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The World Pushes Back

Poems

By: Garret Keizer

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The World Pushes Back, Garret Keizer’s first book of poetry, is the winner of the 2018 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. The poems are mostly lyrical, often personal, and always accessible. They have appeared in a number of venues, including Agni, Antioch Review, Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, Image, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, and The Texas Review, among others.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1680031856

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9781680031850

The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want

A Book About Noise

By: Garret Keizer

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The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want

A Book About Noise

By: Garret Keizer

Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. It has been a byproduct of human striving since ancient times even as it has become a significant cause of disease in our own. At heart, noise provides a key for understanding some of our most pressing issues, from social inequality to climate change. In a journey that leads us from the Tanzanian veldt to the streets of New York, Keizer deftly explores the political ramifications of noise, America's central role in a loud world, and the environmental sustainability of a quieter one. The result is a deeply satisfying book -- one guaranteed to change how we hear the world, and how we measure our own personal volume within it.

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396

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PublicAffairs

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1586488627

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9781586488628

God of Beer

By: Garret Keizer

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God of Beer

By: Garret Keizer

In the remote mill town of Salmon Falls, Vermont, the dead of winter can feel like death itself. Jobs are scarce, kids are bored, and it sometimes seems there's nothing better to do than drink. But when eighteen-year-old Kyle Nelson and a motley group of friends decide to challenge both the legal drinking age and the local drinking culture with a daring act of civil disobedience, they find there's more to do than they ever imagined. Garret Keizer's gripping novel about young men and women in revolt bears witness to the power of ideas, the bonds of friendship, and the trials of working-class kids on the margins of American society. His story never flinches in the face of those forces that conspire against, but needn't overcome, the resilient spirits of the young.

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258

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University Press of New England

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1611689163

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9781611689167

Privacy

By: Garret Keizer

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Privacy

By: Garret Keizer

American essayist and Harper's contributing editor Garret Keizer offers a brilliant, literate look at our strip-searched, over-shared, viral-videoed existence. Body scans at the airport, candid pics on Facebook, a Twitter account for your stray thoughts, and a surveillance camera on every street corner -- today we have an audience for all of the extraordinary and banal events of our lives. The threshold between privacy and exposure becomes more permeable by the minute. But what happens to our private selves when we cannot escape scrutiny, and to our public personas when they pass from our control? In this wide-ranging, penetrating addition to the Big Ideas//Small Books series, and in his own unmistakable voice, Garret Keizer considers the moral dimensions of privacy in relation to issues of social justice, economic inequality, and the increasing commoditization of the global marketplace. Though acutely aware of the digital threat to privacy rights, Keizer refuses to see privacy in purely technological terms or as an essentially legalistic value. Instead, he locates privacy in the human capacity for resistance and in the sustainable society "with liberty and justice for all.

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210

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Macmillan

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0312554842

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9780312554842

The Enigma of Anger

Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin

By: Garret Keizer

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The Enigma of Anger

Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin

By: Garret Keizer

Rage, resentment, envy, jealousy, and hatred— these emotions seem to dominate our times. They rule our highways, our workplaces, our homes, and our hearts. In this provocative book of essays, writer Garret Keizer considers anger in all its baffling forms. Poignantly aware of his own temper, and of his ties to a religion that glorifies meekness, the author looks at anger as a paradox in our struggle to remain human in the midst of an infuriating world. Interweaving personal anecdotes, mythological stories, sacred texts, and Keizer's insightful observations, The Enigma of Anger will prove a welcome companion for anyone who has ever wrestled with wrath-or wished to make better use of it.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787966924

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9780787966928

The Enigma of Anger

Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin

By: Garret Keizer

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Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin

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Privacy

By: Garret Keizer

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The World Pushes Back

Poems

By: Garret Keizer

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Texas A&M University Press

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God of Beer

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University Press of New England

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Gold Panning the Pacific Northwest

A Guide to the Area’s Best Sites for Gold

By: Garret Romaine

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Gold Panning the Pacific Northwest

A Guide to the Area’s Best Sites for Gold

By: Garret Romaine

Gold Panning the Pacific Northwest is the premiere reference source for anyone who is interested in getting started or continuing their gold prospecting in the pacific northwest region. Containing accurate, up-to-date prospecting information for all known panning areas in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The write-ups for each locale include driving directions, GPS coordinates, historical information, land ownership restrictions, full-color photos, and geological background. Features include: Full-color images GPS coordinates Geology basics Tools of the trade for every level of collector Rules and regulations Polishing, preserving, crafting, and displaying your treasures

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493014838

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9781493014835

Getting Schooled

The Reeducation of an American Teacher

By: Garret Keizer

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Getting Schooled

The Reeducation of an American Teacher

By: Garret Keizer

In this powerful, eloquent story, a former teacher offers a rousing defense of his beleaguered vocation in this arresting account of his return to the same rural Vermont high school classroom where he had taught 14 years before.

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Macmillan

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0805096434

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9780805096439

No Place But Here

A Teacher's Vocation in a Rural Community

By: Garret Keizer

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No Place But Here

A Teacher's Vocation in a Rural Community

By: Garret Keizer

Weaving anecdotal narrative with trenchant reflections on his profession, Garret Keizer offers one teacher's answer to the hue and cry over the crisis in education. An English teacher in rural Vermont, he writes of the opposing realities he faces every day: the promise and energy of the young and the oppressive effect of their economic disadvantages; the beauty of the countryside and its people and the harsh, sometimes ugly edge of life there; the need for discipline and the importance of rebellion. In exploring the demands peculiar to his own community, Keizer movingly depicts the difficulties-some triumphantly overcome, some overwhelming-that form the heart of teaching anywhere.

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University Press of New England

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1611688760

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9781611688764

No Place But Here

A Teacher’s Vocation in a Rural Community

By: Garret Keizer

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No Place But Here

A Teacher’s Vocation in a Rural Community

By: Garret Keizer

Succinct, passionate, and wise, here is one teacher's answer to the crisis ineducation and to the particular demands of his vocation.

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Brandeis University Press

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0874517907

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9780874517903

Book's by Garret Keizer

The World Pushes Back

The World Pushes Back

The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want

The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want

God of Beer

God of Beer

Privacy

Privacy

The Enigma of Anger

The Enigma of Anger

The Enigma of Anger

The Enigma of Anger

Privacy

Privacy

The World Pushes Back

The World Pushes Back

God of Beer

God of Beer

Gold Panning the Pacific Northwest

Gold Panning the Pacific Northwest

Getting Schooled

Getting Schooled

No Place But Here

No Place But Here

No Place But Here

No Place But Here

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