Medusa Beach

Author : Melissa Monroe
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781681374598

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Medusa Beach by Melissa Monroe Pdf

A new collection from one of the most exciting voices in American poetry. For many years, Melissa Monroe has been assembling one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary American poetry, drawing on all different kinds of writing, from technical manuals to books of spells to dictionaries of slang, to explore the many ways—poetry is, after all, one of them—in which we human beings seek to know and control the elusive realities of the world around and within us. Her subject is both the strangeness of things and the strangeness of the things we think, and she has an unsurpassed eye for the wilderness between them that we inhabit. The poems collected in Medusa Beach include “Planetogenesis,” recording the life of an imaginary planet; “Whiz Mob,” a sequence of haikus composed in the criminal argot of 1940s America; “Frequently Asked Questions About Spirit Photography”; and the title poem, which interweaves an account of the life and thought of the great German philosopher and marine biologist Ernst Haeckel with a meditation on the many historical and natural historical avatars of the figure of Medusa. As formally adventurous as they are rigorous, disconcertingly comic, and deeply strange, the poems in Medusa Beach are the work of a true American original.

Author : R.M. Koster
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468306491

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The Prince by R.M. Koster Pdf

Kiki, the son of a twice-ex-president, has inherited his father's thirst for power and the presidency. But to become president of Tinieblas takes a Machiavellian intelligence, for one must outwit not only political foes but the strong American interests. An insightful, furious, and funny depiction of twentieth-century Latin America, The Prince is an essential novel for readers of history and magical realism alike.

Author : H. G. Lee
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780359914975

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Dark Metropolis: Medusa Rising by H. G. Lee Pdf

Of all of the stories told about ancient Greece one story has been told and retold many times and in many ways. That is the story about Medusa the evil woman who was cursed by Athena. But is this the real story of Medusa? No, it is not. I know the real story of Medusa. Medusa Rising is the third and final chapter of the Dark Metropolis Trilogy

Author : James A. Connell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468546453

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Star Patrol 2 by James A. Connell Pdf

This is a story of alien invasion set 300 years in the future. The fifteen to twenty meter diameter silver Globes were first thought to be a fleet of spaceships, but as it turned out they were creatures so different from Mankind that Humans could not communicate with them on any level. They could travel in space, and discharge destructive energy bolts that could destroy Human built spaceships. As part of their breeding cycle they infested planets with their offspring, nine foot long, voracious killing machines that devoured every living thing they encountered. The Globes soon became an unstoppable force that quickly destroyed the first two colonies they found. Although the third colony offered more resistance, it too was rapidly losing the battle for survival. Undetered, the Globes swept on and eventually reached the abundant Earth. Once there they moved in for the long haul. The early part of the story centers around a twenty-eight year old Medic fresh out from the Centaurus Colony. Samantha Wilson had taken a medical contract with the Star Patrol and arrived on the Lastchance Colony just in time to witness the first invasion. Within days she found herself alone and surrounded by lethal Slimers on a strange new world. Then came salvation in the form of the Star Patrol's Starship Orion, which, as Samantha's luck would have it, needed a Medical Officer. Samantha and Orion's crew follow the invading Globes from Lastchance and finally to Earth where Humans are totally unprepared for this new threat to their existence. Space battles with Globes, and planetary encounters with Slimers are all a part of the mix. Along the way Samantha finds lifelong friends and even love in places she never expected to be, even in her wildest dreams. Then while on a medical mission she and her Medical Technician become separated from Orion and the man she has fallen in love with. The unlikely pairing of Samantha, the doctor, and Mary Como, the soldier, acquire an ancient Starship and then find themselves on a planet hopping quest to find their missing ship and crew mates. They soon discover that even with aliens threatening mankind, there are still humans conspiring for dominance of the species. Although it is a story of alien invaders, the Earth and it's colonies, the thinly stretched Star Patrol, and human conspiracies. It is ultimately Samantha's story.

Author : Pere Gimferrer
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781681374994

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Pere Gimferrer by Pere Gimferrer Pdf

A bilingual edition of poems by the award-winning Spanish poet. Pere Gimferrer has been writing poetry for more than fifty years in several languages, restoring and expanding upon avant-garde tendencies in poetry that had been abandoned in Spain after the Spanish Civil War. Of his second book, The Sea Aflame, Octavio Paz wrote: “Our language will be, already is, larger by one poet.” In 1970, with Mirrors, Gimferrer turned to Catalan, his mother tongue. Since then, he has won major Catalan and Spanish prizes for his work, which, along with poetry, includes writings on film and art history, translations, and novels. This bilingual volume, the first to draw on all phases of Gimferrer’s career as a poet—from Message from the Tetrarch, published when he was eighteen, to selections from his recent verses in Italian—is an ideal introduction to a writer who, in the words of Roberto Bolaño, “is a great poet and also knows everything.”

