Terese Svoboda
1) Dog on fire
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Driving through a blinding dust storm in the rural Plains, Dog on Fire's narrator sees her brother standing on the side of the road holding a shovel. She knows she should stop. The dust swirling around her prevents her from seeing more than a few feet in front of her, but even if she does stop for her brother, he will not be there. He is already dead. In Dog on Fire, the people in a small farm town try to come to terms with family turmoil, past loves,...
Author
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A runaway circus lion haunts a small town where two lovers risk more than their respective marriages. A junket to Cuba and an ambassador's dalliance with a niece hide dark secrets and political revolution. "I've always had a knife," says the unstable stepson to his parents. Inventive, dark, and absurd, the stories in The Long Swim capture Terese Svoboda's clear-eyed, wry angle on the world: a place of violence and uncertainty but also wild beauty,...
Author
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of short stories, visualizing the Great American Desert as an imagined world unto itself, traced from prehistoric times to the future. Explores water--its use and abuses--and the consequences of the land's mistreatment over time"--
Author
Publisher
Schaffner Press, Inc
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Anything that Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet is the first full-length biography of Lola Ridge, a trailblazer for women, poetry, and human rights far ahead of her time. This biography traces her life from Ridge's childhood as an Irish immigrant in the mining towns of New Zealand to her years as a budding poet and artist in Sydney, Australia, and then to San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. By the 1920s, she was at the center of...
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