Etruscan press us (157 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: New. Zarathustra Must Die is a fictional memoir of a graduate student's odyssey through the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche - a journey that is far more than purely intellectual. Through many states of consciousness, Dorian Alexander finally comes to realise the nature of time and its role in human existence.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. William Heyen's work explores romantic conceptions of contemporary sport, powering its way into a post-catastrophe setting of dirty bombs in stadiums, tortured athletes, corporate domination, and cynicism on a global level.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Blending biblical characters into a deeply personal history, What We Ask of Flesh tells of women through time, their spirits borne through broken flesh, through wombs and memories. The body becomes instrument as words explore the mystical connection between what was and is.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. David Lazar extends the language of prose poetry, mixing the classical and the high modern, the song and dance man and the Odyssean. Nothing, he finds, is as far apart as we think, except for the chaos and order, innocence and experience. Lazar's voice is a sacred last resort: something's gotta give.The voice in these poems is semi-autobiographical and performative: masked yet emotionally raw. Each poem draws on the features of modernist poetry, using an arch, cadenced sentence as its primary unit, but drawing on the Iliad, Odyssey, and other classical myths as part of its internal cosmos.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. An Archaeology of Yearning explores a father's effort to understand a family landscape altered by autism.  Ultimately, however, the book is not about autism; it is about the central role of storytelling in sustaining human connections and the power of shared desires in embracing difference.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The world in Sara Pritchard's book is a known world and yet a strange place, with a cast of homeless characters who wander in and out of the stories of the collection, all set in the same university town. The linked stories take place during the time when gender discrimination in the American workplace was blatant, and when classified ads were labelled "male" or "female" accordingly.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Chromatic bears as its epigraph the philosopher Baruch Spinoza's assertion that "Desire is the very nature or essence of every single individual". The three sequences of poems in Chromatic test that claim. Each borrows its title: "Remarks on Color" from Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Eighteen Maniacs" from Duke Ellington, and "The Well-Tempered Clavier" from J. S. Bach. Exploiting those predecessors, the poems in Chromatic explore the full range of effects caused by human desire, from ecstasy to despair.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In verse that is both wild and taut with controlled fire, YOU. careens through a psychic underworld of passion and imprecation where husband and wife, father and daughter, addict and rehab, self and God, join and divide. Joseph Wood's book-length screed haunts like a Rilkean summons: YOU. must change your life.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Following the manic journey of a man stripped of memory, American Amnesiac confronts the complexities of being American in an age of corruption, corporations, and global conflict. Straddling confession and prophesy, history and myth, intimacy and anonymity, this award-winning collection of poems offers a riveting meditation on a distinctly American condition. With her consummate craft, Diane Raptosh has given us a collection of stunning, timely, and unforgettable poems.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Through the smoke lit pool halls, back roads, rehab centres, truckstops and diners of the still industrial lands of the US Midwest, Sean Thomas Dougherty offers us the stories he has lived and collected of men and women barely working, just getting by, but every morning still going on, even if unsure.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. One Turn Around The Sun is a panorama of poems that attempt to define the twilight during which a person becomes caretaker of parents and begins to grind against that old saying, "Life is too short". The book also studies the intricacies of being a self, a particular personality shaped by forces seen and unseen, both knowable and not. At times, the various voices might be considered characters that agree and sustain one perspective. In other cases, contending sensibilities imply an underlying argument. This is especially true of the book within the book, which is entitled "The Hilt".Several questions drive this collection, the most central being how can a person stay sane when so often socio-political circumstances mock all efforts to create a liveable world. This is a book intended to bolster an ongoing engagement with life at a time when running away is a great temptation.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The Subtle Bodies moves between lush landscapes and the violence imposed by humans upon the land, making contact with the world as it ebbs into a digitised silence.

