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  • The Pittsburgh Stories of Willa Cather

    Willa Cather, Peter Oresick

    Hardcover (Carnegie Mellon University Press, Nov. 1, 2016)
    In these six stories, Willa Cather vividly captures the character of early 1900s Pittsburgh, a place she called home during her formative years as a writer. She depicts a city a where culture is beginning to take root, rising from the harsh industrial landscape. Her characters, ranging from a skinny young usher boy to an elderly doctor, seek meaning in music, art, and human connection. Through them, Cather explores the dual nature of art as a higher purpose. Art tugs at the edges of human emotion, inspiring a sense of wonder, but also instilling an insatiable longing for beauty in a disorderly world. Cather deftly captures transient moments of brilliance and pain to convince us of this fundamental truth.
  • The Pittsburgh Stories of Willa Cather

    Willa Cather, Peter Oresick

    Paperback (Carnegie Mellon University Press, Nov. 1, 2016)
    In these six stories, Willa Cather vividly captures the character of early 1900s Pittsburgh, a place she called home during her formative years as a writer. She depicts a city a where culture is beginning to take root, rising from the harsh industrial landscape. Her characters, ranging from a skinny young usher boy to an elderly doctor, seek meaning in music, art, and human connection. Through them, Cather explores the dual nature of art as a higher purpose. Art tugs at the edges of human emotion, inspiring a sense of wonder, but also instilling an insatiable longing for beauty in a disorderly world. Cather deftly captures transient moments of brilliance and pain to convince us of this fundamental truth.
  • Basho's Ghost

    Sam Hamill

    Paperback (Carnegie Mellon University Press, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Embodied among travel sketches and portraits of people and places visited during his 1988 stay in Japan on a Japan-U.S. Fellowship, Sam Hamill presents a reading of Japanese poetry beginning with the eighteenth-century anthology, Man'yoshu, tracing the development of the Japanese poetic imagination up through the seventeenth-century poet Basho, the eighteenth-century monk/poet Ryokan, and concluding with Japan's first Mondernist poet, Takamura Kotaro. Visiting places in Japan's north country where Basho traveled three hundred years ago, Hamill drawns upon his own zen practice of twenty-five years, and upon his lifelong study of Asian literature, encountering some of Japan's foremost poets, introducing them as he would old friends met along a great journey. Basho's Ghost is a literary exegesis located in personal memoir, a "deep reading" performed with translucent grace, often poignant and always revealing. It is a true poet's book, a book of the heart.
  • Sueñan, lloran, cantan / They Dream, They Cry, They Sing: Poems for Children from Spain & Spanish America

    Perry Higman

    Paperback (Carnegie Mellon University Press, Jan. 1, 1998)
    A bilingual collection of poems for children by twelve well-known Spanish and Latin American authors.
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  • Native People, Native Lands: Canadian Indians, Inuit and Metis

    Bruce Alden Cox

    Paperback (Carleton University Press, Oct. 15, 1987)
    The changing roles of native women, devices for assimilation, the re-birth of the Metis: these are among the issues examined in this collection of provocative essays which explore the link between aboriginal culture and economic patterns.
  • Native People, Native Lands: Canadian Indians, Inuit and Metis

    Bruce Alden Cox

    Paperback (Carleton University Press, March 15, 1642)
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  • The History of Emily Montague

    Frances Brooke, Mary Jane Edwards

    Hardcover (Carleton University Press, Sept. 15, 1985)
    Frequently called the first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague, presents subversive views on traditional subjects like love and marriage and introduces such unique Canadian themes as the relationships between the Québecois and their British conquerors and the customs and habits of the native peoples.
  • Kiviuq: An Inuit Hero and His Siberian Cousins

    Kira Van Deusen

    Hardcover (Carleton University Press, March 1, 2009)
    How do shape-shifting shamans, a giant cannibalistic bumblebee, and human marriage with animals speak to Canadian Inuit and Siberian indigenous peoples today? How can artists present ancient legend in live performance and film with sensitivity to the source?
  • By Anthony J. Hall The American Empire And the Fourth World: The Bowl With One Spoon

    Anthony J Hall

    Paperback (Carleton University Press, July 26, 2005)
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  • The Epic of Qayaq: The Longest Story Ever Told by My People by Lela Kiana Oman

    Lela Kiana Oman

    Paperback (Carleton University Press, March 15, 1736)
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