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Tishani Doshi is a rising literary star in the UK and India, and her debut novel was enthusiastically supported by Salman Rushdie. She has a very rich author website: www.tishanidoshi.com In addition to writing poetry, Tishani Doshi is a columnist for The Hindo, as well as a professional dancer with the Chandralehka group. Tishani Doshi's TED talk on «Slowness and Creativity» can be found here: http://tedxpalermo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=110 Tishani Doshi was...
| Автор | Tishani Doshi |
– As editor of Poetry magazine, Wiman is a leading figure and spokesperson in modern American letters – Wiman was recently diagnosed with a rare blood cancer, and several pieces touch upon mortality – New York Times Book Review (January 7, 2007) highlighted a recent essay by Wiman in Poetry and praised the «blazing high style» of the prose. – Pieces have appeared, or are forthcoming, in leading magazines and journals, including: Harper’s; Harvard Divinity Bulletin; Hudson...
| Автор | Christian Wiman |
The Life of a Female Slave is a novel written by American suffragist and anti-slavery propagandist. Set in a fictional Kentucky location modeled off of the Owensboro and Daviess County, Kentucky of her childhood, Griffith recounted her personal experiences during her childhood through the voice of the enslaved woman Ann.
| Автор | Martha Griffith Browne |
Unverhofft kommt heiß…Christina möchte alleine auf dem alten Hof ihrer Familie in Schweden ein Wochenenende verbringen. Unerwartete Gesellschaft bekommt sie allerdings von zwei Kopenhagenern, die in eins der Gästezimmer ziehen. Nun nimmt das Wochenende eine Wendung, die Christina sich in ihren heißesten Träumen nicht hätte vorstellen können… -
| Автор | Camille Bech |
Ein allegorisches Märchen aus Novalis' romantischem Roman «Heinrich von Ofterdingen»: Das auf drei Ebenen – der Astralwelt, der Menschenwelt und der Unterwelt – sich zutragende Märchen beschreibt in abstrahierter und kondensierter Form den Inhalt des Romans und berichtet über den Übergang des zu Eis erstarrten Astralreiches zum goldenen Zeitalter. -
| Автор | Novalis |
Sprechstunde mit erotischem Höhepunkt.Cassandra langweilt sich. Das Wartezimmer der Arztpraxis ist gut gefüllt – trotz der heißen Temperaturen draußen. Doch zum Glück bietet die Sprechstunde mehr Abwechslung als gedacht, denn der leckere Arzt beschließt seine Patientin genauer unter die Lupe zu nehmen…-
| Автор | Vanessa Salt |
• Nothing as extensive or contemporary available. • Provides 5-15 poems by each poet. • Bilingual edition. Spanish is second only to English in this country. • Highlights a younger generation of Mexican poets, alongside some of Mexico’s most celebrated and internationally recognized poets. • Highlights the work of both established, celebrated translators, as well as that of a younger generation of translators. • Surveys...
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– Lehrer NewsHour to feature segment on Alberto Ríos’s poetry as it relates to the U.S.–Mexico border – paperback of cloth edition – cloth edition nominated for all major prizes and we are awaiting word – Ríos also known for his short fiction – Ríos represented in over 175 national and international anthologies and has been adapted to dance and both classical and popular music – “Ríos is arguably the best Latino poet writing in English...
| Автор | Alberto Ríos |
• This is one of the most important poets of the past century. • Entertaining quips and quotes about books, writing, poetry, writers, God, daily objects. • Pulitzer Prize winner, National Book Award winner, nearly every major award-winner. • These essays have long been a favorite of older poets, and now, in their newest incarnation, promise to be a favorite to a new generation of younger writers. • Kizer will promote the book as she promotes her own...
| Автор | Theodore Roethke |
• A MacArthur «Genius» Award winner• This new book is the companion volume to Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil • C.D. Wright is one of America’s most popular (and funkiest) poets, and one of the deeper thinkers about American poetry• C.D. Wright gets great attention for her work: National Book Award finalist; cover of Poets & Writers; starred reviews and Q&As in trade journals; featured on PBS NewsHour • Dave Eggers highlighted Wright's One Big Self in New York Times: «C. D....
| Автор | C.D. Wright |
In The Book of Marvels, award-winning poet Lorna Crozier offers a delightful series of prose meditations on household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen sink. Operating as a kind of a literary detective, Crozier brings her rapt attention to the everyday things she explores, uncovering the mystery that lies at their essence. She offers tantalizing glimpses of the household's inhabitants, too, probing hearts, brains, noses, and navels....
