#Be kind gentle reader driver#
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny ColganĪ “literary matchmaker” who takes joy in pairing readers with perfect books moves from the city to a sleepy village where she becomes a bookmobile driver and rediscovers her sense of adventure while searching for a happy ending of her own. The stories typically take place in small towns, are upbeat and often contain humorous and/or inspirational elements.Įnjoy! Charming Stories filled with Colorful Characters 1. “ Gentle Reads” is a term used to describe novels that contain no sex, violence or offensive language. In each post you’ll find books that share similar appeal (or story elements) like pacing, tone, storyline, writing style and/or characters. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.We’re highlighting a variety of books to help our readers find that next great read.
#Be kind gentle reader series#
His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Matthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is the “Poet Laureate” of Machine Project and also teaches courses at the California Institute of the Arts. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the University of California-Riverside's Palm Desert MFA program. In addition to these three collections, he is one of the authors of Gentle Reader! (2007), a book of erasures of the English Romantics, along with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He is the author of Thing Music (Wave Books, 2014), I ♥ Your Fate (Wave Books, 2011), Moongarden (Wave Books, 2006) and Father of Noise (Fence Books, 2003).
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He also co-edited Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners(Wave Books, 2015).Īnthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is editor-in-chief at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including Micrograms, by Jorge Carrera Andrade, 5 Meters of Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) by Carlos Oquendo de Amat, and Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) by Tomaž Šalamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is the author of many books, including The Lives of the Poems and 3 Talks (Wave Books, forthcoming 2018), The Inside of an Apple, Take It, Shake, Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Read an interview at the Kenyon Review with all three authors about Gentle Reader!.
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You will find surreal images, and straightforward but astonishingly expressed statements, evidence that erasure can achieve what Wordsworth called "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings". Gentle Reader! is a collaborative book of erasures of Romantic era texts by Joshua Beckman, Anthony McCann, and Matthew Rohrer.Ī book that perfectly encapsulates the contradictions and complexities surrounding the English Romantics is an erasure of their works: Gentle Reader!.If you think erasure is valuable as an exercise but lacks literary merit, then I strongly recommend this book.
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By Joshua Beckman, Anthony McCann, and Matthew Rohrer