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  • A Man Named Branch
    Marjorie Maddox
    In 1947, filled with courage, skill, and determination, Jackie Robinson changed history by becoming the first African American player in the major leagues. But how did this happen? Who thought of this idea for great social change?His name was Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers and a man of great conviction. I am his great-grandniece and grew up with tale...
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    7,13 €

  • Seeing Things
    Marjorie Maddox
    With its focus on memory, illness, and their ramifications, Seeing Things explores overlapping roles of a daughter whose mother is entering the beginning stages of dementia and of a mother whose daughter is struggling with depression. These poems also witness a woman juggling her own memories of abuse and survival who lives in a world unsettled by shifting boundaries of truth a...
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    17,98 €

  • Small Earthly Space
    Marjorie Maddox
    In Small Earthly Space, poet Marjorie Maddox and photographer Karen Elias explore our connection with and responsibility to the imaginative and geographical locations we call home. Inspired by the curlew that appears in Ali Smith’s lyrical novel, Companion Piece, Maddox and Elias envision a journey that begins and ends with that 'long-billed bird' that forages for the 'unexpect...
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    24,96 €

  • In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind
    Marjorie Maddox
    On a rainy-day excursion, poet Marjorie Maddox and her daughter and artist Anna Lee Hafer visit the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, where, as never before, they realize how their passions for art and poetry intersect. With this exhibit and Hafer’s own surreal paintings as inspiring backdrop, they exchange their responses to joy and trauma more deeply-artis...
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    19,80 €

  • Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For
    Marjorie Maddox
    In Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For, a cracked, heart-shaped stone inspired poet Marjorie Maddox and artist Karen Elias to collaborate in creating nuanced portrayals of love, obsession, grief, joy, loneliness, anger, protest, and hope. Looking backward to memories and forward to our responsibility for the earth, their individual visions combine to create an expansive understanding o...
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    13,52 €

  • Begin with a Question
    Marjorie Maddox
    Begin with a Question explores how the life of faith is a continuous voyage, launched anew each bright day of the spirit or dark night of the soul. This is a book of contemplation and motion, a journey--often in stops and starts--toward the Divine, a pilgrimage paved with prayer, praise, pause, penitence, and (of course) questions. Urgent and universal, joyful or joyless, tinge...
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    18,31 €

  • I’m Feeling Blue, Too!
    Marjorie Maddox
    We all have days when we feel bored. We all have days when we feel blue. I’m Feeling Blue, Too! turns the ''can’t-do-nothin’'' blues into an exciting exploration of color. Climb inside a spinning bubble, grab some sky from high above a trampoline, dive into the swirling ocean waves, stack a tower of dreams, and ride far into the night with a courageous knight. Get ready. Get se...
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    17,28 €

  • A Crossing of Zebras
    Marjorie Maddox
    You’ve probably heard the phrase a school of fish. But what about a rumba of rattlesnakes, an army of ants, or a crash of rhinos? Derived from both oral and written traditions, collective nouns go back centuries. These terms not only charm us with their sound, but they provide a bit of insight into animal behavior. Readers can find these and other terms--from alley cats to zebr...
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    17,06 €

  • Rules of the Game
    Marjorie Maddox
    Baseball is a game of fine points and grand gestures, small blunders and bold accomplishments--the hook slide into second, the humble bunt, the unexpected wild pitch, the bases-loaded home run. Poet and baseball fan Marjorie Maddox pays tribute to these and other details that make the national pastime an enduring and engaging sport for players and fans alike. Surprising wordpla...
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    17,06 €

  • Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation
    Marjorie Maddox
    Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation is a luminous collection, navigating the human from the body’s blood and muscle to flights of the spirit. In these compelling narratives and taxonomies, Marjorie Maddox accompanies the reader on a harrowing and joyous journey. ...
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    15,19 €

  • True, False, None of the Above
    Marjorie Maddox
    True, False, None of the Above poetically explores what it means to write, read, and teach literature in a world that--at turns--rejects, embraces, or shrugs indifferently at the spiritual. This is a book on the intersection of words and belief, on how books mark and mirror our lives, and how sometimes the journey we experience on the page leads us to faith. ...
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    14,32 €

  • Local News from Someplace Else
    Marjorie Maddox
    We don’t define home the same way anymore. School shootings and natural disasters populate the headlines. Tragedy and disease infiltrate our neighborhoods. We not only must survive in an unsafe world, but also persevere in it. By confronting fear and embracing family, Local News from Someplace Else rediscovers both grace and joy. ...
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    17,04 €

  • Perpendicular As I
    Marjorie Maddox
    'As one re-reads Marjorie’s poems, which have airy beginnings usually in breath, voice, intimation, they grow increasingly concrete until situations, relationships, and feelings are palpable and deeply moving.' --A.R. Ammons'She returns again and again to the ways body becomes landscape and landscape becomes body, internal and external repeatedly merging with one another.'--And...
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    8,30 €