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      Collected Earlier Poems

      Toby Olson

      Although Toby Olson has published many novels, he considers himself a poet who also writes fiction, and now, in his mid-eighties, he continues to write both. The work in this…

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      Collected Later Poems

      Toby Olson

      This volume collects all of Toby Olson's work since 1983, including the previously unpublished volume 'See / Saw'. From 1983-94 he mostly wrote fiction, but continued to write poetry throughout…

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      The Other Woman

      Toby Olson

      In 2014, Miriam Olson died at the age 80, and after nearly 50 years of marriage. She had suffered from Alzheimer’s for some years and Toby became her principal carer…

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      Death Sentences

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      Death Sentences is Toby Olson’s first major collection since Darklight (2007), and many of the poems are addressed to his wife, Miriam, who died in 2014. Many of the other…

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      Walking: A Love Story

      Toby Olson

      By turns romantic and disquieting, Toby Olson’s Walking weaves the real and the imagined into a chilling, occasionally hopeful tapestry. Set on an imaginary peninsula on the New England coast…

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      The Bitter Half

      Toby Olson

      Disrobes the reality of gender, performing a striptease of masks and prosthetic devices, the subtle articulations and miscues of desire. This work uncovers a topographical map of seductions, of stratified…

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      Unfinished Building

      Toby Olson

      Many of these powerfully pirouetting, lyrical narratives are long and lean and muscled with conundrums. Olson’s poetry becomes jazz as he performs myriad variations on a theme. – Booklist

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      Write Letter to Billy

      Toby Olson

      In this literary adventure tale, Bill teaches deep sea diving to his daughter and discovers deep secrets about his own past.

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      Utah

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      A reprinting of Olson’s important novel originally published by Simon and Shuster/Linden Press.

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      Darklight

      Toby Olson

      Written by the author of nine novels (among others The Life of Jesus , Seaview and Utah ) and over 20 collections of poetry (including We Are the Fire -…

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      Human Nature: Poems

      Toby Olson

      A collection of poems reflecting on friends and events and times gone by.

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      The Life of Jesus

      Toby Olson

      The Life of Jesus is neither a historical fiction nor a devout retelling of the mission and passion of Christ. Rather, it is an unabashed and intimately revealing autobiographical fiction…

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      We Are the Fire: Poetry

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      The poems in Toby Olson's We Are the Fire, a selection made by the poet himself of his later work, stand as better than half of what he wishes to…

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      We Are the Fire: Poetry

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      Seaview

      Toby Olson

      The action of Toby Olson’s PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel Seaview sweeps eastward, following three men and two women across a wasted American continent to an apocalyptic confrontation on Cape Cod. Melinda…

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      Journeys on a Dime: Selected Stories

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      The first selection of the short stories of Toby Olson, noted contemporary novelist and poet - with an introduction by Ian Brinton.

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      Education as Civic Engagement: Toward a More Democratic Society

      Olson, K Toby R L,Worsham

      A collection of the finest works of scholarship examining education - mostly higher education - as civic engagement published over the last decade in JAC, an award-winning journal of rhetoric…

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      Education as Civic Engagement: Toward a More Democratic Society

      Olson, K Toby R L,Worsham

      A collection of the finest works of scholarship examining education - mostly higher education - as civic engagement published over the last decade in JAC, an award-winning journal of rhetoric…

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