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Josef Weinberger Plays Broken Glass Acting Edition for Theater
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Rock That is Not a Rabbit
Book SynopsisChange arises as something both desired and mourned in poems that reckon with a world where perspectives blur, names drift billowing, unattached, and language yields a broken music. A statue of Lenin topples in a Georgian square only to be raised again in a Dallas backyard. Antlers sprout from Actaeon's head, rendering him unrecognizable to the dogs he loves. Ungainly piano notes pour from a window and wake unexpected wonder in a lost walker. A forest grows inside a box that once held a father's new pair of shoes. Skylab slips from its watchful orbit and careens toward Earth. A familiar chair once owned by a now absent family appears in a field of wild parsnips. Meditative and richly imaginative, these poems cast and recast the self and its relation to other selves, and to memory, history, power, and the natural world.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Ghost Variations
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University of Pittsburgh Press Climbing a Burning Rope
Book SynopsisNew poetry by John Paul Davis.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Creature
Book SynopsisA New Collection of Poetry by Marsha de la O.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Absent Here
Book SynopsisWinner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry from the 2023 AWP Award Series.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Purchase
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University of Pittsburgh Press Still City
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Law of Truly Large Numbers
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Occupant
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University of Pittsburgh Press Antediluvian
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University of Pittsburgh Press Gravitation
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University of Pittsburgh Press Winter Stars
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Carcanet Press Ltd Selected Poems George Crabbe Fyfield Books
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Colourpoint Creative Ltd Earth Voices Whispering An Anthology of Irish War
Book SynopsisIn the first half of the 20th century, the men and women of Ireland experienced the brutal realities of a succession of wars from the unrelenting casualties of WW1, to the domestic upheavals of the 1916 Rising and the Irish Civil War; from the romantic idealism of the Spanish Civil War, to the unimaginable horrors of WW2.Earth Voices Whispering gathers together, for the very first time, a wide range of poetic voices that chart the human experiences of these wars, compiled and edited by Belfast-born poet and senior lecturer in Trinity College Dublin, Gerald Dawe. Featuring over three hundred poems by celebrated poets such as C.S Lewis, AE, W.B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh and Seamus Heaney, and including new poems by Derek Mahon and Eilean Ní Chuilleanain, the anthology records the thoughts and experiences of poets as soldiers, patriots, observers, protestors, medics and mourners.From patriotism to anger, passion to compassion, hope to regret, this groundbreaking Trade Reviewan important book, full of despair, but also a humanity that might mollify it. -- Bernard O'Donoghue
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Carcanet Press Ltd Forms of Distance
Book SynopsisA second bilingual collection since the author's enforced exile from China in 1989.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Vasko Popa Complete Poems 19531987
Book SynopsisFrom surrealist fable to traditional folk-tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, Popa's poetry embodies in an original form the most profound imaginative truths of our age, precisely located in the reality and history of Serbia, in the heart of Central Europe. This title features Popa's poems.Trade ReviewPopa's imaginative journey resembles a Universe passing through a Universe. It has been one of the most exciting things in modern poetry, to watch this journey being made Ted Hughes
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Liverpool University Press Aeschylus Persians Aris Phillips Classical Texts
Book SynopsisAs the earliest surviving European drama, Persians is of incalculable interest to students of ancient literature. This edition offers facing translation, commentary and notes that focus on the visual and aural effects Aeschylus created, his extraordinarily rich imagery, and the play’s unique contribution to Athenian democratic ideology.Trade Review‘This edition is the most up-to-date scholarly text of Persians now available. Scholars teachers, and students will appreciate in particular Hall’s careful and complete research, evidenced in the excellent introduction, commentary and bibliography as well as in the translation itself; ... An excellent text for Western tradition, history and literature courses. Highly recommended for all academic collections.’Choice‘In short an admirable edition almost convincing that Persians is a good play as well as a useful historical source!’ JACTTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAddenda 2007Bibliographical Supplement 2007Introduction1. Remember Athens2. Aeschylus3. Persians and Historical ‘Reality’4. Historical Tragedy5. History and Myth6. The Tetralogy7. Political Perspective8. Aeschylus’ Sources9. Religion10. Persians as Tragedy11. Visual and Aural Dimensions12. Imagery13. Style and Language14. The TextIllustrationsSymbols in the ApparatusText and TranslationCommentaryMetrical AppendixAbbreviations and BibliographyIndex
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Josef Weinberger Plays Romanoff and Juliet
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Josef Weinberger Plays Keeping Tom Nice
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Josef Weinberger Plays The Grapes of Wrath
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Josef Weinberger Plays Matilda Liar by Isitt Debbie Author ON
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Josef Weinberger Plays A View from the Bridge
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Seagull Books The Unknown Theatre of Jerzy Grotowski
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 1: Innocent wizards. Orpheus after Jean Cocteau (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 2: Alpha, Omega and that which is in-between. Cain after George Gordon Byron (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 3: Farce-Mystery, or there can be no other Socialism. Mystery-Bouffe after Vladimir Mayakovsky (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 4: A Hindu erotica. Shakuntala after Kalidasa (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 5: A mystery ‘in-yar-face’. Forefathers’ Eve after Adam Mickiewicz (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 6: Polishness as madness. Kordian after Juliusz Slowacki (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 7: Our Acropolis. Acropolis after Stanislaw Wyspianski (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 8: ‘To heaven? You blaspheme in vain’. Tragical History of Doctor Faustus after Christopher Marlowe (Dariusz Kosinski)Chapter 9: Jerzy Grotowski's Hamlets. Hamlet Study based on the works of William Shakespeare and Stanislaw Wyspianski (Wanda Swiatkowska)Conclusion (Dariusz Kosinski)Index
