Handwriting: Poems.
A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. The poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes, and language, as the poet contemplates scents and gestures and evokes a time when "handwriting occurred on waves, / on leaves, the scripts of smoke" and remembers a woman's "laughter with its / intake of breath. Uhh huh." First Printing of the First Canadian Edition. Brown Dog: Novellas.
A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. Brown Dog is a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian, a former pulp cutter who looks on work as something to do when he needs money, far inferior to the pleasures of fishing. Overindulging in food, drink, and women while just scraping by, B.D. meets a nubile archaeologist who presses him for the location of a sacred Native American burial ground; the ensuing flirtation with radicalization results in B.D. wandering Los Angeles in search of a stolen bearskin. Witty and poignantly human, Brown Dog underscores Harrison s place as one of America s most irrepressible writers. The United States Marine Corps in World War II, Compiled and Edited by S. E. Smith.
A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning to the edges. This monumental compilation covers the whole pageant of the U.S.Marines in World War Two from Wake Island to the Japanese suurender in China. More than fifty of the best writers and military minds and combatants have contributed to this impressive history of the Marine's history in the Pacific war. Plume.
A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by Flenniken. This is the poet's second collection of poetry which won the 2013 Washington State Book Award. The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Plume traces the American betrayal concerninbg the effects of developing nuclear weapons and explores the human capacity to hold truth at bay when it threatens one's fundamental identity.
Custer.
A Fine tight copy in a Fine price clipped dust jacket. Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry has long been fascinated by the "Boy General" and his rightful place in history. In Custer, he delivers an expansive, agile, and clear-eyed reassessment of the iconic general s life and legacy how the legend was born, the ways in which it evolved, what it has meant told against the broad sweep of the American narrative. We see Custer in all his contradictions and complexity as the perpetually restless man with a difficult marriage, a hunger for glory, and an unwavering confidence in his abilities. While Custer is first and foremost an enthralling story filled with larger-than-life characters Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, William J. Fetterman, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud McMurtry also argues that Little Bighorn should be seen as a monumental event in our nation s history. Like all great battles, its true meaning can be found in its impact on our politics and policy, and the epic defeat clearly signaled the end of the Indian Wars and brought to a close the great narrative of western expansion. The Once Upon a Time World. The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Roviera.
A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. In Once Upon a Time World, Jonathan Miles presents the remarkable story of the small strip of French coast that lured the world to its shores. It is a wild and unforgettable tale that follows the Riviera's transformation from paradise and wilderness to a pollution imperiled concrete jungle. The Passenger.
A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. This is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God. It blends the rowdy humor of some of McCarthy s early novels with the parched tone of his more apocalyptic later work. Erratic Facts.
A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Kay Ryan is acclaimed for her highly intelligible, deeply insightful poems and her signature swift, lucid, lyrical style. At once witty and melancholy, playful and heartfelt, Ryan examines enormous subjects?existence, consciousness, love, loss?in compact poems that have immensely powerful resonance. Handwriting: Poems.
A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes, and language, as the poet contemplates scents and gestures and evokes a time when "handwriting occurred on waves, / on leaves, the scripts of smoke" and remembers a woman's "laughter with its / intake of breath. Uhh huh."