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Catapult The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a
Book SynopsisNineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives—including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, and moreIn this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat. In the opening essay, National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet mourns the end of the Saguaro cacti in her Arizona backyard due to drought. Later, Omar El Akkad contemplates how the rise of temperatures in the Middle East is destroying his home and the wellspring of his art. Gabrielle Bellot reflects on how a bizarre lionfish invasion devastated the coral reef near her home in the Caribbean—a precursor to even stranger events to come. Traveling through Nebraska, Terese Svoboda witnesses cougars running across highways and showing up in kindergartens. As the stories unfold—from Antarctica to Australia, New Hampshire to New York—an intimate portrait of a climate-changed world emerges, captured by writers whose lives jostle against incongruous memories of familiar places that have been transformed in startling ways.
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Catapult Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
Book SynopsisFinalist for the Vermont Book AwardFinalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayA new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for CriticismStationed in the South Pacific during World War II, Seymour Orner wrote a letter every day to his wife, Lorraine. She seldom responded, leading him to plead in 1945, “Another day and still no word from you.” Seventy years later, Peter Orner writes in response to his grandfather’s plea: “Maybe we read because we seek that word from someone, from anyone.”From the acclaimed fiction writer about whom Dwight Garner of The New York Times wrote, “You know from the second you pick him up that he’s the real deal,” comes Still No Word from You, a unique chain of essays and intimate stories that meld the lived life and the reading life. For Orner, there is no separation. Covering such well-known writers as Lorraine Hansberry, Primo Levi, and Marilynne Robinson, as well as other greats like Maeve Brennan and James Alan McPherson, Orner’s highly personal take on literature alternates with his own true stories of loss and love, hope and despair. In his mother’s copy of A Coney Island of the Mind, he’s stopped short by a single word in the margin, “YES!”—which leads him to conjure his mother at twenty-three. He stops reading Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Beginning of Spring three quarters of the way through because he knows that finishing the novel will leave him bereft. Orner’s solution is to start again from the beginning to slow the inevitable heartache.Still No Word from You is a book for anyone for whom reading is as essential as breathing.
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Catapult Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & A
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Catapult Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin
Book SynopsisLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayA new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for CriticismStationed in the South Pacific during World War II, Seymour Orner wrote a letter every day to his wife, Lorraine. She seldom responded, leading him to plead in 1945, “Another day and still no word from you.” Seventy years later, Peter Orner writes in response to his grandfather’s plea: “Maybe we read because we seek that word from someone, from anyone.”From the acclaimed fiction writer about whom Dwight Garner of The New York Times wrote, “You know from the second you pick him up that he’s the real deal,” comes Still No Word from You, a unique chain of essays and intimate stories that meld the lived life and the reading life. For Orner, there is no separation. Covering such well-known writers as Lorraine Hansberry, Primo Levi, and Marilynne Robinson, as well as other greats like Maeve Brennan and James Alan McPherson, Orner’s highly personal take on literature alternates with his own true stories of loss and love, hope and despair. In his mother’s copy of A Coney Island of the Mind, he’s stopped short by a single word in the margin, “YES!”—which leads him to conjure his mother at twenty-three. He stops reading Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Beginning of Spring three quarters of the way through because he knows that finishing the novel will leave him bereft. Orner’s solution is to start again from the beginning to slow the inevitable heartache.Still No Word from You is a book for anyone for whom reading is as essential as breathing.
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Astra Publishing House Pleasure of Thinking: Essays
Book SynopsisA yet-untranslated essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s. Wang Xiaobo’s Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and abroad, Xiaobo examines modern life with the levity missing from so much of today’s politico-cultural discourse. In “The Maverick Pig,” he considers the existential differences between humans and livestock. In “Tales From Abroad: Food,” he recounts the culture shock of discovering American diets while studying at Carnegie Mellon. Several pieces focus on literature, with notable essays devoted to Italo Calvino, Bertrand Russell, and Ernest Hemingway, whom Xiaobo admired greatly. Others are more personal in nature, ranging from a meditation on getting mugged, to the consideration of the question: why do I write? Controversial, hilarious, and inimitable, Pleasure of Thinking is a delightful celebration of Wang Xiaobo’s unique critical perspective.Trade Review A Rest of World Book From Around the Globe To Read in 2023"Wang Xiaobo is a truly unique writer, and there are very few writers like him . . . perhaps only a select few are capable of expressing their life experiences, imagination, and sexuality in relation to a vast and omnipresent political environment as Wang Xiaobo did."—Ai Weiwei"Consistently insightful and often charming . . . A wide-ranging, humorous, often sharp collection." —Kirkus Reviews
£20.80
Little Brown and Company Happy-Go-Lucky
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Little Brown and Company Me Talk Pretty One Day
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£26.25
The New York Review of Books, Inc Gaslight: Lantern Slides from the Nineteenth
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Surviving: Stories, Essays, Interviews
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Suppose a Sentence
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Written on Water
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Affinities: On Art and Fascination
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The New York Review of Books, Inc A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays
Book SynopsisA compelling celebration of the power of the essay, this collection of 47 writings offers a glimpse into the mind of a modern-day Montaigne as he reflects on the miscellany of daily life—movies and art, friends and family—over the course of a single year.The essay is the most pluckily pedestrian and blithely transgressive of literary genres, the one that is most at large and in need, picking through the accumulated disjecta of daily life and personal and social history to take what it needs and remake it as it sees fit. It is, at its lively best, quite indifferent to the claims of style, fashion, theory, and respectability, provoking and inspiring through the pleasure of surprise. In 2016, Philip Lopate, who has been writing essays and thinking about the essay for decades now, turned his attention to one of the essay''s offshoots, the blog, a form by that time already thick, as he knew, with virtual dust. Lopate committed to writing a weekly blog about, really, whatever over the course of a year, a quicker pace of delivery than he''d ever undertaken and one that carried the risk of all too regularly falling short. What emerged was A Year and a Day, a collection of forty-seven essays best characterized as a single essay a year in the making, a virtuosic (if never showy) demonstration of the essay''s range and reach, meandering, looping back, pressing reset, forging on. Lopate''s topics along the way include family, James Baldwin, a trip to China, Agnes Martin, Abbas Kiarostami, the resistible rise of Donald Trump, death, desire, and the tribulations, small and large, of daily life. What results is at once a self-portrait, a picture of the times, and a splendid new elaboration of what the essay can be.