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US The Merchant of Venice
Book SynopsisAn updatedversion ofTheMerchant of Venicethat speaks to our contemporary reckoning with racism and injustice. Elise Thoron's translation of Shakespeare's searingTheMerchant of Venicecuts straight to the heart of today's fraught issues of social justice and systemic racism. Thoron's clear, compelling contemporary verse translationretainsthe power of the original iambic pentameter while allowing readers and audiences to fullycomprehendand directly experience the brutal dilemmas of Shakespeare's Venice,whereprejudice and privilege reign unchallenged. As the author of three acclaimed music-theater works on the Jewishexperience andinformed by her work directingcross-culturalprojects in locations as different as Russia, Japan, Cuba, and New York City, Thoron brings to herMerchantanimmediacythat speaks directly to the present reckoning with race in America. This translation was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirTrade Review"This translation is easy to read, but retains the iambic pentameter and flow of an original Shakespeare. Overall, very well done." * Seattle Book Review *
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Titus Andronicus
Book SynopsisShakespeare's tragic story of revenge is reimagined for the twenty-first century. One of Shakespeare's goriest plays, Titus Andronicus traces the fall of the Andronicus family in ancient Rome. Clinging to the ways of the past, Titus desperately seeks to remain loyal to the throne as his world crumbles around him. Amy Freed's translation of Titus Andronicus is careful and meticulous, making small but mighty changes in moments that enhance the drama of each scene. Freed's version gives this extraordinary play an even faster track on which to run. This translation of Titus Andronicus was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from The Bard in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse.Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgroTable of ContentsAct 1Act 2Act 3Act 4Act 5
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Cymbeline
Book SynopsisOne of Shakespeare's late plays rewritten in contemporary language. In her modern translation of Cymbeline, Andrea Thome takes up one of Shakespeare's most complex plays. Thome's update brings the play's language into the present, highlighting new resonances and providing a more accessible version of Shakespeare's play for today's audiences. One of Shakespeare's final plays, Cymbeline tells the story of the British king Cymbeline and his daughter, Imogen. It is a tale of deceit and jealousy, with accusations of infidelity that often draw comparisons to Othello and The Winter's Tale. This translation of Cymbeline was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present the work of The Bard in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters
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WW Norton & Co 95 Poems
Book SynopsisA paperback collection newly offset from Complete Poems 1904-1962 with an afterword by the Cummings scholar George James Firmage.
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WW Norton & Co 73 Poems
Book Synopsis"Cummings...at his most unfoolish and poetic best."—Nation
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Paradise Lost
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWonderful! Hughes' edition is unexcelled! --Carol V. Kaske, Cornell University
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Doctor Faustus
Book SynopsisThis edition of the 'A' text, with supporting documents that include selections from The English Life of Faustus, contemporary testimonies to Marlowe's 'atheism', and passages from the 'B' text, offers a startling new context in which to understand this play, its comedy, and its tawdry representation of demonic magic.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent edition; I really appreciate the clear Introduction and the exceptionally useful notes. I look forward to using this text with a freshman literature class who will really benefit from the helpful textual apparatus. --Charlotte England, Department of English, Salisbury UniversityThe inexpensive paperback will allow this student-friendly text to be added to the reading list of a variety of high-school and college courses. Teachers as well as students will find the Introduction here very useful. --Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse
Book SynopsisThis daring new translation of 21 of the tales, most of them rendered in iambic tetrameter, conveys the content, tone, and narrative style of the original in a line as expressive as it is economical. An Introduction treats Chaucer's works, influences, life, learning, and the world of 14th-century London. Includes a glossary.Trade ReviewThis version of The Canterbury Tales is indeed 'fast-paced and entertaining'. It includes translations of most of the tales (certainly all of the most popular ones) and abridgments and summaries of a few others. Glaser's main innovation in this translation is a rather striking decision to render Chaucer's standard iambic pentameter line in iambic tetrameter. . . . Those who read his translation of The Canterbury Tales will likely be motivated to tackle a linguistically more challenging, yet more rewarding Middle English edition. Those who lack the time for such a task will still be able to appreciate the humor and variety of one of Chaucer's greatest works and will, through the basic and clear Introduction, get a sense of the historical and literary background of Chaucer, his times, and his works. The near conversational tone of the Introduction, furthermore, makes for an unintimidating encounter with a period of literature that, for many, is foreign and remote. As a kind of gateway text, therefore, Glaser's new translation of The Canterbury Tales will be much appreciated and valued by a non-specialist audience. --Jennifer A. Smith, Comitatus
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Paris Spleen and La Fanfarlo
