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In the Land of This and That, there are only two kinds: blue bunnies and yellow birds. But one day a funny green egg hatches, and a little creaturethat's not quite a bird and not quite a bunny pops out. It's neither! Neither tries hard to fit in, but its bird legs aren't good for jumping like the otherbunnies, and its fluffy tail isn't good for flapping like the other birds. It sets out to find a new home and discovers a very different place, one withendless colors and shapes and creatures of all kinds.

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A story of love, hope, equality, and pride. This book tells a history that all children will cherish, and will inspire the next generation of hope givers,our world's youth" - Stuart Milk, Founder and President of the Harvey Milk Foundation oHarvey Milk and Gilbert Baker showed LGBTQ peoplethat they should be proud of who they are and who they love. We're thrilled that more young people will learn the story behind the original rainbowflag. The three of them traveled the land far and wide, but the prince didn't quite find what he was looking for in the princesses they met. While theywere away, a terrible dragon threatened their land, and all the soldiers fled. The prince rushed back to save his kingdom from the perilous beastand was met by a brave knight in a suit of brightly shining armor. Together they fought the dragon and discovered that special something the princewas looking for all along.

He'd sit next to her while she sewed and draw beautiful gowns and costumes. Gilbert dreamed of someday bringing these drawings to life. But oneday, his father took away his art supplies and tore up his drawings. In his small, gray, flat Kansas hometown, he helped his grandma sew andcreated his own art whenever he could. It wasn't easy; life tried over and over again to make Gilbert conform. But his sparkle always shonethrough. He dreamed of someday going somewhere as vibrant and colorful as he was. Set against the backdrop of San Francisco during the gayrights movement of the s, Gilbert's story unfolds just like the flag he created: in a riot of color, joy, and pride.

Today the flag is everywhere, even in the small town where Gilbert grew up Includes a Reader Note that provides more in-depth discussion of thebeginnings of the gay rights movement and a more detailed look into Gilbert Baker's place in our shared history. It's Okay to Sparkle by AveryJackson; Jessica Udischas Illustrator The inspirational story, told in her own words, of 7-year-old Avery Jackson, who was assigned male at birth,but has now transitioned into a young girl, tells the story of how she realized she was a girl and how she helped her parents and friends tounderstand her transition. Her heart-warming story covers themes of friendship, bullying and self-esteem. Whether you're into dolls, ninja warriorsor teddy bears, climbing trees, Tae Kwon Do or ballet, this book lets readers know that it's okay to be who you want to be.

Avery's words are incredibly wise and articulate for such a young person and she will undoubtably provide support and inspiration to other familiesin similar situations. Bunnybear by Andrea J. He prefers bouncing in the thicket to tramping in the forest, and in his heart he's fluffy and tiny, like arabbit, instead of burly and loud, like a bear. The other bears don't understand him, and neither do the bunnies. Will Bunnybear ever find a friendwho likes him just the way he is? A Family Is a Family Is a Family by Sara O'Leary; Qin Leng Illustrator When a teacher asks the children in herclass to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different in many ways -- but the same in the one way that matters mostof all.

One child is worried that her family is just too different to explain, but listens as her classmates talk about what makes their families special. One israised by a grandmother, and another has two dads. One is full of stepsiblings, and another has a new baby. As one by one, her classmatesdescribe who they live with and who loves them -- family of every shape, size and every kind of relation -- the child realizes that as long as herfamily is full of caring people, her family is special. A warm and whimsical look at many types of families written by award-winning author SaraO'Leary, A Family is a Family springs to life with quirky and sweet illustrations by Qin Leng.

Who Are You? How do you feel? Who are you? It presents clear and direct language for understanding and talking about how we experiencegender: our bodies, our expression and our identity. An interactive three-layered wheel included in the book is a simple, yet powerful, tool toclearly demonstrate the difference between our body, how we express ourselves through our clothes and hobbies, and our gender identity. Idealfor use in the classroom or at home, a short page-by-page guide for adults at the back of the book further explains the key concepts and identifiesuseful discussion points.

This is a one-of-a-kind resource for understanding and celebrating the gender diversity that surrounds us. Worm Loves Worm by J. You arecordially invited to celebrate the wedding of a worm. When a worm meets a special worm and they fall in love, you know what happens next: Theyget married! But their friends want to know—who will wear the dress? And who will wear the tux? The answer is: It doesn't matter. BecauseWorm loves worm. Despite the fact that they share a name, Big Bob and Little Bob are different. Big Bob likes trucks and throwing balls andbeing loud. Little Bob likes dolls and jingling bracelets and being quiet. No matter what they do, they do not do it the same. Could they possibly befriends despite these differences? With humor and tenderness, James Howe and Laura Ellen Anderson beautifully depict the struggles and rewardsthat come when friendships are forged between different kinds of people.

I'm a Girl! But I'm sweet and sour and not a little flower. I am a girl! Meet a little girl who's spontaneous, fast, and strong and loves winning.Sometimes she's mistaken for a boy, but she definitely isn't one! When she meets a boy who likes wearing princess dresses and playing dolls, theyquickly discover shared interests and a wonderful friendship. Most of all it is joyful and full of energy. Be yourself - there's no one better! Whetherit's riding a bike, playing in the tree house, having a tea party, or all of the above, every day holds something fun to do. One sunny day, Errol findsthat Thomas is sad, even when they are playing in their favorite ways. I wish my name was Tilly, not Thomas. What matters is that you are myfriend.

Home at Last by Vera B. Williams; Chris Raschka Illustrator A poignant, timely, and universal picture book about fear, adoption, family, and thejoy of fatherhood, written by beloved and award-winning author Vera B. Williams and illustrated by the author in collaboration with two-timeCaldecott Medalist Chris Raschka. After Lester is adopted by Daddy Albert and Daddy Rich, he develops a big problem—he can't fall asleep.Night after night he creeps into his parents' room and attempts to crawl in between his two daddies, confident that if he's with them and their dog,Wincka, nothing bad will happen to him ever again.

But every night, Lester's new dads walk him back to his own room, hoping that eventually Lester will get used to the new house and his new familyand feel as though he belongs. They buy him a bike and take him for ice cream. They make cocoa and introduce him to his cousins. But no matterhow happy Lester seems during the day, he still gets scared and worried at night! It's the sweet dog Wincka who finally solves the problem whenshe climbs into Lester's bed and promptly falls asleep, serving as both his pillow and his protector. Lester feels home at last. Vera B. Williams diedon October 16, , while still working on this book with her dear friend and fellow artist Chris Raschka.

Chris Raschka's astonishing and glorious full-color paintings are based on sketches by Vera B. Williams and honor both her spirit and her intent.Home at Last is a universal, timely, and timeless book about the right of all children to belong someplace safe. Funny, insightful, and colorful, Red:A Crayon's Story, by Michael Hall, is about being true to your inner self and following your own path despite obstacles that may come your way.Red has a bright red label, but he is, in fact, blue. His teacher tries to help him be red let's draw strawberries! But Red is miserable. He just can'tbe red, no matter how hard he tries! Finally, a brand-new friend offers a brand-new perspective, and Red discovers what readers have known allalong. He's blue! This funny, heartwarming, colorful picture book about finding the courage to be true to your inner self can be read on multiplelevels, and it offers something for everyone.

Heather's favorite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, and two pets. And she also has two mommies. When Heather goes to school forthe first time, someone asks her about her daddy, but Heather doesn't have a daddy. Then something interesting happens. When Heather and herclassmates all draw pictures of their families, not one drawing is the same. It doesn't matter who makes up a family, the teacher says, because "themost important thing about a family is that all the people in it love one another. Kelly Celebrate diversity with a picture book for very youngchildren about the many faces of contemporary families.

Big or small, similar or different-looking, there are all kinds of families. Some have on parent, some have two, and many include extended family.This inclusive look at many varieties of families will help young readers see beyond their own immediate experiences and begin to understandothers. Stella Brings the Family by Miriam B. Schiffer; Holly Clifton-Brown Illustrator Stella's class is having a Mother's Day celebration, butwhat's a girl with two daddies to do? It's not that she doesn't have someone who helps her with her homework, or tucks her in at night. Stella hasher Papa and Daddy who take care of her, and a whole gaggle of other loved ones who make her feel special and supported every day. She justdoesn't have amom to invite to the party. Fortunately, Stella finds a unique solution to her party problem in this sweet story about love, acceptance,and the true meaning of family.

Zak's Safari by Christy Tyner 1. Read the book for free at www. Zak's Safari is a book about donor-conceived kids of two-mom families. Whenthe rain spoils Zak's plan for a safari adventure, he invites the reader on a very special tour of his family instead. Zak shows us how his parents met,fell in love, and wanted more than anything to have a baby-so they decided to make one. In the first half of the book, Zak teaches us about hisbiological origins. Using simple but accurate language, we learn about sperm and egg cells, known-donors, donors from sperm banks, andinstructions called genes that make up who we are. Zak's enthusiasm, combined with his scientific curiosity and gratitude for his inherited "awesomegenes" make him the perfect tour guide for this contemporary conception story.

The second half of the book celebrates family. Gorgeous illustrations depict Zak and his two moms living the adventure of everyday life: eatingmeals together, playing at the beach, going for nature hikes and hanging out with friends and family. Zak's Safari aims to provide a starting place formany future conversations with your kids about their conception story and donor.

Zak's Safari is written in a style that is genuine, informative, casual, and easy to understand. It will be most meaningful to kids ages Zak's Safari isalso available in Spanish and French. Dresses, they say, are for girls. One day when Morris feels all alone and sick from their taunts, his mother letshim stay home from school. Morris dreams of a fantastic space adventure with his cat, Moo. Inspired by his dream, Morris paints the incrediblescene he saw and brings it with him to school. He builds his own spaceship, hangs his painting on the front of it and takes two of his classmates onan outer space adventure. Teacher or scientist?

And where would you like to play: a castle? Pirate ship? Library or spacelab? It's your decision to make, so think away. Your imagination andthoughts can create pictures and scenes, the most beautiful, amazing, picturesque dreams! Also included is a Note to Parents and Caregivers filledwith useful advice and strategies to help children imagine, play, and ultimately envision and inspire themselves beyond the limited roles andexpectations that gender stereotypes create. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. Thisconfused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born this way. Jazz's story is based on herreal-life experience and she tells it in a simple, clear way that will be appreciated by picture book readers, their parents, and teachers. Her story isinspiring and important to read.

By sharing her experiences and view she has added to our understanding and compassion for the transgender experience. I found it deeply moving

in its simplicity and honesty. A beautifully illustrated and accessible primer on one trans girl's journey of living her truth. This Day in June by GayleE. Parade starts soon Rainbow arches Joyful marches! In a wildly whimsical, validating, and exuberant reflection of the LGBT community, ThisDay In June welcomes readers to experience a pride celebration and share in a day when we are all united. Also included is a Reading Guidechock-full of facts about LGBT history and culture, as well as a Note to Parents and Caregivers with information on how to talk to children aboutsexual orientation and gender identity in age-appropriate ways. This Day In June is an excellent tool for teaching respect, acceptance, andunderstanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

No picture books were awarded in What a time Willie has when Uncle Bill sits for him. When Willie's mother is gone, exciting things just seem tohappen. In three separate adventures, the duo gets to try out a new look, cook up something fun, and rock out. After all, as ringbearer, he has avery important job to do. Any boy or girl with same-sex parents--or who knows a same-sex couple--will appreciate this picture book about love,family, and marriage. Tutus Aren't My Style by Linda Skeers; Anne Wilsdorf Illustrator Emma loves lizards and pirates and cowboy boots, sowhen a package arrives from Uncle Leo, she doesn't know what to do with the ballerina costume inside. I don't know how to be a ballerina,?Emma says. She flops when she should float, she trips when she should twirl, and her music sounds like burping! But when she decides to makeher own rules about how to be a ballerina, Emma's style prevails in her triumphant dance debut.

