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Clay

By: Martha Ronk

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Poetry that finds meaning and connection in the process of creating pottery from clay. The poems in Clay look to the process of forming clay on a potter's wheel to examine our sense of touch and texture, emptiness, fragility, and the nature of time. Martha Ronk moves through the steps of creating a pot that must be formed, dried, bisque-fired, glazed, and fired again. This practice is paralleled in Ronk's process-oriented language that addresses how we read texture and color, the ways history and landscapes appear in glazes, Mimbres bowls that covered the faces of the dead, and Giorgio Morandi's still life paintings of ceramic forms. For Ronk, pottery raises questions about the value of repetition, inevitable failure, and how we may become one with matter. As the potter's hands ache and age, the bowl seems to age as it slumps or breaks. Clay includes observations from other potters and writers as well as small photographs of pots.

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163243167X

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9781632431677

Why/Why Not

By: Martha Ronk

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Why/Why Not

By: Martha Ronk

In Ronk's book, language is in the mood for mischief, while still being acutely attentive to its own unreliability. We're pulled into this sparklingly original work where ordinariness veers coolly and equivocation beguiles. These gorgeously agile poems reveal us as our never-ready and always-ready selves."—Molly Bendall, author of Ariadne's Island "Ronk, in her 'looking for/ the conjunction of the past and the present,' produces a poetry that questions the context of living, its arrangements, its decisions. Her sure-footed investigation is equaled by its prosody of progression/recursion in a particular lexicon of grace and elegance. Reader, find surprises in this lovely packet of poems."—Norma Cole, author of Spinoza in Her Youth

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100

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Univ of California Press

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0520238117

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9780520238114

Ocular Proof

By: Martha Clare Ronk

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Ocular Proof

By: Martha Clare Ronk

Poetic investigations of the distortions and discoveries of photography and sight

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1632430258

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9781632430250

Transfer of Qualities

By: Martha Clare Ronk

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Transfer of Qualities

By: Martha Clare Ronk

Each entry in this book probes the dissolving boundaries between those sharing space with one another; and the various genres in the book—prose poem, creative nonfiction, and personal essay—echo the theme of interdependence. Transfer of Qualities addresses the uncanny and myriad ways in which people and things, but also people and those around them, exchange qualities with one another, moving in on and altering stance, attitude, mood, and gesture. Material things often seem amazingly alive and this collection follows an author engrossed with the boundaries between life and death, the moving and the still, and the stone-like book and the vivid stirring within the pages. There are many influences behind this collection, but the major genie of the piece is Henry James whose musings in The Sacred Fount provided the book's title and direction.

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189065082X

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9781890650827

Partially Kept

By: Martha Clare Ronk

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Partially Kept

By: Martha Clare Ronk

A meditation on language and loss-and the partial nature of both-from a leading contemporary poet

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1937658015

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Why/Why Not

By: Martha Ronk

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Why/Why Not

By: Martha Ronk

Why/Why Not presents a speaker caught in quandaries created by changing perspectives, fervors, and locales. Why do we act one way here and another there; why can't a mind stay made up; why do we hate and love at the same time; why does memory fade or insist; why does the ordinary seem so uncanny? These questions are captured in lines that collide and merge, in irreverent and offhand jibes, and in plaintive repetitions. Why/Why Not moves across a vivid terrain—the stage of Hamlet, Phillip Marlowe's Los Angeles, Prague, paintings and gardens—to push through a tangle of ways to make sense of the world. Martha Ronk's poetic language is that of the everyday slightly skewed, as if pieces of an ordinary sentence were missing. Ronk's poems use the repetitive and the banal to explore ways in which language is intertwined with thought and experience.

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104

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Univ of California Press

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0520937112

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9780520937116

Glass Grapes

and Other Stories

By: Martha Ronk

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Glass Grapes

and Other Stories

By: Martha Ronk

Glass Grapes and Other Stories is the first full-length collection of short stories by distinguished poet and fiction writer Martha Ronk. Ronk’s work has garnered critical accolades and numerous awards, including, most recently, a 2005 PEN USA Award in poetry, a 2007 NEA Fellowship, and a 2007 National Poetry Series Award. Glass Grapes is a collection of short, experimental stories, usually dominated by an object imbued with fetishistic qualities by an obsessive, self-involved narrator. The language of these stories is repetitive, provocative, imagistic, occasionally comic, and unnerving. Ronk’s fiction moves with the same grace, beauty, and attention to language as her most accomplished poetry.

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120

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BOA Editions, Ltd.

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1942683278

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9781942683278

Recent Terrains

Terraforming the American West

By: Martha Clare Ronk

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Recent Terrains

Terraforming the American West

By: Martha Clare Ronk

In 60 black-and-white panoramas, Brown documents the changing landscape along the western edge of Southern California. These stark, compelling images reveal a world scraped and reshaped by construction equipment, with boulders pushed aside, stretches of earth flattened, and high-tech communities springing to life. 60 duotones.

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118

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JHU Press

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0801864003

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9780801864001

Desire in L.A.

Poems

By: Martha Clare Ronk

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Desire in L.A.

Poems

By: Martha Clare Ronk

Desire in L.A. confronts limitless longing in a city that is itself without limits. In these poems, the object of desire is decidedly missing, whether that object be love or beauty or the past. Shifting even within a single poem, and certainly from section to section, the objects of desire in Martha Ronk's poetry become as elusive as the unnamed Marilyn Monroe--"that image of another's skirts"--of the title poem, or the moment captured in "A photograph as good as a picture": "He leans forward with such / fervor, yet isn't young and something / decidedly is happening, even / to the beefy fellow in his white / short-sleeved shirt. A photograph-- / oh, perhaps not the same as a / Manet, but it is Auden, and / for whatever reason he stares at / the square flesh neckline / of her dress. He is forward / in his chair, rumpled about / the collar and everyone is wearing / black and white. It is the formal / occasion of how much he cares / to be there, Venice, 1951 / and how much I care to see him / no matter what for, longing / like that." Moving from thwarted examples of family and place to language and its corruptions, from classical Japanese love poems to failed love in the southwestern desert, from emotionality to artifice, the book ends with a series focused on the slipperiness of all categories.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820311766

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9780820311760

Glass Grapes

and Other Stories

By: Martha Ronk

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and Other Stories

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Desire in L.A.

Poems

By: Martha Clare Ronk

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Poems

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Martha! Martha! the Third Spiritual Adventure

By: Martha M. Brown,Freddie M. Lindsay-Payne

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Martha! Martha! the Third Spiritual Adventure

By: Martha M. Brown,Freddie M. Lindsay-Payne

A lifetime of wisdom has been compiled on the pages of Martha! Martha! As each author shares from the insights gained from their personal walk with God, we are invited to join the adventure that leads the willing heart to growth in the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

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202

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Priorityone Publications

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1933972335

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9781933972336

Book's by Martha Ronk

Clay

Clay

Why/Why Not

Why/Why Not

Ocular Proof

Ocular Proof

Transfer of Qualities

Transfer of Qualities

Partially Kept

Partially Kept

Why/Why Not

Why/Why Not

Glass Grapes

Glass Grapes

Recent Terrains

Recent Terrains

Desire in L.A.

Desire in L.A.

Glass Grapes

Glass Grapes

Desire in L.A.

Desire in L.A.

Martha! Martha! the Third Spiritual Adventure

Martha! Martha! the Third Spiritual Adventure

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