Paradise Road (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Kirk Nesset
University of Pittsburgh Press (September 28, 2007) 1 edition: hardcover


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read title story. saw girl walking on Paradise Road. she already knew his horses.


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The Common Man by Maurice Manning
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 9, 2010) hardcover

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This fourth book by Yale Younger Poet's Prize–winner Manning is, like his previous books, a unified sequence, though this one takes an autobiographical turn, recounting the Kentucky of the poet's childhood. The poems are friendly, if also full of sadness.

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this looks really v good. all couplets. panegyric against consolation grief. God made the scene only made it once. and, do you know a donkey? ars poetica I liked that donkey.
"The Common Man, and: A Panegyric Against the Consolation of Grief, and: A Prayer to God My God in a Time of Desolation." Prairie Schooner 82.3 (2008).."



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oh- see the girl in back. dust jacket translucent, hardcover underneath has girl in sweater hood. I read Maggie O'Farrell's 'After You'd Gone', in seattle sudie chose it from the staff shelves.

The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 12, 2010) hardcover

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and also to read thr ~ My Abandonment by Peter Rock Mariner Books paperback April 2, 2010 ; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover March 2009)
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Caroline and Father are scavenging for materials to make a shelter in the forest park outside of Portland, Ore., where they seem to be hiding out. They make cautious trips into the city to the supermarket and the library, but a lapse by Caroline brings police attention.. ..
Father says: If I weren't your father, how could I have walked right into your backyard and walked away with you and no one said a word?
re survival, of love & attachment, mystery & alienation. a bow to Thoreau and a nod to the detective story.
13-year-old Caroline, the hillbilly girl that lived in the park - the? based on? y:
Northwest Writers at Work: Peter Rock | Bookmarks - OregonLive.com
Near here a man and his daughter spent four years living in a homemade shelter. They had a vegetable garden & a rope swing & a creek where they bathed & stored their perishables. A police dog found the man, whose first name was Frank, and his then-12-year-old daughter, Ruth, hiding nearby. A Portland police sergeant arranged for them to live on a horse farm in Yamhill County. After five days, another story appeared in the newspaper: "Resettled from park, father, girl slip away."
Five years later, no one knows what became of them.
portland imc - 2004.06.02 - Father & Daughter Relocated from ...
Jun 15, 2004 ... Where have Frank and Ruth gone? A month ago, a man and his 12-year-old daughter abandoned their 4-year-old hermitage in Forest Park for a ...