New directions 2021 (27 résultats)

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Dog Poems. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. Woolgathering. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. The Water Statues. Book.

Trade Paperback. Etat : Used.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. The Beginners. Book.

Paper Back. Etat : New.

Trade Paperback. Etat : New.

Trade Paperback. Etat : New.

Paper Back. Etat : New.

First edition, first printing New and bright wraps with crisp bright text throughout. Marvelous.

Etat : As New. Hbk, oblong 12mo, unpaginated, illustr throughout, drawings, watercolors, endpaper map, no dj as issued, decorated laminated black boards, a new and unread copy, excellent clean tight and unmarked, as new.

First edition, first printing As new and bright pictorial stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Gift quality. There is no cloth edition.

Paperback. Etat : New.

Paperback. Etat : New.

Paperback. Etat : New.

Soft cover. Etat : As New. 1st Edition. First printing. Small 8vo. Frontispiece photograph. 65 pp. Illustrated with B & W photographs. Original illustrated gray wrappers. This is a tight, fine book.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The National Book Award-winner Patti Smith updates her treasure box of a childhood memoir about 'clear unspeakable joy' and 'just the wish to know' with a radiant new afterword, written during the pandemic and reflecting on current times. This expanded paperback edition also includes new photographs by the author.A great book about becoming an artist, Woolgathering tells of a child finding herself as she learns the noble vocation of woolgathering, 'a worthy calling that seemed a good job for me.' She discovers-often at night, often in nature-the pleasures of rescuing 'a fleeting thought.' Woolgathering calls up our own memories, as the child 'glimpses and gleans, piecing together a crazy quilt of truths.' Smith shares the fierce, vital pleasures of stargazing and wandering. Her new Afterword, penned during the quarantine, opens new horizons in 'the scarcely charted landscape of memory governed by clouds.'Woolgathering celebrates the sacred nature of creation in Smith's singular language, acclaimed as 'glorious' (NPR), 'spellbinding' (Booklist), 'rare and ferocious' (Salon), and 'shockingly beautiful' (New York Magazine). Englisch.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. First printing; Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped jacket Very Good, mylar wrapped to ensure further preservation; An excellent copy.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Our canine companions offer us friendship, love, understanding, all unadulterated. They are our joyful playmates and our furry shoulders to cry on, from the cradle to the grave. This book brings together some of the finest poems on dogs by a range of poets from Diogenes to Dorothy Parker, from Chaucer to Clarice Lispector. Gertrude Stein once said, 'I am I because my little dog knows me,' and this collection proves it: with their wit, their wisdom, and their delights, these poems-and the dogs that inspired them-hold up a mirror to our better selves. Whether exploding with the joy of a new puppy or mourning the loss of a tender lifelong friend, growling a critique at the more 'civilized' habits of humans or simply spending a day in the life of a favorite pet, these poems offer something to dog lovers, poets, and poetry readers: in short, just about everyone.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Osip Mandelstam has become an almost mythical figure of modern Russian poetry, his work treasured all over the world for its lyrical beauty and innovative, revolutionary engagement with the dark times of the Stalinist era. While he was exiled in the city of Voronezh, the black earth region of Russia, his work, as Joseph Brodsky wrote, developed into 'a poetry of high velocity and exposed nerves, becoming more a song than ever before, not a bardlike but a birdlike song . something like a goldfinch tremolo.'Peter France-who has been brilliantly translating Mandelstam's work for decades-draws heavily from Mandelstam's later poetry written in Voronezh, while also including poems across the whole arc of the poet's tragically short life, from his early, symbolist work to the haunting elegies of old Petersburg to his defiant 'Stalin poem.' A selection of Mandelstam's prose irradiates the poetry with warmth and insight as he thinks back on his Petersburg childhood and contemplates his Jewish heritage, the sunlit qualities of Hellenism, Dante's Tuscany, and the centrality of poetry in society.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and his immersion in Sangam literary traditions, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations.While conducting fieldwork with a celebrated mycologist, Gander links human intimacy with the transformative collaborations between species that compose lichens. Throughout Twice Alive, Gander addresses personal and ecological trauma-several poems focus on the devastation wrought by wildfires in California where he lives-but his tone is overwhelmingly celebratory. Twice Alive is a book charged with exultation and tenderness.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass eye: uniting them is their concision and their vivacity. Lydia Davis in her introduction delves into her fascination with the pleasures and challenges of translating from a language relatively new to her. She also extols Snijders's 'straightforward approach to storytelling, his modesty and his thoughtfulness.'Selected from many hundreds in the original Dutch, the stories gathered here-humorous, or bizarre, or comfortingly homely-are something like daybook entries, novels-in-brief, philosophical meditations, or events recreated from life, but-inhabiting the borderland between fiction and reality-might best be described as autobiographical mini-fables.This morning at 11:30, in the full sun, I go up into the hayloft where I haven't been for years. I climb over boxes and shelving, and open the door. A frightened owl flies straight at me, dead quiet, as quiet as a shadow can fly, I look into his eyes-he's a large owl, it's not strange that I'm frightened too, we frighten each other. I myself thought that owls never move in the daytime. What the owl thinks about me, I don't know.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain, real-estate developers scramble to transform the once pastoral landscape into tourist resorts, nightclubs, and beachfront properties with lavish bars and pools. The booming post-Franco years have left everything up for grabs. Cremation opens with the death of Matías, a paterfamilias who had rejected all of these changes and whose passing sets off a chain reaction, uncovering a past that had been buried for years, and leading those closest to him to question the paths they've chosen.In a rich mosaic narrative, filled with a hypnotic chorus of voices, Cremation explores the coked-up champagne fizz of luxurious parties shadowed by underworlds of political corruption, prostitution, and ruthless financial speculation. The novel enters that melancholy ouroboros of capitalist greed that led to the financial crash and captures something essential about our values, our choices, and our all too human mistakes. Like William Faulkner or Francis Bacon, Chirbes stares, clear-eyed, into the abyss, and portrays us as we really are.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man named Beeklam, a wealthy recluse who keeps statues in his villa's flooded basement, where memories shiver in uncertain light and the waters run off to the sea.Dedicated to Ingeborg Bachmann and fleshed out with Jaeggy's austere yet voluptuous style, The Water Statues-with its band of deracinated, loosely related souls (milling about as often in the distant past as in the mansion's garden full of intoxicated snails)-delivers like a slap an indelible picture of the swampiness of family life.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century.In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms-essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents-Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In this witty 'how-to' guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: 'I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories,' she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she gave-anonymously-for many years in the well-known Polish journal Literary Life.She returns time and again to the mundane business of writing poetry properly, that is to say, painstakingly and sparingly. 'I sigh to be a poet,' Miss A. P. from Bialogard exclaims. 'I groan to be an editor,' Szymborska responds.Szymborska stubbornly insists on poetry's 'prosaic side': 'Let's take the wings off and try writing on foot, shall we ' This delightful compilation, translated by the peerless Clare Cavanagh, will delight readers and writers alike. Perhaps you could learn to love in prose.…

Landscape 8vo, unpaginated. Colour illustrations. A very good hardback copy. A facsimile edition (reminiscent of her classic book-in-a-box, Nox), H of H Playbook is a re-creation of Euripides's famous play, with illustrations by the author.