The Job/Family Challenge: A 9 to 5 Guide

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Acclaim for THE JOB/FAMILY CHALLENGE

"This pathbreaking book deserves a place on every working parent's shelf—and active reading by the corporate managers who employ them. It provides helpful guidance to people dealing with today's most significant relationships and responsibilities. This is more than a handbook; it is a guide to the enlightened workplace of the future, one that puts people and families first." —Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, author of When Giants Learn to Dance and Men and Women of the Corporation

"There is a lot of discussion today about 'family values,' but Ellen Bravo's book is a practical guide to advancing them in the midst of the real world of work." —The Reverend Jesse Jackson, founder and president, National Rainbow Coalition

"Ellen Bravo continues to fight for our right to happily have a family and employment. She clearly and simply maps out solutions which will assist any traveler lost on the road to managing work and family conflicts." —Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder (D-CO), sponsor of the Family and Medical Leave Act and author of Champion of the Great American Family

The people at 9to5 understand the issues that come with having both a full-time job and family responsibilities. For over twenty years, 9to5 has been a leading advocate for working people. Now they provide you with candid, practical advice for easing the burden of conflicting demands—including how to get help from your employer, family, public officials, and unions.

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Prelude to Glory Volume 5 A Cold Bleak Hill .......2007-06-12

Book follows alone with the trials & tribulations of the original people as it moves through the American Revolution

By The Dawn's Early Light.......2006-07-24

I am almost to the end of the last volume of the series. I have so come to appreciate the great sacrifice that our forefathers made to make and keep our country free. My heart was pained and I was brought to tears at the unbelievable things they had to suffer in their battle for independence. The 4th of July has a much deeper meaning for me now. I very much appreciated all the research done by the author to produce such a well written series. I have them all and they are prized.

A Cold Bleak Hill.......2002-01-23

This book is extremely moving and intense. I have gained a great appreciation for the selfless acts and unyeilding faith that our forefathers had. I have learned a great deal about the history of the Revolutionary War as the author has creatively woven in fictional characters and yet accurately described events and locations that are a part of this nations history. I have read the entire series and cannot wait for the next one to be published.

A Cold Bleak Hill.......2001-11-12

This story of our American Revalutionary War, is told so vividly that the reader feels like they are there, experiencing it with the people at that time. It covers the period when George Washington and his troops were at Valley Forge. It is at the same calaber as the rest of this series; "Prelude to Glory". I highly recommend this book to all DAR members.

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Cold Calls: The "Penultimate Chapter" of Logue's Homer

Cold Calls: War Music Continued
Christopher Logue
Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
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ASIN: 0571202772

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Cold Calls: The "Penultimate Chapter" of Logue's Homer.......2005-09-15

I needn't have worried. British poet Christopher Logue has been working on his "account" of Homer's Iliad since the early 1960s, and I've long feared he might not live to complete it, especially when you consider how long it takes him to write. "War Music," published in 1962, was the first piece he released, covering Book 16 of the Iliad. Over forty years later, and he's only covered Books 1-6 and 17-19. But now we have Cold Calls, which covers Books 7-8, and is apparently the penultimate chapter. According to his publisher, Logue is even now working on the final (!) volume of War Music.

Logue's installments have been released years (even decades) apart from one another, but the day will come when they are placed together, in order, in one volume, and they will provide a seamless read. Logue has lost none of his masterful touch. If anything, he's improved with age; there should be no fears that the decades separating each chapter of this work might spoil its impact. In fact, Cold Calls contains some of the best lines Logue's written. Here's one such example, as Zeus speaks to Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena:

"Darlings," He said,
"You know that being a god means being blamed.
Do this - no good. Do that - the same. The answer is:
Avoid humanity.
Remember - I am God.
I see the bigger picture."

Like the earlier "All Day Permanent Red," Cold Calls is filled with harrowing combat scenes, but also contains a healthy amount of squabbling amongst the gods, including a hilarious song Hera and Athena sing about Aphrodite that's too vulgar to recount. Only here, in Logue's fabulous Iliad, will you find Aphrodite calling Hera a "blubber-bummed wife" with "gobstopper nipples," and Athena an "undercurved preceptatrix." Only here will you find this same goddess appearing in "grey silk lounge pyjamas piped with gold" and "snakeskin flip-flops," and referred to as "Our Lady of the Thong." Only here will you find Athena screaming for the blood of Troy from a decapitated Greek head.