Book SynopsisA collection of fifty prose poems provided with accurate translation that conveys the lyricism and nuance of the original French text. It includes an introductory essay, explanatory notes, and a bibliography that show the development of Baudelaire's work over time. It also features a translation of Baudelaire's early novella, "La Fanfarlo".Trade ReviewAttractively produced and presented, this useful edition of Paris Spleen and La Fanfarlo reads as both serious and engaging. The introduction is clear without being condescending. It seems to me very much to the point--as is Baudelaire as always. --Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, Graduate School, CUNYA new translation is certainly welcome for providing fresh perspective on this provocative work, and the added bonus of Baudelaire's early novella, La Fanfarlo , makes this edition particularly useful and illuminating of the author's career as a whole. --Marc Caplan, Professor, Department of German and Romance Languages, The Johns Hopkins UniversityIn this new translation Raymond MacKenzie has followed recent tradition in placing together Baudelaire's early novella and the collection of fifty prose poems which were published after his death. La Fanfarlo , published in 1847, is discussed in MacKenzie's clear and thought-provoking introduction under the heading "an experiment in narrative." As a narrative experiment Baudelaire's novella is one he judged to have failed, but MacKenzie's translation of the tale has a lightness of touch that captures the humour and pacing of this baroque fantasy and places it in the context of the poet's defiance of narrative expectations. The true experimental writing here is to be found in the prose poems of Paris Spleen . . . . if this translation is more prose than poetry, it allows a contemporary and fresh way of looking at the prose poems, and most importantly, to paraphrase Walter Benjamin, succeeds in not blocking the light of the original. -- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
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City Lights Books The Fall of America
Book SynopsisWinner of the National Book Award for PoetryBeginning with long poem of these States, The Fall of America is the follow up book to Ginsberg''s Planet News ? chronicle tape-recorded scribed by hand or sung condensed, the flux of car bus airplane dream consciousness Person during Automated Electronic War years, newspaper headline radio brain auto poesy & silent desk musings, headline flashing on road through these states of consciousness.Includes Ginsberg''s condemnation of America''s actions in Vietnam, along with commentary about the moon landing, the 1968 Democratic National Convention, the death of Che Guevera, and more personal events such as the passing of Ginsberg''s friend and former lover Neal Cassady. Many of the poems were initially composed on an Uher Tape recorder, purchased by Ginsberg with the help of Bob Dylan.Poems in the collection include: Beginning of a Poem of These States; Elegy For Neal Cassady; On Neal''s Ashes, Please Master, Hum Bom! and September on Jessore Road.[Ginsberg] is never negligible, and he is often (the only true test) unforgettable.?Helen Vendler, New York Times Book ReviewFollowing in the footsteps of legendary photographer Robert Frank''s groundbreaking The Americans and Jack Kerouac''s opusOn the Road, Allen Ginsberg gives us deep insight into his poems in The Fall of America ? every poem this book refers to is a prismatic hall of mirrors ? ?Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky
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City Lights Books Gasoline
Book SynopsisGasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series.Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and pure, in accordance with Corso''s individual (therefore universal) desire.—Allen GinsbergGregory is a gambler. He suffers reverses, like every man who takes chances. But his vitality and resilience always shine through, with a light that is more than human: The immortal light of his muse.—William S. Burroughs . . . A touch young kid from the Lower East Side who rose like an angel over the rooftops and sang Italian songs as sweet as Caruso and Sinatra, but in words . . . Amazing and Beautiful Gregory Corso, The one and only Gregory the Herald. Read slowly and see.—Jack Kerouac[M]ore than fifty years on from when it was first published in 1958, Gasoline (City Lights, 1958) by Bea
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City Lights Books Orphic Songs
Book SynopsisAt the age of 22, Campana went to sea, then became a vagabond, working sporadically as miner, fireman, organ grinder, circus tumbler and musician. Still in his 20s, he wrote "Orphic Songs" ablaze with the fury of the poet crazed by life.
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City Lights Books Kaddish and Other Poems 19581960
Book SynopsisAs a pandemic rages and we are unable to gather to celebrate our dead, make our minyans, or hold one another's hands, have our seders, I think of Ginsberg writing Kaddish for his mother. I think of him imagining a journey from bondage to freedom. . . . Kaddish is the perfect poem for these times.Laurel Brett, The ForwardAllen Ginsberg''s Kaddish, a poem about the death of his mother, Naomi, is one of his major works. This special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kaddish and Other Poems features an illuminating afterword by Ginsberg biographer Bill Morgan, along with previously unpublished photographs, documents, and letters relating to the composition of the poem.Allen Ginsberg, founding father of the Beat Generation, inspired the American counterculture of the second half of the twentieth century with his groundbreaking poems.Bill Morgan is the author of I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg. He lives in New York City and Bennington, Vermont.In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all self, I instinctively seeking to reconstitute that blissful union which I experience so rarely. I took it to be supernatural and gave it holy Name thus made hymn laments of longing and litanies of triumphancy of Self over mind-illusion mechano-universe of un-feeling Time in which I saw my self my own mother and my very nation trapped desolate our worlds of consciousness homeless and at war except for the original trembling of bliss in breast and belly of every body that nakedness rejected in suits of fear that familiar defenseless living hurt self which is myself same as all others abandoned scared to own unchanging desire for each other.Allen Ginsberg from KaddishKaddish, Ginsberg''s ode to his mother after her death, is streaked with references to Judaism and to the funerary prayer recited by a male mourner for the passing of a parent or relative. Like the prayer, Ginsberg's poem is a celebration of his mother, but it also delves intoand, indeed, dwells onthe darker side of her life. . . . Ginsberg bears witness to his mother''s pain and struggles; he intones her nameanother act of remembranceover and over again as if to deify her.Maria Eliades, PloughsharesKaddish, Allen Ginsberg''s most stunning and emotional poem, tells a story that is entirely true. As a young boy growing up in Paterson, New Jersey, Allen watched his mother succumb to a series of psychotic episodes that grew progressively worse despite desperate attempts at treatment.Levi Asher, Literary KicksKaddish, which Ginsberg wrote between 1957 and 1959 and published in 1961, is, at its core, a poem about a son learning to grieve for his mother. But Ginsberg''s emotional and intellectual rawness make this poem an investigation about what it means to grieve, or even to be a son or mother. A deeply intimate portrait of his family''s life, Kaddish nonetheless embeds itself in specific historical contexts: of Jewish life in the United States and after the Holocaust, of left-wing political activism before and during the Cold War, of a fiercely independent woman who died as second-wave feminism was only just beginning to be formulated.Joshua Logan Wall, The Yiddish Book Center''s Great Jewish Books, Teacher Resources Ginsberg's long, graphic, lamenting elegy for his mother is one of the most shattering poems written in this century. Harrowing. Grotesque. Hilarious. Non-stop in its verbal energy....I love these little City Lights collectionsthey're certainly more fun than the big Collected Poems (Harper), easier to carry, easier to hold, and easier to read.Lloyd Schwartz, Grolier Poetry Book Shop