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University of Arkansas Press The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington
Book SynopsisDonald Harington, best known for his fifteen novels, was also a prolific writer of essays, articles, and book reviews.The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany gathers a career-spanning and eclectic selection of nonfiction by the Arkansawyer novelist Donald Harington that reveals how a life of devastating losses and disappointments inspired what the Boston Globe called the “quirkiest, most original body of work in contemporary US letters.”This extensive collection of interviews and other works of prose—many of which are previously unpublished—offers glimpses into Harington’s life, loves, and favorite obsessions, replays his minor (and not so minor) dramas with literary critics, and reveals the complicated and sometimes contentious relationship between his work of the writers he most admired. The Guestroom Novelist, which takes its title from an essay that serves as a love letter to his fellow underappreciated writers, paints a rich portrait of the artist as a young, middle-aged, and fiercely funny old man, as well as comic, sentimentalist, philosopher, and critic, paying testimony to the writer’s magnificent ability to transform the seemingly crude stuff of our material existence into enduring art.Trade ReviewThe Guestroom Novelist is a treasure chest for anyone who, like me, considers Donald Harington one of the finest writers of our day, and his Stay More one of literature’s most vibrantly inhabited (and in-habited) creations. Over the past ten years, I had become resigned to the idea that I would never see a single new page of his work, but here, between these covers, you’ll find hundreds of such pages, full of his insights, judgments, complaints, and celebrations—and, most valuably of all, his extensive commentary, in a series of long interviews, about each and every one of his novels." —Kevin Brockmeier, author of A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade"One of our country’s greatest writers of fiction, Donald Harington’s work was lyrical, deeply felt, playful, bawdy and sensual, and in a hidden-in-plain-view manner experimental. In The Guestroom Novelist, editor Brian Walter, a Harington scholar as well as longtime friend, has assembled a lively, clever, impassioned collection of essays, reviews and interviews in which Donald Harrington’s vivid intelligence and sense of fun (also, at times, his grievances at the publishing industry that could treat him harshly) are given their head as he discusses writers he admires and examines his own long, ever-evolving career. This book is a deep pool of wonders and treats." — Peter Straub, author of A Dark Matter, Koko, and Interior Darkness
£999.99
University of Arkansas Press Beyond Memory: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab
Book SynopsisThis anthology brings together the voices of both new and established Arab American writers in a compilation of creative nonfiction that reveals the stories of the Arab diaspora in styles that range from the traditional to the experimental. Writers from Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, and Syria explore issues related to politics, family, culture, and racism. Coming from different belief systems and cultures and including first- and second-generation immigrants as well as those whose identities encompass more than a single culture, these writers tell stories that speak to the complexity of the Arab American experience.Trade ReviewPauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa collaborate again to put together a wonderful anthology of creative nonfiction by Arab American authors. The depth and breadth of this anthology speak for the multiple facets of the Arab diaspora in the US, reflecting on the challenges of occupying multiple political and cultural landscapes and reconnecting the disconnection between US hegemonic policies in the Middle East and domestic US racial politics. The authors in this anthology, such as Rabih Alameddine, Iman Mersal, Elmaz Abinader, Matthew Shenoda, Mohja Kahf, and Joe Kadi, to name only a few, offer a thick description for the most intricate and intimate moments in their lives as children and as adults growing up in different countries, feeling estranged in both home country and host country." - Dalia GomaaTable of Contents Elmaz Abinader | Pain Management George Abraham | in which you do not ask the state of israel to commit suicide Nabeel Abraham | On the Road with Bob: Peddling in the Early Sixties Rabih Alameddine | Comforting Myths: Notes from a Purveyor Hayan Charara | Going Places Safia Elhillo | at the intersection Joseph Geha | Where I’m From—Originally Hadil Ghoneim | Baba and the Pontiac Layla Azmi Goushey | Profile of a Citizen: Generations Then and Now Tariq Al Haydar | Machine Language Randa Jarrar | Biblioclast Fady Joudah | Your Name Is on the List and Other Vignettes Joe Kadi | The Saving Grace of a Favorite Cousin Mohja Kahf | I Cannot Go to Syria Pauline Kaldas | From Looking Both Ways: Walking Home, To Walk Cautiously in the World, A Sense of Direction Laila Lalami | So to Speak Lisa Suhair Majaj | Journeys to Jerusalem Khaled Mattawa | Repatriation: A Libya Memoir Iman Mersal | The Displaced Voice Philip Metres | The Paperless “Palestinian” and the Russian P’liceman Susan Muaddi Darraj | Bint Al-Halal: Mosaic of an Arab American Girlhood Naomi Shihab Nye | One Village Steven Salaita | Why I Was Fired Mathew Shenoda | Christopher Columbus Was A Damn Blasted Liar: On the Narrative of Discovery in Global Literature Kamelya Omayma Youssef | Frayed Towel Made Holy: Prayer [Rug] for This Nonbeliever
£999.99
Texas Tech Press,U.S. If I Was a Highway
Book SynopsisMichael Ventura's owned only one car his entire life: a green '69 Chevy Malibu. Its wheels have crisscrossed the American landscape over more miles than a round trip to the moon. From Times Square to Terlingua, from Maine to Los Angeles, from Austin to Deadwood, Ventura has chronicled the continent in "a kind of switchback journey in image and thought." His essays convey a tactile and intimate relationship with land and people—and of course the car. Ventura's distinctive voice and vision are familiar to readers of the Austin Chronicle (where many of these pieces first appeared), as well the Austin Sun, Psychotherapy Networker, and LA Weekly. In this collection, its title borrowed from a Butch Hancock song, the essays switch lanes with Hancock's evocative black-and-white photographs. Slowing down to take notice of a makeshift shrine in the Texas Panhandle or zipping along the New York Thruway before dawn, Ventura captures the details that make us think profoundly about work, music, poverty, beauty, our home on the planet and in the universe. About volcanoes and the Very Large Array. About friends and companions. About gods and goddesses and God. With Lubbock, Texas, and the Southwest as the book's home base, If I Was a Highway roams widely and freely as Ventura takes readers on an unforgettable journey not only into the country but into the soul.
