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On August 3, 2019, a mass shooting occurred at Walmart Supercenter #512 in El Paso, Texas. A twenty-one-year-old white supremacist from El Paso targeted "Mexicans" and shot and killed twenty-two people - thirteen Americans, eight Mexicans from nearby Ciudad Juarez, and one German - and injured twenty-seven others. It was the seventh deadliest mass shooting in the United States since 1949 and the deadliest attack on Hispanic and Latina/o Americans in U.S. history. This book and the traveling exhibition that accompanies it are meant to honor the memory of those twenty-two beautiful, innocent beings who lost their lives in El Paso on that summer day and to help heal not only the twenty-seven others who were injured, but the countless others in America, New Zealand, Norway, and the world who suffer and have suffered from hate in whatever form it takes. All royalties earned from the sale of the chapbook and all special collections received at the exhibit are being donated to the families of those who died and were injured on that fateful day in El Paso.
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• Des héros vaincus
• Une image déséquilibrée : La Ménagerie de verre de Paul Newman (1987)
• Animalité et sauvagerie retrouvées
• Capturer l'animal, un montage brutal : La Nuit de l'iguane de John Huston
• Pulsions des corps et décors désirants
• Habiller le désir : La Chatte sur un toit brûlant de Richard Brooks
• Espaces intimes confinés
• Des cadres étouffants : Baby Doll d'Elia Kazan
• Un univers de la névrose
• Éclairer la folie : Un tramway nommé Désir d'Elia Kazan
• De la marge sexuelle à la marge économique
• Quand la profondeur de champ dévoile un univers marchand : L'Homme à la peau de serpent de Sidney Lumet
• De la ruine des décors à celle des visages
• Champ contrechamp, la lutte contre le temps : Boom ! de Joseph Losey
• De la magie avant toute chose
• Mise en scène de la mort du poète : Soudain l'été dernier de Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

"Tennessee Williams, l'écran sauvage explore les liens étroits entre le dramaturge Tennessee Williams et le cinéma. En parcourant les très nombreuses adaptations de ses oeuvres à l'écran, cet essai s'intéresse à différents thèmes marquants, dont la sexualité, la place des femmes, des homosexuels ou encore le rôle de la censure dans le cinéma hollywoodien. Auteur américain le plus adapté au cinéma malgré des rapports plutôt conflictuels avec Hollywood, Williams détestait la plupart des adaptations de ses pièces, et pourtant, elles ont durablement marqué l'histoire cinématographique : d'Un tramway nommé Désir à La Chatte sur un toit brûlant, en passant par Soudain l'été dernier, Baby Doll ou La Nuit de l'iguane. Tennessee Williams dépeint un univers baigné dans une atmosphère sulfureuse, qui révèle les névroses familiales secrètement tapies dans les foyers américains, fustige le racisme rampant du Deep South et donne la parole aux désirs enfouis. Interprétée par le cinéma, son oeuvre met en lumière les marginaux, les éclopés, vagabonds et autres artistes désargentés, en somme les grands oubliés du rêve américain sous les traits d'acteurs et d'actrices mythiques : Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor ou Vivien Leigh et Anna Magnani. Si les pièces du dramaturge sont souvent mutilées pour satisfaire la censure, elles conservent aujourd'hui encore toute leur force de subversion."--Page 4 of cover.

"Under the sea, a crab follows its heart and its calling, bringing everyone together in the wake of a disaster"-- Provided by publisher.