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City Lights Books Save Twilight Selected Poems
Book SynopsisNewly expanded edition of a classic: the first and only collection of Cortázar''s poetry to appear in English."Cortázar''s verse is more traditional than his fiction, but his style and themes are in harmony across genres: eccentric, mystical, full of animals but deeply human. Cortázar is a people''s poet, accessible from every angle, and his position as a titan of the Latin American boom is indisputable."—Publishers Weekly, starred review"[This new] edition—small and irresistible, the kind you want to pocket and read out on the grass somewhere—is bilingual, with Spanish on the left page and English on the right, and [Stephen] Kessler does us the favor of retaining some of Cortázar''s weird, wandering little essays, including "For Listening Through Headphones," his oblique study of poetic intimacy."—The New Yorker<Trade Review"Argentine writer and translator Cortazar (1914--1984), best known for his inventive fiction, beguiles in this expanded bilingual second edition of his poems. Cortazar, espousing the notion that 'poetry and prose reciprocally empower each other,' constructs hybrid 'prosems' or 'peoms' that contend with love and loss, nationalistic ambivalence, literary theory, and memory. Something of a lovable crank, he declares listening to headphones 'stupid and alienating' and a 'psychological prison' in a lyrical essay ostensibly in favor of them, and heaps inexplicable scorn on knitters and Notre Dame Cathedral. Cortazar pithily laments his own squareness--'I accept this destiny of ironed shirts'--and the aging process, during which time is 'a truckload of rocks/ dumped on your back, puking/ its insufferable weight.' A political expatriate to Paris, Cortazar footnotes one poem praising Argentina with an ominous implication of state-sanctioned murder, while elsewhere he fondly recalls 'wisps of smoke/ gracefully streaming from the peanut vendors' carts' in the Plaza de Mayo. Cortazar's verse is more traditional than his fiction, but his style and themes are in harmony across genres: eccentric, mystical, full of animals but deeply human. Cortazar is a people's poet, accessible from every angle, and his position as a titan of the Latin American boom is indisputable."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "When City Lights was preparing to publish the first edition of Julio Cortazar's poetry in English in 1997 (it's number fifty-three in the Pocket Poets series), [Lawrence] Ferlinghetti wanted to produce a lean volume. In doing so, he cut the essay 'For Listening Through Headphones,' which Cortazar begins by mourning the 'pre-echo' on some records that mars 'the brief night of the ears as they get ready for the fresh irruption of sound.' It's funny that an essay that more than once uses the play of light and darkness to illuminate sound would be omitted from a book titled Save Twilight. But this month, City Lights is reissuing the volume, now heftier, thanks in part to the restoration of 'For Listening' (and other poems that were left out from the original). In addition to being mesmerizing and utterly gorgeous ('now the needle / runs through the former silence and focuses it / in a black plush ... a phosphene silence'), the essay links the experience of hearing music through headphones to poetry's innate intimacy: 'How not to think, then, that somehow poetry is a word heard through invisible headphones as soon as the poem begins to work its spell.'"--Nicole Rudick, The Paris Review "These faithful old (and new) translations bring the poetic playfulness of this vitally important writer into engaging English life, and they promise to keep us looking into the vitrines of his poems so intently that we might well find ourselves looking back out from them, at blank faces, once familiarly our own and now estranged, looking quizzically back at us."--The Massachusetts Review "Many poems and writings in this collection make it essential for any fans of Cortazar's fiction, and a few, such as 'To Be Read in the Interrogative,' the most instantly arresting poem here, make it equally accessible to first-time Cortazar readers."--Literal Magazine "City Lights Books keeps current for reasons that could fill a book, including the fact that its editors have always had a special instinct for what needs to stay in print, what needs a hiatus, what should be reissued and when, and what should be acquired because it is irresistible and as good as its elders. Save Twilight: Selected Poems by Julio Cortazar is a collection of old and new translations by Stephen Kessler, and it fits right into the City Lights ethos. Kessler is a distinguished translator, and this bi-lingual edition does justice to the masterful Cortazar ... In praising Save Twilight, qualifiers like 'seem' are unnecessary, because what the book provides is enriching in the way it faces the past and illuminates the human interior."--The Rumpus "For me, a particular essay was the highlight of Julio Cortazar's Save Twilight. It's observant; intelligent; for the receptive reader, educational; and for the receptive poet-reader a guide for how one might live and write as a poet. ... Still, pleasure can be found in the verse."--Galatea Resurrects
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City Lights Books Divine Blue Light For John Coltrane
