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Cutty, One Rock

August Kleinzahler
Cutty One Rock Book PDF

Author : August Kleinzahler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429928496

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Cutty, One Rock by August Kleinzahler Pdf

Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. We witness scenes of passionate, even violent intensity that give rise to meditations on eros and literature, the solitariness of travel, and the poetics of place. These individual pieces, most of which first appeared in The London Review of Books and won an international cult following, are by turns "poignant, surreal, down home and lyrical, a mixture of qualities that inheres in his language with uncommon delicacy and effect" (Leonard Michaels). Together they make up an intellectual and emotional autobiography on the run. The book's final section, about Kleinzahler's adored, doomed older brother, is unforgettable, and since its appearance last year in the LRB, has already entered the literature as one of the most moving contemporary memoirs.

Sleeping It Off in Rapid City

August Kleinzahler
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City Book PDF

Author : August Kleinzahler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466880764

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Sleeping It Off in Rapid City by August Kleinzahler Pdf

The first broad retrospective of August Kleinzahler's career, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City gathers poems from his major works along with a rich portion of new poems that visit different voice registers, experiment with form and length, and confirm Kleinzahler as among the most inventive and brilliant poets of our time. Travel—actual and imaginary—remains a passion and inspiration, and in these pages the poet also finds "This sanctified ground / Here, yes, here / The dead solid center of the universe / At the heart of the heart of America."

Snow Approaching on the Hudson

August Kleinzahler
Snow Approaching on the Hudson Book PDF

Author : August Kleinzahler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374722241

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Snow Approaching on the Hudson by August Kleinzahler Pdf

August Kleinzahler has earned admiration for his musical, precise, wise, and sometimes madcap poems that are grounded in the wide array of places, people, and most especially voices he has encountered in his real and imaginative worlds. Snow Approaching on the Hudson is a collection that moves seamlessly through the often hypnogogic, porous realms of dreams, the past and present, inner and outer landscapes. His haunting, shifting atmospheres are peopled by characters, intimately portrayed, that are at one historical and invented. The poet's signature rhythmic propulsion serves as the engine for his newest collection, and his always masterful free verse conveys a life thoroughly lived and brilliantly perceived.

The Hotel Oneira

August Kleinzahler
The Hotel Oneira Book PDF

Author : August Kleinzahler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374713331

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The Hotel Oneira by August Kleinzahler Pdf

A thrilling new collection from one of the most original poets of his generation "His work is a modernist swirl of sex, surrealism, urban life and melancholy with a jazzy backbeat." That praise appeared in the pages of The New York Times in 2005, but it applies no less to August Kleinzahler's newest collection. Kleinzahler's poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: Voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, all mingle together in verses that always ring true. Whether the poem is three lines long or spans several pages; whether the voice embodied is that of "an adult male of late middle age, // about to weep among the avocados and citrus fruits / in a vast, overlit room next to a bosomy Cuban grandma" as in "Whitney Houston," or that of the title character in "Hootie Bill Do Polonius," who is bidding "adios compadre // To a most galuptious scene Kid"—Kleinzahler finds the throbbing human heart at the core of experience. This is a poet searching for—and finding—a cadence to suit life as it's lived today. Kleinzahler's verses are, as noted in the judges' citation for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize (which he won for his collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep), "ferociously on the move, between locations, between forms, between registers." The Hotel Oneira finds Kleinzahler at his shape-shifting, acrobatic best, unearthing the "moments of grace" buried under the detritus of our hectic, modern lives.

The Strange Hours Travelers Keep

August Kleinzahler
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep Book PDF

Author : August Kleinzahler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466880771

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The Strange Hours Travelers Keep by August Kleinzahler Pdf

Those aren't stars, darling That's your nervous system Nanna didn't take you to planetariums like this --from "Hyper-Berceuse: 3 A.M." August Kleinzahler's new poems stretch and go places he has never gone before: they have his signature high color and rhythmic jump, but they take on a breadth of voice and achieve registers that his earlier work only hinted at. Ranging from Vegas and Mayfair to the Asian steppes and contemporary Berlin, these poems touch down at will in tableaux where Liberace unceremoniously meets with St. Kevin and Attila with Zsa Zsa Gabor. Surprise after surprise, nothing seems to lie outside Kleinzahler's purview. This is the strongest collection to date from a poet with "the vision and confident skill to make American poetry new" (Clive Wilmer, The Times [London]).

Green Sees Things in Waves

August Kleinzahler
Green Sees Things in Waves Book PDF

Author : August Kleinzahler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466880757

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Green Sees Things in Waves by August Kleinzahler Pdf

1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In Green Sees Things in Waves, a powerful and inventive collection, August Kleinzahler succeeds in creating a new idiom for American lyric poetry that captures the velocity and swerves of contemporary life in the city. He pushes the language very hard to get there, and the results are breathtaking: an angular, propulsive poetry that transforms character, voice, and setting into buzzing, luminous events.

Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow

August Kleinzahler
Red Sauce Whiskey and Snow Book PDF

Author : August Kleinzahler
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781429952385

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Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow by August Kleinzahler Pdf

This is a book of jazzy, edgy, adventuresome poems from the author of Earthquake Weather and Like Cities, Like Storms. Ever aware, ever vivid, ever focused, Kleinzahler's are some of the finest lyrics being produced in American poetry today. "Pieces of ordinary talk are Kleinzahler's strong suit," as Helen Vendler observed in Parnassus, "because they occur in his glancing, alert rhythms. . . . [His] jaunty skips and riffs solace the ear." Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow presents an experimental poetry of exceptional wit and control.

Rock and Royalty

Gianni Versace
Rock and Royalty Book PDF

Author : Gianni Versace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 0789204894

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Rock and Royalty by Gianni Versace Pdf

The ever-changing look of Versace couture, as seen--and modeled--by the kings, queens, mega-models, and jokers of rock & roll. 280 illustrations, 200 in color.

Albert Angelo

Bryan Stanley Johnson
Albert Angelo Book PDF

Author : Bryan Stanley Johnson
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811210030

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Albert Angelo by Bryan Stanley Johnson Pdf

Albert Angelo is by vocation an architect and only by economic necessity working as a substitute teacher. He had thought he was, if not dedicated, at least competent. But now, on temporary assignments in schools located in the tough neighborhoods of London, Albert feels ineffectual. He is failing as a teacher and failing to fulfill himself as an architect. And then, too, he is pained by the memory of a failed love affair.

The Upstairs Delicatessen

Dwight Garner
The Upstairs Delicatessen Book PDF

Author : Dwight Garner
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374603434

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The Upstairs Delicatessen by Dwight Garner Pdf

Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal classic. Reading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und Drang, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone together. The book you’re holding is a product of these combined gluttonies. Dwight Garner, the beloved New York Times critic and the author of Garner’s Quotations, serves up the intertwined pleasures of books and food. The product of a lifetime of obsessively reading, eating, and every combination therein, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading is a charming, emotional memoir, one that only Garner could write. In it, he records the voices of great writers and the stories from his life that fill his mind as he moves through the sections of the day and of this book: breakfast, lunch, shopping, the occasional nap, drinking, and dinner. Through his lifelong infatuation with these twin joys, we meet the man behind the pages and the plates, and a portrait of Garner, eager and insatiable, emerges. He writes with tenderness and humor about his mayonnaise-laden childhood in West Virginia and Naples, Florida (and about his father’s famous peanut butter and pickle sandwich), his mind-opening marriage to a chef from a foodie family (“Cree grew up taking leftover frog legs to school in her lunch box”), and the words and dishes closest to his heart. This is a book to be savored, though it may just whet your appetite for more.

Darkening Sun

Kurt Philip Behm
Darkening Sun Book PDF

Author : Kurt Philip Behm
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496950680

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Darkening Sun by Kurt Philip Behm Pdf

As daunting as Everest was, his search for Adrian would be even more challenging. He would cross two continents and travel through six hostile countries in his quest for her return. Duty and honor had been his call-to-arms, but this search would be different. This was about finding the only woman he had ever loved.

The Open Door

Don Share,Christian Wiman
The Open Door Book PDF

Author : Don Share,Christian Wiman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226750705

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The Open Door by Don Share,Christian Wiman Pdf

Poetry's archives are incomparable, and to celebrate the magazine's centennial, Don Share and Christian Wilman combed them to create a new kind of anthology, energized by the self-imposed limitation of one hundred poems. Rather than attempting to be exhaustive or definitive--or even to offer the most familiar works--they have assembled a collection of poems that, in their juxtapositions, echo across a century of poetry.

There's More to New Jersey Than the Sopranos

Marc Mappen
There s More to New Jersey Than the Sopranos Book PDF

Author : Marc Mappen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813545868

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There's More to New Jersey Than the Sopranos by Marc Mappen Pdf

This lively romp through history, from the primitive past to the present day, provides a lens by which to view American history through lively prose and more than 25 illustrations.

The FSG Poetry Anthology

Jonathan Galassi,Robyn Creswell
The FSG Poetry Anthology Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Galassi,Robyn Creswell
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374722616

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The FSG Poetry Anthology by Jonathan Galassi,Robyn Creswell Pdf

To honor FSG's 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry list—past, present, and future Poetry has been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux's identity ever since Robert Giroux joined the fledgling company in the mid-1950s, soon bringing T. S. Eliot, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop onto the list. These extraordinary poets and their successors have been essential in helping define FSG as a publishing house with a unique place in American letters. The FSG Poetry Anthology includes work by almost all of the more than one hundred twenty-five poets whom FSG has published in its seventy-five-year history. Giroux's first generation was augmented by a group of international figures (and Nobel laureates), including Pablo Neruda, Nelly Sachs, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Joseph Brodsky. Over time the list expanded to includes poets as diverse as Yehuda Amichai, John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Grace Paley, Carl Phillips, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, James Schuyler, C. K. Williams, Charles Wright, James Wright, and Adam Zagajewski. Today, Henri Cole, francine j. harris, Ishion Hutchinson, Maureen N. McLane, Ange Mlinko, Valzhyna Mort, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Frederick Seidel are among the poets who are continuing FSG's tradition as a discoverer and promoter of the most vital and distinguished contemporary voices. This anthology is a wide-ranging showcase of some of the best poems published in America over the past three generations. It is also a sounding of poetry's present and future.

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English

Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English Book PDF

Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199640256

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The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English by Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton Pdf

This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.