Paperback. Condizione: New. A Heaven Wrought of Iron offers a fresh approach to - and a collaboration with - the Odyssey by weaving together translated fragments from the Greek text with a sequence of poems drawn from an imaginative engagement with the Odyssey.D.M. Spitzer's collection unfolds within the framework of the ancient epic: 24 books and a well-known and complex narrative architecture. The poems contained in the book inhabit a range of voices drawn from both the world of Homer's Odyssey and from that of the poet-as-reader.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Surrendering Oz is a memoir in essays that charts the emotional awakening of a bookish Bronx girl. From her early job as a proofreader at The Guinness Book of World Records through a series of dominating and liberating friendships and secret connections, the author takes charge of her life as a Texas professor, writer and wise student of her own soul.Reader's Digest says reading Surrendering Oz "is like having a conversation with a bracingly honest but fundamentally kind friend. In 15 pitch-perfect essays, she chronicles her hard-earned rejection of the cultural fairytales of womanhood as she comes fully into possession of her life".…

Paperback. Condizione: New. This is a book of journeys, but it is not a guidebook. In twelve essays, Cannot Stay delves into why we leave our front porch in the first place. It speaks to the experience of travel, to what it means to shake loose of your identity and stuff all you need in a worn daypack. Cannot Stay bears witness to how travel reawakens us to the world by revealing the strange in the familiar and the familiar in the strange.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Quick Kills chronicles the desperate longing to belong as well as the effects of neglect, familial absence, and the nature of secrets. The young female narrator is seduced by an older man who convinces her that she is the perfect subject for his photographs. Meanwhile, the narrator's sister embarks on an equally precarious journey. Never clearly delineating the border between art and pornography, the narrator's escalating disquiet is evidence that lines have been crossed. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. Legible Heavens explores what the most intimate forms of experience reveal about our most cosmic concerns, and vice versa. Its four sequences act like compass points to orient a human landscape. On one axis, "Star Chart for the Rainy Season" laments love lost, appealing to the biblical assertion that "love is stronger than death, and passion more cruel". in contrast to "Material Implication," which celebrates love found, in sonnets of desire insistently "glowing against the dusk". On the other axis, "All the One-Eyed Boys in Town" treats love as perdition, the speaker imagining his life as "a match scratched down your wingbones", in contrast to "Synopsis," which treats love as salvation, reinscribing the biblical gospels (canonical and apocryphal alike) to "solicit a miracle I must not expect".…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Black Metamorphoses pierces a 2,000+ year-old veil inspired by a range of Ovidian myths while resisting a direct conversion of the work. This collection explores the Black psyche, body, and soul, through inversion and brazen confrontation of work that has shaped Western civilisation. In a poetic range of forms, voices, and rhythms, the reader is bathed in ancestral memory, myth, and sense of the timeless of the shapeshifting, resilient Black body.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In Clay and Star, Romanian poet Liliana Maria Ursu captures with breathtaking precision the convergence of the sacred with the mundane. Whether anchored in Sibiu, Visby, Skala, or San Francisco, her poems both honour and transcend place and time as they search obsessively for essence, truths, self-knowledge, and the divine within.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In five spellbinding lyric sequences that record a lover's dreams and a dreamer's loves, I'm Here to Learn to Dream in Your Language extends H L Hix's ongoing poetic inquiry into spiritual and sexual ecstasy, that condition in which one becomes most oneself precisely by being transported out of oneself.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In As Much As, If Not More Than, H L Hix first harries poetry with thrusts and parries and, next, with a self-interview composed of questions quoted from other texts. Hix then tests with a stunning sequence of tributes from the poet to poets - in glosas - one of poetry's possibilities. It logs one explorer's journey into the incompletely mapped region between prose and poetry, the territory, as H.L. Hix himself identifies it, "between speaking and singing, elenchus and jive".…