Special mention must be made of the sequence in which Aphrodite, injured by the Athena-empowered Diomedes, goes to the river-god Scamander for aid. Homer hinted at the erotic overtones here, but Logue highlights them, with an over-eager Scamander screaming in lust for Aphrodite's "bum" as she steps into him. It's not only a comical sequence, but also one of the best written in Logue's Iliad. But then, as expected, Cold Calls is filled with Logue's excellent writing. Here's another of my favorite sections, and another example of how Logue's "account" of the Iliad excels over your standard, dry translations:

Around the tower 1000 Greeks, 1000 Ilians; amid their
swirl,
His green hair dressed in braids, each braid
Tipped with a little silver bell, note
Nyro of Simi - the handsomest of all the Greeks, save A.
The trouble was, he had no fight. He dashed from fight to
fight,
Struck a quick blow, then dashed straight out again.
Save that this time he caught,
As Prince Aeneas caught his breath,
That Prince's eye; who blocked his dash,
And as lord Panda waved and walked away,
Took his head off his spine with a backhand slice -
Beautiful stuff...straight from the blade...
Still, as it was a special head,
Mowgag, Aeneas' minder -
Bright as a box of rocks, but musical -
Spiked it, then hoisted it, and twizzling the pole
Beneath the blue, the miles of empty air,
Marched to the chingaling of its tinklers,
A majorette, towards the Greeks, the tower.

Yet more proof that a nonstandard approach to this ancient poem can produce fantastic results. I hope Logue finishes his decades-long work, and one day we have the complete War Music in one volume.

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Groundbreaking work

Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America
Deborah Nelson
Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
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Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. While the public declarations of the Supreme Court and the private declamations of the lyric poet may seem unrelated, both express the upheavals in American notions of privacy that marked the Cold War era. Nelson situates the poetry and legal decisions as part of a far wider anxiety about privacy that erupted across the social, cultural, and political spectrum during this period. She explores the panic over the "death of privacy" aroused by broad changes in postwar culture: the growth of suburbia, the advent of television, the popularity of psychoanalysis, the arrival of computer databases, and the spectacles of confession associated with McCarthyism.

Examining this interchange between poetry and law at its most intense moments of reflection in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, Deborah Nelson produces a rhetorical analysis of a privacy concept integral to postwar America's self-definition and to bedrock contradictions in Cold War ideology. Nelson argues that the desire to stabilize privacy in a constitutional right and the movement toward confession in postwar American poetry were not simply manifestations of the anxiety about privacy. Supreme Court justices and confessional poets such as Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, W. D. Snodgrass, and Sylvia Plath were redefining the nature of privacy itself. Close reading of the poetry alongside the Supreme Court's shifting definitions of privacy in landmark decisions reveals a broader and deeper cultural metaphor at work.

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Groundbreaking work.......2003-07-09

I'm a lawyer, not a literary critic, and this is one of the best, if not the best, account of constitutional privacy doctrine in its historical context there is. I also found the cultural history and the literary readings illuminating. The writing is clear and jargon-free, too.

Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan's
<i>Civil War</i>

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Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan's Civil War
Shadi Bartsch
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Civil War (Oxford World's Classics)

ASIN: 0674005503

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Is Lucan's brilliant and grotesque epic Civil War an example of ideological poetry at its most flagrant, or is it a work that despairingly proclaims the meaninglessness of ideology? Shadi Bartsch offers a startlingly new answer to this split debate on the Roman poet's magnum opus.

Reflecting on the disintegration of the Roman republic in the wake of the civil war that began in 49 B.C., Lucan (writing during the grim tyranny of Nero's Rome) recounts that fateful conflict with a strangely ambiguous portrayal of his republican hero, Pompey. Although the story is one of a tragic defeat, the language of his epic is more often violent and nihilistic than heroic and tragic. And Lucan is oddly fascinated by the graphic destruction of lives, the violation of human bodies--an interest paralleled in his deviant syntax and fragmented poetry. In an analysis that draws on contemporary political thought ranging from Hannah Arendt and Richard Rorty to the poetry of Vietnam veterans, as well as on literary theory and ancient sources, Bartsch finds in the paradoxes of Lucan's poetry both a political irony that responds to the universally perceived need for, yet suspicion of, ideology, and a recourse to the redemptive power of storytelling. This shrewd and lively book contributes substantially to our understanding of Roman civilization and of poetry as a means of political expression.

Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected

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A Stunning Collection

Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected
Dick Allen
Manufacturer: Sarabande Books
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Finding a new poet to admire is like Christmas. Dick Allen is a tremendous talent among whose honors is a National Books Critics Circle Final Nomination. No wonder! Reading his poems is seeing fresh, surprising images and events to which I keep saying, "Yes, that's it! " This collection includes both new poems and selections from previous collections. The thoughtfulness and gentility of the poems, the generosity of Allen's gift for turning the idea over and over to see it from all sides, enables our '90s version of transcendence: We escape from the grind of this world into Allen's inspired vision.

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Dick Allen is a central figure in America's often neglected "transition generation"-poets born in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Known both for his poetry and for his innovative writing on poetics, Allen has long promoted the idea that our art must move away from narrow self-concern and include the worlds of contemporary events, science and religion. His poems, wide-ranging, visionary, and unique, powerfully engage the intellectual and moral questions of our time. Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected is a showcase for over thirty years of work by this increasingly celebrated master of American verse.

"Dick Allen's Poetry is a poetry of images, but without being either fully abandoned to the sometimes perplexing processes of thought . . . particularly the unconscious . . . fully immersed in the tactile, physical world that invites description. Instead, his approach is painterly, . . . with the metaphors less found than constructed."-Poetry

"Allen's Ode to the Cold War: Poems New & Selected gives the reader an opportunity to assess what this particular poet has been up to for over thirty years. . . . Here he is writing with all his senses: fuschsia looks like 'a clown's umbrella of red and purple and tassels'; a frog gives both 'plash and galump'; one can semll doused campfires and incense tapers, feel the wind blowing on prison walls above secret towns. . . . Throughout these new poems Allen is writing a poetry of ideas-asking big questions such as, 'Does anything ever happen/The way we suppose? Is it our suppositions/Which change the patterns from what might have happened?' These are very satisfying poems, which invariably know when and how to end."-The Hudson Review

"This wide-ranging collection from a 30-year career shows Allen's poetry developing from a free-wheeling free verse to the employment of formal structure. Allen's work ranges with ease from astronomy to politics to domestic situations; his poetry captures great swatches of real and imagined experience in nimble style. The more structured works focus his energies to the best effect. Ironically, structure serves him best when Allen follows Whitman's expansive lead and engages in list-making or cosmic inclusiv

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A Stunning Collection.......2002-05-29

Allen's poetry is careful, accessible, and beautiful. His poetry has regularly graced The Best American Poetry series as well as many literary magazines. If you only buy one poetry book this year, this should be it. If you like the work of Billy Collins, Philip Levine, or Jim Daniels, buy this book; Allen's poetry is significantly different (as it should be), but in the same realm as their work.

Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics

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Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics
Michael Davidson
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0226137406

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Guys Like Us considers how writers of the 1950s and '60s struggled to craft literature that countered the politics of consensus and anticommunist hysteria in America, and how notions of masculinity figured in their effort. Michael Davidson examines a wide range of postwar literature, from the fiction of Jack Kerouac to the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, Frank O'Hara, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath. He also explores the connection between masculinity and sexuality in films such as Chinatown and The Lady from Shanghai, as well as television shows, plays, and magazines from the period. What results is a virtuoso work that looks at American poetic and artistic innovation through the revealing lenses of gender and history.

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Important perspectives on great cold war poets

Cold War Poetry
Edward J. Brunner
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0252072170

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Important perspectives on great cold war poets.......2001-03-09

A great book, eagerly anticipated by lovers of the serious poets of the era. Especially appreciated are the critiques and commentary of the works of the late Hyam Plutzik, whose major work, Horatio, has been called brilliant by many reviewers and readers, over the last forty years, and who still has a following among serious students of poetry.

Brunner's introduction provides an important historical framework for his discourse. It reminds one of the push-pull between mass culture and classical ideals that existed in post war society, and the way this reality fueled the work of serious poets and artists at the time.

Hats off to Dr. Brunner for taking the time and care to provide a critical and historical perspective of poets who should be more widely known that the Beats, but aren't.

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Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View offers the first comprehensive portrayal of the poet in mid-century America. The elusive story of Bishop's national, cultural, and literary politics during the World War II-Cold War period finally is brought into sharp focus-as the book traces her life and writing from the war years in Key West through her tenure as the 1949-1950 national poet laureate at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Our understanding of Bishop is completely reshaped by this study's unique ability to easily move back and forth between a wide-ranging cultural critique of mid-20th-century America and a careful, close, and chronological reading of the poet.

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Seeing Elizabeth Bishop in New Ways.......2002-01-20

Camille Roman's ELIZABETH BISHOP'S WORLD WAR II - COLD WAR VIEW opens up intriguing new ways to understand this great poet.