Book SynopsisFrom Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where Césaire meets Sun Ra. Divine Blue Light further affirms Alexander’s status as one of the most unique and innovative voices in contemporary poetry.One of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Notable Poetry Books for Fall 2022!“Since the 1980s, the Los Angeles-based Alexander has mixed politics with mesmeric, oracular lines.”—The New York TimesAgainst the ruins of a contemporary globalist discourse, which he denounces as a “lingual theocracy of super-imposed rationality,” Will Alexander’s poems constitute an alternative cartography that draws upon omnivorous reading—in subjects from biology to astronomy to history to philosophy—amalgamating their diverse vocabularies into an impossible instrument only he can play. Trade ReviewPraise for Divine Blue Light:"If anarchism in literature involves breaking down conventions of thought and expression and exploring new ways for words and ideas to rub shoulders, set off sparks, and make beautiful music together, then Alexander may be its prophet.”—Robert Knox, Fifth Estate"Will Alexander’s new book of poetry takes inspiration from its namesake containing poems of such abstraction and vigor that the end result is a reader who can’t feel anything but awe. Awe not only at the vistas suddenly made visible by Alexander’s poetry but also awe at the technique at work. While reading Divine Blue Light, it was apparent that I was at the hands of a master who has honed his craftsmanship to such a degree that every poem seems like a miracle."—Bennard Fajardo, Politics and Prose Bookstore"Alexander does for sound what he does for space, parsing its smallest units with microscopic precision."—Charles Rammelkamp, The LakePraise for Refractive Africa (2021), finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry:"Will Alexander’s improvisatory cosmicity pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance—incantatory and swirling with magical laterality and recovery."—The Pulitzer Prizes“Since the 1980s, the Los Angeles-based Alexander has mixed politics with mesmeric, oracular lines.”—Greg Cowles, The New York Times"This visionary act of 'transpersonal witness' to a continent is an Afromodernist epic in the tradition of Kamau Brathwaite’s The Arrivants. … Refractive Africa embraces an aesthetic of sprawl and overreach, summoning free-flowing visions of grandeur and desolation. Alexander, an American, is the author of more than 30 books, and his introduction to a British readership is overdue."—The Guardian"There is likely no poetry more propulsive, visually kinetic, and intricately layered than that composed by Will Alexander. … Alexander’s seemingly over-rich language and ideation establish an imaginative realm that is entirely unlike any other, one in which we are immersed in sheer, coruscating energy. … Embodying an intensity of feeling that brims close to overwhelming, these poems bear persuasive witness to the history of Africa, of colonialism, and of Black selfhood and resistance. Too much on these themes, Alexander asserts, is not nearly enough."—Hyperallergic“Powerful and visionary.”—The Skinny"Will Alexander (finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry) writes metaphorically and syntactically rich poetry dense in compound adjectival phrases, creating a world view that poetizes the forces at work in life (biological, historical, and linguistic) and works of the imagination as simultaneous at all levels of material and non-material existence, quantum to galactic, organic and technical. It’s turtles all the way down, up, and out. But what turtles!....Not easy reading but one that rewards study at a slow pace."—Tom Bowden, The Book BeatPraise for Will Alexander:"A long-distance runner extraordinaire, Will Alexander parses and devours information, code and arcana lest they parse and devour him, parse and devour us. What but deep seas and distant galaxies would make such a demand his extended soliloquies implicitly ask and overtly answer."—Nathaniel Mackey“Alexander’s voice speaks to its situation—social, political, ecological—in the Anthropocene. … Anticipating a collective leap of human consciousness comparable to the Mind’s original emergence in Africa, Alexander reports on the ‘world as it is today’ as if from a standpoint in the future, from an alterity in which this momentous leap has already occurred.”—Andrew Joron, Caesura“Cosmological, astrological, philosophical, geological, mathematical, and hypnogogical in scope, Alexander finds concordance in chaotic discord. Like a force of nature, a procession of seamless symbols, the lines roll out as variant strata compress into a crystalline composite.”—Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, The Brooklyn Rail“As we spin toward planetary suicide at the hands of oily capitalizers, it will be the prophetic words of poets such as Will Alexander, with their imaginal radiance, which hold any hope of lighting the way to a true alchemical amnesty and new modes of being.”—Dorothy Wang, author of Thinking in its Presence“It is tempting to label Alexander a surrealist or experimentalist, but he is truly a singular voice.”—Citation for the Jackson Poetry Prize"Alexander’s verbal flights strike me as more shamanistic than free-associational or automatic. His evocation of upper and lower worlds, and his vocabulary which bridges poetry, philosophy, myth, and science, give his verbal fulgurations a sense of linguistic seed that suddenly sprouts, then resprouts … He may be the first major ‘outsider artist’ in American poetry. Whatever he is, he is a force to reckon with …"—American Poet“Alexander’s comfort and willingness to discuss occasions beyond our normal daily experiences excites the imagination with the warmth of ecstatic re-envisioning. This is writing that opens up new worlds, crisp and direct in its offering of unique and valuable gifts.”—Rain Taxi“A vastly under-appreciated and important avant-garde poet, who deserves a wider audience.”—Huffington Post
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City Lights Books Before Whiteness
Book SynopsisVolume 21 in the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series: A searing indictment of anti-Black social and political violence by British Jamaican poet and leading scholar of Afro-pessimism D.S. Marriott.A book that turns Blackness into a question of reading, of inscribing and decoding Blackness in poetry, Before Whiteness ranges from medieval Beowulf to contemporary UK grime. Born in Britain but now living in the U.S., D.S. Marriott trains his analytical gaze on grim American subjects like the Middle Passage and lynchings, yet also finds inspiration in African American poets and artists. The book ends with “Another Burning,” a mournful elegy for the victims of the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London and stirring rebuke of the structural racism of contemporary UK society.“In Before Whiteness, Marriott inhabits the names we remember, such as Lester Young and Dambudzo Marechera, and victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, names we never knew. AlTrade ReviewPraise for Before Whiteness:"[Before Whiteness] is as much an ode to Black strength and suffering as it is a decisive analysis of the rhetoric and violent practice of anti-Blackness. The Middle Passage, the Grenfell Tower fire in London, lynchings, and other atrocities undergo critical commentary through Marriott’s emotionally rich verse."—Alta Journal“In Before Whiteness, Marriott inhabits the names we remember, such as Lester Young and Dambudzo Marechera, and victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, names we never knew. All of them people who have no place at the table where the Human family feasts. ‘Blackness /’ Marriott reminds us, ‘wasn’t in the language—we saw it / being evacuated / but we still inhabited / the ashes.’ These are not poems for the faint of heart, or those in need of denouncements. But with the evocative language of a wordsmith and the fearless insights of a philosopher, these poems guide us through the inner life of social death.”—Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Afropessimism“The mature poetry of the British-Caribbean poet D. S. Marriott is often possessed by a majestic full-throatedness, but Before Whiteness makes audible his more intimate tone, the sound of an approachable vulnerability. Before whiteness comes infancy, a time before language and the impingement of the white world, but this writing also stands in the face of whiteness, can stand against whiteness. Its words may be placed on white ground, the long history of English verse, but also are hauled from a dense Black record of suffering, resistance and joy. … Only a great poet’s writing can be at once so rich with echoes, so exacting in its thought, and so emotionally open.”—John Wilkinson, author of My Reef My Manifest Array and Lyric in Its Times"This is Marriott's best book to date. His meditations on the Grenfell Tower fire are not only about death racism, and government incompetence. There is also much beauty here—in particular beautiful language, as if any discussion of any tower seeks the first language at the foot of Babel."—Solomon Rino, City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CAPraise for D.S. Marriott:"More than most poets, Marriott always seems to be responding to something: refuting it, or adapting it, or inverting it, or making a grim parody. … He tries to use poems to learn (not to show, but to learn) how systems of knowledge, systems that tell us what and how we can speak, emerge from and depend on systems of domination, and of sexual pleasure, and when tastes and standards function as weapons, or masks … Marriott wants to know how and whether the art of poetry, his art, can construct something better than what we get from history, from familiar traditions, from prose. … When Marriott says “negritude” he means it. It would be a mistake to overlook the Jamaican-born poet’s blackness, his Afro-diasporic identity; some of the poems insist on it. But it would be almost as mistaken to reduce his variety to that single subject, or to any single subject."—Stephanie Burt, poetry critic and author of Don't Read Poetry and Advice from the Lights"Marriott’s deployment of such mythological materials and even ‘hoodoo’ itself in his theatre of ‘real ghosts,’ fears and emergent desires enacts his forging of new relations with the past and his many interlocutors in this book, as well as his Rilkean ‘refusal to refuse,’ a seeming double negative that opens a new way through the many locked doors and crossroads his speakers encounter in these poems. I’m overwhelmed by the beauty that is not beauty (in the sense of the riveting image) that is this book."—Romana Huk, author of Stevie Smith: Between the Lines"Like Aimé Césaire, whom he sees as a revolutionary black modernist who delegitimized modernism’s imitative structure of readymade experimentation, Marriott’s work resists categorization."—Sandeep Parmar, author of Eidolon
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City Lights Books Metamorphoses
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for Metamorphoses: "Ovid’s Metamorphoses takes on a new hue in Kennedy’s magical work. Drawing on ancient Rome, the details of his own life, and the epochs that divide them, Kennedy considers nature, the body, and other matters against the backdrop of modern-day San Francisco.”—Alta Magazine"Kennedy stands on the literary foundations of Ovid and Kafka as he exalts the beauty and transcendence of the natural world while intersecting the fluidity of sex, gender, and spirituality....Kennedy's collection echoes a deep, timeless human longing to be understood and kept safe."—Michael Ruzicka, Booklist“With a leer as feral as Pan’s and a resignation as inventive as Ovid’s, Evan Kennedy’s new book feels like witnessing the marriage of the Delphic oracle with Madonna. Witty and insouciant, learned and inventive, Metamorphoses is an amazing, sexy book.”—Peter O’Leary, author of The Phosphorescence of Thought “The devotional and visionary poet, the rare writer of consciousness, the still small voice and “confounding microclimate,” Evan Kennedy—whose prior triumphs include a “subtractive autobiography” and a lyric account of self mapped onto the works and canticles of St. Francis—continues his ecstatic project by widening, maximizing his embrace. How else “account for everything” but to “take the forms of all living things”? Of scale, plume and pelt; of petal and bark, here he occupies Ovid like a dressing room, busily “cutting confetti for the day I make a wildlife sanctuary of my body.” It may be this is the debut of a new genre: the auto-treasury.”—Brian Blanchfield, author of Proxies “Kennedy’s poems enact a cross-epochal, trans-global set of impersonations with famous writers in a giddy quest to locate his true voice. It’s a breathtaking heartbreaking ever-inventing whirlwind of language, marked by a voracious hunger for history, and a bit of post-punk bravado queered to the max. Stripped of self-aggrandizement, and awake to the nuances of San Francisco life, he invites us to join him in a discovery of self, and to participate in the recovery of our lost world and its mesmerizing particulars.”—Aaron Shurin, author of The Blue Absolute“Think of him as a circus Beckett or a Beckett circus or an early Dylan of the early twenty-first century. Think of the pleasure of language as it rises and as it ebbs. Think that you know what to expect and you will be surprised. Meet the author. Evan Kennedy. Say it again. Evan Kennedy. He is The One.”—Lisa Jarnot, author of A Princess Magic Presto Spell Praise for Evan Kennedy: "What stands out most in Evan Kennedy’s poetry are its interlinks. What might appear at first as stylistic or syntactic innovation, and indeed is also that, turns back in order to link or relink the various delusory tenses (past, present, future) of a biomass of innocence or humility, Blakean maybe, or Wordsworthian.”—Bruce Boone, Jacket2 “Kennedy seems actively interested in having the writing be identifiable with everybody and anybody’s experience. Yet Kennedy is in essence only thereby revealing the process beneath which his practice lies. Intent upon pushing such identification deeper than mere surface associations Kennedy embraces activities/routines that could belong to ‘just about anyone,’ thereby shedding much of himself in search of the shared preoccupations of others in order to write anew the freshly forming ideas of self out onto the page.”—Patrick James Dunagan, author of After the Banished “His language—some kind of nouveau sermon—breathlessly conjures divine presences while in delis bagging radishes, while scaling impossible hills with baseball bros and sordid queerphobes, barrel-chested men and sneaky sickos.”—Noah Ross, author of Swell
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City Lights Books Emerald Wounds
