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Paperback. Etat : New. A friend and confident of Igor Stravinsky, Gertrude Stein and many other dazzling figures from the 20th century, Lord Berners is now truly coming into his own. A newly discovered autobiographical reverie, Dresden, offers a window into the adolescence of an extremely perceptive and sensitive young man. Like Proust, it is in the deeply personal where Berners shines the brightest. Dresden is the final volume in his series of autobiographical work which are both charming and subtle.

Paperback. Etat : New. Koestenbaum's book of poems minces memory and culture into titbits to propose a new 'nude' poetics. The collection draws upon his signature themes - stardom, scapegoating, aestheticism, nudism, exaltation - and cuts them into serial strips. Using techniques such as pointillism, mosaic, aphorism, litany and philosophical investigation, the poet trips through a memory theatre whose luminaries range from Yvonne De Carlo to Hannah Arendt and assembles melancholy tesserae into tidily stanzaic sacrificial offerings.

Etat : Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Paperback. Etat : New. A remarkable satire about a talking parrot written by Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter.

Paperback. Etat : New. Set in the early part of the 20th century and focussing on the Henderson sisters of Pliny Falls, New York, this novel begins with the sudden death of the family matriarch. Out of this loss, two daughters in their early thirties, Martha and Esther,are left in a world suddenly fractured. For the first time they must encompass the perils of adult life. Their journey of discovery.

Paperback. Etat : New. The sequel to Lord Berners' First Childhood, A Distant Prospect is a poignant and witty account of Eton, early adolescence and a boy's awakening to the spell of Wagner, ballet and musical composition. Not only witty and amusing, but contains things to ponder over in plenty behind the mere youthful years. The portraits of his friends are complete portraits, sketched brilliantly in a few strokes.' - Tatler'.

Paperback. Etat : New. "Jocelyn Brooke is a great writer. . . . If you care enough for literature, seek out The Scapegoat."-Elizabeth Bowen"Brooke marked out his magical, personal kingdom, different from any other writer."-Anthony Powell.

Paperback. Etat : New. Poet Mark Ford has described the letters of James Schuyler as witty, graceful, sophisticated and gossipy.' Particularly poignant and delightful are these newly released Schuyler letters to fellow poet Frank O'Hara. They are entertaining, offhanded, intimate and transcendently poetic.'.

Paperback. Etat : New. Poet Mark Ford has described the letters of James Schuyler as witty, graceful, sophisticated and gossipy.' Particularly poignant and delightful are these newly released Schuyler letters to fellow poet Frank O'Hara. They are entertaining, offhanded, intimate and transcendently poetic.'.

Paperback. Etat : New. Afterword by Sir Edward Creasey.

Paperback. Etat : New. A BOOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE, 2021Diane Glancy once again puts Indigenous women at the center of American history in her account of a young Inupiat woman who survived a treacherous arctic expedition alone. "This moving retelling of a heroic woman's journey demonstrates that history lives through an intimate connection between two women beyond time's borders."-Booklist, starred reviewIn September 1921, a young Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack traveled to Wrangel Island, 200 miles off the Arctic Coast of Siberia, as a cook and seamstress, along with four professional explorers. The expedition did not go as planned. When a rescue ship finally broke through the ice two years later, she was the only survivor. Diane Glancy discovered Blackjack's diary in the Dartmouth archives and created a new narrative based on the historical record and her vision of this woman's extraordinary life. She tells the story of a woman facing danger, loss, and unimaginable hardship, yet surviving against the odds where four "experts" could not. Beyond the expedition, the story examines Blackjack's childhood experiences at an Indian residential school, her struggles as a mother and wife, and the faith that enabled her to survive alone on a remote island in the Arctic Sea.Glancy's creative telling of this heroic tale is a high mark in her award-winning hybrid investigations of suffering, identity, and Native American history.

Paperback. Etat : New. Afterword by Sir Edward Creasey.

Paperback. Etat : New. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's 15th collection, Richard Howard looks back with humour, humanity and gusto at his own education in a small progressive Midwest private school. An entire sixth grade class comes to life and captivates the reader as it grapples with science and literature; teacher and principal; and the hard facts and comic fancies of life itself. This work is fresh and free-handed, an achievement the more readily made since the book's contents involve the disciplines and exemptions, as well as the vocabulary of his own schooling.

