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

Paperback. Condizione: 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. Condizione: 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.

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

Paperback. Condizione: 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. Condizione: New. Imagine middle European 19th century royalty, Twilight Zone twists, urbane humor, loving characterizations.

Paperback. Condizione: 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.

Paperback. Condizione: 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. Condizione: New. Imagine middle European 19th century royalty, Twilight Zone twists, urbane humor, loving characterizations.

Paperback. Condizione: New. A fascinating portrait of life in London, Germany and a Dominican convent around the end of the last century. The author has also included a chapter on the time she spent with her grandfather, the Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Maddox Brown.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The Green Parrot is a strange and beautiful story with the faintly arid charm of a miniature painted on the cover of a seventeenth snuff box. There is a great deal of reticent drama, but no melodrama. The overtones of the story are left to the reader's imagination. The result is a slender, but captivating and completely self sufficient novel. THE NEW YORK TIMES.

Paperback. Condizione: 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. Condizione: 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. Condizione: New. Imagine middle European 19th century royalty, Twilight Zone twists, urbane humor, loving characterizations.

Paperback. Condizione: 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. Condizione: 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. Condizione: New. The Guardian called this first novel by Stuart David, founding member of the rock group Belle and Sebastian, "a stunning insight into reclusion," and The Times wrote, "delicately written and achingly sad.".

Paperback. Condizione: 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. Condizione: 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. Condizione: New. A fascinating portrait of life in London, Germany and a Dominican convent around the end of the last century. The author has also included a chapter on the time she spent with her grandfather, the Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Maddox Brown.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The Green Parrot is a strange and beautiful story with the faintly arid charm of a miniature painted on the cover of a seventeenth snuff box. There is a great deal of reticent drama, but no melodrama. The overtones of the story are left to the reader's imagination. The result is a slender, but captivating and completely self sufficient novel. THE NEW YORK TIMES.

Paperback. Condizione: 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. Condizione: New. "A masterpiece of women's frontier experience!" -KATHY SCHULZ, author of The Underground Railroad in Ohio"This is an amazingbook, and I couldn't stop reading it." -JOAN SILBER, PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Secrets of Happiness and Improvement"An awesome account of female survival at a horrific time." -BOOKLISTAmost unusual portrait of early America based on a rare family document, in which a young mother's years in captivity with the Shawnee prove to be the best years of her life.It's 1779 and a young white woman named Margaret Erskine is venturing west from Virginia, on horseback, with her baby daughter and the rest of her family. She has no experience of Indians, and has absorbed most of the prejudices of her time, but she is open-minded, hardy, and mentally strong, a trait common to most of her female descendants-Sallie Bingham's ancestors.Bingham had heard Margaret's story since she was a child but didn't see the fifteen pages Margaret had dictated to her nephew a generation after her captivity until they turned up in her mother's blue box after her death. Devoid of most details, this restrained account inspired Bingham to research and imagine and fill the gaps in her story and to consider the tough questions it raises. How did Margaret, our narrator, bear witnessing the murder of her infant? How did she survive her near death at the hands of the Shawnee after the murder of the chief? Whose father was her baby John's, born nine months after her taking? And why did her former friends in Union, Virginia, turn against her when, ransomed after four years, she reluctantly returned?This is the seldom told story of the making of this country in the years of the Revolution, what it cost in lives and suffering, and how one woman among many not only survived extreme hardship, but flourished.

Paperback. Condizione: New. For Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera, poet David Trinidad watched all 514 episodes of the infamous 1960s 'adult' primetime soap opera and wrote a haiku for everyone. Fraught relationships, courtroom cliffhangers and sensational storylines are condensed into 17-syllable episodes, as stereotypic characters weather the passing TV seasons. This haiku 'soap epic' is ingenious, funny and totally addictive.

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

Paperback. Condizione: 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. Condizione: 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. Condizione: New. Johnston's third book of poetry returns ad fontes: to sources in Greek and Latin, secret derivations, wellsprings of feelings and forces of nature. Sonically alert, these poems attend to a world with restless curiosity.

Paperback. Condizione: 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. Condizione: 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.