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Number of Titles Found: 28
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| Title: 'Put It Down on Paper' |
| Sub-title: The Words and Life of Mary Folsom Blair, A Fifty-Year Search |
| By (author): Phil Primack |
| ISBN10-13: 093150726X : 9780931507267 |
| Mary E. Folsom Blair was just a name on a listing sheet when young writer Phil Primack bought her Epping, New Hampshire, property in 1974. As he learned more about this lifelong teacher, Quaker, and early advocate for outdoor education, his reporter bones began to twitch. Over decades, Primack talked to her former students and relatives, tracking down Maryâ s most accurate life record: letters and journals dating 1897, when she was fifteen. Her sharp mind and creative soul grapple with the social restraints of her time and â the pain this world holds for a woman.â Mary pens her hopes and bares her despair as young chums die, her classroom ways are challenged, relationships with men and women end untilâ resigned to her fate as â spinster that was, is and ever shall beâ â she meets her Hero on ice. With her collected papers preserved at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Mary Folsom Blair will teach in a digital forever. |
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Pages: 232
Size: 228x152x15mm
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| Published: Loom Press - August 2022 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Biography: general |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 18 |
| Title: 1 of: 28 |
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| Title: Atlantic Currents |
| Sub-title: Connecting Cork and Lowell |
| By (author): Stephan Anstey |
| ISBN10-13: 0931507170 : 9780931507175 |
| Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork and Lowell brings together sixty\-five writers from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean whose stories, poems, essays, songs, and parts of novels come to us in familiar voices. While we recognize the sound and sense in these works because of the well\-traveled routes between Ireland and America, there is much to discover in today s writing from both places. Complex relationships, sublime joy in small and large matters, destabilizing external forces, the hunger for harmony, snares of history, transcendent moments in special locations, the simple attempt to get through it all every day all this and more the reader will find. Spurred by a desire to make a strong bond between two historic cities whose modern resurgence has been driven in large part by commitments to lifelong, experiential, community\-based learning and teaching. The organizers of Cork Learning City and Lowell: City of Learning found each other two years ago and set about collaborating in the spirit of UNESCO s Learning Cities global network. With this anthology, the connecting thread is made stronger through the now entwined writing and reading in both places. |
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Pages: 335
Size: 230x155mm
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| Published: Loom Press - March 2020 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Anthologies (non-poetry) |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 8 |
| Title: 2 of: 28 |
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| Title: Atlantic Currents II: Connecting Cork & Lowell |
| Edited by: John Wooding, Paul Marion |
| ISBN10-13: 0931507316 : 9780931507311 |
| Prize-winning prose and poetry by alumni and students of University College Cork in Ireland and University of Massachusetts, Lowell, in the U.S. This collection of stories, essays, and poems by emerging and established writers is introduced by U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Claire Cronin and the Republic of Ireland's Ambassador to the U.S. David Mulhall. Defined broadly, the theme of the book is learning and education, both formal and informal as described by the authors. Both universities are critical to their home communities, and the selections showcase the talent on campus now and among the graduates of the schools. The writers investigate their respective locales and document memorable learning experiences in a wide array of situations, from sailing voyages to strife-torn countries and among the familiar people in their lives as well as characters imganied. |
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Pages: 144
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| Published: Loom Press - November 2022 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Anthologies (non-poetry) |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 4 |
| Title: 3 of: 28 |
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| Title: Barnflower |
| Sub-title: A Rhode Island Farm Memoir |
| By (author): Carla Panciera |
| ISBN10-13: 0931507480 : 9780931507489 |
| Osborndale Ivanhoe was a bull who became an unlikely celebrity. He defied expectations and challenged long-establishednotions of what constituted a championHolstein. But his fame was dependent on one manâ s stubborn insistence that the animalwas, indeed, special. Carla Panciera spentyears with her father and his famous herdtraveling from county fair to county fair,and answering the same questions: â Is that Aldo Panciera?â and â Are you Aldoâ s daughter?â This memoir is based on the real man and his very real effort to make a living at what he loved. He was a demanding teacher and an unappeasable boss, but he was also a father who finished night milking and took his daughter for sled rides down a frozen hillside, or for a spin on the local carnivalâ s Ferris wheel, or who paused, plowing fields, to pick her the first wildflowers of the season. Barnflower is about a man and his work and what that life demanded of his family. Read about the bond between a father and daughter and their love for the kind of life they shared, a kind of life that is both a critical and a vanishing part of our history. |
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Pages: 240
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| Published: Loom Press - April 2023 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Anthologies (non-poetry) |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
| Title: 4 of: 28 |
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| Title: Beach Town |
| Sub-title: Stories |
| By (author): David Daniel |
| ISBN10-13: 0931507383 : 9780931507380 |
| Shift whistles at the soap factory and the shipyard, along with the changing tides, mark the rhythms of life in the beach town. This is a world of fast food, double dates, and Saturday morning haircuts at the barber shop-a world as seemingly uncomplicated as a summer night's ride on a carousel. A lonely girl from "away" seeks connection with high school classmates who give no notice; a harried salesman confronts his deepest fear; a middle-aged woman reckons with unfulfilled dreams; and a man returns for a class reunion and finds himself face to face with something beyond his imagining. In Beach Town, David Daniel recreates the seaside town of North Weybridge, recalling in stories poignant and sometimes mysterious, the loves and losses, the magic and hard realities of clam diggers, sailors, barmaids and disillusioned lovers, characters revealed in moments of crisis or enlightenment. |