Book SynopsisTrade Review"I’m so grateful to Moorhouse for her helping bring this remarkable poet’s work to English readers, and help expand our knowledge of women writers throughout the world—helping buck against the historical chauvinism Mansour endured. I know my bookshelf will be better for it.”—Diana Arterian, LitHub's The Annotated Nightstand"Emilie Moorhouse’s sharp, steamy translation of Syrian-Jewish poet Joyce Mansour . . . Surreal incarnations of raw female power—erotic, rageful—permeate."—Rebecca Morgan Frank, LitHub“This ardent, well-honed collection coaxes Mansour’s 'molecules of revolt' into jewel-bright, posthumous flares.”—Joyelle McSweeney, Full Stop"Erotic, subversive, sensual, vivacious, defiant, fragile, satirical, ironic, lyrical, eruptive, heretical, anguished, sexy, and buoyant.”—Allan Graubard, Rain Taxi Review of Books"This is a very welcome translation, one English readers can trust. Mansour should be far more read (in both French and English) than she is. Emilie Moorhouse has performed an invaluable service to her and to French literature in English."—Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, Cable Street"Slippery, stained, and gloriously indelicate, Joyce Mansour reveals to us the grisly face of eros."—Elaine Kahn, author of Women in Public"Fierce, uncompromising, intelligent, weird, assertive, abject—Joyce Mansour's poems are a long cry of female rage and desire. The world is 'a shitting bird,' the dead 'bloom like Parma hams,' and the patriarchy subverted, mocked, & challenged at every turn, in personal relationships with men, in the fatuous advice of women's magazines. 'I do not know hell,' Mansour writes, 'But my body has been burning ever since I was born.' These poems are the searing result of that life."—Kim Addonizio, author of Now We're Getting Somewhere"It is high time (and way past it!) that someone bring to publishing daylight the truly great range of poems by the English/Egyptian writer artist/entertainer Joyce Patricia Adès, whom we salute as Joyce Mansour. Emilie Moorhouse has just accomplished this feat and we can gladly say, to this bilingual and welcome presentation of a large selection of those texts with City Lights, a very loud hooray!"—Mary Ann Caws, author of Symbolism, Dada, Surrealism: Selected Essays"Among the many dark pleasures of Emerald Wounds, most marvelous is Joyce Mansour's canny adaptation of the Surrealist impulse towards revolt to subversively femme ends. In Emilie Moorhouse's astonishingly fresh translations, these palm-sized poems are arousing, alarming, and, finally, transformational, offering outlandish anti-psalms, sex tips from the devil, adroit instruction manuals for surviving the eradicating world. Like emeralds held so tightly they bite the flesh, these poems are compressed, brilliant works of maximum refulgence."—Joyelle McSweeney, author of Toxicon and Arachne"In Joyce Mansour's exuberant, macabre, strange and sexy poems, I find such kinship, such lineage, such permission. It is such a delight to read this collection and meet her. These poems invite me to be brave, to be loud, to cackle and mourn and seduce. I only wish we'd met sooner, that I’d known sooner to place myself in her lineage."—Safia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die"Transgressive delight and terror of the supreme surreal feminist in this remarkable and most original book of dreams. Mansour, 'an animal of the night,' has been waiting to be reclaimed and counted. She who 'prunes the sky with carnivorous thighs,' who ruse lies in a chignon is wonderfully abetted in these excellent, luminous translations. A poet who listens to the 'dialect of undressed sexes,' and 'pierces the stagnant eye of the night' is the aligning, yet jolting force we've all been anticipating. This is her moment."—Anne Waldman, author of Bard, Kinetic"In the poetry of Joyce Mansour, we feel the churn of the devouring and excreting body and its parts. Each part emits parts: the lover births his sex; the receptive octopus outputs its legs like a burst seedpod. Vicious as childbirth, delicate as the tension in a throat about to speak, Mansour's poems demand we attend to the forbidden maximums of our desires."—Sophia Dahlin, author of Natch"This legendary Surrealist woman poet with her singular lyric fusion of love and death, phantasies of gleeful and grim inexorability, constructs radical strategies of irrational disjunction. . . .Translated with verve by Emilie Moorhouse."—Norma Cole, author of Fate News"Emerald Wounds feels like a resuscitation. Joyce Mansour's Arab Jewish consciousness sticks its tongue out in the face of macho Euro mores. Given new breath by translator Emilie Moorhouse, Mansour's work is phantastic, inverted, explicit, full of spells. It seems to predict and override the world's weakening lust, calling out from a past of feverish slits, Sekhmet and the joy of piss."—Tamara Faith Berger, author of Maidenhead“A revelation and delight to see: a poet whose work still speaks with immediacy decades after she was alive. We love seeing the original language juxtaposed against the translation — here done superbly by Emilie Moorhouse. Brava to all.”—Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA“Sparse and elegant . . . shot through with blood and violence, and a fierce sexuality borne of a life veined with loss and exile.”—Susan Norton, Carmichael’s Bookstore (Louisville, KY)Table of ContentsTable of Contents Translator’s Introduction Editorial Note Cris (1953) / Screams “Je te soulève dans mes bras” “I lift you in my arms” “L’amazone mangeait son dernier sein.” “The amazon was eating her last breast” “Chien bleu nez enfoncé dans la terre” “Blue dog whose nose is buried in the sand” “Je veux me montrer nue à tes yeux chantants.” “I want to be naked in your singing eyes.” “Ton enfant dans tes bras.” “Your child in your arms” “Fièvre ton sexe est un crabe” “Fever your sex is a crab” “Une femme créait le soleil” “A woman created the sun” “Couchée sur mon lit” “Lying on my bed” “J’ai un esprit inquiet.” “I have a worried mind”“Combien d’amours ont fait crier ton lit?” “How many loves made your bed cry out?” “Coquillage qui traîne sur une plage déserte” “Seashell lying on an empty beach” “Que mes seins te provoquent” “May my breasts provoke you” Déchirures (1955) / Shreds “La mort est une marguerite qui dort” “Death is a daisy sleeping” “J’ai volé l’oiseau jaune” “I stole the yellow bird” “Invitez-moi à passer la nuit dans votre bouche” “Invite me to spend the night in your mouth” “Dans le monde sans verdure” “In a world without greenery” “Hurlements d’une montagne” “Shrieks from a mountain giving birth” “Je suis la nuit” “I am the night” “C’était hier:” “It was yesterday.” “La nappe rouge” “The red tablecloth” “Pleure petit homme” “Cry little man” “Danse avec moi petit violoncelle” “Dance with me, little cello” “La marée monte sous la pleine lune des aveugles.” “The tide is rising under the full moon of the blind.” “Je veux dormir avec toi coude à coude” “I want to sleep with you elbow to elbow” “L’orage tire une marge argentée” “The storm draws a silver line” poems from BIEF (1958–1960) Le Missel de la Miss (Bonnes Nuits) / The Missel of the Missus (Good Nights) i) Quelques Conseils En Courant Sur Quatre Roues i) Advice for Running on Four Wheels ii) Il Fait Foid? Une Robe S’impose ii) Cold Out? A Dress Is Essential iii) Lignes Autour D’un Cercle iii) Lines Around a Circle Genève GenevaConseils Pratiques en