About this product: Joshua Beckman, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, is one of those poets whose work you mustn't miss. His talent shines in his ability to make disparate events become part of a whole. "Purple Heart Highway" constructs loss as imminent danger ("where a train might mistakenly come") or as the pendulum between routine and chaos ("a gray grinning calmness / from which you can get nothing to wake") or as a sudden realization that threads far back into one's past ("I woke up to a plate full of no options / echoing through the cupped ear of my life / spinning the wheels that wouldn't, / for anything, take me away").
In "Winter's Horizon" the theme of loss seeks--and finds--its own sensibilities. A boy writes a story about a father who rides off into the sunset on his riding lawnmower. The boy feels his story is full of meaning, his mother hates it, and his teacher gives it an A+. Yet the lines between fiction and fact, between father and son, and between desire and loss are only the thinnest membranes: "like an engine / steadily moving away / until it is a thin line / of reverberation / ...and its being gone / gives you a terrible sense / a terrible sense of completeness / a terrible sense that things like this / will continue to happen." --Susan Swartwout
About this product: A short biography of selected saints of the Orthodox Christian Church covering the period April 1 to June 30. Volume 1 covers Jan. 1 to March 31. Volumes 3 and 4 cover the remainder of the year.
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About this product: I would like to say that they book was a major disappointment. I was very much looking for a handbook that would take a lot of the information, from the web, and would boil it down to a comprehensive guide that could be taken with me.
I will start with the fact that 47 of the hundred or so pages were dedicated to commands to the various software and radios. All of which is provided either in help files or in downloadable format from the manufacturers websites. This seemed clearly a filler to make the book larger than a pamphlet. (NOTE: there was just a mere 83 pages, with much white space, that were not dedicated to Appendix information)
On the non-filler content provided, I found it of little use and really doesn't help someone new to APRS at all. These are areas that I think should have been covered:
1) A better history. This was very brief and didn't go into much detail at all. It was 6 short pages with a lot of white space.
2) The protocol used in APRS. How do you form a packet?
3) A better explanation of digipeaters and their use
4) What is a path (The book didn't even explain what paths are, how they are used, and why. A simple diagram on how things are repeated would have been very helpful). All that was explained was a particular path to use but never told you why or what it actually did.
5) More explanation of weather stations and their use. This is an area that I have found of great interest to APRS users. What does a weather packet look like. How are they used to bring information to central databases. How could you setup your own digipeter to repeat your own remote weather station?
6) What makes up a packet (by using the explanation of the protocol in #2 an explanation of the different uses of APRS is easy to explain: messages, sending location information, sending weather information,etc.)
The things that were a complete waste of space in this book were:
1) The commands section. A simple URL to websites with the commands would have been sufficient
2) How to install software. By the time this book was published, many of this software has probably already been changed
3) Stay away from specific hardware setups - this also changes. Just point to locations on the web
4) Fill out your chapters more. This book fell short of even an introductory book.
I think that this could have been a 200+ page book if the author really wanted it to be. I am sorry that it was a waste of my money and I turned to the Web for my answers. I found much more information on the web. I am sure the Author had something bigger in mind but at $17.95 for nothing much more than a pamphlet, I think it really fell short.
“Gregory Pardlo . . . wants to explore the druidic function of art, the works of jazz musicians, painters, poets, and others who live imaginatively, expand reality, and make imagination free.”—Brenda Hillman, from the introduction
Totem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, is the debut of a poet who has been listening for decades. In his youth, Gregory Pardlo heard stories of factory hours and picket lines from his father; in the bars, clubs, and on the radio he listens to jazz and blues, the rhythms, beats, and aspirations of which all of which seep into his poems.
A former Cave Canem fellow, Pardlo creates work that is deeply autobiographical, drifting between childhood and adult life. He speaks a language simultaneously urban and highbrow, seamlessly switching from art analysis to sneakers hung over the telephone lines. Deeply rooted in a blue-collar world, he produces snapshots of a life that is so specific it becomes universal.
From “Vincent’s Shoes”:
On the wall above my desk: a pen and ink affair which I copied from a print hanging in the sushi bar down the block: inflected necks of pedestrians on a bridge in the rain and here I hung the hightops from a power line. It was in me to do. I felt it in my gut the way Vincent might have felt the wheat fields and the smoking socket of the sun rattling, tweezed days late into the ear of an aluminum bowl
Gregory Pardlo teaches at Medgar Evers College, The City University of New York, and lives in Brooklyn.
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