Grinapol; Who HQ; Gregory Copeland Illustrator Although he started out as a teacher without aspirations to be an activist or politician, HarveyMilk found himself captivated by the history-making movements of the s. He would eventually make history of his own by becoming the firstopenly gay elected politician in California. While in office, Harvey Milk advocated for equal rights for the gay community.

Even though his life and career were cut short, Harvey is still seen by many as one of the most famous and most significantly open LGBT officialsever elected in the United States. His life and legacy continue to inspire and unite the community. Simon; Noah Grigni Illustrator This vibrant andbeautifully illustrated book teaches children sex, gender and relationships education in a way that is inclusive of all sexual orientations and genderidentities. Covering puberty, hormones, pregnancy, consent, sex, babies, relationships and families, it uses gender-neutral language throughout andcelebrates diversity in all its forms, including race, ethnicity, faith, bodies, gender and sexuality. For use with children aged , it will help answer theirquestions and spark open discussion with parents, carers and teachers. With informative illustrations and further resources and a guide for adults,The Every Body Book is the ultimate sex, gender and relationships education resource for children.

In fact, he has only performed one act so far, and that one was interrupted by a theft-in-progress that he, his friends the twins Teenie and Bea, andhis wisecracking rabbit, Benny, managed to thwart. Now Oliver has been hired for an even more important gig- a wedding. Teenie and Bea'sfathers are finally getting married, and Oliver is supposed to entertain at the rehearsal brunch. He has chosen the classic sawed-in-half trick, whichwill be especially amusing when he calls up the grooms as volunteers. What could go wrong? Except that weddings are supposed to be aboutbringing people together, not splitting them up. Luckily, Oliver seems to be a better sleuth than a magician!

Genius Jolene by Sara Cassidy; Charlene Chua Illustrator On her annual trip in her father's wheeler, eight-year-old Jolene is headed to LosAngeles on a six-day road trip to deliver some newsprint with her dad. Just like last year, they tell each other stories and listen to music. They alsokeep up their favorite tradition: critiquing one type of food at every stop. This time it's onion rings. But this year is also different. Unlike last year,Jolene's parents are no longer together. They split up when her father came out as gay. These are big changes for Jolene, but she is spunky andsmart and has a good heart. She's ready for new adventures and to stand up for what's right--both on and off the road. Among many otherchallenges, Sal and Gabi have to try to make everything right with our world when there is a rogue Gabi from another universe running loose.

Sal Vidon doesn't want to live a Mami-free life. Pulling different versions of his mother from other universes is how he copes with missing his own,who died years ago. But Sal's father, a calamity physicist, is trying to shut down all the wormholes Sal creates, because Papi thinks they areeroding the very fabric of our world. All of Papi's efforts are in vain, however, because a Gabi from another universe has gone rogue and ispopping up all over the place, seeking revenge for the fact that her world has been destroyed. While Sal and Gabi work together to keep bothPapi and Rogue Gabi under control, they also have to solve the mystery of Yasmany, who has gone missing from school.

Could it have something to do with the wormhole in the back of his locker? Readers who enjoyed Sal and Gabi Break the Universe will relishbeing back in the world of Culeco Academy and the Coral Castle along with such unforgettable characters as American Stepmom, the Gabi-Dads,Principal Torres, and the sassy entropy sweeper. With multiple Sals and Gabis in charge, it's no wonder this sequel offers even more hilariousweirdness and love than the first book. But his dad has moved in with his new boyfriend Michael who serves weird organic food and is constantlynagging him. Worst of all, Michael rides a bicycle decorated to look like a unicorn.

This is not the summer Jeremiah wanted. But Jeremiah soon learns that being a family comes in many surprising forms. Inspired by the belovedcomic series, Goldie Vance is ready to sleuth her way through never-before-seen mysteries in this original novel series by Lilliam Rivera featuring16 full-color comic pages! Marigold "Goldie" Vance lives and works at the Crossed Palms Resort Hotel in Florida with a whole slew ofcharacters: her dad, Art, the manager of the joint; Cheryl Lebeaux, the concierge and Goldie's best friend; and Walter Tooey, the hired hoteldetective. Her mom, Sylvie, works nearby at the Mermaid Club. While life at the Crossed Palms is always busy, the resort is currently overrunwith Hollywood-types filming the hottest new creature feature, and tensions are at an all-time high. Even Goldie's mom is in on the movie act, doingwhat she does best: playing a mermaid. Just when Goldie thinks the movie biz couldn't get any more exciting, a diamond-encrusted swimming capgoes missing, and all fingers point to Goldie's mom as the culprit.

Can Goldie uncover the true thief before it's too late? Based on Hope Larson and Brittney Williams's critically acclaimed Goldie Vance comic, thisthrilling novel explores a never-before-seen caper and features 16 full-color comic pages essential to unraveling the mystery. The DerbyDaredevils: Kenzie Kickstarts a Team by Kit Rosewater; Sophie Escabasse A highly illustrated middle-grade series that celebrates newfriendships, first crushes, and getting out of your comfort zone Ever since they can remember, fifth-graders Kenzie aka Kenzilla and Shelly akaBomb Shell have dreamed of becoming roller derby superstars. When Austin's city league introduces a brand-new junior league, the dynamic duocelebrates! But they'll need to try out as a five-person team. Kenzie and Shelly have just one week to convince three other girls that roller derby is

the coolest thing on wheels.

But Kenzie starts to have second thoughts when Shelly starts acting like everyone's best friend. Isn't she supposed to be Kenzie's best friend? Andthings get really awkward when Shelly recruits Kenzie's neighbor and secret crush! With lots of humor and an authentic middle-grade voice, bookone of this illustrated series follows Kenzie, Shelly, and the rest of the Derby Daredevils as they learn how to fall--and get back up again. Itexamines common elements of discrimination in the community, from bullying in schools to employment discrimination. Features include a glossary,further readings, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. It also discusseshow LGBTQ soldiers served during times of war but were often discharged for their gender identity or sexuality after the war. A biography foryounger readers about one of the most influential activists of our time, who was an early advocate for African Americans and for gay rights.

Without his skill and vision, the historic impact of the March on Washington might not have been possible. I am glad this biography will makeyoung people aware of his life and his incredible contribution to American history. A proponent of nonviolent resistance and a stalwart figure in thecivil rights movement, Rustin organized a profound and peaceful milestone in American history--the March on Washington. Troublemaker forJustice describes not only how Rustin orchestrated the March on Washington in two months but also how he stood up for his Quaker principlesthroughout his life. Long, show the difficulties Rustin faced as a gay black man in 20th-century America, and that he shouldered them with strength,intelligence, and a quest for peace and justice.

Readers will find Rustin's story captivating; his story could encourage young people to fight for change. He was arrested on a bus 13 years beforeRosa Parks and he participated in integrated bus rides throughout the South 14 years before the Freedom Riders. He was a mentor to Dr. MartinLuther King, Jr. He organized the March on Washington in , one of the most impactful mobilizations in American history. Despite thesecontributions, few Americans recognize his name, and he is absent from most history books, in large part because he was gay. This biographytraces Rustin's life, from his childhood and his first arrest in high school for sitting in the "whites only" section of a theater, through a lifetime ofnonviolent activism. Long provide middle and high school students with a biography of Rustin that illustrates how the personal is political. Youngreaders will take away valuable lessons about identity, civics, and 20th-century history.

Reach out to the publisher at Stacey [ ] citylights. An excellent resource that is as thorough as it is visually appealing. There is also a section onbeing an ally, a profile of a family with two gay dads one of them trans and much, much more! This attractive work will be welcomed by readerssearching for guidance and hope. Positively festive in its attitudes and outlook, this book more than lives up to the word celebrating in its subtitle.These stories, sad and happy, are where vulnerable preteen kids may see themselves. When I write letters, I love that you have to read all of mythoughts and stories before I say any name at all. You have to make it to the very end to know. Rowan has too many secrets to write down in thepages of a diary. And if he did, he wouldn't want anyone he knows to read them. He understands who he is and what he likes, but it's not safe forothers to find out.

Now the kids at school say Rowan's too different to spend time with. He's not the "right kind" of girl, and he's not the "right kind" of boy. His momignores him. And at night, his dad hurts him in ways he's not ready to talk about yet. But Rowan discovers another way to share his secrets- letters.Letters he attaches to balloons and releases into the universe, hoping someone new will read them and understand.

But when he befriends a classmate who knows what it's like to be lonely and scared, even at home, Rowan realizes that there might already be aperson he can trust right by his side. Burke was a gay baseball player in the s--and for Silas, the presentation is his own first baby step towardrevealing a truth about himself he's tired of hiding. Soon he tells his best friend, Zoey, but the longer he keeps his secret from his baseballteammates, the more he suspects they know something's up--especially when he stages one big cover-up with terrible consequences.

A High Five for Glenn Burke is Phil Bildner's most personal novel yet--a powerful story about the challenge of being true to yourself, especiallywhen not everyone feels you belong on the field. In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of hisbackyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another tolive down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid still visits in dreams, and King must keep these secrets to himself as he watches grieftransform his family. It would be easier if King could talk with his best friend, Sandy Sanders. But just days before he died, Khalid told King toend their friendship, after overhearing a secret about Sandy-that he thinks he might be gay.

As King's friendship with Sandy is reignited, he's forced to confront questions about himself and the reality of his brother's death. This novel singsabout loss and love and finding joy in new friendships and a loving family, along with the world's best bad dog. An uplifting middle grade novelabout recovery featuring strong female characters, an adorable dog, and the girl who comes to love him. It's a life-altering New Year for thirteen-year-old Lydia when she uproots to a Connecticut farm to live with her aunt following her mother's death. Aunt Brat and her jovial wife, Eileen,and their ancient live-in landlord, Elloroy, are welcoming--and a little quirky.

Lydia's struggle for a sense of belonging in her new family is highlighted when the women adopt a big yellow dog just days after the girl's arrival.Wasn't one rescue enough? Lydia is not a dog person--and this one is trouble! He is mistrustful and slinky. He pees in the house, escapes into thewoods, and barks at things unseen. His new owners begin to guess about his unknown past. Meanwhile, Lydia doesn't want to be difficult--andshe does not mean to keep secrets--but there are things she's not telling Taal Engels. Boek, ebook of luisterboek? Toon meer Toon minder.Reviews Schrijf een review Schrijf een review. Bindwijze: Paperback. Verwacht over 10 weken Levertijd We doen er alles aan om dit artikel optijd te bezorgen. Bezorgopties We bieden verschillende opties aan voor het bezorgen of ophalen van je bestelling. Verkoop door bol. Inwinkelwagen. Gratis verzending door bol.

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When Austin's city league introduces a brand-new junior league, the dynamic duo celebrates! But they'll need to try out as a five-person team.Kenzie and Shelly have just one week to convince three other girls that roller derby is the coolest thing on wheels. But Kenzie starts to have

second thoughts when Shelly starts acting like everyone's best friend. Isn't she supposed to be Kenzie's best friend? And things get really awkwardwhen Shelly recruits Kenzie's neighbor and secret crush! With lots of humor and an authentic middle-grade voice, book one of this illustrated seriesfollows Kenzie, Shelly, and the rest of the Derby Daredevils as they learn how to fall--and get back up again. It examines common elements ofdiscrimination in the community, from bullying in schools to employment discrimination. Features include a glossary, further readings, websites,source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. It also discusses how LGBTQ soldiers servedduring times of war but were often discharged for their gender identity or sexuality after the war.