Paperback. Condizione: New. It is late 1948 and days before his wife is to give birth for the first time, Ghassan is approached by two talking jackals threatening that, if he doesn't paint the signs of the newly named villages and towns, his wife will give birth to a goat. Thus begins the exile to Gaza of Ghassan and his goat.In the mode of Borges, Calvino and Coetzee, In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees presents linked mytho-poetic tales delving beneath the long Palestinian diaspora; the history of Gaza is told as never before: through the eyes of a night guardian of a talking goat; a carrier pigeon that befriends a young boy who sells photos of martyrs; a refugee who eats books and then recites them word for word; a Palestinian father who sneaks animals into Gaza through a labyrinth of tunnels; a talking sheep who is caged in the Gaza Zoo.These mystical voices echo in the mind of an American stranger as he witnesses the beauty and horror of this ancient, suffering land. In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees is a disquieting allegory of the clash between the powerful and the silenced.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Lines of Inquiry offers verse essays, interviews, letters, and other exploration into matters as minute as a freckle in the ear of a stranger on the Shanghai subway and as vast as the equal standing of all humans before the truth. Hix's lines of inquiry yield surprising answers to pressing questions.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. 50 Miles is a memoir in linked essays that addresses addiction and alcoholism. The book traces the life of the author's son, Gray, a talented but troubled young man, and his death from a drug overdose at thirty, as well as the author's own recovery from substance abuse.

Paperback. Condizione: New. H L Hix's Incident Light explores a life that became "instantly mythical" after a startling revelation. The artist Petra Soesemann learned at age forty-nine that the dad who had raised her from birth was not her biological father. Her dad had died some years before - her father was still alive. Her dad, like her mother, was a blue-eyed German blond; her father was Turkish, with dark eyes and dark hair like Petra's own.Incident Light is a biography: not an ordered account of the facts of a life, but an invitation into the dad's devotion, the mother's passion, the father's honour, and especially into the daughter's own embracing of her experience, newly understood. It testifies to the many lives that converge on one life to lend it beauty and mystery.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. In A Poetics of Hiroshima, William Heyen has broken through to face full square what has been working its way to surface through several of his highly-praised earlier books including Shoah Train (Etruscan Press, 2003): the interfusions, in art and in our desire for art, of beauty and atrocity. Heyen's lines claw their ways into an aesthetics of formful but obscene sound that may now be our century's only viable, or possible, home. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. Toucans in the Arctic is about an inspired truant from any number of poetical schools. In this lyrical case study, the poet wanders through the national park of the psyche, noting surfeits of beauty and ruin as he scrambles across its escarpments of identity and marriage.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Serious and witty, mystical and dark, these short stories by Meg Pokrass are small windows into another world, a world that is almost this one - but not quite. In her masterful pieces, Pokrass leads her readers on, page by page, enticing them with her beautiful and dream-like language.Bopping and slamming through these little stories like some genius world tour of the human heart, Pokrass gets a lot done in the shortest spaces imaginable. This collection of tiny, intimate truffles is as powerful as soul-chocolate infused with caffeine.Each of these 50 stories contains bite-sized glimpses into the lives of everyday people, leaving the reader with the long and lasting effects of a full-length novel. Each chapter delves into relevant life events that require further contemplation. Her language is supercharged and witty, with humour and sadness in approximately equal amounts, revealing the dark truth and reality of the world.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. Mr. Either Or: All the Rage is high-thrills poetry; set in a funhouse Manhattan apocalypse; a mixture of pregnancy, sleep-training and violence. A sequel to Mr. Either Or (Etruscan Press, 2017), this verse-novel features "you" the reader as a secret agent in Manhattan in which poetic rhythms cue and accompany action-scenes. "You" and your girlfriend Li-ling Levine save the world from villains fighting for anarchy and the end of the human race.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. H L Hix's Rain Inscription gives vivid testimony to the paradox that human making is both lasting and fleeting. Each of its three sections (a sonnet-sequence QandA with contemporary cultural studies, a renewal of the sayings of Herakleitos and Jesus, and a group of dialogues with contemporary artists) extends an already capacious dialogue beyond its prior limits.…