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In Watermelon Sugar is referenced in Ray Mungo's book on his experiences founding and running the Total Loss Farm commune in Vermont. [6] He speaks of iDEATH several times. Stephen Gaskin, who wrote that he felt an "acid weird" and "strange mythology" in the book, [7] may have based some aspects of The Farm commune in Summertown, Tennessee on ...
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle... and other Modern Verse is a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award-winning [1] anthology of poetry edited by Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith. Compiled in an effort to present modern poetry in a way that would appeal to the young, Watermelon Pickle was long a standard in high school curricula, [ 2 ...
Waterland is concerned with the nature and importance of history as the primary source of meaning in a narrative. For this reason, it is associated with new historicism . Waterland can also be said to fall under the category of postmodern literature .
In 1974 The Cowell Press collected seven of his broadside poems into the book Seven Watermelon Suns. The limited edition of ten copies included embossed color etchings by Ellen Meske. [15] "When the 1960s ended, he was the baby thrown out with the bath water," said his friend and fellow writer, Thomas McGuane. "He was a gentle, troubled, deeply ...
Molloy is a vagrant, currently bedridden; it appears he is a seasoned veteran in vagrancy, reflecting that "To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth". He is surprisingly well-educated, having studied geography and anthropology, among other things, and seems to know something of "old Geulincx" (the 17th-century post-Cartesian occasionalist philosopher).
Carry Me Across the Water is a novel by the American writer Ethan Canin. [1]It is an elegiac novel that tells the story of August Kleinman, a 78-year-old former Pittsburgh brewery owner who remembers episodes from his life—from his escape from Nazi Germany to his life of poverty in New York to his rise to riches in industrial Pittsburgh. [2]
Novelist Nelson Algren argued that the novel was "a memorable American comedy by an original storyteller." [4] Reviews by writers and literary critics such as Anatole Broyard, [5] Jerome Charyn, [6] Guy Davenport, [7] and Shelby Foote [8] were followed by the Times Literary Supplement review which saw the novel as "Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent ...
The Report Card is a children's novel by Andrew Clements, [1] first published in 2004. The story is narrated by a 5th-grade girl, Nora Rose Rowley. The story is narrated by a 5th-grade girl, Nora Rose Rowley.