Gittel and her mother were supposed to immigrate to America together, but when her mother is stopped by the health inspector, Gittel must make the journey alone. Her mother writes her cousin's address in New York on a piece of paper. However, when Gittel arrives at Ellis Island, she discovers the ink has run and the address is illegible! How will she find her family? Both a heart-wrenching and heartwarming story, Gittel's Journey offers a fresh perspective on the immigration journey to Ellis Island. The book includes an author's note explaining how Gittel's story is based on the journey to America taken by Leslea Newman's grandmother and family friend. .
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A young girl has never met her grandpa. He passed away before she was born, but she misses him every day. She often wonders...what did he look like? With the help of her grandma and the rest of her loving family, she learns that he had her mother's hair, her uncle's nose, and her aunt's mouth. Each member of the family comes together to help paint a picture in the little girl's mind, and show her the love that he shared with the others. Author, illustrator, and the first recipient of the LBYR Emerging Artist Award Jin Xiaojing has created a stunning picture book perfect for sharing with a loved one.
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More than 100 gorgeous photographs of Cuba, accompanied by poignant text vignettes describing the place one of America's most celebrated literary figures loved so much. Interest in travel to Cuba will only increase now that it is possible, and this book provides a unique theme on travel photography. Hemingway is a subject of perennial interest; Cuba held a special place for him as he wrote much of For Whom the Bell Tolls there. From the author of the critically acclaimed Hemingway's Paris.
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St. Mary's County is where colonial Maryland began, with the establishment of St. Mary's City on the site of an ancient Yaocomico village as Maryland's first capital in 1634. Southern Maryland has been home to human occupation for at least 12,000 years, and since 1634 the area has seen myriad changes through the rise and fall of tobacco agriculture and its associated enslaved labor to its current status as a bedroom community to Washington, DC, and as home to the Patuxent Naval Air Station. Although historically rural, the area is slowly giving rise to suburban development, and so ties to the past become increasingly important. In Listening In, Merideth Taylor provides a captivating, even pioneering approach to capturing the land and life of Maryland's ""mother county."" She integrates her own engaging photographs of buildings of all kinds, many of them in disrepair, with imaginative text called ""ghost stories"" that relate to the photographs in one way or another. These stories are based on living oral histories that Taylor has heard over the many years she has lived in the area. And so we gain a true sense of what life in St. Mary's County was-and the place it is becoming.
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In Shale Play, acclaimed poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and award-winning documentary photographer Steven Rubin explore the small towns, farms, and forests of Appalachian Pennsylvania to gather the stories of these places and the working people who inhabit them. In the parlance of the oil and gas industry, "shale play" refers to a region exploited for its natural gas by means of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling--transient industrial processes that often occur far from the populations that benefit from them. Amid polarized claims about fracking and pressure to develop these areas around the world, this project gathers evidence from everyday life in the Marcellus Shale Play. Kasdorf and Rubin follow in the footsteps of the documentarians of the 1930s, such as the artists and writers of the Works Progress Administration, taking a deliberate and thoughtful approach to gather the stories of workers on pipelines and well pads, landowners and leaseholders, waitresses, ministers, farmers, retired miners, teachers, and neighbors. The resulting collage of vivid oral and pictorial testimony reveals the natural beauty of rural places as well as the disturbance and spectacle fracking creates. A passionate work of witness, Shale Play invites the reader to look beyond the easy caricatures of the white working class to create an urgent, authentic representation of a sacrifice zone that fuels America.
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• Photographs
• Afterword: Faulkner's Rowan Oak / by Donald M. Kartiganer
• Notes on the photographs
• Index of plant names
• Map of the grounds.

The plants and landscape at Rowan Oak are the "little postage stamp of soil" that William Faulkner owned, walked, and tended for over thirty years during the writing of many of his short stories and novels. Faulkner saw and smelled the earth and listened to sounds from the cultivated grounds and the surrounding woods. This is the place that offered him refuge for writing and provided him food from its garden, fruit and nut trees, and pasture for his horses and a milk cow. Rowan Oak boasts a diverse landscape, encompassing an aristocratic eastern redcedar-lined drive and walk as well as hardy ornamental shrubs, trees, pastures, and a hardwood forest with virgin timber. More than fifty years after Faulkner's death, Rowan Oak remains a sanctuary and a place of mystery and beauty nestled in the midst of Oxford, Mississippi. The photographs in The Land of Rowan Oak are botanist Ed Croom's exploration and documentation of the changes in the plants and landscape over more than a decade. Croom encountered early morning mists, the summer heat and haze, and even rare snowfalls in his near-daily walks on the grounds. His photographs record a decaying fence line, trees and plants that have since disappeared, and the newly restored sunken garden. This book honors the land Faulkner loved. While Faulkner's novels have left an indelible legacy in southern and American letters, the landscape of his beloved home also serves as a record of the botanical history of this most storied corner of the American literary South.
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Winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2017 Did you ever want to waddle with a colony of penguins? Wriggle with an army of caterpillars? Or march with a troop of monkeys? Legendary illustrator Lane Smith takes us on a colourful adventure through the natural world, following a child as he weaves through the jungle, dives under the ocean and soars into the sky. Along the way he makes friends and causes mischief with a dazzling array of creatures both large and small - but can he find his own kind? Full of warmth and humour, There Is a Tribe of Kids is a sumptuously detailed portrayal of wild childhood to be pored over for hours on end. A witty and playful exploration of curiosity, discovery and what it means to belong, ideal for sharing with children of all ages. Sprinkled with beautiful gold flecks and specially designed peek-through flaps at the front and back.
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• Loueva Smith
• The road to nowhere
• New instructions about silence
• A sweet liberty between them
• Pentagons of light
• Wiggins
• Eight years old
• Wooden wing
• Glitter-encrusted dad
• Nolen
• Clouds live forever
• Sit with us
• A true topography
• Nothing I haven't done for love
• In the weeds of little calvary
• Morning traffic
• Jack B. Bedell
• Consubstantial
• Aposiopesis
• Intersection
• Contrail
• Triptych
• Morsel
• Bloomery
• Grenouille
• Lineal
• Phenotypic
• Derecho
• Dispersive
• Lumina
• Indelible
• Transitive
• Sarah Cortez
• Sweep
• Scant
• Tree speaks to beloved
• Faith
• Bro
• Unsevered
• Without me
• Baby
• Orpheus speaks
• Where are you?
• Turbulence
• All my questions
• Adam
• Calvary
• At rest
• Larry D. Thomas
• Reaching for anything
• Glitter
• So out of place
• "R.I.P."
• "Oscar"
• Vestiges
• As if
• Bestowed for a while
• Oak tree
• Four crosses
• Palm Sunday
• Golgotha
• The whitening
• In the bittersweet rapture
• A plain, white cross
• Contributers' biographies.

