carrie mae weems has often confronted the uncomfortable truths of racism and race relations over the course of her nearly 40-year career. in The Shape of Things, she focuses her unflinching gaze at what she describes as the circus-like quality of contemporary american political life. for this new work, weems created a seven-part film projected onto a cyclorama―a panoramic-style cylindrical screen that dates to the 19th century―where she addresses the turmoil of current events in the United States and the “long march forward.”

drawing on news and tv footage from the civil rights era to today, elements of previous films such as the madding crowd (2017) and new film projects that bring us into our tumultuous present, the films in The Shape of Things combine documentary directness with poetic rhythm to create an enveloping experience.

carrie mae weems (born 1953) has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships, and is represented in public and private collections around the world, including the metropolitan museum of art, new york; the museum of fine arts, houston; and the museum of modern art and the museum of contemporary art, los angeles. weems lives in brooklyn and syracuse, new york.

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“it’s as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration.” —chicago tribune

pulitzer prize-winning poet mary oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.

throughout her celebrated career, mary oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by dwight garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.

carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, no voyage and other poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, felicity, published in 2015. this timeless volume, arranged by oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world.

the first cookbook and recipe book from snoop dogg, from crook to cook: platinum recipes from tha boss dogg's kitchen. you've seen Snoop Dogg work his culinary magic on VH1's emmy-nominated martha and snoop's potluck dinner party, and now tha dogg's up in your kitchen ... with his first cookbook.

recipe book that delivers 50 recipes straight from snoop's own collection: snoop's cookbook features OG soul food cookbook staples like baked mac & cheese, fried bologna sandwiches with chips, and shrimp po’ boys.

these recipes are snoop's personal hits, straight outta his kitchen and never before shared.

an exploration of the visual corollary to didion’s life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics―including artists from helen lundeberg to diane arbus, betye saar to maren hassinger, vija celmins and andy warhol.

arranged chronologically, the book highlights didion's fascination with the two coasts that made her. as a Westerner transplanted to new york, didion was able to look at her native land, its mores and fixed rules of behavior, with the loving and critical eyes of a daughter who got out and went back. and from her new york perch, didion was able to observe the political scene more closely, writing trenchant pieces about clinton, el salvador and most searingly the central park five.