Download or read book An Exaltation of Forms written by Annie Finch and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty poets examine the architecture of poems--from the haiku to rap music--and trace their history
Download or read book Stella written by Peter Wyden and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Stella Goldschlag, whom Wyden knew as a child, and who later became notorious as a "catcher" in wartime Berlin, hunting down hundreds of hidden Jews for the Nazis. A harrowing chronicle of Stella's agonizing choice, her three murder trials, her reclusive existence, and the trauma inherited by her illegitimate daughter in Israel. 16 pages of B&W photographs.
Download or read book Talking Verse written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Tragic Man Despite Himself written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well known throughout the world for his late-19th and early-20th century plays Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Sea Gull and The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov also wrote numerous short dramatic sketches, faces, burlesques and dialogues. In this volume, George Malko has newly translated all of these dramatic writings, 19 works dating from 1883 to 1902, six of which have never before been translated into English. As translator George Malko notes, this gathering is a reminder that despite a life of tragedy, Chekhov believed in life's enduring comic humanity.
Download or read book Merciless Beauty written by Samuel Abraham Eisenstein and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loni is imprisoned for murdering her husband, Michael. But, as the story of this beautiful and increasingly hardened woman gradually reveals, he is not her only victim. Time and time again she has murdered his likeness as it appeared in its various guises - be it a childhood piano teacher or a lover. Like a vampire, Loni is doomed to destroy any man who falls in love with her. This novel is both a stunning poem in the manner of Schubert's Death and the Maiden' and a hilarious riff on contemporary culture.'
Download or read book To Prohibit Free Federal Employee Parking written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charlie P written by Richard Kalich and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Charlie P author Richard Kalich offers us a singularly unique, comic and outlandish Everyman. A looney-tune figure of the American manchild - the kind of eternally adolescent men one sees on any American street corner - who, in his episodic adventures through life, loses his penis, is completely dismembered, suffocated, starved and cut in half, yet continues to come back for more. At age three, when his father dies, he decides to overcome mortality by becoming immortal. By not living his life he will live forever. Whether he's persuing the girl of his dreams, or a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, Charlie P ends up with no more than a peck on the cheek or robbed blind. Even when dead and called to Heaven for an accounting, he remains the eternal optimist. Now that he's dead and gone, he finally has a real chance at achieving his ends. He can start over. Having never lived his life, his life has not yet hardly begun. Akin to other great American icons such as Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, Ring Lardner's Al, and Forrest Gump, Charlie P plumbs the relation between fantasy and reality to offer us a character both asocial and alienated and, at the same time, at the heart of the American Dream."--BOOK JACKET.
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Download or read book The Big Lie written by Mark Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. A boy finds an artist's manifesto on the floor, a gay man reflects on his regrets, a woman suddenly sees a man's face through her car window. Subtly referencing some of the great iconoclasts of literature and philosophy (Kafka, Wilde, Nietzsche), the vignettes in THE BIG LIE unveil a defiant sense of contemporary artistic possibility, rising at times into a full-scale attack on American style consumerism, unmediated authorship, and the bloated privileges of literary genius. Quick shifts between styles, personas, and subject matter keep the reader critical and wary.
Download or read book Progress written by Barrett Watten and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of these two innovative long poems by one of the best-known poets and critics associated with Language writing. Upon its original publication in 1985, Progress was greeted with enthusiasm and public debate. Its linguistically charged, emotionally relentless and culturally reflexive non-narrative form was pitched against the media saturation and political banality of the Reagan era. Under Erasure (published in a limited edition in 1991) was written during its purported realisation at the end of the Cold War in 1989, an event it records.
Download or read book Haze written by Mark Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Fiction. Cross-Genre. "Marvelous! A book that thinks! and that speaks out plainly and politically. In this collection of short essays, poems, and various hybrid genres, Mark Wallace takes poetry seriously--and often in the most tongue-in-cheek way, but below the quick wit is a belief in and love of language and the art that it can make. Wallace has made that art here. "If poetry is, as I believe, the art that allows people access to their own complexity..." he writes, and goes on from there to show what can happen in a world where this is true. It's news"--Cole Swensen.
Download or read book Sebastien Your Son written by Claire Deveze and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French writer Claire Deveze details the terrible sufferings of her best friend during the course of the tragic death of her son by cancer. The loving distance of friendship allows for an intense description of events which would be impossible to bear, perhaps, if described by the mother of the dying child. As it is the pains and joys of a close group of friends, as they live through their friend's painful experiences, are are expressed beautifully in this loving tribute to the son, Sebastien, and the possibilities and limitations of friendship.
Download or read book Combo written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Year 2005 written by Douglas Messerli and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years the noted author and founded-publisher of Sun & Moon Press and Green Integer has been spurred by fellow writers and friends to write his memoirs. But Messerli argues that he does not have the sensibility to write only about his personal experiences, since his life has been primarily defined by cultural encounters - thus this annual collection of essays on these experiences as well as the hundreds of notable figures with whom he has had friendships and working relationships. The 2005 volume includes Paul Auster, Robert Creeley and John O'Keefe, among others.
Download or read book Dead Carnival written by Mark Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. In this novel, by poet and essayist Mark Wallace, a scientist creates gilled human monstrosities that are also avatars of the possibility of imaginative transcendence. Experimentation in language and in the laboratory produce equally vertiginous results. "In these worlds, ideas and narratives flurry madly and wink out like sparks, the dead walk, and the monstrous is never far away. Part Lovecraft, part de Sade, part B-horror movie, part philosophy, DEAD CARNIVAL is a schizophrenic and uniquely American Novel of Ideas" Brian Evenson "Mark Wallace writes like John Hawkes dreaming of Paul Bowles having a gothic nightmare" Ron Sukenick."
Download or read book My Year 2004 written by Douglas Messerli and published by Green Integer/El-E-Phant. This book was released on 2008 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume in Messerli's ongoing cultural memoirs', beginning in the year 2000, considers all things 'under the skin': readings, events and memories that have defined him as a person. In his ongoing attempt to write about a life defined by cultural experiences, Messerli delves deep into the cultural events, both popular and literary, he was witness to during his lifetime.'
