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  • SAVING ST. GERM
    CAROL MUSKE-DUKES
    Consumed by her pursuit of a Theory of Everything, a brilliant California scientist struggles to deal with life in and outside the lab Doctor Esme Charbonneau Tallich's passion is cosmology, the science of the origin of the universe; specifically, she is searching for a TOE, or a Theory of Everything. Esme is a feminist maverick, a rogue thinker. Hired as a professor of molecul...

    $251.00

  • WYNDMERE
    CAROL MUSKE-DUKES
    Poems on the power of memory and the shading of past into present In this enthralling collection, National Book Award finalist and former Poet Laureate of California Carol Muske-Dukes composes a lyrical autobiography, tracing her family history from the Dakota prairie to her new life as a young mother in Los Angeles. In "The Separator," Muske-Dukes writes of her grandfather, a ...

    $251.00

  • DEAR DIGBY
    CAROL MUSKE-DUKES
    An oddball newspaper editor advises eccentric readers—and reckons with her own painful past in this psychological thriller   Willis Digby is the letters editor at Sis ( Sisterhood) magazine, a job that drives her mad. A Miss Lonelyhearts for feminists, Willis plows through correspondence that fluctuates from the predictable, boosterish boilerplate to letters challenging convent...

    $251.00

  • I MARRIED THE ICEPICK KILLER
    CAROL MUSKE-DUKES
    A vibrant and insightful essay collection about life as a poet in Southern California  Poetry and Hollywood may not seem compatible in anyone's book. But acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic Carol Muske-Dukes finds common ground for both in meditations on movie sets and metaphors, on the big screen and the luminous focus of a haiku. I Married the Icepick Killer offers the reade...

    $251.00

  • APPLAUSE
    CAROL MUSKE-DUKES
    National Book Award finalist Carol Muske-Dukes explores joy, dread, and the solitary communion of applause Applause provides twenty vivid and evocative poems by Carol Muske-Dukes. In "Dream," she seeks the past in reverie, along with bicoastal riffs on New York City and Los Angeles. "The Eulogy" paints the scene of a funeral in sunny California where a young man who has died of...

    $251.00

  • CAMOUFLAGE
    CAROL MUSKE-DUKES
    "Lies, wishes, fantasies—all the weaponry of compassionate imagination at war with society—deploy with delicious satire in [Muske-Dukes's] first book." — Library Journal A poet, novelist, critic, and essayist, Carol Muske-Dukes has established herself as one of the preeminent talents of modern American writing. Birth, loss, imprisonment, and renewal are among the subjects of  C...

    $251.00

  • SKYLIGHT
    CAROL MUSKE-DUKES
    Poetry from a writer celebrated as one of the most distinctive voices of her generation Among the thirty-five poems in  Skylight are sonnets, sestinas, and free verse forms on topics ranging from politics to architecture and science. In one volume, Muske-Dukes, National Book Award finalist and former Poet Laureate of California, incorporates multitudes, unified by her lyrical s...

    $229.00