Taking a cultural studies approach, Roman shines a bright light on Bishop's life and poems. She argues that Bishop was alienated from aspects of mainstream American culture--its militarism and social injustices. She shows that Bishop was a far more politically-engaged poet than one might think. The interpretation of such poems as "Roosters," "View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress," and "12 O'Clock News" are eye-opening and thought-provoking.

This is now an essential book for anyone interested in the ways Elizabeth Bishop's poems intersect with American cultural and political history.

Elizabeth Bishop's World War II: Cold War View.......2001-05-25

This is an in-depth and insightful chronicling of Elizabeth Bishop's life and work during the "war years" and immediately following. Particularly interesting to me were portions of letters quoted and particulars regarding situations which were current at the time. Further, I am most pleased to see some recognition of a woman as a serious contender in the field of contemporary American literature. We should, as well, consider that the author of this work is a woman writing about a woman.

Hot Times During the Cold War: An American Comes of Age in West Germany

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Hot Times is Good Times!
Poetic Genius

Hot Times During the Cold War: An American Comes of Age in West Germany
Scott W Hawley
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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Frohes Wandern

ASIN: 0595442331

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From 1985 to 1988, Scott W. Hawley, the son of a U.S. Air Force officer, lived on Rhein Main Air Force Base, a bustling U.S. military installation located in the heart of what was then West Germany. One of six hundred children of U.S. military personnel attending Frankfurt American High School, he lived the unique experience of being an American teenager in Germany during the Cold War.

While Hawley and his friends studied calculus and chemistry and sold candy bars to send the track team to Brussels, their parents commanded tank battalions, flew transport aircraft, and honed their combat skills. Hawley came of age in a community preparing for Armageddon, yet he reveled in the wondrous "so-what" cacophony of stoners, drama geeks, skaters, letter-jacket athletes, and break-dancers.

A memoir in poetic verse, Hot Times during the Cold War artfully captures the energy of "living on the edge" at a time when the world held its collective breath.

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Hot Times is Good Times!.......2007-10-16

A brilliant book of poems by a brilliant author. I literally fell out of my chair laughing at some ("Expectations"), and each poem is unique. Hawley's talent lies in the clarity of his message which is often reinforced with sentimental observations and brutally honest humor. Although autobiographical, I think the experiences / recollections / sentiments are universal, even though I would never have the guts to admit to anything as Scott has.

Poetic Genius.......2007-10-03

With "Hot Times During The Cold War" Hawley immediately establishes himself with the likes of Lowell, Bukowski, & Ginsberg as a modern American poet of the first order.

His work successfully intertwines themes & structures from a variety of 20th century movements - the Confessional, Beats, and San Francisco Renaissance.

The collection is a celebration of the individual - often at odds with the various groups (family, military, American) he remains loyal too. Hawley expertly crafts American specific imagery and idiomatic structures to capture the essence of the American experience abroad.

This is a must have for any bookshelf.

- Luke "Scooter" Libby

Pages from Tarusa : New voices in Russian writing

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Pages from Tarusa : New voices in Russian writing
Andrew Field
Manufacturer: Boston/London
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000C1QB4Q

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This remarkable collection of Soviet Prose and poetry created a mild sensation when it was first published in Russia in 1961. Its liberal and inquiring tone soon caused it to be withdrawn by the authorities. The stories, poems and essays in Pages From Tarusa belie many of the commonly held assumptions about contemporary Russian writing. For example, they reveal important basic currents such as the return by young authors, after the gray years of Socialist Realism, to the mainstream of classical Russian literature. The anthology comes from the town of Tarusa, since the nineteenth century a writers' colony on the Oka River near Moscow. Included in its fascinating contents are stories by Yury Kazakov, Boris Balter, Bulat Okudzhava, Vladimir Koblikov, and others. Many of the poets heretofore completely unknown in the West, are now translated by some of our country's most noted poets-- Stanley Kunitz, Denise Levertov, and Melville Cane. There is also a surprisingly powerful influence of émigré poets and writers like Ivan Bunin and Marina Tsvetaeva. The work of Vsevolod Meyrhol'd, the great symbolist and modernist director, whom John Gassner, Sterling Professor of Dramatic Literature at Yale, has called "the prince of innovators in the Western theater," appears here for the first time, having been banned in Russia for many years for political as well as artistic reasons. The discoveries of new writers and new ideas, trends and attitudes make Pages From Tarusa perhaps the most exciting book to come from Russia since Doctor Zhivago. --From the 1964 1st edition dust jacket.

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