A biography for younger readers about one of the most influential activists of our time, who was an early advocate for African Americans and forgay rights. Without his skill and vision, the historic impact of the March on Washington might not have been possible. I am glad this biography willmake young people aware of his life and his incredible contribution to American history. A proponent of nonviolent resistance and a stalwart figurein the civil rights movement, Rustin organized a profound and peaceful milestone in American history--the March on Washington. Troublemaker forJustice describes not only how Rustin orchestrated the March on Washington in two months but also how he stood up for his Quaker principlesthroughout his life. Long, show the difficulties Rustin faced as a gay black man in 20th-century America, and that he shouldered them with strength,intelligence, and a quest for peace and justice.

Readers will find Rustin's story captivating; his story could encourage young people to fight for change. He was arrested on a bus 13 years beforeRosa Parks and he participated in integrated bus rides throughout the South 14 years before the Freedom Riders. He was a mentor to Dr. MartinLuther King, Jr. He organized the March on Washington in , one of the most impactful mobilizations in American history. Despite thesecontributions, few Americans recognize his name, and he is absent from most history books, in large part because he was gay. This biographytraces Rustin's life, from his childhood and his first arrest in high school for sitting in the "whites only" section of a theater, through a lifetime ofnonviolent activism. Long provide middle and high school students with a biography of Rustin that illustrates how the personal is political.

Young readers will take away valuable lessons about identity, civics, and 20th-century history. Reach out to the publisher at Stacey [ ] citylights.An excellent resource that is as thorough as it is visually appealing. There is also a section on being an ally, a profile of a family with two gay dadsone of them trans and much, much more! This attractive work will be welcomed by readers searching for guidance and hope. Positively festive inits attitudes and outlook, this book more than lives up to the word celebrating in its subtitle. These stories, sad and happy, are where vulnerablepreteen kids may see themselves. When I write letters, I love that you have to read all of my thoughts and stories before I say any name at all. Youhave to make it to the very end to know. Rowan has too many secrets to write down in the pages of a diary. And if he did, he wouldn't wantanyone he knows to read them.

He understands who he is and what he likes, but it's not safe for others to find out. Now the kids at school say Rowan's too different to spend timewith. He's not the "right kind" of girl, and he's not the "right kind" of boy. His mom ignores him. And at night, his dad hurts him in ways he's notready to talk about yet. But Rowan discovers another way to share his secrets- letters. Letters he attaches to balloons and releases into theuniverse, hoping someone new will read them and understand. But when he befriends a classmate who knows what it's like to be lonely andscared, even at home, Rowan realizes that there might already be a person he can trust right by his side. Burke was a gay baseball player in the s--and for Silas, the presentation is his own first baby step toward revealing a truth about himself he's tired of hiding.

Soon he tells his best friend, Zoey, but the longer he keeps his secret from his baseball teammates, the more he suspects they know something'sup--especially when he stages one big cover-up with terrible consequences. A High Five for Glenn Burke is Phil Bildner's most personal novel yet--a powerful story about the challenge of being true to yourself, especially when not everyone feels you belong on the field. In a small but turbulentLouisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself. When Khalidunexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid still visits indreams, and King must keep these secrets to himself as he watches grief transform his family.

It would be easier if King could talk with his best friend, Sandy Sanders. But just days before he died, Khalid told King to end their friendship,after overhearing a secret about Sandy-that he thinks he might be gay. As King's friendship with Sandy is reignited, he's forced to confrontquestions about himself and the reality of his brother's death. This novel sings about loss and love and finding joy in new friendships and a lovingfamily, along with the world's best bad dog. An uplifting middle grade novel about recovery featuring strong female characters, an adorable dog,and the girl who comes to love him. It's a life-altering New Year for thirteen-year-old Lydia when she uproots to a Connecticut farm to live withher aunt following her mother's death. Aunt Brat and her jovial wife, Eileen, and their ancient live-in landlord, Elloroy, are welcoming--and a littlequirky. Lydia's struggle for a sense of belonging in her new family is highlighted when the women adopt a big yellow dog just days after the girl'sarrival.

Wasn't one rescue enough? Lydia is not a dog person--and this one is trouble! He is mistrustful and slinky. He pees in the house, escapes into thewoods, and barks at things unseen. His new owners begin to guess about his unknown past. Meanwhile, Lydia doesn't want to be difficult--andshe does not mean to keep secrets--but there are things she's not telling Like why the box of "paper stuff" she keeps under her bed is so importantAnd why that hole in the wall behind a poster in her room is getting bigger And why something she took from the big yellow dog just might be thekey to unraveling his mysterious past--but at what cost?

Birdie and Me by J. Highly recommended. After their mama dies, Jack and Birdie find themselves without a place to call home. And when Mama'stwo brothers each try to provide one--first sweet Uncle Carl, then gruff Uncle Patrick--the results are funny, tender, and tragic. They're alsosomehow. With voices and characters that soar off the page, J. Nuanez's debut novel depicts an unlikely family caught in a situation none of themwould have chosen, and the beautiful ways in which they finally come to understand one another. Into the Tall, Tall Grass by Loriel Ryon A girljourneys across her family's land to save her grandmother's life in this captivating and magical debut that's perfect for fans of The Thing AboutJellyfish. All the members of her family have a magical gift--all, that is, except for Yolanda. Still, it's something she can never talk about, or thetownsfolk will call her family brujas--witches.

When her grandmother, Wela, falls into an unexplained sleep, Yolanda is scared. Her father is off fighting in a faraway war, her mother died longago, and Yolanda has isolated herself from her best friend and twin sister. If she loses her grandmother, who will she have left? When a strangegrass emerges in the desert behind their house, Wela miraculously wakes, begging Yolanda to take her to the lone pecan tree left on their land.Determined not to lose her, Yolanda sets out on this journey with her sister, her ex-best friend, and a boy who has a crush on her. But what is themysterious box that her grandmother needs to find? And how will going to the pecan tree make everything all right? Along the way, Yolandadiscovers long-buried secrets that have made their family gift a family curse. But she also finds the healing power of the magic all around her, whichjust might promise a new beginning.

Ana on the Edge by A. Sass For fans of George and Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World, a heartfelt coming of age story about a nonbinarycharacter navigating a binary world. So, when Ana learns that next season's program will be princess themed, doubt forms fast. Still, Ana tries tofocus on training and putting together a stellar routine worthy of national success. Once Ana meets Hayden, a transgender boy new to the rink,thoughts about the princess program and gender identity begin to take center stage. And when Hayden mistakes Ana for a boy, Ana doesn'tcorrect him and finds comfort in this boyish identity when he's around. As their friendship develops, Ana realizes that it's tricky juggling twodifferent identities on one slippery sheet of ice. And with a major competition approaching, Ana must decide whether telling everyone the truth isworth risking years of hard work and sacrifice.

The reassuring book kids and families need right now. Palacio, bestselling author of Wonder At a time when everything is changing for Bea and herfamily, the important things will always stay the same. After her parents' divorce, Bea's life became different in many ways. But she can alwayslook back at the list she keeps in her green notebook to remember the things that will stay the same. The first and most important: Mom and Dadwill always love Bea, and each other. When Dad tells Bea that he and his boyfriend, Jesse, are getting married, Bea is thrilled. Bea loves Jesse,and when he and Dad get married, she'll finally finally! Even though she's never met Jesse's daughter, Sonia, Bea is sure that they'll be "just likesisters anywhere. They get to hang out with their best friends, earn Lumberjane scout badges, annoy their no-nonsense counselor Jen.

That last one? A pretty normal occurrence at Miss Qiunzella's, where the woods contain endless mysteries. Book four, the last book of the novelseries, will shine the spotlight on inseparable couple Mal and Molly, who find an extra cabin at camp, one that's full of ghosts! You Be You!Throughout the book kids learn that there are many kinds of people in the world and that diversity is something to be celebrated. It covers gender,romantic orientation, discrimination, intersectionality, privilege, and how to stand up for what's right. With charming illustrations, clear explanations,and short sections that can be dipped in and out of, this book helps children think about how to create a kinder, more tolerant world. What WasStonewall? In the early-morning hours of June 28, , police arrived at the Stonewall Inn's doors and yelled, "Police!

We're taking the place! They rebelled in the streets, turning one moment into a civil rights movement and launching the fight for equality amongLGBTQ people in the United States. The Stonewall Riots by Gayle E. The author describes American gay history leading up to the Riots, theRiots themselves, and the aftermath, and includes her interviews of people involved or witnesses, including a woman who was ten at the time.

Profusely illustrated, the book includes contemporary photos, newspaper clippings, and other period objects. Hazel knows a lot about the world.That's because when she's not hanging with her best friend, taking care of her dog, or helping care for the goats on her family's farm, she lovesreading through dusty encyclopedias. But even Hazel doesn't have answers for the questions awaiting her as she enters eighth grade. What if noone at her new school gets her, and she doesn't make any friends? What's going to happen to one of her moms, who's pregnant again after havingtwo miscarriages? Why does everything have to change when life was already perfectly fine? As Hazel struggles to cope, she'll come to realize thatsometimes you have to look within yourself--instead of the pages of a book--to find the answer to life's most important questions.

The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James navigates heart surgery, reconnecting with her lost mother, first kisses, and emerging feelings for another girlin this stunning, heartfelt novel--perfect for fans of Ali Benjamin and Erin Entrada Kelly. When Sunny St. James receives a new heart, she decidesto set off on a "New Life Plan": 1 do awesome amazing things she could never do before; 2 find a new best friend; and 3 kiss a boy for the firsttime. Her "New Life Plan" seems to be racing forward, but when she meets her new best friend Quinn, Sunny questions whether she really wantsto kiss a boy at all. With the reemergence of her mother, Sunny begins a journey to becoming the new Sunny St.

This sweet, tender novel dares readers to find the might in their own hearts. Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker The critically acclaimed author of FelixYz crafts a bold, heartfelt story about a trans girl solving a cyber mystery and coming into her own. Zenobia July is starting a new life. She used tolive in Arizona with her father; now she's in Maine with her aunts. She used to spend most of her time behind a computer screen, improving herimpressive coding and hacking skills; now she's coming out of her shell and discovering a community of friends at Monarch Middle School. Peopleused to tell her she was a boy; now she's able to live openly as the girl she always knew she was. When someone anonymously posts hatefulmemes on her school's website, Zenobia knows she's the one with the abilities to solve the mystery, all while wrestling with the challenges of a newschool, a new family, and coming to grips with presenting her true gender for the first time.

Timely and touching, Zenobia July is, at its heart, a story about finding home. When Cady Bennett is sent to live with the aunt she didn't even knowshe had in the quaint mountain town of Julian, she isn't sure what to expect. Cady isn't used to stability, after growing up homeless in San Diegowith her dad.

Now she's staying in her mother's old room, exploring the countryside filled with apple orchards and pie shops, making friends, and working inAunt Shell's own pie shop--and soon, Cady starts to feel like she belongs. Then she finds out that Aunt Shell's shop is failing. Saving the businessand protecting the first place she's ever really felt safe will take everything she's learned and the help of all her new friends.

But are there some things even the perfect pie just can't fix? Summer of a Thousand Pies is a sweet and satisfying treat of a novel full of friendship,family, and, of course, pie. Redwood and Ponytail by K. Holt A universal story of finding a way to be comfortable in your own skin: Kate andTam meet, and both of their worlds tip sideways. At first, Tam figures Kate is your stereotypical cheerleader; Kate sees Tam as another tall jock.And the more they keep running into each other, the more they surprise each other.

And Tam's so much more than a volleyball player, Kate realizes: She's everything Kate wishes she could be. It's complicated. Except it's not.When Kateand Tam meet, they fall in like. It's as simple as that. But not everybody sees it that way. Ultimately, this is a. The Best at It by MaulikPancholy From award-winning actor Maulik Pancholy comes a hilarious and heartfelt middle grade debut about a gay Indian American boycoming into his own. Perfect for fans of Tim Federle's Nate series. Rahul Kapoor is heading into seventh grade in a small town in Indiana. The startof middle school is making him feel increasingly anxious, so his favorite person in the whole world, his grandfather, Bhai, gives him some well-meaning advice: Find one thing you're really good at and become the BEST at it.