£26.96
Bucknell University Press,U.S. Serious Reflections During the Life and
Book SynopsisSerious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any student of the period. Trade Review"Robinson Crusoe takes credit in the Preface for the authorship of this third part of the trilogy of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, but this book is markedly different from the first two volumes. Crusoe rambles through a dozen large questions of social and religious morality which he contends are allegorized in his life. Even the best readers of Defoe can benefit from having a guide through this philosophical labyrinth. Fortunately, the introduction and notes to this superbly edited volume provide the necessary guidance and insight to make the Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe accessible, perhaps for the first time." -- Geoffrey Sill * editor of The Works of Daniel Defoe: Satire, Fantasy, and Supernatural Writings *"The editors of Serious Reflections provide useful, contextual, and reasonably tempered reflections of their own on the abundant run of Defoe’s material. Serious Reflections is a kind of topographical survey of the early eighteenth-century mind and this definitive edition charts that survey with a wonderful scholarly and critical agility throughout." -- Michael Seidel * author of Exile and the Narrative Imagination *Table of ContentsContributorsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSerious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick WorldRobinson Crusoe’s PrefacePublisher’s Introduction1 Of SOLITUDE2 An Essay upon HONESTY3 of the Immorality of Conversation, and The Vulgar Errors of Behaviour4 An Essay on the present State of Religion in the World5 Of listning to the Voice of Providence6 Of the Proportion between the Christian and Pagan WorldA Vision of the Angelick WorldBibliographic DescriptionsList of Editorial EmendationsSelected BibliographyAbout the EditorsIndex
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. A Clubbable Man: Essays on Eighteenth-Century
Book SynopsisSamuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines the “mirrored minds” of Johnson and Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersections of the general and particular in three key eighteenth-century figures. Aaron Hanlon draws parallels between instances of physical rambling and rhetorical strategies in Johnson’s Rambler, while Cedric D. Reverand dissects the intertextual strands uniting Dryden and Pope. Contributors take up other topics significant to the field, including post-feminism, travel, and seismology. Whether discussing cultural exchange or textual reciprocities, each piece extends the theme, building on the trope of relationship to organize and express its findings. Rounding out this collection are tributes from Clingham’s former students and colleagues, including original poetry. Trade Review"Editor, author, de facto publisher, and dedicated teacher, Greg Clingham is remarkable among eighteenth-century scholars for his versatility and productivity. A Clubbable Man brings together a star-studded cast of Clingham's colleagues, students, and friends to celebrate a career of consequence in a suitably diverse, elegantly written, and original collection of essays." -- Robert DeMaria * editor of The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson *"This rich collection of work by leading scholars of Samuel Johnson and adjacent eighteenth-century conversations broadens and deepens our own conversations significantly. The vital interplay of social communication and individual achievement emerges clearly throughout this well-conceived, capacious, and handsome volume." -- John Sitter * author of The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry *"Editor, author, de facto publisher, and dedicated teacher, Greg Clingham is remarkable among eighteenth-century scholars for his versatility and productivity. A Clubbable Man brings together a star-studded cast of Clingham's colleagues, students, and friends to celebrate a career of consequence in a suitably diverse, elegantly written, and original collection of essays." -- Robert DeMaria * editor of The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson *"This rich collection of work by leading scholars of Samuel Johnson and adjacent eighteenth-century conversations broadens and deepens our own conversations significantly. The vital interplay of social communication and individual achievement emerges clearly throughout this well-conceived, capacious, and handsome volume." -- John Sitter * author of The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry *Table of ContentsIntroductionAnthony W. LeeI. Essays on Samuel Johnson and Boswell1. Mirrored Minds—Johnson and ShakespearePhilip Smallwood2. The General and the Particular: Pope, Johnson, and ReynoldsDavid Hopkins3. “The Caliban of Literature”: Spenser, Shakespeare, and Johnson’s Intertextual ScholarshipAnthony W. Lee4. In Silence and Darkness: Johnson’s Verdicts on Artistic FailureAdam Rounce5. Smollett’s Ramblers and the Law of the LandAaron Hanlon6. The Social Life of Thomas Cumming, or “Clubbing” with Johnson’s friend, the Fighting QuakerRobert G. Walker7. Not "Just a Macheath": Young Boswell and Old Cibber in Boswell’s London Journal 1762–1763Gordon TurnbullII. Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture8. English Historiography and the Development of Secular Autobiography: The MemoirMartine Brownley9. What Else Did Pope Borrow from Dryden?Cedric D. Reverand10. Poetic Performances: Pope’s “An Essay on Man” and “Swift’s Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift”John Richetti11. Swift Shrinks the Duke of Marlborough: Public Delegitimization Though ScaleClement Hawes12. Trans-Plant Perspectives: Western Gardens, Eastern ViewsBärbel Czennia13. Publishers Can Cause Earthquakes: The Seismic English Enlightenment and Enigmatic ExplanationsKevin L. CopeIII. Personal Reminiscences1. Greg Clingham as Teacher and MentorDominic JermeyElaine WoodCaroline FassettJoseph McNicholasMargaret WilliamsErin LabbiePatrick HenryAdam WalkerKang Tchou2. Greg Clingham and Bucknell University PressGary SojkaNina ForsbergDaniel LittleJames RiceJohn Rickard3. Commemoratory Poems“It is rowing without a port.”Notes by Lady Anne Barnard while in South AfricaAntjie KrogFrances TowneKieron WinnAn Ode: Alexander Pope Reciprocally Writes an Encomium for Samuel Johnson, Aided by Greg ClinghamEmily GrosholzMother JohnsonHarry ThomasCodaKate ParkerGreg Clingham’s PublicationsAcknowledgmentsBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex
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Melville House The Future of Songwriting
