Kenneth Goldsmith's Recent Works on Paper is the first critical book devoted to Kenneth Goldsmith, the acclaimed conceptual poet, pedagogue, and provocateur. The book’s focus is on Capital, Wasting Time on the Internet, Against Translation, and Theory, all published within a year of Goldsmith's controversial reading of a poem based on the Michael Brown autopsy report at Brown University in March 2015. These four books address issues of historiography, translation, pedagogy, authorship, and...

Our memories are precious, they make us who we are. But what if you couldn't remember who you are, and you were trapped inside a pod of green goo. Freaking out is not an option if you want to survive.

A dominant figure in American poetry for more than thirty-five years, Louise Glück has been the recipient of virtually every major poetry award. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020 and was named U.S. poet laureate for 2003–2004. In a full-length study of her work, Daniel Morris explores how this prolific poet utilizes masks of characters from history, the Bible, and even fairy tales.Morris treats Glück’s persistent themes—desire, hunger, trauma, survival—through close rea...

Keith is a bank manager. Nobody trusts him. He steals money from banks and usually gets caught out. He does not worry, for he gets out of it. For that, he becomes a storekeeper who has connections to the mob.

In sixteen chapters devoted to avant-garde contemporary American poets, including Kenneth Goldsmith, Adeena Karasick, Tyrone Williams, Hannah Weiner, and Barrett Watten, prolific scholar and Purdue University professor Daniel Morris engages in a form of cultural repurposing by “learning twice” about how to attend to writers whose aesthetic contributions were not part of his education as a student in Boston and Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s when new formalism and post-confessional modes re...

In this story, our heroes go from being someone who doesnt know what else to do to being someone who everybody knows can do it. They hijack a limousine, hold them for ransom, do a switch, and skip the country. Then they live happily ever after.

Captain Dylan Hunt must save Beka Valentine and prevent a war in this original science fiction adventure based on the hit TV series.When Beka Valentine's ne'er-do-well brother Rafe arrives on the Andromeda Ascendant, she can't turn him away because he claims to have found the mother they never knew. Unfortunately, right now the Andromeda is the midst of negotiations between the Drago-Kazov Pride and the Human Interplanetary Alliance, which seeks to free Earth and o...

Psychiatric social worker Dan Siegel spent over four decades seeing adult clients in psychotherapy. Along the way, he developed a model of human nature that would clarify his own thinking as he got to know his clients.Personal Wisdom: Meaning in a Pragmatic World is the result of this model, presented as a humanistic essay.Most of us seek to find sufficient correspondence between our inner nature and the outside world to achieve meaning and direction. However, sinc...

A new survey of twentieth-century U.S. poetry that places a special emphasis on poets who have put lyric poetry in dialogue with other forms of creative expression, including modern art, the novel, jazz, memoir, and letters.Contesting readings of twentieth-century American poetry as hermetic and narcissistic, Morris interprets the lyric as a scene of instruction and thus as a public-oriented genre. American poets from Robert Frost to Sherman Alexie bring aesthetics to bear on an ex...

Understand and unlock your mind's natural ability to memorize long passagesCalled to be a missionary as a teenager, I had a great desire to fulfill God's will, but had a great sense of inadequacy for such an extraordinary purpose. But God says he who meditates in His Word ... shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper (Psalm 1:3). This verse was and ...

The Christian desire to honor God and be faithful to him is the most important reason for learning and practicing what is ethical. We should understand that nothing could be wiser, more appropriate, and more secure than God’s way of thinking. For this reason, living an ethical lifestyle will not be done out of an attitude of sacrifice, but out of a feeling of appreciation and desire for God’s will.Ethical addresses topics such as:· Knowing When to ...

Not Born Digital addresses from multiple perspectives – ethical, historical, psychological, conceptual, aesthetic – the vexing problems and sublime potential of disseminating lyrics, the ancient form of transmission and preservation of the human voice, in an environment in which e-poetry and digitalized poetics pose a crisis (understood as opportunity and threat) to traditional page poetry.The premise of Not Born Digital is that the innovative contemporary poets s...