. This is his memoir of '50s Manhattan, a charmed, gentle, evocative re-creation of a time when sex was more talked about than done (and when done, was done in secret), a time when psychoanalysis was hailed as the new religion, booze was the soporific, Esquire and the Village Voice the journalistic pacesetters, jazz the music. Then the atmosphere changed: McCarthyism hovered, Timothy Leary came around with the "cure-all elixir" psilocybin, the Beatles landed. Wakefield, whose novels include Home Free , has written his generation's kinder-spirited Moveable Feast , marking his era as a cultural divide.Litterateurs will treasure the book. So will aspirants. --From Publishers Weekly
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- Long Gone
- by Greenpoint Press
Life in the 1930s and '40s on the small family farms in eastern Iowa was threadbare and tough. It was made endurable by the web of humanity spun by the men and women who built their lives there. The land itself seemed indifferent to its relentless exploitation and yet people, towns, farms and landscape endured in some fashion. The best parts of the farm stayed with Richard Willis when he left, while the rest is long gone.