Book SynopsisAn endlessly inventive mind and generosity of spirit that alone should give us hope. - The WireThrowing Muses frontwoman and critically acclaimed solo artist Kristin Hersh meditates on the future of her craft in this wry, existential and passionate addition to Melville House’s new series, FUTURES.Over a long, hot Christmas in Australia, Throwing Muses frontwoman and critically acclaimed solo artist Kristin Hersh considers her future as a songwriter. Is it possible to create music and not show off about it? How can artists establish and refine a following without becoming part of the commercial problem? And just how many times is it healthy to watch It's A Wonderful Life in 3 weeks? In The Future of Songwriting, Hersh chooses to interrogate these questions through philosophical dialogue. From in-depth conversations with a comedian friend about the similarities between songs and jokes, via a fruitful visit to Sydney's 'bone museums', to a revelation from an acupuncturist in New Orleans, she delivers a fierce, funny and existential meditation on the art of the song – and its future.
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Overcup Press Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a Life
Book SynopsisFINALIST for the 2021 Oregon Book Award. Rooted in the Pacific Northwest, the essays in Ruby McConnell’s Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a Life cover the vast terrain of this region – from volcanoes to city parks, the eroding shorelines along the Oregon coast, badlands, lush forests, and city parks. Combining her background as a registered geologist, McConnell’s essays also weave in personal landscapes composed of grief, loss, and optimism for the future of our environment. "The Pacific Northwest that you see today is the result of forty years of radical changes in the culture and economics of what was once a resource-extraction and agriculture-driven region. They are changes so fundamental in nature and scope...that, for those of us from this place, will always be marked by the cataclysmic eruptions of Mt. St. Helens on May 18, 1980." --Ruby McConnell In this collection of 17 essays, geologist Ruby McConnell opens her part natural history, part memoir-in-essays about the Pacific Northwest with the cataclysmic eruption of Mt. St. Helens in May of 1980. She was two years old. "Everything that I have stood direct witness to since, everything I know about this place, happened after we watched the mountain crumble... I was born to a region digging out." In poignant and wide-ranging essays that include the wondrous annual return of salmon, "the lifeblood of the Pacific Northwest people," to working at an elementary school evaluating soil and wondering how many kids have cancer, Ground Truth is an extended eulogy to a rapidly changing land, population and society awakening to the realities of logging, climate change, land-use and pollution. The book illuminates the central role of landscapes in our ideas of home and self despite the growing disconnect between modern lifestyle and the environment. McConnell's timely and significant work reveals how the landscapes we inhabit can also help us better understand ourselves.
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Book*hug Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through
Book SynopsisIn this collection of deeply personal essays, twenty-six writers explore their connection with language, accents, and vocabularies, and contend with the ways these can be used as both bridge and weapon. Some explore the way power and privilege affect language learning, especially the shame and exclusion often felt by non-native English speakers in a white, settler, colonial nation. Some confront the pain of losing a mother tongue or an ancestral language along with the loss of community and highlight the empowerment that comes with reclamation. Others celebrate the joys of learning a new language and the power of connection. All underscore how language can offer both transformation and collective healing.Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language is a vital anthology that opens a compelling dialogue about language diversity and probes the importance of language in our identity and the ways in which it shapes us.With contributions by: Kamal Al-Solaylee, Jenny Heijun Wills, Karen McBride, Melissa Bull, Leonarda Carranza, Adam Pottle, Kai Cheng Thom, Sigal Samuel, Rebecca Fisseha, Hege Anita Jakobsen Lepri, Logan Broeckaert, Taslim Jaffer, Ashley Hynd, Jagtar Kaur Atwal, Téa Mutonji, Rowan McCandless, Sahar Golshan, Camila Justino, Amanda Leduc, Ayelet Tsabari, Carrianne Leung, Janet Hong, Danny Ramadan, Sadiqa de Meijer, Jónína Kirton, and Eufemia Fantetti.Trade Review"Astonishingly consistent in calibre, Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language is one of the finest anthologies published in recent years and should be required reading on syllabuses across the country." - Quill & QuireTable of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction/Forward. 3 Tongue-tied by Kamal Al-Solaylee. 4 A Bird in My Hands by Jenny Heijun Wills. 16 Pimashkogosi: Catching Language by Karen McBride. 27 English Baby by Melissa Bull34 Mother Tongue by Leonarda Carranza. 47 Newborn by Adam Pottle. 48 Language is the Fluid of Our Collective Bodies by Kai Cheng Thom.. 57 Love and Other Irregular Verbs by Sigal Samuel70 Say Something in Your Language by Rebecca Fisseha. 80 Gender Fluent by Logan Broeckaert88 How to say Banana in Kiswahili By Taslim Jaffer. 95 The Seven Grandfathers and Translations by Ashley Hynd. 102 Finding My Voice by Jagtar Kaur Atwal109 Comfort Language by Téa Mutonji117 What Are You? A Field Study by Rowan McCandless. 126 Ye Kamby Sahar Golshan. 136 Dear English Language by Camila Justino. 145 It’s Just a Figure of Speech by Amanda Leduc. 150 Disappearance/Muteness by Ayelet Tsabari162 The Reach by Carrianne Leung. 163 Release My Tongue by Janet Hong. 168 Speak My Tongue by Danny Ramadan. 179 Moedertaal by Sadiqa de Meijer. 184 Standing in the Doorway by Jónína Kirton. 192 Five Stages of Language Loss by Eufemia Fantetti202 Holding My Tongue by Hege Anita Jakobsen Lepri203 Acknowledgments. 214 Biographies. 215
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Guernica Editions,Canada Mini Musings: Miniature Thoughts on Theatre and
Book SynopsisInspired by American playwright Sarah Ruhl's 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, this collection is a series of miniature reflections, meditations, and ruminations on subjects encompassing matters of theatre and poetry, two subjects very close to Garebian's heart. Perceptive, witty, and intimate, the mini musings bubble with a sense of wonder, excitement, and intimacy. A vibrant, provocative series of mini musings that also affords insight into a particular artistic sensibility as several pieces are really slices of memoir and autobiography.Trade ReviewMany of these themes would be welcome as longer instructional pieces, as the logic and art of what he has to tell us flow together in a plea for the right of actors, playwrights and poets to lift us out of the gutters to touch the stars. Although Garebian may be too humble to say, this is his Contre Saint-Beuve: his praise of all that is great in theatre and poetry, and his excoriation of all that is false. His love for the two has never been more apparent. -- Jeffrey Round, Lambda Award-winning author of the Dan Sharp mystery series
