Maya's notebook : a novel

Cuaderno de Maya. English

Maya's notebook [sound recording]

Cuaderno de Maya. English

Maya's notebook : a novel

Cuaderno de Maya. English

The boy who was raised as a dog : and other stories from a child psychiatrist's notebook : what traumatized children can teach us about loss, love, and healing

The boy who was raised as a dog : and other stories from a child psychiatrist's notebook : what traumatized children can teach us about loss, love, and healing

A manual for cleaning women : selected stories

Foreword: "The story is the thing" / Introduction / Angel's laundromat -- Dr. H.A. Moynihan -- Stars and saints -- A manual for cleaning women -- My jockey -- El Tim -- Point of view -- Her first detox -- Phantom pain -- Tiger bites -- Emergency room notebook -- Temps perdu -- Carpe diem -- Toda luna, Todo Ano -- Good and bad -- Melina -- Friends -- Unmanageable -- Electric car, El Paso -- Sex appeal -- Teenage punk -- Step -- Strays -- Grief -- Bluebonnets -- La vie en rose -- Macadam -- Dear Conchi -- Fool to cry -- Mourning -- Panteón de Dolores -- So long -- A love affair -- Let me see you smile -- Mama -- Carmen -- Silence -- Mijito -- 502 -- Here it is Saturday -- B.F. and me -- Wait a minute -- Homing.

A manual for cleaning women : selected stories

Short stories. Selections

Angel's laundromat -- Dr. H. A. Moynihan -- Stars and saints -- A manual for cleaning women -- My jockey -- El Tim -- Point of view -- Her first detox -- Phantom pain -- Tiger bites -- Emergency room notebook, 1977 -- Temps perdu -- Carpe diem -- Toda luna, todo año -- Good and bad -- Melina -- Friends -- Unmanageable -- Electric car, El Paso -- Sex appeal -- Teenage punk -- Step -- Strays -- Grief -- Bluebonnets -- La vie en rose -- Macadam -- Dear Conchi -- Fool to cry -- Mourning -- Panteón de Dolores -- So long -- A love affair -- Let me see you smile -- Mama -- Carmen -- Silence -- Mijito -- 502 -- Here it is Saturday -- B.F. and me -- Wait a minute -- Homing.

An explorer's notebook : essays on life, history & climate

In the field, 1985-2002. Beginnings ; Australia's oldest marsupial? ; Journey to the stars ; Prickled, not pricked ; Emperor, king and little pig ; The fall and rise of Bulmer's fruit bat ; The case of the missing meat eaters ; Irian Jaya's new tree kangaroo ; Men of the forest ; Frenchmen dreaming ; Sydney gone wrong? It's Werrong ; What is love? ; Australia : overpopulated or last frontier? ; A hostile land ; The day, the land, the people ; After the future : Australia's new extinction crisis -- On other people's words, 1999-2012. Wonders of a lost world ; Glow in the dark ; The mneme-ing of life ; Who came first? ; The lady or the tiger? ; Flaming creatures ; The heart of the country ; The priest and the hobbit ; When a scorpion meets a scorpion ; What is a tree? ; Getting to know them ; A heroine in defense of nature -- Climate, 2006-2007. Lies about power ; Australian of the year 2007 ; Saving water and energy ; Tropical forests ; A new adventure.

Selected poems

Introduction Editor's Note Exercises for Ear The Preface to the Reader Love, The Poem, The Sea & Other Pieces Examined by Me Chorale and Hymn (IV, V, & VI) Word on measure Blackstone Park An Ode for Garcia Lorca Invocation Complainte de l'oubli des morts For John Wieners 1/6/60 Three Dance Moods for Ear The Celibate No Saints in 3 Acts to strum ole Homer's lute For LeRoi Jones Roots -- For Tom Balas Altar Song after Waller, Herrick & Others One of Three Musicians After Catullus I Black Orpheus What Made Maud Hum "Gloucester" (Impressions for J. W. III) Advertisements of the Tribes Back 'o Town Blues Musique Ancien The Spring & Summer Annual (1968) brotherhood & all that bad air Afta a Bob Creeley Poem Dilemma II Brisk Walk to the Pavilion of Good Crops & Peace (Three Versions from the Chinese) "Trees all got up & deck'd out," "Trees horny w/leaves," On the Esplanade The Music Master Morphogenesis (being a conventionalization of "Morphemes" of Jack Spicer Cante Jondo for Soul Brother Jack Spicer, His Beloved California & Andalusia of Lorca VII "nigger youngblood" IX "get bombed, piss'd in" XII "she' only wanted to" XV "dirty niggers" XXIII "you know, honey, it's great" XXXIII "O FVRVM optime balneariorum" XXXV "Oh no, you have to keep" XXXVI "say God came back" LXI "this grisly ole lout" LXVI "The First Matter of the spiritual work" LXXXIII "LESBIA me praesente viro mala plurima dicit" Appendix: from Jonas's notebook