Along Texas roadways rest thousands of contemplative shrines, usually marked by small, white metal crosses. Largely a phenomenon of the Texas culture, these storied memorials are invitations to pause, to pay att ention, to ponder the meaning of life and death. Anchored by the stunning photography of roadside memorials by Dan Streck, this landmark book allows four poets to respond to the visual summons of roadside memorials with lyric intensity and eloquent ekphrasis: Larry D. Th omas, Jack B. Bedell, Sarah Cortez, and Loueva Smith. Graphic designer Nancy J. Parsons brings her award-winning skills to perfectly meld photography with poetry in this gorgeous volume.
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• What is a garden?
• Coming to palms
• Rain light
• Rain at night
• The shape of water
• Native trees
• To Lili's Walk
• The house and garden: the emergence of a dream
• The laughing thrush
• To Paula in late spring
• Place.

Poet and environmentalist Merwin, W. S.moved to Hawaii in 1976 and has spent the last thirty years planting nineteen acres with more than eight hundred species of palm, creating a lush, sustainable forest on a former pineapple plantation built atop a dormant volcano on the island of Maui. Now the Merwin Conservancy, this land has served as Merwin's muse and his passion, appearing as a consistent subject of his poems and his germinal essays on conservation. What Is a Garden? collects eight of Merwin's poems and three of his essays emblematic of his palm garden writings from the 1980s to the present and presents them alongside photographer Larry Cameron's spectacular images of Merwin's garden, all taken between 2013 and 2014. These photographs lure readers deep into the vast expanse of Merwin's palm garden and offer unprecedented glimpses into this private exotic landscape as a visual feast for the viewer, rich with insights into the spirit of the place that has most directly inspired Merwin's garden poetry. Cameron first met Merwin in the 1990s while working on a documentary film about Merwin's tropical garden. The friendship that grew between the two artists of different genres continues to this day. What Is a Garden? also includes a new introduction by Merwin chronicling his personal history with his palm garden, Cameron's photographer's note on his friendship with the poet and his inspiration for this collection, and an identification guide to the plants featured in the volume. Poet and environmentalist Merwin, W. S.moved to Hawaii in 1976 and has spent the last thirty years planting nineteen acres with more than eight hundred species of palm, creating a lush, sustainable forest on a former pineapple plantation built atop a dormant volcano on the island of Maui. Now the Merwin Conservancy, this land has served as Merwin's muse and his passion, appearing as a consistent subject of his poems and his germinal essays on conservation. What Is a Garden? collects eight of Merwin's poems and three of his essays emblematic of his palm garden writings from the 1980s to the present and presents them alongside photographer Larry Cameron's spectacular images of Merwin's garden, all taken between 2013 and 2014. These photographs lure readers deep into the vast expanse of Merwin's palm garden and offer unprecedented glimpses into this private exotic landscape as a visual feast for the viewer, rich with insights into the spirit of the place that has most directly inspired Merwin's garden poetry. Cameron first met Merwin in the 1990s while working on a documentary film about Merwin's tropical garden. The friendship that grew between the two artists of different genres continues to this day. What Is a Garden? also includes a new introduction by Merwin chronicling his personal history with his palm garden, Cameron's photographer's note on his friendship with the poet and his inspiration for this collection, and an identification guide to the plants featured in the volume. One of the United States' most acclaimed contemporary poets, former U.S. poet laureate Merwin, W. S.is the author and translator of more than fifty books. He is a two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and winner of a National Book Award, a Tanning Prize, a PEN Translation Prize, a Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and other honors. His most recent books are The Moon before Morning, The Shadow of Sirius, The Book of Fables, and Present Company. Filmmaker and photographer Larry Cameron is a former staff member of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and the University of South Carolina. His nature photographs have been published in Audubon, Sierra, Outside, and Wilderness, as well as locally in South Carolina Wildlife, Sandlapper, and Riverbanks magazines. One of the United States' most acclaimed contemporary poets, former U.S. poet laureate Merwin, W. S.is the author and translator of more than fifty books. He is a two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and winner of a National Book Award, a Tanning Prize, a PEN Translation Prize, a Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and other honours. His most recent books are The Moon before Morning, The Shadow of Sirius, The Book of Fables, and Present Company. Filmmaker and photographer LARRY CAMERON is a former staff member of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and the University of South Carolina. His nature photographs have been published in Audubon, Sierra.
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A small fish sets off to become the biggest fish of all, only to learn to appreciate himself as he is.