£14.36
Guernica Editions,Canada Shifting Paradigms: Essays on Art and Culture
Book SynopsisContinuing from Desire Lines, Shifting Paradigms is a collection of essays on art, poetry and culture--both high and low--gathered from the astute critical work of Toronto writer Ewan Whyte. Included: essays on Yayoi Kusama, Anish Kapoor, Janet Cardiff, Damien Hirst, Viktor Mitic, Anne Carson and a number of other Canadian artists and poets.Trade ReviewHere cultural critic and essayist Ewan Whyte uses his uncanny and rare capacity to slip inside works of art and figure out what make them tick. In Desire Lines: Essays on Art, Poetry and Culture, a sweeping variety of essays on imagery, language and creativity, Whyte offers up maximum insight with a minimum of attitude. Both a poet and translator, Whyte is a relaxed, lucid, knowledgeable critic of poetry as well as visual art. Desire Lines culminates with his personal essay about childhood in a religious cult. His sympathy for those trapped within bizarre, sometimes sadistic demands (and for art made under severe cultural restrictions) underpins his generous critical views. Whyte triumphed by embracing the imagination and this splendid collection is a triumph for the arts as a humane and gifted writer understands them. -- Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden and The Analyst
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Baraka Books Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico
Book SynopsisIshmael Reed has devoted his life to uncovering the neglected cultural and historical record of the United States, no matter how ugly it might be. He uses a full-court press: fiction, poetry, plays, songs, films, interviews, essays, and more. With Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico, Reed is at his best: insightful, hard-hitting, eclectic, refreshing, caustic, entertaining, informative, and, yes, funny. The War of Rebellion still divides the United States. President Trump, and millions of southerners wish to maintain monuments to generals like Robert E. Lee. Yet those who actually fought under them ran away by the thousands. Some rebel generals, whom the famous pro-confederate propaganda film “Gone With The Wind” referred to as “Knights,” earned their massacre bona fides by murdering thousands of blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans, who were often unarmed. The “Knight” Robert E. Lee fought children during the Battle of Buena Vista in 1847. The children, Los niños heroes (pictured on the cover), refused to surrender and were slaughtered. The subjects addressed in this book of essays are vast. They include white nationalism, Donald Trump, Quentin Tarantino and Django, the musical Hamilton, Ferguson, Missouri, Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones, a different take on #metoo, the one-at-a-time tokenism of an elite, who chooses winners and losers among minority artists, the Alt-Right, the use of immigrants to shame black America, and much more. After The Complete Muhammad Ali, recognized by many as the “truly definitive book” on the champion, Ishmael Reed is back with another exciting book of essays that will stir up debate in the United States and abroad.Trade ReviewIshmael Reed is the purest literary troublemaker we currently have... a book that is arresting... always-bracing and readable." —Jeff Simon, Buffalo News"One of 12 top books of 2019: Ishmael Reed builds on the theme of resisting white supremacy through the power of multi-racial coalitions with pugilistic essays that pull no punches.... His essay "White Nationalism's Last Stand" is so hopeful that it's worth the price of the ticket alone." —Michael Berry and D. Scot Miller, East Bay Express"Since the mid-twentieth century, Ishmael Reed has been deep, abrasive, and didactic, an iconoclastic champion of what is "good" and a formidable critic of what is "bad" in domestic and transnational affairs. Reed is a fighter, a battered but undefeated fighter. Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico is a compelling record of his place in literary histories and moral struggles. It is a feast one consumes with grains of pepper and salt." —Jerry W Ward, Jr, New World Review
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MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc. Book of Donair: Everything You Wanted to Know
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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review: No. 228
Book SynopsisLaunched as Poetry Nation, a twice-yearly hardback, in 1973, PN Review in A4 paperback format began quarterly publication in 1976 and has appeared six times a year since PN Review 21 in 1981.Each issue includes an editorial, letters, news and notes, articles, interviews, features, poems, translations, and a substantial book review section. Poetry Nation was founded by Michael Schmidt and Professor Brian Cox at the Victoria University of Manchester. Cox and Schmidt were joined on the editorial board by Professor Donald Davie and C.H. Sisson. The magazine has been under the General Editorship of Michael Schmidt since his colleagues retired some decades ago.Through all its twists and turns, responding to social, technological and cultural change, PN Review has stayed the course. While writers of moment, poets and critics, essayists and memoirists, and of course readers, keep finding their way to the glass house, and people keep throwing stones, it will have a place.Table of ContentsChristopher Middleton (1926 - 2015): A CelebrationGraham Pechey's The-ology: The definitive article in English verse Simon Armitage's Pearl: from a new translation with poetry from Caoilinn Hughes, David Wheatley, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Judith Willson, R.F. Langley, Vahni Capildeo, Eleanor Hooker, Eric Langley, Siriol Troup, Eva Grubin & others
£11.09
Irish Academic Press Ltd The Wrong Country: Essays on Modern Irish Writing
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Verso Books Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture,