Author : Alice Paalen Rahon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781681375014

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Shapeshifter by Alice Paalen Rahon Pdf

Poetry by one of the most powerful female figures in twentieth-century surrealism, now collected in English for the very first time. Alice Paalen Rahon was a shapeshifter, a surrealist poet turned painter who was born French and died a naturalized citizen of Mexico. Her first husband was the artist Wolfgang Paalen, among her lovers were Pablo Picasso and the poet Valentine Penrose, and over the years her circle of friends included Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Joan Miró, Paul Éluard, Man Ray, and Anaïs Nin. This bilingual edition of Rahon’s poems confirms the achievement of this little-known but visionary writer who defies categorization. Her spellbinding poems, inspired by prehistoric art, lost love, and travels around the globe, weave together dream, fantasy, and madness. For the first time in any language, this book gathers the three collections of poetry Rahon published in her lifetime, along with uncollected and unpublished poems and an album of portraits, manuscript pages, and artworks.

Author : R. M. Koster
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468309096

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The Dissertation by R. M. Koster Pdf

This novel posing as a dissertation on León Fuertes, the fictional president of a made-up Banana Republic is “still fresh, funny, and disturbingly relevant” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). To fulfill his PhD requirement, Camilo Fuertes decides to write about his father León, the martyred president of Tinieblas, a small country in Latin America. As Camilo traces his family’s roots, we follow León along his twisted path through delinquency, learning, lust, and bravery to his historic position of leadership. At once a powerful vision of Latin American history and a brilliant parody of the academic form—complete with endnotes—The Dissertation is the second novel in Koster’s acclaimed Tinieblas trilogy, and an essential postmodern novel in the tradition of Vonnegut, Barth, and Nabokov. “One of the few books of the past 20 years that deserves to be called astonishing. It is a brilliant novel, structurally a marvel and, in all, a demonstration of elan as that quality seldom is experienced in a work of fiction.” —The Des Moines Register “Longtime Panama resident Koster portrays Latin America with a comedian’s sense of timing, a scholar’s sense of history, and a native’s fond despair.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Koster is that rare thing: a writer from the heart, passionate and uncompromising.” —John le Carré

Author : Richard J. Hand,Mary Traynor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441175953

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The Radio Drama Handbook by Richard J. Hand,Mary Traynor Pdf

Combines both theory and practice to lead, stepwise, to a full understanding of radio drama form. Perfect for Undergraduate radio courses, MA radio production courses, and radio drama writing courses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112110962450

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The Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000701492

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Littell's Living Age by Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : CORNELL:31924079579193

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Littell's Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101065272369

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The Ladies' Repository by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Swimming pools
ISBN : IOWA:31858045317124

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Beach & Pool and Swimming by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Miles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781448113842

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Medusa by Jonathan Miles Pdf

In June 1816, the Medusa, flagship of a French expedition to repossess the colony of Senegal from the British, set sail but ran aground off the desolate West African coast. The evacuation of the frigate was chaotic and cowardly - 146 men and one woman were herded aboard a makeshift raft which was then abandoned in mid-ocean, cut loose by the convoy of lifeboats which had pledged to tow it to safety. The drifting raft carried those who survived to the very frontiers of human experience. Crazed, parched and starving, the diminishing band slaughtered mutineers, ate their dead companions and organized a tactical extermination of the weakest among them. Among the handful of survivors from the raft were two men whose written account of the tragedy catalogued the trail of government incompetence, indifference, and cover-up. Their book became a best-seller which rocked Europe and inspired the promising artist, Théodore Géricault. Reeling from an illicit affair with his attractive young aunt, he threw himself into an exhaustive study of the Medusa tragedy. Set in the politically fragile world of Restoration France, the murk of Georgian London and along the dangerous West African coast where the French were covertly regenerating the outlawed slave trade, Medusa witnesses error and outrage turned into a bestseller, and that bestseller transformed into one of the masterpieces of Western art.

Author : Home tutor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590498664

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The home tutor, a treasury of self-culture by Home tutor Pdf