Those four little words sear themselves into Rahul's brain. While he's not quite sure what that special thing is, he is convinced that once he finds it,bullies like Brent Mason will stop torturing him at school. And he won't be worried about staring too long at his classmate Justin Emery. With hisbest friend, Chelsea, by his side, Rahul is ready to crush this challenge But what if he discovers he isn't the best at anything? Funny, charming, andincredibly touching, this is a story about friendship, family, and the courage it takes to live your truth.

It's Me, Margaret set in present-day Oakland. About her changing body. Her first attraction to a boy. And her best friend's exploration of what itmeans to be genderfluid. But most of all, her mother's insistence she have a moon ceremony when her first period arrives. It's an ancestral Mexicaritual that Mima and her community have reclaimed, but Celi promises she will NOT be participating. Can she find the power within herself to takea stand for who she wants to be? A dazzling story told with the sensitivity, humor, and brilliant verse of debut talent Aida Salazar. Drum Roll,Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow Find the confidence to rock out to your own beat in this big-hearted middle grade novel. Melly only joined the schoolband because her best friend, Olivia, begged her to. But to her surprise, quiet Melly loves playing the drums. It's the only time she doesn't feel likea mouse. Now she and Olivia are about to spend the next two weeks at Camp Rockaway, jamming under the stars in the Michigan woods.

But this summer brings a lot of big changes for Melly: her parents split up, her best friend ditches her, and Melly finds herself unexpectedly fallingfor another girl at camp. To top it all off, Melly's not sure she has what it takes to be a real rock n' roll drummer. Will she be able to make musicfrom all the noise in her heart? Bigelow delivers a mighty message to turn up the volume on your inner drumbeat. Elle Deluca is a seventh graderwho is tall--not just sort of tall. She's six feet tall. And for a twelve-year-old girl, this means that her basketball team has high hopes for herchanging positions and becoming their starting center. But a new position is not the only footwork she has to learn. Her class's dance unit in gym iscoming up, and that means she has to learn ballroom dance steps with a boy much shorter than her--and perform publically for a grade.

Diving once more into the world of witches, this New York Times bestselling two-part young adult novel, released on the twenty-fifth anniversaryof the film, marks a new era of Hocus Pocus. Fans will be spellbound by a fresh retelling of the original film, followed by the all-new sequel thatcontinues the story with the next generation of Salem teens. Shortly after moving from California to Salem, Massachusetts, Max Dennison findshimself in hot water when he accidentally releases a coven of witches, the Sanderson sisters, from the afterlife. Max, his sister, and his new friendshuman and otherwise must find a way to stop the witches from carrying out their evil plan and remaining on earth to torment Salem for all eternity.

Twenty-five years later, Max and Allison's seventeen-year-old daughter, Poppy, finds herself face-to-face with the Sanderson sisters in all theirsinister glory. When Halloween celebrations don't quite go as planned, it's a race against time as Poppy and her friends fight to save her family andall of Salem from the witches' latest vile scheme. Being born during a hurricane is unlucky, and twelve-year-old Caroline has had her share of badluck lately. She's hated and bullied by everyone in her small school on St. Thomas of the US Virgin Islands, a spirit only she can see won't stopfollowing her, and -- worst of all -- Caroline's mother left home one day and never came back. But when a new student named Kalinda arrives,Caroline's luck begins to turn around. Kalinda, a solemn girl from Barbados with a special smile for everyone, becomes Caroline's first and onlyfriend -- and the person for whom Caroline has begun to develop a crush.

Now, Caroline must find the strength to confront her feelings for Kalinda, brave the spirit stalking her through the islands, and face the reason hermother abandoned her. Together, Caroline and Kalinda must set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother -- before Caroline loses herforever. Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake In the wake of a destructive tornado, one girl develops feelings for another inthis stunning, tender novel about emerging identity, perfect for fans of The Thing About Jellyfish.

When a tornado rips through town, twelve-year-old Ivy Aberdeen's house is destroyed and her family of five is displaced. Ivy feels invisible andignored in the aftermath of the storm--and what's worse, her notebook filled with secret drawings of girls holding hands has gone missing.Mysteriously, Ivy's drawings begin to reappear in her locker with notes from someone telling her to open up about her identity. Ivy thinks--andhopes--that this someone might be her classmate, another girl for whom Ivy has begun to develop a crush. Will Ivy find the strength and courage tofollow her true feelings?

Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World exquisitely enriches the rare category of female middle-grade characters who like girls--and children's literatureat large. Nate Foster returns home to Jankburg, Pennsylvania, to face his biggest challenge yet--high school--in this final novel in the LambdaLiterary Award-winning Nate trilogy, which The New York Times calls "inspired and inspiring. And while Nate's cast mates are eager to move onthe boy he understudies already landed a role on a TV show! Where horror read: high school awaits. Desperate to turn his life from flop tofabulous, Nate takes on a huge freshman English project with his BFF, Libby: he's going to make a musical out of Charles Dickens's GreatExpectations. What could possibly go But when Nate's New York crush ghosts him, and his grades start to slip, he finds the only thing harder thanbeing on Broadway is being a freshman -- especially when you've got a secret you're desperate to sing out about.

This magical conclusion to Tim Federle's beloved Nate series is a love letter to theater kids young and not-so-young--and for anyone who everwondered if they could truly go home again. Especially when doing so means facing everything you thought you'd left behind. Saturdays withHitchcock by Ellen Wittlinger Twelve-year-old movie-loving Maisie is in need of a distraction from her current romantic dilemma when her UncleWalt comes to stay with her family after being hurt on the set of the movie he's filming in Hollywood. Maisie's best friend, Cyrus, has been hangingout a lot with Gary Hackett, whose last-name sounds to Maisie like a cat barfing up a hairball. When it seems as if Hackett might like Maisieromantically, she's none too pleased, and Cyrus is even less impressed.

Uncle Walt has a way of pointing Maisie in the right direction, and Maisie's love of movies also keeps her centered. Heading to the localindependent theater on Saturdays to see old movies helps Maisie stay grounded as she struggles with growing up, family tensions, a grandma whoseems to be losing her memory, and a love triangle she never expected. Alan Cole Is Not a Coward by Eric Bell Perfect for fans of Tim Federleand Gary Schmidt, this is a hilarious and poignant tale about the trials of middle school when you're coming of age--and coming out.

Alan Cole can't stand up to his cruel brother, Nathan. He can't escape the wrath of his demanding father, who thinks he's about as exceptional as agoldfish. And--scariest of all--he can't let the cute boy across the cafeteria know he has a crush on him. But when Nathan discovers Alan's secret,his older brother announces a high-stakes round of Cole vs.

Each brother must complete seven nearly impossible tasks; whoever finishes the most wins the game. If Alan doesn't want to be outed to all ofEvergreen Middle School, he's got to become the most well-known kid in school, get his first kiss, and stand up to Dad. Alan's determined toprove--to Nathan, to the world, to himself--that this goldfish can learn to swim. May the best Cole win. The creature is friendly, but Felix--nowthirteen--won't be able to grow to adulthood while they're still melded together.

So a risky Procedure is planned to separate them. This book is Felix's secret blog, a chronicle of the days leading up to the Procedure. Some daysit's business as usual--time with his close-knit family, run-ins with a bully at school, anxiety about his crush. But life becomes more out of theordinary with the arrival of an Estonian chess Grandmaster, the revelation of family secrets, and a train-hopping journey.

When it all might be over in a few days, what matters most? Told in an unforgettable voice full of heart and humor, Felix Yz is a groundbreakingstory about how we are all separate, but all connected too. Barbara Dee has a light touch and a pitch-perfect middle school voice. This book willhave you laughing and groaning in sympathy with crush-addled Mattie and eagerly turning pages. Mattie and her classmates charmed me with theirkindness, their humor, their uncertainty, their devotion to one another and to Shakespeare! Barbara masterfully sprinkles the bard's words over thenarration and stirs the troubles of Romeo and Juliet into the plot. And those Shakespearian insults!

Be sure to read Star-Crossed or you'll miss out. Mattie, a star student and passionate reader, is delighted when her English teacher announces theeighth grade will be staging Romeo and Juliet. And she is even more excited when, after a series of events, she finds herself playing Romeo,opposite Gemma Braithwaite's Juliet. Gemma, the new girl at school, is brilliant, pretty, outgoing--and, if all that wasn't enough: British.

As the cast prepares for opening night, Mattie finds herself growing increasingly attracted to Gemma and confused, since, just days before, she hadfound herself crushing on a boy named Elijah. Is it possible to have a crush on both boys AND girls? If that wasn't enough to deal with, thingsbackstage at the production are starting to rival any Shakespearean drama! In this sweet and funny look at the complicated nature of middle schoolromance, Mattie learns how to be the lead player in her own life.

When I finished reading, I had a huge smile on my face and a lightness in my heart. One word about this honest, heartfelt middle grade novel forthe theater geek in each of us? Readers will root for this relationship. Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart "Gephart has written a story that willspeak not just to one specific community, but to humanity as a whole. Their powerful story will shred your heart, then stitch it back together withkindness, humor, bravery, and love. But being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Especially when you're in the eighth grade. DunkinDorfman, birth name Norbert Dorfman, is dealing with bipolar disorder and has just moved from the New Jersey town he's called home for thepast thirteen years. This would be hard enough, but the fact that he is also hiding from a painful secret makes it even worse. A JLG Selection! AnIndie Next Pick! Amazon Best Book of the Month! Another Indie Favorite Title! Amazon's Top 20 Children's Books of "Gephart clearly has a lotof heart, and she tells their stories with compassion.

Here's a book for anyone who's ever struggled with being different--or anyone who's ever loved someone who bears the burden of difference.Crucial, heart-breaking, and inspiring. The Other Boy by M. Hennessey; Sfe R. He loves pitching for his baseball team, working on his graphicnovel, and hanging out with his best friend, Josh. But Shane is keeping something private, something that might make a difference to his friends andteammates, even Josh. And in the end, those who stand beside him may surprise everyone, including Shane. Wait until you meet the familyFletcher! With two dads, four adopted brothers, two cats, and one pug, the Fletchers will have you laughing out loud!

The Fletchers are back on Rock Island, home of all their best summer memories. But from the first day they arrive, it's clear that this year, thingshave changed. FIRST, a giant fence is blocking their beloved lighthouse. THIRD, who the heck is the weird artist guy who's never actuallypainting? Can the island stay the same even with these crazy transformations? Over the course of the summer, the Fletchers will learn thatsometimes, even in a place where time stands still, the wildest, weirdest, and most wonderful surprises await.

An old-fashioned summer adventure set in a very modern world, this lively family tale will leave readers impatient for more. By making him human.After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenageboy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a wayto regain Zeus's favor. But Apollo has many enemies-gods, monsters, and mortals who would love to see the former Olympian permanentlydestroyed. Apollo needs help, and he can think of only one place to go. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon--themightiest force in the Nine Worlds. But this time the hammer isn't just lost, it has fallen into enemy hands.

If Magnus Chase and his friends can't retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal worlds will be defenseless against an onslaught of giants. Ragnarokwill begin. The Nine Worlds will burn. Unfortunately, the only person who can broker a deal for the hammer's return is the gods' worst enemy,Loki--and the price he wants is very high. The high point of Pride, the Pride Parade, is spectacular and colorful. But there is a whole lot more toPride than rainbow flags and amazing outfits. How did Pride come to be? And what does Pride mean to the people who celebrate it? But sheknows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their classplay is going to be Charlotte's Web. But the teacher says she can't even try out for the part.

