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July

By: Kathleen Ossip

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In her groundbreaking and most politicized collection, Kathleen Ossip takes a hard look at the U.S.A. as it now stands. She meditates on our various responses to our country—whether ironic, infantile, righteous, or defeated. Her diction is both high and low, her tone both elegant and straightforward. The book’s crowning achievement, its anchor, and its centerpiece is the poem “July.” In a generous fifty pages, Ossip recounts a road trip from Bemidji, MN, to Key West, FL, with her daughter riding shotgun. Inspired by images that flick across their car windows and nurtured by intimate conversation and plenty of time to think, the poem has an entertaining cinematic sweep. There are poems based on bumper stickers, the names of churches, little shops. Traveling tests her beliefs, and Ossip fully discloses her doubts and confusions. Ossip is an unconventional, mighty magician with words.

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Sarabande Books

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1946448796

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9781946448798

The Do-Over

Poems

By: Kathleen Ossip

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The Do-Over

Poems

By: Kathleen Ossip

Kathleen Ossip's much-anticipated third collection of poems presents an unsentimental elegy to a mother figure and recently deceased cultural icons.

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Sarabande Books

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1936747987

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The Cold War

By: Kathleen Ossip

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The Cold War

By: Kathleen Ossip

A collection of poems that question the origins and premises of American culture.$1

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1932511954

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July

By: Kathleen Ossip

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Theatre as a Weapon

Workers' Theatre in the Soviet Union, Germany and Britain, 1917–1934

By: Richard Stourac,Kathleen McCreery

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Theatre as a Weapon

Workers' Theatre in the Soviet Union, Germany and Britain, 1917–1934

By: Richard Stourac,Kathleen McCreery

Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers’ theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre. Drawing largely on unpublished sources, it provides lively case studies of workers’ theatre in the USSR, Germany and the United Kingdom. They range from the Russian mass spectacles in front of the Winter Palace, through the thousands of factory and courtyard performances in Germany, to the May Day activities of the Workers’ Theatre Movement all over Britain. The authors worked for many years in political theatre in Britain, Austria and Germany, and they draw on their wide experience to focus on both major theoretical controversies and their practical ramifications. They show how workers’ theatre became an instrument, a weapon, for political change, helping to raise the consciousness of thousands of workers and encouraging them to take action. They describe how worker-actors, musicians, writers and directors formed small, flexible troupes which contributed locally to the day-to-day struggles of their class, while at the same time participating in national and international political campaigns. Developments in dramatic structure are analysed, from the simple review form to the more complex scene-and-song montage. Placing the work of Meyerhold, Eisenstein, Piscator, Brecht and Eisler in this context, the authors demonstrate how the montage principle became the significant factor in the political theatre of this period. The book is illustrated with rare photographs which reflect the atmosphere of those mass movements. Unique in its coverage, Theatre as a Weapon is above all an analysis of how the mirror of realistic theatre was transformed into a dynamic weapon for social change. It fills an important gap in the history of working-class culture.

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350

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Taylor & Francis

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1040186025

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9781040186022

When Private Talk Goes Public

Gossip in American History

By: Kathleen Feeley,Jennifer Frost

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When Private Talk Goes Public

Gossip in American History

By: Kathleen Feeley,Jennifer Frost

Gossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we engage - even as it is often absorbing and socially significant, it is also widely denigrated. This volume examines fascinating moments in the history of gossip in America, from witchcraft trials to People magazine, helping us to see the subject with new eyes.

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Springer

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1137442301

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July

The Do-Over

The Do-Over

The Cold War

The Cold War

July

July

Theatre as a Weapon

Theatre as a Weapon

When Private Talk Goes Public

When Private Talk Goes Public

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