Bøger af Robin Becker

Ein Episoden-Roman, der die Abgründe, Ängste und Hoffnungen von sieben mehr oder weniger unglücklichen Freigeistern lebendig macht wie einen schlafwandlerischen Traum. Sie alle eint der Wunsch nach einem sinnvollen und erfüllten Leben sowie die Bereitschaft, alles dafür zu opfern, was ihnen vermeintlich lieb und teuer ist. Ein Lesetrip zwischen Berlin, Auroville (autonome Stadt in Südindien), Namibia, Istanbul, La Gomera und Sardinien!

"A witty and unexpected take on the zombie genre; I had a great time."--Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novelsSubtitled "A Zombie Memoir," Brains looks at America's favorite walking-dead flesh-eaters from an audaciously original and deliciously gruesome new perspective. Debut author Robin Becker blazes new ground with this story of former college professor-cum-sentient zombie Jack Barnes, who recounts the tale of the resistance he organized in the wake of the recent zombie apocalypse. World War Z; Shaun of the Dead; Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies... Becker tops them all with Brains--a witty, tasty treat for anyone who every spent a midnight glued to a classic George A. Romero zombie epic!

'All-American Girl is a lively mix of poems that reflect Robin Becker's sexual and social identity in startling and often magically apt metaphors. The Philadelphia of her girlhood, her ancestral links to the shtetls of Eastern Europe, the mesas of New Mexico, her loved landscape, Italy... meet and meld in surprising, satisfying juxtapositions. This is Robing Becker's best work to date.' As said by Maxine Kumin.

Love and friendship empower in wry narratives, though time "mows" down our days, though we may never escape "original cruelties." Tragedies permeating our enmeshed, global identities haunt the book: the massacre of gay youth in Orlando;

The poems in Tiger Heron examine intimate lesbian friendships over a lifespan, while also reaching into core human experiences, such as the deaths of parents. Becker similarly explores relationships between humans and other creatures. Her villanelles and other shaped stanzas showcase contemporary formalism.

Since its inception in 1967, the ""Pitt Poetry Series"" has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary poets including Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Bob Hicok, and, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser. This work is a collection of the best work from this series.

Robin Becker explores the conditions under which we experience and resist pleasure: in beauty salon, summer camp, beach, backyard or museum; New York, or New Mexico. These poems offer sharp pleasures as they argue, elegize, mourn, praise, and sing.

Becker investigates how marginalized individuals negotiate public and private spheres, while inventing sustainable communities. She also explores anti-Semitism, cross-dressing, and painter Rosa Bonheur's lifelong relationships with women.