Paperback. Etat : New. A collection of lucid, whimsical, wise, succint and sometimes biting musings by a young Australian living in New York. Author James Guida revives an old form, the aphorism, in order to turn his eye to 21 century scenarios. The comedy of internet dating, email fiascos and improvised postmodern mores - whatever the subject, Guida's conclusions are independent minded and go against the grain.

Paperback. Etat : New. The first English translation of BERLIN by the great French poet Jules Laforgue, whose works greatly influenced T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. Shortly before his death, Laforgue, who has been called the French Keats, was appointed the daily French Reader' to the Empress Augusta, a descendant of Catherine the Great and a German princess who despised most things German. This book is a precise, witty detail of everyday Berlin life in the 1880's.'.

Paperback. Etat : New. Christopher Cahill's debut collection is intensely seductive and inventively disquieting. An omnivore of poetry, Cahill's influences range from contemporary poetry, Irish poetry, Victorian poetry to Classical Latin. Described as the heir of James Schuyler and Phillip Larkin, Cahill's verse heightens and degrades at the same time; his tone is one of nostalgia and scorn. The Drug of Choice is a lush and lacerating debut collection of poetry.

Paperback. Etat : New. In First Childhood Lord Berners demonstrates the neat precision of wit and style which typifies his musical compositions. This is a subtle work of art and a masterpiece of understatement. Autobiography of the very finest quality. Having enjoyed in the course of reading it the loudest and longest laughs I have enjoyed in the last two years I am incapable of making any critical observations. I found the book to be enchanting from cover to cover.' - Daily Mail'.

Paperback. Etat : New. The most original book of Julien Gracq's later output is about Nantes. It begins with a quotation from Beaudelaire that is repeated and distorted. Nantes, still haunted by Andr© Breton, Jacques Vache and Rimbaud behind them is reconstructed from a remembered image in which the lyc©e Cl©menceau occupies the centre. Pathos filtered through humour guides the author as he writes of a child's experience of the hierarchy of urban spaces. This is a beautiful work, provocative and powerfully set amid verifiable and equally moving land- and cityscapes.

Paperback. Etat : New. "Playful, brooding, skeptical, ironic-Sanders turns high-jinks edginess into compassionate art in this crafty and urgent book of warnings."-Edward Hirsch.

Paperback. Etat : New. Ventures into new, sometimes unprecedented, territory - from the luxe restraint of Merrymount through the stops-out eroticism of Pending and the distilled heebie-jeebies of Dream On. Here, reading, travel and sexual orientation (and disorientation) loom larger than before in Porter and the dialogue gives new play for what Harry Mathews has called Porter's golden ear'.'.

Paperback. Etat : New. In a voice that is urgent, Howard Altmann asks the world to be patient with all that it cannot hear. Poet John Ashberry calls Altmann's interrogations and his hypnotic, mysterious and dreamlike poems 'as essential as a glass of water'.

Paperback. Etat : New. Nomadologies is a complex and brilliant evocation of the fractured and hyphenated mindset of the contemporary Turkish writer and thinker. Erdag Göknar takes us on a dazzling virtual world tour encompassing history, aesthetics, and politics, from Bosnia to Chechnya to the Silk Road to Union Square and back to the place that was once the center of the civilized world, Istanbul/Constantinople. Turkophiles like myself have been waiting for years for Göknar to publish his findings from the multilayered world he inhabits, and here it is. This is a book I shall be returning to often.Richard Tillinghast, author of An Armchair Traveller's History of Istanbul and cotranslator of Dirty August by Edip CanseverThe poems in Nomadologies connect moments of separation and union in a life lived between Turkey and America. Taking its organizing principle from the grammar of nomadic life, Nomadologies reveals that mobility is the most efficient strategy for sustaining contradictory existences. Here, we learn that poetry is a landscape of inhabitation, and perpetual exile is one's home.Erdag Göknar is a scholar, writer, and translator. He is best known for his award-winning translation of Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's novel My Name Is Red. He is a faculty member at Duke University where he researches, teaches, and writes on Turkish Studies.

