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Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection of her essays, and its publication promises to be an important event for American literary culture. Here, Hejinian brings together twenty essays written over a span of almost twenty-five years. Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, Hejinian turns to language as a social space, a site of both philosophical inquiry and political address. Central to these essays are the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception. Hejinian's interests cover a range of texts and figures. Prominent among them are Sir Francis Bacon and Enlightenment-era explorers; Faust and Sheherazade; Viktor Shklovsky and Russian formalism; William James, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger. But perhaps the most important literary presence in the essays is Gertrude Stein; the volume includes Hejinian's influential "Two Stein Talks," as well as two more recent essays on Stein's writings.

Literature --- Poetics --- Poetry --- Technique --- Hejinian, Lyn --- Aesthetics. --- Poetics. --- academic. --- american literature. --- american poetry. --- american poets. --- autobiographical. --- collected works. --- consciousness. --- contemporary poetry. --- creative writing. --- enlightenment. --- essay collection. --- faust. --- female poets. --- gertrude stein. --- knowledge. --- language poets. --- literary analysis. --- literary criticism. --- literary culture. --- martin heidegger. --- modern poetry. --- perception. --- philosophy. --- poetry. --- political. --- politics. --- scheherazade. --- scholarly. --- sir francis bacon. --- time.

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Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institution of Washington's project to collect thousands of embryos for scientific study. Lynn M. Morgan blends social analysis, sleuthing, and humor to trace the history of specimen collecting. In the process, she illuminates how a hundred-year-old scientific endeavor continues to be felt in today's fraught arena of maternal and fetal politics. Until the embryo collecting project-which she follows from the Johns Hopkins anatomy department, through Baltimore foundling homes, and all the way to China-most people had no idea what human embryos looked like. But by the 1950's, modern citizens saw in embryos an image of "ourselves unborn," and embryology had developed a biologically based story about how we came to be. Morgan explains how dead specimens paradoxically became icons of life, how embryos were generated as social artifacts separate from pregnant women, and how a fetus thwarted Gertrude Stein's medical career. By resurrecting a nearly forgotten scientific project, Morgan sheds light on the roots of a modern origin story and raises the still controversial issue of how we decide what embryos mean.

Embryology, Human --- Tissue culture --- Human reproductive technology --- Medical anthropology. --- Social aspects. --- 20th century american history. --- 20th century scientific history. --- baltimore foundling homes. --- biology. --- carnegie institute of washington. --- embryo babies. --- embryo collection. --- embryo production factory. --- embryology. --- fetal politics. --- gertrude stein. --- healthcare. --- icons of life. --- johns hopkins anatomy department. --- maternal politics. --- medial treatment. --- medical care. --- mount holyoke collection. --- ourselves unborn. --- pregnancy. --- pregnant women. --- science. --- scientific study. --- social artifacts. --- specimen collecting. --- united states of america.

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Levi Strauss, A.L. Gump, Yehudi Menuhin, Gertrude Stein, Adolph Sutro, Congresswoman Florence Prag Kahn--Jewish people have been so enmeshed in life in and around San Francisco that their story is a chronicle of the metropolis itself. Since the Gold Rush, Bay Area Jews have countered stereotypes, working as farmers and miners, boxers and mountaineers. They were Gold Rush pioneers, Gilded Age tycoons, and Progressive Era reformers. Told through an astonishing range of characters and events, Cosmopolitans illuminates many aspects of Jewish life in the area: the high profile of Jewish women, extraordinary achievements in the business world, the cultural creativity of the second generation, the bitter debate about the proper response to the Holocaust and Zionism, and much more. Focusing in rich detail on the first hundred years after the Gold Rush, the book also takes the story up to the present day, demonstrating how unusually strong affinities for the arts and for the struggle for social justice have characterized this community even as it has changed over time. Cosmopolitans, set in the uncommonly diverse Bay Area, is a truly unique chapter of the Jewish experience in America.

Jews --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History. --- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --- Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco Region (Calif.) --- Ethnic relations. --- 19th century american culture. --- 20th century american culture. --- adolph sutro. --- al gump. --- bay area jews. --- business world. --- california. --- class conflict. --- cultural creativity. --- florence prag kahn. --- gertrude stein. --- gilded age. --- gold rush. --- great depression. --- holocaust. --- jewish american experience. --- jewish americans. --- jewish people. --- jewish reformers. --- jewish women. --- judaism. --- levi strauss. --- progressive era. --- san francisco. --- social justice. --- united states of america. --- yehundi menuhin. --- zionism.