With the help of her best friend, Kelly, George comes up with a plan. Not just so she can be Charlotte -- but so everyone can know who she is,once and for all. Its story is so compelling I found myself holding my breath as I read it and so intimate I felt as if what was happening to Graysonwas happening to me. Thank you, Ami Polonsky, for creating this memorable character who will open hearts and minds and very possibly be themiracle that changes lives. Grayson Sender has been holding onto a secret for what seems like forever: "he" is a girl on the inside, stuck in thewrong gender's body. The weight of this secret is crushing, but sharing it would mean facing ridicule, scorn, rejection, or worse.

Despite the risks, Grayson's true self itches to break free. Will new strength from an unexpected friendship and a caring teacher's wisdom beenough to help Grayson step into the spotlight she was born to inhabit? Debut author Ami Polonsky's moving, beautifully-written novel aboutidentity, self-esteem, and friendship shines with the strength of a young person's spirit and the enduring power of acceptance. More advance praisefor Gracefully Grayson "Don't be intimidated when I say that Gracefully Grayson is an important book. It is. It's also a brave, exhilarating, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride of self-discovery that will leave you cheering. In this magnificent reimagining of the form he originated, two stand-alonestories--the first in nearly pages of continuous pictures, the second in prose--create a beguiling narrative puzzle.

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In winkelwagen. He was born in in Komotini, near the Turkish border, and when an injury cut short a promising soccer career he threw himselfinto poetry, coming of age during the military dictatorship His early work is marked by the artistic, intellectual, and political ferment of the time, andit is no accident that in his subsequent writings he exhibits a deep understanding of the relationship between literature and politics he studiedpolitical science and economics in Athens ; also a grasp of the world beyond Greece. He traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, and Asia, lived inNew York and Chicago, where he perfected his English, and schooled himself in several literary traditions, ever mindful of the ethical dimension ofhis craft. His work is dense with allusion and insight, as befits one of the best-read writers of the age, and in these poems he displays not only arange of theme but also formal possibilities, from variations on Byzantine prosody to prose poems to lyrical meditations.

Readers will instantly recognize the voice of a major poet. It was night when we descended the narrow path to the sea. No wind was blowing justas yesterday. Lights were mirrored in a black glass. Another land began where the fire was fading and no one knew it. Someone suggested we goto find the ash remaining before the wind scattered it. We, too, could find a fire and burn the sea.

The situation is dire, and yet the very surge of these lines suggests that an imaginative response is possible—which, if nothing else, may make ourwalk in the sun more bearable. Petersburg in the company of a hundred poets and writers, or reflecting on the achievement of literary figures fromaround the globe, he brings to bear an exacting and exuberant intelligence. To learn more about or contact the press, click here. The pull of guns Iunderstand, my father taught me hand on hand how death is. Life asserts. Best take it like a man. I shot a dove, the common sort and mourned notlife but life so short that gazed from death as if unhurt.

And I had nothing to report. The language is, again, poetical — a little lofty, a little stilted. An abyss opens up. And the reader must confront,suddenly, the possibility that the killing meant nothing to the poet, that it affected her not at all. But how familiar the language! Fowling Piece — thebook, but the poem also, though on a smaller scale — arrives slowly. And Fowling Piece arrived slowly.

Most of the poems seem to be written in a conservative mode about traditional subjects. The voice that fills the room answers to no one. And theroom was already empty, but that emptiness was antiseptic, impersonal — the new emptiness fills the room with no regard for the people alreadythere. Honestly, the whole book terrifies me. And so the metaphorical stand-in for death is a shut window into which a sparrow is bound to fly —death is not the skyscape the sparrow sees, it is the glass in which the skyscape is reflected.

But the window is there. The window is the most important part of the skyscape. Why do we hunger for new metaphorical relations so acutely inthe library and bookstore year after year after year? I mean — seriously — what is it really about poetry that makes poetry so necessary to us?The novel like the story does scope and consequence — all that plodding A then B then C then death. The essay can be musical and feel real — agood essay will put something genuine at stake at the core of its utterance — but the essay is sometimes such a literalist it can be a bore.Meanwhile the poem, when the poem is good, can reconnect us to our deepest need for and even knowledge of others.

It can therefore sequester us from the black little box we keep ourselves tucked so unpromisingly into. Seuss is meanwhile both a master ofvernacular English and one of the most sophisticated and liberated image makers writing poetry in America today. In fact, they get much of theirpower and authority from being dog-eared and road-weary:. Tuesley cried over burnt pies and some cried and rage and some in pain but weepingis another thing. Therefore the problem of the exhibitionist image and, by extension, the exhibitionist poem — the character problem of egotism atthe core of any speaker more interested in himself than his tribe—has just increased and continues to increase in the contemporary period.

They therefore do not really relieve us of the problem of being stuck inside our own locked-down and in other ways entirely fucked-up old selves.The most obvious way retirement figures in ROTC Kills is in the narrative circumstances of its poems, which are linked by a determinate andconvincingly autobiographical speaker, who spends his time in reflection and contemplation in identifiable settings. Koethe himself has recentlyretired from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where for decades he served as a philosophy professor. Across his nine poetry collections,Koethe has perfected a meditative style that extends the Romantic conversation poem and the utterance-based, associative, inscribedconsciousness of the New York School aesthetic.

In this new book, that style has been rendered down to an affectless directness, verging on the essayistic, a quality further demonstrated by theinclusion of a few prose poems. No one has to write any special way — You make it up as you go along. I started Writing this way — no thoughtsat first, Then a lot of words in the guise of thoughts, Then real thoughts — a long time ago.

There is a straightforwardness in these lines with their ghost of blank verse. Yet, this quality does not mean the poems are without personality andcadenced phrases. The very idea of retirement seems fraught with paradox. It is meant to be the fulfillment of a promise and the sign ofachievement, but it also creates the conditions—the withdrawal—needed for the luxury of taking stock of that promise and achievement. BeanHome catalog.

Identity has stakes in reclaiming out of the past names, places, and details of experience. Koethe unapologetically entertains withdrawals intoconsciousness, and into a contemplative space beyond the spheres of political and social engagement. Yet these poems are not paeans orapologias for the comforts of bougie retirement in America. The speaker is restive. He is not an irredeemable apostate. Rather, he has lived withthese experiences long enough to feel them attenuate and morph. A brilliant way this profound engagement manifests in the book is in the use ofquotation and allusion, which arise without citation or attribution. Beavers, baby cheetahs, naked mole rats. Foxes that curl into you and becomesmall as handfuls. Thug elephants, fire-breathing Ulysses butterflies, vermin, zebras. Part Wes-Anderson-on-Beckett dioramas, part echo-boomeron Kafka dramaturgy, each piece works to shatter ontological constructs of what is human and what is animal.

Beaver, the rational. Beaver the talk-therapy counselor-turned-seducer. Respectfully, stresses Beaver. Stories unfold like tiny processions, scenesin boxes, situations often disintegrating into the shock-elegant. He scaled rocks, then the leg of a bridge, then climbed a bank wall and had hisphoto taken. When the legs dried up, he bought a table and cup. He put the dried legs in a cup and shook the cup and poured them out and told acop where to find a body. Other stories take Freudian dives while the backdrops, stylized recerche, produce stark discordance. Dialogues, whichpresuppose language where there is none. Spectacular syntax, attention to word sounds, imagistic precision. These are reasons enough to readWinnette, a talented young writer. There are things to see: bone clouds, star frogs, kittle kettles, bare-chested balloon cats, red ass monkeys,buckworthies, name tags that say Blinktagger, butterfinger wrappers streaked with light.

Yet in the midst of lush-cute, Winnette declares the language itself as false, slippery. So when I gave the tours to the little kids and thegrandmothers, the ignorers and bored ones, the eaters and the footer, I was thinking more or less about ways of taping them to the glass, face first,so they might see what there was to see, instead of doing whatever it was they were doing. Be warned, though, the bunny has expired.

All existence blends; it is chimerical, ruptured, elusive, disappearing and disappeared. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. Sometimes books are worththeir weight in marijuana. But what would he and his crooked cronies use as ballast? Three sets of The Times History of World War I, three dozenbound volumes of Punch, and ten more of Boys Own, bought from a shop down the street, made up for several stone of weed. All that catechisticcataplasm, that militarist mucus, that pedantic pus from festering farts.

The engaging entrails of emetic ambassadors, pestiferous papers by prudish pedagogues. The particular transshipment from Uganda reached itsGreek purchasers without a hitch. He rips the remainders of clergymen and generals and celebrities, athletes and CEOs and journalists alike; badbooks are bad, bad, bad, and the bad is all the same to Pickard. But I confess to wondering what such contempt burns for fuel. Is Pickard angryabout his own work being passed over? He knows with a capital K how unworthy some books are, but I searched More Pricks Than Prizes invain for some small acknowledgement of how hard it is to make a good book of any kind. The explosion above is my favorite passage from MorePricks than Prizes. I prize it for its lyricism and for its consciousness of fakery and waste. Read his anti-Blair rant from Fuckwind for a taste of aBeat-inflected Pickard making the most of a fucking limited vocabulary.

The opening quatrain is a storm-scene of clashing consonance:. A razor wind slashed as she douked below dykes, followed dips and shake holes,took detours along dales. Her skirts tacked the storm that stropped her face with the sharp icy edge of a blade. Later in the set, fugitives from thelaw ransack the holdings of old Maggie Crozier, whom they must restrain. The sisters held the old woman down while he took the gear outside towrap in two aprons, sewn together for the purpose. He went to the bedside but old Maggie was still. He took hold of her shoulders and beganshaking her. He raked the fire to make a flame. Lit a candle and found a cut on her face, and a handkerchief drawn around her neck and tied withtwo knots.

Her raised her and laid her down again. He threw cold water on her. As in More Pricks than Prizes, well-chosen details here help Pickard drawethically ambiguous heroes we are glad to know. Order directly from Pressed Wafer ]. Our first thought may be of a young lady dancing to GlennMiller, her partner rolling her out from under his arm, then reeling her back, their faces flushed. A second thought could be Evelyn Nesbit—whosefamous lover, architect Stanford White, was murdered by her husband—in a red velvet swing at the start of the twentieth century, the tag end ofthe Gilded Age. For her, the swing girl is an image on a Greek burial vessel, icon of the real girl who died.

We see her Greece by that metallic light, and also the sea, and also the gods who seem to flicker from one grove to another. These poems makeup the fourth and final section of her fifth full-length collection. Throughout the collection we encounter poems that possess a disturbing elusiveness,yet there is no vague or generic language. Indeed, her language is stunningly exact, her focus precise and clear. What makes the poems elusive isthe way she will often home in on particular details while omitting context. Viewing the world through her poems, we see foreshortened moments,things and ideas moving in and out of the periphery, odd alignments.

Because images and themes, not contexts, are foregrounded, it can be difficult to find something to hold on to that separates each section of thebook from the others. Sometimes we can extrapolate a context. Music moves the book from section to section, poem to poem; her cadenced linesare something like a luxury: luxurious, sensually lush, and yet disciplined. The nuns are devout and dedicated. A picture of peaceful hard work,then, of sisters who are nurses.

The shock of the poem is in its last stanza:. That spring you died, the moss on the banks was greener, spray going farther than thought. A husband?A mother?

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And when C. Are we yarn-spinners in love with spells and sweet tea, people with sticky foods for nicknames? Do we sleep with Dickey tuckedunder our pillows? At times, folks ask The Inevitable Southern Question out of critical earnestness and, at other times, with an air of patronizingregionalism. Folks, a poet is more than her Spanish moss or muscadine jelly. The work of Rachel Richardson, author of the debut poetrycollection, Copperhead , may be vulnerable to the reductive potential of the Southern poet caricature. Richardson subverts those poems that enactthe dominant narratives of Southern representation, however, through her poems of fragment and mystery, which act as both interrogations of andglosses upon those dominant narratives. These poems build meaning through the logic of telling stories — or parts of them — and tend to strivetoward closure and epiphany. The lesson is: stop crying. Flies are drawn to honey, not vinegar.

