Search results for ""author thalia field""
New Directions Publishing Corporation Personhood
Whether investigating refugee parrots, indentured elephants, the pathetic fallacy, or the revolving absurdity of the human role in the "invasive species crisis," Personhood reveals how the unmistakable problem between humans and our nonhuman relatives is too often the derangement of our narratives and the resulting lack of situational awareness. Building on her previous collection, Bird Lovers, Backyard, Thalia Field's essayistic investigations invite us on a humorous, heartbroken journey into how people attempt to control the fragile complexities of a shared planet. The lived experiences of animals, and other historical actors, provide unique literary-ecological responses to the exigencies of injustice and to our delusions of special status.
£13.60
Dalkey Archive Press Leave to Remain
Leave to Remain is a faux spy-novel possessed by the spirit of Janus: doubleness, duplicity, double-entendres, two-facedness, bridges and doorways—as is only appropriate for a work composed by two writers: one French, one American. Two-faced Janus resurrects into a time-traveling adventure, a tour of double-agents, double-speak, and double-dealings. In their earlier hybrid essay, A Prank of Georges (2010), Thalia Field and Abigail Lang returned us to "the primal force of language: naming" (Susan Howe). In Leave to Remain, a weathered Janus pursues an elusive quest, responding to a world of war, traitors, translations, and the slippery personal and political terrain between friends and enemies. This silly and deadly serious fiction-essay aims at nothing less than a full inquiry into how monstrous we are when we define loyalties and defend definitions, and how we are all double-agents seeking meaning and intelligence. Unafraid of being both timeless and timely, Leave to Remain challenges the reader to play in the world of folded imagery and language.
£11.99
Coffee House Press ULULU (Clown Shrapnel)
Like nothing you’ve read before, this exhilarating narrative follows the storyline of Alban Berg’s famously unfinished opera Lulu and explores the history of the commedia, particularly the Pierrot figure from its first inception through its final manifestation as the English clown. Famous historical figures (like Jack the Ripper!) and artists from the late 19th and early 20th centuries also make appearances. Presented in a beautiful, yet affordable 1,500 copy limited edition featuring cover art by Gustav Klimt, original and treated film stills from award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison, and illustrations from artist Abbot Stranahan, this book should reach beyond fans of avant-garde fiction and find an audience among film, opera, and theater buffs as well as book and art collectors.
£17.99
