A Personal Anthology

Author : Richard J. Fein
Publisher : Host Publications, Inc.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 092404764X

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With Everything We Have Got by Richard J. Fein Pdf

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Edited and translated by Richard J. Fein. In WITH EVERYTHING WE'VE GOT, Richard J. Fein introduces English-speaking audiences to some of the most poignant and passionate voices of the twentieth century. This outstanding collection features the work of fifteen acclaimed Yiddish poets, and includes the translator's own poetic responses to their verse, and to the act of translation itself. With extensive biographies of the poets, an incisive introduction to the cultural background of their work, and a bilingual English/Yiddish format, WITH EVERYTHING WE'VE GOT is a wholly enjoyable and diverse anthology of Yiddish poetry. Including poetry from: B. Alkvit-Blum, Jacob Glatstein, Uri Zvi Greenberg, Moyshe-Lyeb Halpern, Izi Kharik, Moyshe Kulbak, H. Leivick, Mani Leyb, Itzik Manger, Anna Margolin, Perets Markish, Itshe Slutski, Abo Stolzenberg, Abraham Sutzkever, and Aaron Zeitlin.

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780802190741

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A Personal Anthology by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

Handpicked works from the greatest Argentinian writer of the twentieth century. “Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist” (Carlos Fuentes, author and diplomat). After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work—short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant “sketches,” which, in Borges’s hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters. In this anthology, the author has put together those pieces on which he would like his reputation to rest; they are not arranged chronologically, but with an eye to their “sympathies and differences.” A Personal Anthology, therefore, is not merely a collection, but a new composition. “An important work, by far the best yet available to the reader . . . who seeks a representative sampling of the great Argentine writer . . . the standard introduction to Borges in England and the United States.” —Saturday Review

Author : Primo Levi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-24
Category : Anthologies
ISBN : 1566635047

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The Search for Roots by Primo Levi Pdf

Here is a collection of writings that Primo Levi considered to be essential reading. These 30 pieces reflect his knowledge of science and deep passion for literature, and his survival of Auschwitz - making it an anthology that is both universal and autobiographical.

Author : Roberta B. Marks
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847866977

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Roberta B. Marks by Roberta B. Marks Pdf

The first monograph on artist Roberta B. Marks explores her collages and constructions, which focus on the themes of memory, time, and transcendence through a feminist and Buddhist perspective. Marks creates constructions that have an intimacy to them and at the same time contain entire worlds of feeling and memory. Each is a vignette--a narrative of a personal nature. She transforms a range of objects and materials, often of mundane and humble origin, into eloquent and highly personal forms of self- expression. Marks's work speaks to the human impulse to collect, preserve, and immortalize. Her pieces are intuitive and instinctual, exuding a sense of mystery. The viewer enters into an intensely private realm, yet the themes are universal--loss, longing, old age, death, repression, and liberation--thus evoking a feeling of familiarity. A practicing Buddhist, Marks achieves her clarity through daily meditation. She has written "when constructing a work, I pare it down to the essence--the minimal. Each chosen object represents years of seeing with acute awareness." Marks's writings accompany a selection of approximately 200 of her most evocative works.

Author : Jorges Borges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:30421301

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A Personal Anthology by Jorges Borges Pdf

Author : Phillip Lopate
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780385423397

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The Art of the Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate Pdf

For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking a walk -- to offer insight into the human condition and the great social and political issues of the day. The Art of the Personal Essay is the first anthology to celebrate this fertile genre. By presenting more than seventy-five personal essays, including influential forerunners from ancient Greece, Rome, and the Far East, masterpieces from the dawn of the personal essay in the sixteenth century, and a wealth of the finest personal essays from the last four centuries, editor Phillip Lopate, himself an acclaimed essayist, displays the tradition of the personal essay in all its historical grandeur, depth, and diversity.