This is how a girl gets what she wants. Beaucoups dollars, shoes. In the first two stanzas, Richardson writes:. The swamps and the silver coffeetray I loved with equal pas- sion. He had me alone in the sitting room, among Chinese silk cushions. A place for silence and a place for speech.Friend chicken is an induction. Beer cans on the stoop. The poem becomes increasingly stifling as Richardson evokes a scene claustrophobic withboth kitsch and a peculiar, stylized gentility:.

One evening at the Hobbit Shop, green in the night-lit emptiness, she threw a party to introduce us to the neigh- borhood girls. A stuffed lionmoodily shadowed a train on a circular track. The arms of porcelain dolls reached for finger sandwiches on trays. Underwater, I tried to pretend Ihad jumped on pur- pose, crossing my legs in my billowing rose-print dress.

I raised an imaginary teacup to my lips, determined to remain until someone fished me out. By the end of Copperhead, I could contribute a generaldefinition of what constitutes a Southern poet—a writer concerned with regional landscapes, Southern history, family narratives, racial tensions,Protestant ironies, vernacular wisdom, and the idiosyncrasies of a community that must find ways to honor and, at times, indict its own historicalculpability—but that might be way too tidy. What can it mean To Keep Love Blurry — an infinitive phrase suggesting not only value but vigilance. Ihide beneath the sheets, close to your belly, and apologize —to you, to my mother, to our son, to motherhood and fatherhood, to all those nowfleeing what they love. Then, later, all things are other things …. Teicher is gifted in his plainspoken articulations of a world steeped indisequilibrium for the child and parent alike.

But disequilibrium does not engender despair. But such fierce challenges, such exacting portrayals of suffering, remain infectiously subversive ofsorrow. In many poems, Teicher uses the structural certainties of repetition and rhyme, which recall childhood lyrics and lullabies, recreating aseemingly trustworthy frame for the dis-clarity and disruptiveness of experience. As Amittai F. What interests me most about this book, though, iswhat I think of as the metric of wisdom, or perhaps more accurately, the metric of dispensing wisdom. Schwartz has an eloquence — a seemingease of writing — that carries If along. He has a facility for a kind of grand statement with a touch of humor and irony that reminds me of Ashbery.As with Ashbery, I end up wondering about the function, value, and nature of that eloquence. And yet, a major strand of If is the opposite of aproud eloquence; the overall book, in its beautifully stately couplets, speaks as much to aging, diminished accomplishment, and a humblingrelationship to time:.

Now I think it is my turn to miss the point Yet a voice has many arms and builds us a life. Even after language is pillaged of its magic And flowersno longer know our individual names. Foothills continue to give meter to the way we speak And glaciers give it weight, thrown boulders. Even thisbrief passage provides a good sense as to the seemingly effortless flow of generalization that Schwartz is able to achieve, and the passage alsotypifies a turning back on itself by questioning or contextualizing the poetic performance itself.

And the viewer has to wait for the words to appear As to make sense of the preceding image. If possibilities come into being and pass away Asactualities do, though they never really were. And is discarded, leaving us only with time, Time and the collective memory of earthly time;. Thatcomic frame of acceptance comes from a tragic sense of our existence, a perspective that Schwartz pushes even further so that we might seeourselves possibly as the bearer of death :. If we are a living speck surrounded by death On a planet that supports life some of the time.

Spreading itself amongst a mass of living cells And forces succumbing around us as we grow …. Perhaps all that we can do is to extemporize —to perform the mixed eloquence of If as a heuristic process of knowing by doing:. So that where we find ourselves — and If is definitely the

testing-by-writing-it of shifting perspectives on who and what we are — is in a place simultaneously of beauty and constraint:. For ourcircumstance, in human being, and in our loving relations with other mortals, is one of anguish. A poem, then, a poem such as If , becomes a wayto share perspective, to make a vision and saying trans-personal, though with the awareness, as beings in time and as beings constrained by ourown radical particularity, that we will, to a great extent, miss one another:.

But with effort, with some rest, we can shake off the jet-lag and join one another in this time, in the place of speculation and eloquence that poursforth from that profoundly initiating and simple word if. His seventeenth book of poetry, N18 complete , a handwritten book, is available fromSinging Horse Press. All poetry, whether free verse or no, is formal. And all poems, whatever their ostensible subjects, are finally also about form:the torsos of language they erect, the fields of white space their lines plough, and in which their words alight and from which they take flight. Kainsand published in But the poems themselves — as agile, nimble, sexy, smart, and culturally and linguistically savvy as his prosody is regular — areabout much more than agricultural husbandry. Eschewing any over-simplification of this endeavor, or of the heart, even as they strive for an utterclarity of expression, these are love poems —f or place, for spouse, for children, for the making and the mystery of making.

The field we bought is filled with clover. You are still my lover, I am still yours. Our children are halfway here, and we try to imagine being filled.Remember the year we lived in London? And what, exactly, binds this August meadow and that year? What is it — if not love, fear, beauty, anddesire — that leads us to create things: a garden, an orchard, a family, a poem? I always assumed beginnings were the best places to start.

But times are that middles are all you see or something slowly muddles the line. It begins: you, then you, then here, where the trees are bright, willsoften, will brighten again. That in seed and land we find an anchor, and in language we weigh out our courage. This figurative nexus of the wildorder of horticulture is at the ardent heart of this collection. She teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia. Anastassis Vistonitis occupiesa unique position in Greek letters: equally acclaimed as a poet and a journalist, he switches from one medium to the other with seeming ease, nowcomposing poems and literary essays, now turning out book reviews and articles, often on the same day.

Both streams feed the sea of his imagination—he calls his prose a continuation of poetry by other means — and his Greek readers are fortunate tohave his work available to them in so many forms. He has published eleven collections of poetry, three volumes of essays, four travelogues, a bookof stories, and a translation of the Chinese poet Li Ho; he edits and writes for the book section of To Vima, the leading newspaper; he evenassembled the candidature file for the Athens Olympics, articulating the argument that convinced the International Olympic Committee to return theGames to their original site.

Indeed his work is a testament to the ancient Greek idea of the intimate connection between the body and the soul. What good luck to have aselection of his poems in English, in the splendid translation of David Connolly. Vistonitis cuts a large figure, both in his presence and on the page.He was born in in Komotini, near the Turkish border, and when an injury cut short a promising soccer career he threw himself into poetry, comingof age during the military dictatorship His early work is marked by the artistic, intellectual, and political ferment of the time, and it is no accident thatin his subsequent writings he exhibits a deep understanding of the relationship between literature and politics he studied political science andeconomics in Athens ; also a grasp of the world beyond Greece.

He traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, and Asia, lived in New York and Chicago, where he perfected his English, and schooled himself inseveral literary traditions, ever mindful of the ethical dimension of his craft. His work is dense with allusion and insight, as befits one of the best-read writers of the age, and in these poems he displays not only a range of theme but also formal possibilities, from variations on Byzantineprosody to prose poems to lyrical meditations. Readers will instantly recognize the voice of a major poet.

It was night when we descended the narrow path to the sea. No wind was blowing just as yesterday. Lights were mirrored in a black glass.Another land began where the fire was fading and no one knew it. Someone suggested we go to find the ash remaining before the wind scatteredit. We, too, could find a fire and burn the sea. The situation is dire, and yet the very surge of these lines suggests that an imaginative response ispossible—which, if nothing else, may make our walk in the sun more bearable. Petersburg in the company of a hundred poets and writers, orreflecting on the achievement of literary figures from around the globe, he brings to bear an exacting and exuberant intelligence.

To learn more about or contact the press, click here. The pull of guns I understand, my father taught me hand on hand how death is. Life asserts.Best take it like a man. I shot a dove, the common sort and mourned not life but life so short that gazed from death as if unhurt. And I had nothingto report. The language is, again, poetical — a little lofty, a little stilted. An abyss opens up. And the reader must confront, suddenly, the possibilitythat the killing meant nothing to the poet, that it affected her not at all. But how familiar the language! Fowling Piece — the book, but the poemalso, though on a smaller scale — arrives slowly. And Fowling Piece arrived slowly. Most of the poems seem to be written in a conservative modeabout traditional subjects. The voice that fills the room answers to no one.

And the room was already empty, but that emptiness was antiseptic, impersonal — the new emptiness fills the room with no regard for the peoplealready there. Honestly, the whole book terrifies me. And so the metaphorical stand-in for death is a shut window into which a sparrow is boundto fly — death is not the skyscape the sparrow sees, it is the glass in which the skyscape is reflected. But the window is there. The window is themost important part of the skyscape. Why do we hunger for new metaphorical relations so acutely in the library and bookstore year after year afteryear?

I mean — seriously — what is it really about poetry that makes poetry so necessary to us? The novel like the story does scope and consequence— all that plodding A then B then C then death. The essay can be musical and feel real — a good essay will put something genuine at stake at thecore of its utterance — but the essay is sometimes such a literalist it can be a bore. Meanwhile the poem, when the poem is good, can reconnectus to our deepest need for and even knowledge of others. It can therefore sequester us from the black little box we keep ourselves tucked sounpromisingly into. Seuss is meanwhile both a master of vernacular English and one of the most sophisticated and liberated image makers writingpoetry in America today.

In fact, they get much of their power and authority from being dog-eared and road-weary:. Tuesley cried over burnt pies and some cried and rageand some in pain but weeping is another thing. Therefore the problem of the exhibitionist image and, by extension, the exhibitionist poem — thecharacter problem of egotism at the core of any speaker more interested in himself than his tribe—has just increased and continues to increase inthe contemporary period. They therefore do not really relieve us of the problem of being stuck inside our own locked-down and in other waysentirely fucked-up old selves.

The most obvious way retirement figures in ROTC Kills is in the narrative circumstances of its poems, which are linked by a determinate andconvincingly autobiographical speaker, who spends his time in reflection and contemplation in identifiable settings. Koethe himself has recentlyretired from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where for decades he served as a philosophy professor. Across his nine poetry collections,Koethe has perfected a meditative style that extends the Romantic conversation poem and the utterance-based, associative, inscribedconsciousness of the New York School aesthetic.

In this new book, that style has been rendered down to an affectless directness, verging on the essayistic, a quality further demonstrated by theinclusion of a few prose poems. No one has to write any special way — You make it up as you go along. I started Writing this way — no thoughtsat first, Then a lot of words in the guise of thoughts, Then real thoughts — a long time ago. The puzzle pieces of this collection notch together,assembling a picture of the mysterious intelligence of coincidence and the sad, funny faces with which we meet it.

Poet, philosopher, architect and transdisciplinary artist, Madeline Gins — is well known for her collaborations with her husband, the artistArakawa, on the experimental architectural project Reversible Destiny, via which they sought to arrest mortality by transforming the builtenvironment. Yet, her own writings—in the form of poetry, essays, experimental prose, and philosophical inquiries—represent her most visionaryand transformative work. Like Gertrude Stein before her, Gins transfigures grammar and liberates words. Like her contemporaries in conceptualart, her writing is attuned to the energized, collaborative space between reader and page. She invites the reader into a field of infinite, ever-multiplying possibility. With each reading we embody her words and write Gins anew, giving her life within the pages of the book and ourselves.

This wide-ranging, energetic anthology of poetry and experimental fiction, with an authoritative introduction by Ives shows how Gins — exploredthe possibilities of literary form and its relationship to content. Stimulating and consistently surprising, this is a treat for those interested ininterdisciplinary artists. This generous selection of texts is an opportunity to engage with the full scope of [Gins's] thinking. For Gins, words arenothing if not physical. The inherent confusion of language is of course her tactic, for to reach full clarity is to resume gravity. The Madeline GinsReader feels like how I imagine living in a Reversible Destiny house feels — like floating, like hovering, really, in a cloud of mist. While stuck insideyour familiar four walls, lockdown is the perfect time to dive in.