| Автор | Lorna Crozier |
Eine historische Novelle, die zur Zeit der Hugenottenverfolgung und der Bartholomäusnacht im Jahre 1572 spielt: Im Rückblick auf seine Jugend berichtet der protestantische Hans Schadau von seiner Freundschaft mit dem katholischen Freiburger Wilhelm Boccard, der ihm in Paris – mit Hilfe eines Amuletts – zweimal das Leben rettete. Auch seine Frau Gasparde konnte er nur dank seines Freundes aus den Wirren der Bartholomäusnacht befreien…-
| Автор | Conrad Ferdinand Meyer |
Un extenso nuevo mundo por descubrir en el que los personajes luchan no solo contra las sombras externas, sino también con las que llevan en su interior.
| Автор | Danilo Járlaz |
An jener seltsamen Stelle im Gehirn, die entscheiden soll, ob Raureif oder Mehltau eine Blume bedeckt, etwas süß oder bitter schmeckt, ein Geruch verlockend oder ekelerregend ist, genau dort, wo die Wahrnehmung kippt, nistet diese eigenartige Geschichte.Eine, die wiederholt behauptet, nicht von einer Familienauslöschung zu handeln. Willkommen im Klub Tropikal.
| Автор | Ina Elbracht |
In 2002, Nightwood published Where the Words Come From: Canadian Poets in Conversation , a successful first-of-its-kind collection of interviews with literary luminaries like Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Avison, Patrick Lane, Lorna Crozier and P.K. Page, conducted by “the younger generation” of poets of the day. Sixteen years later, What the Poets Are Doing brings together two younger generations of poets to engage in conversations with their peers on modern-day poetics,...
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“… without a doubt the greatest poet English Canada has ever produced.” —Dennis Lee “A hundred years from now, one of the few Canadian poets whose work will still be read will be Al Purdy.” — Maclean’s Al Purdy (1918–2000), known as Canada’s unofficial poet laureate, wrote poetry that anyone could read. Having come from working-class roots with little in terms of formal education, he wrote in a colloquial style and with a rowdy yet sensitive poetic persona that has captured the hearts of...
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Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s. From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen Canadian writers and poets who went on to become pillars of Canadian literature. These emerging icons of Canadian literature, including Margaret Laurence, Sinclair Ross, and Al Purdy, captured in Toppings’s interviews and readings, give intimate and compelling views of their developing prose and poetry, in their own...
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Ein Krimi, der nicht nur Kunstliebhaber zum Lesen einlädt!Lena kann es kaum glauben, dass sie tatsächlich mit dem Restaurator – welcher sich ihr als «Dante» vorgestellt hatte – geschlafen hat. Und das obwohl er so eingebildet ihr gegenüber gewesen war. Dante hingegen muss sich mit einem völlig anderen Problem befassen, denn er könnte in Machenschaften mit Raubkunst hinein gezogen werden, wenn er nicht aufpasst.-
| Автор | Mischa Bach |
"Esta criatura de alta soledad y vuelo invicto transmuta en múltiples dimensiones que han incidido desde siglos en el espíritu de los hombres. En el transcurso de diversos viajes por el Perú contemplé durante horas decenas de cóndores sobrevolar a pocos metros, en el Cañón del Colca. Perpleja y conmocionada por el imperio de su sombra intenté transmitir en estos poemas los ecos de su silencio y la extensión universal de su mensaje."
| Автор | María Casiraghi |
Novelist, short-story writer, critic, memoirist, broadcaster and journalist: Benedict Kiely (1919–2007) was not only one of the best known but one of the most artistically and culturally distinctive men of letters of his day. His fascination with the island of Ireland, the myths and memories of its people, and the many-voiced quality of its traditions, has secured for him a unique place in the country’s literary history. His substantial body of fiction and non-fiction is a repository of lore...
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Using such models as Joseph Cornell’s box constructions, crazy quilts, and specimen displays,Joni Tevis places fragments in relationship to each other in order to puzzle out lost histories,particularly those of women. Navigating the peril and excitement of outward journeyscomplicated by an inward longing for home, The Wet Collection follows Tevis through severaladventures that coalesce into a narrative imbued with the light of Tevis’s Southern upbringing.Written with a...
| Автор | Joni Tevis |
Widely regarded as one of the most progressive and educated states in the nation, Minnesota boasts a rich literary tradition. Writers from Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald to Louise Erdrich and Garrison Keillor have called it home. Like the rest of America, Minnesota has seen enormous changes over the century and a half since its founding. Population has skyrocketed, particularly into the suburbs ringing the city. Family farms have yielded to agribusiness, and waves of immigrants have...
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Gutenberg’s invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by persistent upheaval and transformation ever since, the current combination of technological developments, market pressures, and changing reading habits has led to an unprecedented paradigm shift in the world of books.Bringing together a wide range of perspectives — industry veterans and...
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