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Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins

By: Bobbie Louise Hawkins

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Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins

By: Bobbie Louise Hawkins

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Edited by Barbara Henning. Includes twelve pages of black and white photographs and an interview with the author by Barbara Henning. "Bobbie Louise Hawkins captures the sound of the human voice on the page with grace and honesty and allegiance to the music of the way people talk, interact, lie to themselves (and others), make speeches, converse. Her (dis)comfort zone is the fine line between past and present, who you want to be and who you are, and she always knows when to stop. Applause to Barbara Henning for gathering these minimalist-epic tales all in one place, a keepsake for the ages." Lewis Warsh "When Bobbie Louise Hawkins sets out to tell a story, a spell is cast. The entrancement of her narrative and her vivacity for real people in the quotidian of real human situations is impeccable. What supreme fortune to have her voice among us and to have now available this selected prose of her work. A prose Electric with Life " Maureen Owen "Bobbie Louise Hawkins is a remarkable master of the witty understated prose sentence and writes in the lineage of Barbara Pym and Jane Bowles; she is also a fabulous storyteller with a great ear for the 'very thing': quip or bon mot. She should be more discovered and read beyond her adoring fans at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where Bobbie presided as a grande dame teacher and consummate genius performer of her work many years. This collection is a terrific revival " Anne Waldman

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1609641000

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9781609641009

Fifteen Poems

By: Bobbie Louise Hawkins

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Fifteen Poems

By: Bobbie Louise Hawkins

Poetry. FIFTEEN POEMS is a republication of a lyrical sequence of poems that Bobbie Louise Hawkins wrote and read in 1971 in Bolinas. This book includes an introduction by Robert Duncan (1973) and an interview of Hawkins and Barbara Henning talking about the poems and the context (2012). "At once fierce, determined, and poignant... A magic then comes into it, a would-be witchcraft in spirit." Robert Duncan, 1973

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Belladonna*

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ISBN 10

0982338767

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9780982338766

One Small Saga

A Novella

By: Bobbie Louise Hawkins

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One Small Saga

A Novella

By: Bobbie Louise Hawkins

Fiction. In the early 1950s, a young Albuquerque bride accompanies her husband back to his family home in Denmark, then to London and the British colonies of Jamaica and British Honduras. The narrator endures the company of both pathetic and incorrigible characters while struggling to reconcile her idealization of The Modern Marriage with the painful reality of life with a philandering husband. Through the widening eyes of her protagonist, who develops into a woman of depth and vision, Ms. Hawkins creates characters who must adjust to the demands of others and of circumstances. Some relinquish the ability to communicate with others. For a few, adjustment means learning how to communicate with grace and tolerance. Told with humor, compassion, and just a hint of sarcasm, ONE SMALL SAGA ultimately becomes a story of human compromise and adaptation to the quiet disasters of an ordinary life.

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0918273056

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9780918273055

My Own Alphabet

Stories, Essays & Memoirs

By: Bobbie Louise Hawkins

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My Own Alphabet

Stories, Essays & Memoirs

By: Bobbie Louise Hawkins

The letters of the alphabet are the points of departure for Hawkins's explorations of adulthood.

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0918273528

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9780918273529

Bijoux

By: Bobbie Louise Hawkins

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Bijoux

By: Bobbie Louise Hawkins

Poetry. Bobbie Louise Hawkins' BIJOUX explores both the hope and futility of everyday life with wit and erudition. "Most interesting works of word-art arise out of a sense of our being 'at a loss for words' - while knowing that there must be some, out there, among all the deafening racket of the outside: words we may use to counter and cut through pandemonium, to clear a space, to have this moment, in these words. Again and again, with elegant insight, wit, and compassion, Bobbie Louise Hawkins' poems invite us into such spaces of human clarity." - Anselm Hollo

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146

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Farfalla Press / McMIllan & Parrish

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097663418X

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9780976634188

Woman of Steele

A Personal and Political Journal

By: Bobbie L. Steele

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Woman of Steele

A Personal and Political Journal

By: Bobbie L. Steele

The personal story of the first African American woman to be elected President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Chicago, Illinois.

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184

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143895333X

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9781438953335

Book's by Bobbie Louise Hawkins

Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins

Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins

Fifteen Poems

Fifteen Poems

One Small Saga

One Small Saga

My Own Alphabet

My Own Alphabet

Bijoux

Bijoux

Woman of Steele

Woman of Steele

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