Attendant Practical Advice While You Wait Ce Qui Se Porte Cet Hiver What to Wear This Winter Ce Qui Ne Se Porte Pas Cet Hiver What Not to Wear This Winter Conseils d’une Consœur Advice from a Sister Rapaces (1960) / Birds of Prey Rhabdomancie Dowsing Chant ArabeArab Song Carré Blanc (1965) / White Square I : “Où le Bas Blesse” / I: Where the Shoe Hurts Dans L’obscurité A Gauche In the Dark to the Left Leger Comme Une Navette Le Désir Light as a Shuttle Desire L’appel Amer d’un Sanglot The Bitter Call of Tears Dans Le Sillage Du Mont-Arbois In the Wake of Mont-Arbois Nuit De Veille Dans Une Cellule En Cristal De Roche Sleepless Nights in a Cell of Rock Crystal Le Soleil Dans Le Capricorne Sun in Capricorn II : “L’Heure Erogene” / II: “The Erogenous Hour” Fleurie Comme La Luxure Flowered Like Lewdness Séance Tenante Right Away Papier D’argent Tin Foil L’Amoureuse Guerriere Woman Warrior in Love Souvenir Impose par le Nord au Sud Vaincu Memories Imposed by the North on a Conquered South Sous la Tour Centrale Under the Central Tower III : “Verres Fumés” / III: “Smoked Glasses” L’Heure Velue The Hairy Hour La Piste du Brouillard The Path of Fog La Facade de l’Obsession The Face of Obsession Heureux les Étourdis Happy Are the Stunned Des Myriads d’Autres Morts A Myriad of More Deaths Sonne n’Écoute Personne n’Écoute Per One Listen to No One Listen to No Les Damnations (1967) / Damnations Au-Dela de la House Beyond the Swell Minuit à Perte de Vue Endlessly Midnight Pandémonium (1976) / Pandemonium Jasmin d’Hiver (1982) / Winter Jasmine Flammes Immobiles (1985) / Still Flames “Ne jamais dire son rêve” “Never share your dream” “Les eaux de ce pays-là ne s’écoulent jamais” “The waters of that country never flow” “Brûler l’encense dans la quiétude” “To burn incense in the quiet of a room” Trous Noirs (1986) / Black Holes
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City Lights Books The Crystal Text
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for Clark Coolidge's The Crystal Text:"There’s a majesty in this book with a crystalline center that refracts and reflects this extended, wandering meditation on what it means to write and to be in the world. And there is also an ease and a luminous beauty and such a depth that this book remains resonant years after its original publication.”—Juliana Spahr, author of That Winter the Wolf Came"The Crystal Text is at once a philosophical poem in the lineage of Lucretius and a word-jazz excursion in the spirit of Monk and Lacy. Here, the poet’s stylus becomes a drumstick that patterns a nonlinear logic of fleeting reflections, performing cymbal-clash as symbol-crash. The result is a unified field theory of music, thought, and poetry. The reissue of Coolidge’s long out-of-print masterpiece deserves a standing ovation."—Andrew Joron, author of O0“In The Crystal Text by Clark Coolidge, language is restored to its original grace. And what is the origin of language? Is it innovation? Does it subvert while instructing? This poem brings the written word to life. It was written in the 1980s, serving as a deep source for poets and all those who cherish literature. The poet spars with history, memory, and what it means to be fully human. The informative afterword is a rare treat.”—Neeli Cherkovski, author of The Crow and I"Like the mouth to a cave or mine, The Crystal Text offers the best entry to Clark Coolidge's writing. Here's a sui generis American poet, an eager amateur geologist, conversing with a mineral gifted to him, locating the surfaces along language that allow light's passage. Impossible to imitate, Coolidge tests the hardness of syntax, scratching new registers upon it to clarify human perception and the ways we lend it language.”—Evan Kennedy, author of Metamorphoses"Summoned from a translucent bedrock made of equal parts diamond and table salt, snowflake and graphite, and operating a mineral eon or two away from the more obvious sorts of time, The Crystal Text affirms an irreducible poetic truth: small things are fathomless.”—Paul Ebenkamp, author of The Louder the Room the Darker the ScreenPraise for Clark Coolidge:“Clark Coolidge is a one-man avant-garde.”—Peter Gizzi, author of Archeophonics“A long-time master of the jazzy long work.”—Bernadette Mayer, author of Works and Days"[I]f one merely lies open to it, Coolidge's arresting words will sink in and provide a seldom experienced refreshment. This is still true and the receding monumentality of his landscape enterprise is fuller today than ever before. We are lucky to live in the world he chooses to reflect back at us."—John Ashbery, author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror“In poem after poem he produces lines of abstract, bright, musical phrasing”—Michael Leddy, World Literature Today “An inexhaustible writer capable of taking a subject, any subject, and improvising endless bebop glissandos around it.”—Eliot Weinberger, author of Karmic Traces: 1993-1999 "Clark Coolidge is unquestionably among the finest and most legendary American poets of our time."—Irakli Qolbaia, Caesura“Nothing can prepare you for the experience of reading Clark Coolidge’s poetry. You can listen to Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, and the Rova Quartet; you can read the Beats, and examine every Philip Guston painting; you can go spelunking and spend days staring at rock structures. You can even memorize every word of Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett and recite it all as a soundtrack to a black-and-white cowboy movie. These may contextualize some of the elements in Coolidge’s work, but they will not adequately equip you for the heady mixture of intellectual pleasure, semantic frustration, and visceral musicality that Coolidge’s work is likely to provoke.”—Jake Marmer, Hyperallergic “Coolidge subjects the comforting syntax of traditional lyric to a radical torque as a means of discovering new possibilities of song.”—Aldon L. Neilson, Pacific Coast Philology
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City Lights Books Selected Poems of Philip Lamantia 19431966
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University of Regina Press Dislocations
Book SynopsisIn all these poems I'm partly somewhere else. With you, without you, walking toward you or away, but you are there, your small face watching from the shadow of a doorway or a set of stairs, from behind a curtain or a table. Sometimes I see you at the piano. You stop playing, turn to me, and in that pause, tell me something necessary. Poet Karen Enns takes the reader on a lyrical journey, wrapped in the vicissitudes of seasons and weather while observing human and other-than-human lives. Enns invites us to peer and is concerned always with the locations and dislocations perspective implies and creates.
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Persea Books Inc Unexpected Elegies
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W. W. Norton & Company Dido in Winter Poems Karen Michael Braziller Books
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The Oleander Press Selected Poems
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