Book SynopsisFor nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing writing from the course of her career, All That is Given illuminates one of the driving themes behind Gornick's work: that the painful process of understanding one's self is what binds us to the larger world.In these essays, Gornick explores the lives and literature of Alfred Kazin, Mary McCarthy, Diana Trilling, Philip Roth, Joan Didion, and Herman Melville; the cultural impact of Silent Spring and Uncle Tom's Cabin; and the characters you might only find in a New York barber shop or midtown bus terminal. Even more, All That Is Given brings back into print her incendiary essays, first published in the Village Voice, championing the emergence of the women's liberation movement of the 1970s. Alternately crackling with urgency or lucid with insight, the essays in All That Is Given demonstrate one of America's most beloved critics at her best.Trade Review"Gornick's language is so fresh and so blunt; it's a quintessentially American voice, and a beautiful one." -- Dwight Garner * The New York Times *She deserves as much credit as any writer alive for codifying the current form of the personal essay -- Nora Caplan-Bricker * The Cut, New York Magazine *She presents her interview subjects like characters in literature, as the protagonists of their own experience, and, for that reason, the book is not simply documentary but a work of literature, too, rich, moving, and contradictory. -- Alexandra Schwartz * The New Yorker *Her unrepentant belief in strong feeling as the heartbeat of any political approach to the world explains why, though many good histories of American communism have appeared since Romance, none have captured, elevated, and lit up the experience in quite the same way. -- Lana Dee Povitz * Los Angeles Review of Books *Written with her usual cogency, verve, and elegance -- George Scialabba * Boston Review *Vivian Gornick is more than a formidable intelligence, she's an entire sensibility. The essays collected here show how a mind shapes and becomes itself in engagement with the writers, thinkers, social facts and theories of her many days. The voice, at once her own and the expression of an entire culture-New York, working class, feminist, Jewish, both open-minded and skeptical-is a gift to be handed down from one generation to the next. You're holding that voice in your hands. -- Marco Roth, author of The ScientistsWe all talk the talk about public intellectuals nowadays. Vivian Gornick walks the walk. The essays in Taking a Long Look could not be more direct, more authoritative, more alive with the pleasures of discovery or alert to the ambiguities of argument. Whether writing literary or political criticism, memoir, or feminist polemic, her mastery is assured. -- George Scialabba, author of How to Be Depressed[Taking a Long Look] is illuminating and a welcome addition to the astute critic's oeuvre. * Publishers Weekly *Vivian Gornick is more than a formidable intelligence, she's an entire sensibility. The essays collected here show how a mind shapes and becomes itself in engagement with the writers, thinkers, social facts and theories of her many days. The voice, at once her own and the expression of an entire culture-New York, working class, feminist, Jewish, both open-minded and skeptical-is a gift to be handed down from one generation to the next. -- Marco Roth, author of The ScientistsThe lasting value of her work lies in her commitment to the question of what it means to feel "expressive": to experience the feeling that tells a person "not approximately, but precisely" who they are. -- Dayna Tortorici, The New York Review of BooksVivian Gornick is one of the most important essayists of all time. Whether writing on the self, feminism, isolation or politics, she is urgent, sharp-eyed and vital. A superb collection. -- Sinéad Gleeson, author of ConstellationsAn engaging collection of sharp, lively essays. * Kirkus Reviews *Taking A Long Look is a magisterial volume of essays which span fifty years of cultural and feminist interrogation. -- Lauren LeBlanc * Observer *An exhilarating trip. -- Elodie Rose Barnes * Lucy Writers *Gornick's work is frequently an examination of the seams of history and her unflinching focus shows how things might have been shaped, and perhaps still could be. * Morning Star *Incisive * New York Times *Magisterial -- Lauren LeBlanc * Observer *To read Gornick is to firstly fall in love with the act of reading ... The closeness of her reading resembles an archivist collecting items to store, cataloguing little details invisible to others ... In Gornick's hands, everything has a story to tell. -- Barathi Nakkeeran * Chicago Review of Books *In having another occasion to consider Gornick, there are more opportunities to celebrate what makes her writing so distinctly her own-she is the rare writer who always wants to find, in a chorus, a voice. -- Haley Mlotek * Hazlitt *Vivian Gornick's brilliant half-century writing career can't be captured in a single essay or volume. To engage with her writing is to be left wanting more of her writing. -- Liza Featherstone * Jacobin *Reading Vivian Gornick often feels like watching someone paint: you're not sure, at first, what it's going to be, but you're happy to follow her brushstrokes as the picture emerges ... Gornick repeatedly goes further, looks longer, risks more. -- Claire Lowdon * Times Literary Supplement *Taking a Long Look [shows] Vivian Gornick's consistency as a searing writer and canny thinker. -- Nell Beram * Shelf Awareness *Captivating. Through Gornick, we observe and understand the undertow of politics in an individual's everyday life; we glimpse pain, loneliness and hopefulness. -- Lynn Enright * Irish Times *Gornick is well regarded as a stylist, and her sentences, elegant and precise, are sometimes complex but never unnecessarily ornate ... [Her essays] are lively, well observed, and particularly recommended to students of 20th-century intellectual history. -- J. Oliver Conroy * The Washington Examiner *Gornick has a sharp, authoritative mind and doesn't mince words. -- Michael Quinn * Red Hook Star-Revue *Gornick never deals the simplistic, polemical blow; instead, she mines her own hard-won experience and profound and honest ambivalence about great writers (with great flaws) to illuminate their significance as well as our collective life and times. -- Melissa Benn * Books of the Year 2021, New Statesman *This compulsive collection functions as a primer to a mind whose vitality is hard to match ... [Gornick's] insights have lost none of their brilliance. -- Hephzibah Anderson * The Observer *
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Chronicle Books Bibliophile: Diverse Spines
Book SynopsisIt's time to diversify your reading list. This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. Using their keen knowledge and deep love for all things literary, coauthors Jamise Harper (founder of the Diverse Spines book community) and Jane Mount (author of Bibliophile) collaborated to create an essential volume filled with treasures for every reader: • Dozens of themed illustrated book stacks—like Classics, Contemporary Fiction, Mysteries, Cookbooks, and more—all with an emphasis on authors of color and authors from diverse cultural backgrounds • A look inside beloved bookstores owned by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color • Reading recommendations from leading BIPOC literary influencers Diversify your reading list to expand your world and shift your perspective. Kickstart your next literary adventure now! EASY TO GIFT: This portable guide is packed with more than 150 colorful illustrations is a perfect gift for any booklover. The textured paper cover, gold foil, and ribbon marker make this book a special gift or self-purchase. DISCOVER UNSUNG LITERARY HEROES: The authors dive deep into a wide variety of genres, such as Contemporary Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Sci-Fi, and more to bring the works of authors of color to the fore. ENDLESS READING INSPIRATION: Themed book stacks and reading suggestions from luminaries of the literary world provide curated book recommendations. Your to-read list will thank you. Perfect for: bookish people; literary lovers; book club members; Mother's Day shoppers; stocking stuffers; followers of #DiverseSpines; Jane Mount and Ideal Bookshelf fans; Reese's Book Club and Oprah's Book Club followers; people who use Goodreads.com; readers wanting to expand/decolonize their book collections; people interested in uplifting BIPOC voices; antiracist activists and educators; grads and students; librarians and library patrons wanting to expand/decolonize their book collections; people interested in uplifting BIPOC voices; antiracist activists and educators; grads and students; librarians and library patrons