The Before Columbus Foundation fiction anthology : selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990

ocean of American literature / Chapters 7 and 8 from Fools crow / Excerpt from Not by the sword / North Albany : crucible for a childhood from O'Albany! / Saint Marie from Love Medicine / Lil' Yokohama from Yokohama, California / Swimming to the top of the rain from Homemade Love / Gravesend Bay from the Boys of Bensonhurst: Stories / I'll crack your head Kotsun from All I Asking for Is My Body / Chapter 14 from Lonely Crusade / Epithalamium from Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories / Mulberry's notebook from Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China / Excerpts from Ceremony / Chapters 1 and 2 from Praisesong for the Widow / Chaper 1 from !Click song / Immigration blues from Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories / Excerpt from Smiles on Washington Square (a love story of sorts) / only real day from the Chinaman Pacific & Frisco / Chapter 2 from 'Sippi / Chapter 3 from The Right thing to do / Recitatif / Chapter 5 from Travelling light / Chapters 1 and 2 from Mama / Excerpts from The House on Mango Street / Excerpts from Pet food and tropical Apparitions / Chapters 4, 5, and 6 from The Underground Woman / Excerpt from chapter 1, The book of Jamaica / Chapter 10 from Days Without Weather / Excerpt from The Ultraviolet Sky / Excerpt from chapter 1, The Salt Eaters / Excerpts from Griever : an American Monkey King in China

Sketchbook, 1946-1949

The Swiss list

1946 -- Zurich, Cafe de la Terrasse -- Marion and the Marionettes -- Cafe de la Terrasse -- Postscript to Marion (Marion and the Angel) -- Cafe de la Terrasse -- Basel, March -- Marion and the Ghost -- Munich, April -- Thou Shall Not Make unto Thee Any Graven Image -- Between Nuremberg and Wurzburg -- The Andorran Jew -- Frankfurt, May -- On Being a Writer -- Harlaching, May -- On Being a Writer -- Travelling, May -- Cafe de la Terrasse -- On Marion -- Postscript to My Journey -- On Marion (Marion at the Exhibition) -- After a Flight -- Politeness -- Cafe de la Terrasse -- On Theatre (The Frame) -- Cafe de la Terrasse -- On Theatre (The Forestage) -- In the Newspaper (About the Cashier) -- By the Lake -- Count Oderland (Seven Scenes) -- Genoa, October -- Portofino Mare, October -- Cafe Delfino -- At the Beach -- Reading (Unfinished Work) -- Portofino Monte -- Milan, October -- The Chinese Wall (Dress Rehearsal) -- Calendar Story -- Cafe Odeon -- Pfannenstiel -- A Draft Letter -- 1947 -- On Marionettes -- Davos -- Travelling -- To Maja -- Prague, March -- Prague -- Hradcany -- Prague -- Nuremberg, March -- Home -- Cafe de la Terrasse -- Pfannenstiel (Albin Zollinger) -- Marion and the Angel -- Letzigraben, August -- Portofino, September -- On Architecture -- Florence, October -- Travelling -- Siena, October -- Travelling -- Cafe Odeon (Nihilism) -- Letzigraben -- Travelling -- Zurich, 9 November -- On the Train -- Frankfurt, November -- On Being a Writer -- On the Train -- Berlin, November -- Letzigraben -- Postscript (The Russian Colonel and the German Woman) -- On Lyric Poetry -- Letzigraben -- Travelling -- 1948 -- Vienna, January -- Prague, January -- Reading (Carlo Levi) -- Cafe Odeon -- Burlesque -- Cafe Odeon -- Pfannenstiel -- Cafe Odeon -- Frankfurt, April -- On Theatre (The Theatrical) -- Berlin, April -- On Being a Writer -- Berlin, May -- Letzigraben -- Cafe Odeon -- Travelling -- Paris, July -- Autobiography -- Paris, July -- Letzigraben -- Brecht -- Prague, 23 August -- On Being a Writer -- Wroclaw, 24 August to 27 August -- Warsaw, 28 August to 3 September -- Letzigraben -- Postscript to My Journey -- Actors -- Frankfurt, November -- Arabesque -- Hamburg, November -- Letzigraben -- Cafe Odeon -- Letzigraben -- 1949 -- New Year's Day (Kindness) -- Zurich, 8 January (Premiere of When the War Was Over) -- Letzigraben (with Brecht) -- Reviews -- Basel, Carnival -- Stuttgart, 29 April -- Letzigraben -- Story -- Letzigraben -- Cafe Odeon -- Travelling -- The Harlequin: Outline for a Film -- Kampen (Sylt), July -- Reminiscence -- Westerland -- Kampen, August -- Hamburg, September -- Travelling -- Jealousy -- Cafe Odeon -- More on Jealousy -- Aries, October -- Sketch (Schinz) -- At the Office.

