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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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Verruchte Lust und Leidenschaft pur!Ans Bett gefesselt kann Adriane der in ihr aufkeimenden Lust nicht mehr wiederstehen und lässt sich hemmungslos von ihrer Pflegerin befrieden. Obszöne, zügellose Wünsche und Träume gehen Adriane durch den Kopf – so unschuldig wie ihr Körper sind ihre Gedanken längst nicht mehr.-
| Автор | Michael Martin |
¿Qué ocurre cuando un director de cine coincide en una cena con una actriz cuatro décadas menor y los recuerdos evocan pasiones casi extintas? Desde un presente nostálgico, la posibilidad de un encuentro desencadena el deseo de los personajes, unidos en una ilusión de película.
| Автор | Poli Délano |
Over the course of six critically acclaimed books—including a compelling meditation on Moby-Dick—Dan Beachy-Quick has established himself as “one of America’s most significant young poets” (Lyn Hejinian).In Wonderful Investigations, Beachy-Quick broaches “a hazy line, a faulty boundary” between our daily world and one rich with wonder; a magical world in which, through his work as a writer, Beachy-Quick participates with a...
| Автор | Dan Beachy-Quick |
A multicultural anthology, edited by Susan O’Connor and Annick Smith, about the enduring importance and shifting associations of the hearth in our world.<br><br> A hearth is many things: a place for solitude; a source of identity; something we make and share with others; a history of ourselves and our homes. It is the fixed center we return to. It is just as intrinsically portable. It is, in short, the perfect metaphor for what we seek in these complex and contradictory times—set in...
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Teachers, exercises, mentors, critiques, humor, and inspiration: these form the fuel all writers need when they get down to work every day. For decades the Loft Literary Center has provided this fuel to an enormous community of writers. Views from the Loft brings together the collected wisdom of that community — its authors, students, and editors — giving anyone the tools and inspiration necessary to thrive in the writing life. A who’s who of writers on writing...
| Автор | Daniel Slager |
This essential collection of Michael McClure's poetry contains the most original, radical, and visionary work of a major poet who has been garnering acclaim and generating controversy for more than fifty years. Ranging from <i>A Fist Full,</i> published in 1957, through <i>Swirls in Asphalt,</i> a new poem sequence, <i>Of Indigo and Saffron i</i>s both an excellent introduction to this unique American voice and an impressive selection from McClure's...
| Автор | Michael McClure |
Der rätselhafte Fall um die Enthauptung des Wahrzeichens von Kopenhagen: Jeder kennt zumindest ein Bild der kleinen Meerjungfrau, wie sie so bescheiden in den Kopenhagener Gewässern unweit des Schlosses sitzt. Doch als Heinz Günther früh gegen 3.30 Uhr am 25. April 1964 seinen Blick gen Statue richtete, wollte er seinen Augen kaum trauen, als er die kopflose Meerjungfrau erblickte… Wer steckte hinter der Enthauptung? -
| Автор | Frederik Strand |