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Chronicle Books Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All
Book SynopsisIn this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, Zimmerman delicately walks the fine line between tear-jerking and knee-slapping, and does so with aplomb. Through this memoir-esque exploration of selfhood, Zach unveils the pros and cons of retiring his Bible-Belt-dwelling, meat-eating, God-fearing identity in exchange for a new, metropolitan lease on life—one of vegetarianism, atheism, queerness, and humor, in which he finally finds his truest self. Whether learning to absolve instilled religious guilt or reminiscing over Tinder dates gone horribly wrong, this book is a candid and hysterical snippet of one man’s journey toward making peace with the past and seeking hope in the future, perfect for the bookworm and humor fan in your life.
£12.34
Fitzcarraldo Editions This Little Art Special Edition
£38.00
Hesperus Press Ltd Polite Conversation Hesperus Classics
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£12.23
Hesperus Press Ltd On Reading
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Hesperus Press Ltd On Fiction
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Verso Books Beauty and the Inferno: Essays
Book SynopsisGomorrah, Roberto Saviano's 2006 exposé of Naples's Camorra mafia, was an international bestseller and became an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed forced the author into hiding. Saviano was ostracized by his countrymen and went on the run, changing his location every few months and compelled to keep perpetual company with his bodyguards. To this day, he lives in an undisclosed location.The loneliness of the fugitive life informs all the essays in Beauty and the Inferno, Saviano's first book since Gomorrah. Among other subjects, he writes about the legendary South African jazz singer Miriam Makeba, his meeting with the real-life Donnie Brasco, sharing the Nobel Academy platform with Salman Rushdie, and the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Present throughout the book is a sense of Saviano's peculiar isolation, which infuses his words with anger, exceptional insight and tragedy.Trade ReviewIt is good to be reminded of the raw bravery of the Savianos of this world and to salute them for sacrifices they have made in their challenges to power. -- Duncan Campbell * Guardian *I feel humble, almost insignificant, faced with the dignity and the courage of the writer and journalist Roberto Saviano, the man who has mastered the art of living. -- José SaramagoWe must thank Roberto Saviano for having returned to literature the ability to open eyes and minds. -- Mario Vargas LlosaIts tone is angry and urgent ... the essays in Beauty and the Inferno are in some sense a celebration of bravery and an expression of rage against corruption and cowardice. -- Caroline Moorehead * Times Literary Supplement *A perceptive and sympathetic critic and reader ... Saviano writes very well ... what he has to say demands to be read. Like Primo Levi, his testimony pricks our conscience, tests our resolve, makes us examine ourselves ... At once deeply disturbing and illuminating. -- Alan Taylor * Scottish Sunday Herald *He never pulls his punches, his message is incredibly important, and the facts he includes-such as the increase in cancer rates due to the illegal dumping of toxic waste-are like bombshells. -- Tobias Jones * Sunday Times *In his essay about [Anna] Politkovskaya, he writes: 'I do not care about beautiful stories that cannot be bothered with the blood of our times. I want to smell the rot of politics and the stench of business.' He achieves that and more in his own work. -- Patrick Freyne * Sunday Business Post *A beautiful object, from the surface through to its depths....Saviano's confidence and sheer bulldozing coherence could serve as inspiration to all writers, both of fiction and journalism, as the path around weak speechifying and dutiful responses. Read Saviano and feel hope. -- David Hammerschlag * Bookslut *Always passionate...Saviano's commitment to his subjects draws the reader in...This is a strong collection from a brave and keen-eyed reporter. * Publishers Weekly *
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Alma Books Ltd Pen in Hand: Reading, Rereading and other
Book SynopsisHow can other people like the books we don’t like? What benefit can we get from rereading a work? Can we read better? If so, how? These and many other questions, ranging from the field of writing to that of reading and translation, are given a comprehensive answer in a series of stimulating and challenging literary essays that will be a perfect read for all book explorers and practitioners of the pen. After delighting us with his novels and many volumes of non-fiction, Tim Parks – who is not only an acclaimed author and a translator, but also a celebrated literary essayist – gives us a book to enjoy, savour and, most importantly, reread.Trade ReviewThere are many ways of touring the land that Italians, following Dante, call il bel paese, and Parks is as perceptive a guide as could be wished. * TLS *"[an] active and thought-provoking collection of writing about reading" -- Brian Morton * The Herald *
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Carcanet Press Ltd As I Was Saying Yesterday Essays Selected Essays
Book SynopsisAt the time of her death in 1999, Patricia Beer had been planning a collection of her essays. She liked the title "As I Was Saying Yesterday": it caught at once the speaking quality of the essays and the consistency of concern which runs through a body of work disparate in subject-matter.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Albyn: Shorter Books and Monographs
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the shorter books and monographs of Hugh MacDiarmid, as part of Carcanet's "MacDiarmid 2000" programme. Other titles in the series include "Complete Poems", "Lucky Poet", "Contemporary Scottish Studies" and "Scottish Eccentrics".
