Barton R. Friedman argues that the languages of literature and science empty many of the same conceits. "Poetic Knowing" focuses on "the rhetorical strategies by which scientists and poets" create knowledge, and includes close readings of Yeats, Blake, Tennyson, Williams, and Olson. Scientists are rhetorically engaged in transactions comparable to poets; they fabricate metaphrs and analogies that concretize insights into nature. Friedman argues scientists and poets do not form two cultures but "uneasily coupled, ultimately complementary, parts of one."

Poetic Knowing: From Mind's Eye To Poetic Knowing in Discourses of Poetry and Science

Literature & Fiction

Friedman, Barton R.

History & Criticism

Parafine Press

Ancestral Voices: Poems

Poetry

Dim Sum Strategy: Bite-Sized Tools to Build Stronger Brands

In the past, brands were the sole domain of owners, advertisers and marketers. Strategies were crafted in smoke-filled boardrooms and rolled out with little to no input from consumers.
Times have changed. Today, consumers are the new owners. They have more information, more channels, more power and more choice but less time, less loyalty and less trust than ever before. Brands intersect every aspect of our lives, but the business of building brands is still misunderstood.
Dim Sum Strategy presents a carefully curated selection of proven strategic tools, with insights and anecdotes from three decades working with some of the world's leading brands at the world's top agencies. The book is structured to follow the author's proven Brand Centered Management(TM) process, with a smattering of different "tools" split into four parts: Discovery, Definition, Direction, and Delivery. Each tool is presented in bite-sized, standalone chunks; you can read the book in stepwise fashion or cherry-pick in whatever order you wish--just like a dim sum meal.

Arts & Photography

Peter Wilken

Graphic Design

When journalist Dan Cryer was just eight, his mother unexpectedly died. In their grief, he and his siblings shut out all memories of their beloved Pauline. In this haunting memoir, Cryer recreates his quest to discover this gentle mystery woman, her small-town midwestern milieu, and how this haunting absence has shaped his emotional life. "A lovely book: moving, textured, honest, tinged with love and regret and bewilderment and faith and gentle humor."--Poet and editor George Witte, author of Does She Have a Name? "Dan Cryer tells the story of his mother's death and the impact on the eight-year-old he was with steely precision and deep courage, yet with the lyricism of the esteemed writer he has been in a long career. It is a sad and elegiac story but also a haunting mystery tale--as Dan assembles letters, diaries, yearbooks and newspaper clippings to recreate a portrait of the woman he barely knew. Along the way, the reader will get a vivid, nuanced picture of daily life in a Midwestern town governed by the centrality of church, sports and the doctrine of 'niceness.' It's a work you will want to share with people you hold dear."--Joseph Berger, author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust "This intelligent and deeply moving memoir opens the door to a lost time and place, while evoking the mysteries of a mother-child bond lost and found."--Laura Pedersen, author of Buffalo Gal: A Memoir Dan Cryer, a former book critic at Newsday and Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the author of Being Alive and Having to Die: The Spiritual Odyssey of Forrest Church. He has contributed to The Salon.Com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors and Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio, and to many publications, including The New Republic, Salon, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe.

Forgetting My Mother: A Blues from the Heartland

Biographies & Memoirs

Cryer, Dan

Memoirs

Charles Ellenbogen has been teaching for a long time. He moved into his first classroom when Bill Clinton moved into the White House and has been teaching long enough to see Hillary Clinton lose an election and to hear a student point to a picture of the Clintons and say, "That's Hillary Clinton and. . . and her husband."
That doesn't mean he's especially good at it; it just means that he's been doing it a long time. It doesn't mean he has 38 Recipes for Great Teaching; it does mean he has a lot of stories. And these are some of them. You will laugh at some and get frustrated or even angry at others. But they all are real, and some of them don't end well because, after all, this isn't the movies.

This Isn't The Movies: 25 Years in the Classroom

Education & Teaching

Ellenbogen, Charles

Schools & Teaching

The Fundamental Elements A Collection of Writing by Cleveland Teens

Lake Erie Ink

Growing up on Grosse Ile is the story of life on a border island between Michigan and Canada, downriver from Detroit. What was it like to be young in a place surrounded by water and Great Lakes freighters in mid-twentieth century America? We grew up outside, and the island shaped our youth: both its unique provincial qualities-we all missed the same word on the fourth grade spelling bee-and its ties to the mainland-with the many "bridge stories" like the early bridge built to allow horses from the island to pull beer wagons in Detroit. With our ups and downs, we learned the lesson of the fragility of island life, and finally the hardest lesson of all-that those who grow up on the island must leave it.

Growing Up on Grosse Ile: Island in the Detroit River

Trix, Frances

Historical

A twisty puzzle-box murder mystery and police procedural in the vein of Walter Mosley and Sara Paretsky When the body is found in Runyon Canyon Park with its teeth and fingerprints destroyed and all the clothes and belongings removed, Detective Gregory of the LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division is certain that the hard part will be identifying the corpse. But soon they have a name, and that's when things get complicated. The Department of Homeland Security unexpectedly takes an interest, a connection to an open case involving a bombing is made, and the body count increases even as motive remains elusive. And the sudden reappearance of a face from Gregory's past, a suspect in the horrific killings of five young girls, will present its own dangers to the case and to the detective. Will the murderers be brought to justice?

The Dream of the White Elephant

Langa, R Jamie

Wouldn't it be great if you had a guidebook that illustrated the wrong way to handle situations? That way, you'd know how not to do things and, hopefully, save yourself some heartache? Luckily, writer Diane DiPiero Rodio has lived through a host of missteps, and now she's sharing them in a book designed to help you avoid similar embarrassment. Enjoy the real-life perils of one person and do your best to head in the opposite direction.

Do As I Say, Not As I Do: A Self-Deprecating Reflection on Life to Help Others Succeed

Dipiero Rodio, Diane

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