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With an introduction on how to redefine our thinking about religion and theatrical drama, these nine essays on contemporary and classic plays rehabilitate the link between theatrical performance and dramatic stories for the study of religion. These new and distinctively interdisciplinary perspectives will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of religion, theology, theatre and performance studies, literary studies, and philosophy.

heaven --- hell --- purgatory --- Jesuits --- Salesians --- drama --- education --- Italy --- musical --- gender --- queer --- Butler --- Tracy --- embodiment --- theology --- anthropology --- John Paul II --- martyrdom --- early modern --- Jacobean --- masculinity --- virgin --- metatheatre --- limit experience --- religious dimensionality --- Wilder --- Sondheim --- Lapine --- Measure for Measure --- Cheek By Jowl --- performance --- the body --- the trinity --- Christology --- rhetoric --- repetition --- triadic logic --- semiotics --- American avant-garde theater --- Gertrude Stein --- metaphysical religion --- Syria --- witness --- theatrical drama --- Romeo and Juliet --- Frans van der Lugt --- comparative theology --- William Shakespeare --- Ibsen --- Doll’s House --- Nora --- Torvald --- Helmer --- Christianity --- Christ --- religion --- sacrifice --- idealism --- Calvin --- Balthasar --- improvisation --- time --- death --- theatrical hermeneutics --- n/a --- Doll's House

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"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and Adderall), you blindfold them and lead them by the hand into a labyrinth made from bones. Then you tell them their assignment: 'Find the Grail. You have a New York minute to get it.'"--The Poetry Lesson The Poetry Lesson is a hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course taught by a "typical fin-de-siècle salaried beatnik"--one with an antic imagination, an outsized personality and libido, and an endless store of entertaining literary anecdotes, reliable or otherwise. Neither a novel nor a memoir but mimicking aspects of each, The Poetry Lesson is pure Andrei Codrescu: irreverent, unconventional, brilliant, and always funny. Codrescu takes readers into the strange classroom and even stranger mind of a poet and English professor on the eve of retirement as he begins to teach his final semester of Intro to Poetry Writing. As he introduces his students to THE TOOLS OF POETRY (a list that includes a goatskin dream notebook, hypnosis, and cable TV) and THE TEN MUSES OF POETRY (mishearing, misunderstanding, mistranslating . . . ), and assigns each of them a tutelary "Ghost-Companion" poet, the teacher recalls wild tales from his coming of age as a poet in the 1960's and 1970's, even as he speculates about the lives and poetic and sexual potential of his twenty-first-century students. From arguing that Allen Ginsberg wasn't actually gay to telling about the time William Burroughs's funeral procession stopped at McDonald's, The Poetry Lesson is a thoroughly entertaining portrait of an inimitable poet, teacher, and storyteller.

Poets --- Authors --- A Coney Island of the Mind. --- Aldous Huxley. --- Allen Ginsberg. --- Amiri Baraka. --- An Embarrassment of Riches. --- Anna Akhmatova. --- Aphorism. --- Aram Saroyan. --- Arthur Rimbaud. --- Aubade. --- Barney Rosset. --- Beat Generation. --- Bei Dao. --- Bertolt Brecht. --- Black Man. --- Blank verse. --- Boredom. --- Britney Spears. --- Cataclysm (Dragonlance). --- Charles Bukowski. --- Che Guevara. --- Cunt. --- De Profundis (letter). --- Death in Venice. --- Deathbed. --- Edgar Allan Poe. --- Emily Dickinson. --- English muffin. --- Ezra Pound. --- Feral cat. --- Flapper. --- French Colonial. --- French Communist Party. --- From Beyond the Grave. --- Futility (poem). --- Gabriela Mistral. --- Gaggle. --- Gertrude Stein. --- Gregory Corso. --- Guerrilla warfare. --- Guillaume Apollinaire. --- Heir to the Empire. --- Hippie. --- His Family. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- In Another Country. --- Isadora Duncan. --- Jack Kerouac. --- Jacques Maritain. --- James Merrill. --- Jan Hus. --- Jan Kerouac. --- Jim Morrison. --- Joan Vollmer. --- Junkie (novel). --- Kitsch. --- Lawrence Ferlinghetti. --- Libido. --- Lord Byron. --- Marilyn Monroe. --- Max Jacob. --- McSorley's Old Ale House. --- Memoir. --- Mennonite. --- Mexico City Blues. --- Milan Kundera. --- Miroslav Holub. --- Monomania. --- Mr. --- Naked Lunch. --- Nobel Prize. --- Olga Rudge. --- Orgy. --- Patti Smith. --- Pheromone. --- Pocket watch. --- Poet laureate. --- Poetry. --- Pretty Face. --- Pyramid scheme. --- Racism. --- Rant (novel). --- Red Mass. --- Ridicule. --- Shel Silverstein. --- Sodomy. --- Surrealism. --- Take Shelter. --- The New York Times Book Review. --- The Other Hand. --- The Price of Gold. --- The Scary Guy. --- This Country. --- To This Day. --- Tristan Tzara. --- Under the Volcano. --- Wallace Stevens. --- War and War. --- William Saroyan. --- Young Widow.