£30.62
Carcanet Press Ltd Some Speculations on Literature, History and
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of Robert Graves' essays, written between 1922 and 1972, on areas of culture which engaged him. They are organized around the thematic categories of literature, history and religion. The collection chronicles Graves' intellectual development by presenting the essays chronologically to show how ideas begin and evolve over half a century. At the same time, the essays demonstrate his eclectic knowledge over a vast range of topics and confirm not only his insights, but also his humour and famous "leaps of logic".
£41.20
The Library of America James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (LOA #90)
Book SynopsisA comprehensive collection of the American humorist’s best work—including “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”—plus original drawings and a chronology of Thurber’s own troubled life James Thurber, whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities, brought American humor into the 20th century. His comic persona, a modern city-dweller whose zaniest flights of free association are tinged with anxiety, remains hilarious, subtly disturbing, and instantly recognizable. Here, in over 1,000 pages, editor Garrison Keillor presents the best and most extensive collection ever assembled. Pieces include “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “The Catbird Seat,” the brilliantly satirical Fables for Our Time, the classic My Life and Hard Times, and the best of The Owl in the Attic, Let Your Mind Alone!, My World—And Welcome to It, and the other famous books. Plus 500 wonderful drawings, including The Seal in the Bedroom and celebrated sequences like “The Masculine Approach” and “The War Between Men and Women.” Rounding out the volume is a selection from The Years with Ross, a memoir of the New Yorker publisher, and a number of wonderful early pieces never collected by Thurber. Only a book of this scope can do justice to Thurber’s extraordinary career and to the many unexpected turns of his comic genius. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
£24.50
The Library of America Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose (LOA
Book Synopsis“Undoubtedly, the single finest collection of Wallace Stevens ever produced.” — Library JournalWallace Stevens’s unique voice combined meditative speculation and what he called “the essential gaudiness of poetry” in a body of work of astonishing profusion and exuberance, poems that have remained an inspiration and influence for generations of poets and readers. Now, for the first time, the works of America’s supreme poet of the imagination are collected in one authoritative Library of America volume.Here are all of Stevens’s published books of poetry, side-by-side for the first time with the haunting lyrics of his later years and early work that traces the development of his art. From the rococo inventiveness of Harmonium, his first volume (including such classics as “Sunday Morning” and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”), through “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,” “Esthétique du Mal,” “The Auroras of Autumn,” and the other large-scale masterpieces of his middle years, to the austere final poems of “The Rock,” Stevens’s poetry explores with unrelenting intensity the relation between the world and the human imagination, between nature as found and nature as invented, and the ways poetry mediates between them. The volume presents over ninety poems uncollected by Stevens, including early versions of often-discussed works like “The Comedian as the Letter C” and “Owl’s Clover.”Also here is the most comprehensive selection of Stevens’s prose writings. The Necessary Angel (1951), his distinguished book of essays, joins nearly fifty shorter pieces, many previously uncollected: reviews, speeches, short stories, criticism, philosophical writings, and responses to the work of T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and other poets. The often-dazzling aphorisms Stevens gathered over the years are included, as are his plays and selections from his poetic notebooks. Rounding out the volume is a fifty-year span of journal entries and letters, newly edited from manuscript sources, which provide fascinating glimpses of Stevens’s thoughts on poetry and the creative process.The volume also contains explanatory notes, a detailed chronology of Stevens’ life, and an essay on textual selection.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
£33.75
Center for Literary Publishing Man in the Moon: Essays on Fathers and Fatherhood
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University Press of Colorado Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays
Book SynopsisBeautiful Flesh gathers eighteen essays on the body, essentially building a multi-gender, multi-ethnic body out of essays, each concerning a different part of the body: belly, brain, bones, blood, ears, eyes, hair, hands, heart, lungs, nose, ovaries, pancreas, sinuses, skin, spine, teeth, and vas deferens.
£999.99
BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Girl in a Library: On Women Writers and the
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£999.99
Pushcart Press Great Speckled Bird: Confessions of a Village
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£17.06
Pushcart Press The Pushcart Prize XLII: Best of the Small
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£26.59
Pushcart Press The Pushcart Prize XLIII: Best of the Small
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£14.99
