Reducere. Long live Man sings the poet Gregory Corso--despite atom bombs and computers, cold wars that get hot and togetherness that isn't, too many cars and...
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Reducere. Arranged in seven parts and culminating in the superb "The Showings: Lady Julian of Norwich, " Breathing the Water draws the readers deep into spir...
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Reducere. This bilingual collection of Eugene Guillevic's work, chosen from six of his books published between 1942 and 1966, and translated by the poet Deni...
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Reducere. This collection is made up of four sections: "Far West" poems of the Western mountain country where, as a young man. Gary Snyder worked as a logger...
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Reducere. Dreamy, meditative, and filled with the gritty everyday perils of a person living somewhere without papers (at one point Anh is subjected to some v...
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Reducere. This collection of stories and essays takes its title from a long prose reverie in which Henry Miller, after his return to the United States, think...
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Reducere. But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on th...
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Reducere. The Crack-Up tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined r...
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Reducere. Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consis...
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Reducere. When the three novellas in The King of Trees were published separately in China in the 1980s, Ah Cheng fever spread across the country. Never befor...
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Reducere. In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to ...
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Reducere. Summer in Baden-Baden was acclaimed by The New York Review of Books as "a short poetic masterpiece" and by Donald Fanger in The Los Angeles Times a...
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Reducere. A magnificent new collection of stories by “the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse” (Susan Sontag) In The World Goes On, a narrator first ...
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Reducere. Written with the elegance of old French fables, the dark sensuality of Djuna Barnes and the subtle comedy of Robert Walser, this semi-deranged erot...
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Reducere. Antipoems: New and Selected, a fresh bilingual gathering as well as retrospective of the work of Chile's foremost poet, reintroduces him to North A...
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Reducere. Anew, sun, to fire summer leaves move toward the air from the stems of the branches fire summer fire summer --from AnewHere is the complete music-f...
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Reducere. In this collection (originally published by The Seabury Press in 1977 as The Burning Heart, Kenneth Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi have assembled represe...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe editor of this anthology, Jonathan C. Creasy, begins with some of the well-known Black Mountain Poets--Olson, Creeley, Duncan, Lever...
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Reducere. The San Francisco Chronicle said Hofmann's "sleek translation does a wonderful job" and The New York Times concurred: "Anything by Kafka is worth r...
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Reducere. Alain Dani lou was an accomplished pianist, dancer, player of the Indian v n , painter, linguist and translator, photographer, and world traveler. ...
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Reducere. Dr. Starkie, a lecturer in French literature at Oxford, has devoted many years of research to Rimbaud, revising her biography three times as new ma...
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Reducere. In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, l...
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Reducere. In making this selection, writes William Cookson in his introduction to this paperback edition of early and out-of-print writings, my aim has been ...
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Reducere. The Nonconformist's Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howe's reputation as one of the leading experimentalists ...
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Reducere. House Mother Normal, subtitled "A Geriatric Comedy, " is the English writer B. S. Johnson's fifth novel. Unusual in both its subject and structure,...
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Reducere. Where Silence Reigns, a sampling from his essays, notebooks, and letters, shows Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the pre-eminent modern poet of soli...
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Reducere. The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in an insignificant Hungarian...
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Reducere. Slippery figures in anomalous situations - ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals- haunt these stories by Javier Marias: the characters come bearing ...
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Reducere. When this book was first published (as Summer Knowledge) in 1959. Delmore Schwartz was still riding a crest, the golden boy of the literary scene a...
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Reducere. This landmark novella--one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times--offers a child's-eye view of a...
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Reducere. For this collection, assembled in his fifty-fourth year, Kenneth Patchen has drawn from the contents of twelve of his books. It provides the reader...
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Reducere. "At the very start of the third semester, in one of the lectures on Marxism-Leninism, Nikita Dozakin made a remarkable discovery, " begins the stor...
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Reducere. Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the Best 100 English-language novels by Time magazine, T...
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Reducere. The Invention of Curried Sausage is an ingenious, revealing, and delightful novel about the invention of a popular German sidewalk food. Uwe Timm h...
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Reducere. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabea, one of life's unfortunates. Living in th...
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Reducere. A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work h...
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Reducere. The Rings of Saturn--with its curious archive of photographs--records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cro...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: W. G. SebaldTranslator: Michael Hulse The Rings of Saturn, with its curious archive of photographs, records a walking tour ...
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Reducere. "My story, the story of 'how I became a nun, ' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carole MasoWhile her father and best friend are dying, a young American woman tries to find the limits of love and the powe...
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Reducere. DescriptionJohn Gardner's most poignant novel of improbable love. At the heart of John Gardner's "Nickel Mountain" is an uncommon love story: when ...
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Reducere. Pulitzer PrizeForrest Gander s Core Samples from the World is a magnificent compendium of poetry, photography, and essay (a form of Japanese haibun...
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Reducere. In addition to the Voyage and Expedition, this edition also includes the dialogue "The Leper of the City of Aosta, " a preface by Xavier's better-k...
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Reducere. The Selected Poems of Rene Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet s wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism ...
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Reducere. Prefiguring themes of his later work, the acclaimed Japanese writer Shusaku Endo here writes of choices made by young adults learning who they are ...
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Reducere. For thirty-five years American poet Nathaniel Mackey has been writing a long poem of fugitive making like no other: two elegiac, intertwined serial...
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Reducere. The Desert and Its Seed opens with a taxi ride to the hospital: Eligia's face is disintegrating from acid thrown by her ex-husband while they signe...
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Reducere. This new edition ofLabyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges' writing edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (in translations...
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Reducere. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov's first novel in English, was completed in Paris in 1938, first published by New Directions in 1941, rei...
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Reducere. Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these two books shocked European literatue and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more r...
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Reducere. Written in a French style that long defied successful translation Cocteau was always a poet no matter what we was writing the book came into its ow...
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Reducere. Literary AwardLight, Grass, and Letter in April is the first book in English to appear since the great Danish poet's death in January 2009. Light (...
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Reducere. C sar Aira's newest novel in English is not about a conventional doctor. Single, in his forties, and poor, Dr. Aira is a skeptic. His personality -...
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Reducere. Boston Book ReviewGathered here are versions of Hinge Picture (1974), Chanting at the Crystal Sea (1975), Cabbage Gardens (1979), and Secret Histor...
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Reducere. Antonio Tabucchi, Italy's premier writer and a best-selling author throughout Europe, draws together Manolo the gypsy, Firmino, a young tabloid jou...
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