"In 2001, The Little Bookroom published Truman Capote's long-out-of-print homage to Brooklyn, A House in the Heights. In 2014, more than fifty years after they were taken, the original photographs commissioned to illustrate the piece have been discovered by the photographer's son. Also found among the negatives were portraits of Capote taken on that same day; none of the photos have ever been published. Now, in a new edition with a new title, Brooklyn : A Personal Memoir, with the lost photographs of David Attie, the words and images will be united for the first time. The images of Brooklyn provide a stunning and atmospheric visual portrait of the city in 1959--its building, shops, street life, lost moments-- a Brooklyn at once strangely familiar yet largely vanished: horse-drawn wagons delivering produce to housewives, kids swimming in the East River and getting into mischief on the docks, dimly-lit bars, vintage signs, little girls jumping rope, bricklayers, barbers, neighborhood characters, all set against a backdrop of period architecture, that spectacular bridge, and the skyline of Manhattan. The essay itself brings to life the landscape that was for the author a world of grand homes and dimly recalled gentility, of mysterious warehouses and menacing street thugs, a garden overhung with wisteria, and the famous Promenade and waterfront--all rendered in his deft and stylish prose. Originally commissioned for Holiday magazine by John Knowles (later the author of A Separate Peace), the piece remained one of his favorites--especially its surprise ending. At the time, George Plimpton wrote that in the essay, Capote's 'love of history, gossip, character, and a skill at putting all this to words...brings Brooklyn Heights to life as vividly as any landscape Truman ever undertook to survey.' David Attie's photos enhance that landscape in a breathtaking way"-- Provided by publisher.

"In 2001, The Little Bookroom published Truman Capote's long-out-of-print homage to Brooklyn, A house in the heights. In 2014, more than fifty years after they were taken, the original photographs commissioned to illustrate the piece have been discovered by the photographer's son. Also found among the negatives were portraits of Capote taken on that same day; none of the photos have ever been published. Now, in a new edition with a new title...the words and images will be united for the first time. The images of Brooklyn provide a stunning and atmospheric visual portrait of the city in 1959--its building, shops, street life, lost moments-- a Brooklyn at once strangely familiar yet largely vanished: horse-drawn wagons delivering produce to housewives, kids swimming in the East River and getting into mischief on the docks, dimly-lit bars, vintage signs, little girls jumping rope, bricklayers, barbers, neighborhood characters, all set against a backdrop of period architecture, that spectacular bridge, and the skyline of Manhattan. The essay itself brings to life the landscape that was for the author a world of grand homes and dimly recalled gentility, of mysterious warehouses and menacing street thugs, a garden overhung with wisteria, and the famous Promenade and waterfront--all rendered in his deft and stylish prose. Originally commissioned for Holiday magazine by John Knowles (later the author of A separate peace), the piece remained one of his favorites--especially its surprise ending. At the time, George Plimpton wrote that in the essay, Capote's 'love of history, gossip, character, and a skill at putting all this to words ... brings Brooklyn heights to life as vividly as any landscape Truman ever undertook to survey.' David Attie's photos enhance that landscape in a breathtaking way."-- Provided by publisher.