Gins was a master of wordplay; humorous images are built up into piles, with groups of phrases building into networks of meaning flowing ingradients down the page. For anyone who wants to experience directly the uncharted regions of inner and outer space in which language,perception, thought, and image play freely with our cramped expectations of them, the Madeline Gins Reader is an indispensable guide and astartling discovery. Her explorations of the interstices between words as symbols, as images, as sounds, as drawings are sure, steady, and entirelyoriginal. There are pleasant surprises on every page, in which narratives open up to encompass your experience as reader; fold over on oneanother to include and picture her activity as author; break open to scatter into lists, logical formulae, diagrams; reconfigure our grasp of what apage is for and what it can do.

It is a dizzying and deeply exhilarating ride. Madeline Gins was a pioneer of language, poetry, and Conceptual art. It seems incredible that herwork received so little attention during her lifetime. This volume performs an invaluable service in recalling her to our attention. Madeline Gins wasmarooned here, on Earth, and made the best of it, using what was available to her, like words. This book is a splendid testament to how far shepushed them, and us, to realize what she already knew. That this, all this, is not it. Gins was a foundational figure. Her work was original and yetalso deeply indicative of the transformative activities of conceptualism that performed a tectonic shift in art-making beginning in the late s. Ivesframes the collection articulately, giving us a vivid sense of the period in which Gins began and developed her remarkable body of work.

Born in the Bronx, NY in , she grew up on Long Island and graduated from Barnard College in , having studied physics and philosophy. Sheleaves a rich and complex legacy of interdisciplinary thought, action, and writing: although much of her work was unpublished or went out of printin her own lifetime, her prescient efforts in poetics, aesthetics, and environmental studies are central to contemporary debates about how to formcommunities and create collaboratively and sustainably.

In July of , photographer Matthew Connors born and novelist and critic Lucy Ives born embarked on a strange project: to remove and catalog allthe contents of Connors's car, a Volvo station wagon. Although the New York—based duo began the endeavor without knowing where it wouldlead, their investigation—of parts, tools, ephemera, litter, personal items, unidentifiable disjecta, among other objects—lasted more than two yearsand resulted in a series of photographs by Connors and an essay by Ives on narrative forms and temporalities inherent to contemporary media.This collaborative publication, designed by Elana Schlenker, poses questions about where narrative originates and how we establish our stories inrelation to the objects and timescales that carry, ground, and surround us. The audience for The Poetics is definitely those who indulge in activereading, and who are intrigued by unconventional narrative structures — the book brings photographs and writing together in a clever way, makingthem interdependent.

The book is also exciting in its mission of taking a simple, and somewhat amusing idea, and turning it into layered project with many morepossibilities and discoveries than we might have guessed. It requires both reading and seeing, and rewards that combined effort with pleasingintricacy. George W. Bush has recently declared the mission in Iraq accomplished, the unemployment rate is at its highest in years, and MarthaStewart has just been indicted for insider trading. Wickedly entertaining, beguiling, layered, and sly, Loudermilk is a social novel for our time: acomedy of errors that deftly examines class, gender, and inheritance, and subverts our pieties about literature, authorship, art-making, and theinstitutions that sustain them.

This clever satire of writing programs exhibits, with persuasive bitterness, the damage wreaked by the idea that literature is competition.Loudermilk is not just funny; it becomes a layered exploration of the creative process. Ives approaches the students themselves with cannytenderness, and their work which the novel excerpts, delightfully with grave respect. A book where profound poststructuralist meditations onlanguage, chance and creativity are deftly spun through with a myriad of jokes about farting, sex and male anatomy. With the Bush presidency andinvasion of Iraq playing out ambiently and calamitously in the background, Loudermilk perfectly captures the strange cultural ethos of the early s.With razor-sharp prose and a plenitude of linguistic strangeness, Ives has written a novel about American college life that is both philosophicallygripping and exceptionally hilarious.

Lucy Ives has created something special in Loudermilk. Unlike so many other satirical novels, Loudermilk is nuanced and feels like it has somethingto say. Hilarious, pointed, perfectly executed. Ives manages to subvert all expectations, and offers up one of the slyest, smartest looks at what itmeans to be a writer I've read; her every sentence sings, and they're songs I'll return to again and again. Ives, who once described herself as "theauthor of some kind of thinking about writing," examines the conditions that produce authors and their work while never losing a sense of wonderat the sheer mystery of the written word. In a literary critical flourish, [Ives] combines elements of libertine novels, realist novels, social novels,inherited wealth lit, postmodern novels, period pieces, poetry, satire, and revenge plots.

A funny and cutting novel whose critiques of inherited wealth and its effects on culture in the aughts will keep being true until a full redistribution ofwealth, beginning with reparations, occurs. Readers expecting yet another referendum on the MFA will be pleasantly surprised to discover a muchstranger and more ambitious book. A riotous success.

Equal parts campus novel, buddy comedy and meditation on art-making under late capitalism, the novel is a hugely funny portrait of an egomaniacand his nebbish best friend. By employing a classical theatrical technique of dramatis personae, rather than 'realistic' novel characters, perhaps Ivesis able to move between so many registers that enable her unusual 'mash-up' to excel as at once philosophical and planted in the mud. Breakingsuch a distinction requires rare observational skill, patience, and multi-genre flexibility and curiosity.

Though the empirical distinctions between prose and poetry are often illusory, Ives finds a way to make her prose both a kind of communication—as is expected—as well as a construction of satire. Her words linger longer than normal trade, and find ways to avoid their disintegration, as if themust of a punchline is more lasting, more fragrant; words this eloquently framed and humorous imprint, and, often enough, hold us in theirabsurdity.

Loudermilk may best be read as a contribution to a growing body of literature that both historicizes and critiques the MFA program. Loudermilksuggests that MFA programs are only incidentally committed to the production of great writing, that their true purpose is the cultivation andmaintenance of power. In this, they have been perversely successful—as successful as Loudermilk himself. And yet, paradoxically, their verysuccess in cultivating such power has led the MFA into crisis. This send-up of contemporary graduate writing programs and the characters theyattract and create is sure to highly amuse any reader, especially those with a penchant for academia-set hijinks.

Reminiscent of Michael Chabon, this highly original satiric novel is sharp-witted and adroit. Lucy Ives mixes genres with unusual abandon in hersecond novel, Loudermilk. The narrative could be regarded as a campus novel, a portrait of the artist, a scam story, a retelling of Cyrano deBergerac, or a farce. Loudermilk is a novel about the tension between art and life, and the conflict between labor and power. Lucy Ives is asdeeply funny and ferocious a writer as they come. She's also humane and philosophical when it matters most. I love Loudermilk. Pulsing withneurotic humor and dagger-sharp prose, Impossible Views of the World is a dazzling debut novel about how to make it through your early thirtieswith your brain and heart intact. The novel sends up the museum world, with pretentious art folks courting corporate dollars and the usual officepolitics, but maintains a sense of something larger, even magical, working in the background.

With sharp phrases, uncanny plot-turns, and mise-en-abymes galore, this mesmerizing tale radiates the haute irreality of Last Year at Marienbadand the dreamy claustrophobia of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Frankweiler , this time for adults only. The Hermit is a catalog of thoughtsconcerning art and experience. Layering fragments of dreams, lists, games, conversations, poems, and notebooks, Lucy Ives offers an intimatelook into one writer's practice—"The worst is my imagination: lushly underscoring everything. In fact she already has: Her impressive publicationscredits include both poetry including her excellent collection Orange Roses and even a novel, nineties , a bildungsroman focused on a youngwoman coming of age during that decade. She is an editor for Triple Canopy, a magazine and arts organization committed to 'resisting theatomization of culture' and who assembled an installation as part of the Whitney Biennial. In clumsier hands, this would come off as diaristic. Imove around in this writing, and become aware of my moving around within it, and consider not only the shape of the writing, but my own shape asits reader.

She dreams this is where her path will lead her. Here they deliver proof of parataxis's poiesis. Ives's exquisite take on ellipsis as realism is a dream,as both vision and something that fully satisfies a wish. The essay concerns human events and how to write about them. The title of the residencywas "Real Allegory. What can research contribute to writing not based in fact? How, more specifically, might we imagine the potential of historicaldocuments and artifacts to teach us about what is not the case, what cannot be, what is excluded or merely and perhaps eternally and enticinglypossible?

And how does a literary construction such as narrative or a trope such as metonymy find its place in the writing of history? Treating historiographyas a poetics—as a discipline concerned with fabrication, contingent meaning, and aesthetic power, as much as objective analysis and proof—thisiteration of ResidencyX will include a lecture, workshop, and exhibition. These events will address the question of how the writing of history canserve as a model for other kinds of writing, depiction, and creation, around and beyond the discipline of history. Also explored: the relationshipbetween historical modes of American art making and artistic collaboration, and contemporary practice.

A deceptively simple and clear-eyed look at adolescence at the dawn of American hypercapitalism, nineties is a cautionary tale, rendered inriveting, lucid prose; a narrative of innocence and experience and the intoxicating nature of first friendships. So precise as to sometimes feel

punishing, nineties is a brief, formal, forceful book. In it, Ives employs an economy of language that undoes the extreme fecundity of the materialculture she describes. As a work of literature, it asks: How can writing be a motor for social revaluation? The adolescent shenanigans of the girls inthat movie are definitely higher-stakes. They involve sticking up a restaurant with fake guns for money to go on spring break, ending up in jail, thenfalling in with a local thug, sticking up other spring breakers with him, and climatically using actual guns to take out an entire rival gang. They are'playing with fate' and are turned on by it. I think this is true of every generation, nineties or otherwise.

The scary thing about this playing with fate is that said fate can be accessed in further and more nuanced ways aside from just credit fraud. TheInternet and social media can inspire such cruel, desperate, and depressing behavior think of all the stories of kids who kill themselves becausethey are bullied online, because of their sexuality or otherwise , and we are still learning how this behavior will be understood through the eyes of ageneration of humans who have never experienced life without it. Here is a literary triptych whose panels swing from one another unfettered bygeometry in wide and wild arcs. But there are hinges. Think of the upkeep of the minotaur at the center of what can only be the labyrinthine mind ofLucy Ives. This particular creature feeds on its own enclosure. Who said time is eternity turned into a moving image? How does this work on thepage? As soon as Ives allows things focus, she pulls back, revealing a small component of a larger construct, but never anything objective andirreducibly whole.

Thus, effectively her subject and obsession is not the demarcation of time, but the inability of time to be properly or comparatively enacted.Daedalus never built anything quite like this. Good luck getting out. The Worldkillers is a strange and beautiful novel of numerology written in thecourse of a day; it is also a brilliant essay on description. But it begins with singing. Lucy Ives ushers us into her newest book via a series ofmediations on repetition and transformation.

Neither thinking nor seeing are proof of being. Ives reminds us that language, image, and description are merely operations we perform, beautifuland useful as they may be. These are worlds I gratefully receive. Lucy Ives's The Worldkillers is so much fun. Like a sick-and-gorgeous dollhousenot-meant-for-kids and come-to-life. Or like a series of Daguerre's Dioramas with lights flickering in windows and pale blue smoke lifting out thechimneys. Anything might happen! Yet only one thing can, because this is a book. But will it be horrible? In this work, there is hardly a differencebetween dream and reality—the line between that which exists and that which is merely a construction of perspective is blurred in any attempt toportray a given experience. Writing is less about choosing between worlds, she suggests in this exploratory book, than it is about existing in onewhere life and our perceptions thereof are complementary.

Explicitly influenced by the work of George Oppen, Ives takes accretion as her lodestar, moving fluidly from analysis to aphorism, concept tosonnet, and paragraph to fragment. The genuine is trickier territory, but I think for all her concerns with imitation and transference, this is a bookabout the wonder of discovering yourself as writer in language. It is also brilliant, hard-earned and honest.