Paperback. Etat : New. "Coles is a true original." ?Tom SleighThe Stranger I Become probes the permeable boundary between inner life and outer, thought and action, science and experience. Poet Katharine Coles begins her lyric essays with a meditation on "the urge to move beyond, to understand myself as a stranger, estranged." The essays travel, always on foot, from Coles's home with its kept and wild birds, into the canyon her home overlooks, itself populated with creatures ranging from voles to owls, moose, bobcats, and coyotes. From there, always looking, always walking, in the company of the words that move her, they traverse her neighborhood and distant places in this country and the world. All along, they consider the poetry that inhabits her: the winged creatures of Dickinson, Ashbery's "reflections," Keats's "irritable reaching," Anne Carson's ever-unreachable apples, and more. Taken together, they make up what Lance Olsen calls "a poetics of the vivid.".

Paperback. Etat : New. The field of ecopoetics', 'literature and environment' and 'nature writing' have become increasingly popular. Consisting of eight essays written in a compact and vivid prose reminiscent of Hazlitt, Thoreau and Delamain, Creaturely crosses the border between humans and animals, seeking out intersections between culture and nature in the city parks and empty lots of St Louis.'.

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Etat : New. Pulitzer Prize-nominee Joe Ashby Porter has created a new collection of innovative short stories which range across the US and Europe and acknowledge the sway of chance and contingency in our lives. Porter's stories fuse fact and unlikelyhood, reality and the uncanny. They are irresistibly readable - Richard Wilbur One of the most consistently rewarding writers in the US and among the most intelligently exciting - Stephen Dixon It's his humanity that astonishes me - E. White.

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Paperback. Etat : New. Widow's Dozen, Marek Waldorf's mind-bending, genre-blending short story collection, offers 11 coruscating stories from a past that never was to a future too late to forestall. Subtle lives - nostalgia lit, lovingly textured - bridge currents in catastrophe from the impossible to the remote to the inevitable. A captivating vision of America's dismembered states, that is less science fiction than future-shock treatment.

Paperback. Etat : New. In Psalm to Whom(e), the restless and astonishing DianeGlancy continues to break new ground with a hybrid collection of personal writingsthat considers the relationship between place and faith; the need for movement,stability, and inner exploration; and the search for home. Psalm to Whom(e) centers on Kansas and rural Texas, placesthat usually see the underside of planes. Glancy focuses on geography. History. Origins.  Memory.  Faith. Once in a while, in desperation, she offers a prayer to whom(e)ver isthere. Glancy stretches and pulls the language to see behind the words: oldNative thought patterns, for instance, or echoes of Gertrude Stein. She takesus with her into museums, churches, and national parks, shuttling freelybetween personal, cultural, and spiritual history, narration and poeticexploration.Psalm to Whom(e) defines the world as a place on which tomark, as evidenced in the earliest pictographs. Embedded in the markings on cave walls and rock facings are circles andspirals in which the impulses to move, to travel, to migrate, to explore one'sown inner wilderness and solitude are homed.The "whom(e)" is in an essay, "Among My Friends Are Lettersof the Alphabet."  "As a loner I write alot because I have to have something to do and the letters of the alphabetalways are there." The isolation of Covid may have driven her farther back intohistory, she says. Into the beginning of faith on the prairie.  Into her own believing on her grandfather'sfarm and her own father's work in the stockyards. "Sometimes I add letters towords.  As an 'e' as in 'whome' becausethen I see home, for which I always am looking.".

Paperback. Etat : New. A New York Times Book Review New and Noteworthy Selection"The Marble Bed is a vision; it is an ode to life."-Rowan Ricardo Phillips"Each poem in The Marble Bed journeys far, wandering the territory of love's psyche."-Yusef Komunyakaa"One of the permanent poets of her generation."-Harold BloomGrace Schulman rises to new heights in these poems of lament and praise. In The Marble Bed, a couple dances on a shore that is at once a shining turf and a graveyard of sea toss, of cracked shells, a skull-like carapace, and emerald weed. Here things sparkle with newness: an orchid come alive when rescued from a trash bin; the new year hidden in an egret's wing; Coltrane's ecstatic flight; a seductive, come-hither angel; a meteor's arc; a rainbow's painted ribbons; a glacial rock that glowers in moonlight. Even the tomb sculptures in an Italian cemetery sparkle with vitality. Schulman, grieving for her late husband, believes passionately in the power of art to redeem human transience. Her faith in art enables her to move from mourning to joyful wonder of existence as she meditates on an injured world and concludes: "Because I cannot lose the injured world / without losing the world, / I'll have to praise it.".