We are all so good at smiling

Narrator (interlude) -- The wilting: Call me magic : call me (Whimsy) -- Hospital : the whimsy girl: Outside my hospital window ; Car (silver) like a broadsword ; Shadow-wings ; Things I know about fae ; Morning (bathroom) ritual ; Mom & Dad visit ; Reasons it's easier for Mom & Dad ; Break-fast ; The fae (Faerry) ; Group therapy ; Group therapy : tell us a secret ; My answer : cemetery of leaves ; Everyone (in therapy) is silent after my soliloquy ; Last week in the hospital -- Whimsy comes home: Back home on Marsh Creek Lane ; My old notebook stuffed with fairy tales ; The (haunting) forest ; Outside my house on Marsh Creek Lane : October 28 ; Faerry (still annoying) : on Marsh Creek Lane ; What (I think) Faerry does next ; Marsh Creek Lane (home) -- Fairy tales : Faerry tales: What's wrong with a monster? : Whimsy's fairy tale essay/poem ; I like my poem ; Doorbell rings : Faerry on my stoop again ; Faerry reads my poem ; Faerry's fairy tale essay/poem ; Good night, Faerry ; Locket ; Dinnertime chat ; Sleep, nightmare, wake, repeat -- Stone Ridge High School: Morning (October 29) ; Morning (October 29) outside my house ; High school ; Before AP English class (teacher chat) ; Things I hear my classmates say ; Things I hear Valda (the bully) say ; Inferno by Dante ; (Faerry) in my AP English class ; Teacher questions for new kid? ; Questions on the reading? ; Circles of Hell ; Faerry gathers his things too -- Runaway: We walk ; Car ride ; We keep driving ; Home ; Cole is missing? -- The forest with the garden: tConsequences at dinner ; After 10 p.m. there is a knock ; Things I did not tell the officer ; October 30 ; October 30 (midday) ; October 30 (nighttime) ; October 31 ; Evening: October 31 (of my 18th year) -- What I remember: Haunting forest ; Finding Cole ; This is what I remember ; The candy house ; Inside the candy house ; The clearing -- Pinky promise: The edge ; In haunting forest again ; Whimsy in sorrow's garden ; The house sorrow built ; Meeting sorrow again ; The only way ; Abandon all hope : in the garden sorrow built ; Enter here ; Hope sinks. --

The tears: Baba Yaga's house: (My sorrow garden) ; (When it rains ice) ; (Sorrow & memories) ; (Grandma's twin house in the garden) ; (Meeting Baba Yaga) ; (Outside Baba Yaga's house) -- Escaping sorrow (again): (Back at the start) ; (I deserve the garden) ; (Hooting & breaking) ; (Through the fire again) ; (Faerry grabs my hand) -- Anansi the spider's den: (The webs of Anansi) ; (Anansi cried) ; (Faerry & I discuss) ; (The answer) -- Mama Wata: (Catching magic) ; (Walking memories) ; (Fae wings) ; (What I see) ; (Back on the yellow brick road) ; (Mama Wata & the ocean in a globe) ; (Under the water of words, I hear them [the bullies] say) ; (Whimsy the mermaid) -- Don't eat the apple: (Apples of the sky) ; (Bruises) ; (Riddle) ; (Names of giant apples) -- Adze & the blood moon: (Amorphophallus titanum : corpse flower) ; (Never trust a firefly) ; (Hospital room) ; Clinical (major) depression ; (Forgiveness) ; (Faerry's story) ; (Forgiveness again) -- Voicelessness & the siren Ursula: (We stay cocooned) ; (Ursula : voice-taker) ; (Thanatosis) ; (Panic attacks feel like...) -- The griot with stories: (A griot) ; (Story one : what the children saw) ; (Falling again) ; (Story two : what the parents saw) ; (Story three : what actually happened) ; (Whimsy & Faerry scream) -- Faerry (tale) & Whimsy (Cole): (Bigger than bravery) ; (Tale & Cole) ; (We've been watching you) ; (Truth). --

The rebirth: Fairy tales in the secret garden: (Candy house : final time) ; (Explosion) ; (Fairy tales celebrate in the garden sorrow built) ; (To home we go) -- Happy endings : Whimsy & Faerry: (Whimsy & Faerry) -- Narrator (interlude) -- Fairy tales in this story -- Whimsy & Faerry's playlist --