In this it is also an urgently political book—but without a trace of polemic. Its politics are where they do the most work—in its form and in itspoetics. What illusions are to be left standing? That you cannot improvise the truth. That you can go backwards. That you cannot start over. Thatyou must. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground—that hard drama—have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakinglybeautiful work. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. Original in form and expression, it brings us to attention, thereby tothe real, and the leap mid-sentence from one page to another is dazzling.

I suspect it might bear real resemblance to the poems that Lucy Ives is writing in Novel. Such poems accept confusion without reveling in it. Suchpoems trouble themselves by working toward song in the very realm where thought and perception divide and grow quarrelsome. In the Platonicsense, it suggests the recollection of ideas which the soul knew in a previous life. In a clinical sense, it is the full medical history as told by a patient;in the Christian sense, it is a Eucharistic prayer; and in immunology, it is a strong immune response. We are asked to reflect on what previous lifebrought these sentences to the page, what history of illness or wellness caused the words to form this way, what invisible prayer was erased evenbefore meaning was posited.

An excerpt included in UPD's 6x6 lent that particular issue of the periodical its title. In this single long poem, her first book, Ives stalls writing at itsinception so that a central question—what can be acceptably written here? Ives has replaced the book with the act of reading and response. Thebook does not become the book, does not become itself, until we engage with it. For the elegance of its iteration alone, it merits our attention.Anamnesis is a new reminder of the fluidity of our roles and our memories. The text occludes the making of a manageable recollection, since thething remembered is at once mutable and disposable. Like Kentridge, Ives performs a kind of mental trickery as the medium allows for theappearance of progressions.

It is not easy to describe this work, so bear with me for a moment, as this will take some doing. It is a wall-hung structure composed of wood,polystyrene, cement, acrylic, and a color photograph. It is not particularly easy to see the photograph—or the Courbet itself, therefore. The framedpicture is nestled into the polystyrene construction, shielded by the frontal announcement of the low-stakes wager; the photograph sits on a sort ofshelf that seems to have been designed for it. In this sense, the photograph is about as framed as something can be, without being entirely hidden.In the snapshot three individuals huddle before a neighboring Courbet canvas, possibly Nude Woman with a Dog He wears a black leather jacket,dark hair closely cropped.

A different sort of in-joke? Or, are we meant to recognize ourselves in the midst of a multigenerational act of transmission of styles of looking, i. Itoccurs to us, too, that with its frame, the Courbet is almost the right size to be the referent of the title of the sculpture. Stand before painting. Obtainphotographic reproduction. Insert awe somewhere. All he has to do is look, no elaborate rationale or hushed discourse see trio next door at NudeWoman with a Dog necessary. The museum has surprised him by permitting him to stare at something he genuinely wants to see.

Harrison has a point. A funny one, at that. The multiple stagings and framings of The Origin by its commissioner and later owners underscore boththe frank obscenity of the painting and the need for props including its grandiose title to make it into an acceptable work of art. Her readymade guyknows well how to look at this shot, I mean, canvas. Her work is ambiguous, multi-planar, and comprises objects and references that bounce from

high to low, that require some technical prowess for their execution or that require none at all i.

There are some carnival beads or a photograph of Leonardo DiCaprio. There is a reference to Jeff Koons or Hanne Darboven. While not asubiquitous as polyethylene grocery bags , polystyrene is a shape-shifter. Its refusal to degrade is matched by its receptivity, in its foam state, tocarving, cutting, pressure. Maybe a soft tapping sound, a click or rustle. Their volume, in other words, does not connote or entail mass. The frontalsign and various white facades distract us further. They want to be figures, too. But at the same time, at the center of this flurry of formal andsemantic elements threatening to become near-figures, is a clear and direct reflection on spectatorship and the role of realist representational styles,a nicely staged understatement: A guy sees something he likes.

There is also the inevitable tie to Duchamp, due to the many manufactured objects she employs. The tension of the pre- and early postwar scenecentered on the expression of political commitments in representational art, particularly through figuration and caricature in a social realist mode.Although it was perhaps difficult to see the anthropomorphic face of god in a painting by Jackson Pollock, one could and was encouraged by thecontemporary press to see the face of some sort of conceptual deity, perhaps one corresponding to the dreadful instrumentalization of quantummechanics. Although the rejection of figurative realism was far from universal and was in short order interrupted by the arrival of Pop, the fields ofcolor and drops of paint the abstractionists favored made a bid for visceral excitements beyond language, even as they were blandlyinternationalist, covertly nationalistic, and, eventually, very selling.

In spite of what Greenberg argued, they were a new mass ornament. Yet Harrison also resuscitates figuration in a social mode, often by way ofphotographs, drawings, and readymades. The immature figure in Alexander the Great , rising all too gamely out of its massive harlequin packing-peanut—as if in tribute to Amazon Prime b. Rather, the work is a series of store-bought thrifted? Still, given the idiotic symmetry of its face andcharming, guileless offer of a Jeff Gordon—themed bucket of paint rollers? I have already mentioned the O. The oddly shaped constructions arehandily roped into portraiture through the addition of names and accessories. This language is decontextualized, pushed to a point of abstraction,then reconfigured, tied to new images and forms; as a result of this process it does, I have to say, become more insistent. The title of the work thatI mentioned at the outset of this essay acts as an unpredictable frame, one that both encloses the sculpture and gets in the way of its interpretation.

If they are frames, they are competitive ones. Harrison often hangs framed images of celebrities on her polystyrene steles or builds pictures andvideo into a given piece. Perth Amboy , however, sets photograph and sculpture apart, in part by means of a cardboard maze. The twenty-onephotographs in Perth Amboy , many taken from outside the house to capture views of hands on the blessed window, hang on the gallery walls. Atthe center of the room, tall pieces of cardboard are arranged and folded in such a way that they stand freely, swaying sometimes. They might wellbe knocked over by visitors.

The anthropomorphic items are arranged in such a way that they seem to gaze appreciatively and obediently at their assigned objects ofcontemplation, miniature sculptures and paintings. Thus, Harrison, as an artist who is often engaged in staging occasions for looking atphotographs, calls our attention to the fact that photographs can be framed by objects and elaborate physical structures, and can frame thoseobjects and structures, in turn. They also lingered in the cardboard maze, making notes on the various readymades staged there. The studentsconsidered these scenes of fake absorption intently.

They weighed the feeling of the looking described here against the looking they themselves were doing in relation to the miraculous site of PerthAmboy, where, as they understood, devout people had congregated to touch a holy image. They told me that they enjoyed the way in which thecardboard kept some parts of the room hidden, such that one could not grasp its contents in a single glance. The installation seemed, in some way,to liberate them to be completely focused on their own thoughts and observations. It was also acting, therefore, as a consideration of a possiblerelationship between privacy and collectivity, two concepts that are usually opposed. In other words, is the face of Mary kitsch or is the image ofmuseum spectatorship kitsch—or, are these two images and the behaviors they entail actually more allied than we might think? The Club wasoverseen by Juliana Force, then personal assistant to heiress and sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a somewhat distant patron whose greatestprevious achievement was to have backed the Armory Show.

The Whitney Museum, carrying on the work of the Studio Club, did not draw a sharp distinction between decoration and artwork, craft and fineart, kitsch and sublimity, artist and curator. Force treated art in a familiar fashion and was generally more concerned with inviting living artists andother visitors to the spaces she maintained than with maintaining Neo-Classical or modernist ideals. But Harrison has never been the sort of artistto miss an opportunity to point out the strange conditions historical, social, material under which we view art, and this makes me wonder.

Or, what if the show simply calls greater attention to our habits of moving around and looking while we are in the current Whitney? Indeed, thissecond option feels quite possible to me. As most of us know, one of the most disorienting experiences one can have in a museum is to make aground-figure category error, in other words to mistake infrastructure or trash—say a directional sign or stray packing peanut—for art. Link to theessay. This article appears in the print edition of Art in America , November Courtesy Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas. Photo Allison Smith.Photo John Berens. However, save for the clock, the shot is too tight for us to make out these monuments to globalized space and time.

We hear house music and see Piper in motion in jeans, blazer, pink scarf, sunglasses. Some people would come up to it and begin dancing along,sometimes so that their friends could photograph them or make a video. Others would assume an attitude similar to those passing throughAlexanderplatz on March 26, they drifted by, commenting on the anomaly of the spectacle. Look at her, they said, sometimes appreciatively,sometimes with an air of confusion. I studied these responses, enjoying them as if they were works of art in themselves—an echo that seemed partof the point. I wanted to dance too, and maybe I did, shyly, standing off to the side. I began to be subject to fantasies about personal agency andstarted walking through the exhibition in reverse.

It was also, as size-conscious individuals noted at the time, the largest exhibition of work by a living artist held at MoMA, filling the entire floor.Traveling backward thus had consequences. I experienced trepidation before The Humming Room , a small room I had to pass through in order toaccess the rest of the exhibition. Above the entrance was a sign: in order to enter the room, you must hum a tune. OK, I thought. Within the room

stood a security guard, who, although currently distracted, was probably empowered to enforce the imperative.

With this ellipsis in mind, I ducked into The Humming Room. My humming was literal. I had been so focused on the directive you must hum a tuneand, relatedly, on the task of acquitting myself faultlessly as a normal museumgoer, that I had lost track of what was at stake. I had perceived theletter of the law you must hum without intuiting its spirit, its ironies, its will to distinguish. Though I had focused on Thwarted Projects, DashedHopes, A Moment of Embarrassment and Imagine [Trayvon Martin] , there were other works—and other words—to read on the subject ofinstitutional control. I noted that sometimes I wanted to be independent and sometimes to imitate or join. Sometimes I was thrown back into theproblem of not knowing what to do or how to understand the environment, and sometimes problems beyond my own individual actions orexperience loomed larger, pointing me out as a subject of history.

Overall, I found that the present—present time, present action, present thought—was getting thicker, more specific, more challenging in its detail. Ireflected that—no great epiphany this—contracts, social and otherwise, are tricky. Subject to spontaneous revision, reinterpretation, anddisintegration, among other forms of unwanted variance, they tend to function one way in theory and another in practice. I reflected, too, that theauthor of these works was a professor of meta-ethics and, therefore, in some non-negligible sense, an expert on trust. I know because I made briefattempts at the close of the last century, as an eighteen-, nineteen-, and twenty-year-old.

The Harvard University lecture hall was packed, largely with young men who wore shorts in winter and claimed math courses were a leisureactivity. It provoked in me a feeling of extreme discomfort. Though I was at the time unaware that anything related to my identity could determinewhich disciplines I could and could not pursue, and though Korsgaard herself was female, there was a definite chill. I chose to believe that the chillwas mostly due to the way in which the discipline treated language. The notion that a paragraph could be converted—clarified—into a formalgrammar, a raft of specific propositions, felt artificial and alien, at least to me, who was unused to words being valued for the stability of theirmeanings. I was otherwise spending most of my time being a comparative literature major who had just discovered German poetry Celan, Novalisand, in a stroke of genius and desperation, had convinced my teaching assistant to let me write a final paper for Korsgaard on a single word in TheMetaphysics of Morals.

I said nothing all semester, save in the T. Given the tendency on the part of art institutions to casually solicit the tidings of adjacent disciplines,particularly those concerned with language, we are accustomed to encountering professional philosophers in galleries and museums. Usually thesephilosophers, phenomenologists and ideologues I use the latter term without pejorative intent , offer broad humanistic themes, not unambiguouslogical forms. Piper, in her role as an analytic philosopher, works with logic, deploying specific techniques to address discrete problems withidentifiable results, though more popular notions such as value s and history also come in for consideration. I am not proposing to initiate theprocess of cross-pollination here. But it does seem worth clarifying that Piper is a distinguished philosopher. As a philosopher, Piper points up herinterest in employing means and ends that are congruent.

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