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  Once in a Lifetime

  George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart,...

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  It’s 1929 as The Jazz Singer hits the silver screen and the talkies promise to change movies forever.  Enter three down-and-out vaudevillians who hatch a hare-brained scheme to “make it big” in Tinsel Town. Their plan?  To open a voice academy for the witless stars of silent movies.  The only things standing in their way are ditzy starlets and power-hungry movie moguls.  Starring Ed Asner and directed by Moss Hart’s son, this is top-of-the-bill screwball comedy and Kaufman and Hart genius at its very bestAn L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Caroline Aaron as Helen Hobart and Miss ChasenEdward Asner as Herman GlogauerJen Dede as Susan WalkerJeanie Hackett as Mrs. Walker and Miss LeightonDavid Kaufman as George LewisKatharine Leonard as Florabel Leigh and Bridesmaid #2Joe Liss as Ernest and othersKellie Matteson as Phyllis Fontaine and Bridesmaid #1;Jon Matthews as Rudolph Kammerling and othersSarah Rafferty as May DanielsJonathan Silverman as Jerry HylandSteve Vinovich as Lawrence Vail and othersDirected by Christopher Hart. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

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  A Sand Book

  Ariana Reines

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  A Sand Book is a poetry collection in twelve parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness in our strange and desperate times. From Hurricane Sandy to the murder of Sandra Bland to the massacre at Sandy Hook, from the sand in the gizzards of birds to the desertified mountains of Haiti, from Attar's "Conference of the Birds" to Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls" to Twitter, A Sand Book is about change and quantification, the relationship between catastrophe and cultural transmission. It moves among houses of worship and grocery stores, flitters between geological upheaval and the weird weather of the Internet. In her long-awaited follow-up to Mercury, Reines has written her most ambitious work to date, but also her most visceral and satisfying.

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  Dead White Men

  Shane Rhodes

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  A vital collection that interrogates the stories of the dead white men that litter our histories and landscapes.
   
  Juxtaposing the seemingly benign names of Europeans that permeate our geographies with the details of their so-called discoveries and conquests, Dead White Men turns ideas of exploration, discovery, finding and keeping back upon themselves. Engaging with exploration and scientific texts from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries – texts wrapped up in the history and ongoing present of colonization – this collection builds a fascinating poetry of memory out of histories that are largely forgotten.
   
  ‘A provocative and galvanizing read … Riveting and dazzling invention is visible on almost every page: fonts shift size, language cascades and cleaves, and images disrupt order. Dead White Men should be widely read and taught.’
   
  – Eduardo C. Corral, author of Slow Lightning
   
  ‘Dead White Men is not only a searing indictment of colonialism but also a painful reminder of the violence that underpins the logic of exploration. Each poem strikes at the heart of the issue: there are often unarticulated, unacknowledged Indigenous presences here that have been flattened over by the lies and mirages of empty landscapes. Dead White Men is a stinging and difficult journey, and one that continues to remind us that stolen land has always been the most pressing concern for Indigenous peoples and settlers. This is an absolutely essential book.’
   
  – Jordan Abel, author of Injun

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  Poetic Literature

  Cindy Christmas

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  Product Description: Most of the poems in this book are religious, but there are based on a lot of different topics. Nevertheless, these poems are magnificent. These poems & short stories are powerful words. These poems & short stories will make the reader inspired.

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  A Selection of Poems by...

  Rabindranath Tagore

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  Tagore was a true Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as a gifted philosopher, social and political reformer as well as a popular author in all literary genres.  His most famous poem, extracts of which are recorded here, is Gitanjali which earned him the distinction of the first Asian writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.  His songs include both the Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems.  This selection of his poems is read for you by Shyama Perera a gifted journalist, broadcaster and novelist.

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  The Missing Months

  Lachlan Mackinnon

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  Many of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus afforded by lockdown. They look forward as well as back, toying with possible futures, enthused by utopian dreams or fearing cultural and bodily entropy. They celebrate and mourn the lives of friends and relatives, captivated by carefully tended images from the past. Lockdown's 'missing months' in the world of a four-year-old granddaughter are laid down and remembered for her. Familiar objects - a park bench, stones, grass, stars, windows - are reanimated. This poetry of imaginative journeying 'stretches/Banks on a slope of air and turns' like the heron it watches. Between the crackle of radio signals and rain, the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam and the American singer Miranda Lambert, here is a poet in search of points of reference, the 'bright fresh leaves' of sunlight among the ruins.

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