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When he wrote The Monkey Wrench Gang in 1975, Edward Abbey became the spokesperson for a generation of Americans angered by the unthinking destruction of our natural heritage. Without consultation, Abbey based the central character of eco-guerilla George Washington Hayduke on his friend Doug Peacock. Since then Peacock has become an articulate environmental individualist writing about the West's abundant wildscapes.Abbey and Peacock had an at ...

Randall Watson's first full-length collection reveals the tenderness in situations and perceptions so extreme that we would normally consider them hallucinatory: tornadoes, floods, sudden transformations, inexplicable weeping, and even waitresses as tragic heroines. All of this is summoned up with such crispness of timing, such fresh and intimate voicing, that we take delight in recognizing a world we never suspected we already knew.

A collection of poems by Arianne Zwartjes.

A collection of poetry translated from Aztec by Peter Everwine.

Winner of the 2004 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction.

What happens when America's greatest author dies before delivering the sequel to America's greatest novel? His young editor is left racing to find the missing manuscript before a rogue's gallery of opportunists can exploit it for their own devious purposes. This suspenseful and engaging satire of the world of publishing and literature is, in the words of National Book Award winner Julia Glass, "viciously, irreverently, sometimes obscenely funny.

From domestic commonplaces, Loretta Bonnier Anawalt has invented a surreal evocation in prose and verse poems, presented as a pattern of dreams "printed" on the mind, as one might observe images emerging in a photographer's darkroom. Here, art and literature intertwine to provide evocative power, mystery, and intellectual pleasures.

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In this collection of 52 poem, Minnesota writer Richard Robbins introduces the famous persons promised in the title: Lon Chaney, Jr., buying eggs and bananas at a Capistrano Beach supermarket, Elvis "slipping out/with raccoons and owls to buy pink/Cadillacs for anyone that moved him, " Marshal Dillon, his head split by a surfing mishap, even Geronimo, galloping back toward nature, "ruined for love. "But this book is about more than famous peop...

2006 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry "Daniels can turn a poem in unexpected directions, and he has an ear for real American phrasing--nothing pumped up, inflated, 'Poetic' with a capital 'P.' Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies is the real stuff: honest, very well made, engaging, and loaded with irony and humor."--Christopher Buckley, author of Sleepwalk: California Dreamin' and a Last Dance with the '60s On Places/Everyone "These poems are a refreshm...

The debut collection of short stories by Thomas Wayman.

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The debut collection of poems by Naveed Alam.

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A collection of short stories by Joseph Bathanti.