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Pages: 224
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| Published: Loom Press - January 2023 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 15 |
| Title: 5 of: 28 |
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| Title: Covid Conversations |
| Sub-title: Voices from Lawrence & Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Edited by: Susan Grabski, Amita Kiley, Susan Tripathy |
| ISBN10-13: 0931507324 : 9780931507328 |
| Interviews with people in Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts (the Merrimack River Valley) who experienced the sickness and pandemic living restrictions of Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021, plus diary excerpts from residents who reported on their daily fears, hopes, and challenges. Produced by the Lawrence History Center, Phillips Academy Andover, and University of Massachusetts, Lowell (UML). This is the first published documentary about the impact of the pandemic. Interviews were conducted by Sociology students at UML, students at Phillips Academy, and community activists in Lawrence. The two working-class, highly diverse cities in eastern Massachusetts had sustained high level rates of infection with the related disruption of employment, education, and normal community life. The interviews offer a useful case study of the effects of Covid in one region. |
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Pages: 224
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| Published: Loom Press - January 2023 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Fitness & diet |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Title: 6 of: 28 |
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| Title: Cummiskey Alley |
| Sub-title: New and Selected Lowell Poems |
| By (author): Tom Sexton |
| ISBN10-13: 1735168912 : 9781735168913 |
| Cummiskey Alley brings together the best of Tom Sextons poems about the place where he was born and grew up, the mill-lined river city of Lowell, Massachusetts -- a place he never took his eye off, no matter his location. For most of his life hes been in Alaska, writing, teaching, editing a respected literary journal, and always observing the large and small wonders in the world. Hes filled many books with poems that tell us what hes seen and heard and felt. In the Northwest and around the Pacific Rim, Sexton is known as a premier poet of the natural world, from birds to mountains. But theres another side to this writer, a deep investigator and lyrical beat reporter whose subject is his working-class, ethnic-American hometown where hes returned regularly, sometimes anonymously to better absorb the facts and fill the blotter at the night desk in the hall of records. The poems hes drawn from memory and recent inspection stand for the experience of a thousand small industrial cities that were made by immigrants and often got knocked down by merciless economic winds, only to get their legs back under them and move forward. As universal as they may be, places like Lowell need a literature to call their own. The New York Times described Sexton as an atavistic avatar of how to look hard yet write simply. Merrimack Valley Magazine wrote: Each poem unveils something new, and at times breathtaking, about one of the Merrimack Valleys most diverse and interesting places . . . Sextons characters, relationships, and places spring from the page, brought to life by a tiny gesture or minute detail. |
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Pages: 143
Size: 215x140mm
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| Published: Loom Press - May 2021 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry by individual poets |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 10 |
| Title: 7 of: 28 |
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| Title: Jinzhou, Kyoto, Baltimore: Poems New and Selected |
| By (author): Scott Francis |
| ISBN10-13: 0931507464 : 9780931507465 |
| Poems of a nearly forgotten China caught in abject poverty. A long sonnet sequence full of jokes and puns, inspired by the transcendental energies of the gardens of Kyoto. A sequence of tanka-like images celebrating America's western mountains, deserts and shores. A longer work detailing a ten-year-old's attempts to understand his uncle's death in Vietnam. A semiautobiographical epic expressing the inner life of a man caught in a savage ice storm. Jinzhou, Kyoto, Baltimore is an inspiring, forthright book, which never shrinks from taing the contradictions of the inner life and resolving them through the art of poetry. |
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Pages: 208
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| Published: Loom Press - April 2024 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry by individual poets |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 7 |
| Title: 8 of: 28 |
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| Title: Legends of Little Canada |
| Sub-title: Aunt Rose, Harvey's Bookland, and My Captain Jack |
| By (author): Charlie Gargiulo |
| ISBN10-13: 0931507537 : 9780931507533 |
| On the cusp of becoming a teenager, Charlie Gargiulo lived through the planned destruction of the Little Canada neighborhood of Lowell, Mass., in the 1960s. This is his story. He went on to become a legendary community organizer who led efforts to ensure people would have decent housing and a fair chance to earn a living and make a happy life for themselves. |
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Pages: 192
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| Published: Loom Press - September 2023 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 12 |
| Title: 9 of: 28 |
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| Title: Lockdown Letters & Other Poems |
| By (author): Paul Marion |
| ISBN10-13: 1735168947 : 9781735168944 |
| Opening with a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Lockdown Letters & Other Poems ranges near and far in the authors catalogue. While spared the devastating effects of the disease, he offers a view of the way daily life changes and new risks are confronted as people try to maintain routines. The book shifts to work inspired by travel -- local, global, and beyond -- routes giving rise to memorable observations and insights. More place poems and a cycle of sports pieces round out the volume, with its theme of home-and-away. |
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Pages: 192
Size: 230x155mm
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| Published: Loom Press - June 2021 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry by individual poets |
| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 4 |
| Title: 10 of: 28 |
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