Vestments
8 best books like Vestments (John Reimringer): My Ántonia, Brokeback Mountain, Privilege, Power, and Difference, Abeng, Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry, Winter Stars, The Niagara River, Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 1583485090 |
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride,...
| Author | Annie Proulx |
| ISBN | 0743271327 |
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender...
Privilege, Power, and Difference
| Author | Allan G. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0072874899 |
This brief book is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, Johnson links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences...
| Author | Michelle Cliff |
| ISBN | 0452274834 |
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Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clearly delineated hierarchies of colonial Jamaica and the subtleties of present-day island life. Nowhere...
| Author | Stephen Dobyns |
| ISBN | 1403961476 |
In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing, and the intricacies of voice and tone, and thoughtful appreciations of Chekhov, Ritsos, Mandelstam, and Rilke, Dobyns guides readers and writers...
| Author | Larry Levis |
| ISBN | 0822935112 |
Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his life, about losses and acceptances. ...
| Author | Kay Ryan |
| ISBN | 0802142222 |
In the citation accompanying Kay's recent award of the prestigious Ruth Lilly Prize, Christine Wiman wrote: "Kay Ryan can take any subject and make it her own. Her poems-which combine extreme concision and formal expertise with broad subjects and deep feeling-could never be mistaken for anyone else's....
Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
| Author | Debby Irving |
| ISBN | 0991331311 |
Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, she offers a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As Irving unpacks her own long-held beliefs about...