Author : Mary Soames
Publisher : Allen Lane
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015001172199

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A Churchill Family Album by Mary Soames Pdf

Author : Jared Bland
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780771013690

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Finding the Words by Jared Bland Pdf

Celebrated writers reveal surprising truths about the joys, challenges, and importance of finding the words, in this special fundraising anthology for PEN Canada. In Finding the Words, thirty-one well-known writers share deeply personal discoveries and stories that will surprise, delight, and stir the mind and heart. By turns inspiring, provocative, witty, and compelling, these diverse and original pieces explore home, exile, and the search for a place to belong; community, creativity, celebrity, and the many forms power can take. Among the pieces in the anthology: Diana Athill and Alice Munro discuss the consequences of writing about other people; Gord Downie meditates on what it means to be a songwriter by considering one of his own songwriting heroes; Guy Gavriel Kay reflects on how his relationship with his own readers continues to change; Elizabeth Hay searches for inspiration in the fallow period between books; Rawi Hage meditates on writing rooted in the universal experience of exile; Pasha Malla and Moez Surani present a funny and confounding list of “rules for writers” solicited from non-writers; Heather O’Neill tells the story of an illiterate and underage wannabe gangster in mid-century Montreal; Michael Winter pieces together court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and other primary sources to take us into the dark heart of a real-life Newfoundland crime story. Proceeds from this volume will go to PEN Canada in support of its vital work in defence of freedom of expression and on behalf of writers around the world who have been silenced. Finding the Words Contributors List: Diana Athill Tash Aw David Bezmozgis Joseph Boyden David Chariandy Denise Chong Karen Connelly Alain de Botton Emma Donoghue Gord Downie Marina Endicott Stacey May Fowles Rawi Hage Elizabeth Hay Steven Heighton Lee Henderson Guy Gavriel Kay Mark Kingwell Martha Kuwee Kumsa Annabel Lyon Linden MacIntyre Pasha Malla Lisa Moore Alice Munro Stephanie Nolen Heather O’Neill Richard Poplak Moez Surani Miguel Syjuco Madeleine Thien Michael Winter With cover design and illustration by Seth www.pencanada.ca

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811200124

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Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Polygon
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1846975158

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A Gathering by Alexander McCall Smith Pdf

A poem does not have to be famous to be cherished. The best-known poems of Robert Burns have been loved by countless people over the years, but there are other poems that may be largely unknown that will mean a great deal to the few who are familiar with them. This anthology is a personal curation and not just a simple collection of poems. Each poem, handpicked by Alexander McCall Smith, leads the reader from one poem to the another. Intimate in tone, the editor shares the pleasure he finds in these poems through short epigraphs written for each piece.

Author : Whitney French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0889778779

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Black Writers Matter by Whitney French Pdf

"Black Writers? African, Bluesy, Classical, Disrespectful, Erudite, Fiery, Groovy, Haunting, Inspiring, Jazzy, Knowing, Liberating, Militant, Nervy, Optimistic, Pugnacious, Quixotic, Rambunctious, Seductive, Truculent, Urgent, Vivacious, Wicked, X-ray sharp, Yearning, Zesty. And so, they matter!" --George Elliott Clarke An anthology of African-Canadian writing, Black Writers Matter offers a cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle contemporary and pressing issues with beautiful, sometimes raw, prose. As editor Whitney French says in her introduction, Black Writers Matter "injects new meaning into the word diversity [and] harbours a sacredness and an everydayness that offers Black people dignity. " An "invitation to read, share, and tell stories of Black narratives that are close to the bone," this collection feels particular to the Black Canadian experience.

Author : Naomi K. Lewis,Rona Altrows
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780888646705

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Shy by Naomi K. Lewis,Rona Altrows Pdf

A collection of Canadian literature on the topic of shyness.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0140421963

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Scottish Love Poems by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Cecil
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015030931201

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Library Looking-glass by David Cecil Pdf

A selection of passages and excerpts, in prose and verse, from books particularly appealing to Cecil, with comments indicating their special interest and significance.

Author : Primo Levi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015055106614

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The Search for Roots by Primo Levi Pdf

Presents a collection of works that were important to Primo Levi, in the order he read them, by such authors as Jonathan Swift, Joseph Conrad, Marco Polo, and Arthur C. Clarke.