Of No Country I Know

Author : David Ferry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0226244873

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David Ferry's Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations provides a wonderful gathering of the work of one of the great American poetic voices of the twentieth century. It brings together his new poems and translations, collected here for the first time; his books Strangers and Dwelling Places in their entirety; selections from his first book, On the Way to the Island; and selections from his celebrated translations of the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh, the Odes of Horace, and of Virgil's Eclogues. This is Ferry's fullest and most resonant book, demonstrating the depth and breadth of forty years of a life in poetry. "Though Ferry is perhaps best known for his eloquent translations of Horace and Virgil, "Of No Country I Know" demonstrates that he deserves acclaim for his own poetry as well."—Carmela Ciuraru, New York Times Book Review

Author : David Ferry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0226244873

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David Ferry'sOf No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translationsprovides a wonderful gathering of the work of one of the great American poetic voices of the twentieth century. It brings together his new poems and translations, collected here for the first time; his booksStrangersandDwelling Placesin their entirety; selections from his first book,On the Way to the Island; and selections from his celebrated translations of the Babylonian epicGilgamesh, theOdes of Horace, and of Virgil'sEclogues. This is Ferry's fullest and most resonant book, demonstrating the depth and breadth of forty years of a life in poetry. "Though Ferry is perhaps best known for his eloquent translations of Horace and Virgil, "Of No Country I Know" demonstrates that he deserves acclaim for his own poetry as well."--Carmela Ciuraru,New York Times Book Review

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307390530

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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : Kalyan Ray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451636390

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No Country by Kalyan Ray Pdf

“A novel as easy to read as the latest bestseller, No Country is a rousing adventure made up out of the blood and guts and dreams of people on three continents and nearly 150 years of troubled history” (Alan Cheuse, NPR). In the poverty of rural Ireland in 1843, Padraig Aherne and Brendan McCarthaigh grew up as brothers, inseparable, even when Padraig falls in love with their beautiful classmate, Brigid. But when Padraig makes a dangerous mistake that forces him onto a ship bound for India, and the deadly potato famine sweeps through their tiny village, Brendan is left alone to care for his best friend’s child, an infant daughter Padraig never knew he had. Eventually, Brendan flees with her aboard one of the infamous “coffin ships,” to begin a new life in America. As Brendan’s and Padraig’s two family trees take root on opposite sides of the world, their tendrils begin to intertwine, moving inexorably toward a disastrous convergence more than a century later. Unfurling against the fickle backdrop of history that includes terrorism on the Indian subcontinent, an East European pogrom, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City, and the terrible intimacy of a murder in a sleepy New England town, the fallout from lives torn apart in No Country smolders for generations.

Author : David Ferry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780226244884

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Bewilderment by David Ferry Pdf

Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Poetry. To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath away. In poem after poem, his diction modulates beautifully between plainspoken high eloquence and colloquial vigor, making his distinctive speech one of the most interesting and ravishing achievements of the past half century. Ferry has fully realized both the potential for vocal expressiveness in his phrasing and the way his phrasing plays against—and with—his genius for metrical variation. His vocal phrasing thus becomes an amazingly flexible instrument of psychological and spiritual inquiry. Most poets write inside a very narrow range of experience and feeling, whether in free or metered verse. But Ferry’s use of meter tends to enhance the colloquial nature of his writing, while giving him access to an immense variety of feeling. Sometimes that feeling is so powerful it’s like witnessing a volcanologist taking measurements in the midst of an eruption. Ferry’s translations, meanwhile, are amazingly acclimated English poems. Once his voice takes hold of them they are as bred in the bone as all his other work. And the translations in this book are vitally related to the original poems around them. From Bewilderment: October The day was hot, and entirely breathless, so The remarkably quiet remarkably steady leaf fall Seemed as if it had no cause at all. The ticking sound of falling leaves was like The ticking sound of gentle rainfall as They gently fell on leaves already fallen, Or as, when as they passed them in their falling, Now and again it happened that one of them touched One or another leaf as yet not falling, Still clinging to the idea of being summer: As if the leaves that were falling, but not the day, Had read, and understood, the calendar.

Author : New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : UCSC:32106019788469

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Parliamentary Debates by New Zealand. Parliament Pdf

Author : David Rosenberg
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780595469789

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All I Know (Sort Of) by David Rosenberg Pdf

These essays and articles, written in the 70s and early 80s, contain thousands of little tidbits that can contribute to a total understanding of both U.S. and world history and culture. The author draws on his unique experience to think about the serious problems we face, and, in very direct and clear language, shares his view of the world. Whether you are just beginning to understand politics and history, or a veteran who's seen it all, All I Know can be a great basis for helping to shape your world view.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1846 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : UCAL:B3606138

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Ways and Means by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Foreign trade regulation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027067243

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Trade Reform by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2024 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Commercial treaties
ISBN : UOM:39015016760699

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Extension of Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means Pdf

Author : New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HJ1F5A

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Parliamentary Debates by New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives Pdf

Author : Paul N. Herbert
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781438945132

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God Knows All Your Names by Paul N. Herbert Pdf

People with only a slight interest in history will enjoy these fascinating, short and easy to understand stories. Serious history buffs will like these lesser-known episodes, not the stories we've heard a million times. For example: try to find anyone who knows about the attempted slave insurrection in Fairfax County, Virginia. With Mary Lincoln's spending habits, who knew that Abraham Lincoln actually saved an enormous percentage of his presidential salary? A slave honored in Virginia with a monument; the history of Lee Highway which 'opened' with great fanfare in 1923 as a 3,000 mile road from Washington, DC to San Diego; a story about the Little River Turnpike, the second oldest turnpike in America, built partly by slaves and captured Hessian soldiers. You'll read about two Civil War ships that collided in the Potomac River. Victims included wounded soldiers' wives and one soldier's six-year-old son. You'll read a great account of the massive Civil War corruption. You'll learn about the disastrous condition of the treasury (sound familiar?) during the Revolutionary War. The government tried everything, including a lottery to get the country afloat in a sea of red ink. But the most fascinating story may be about the Revolutionary War soldier who faked his own desertion to defect to the enemy with the highly secretive mission of going behind enemy lines to capture and return for trial the worst traitor in American history: Benedict Arnold. Bet you never heard of this story. There are many other stories in this eclectic, heavily-researched manuscript. There's a story about the Christmas Truce in World War One, about long-forgotten holidays in Virginia, about the retrocession which sent an area of Washington back to Virginia in 1846, and about the impeachment of a Supreme Court justice (it happened only once). And more!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Consular reports
ISBN : CHI:79889424

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Consular Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Baird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046821992

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Religion in America, Or, An Account of the Origin, Progress, Relation to the State, and Present Condition of the Evangelical Churches in the United States by Robert Baird Pdf

Author : Lee H. Hamilton,Daniel K. Inouye
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788126024

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Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton,Daniel K. Inouye Pdf

Contents: The Report: executive summary; Central America; the arms sales to Iran; exposure and concealment; the enterprise; conclusions and recommendations. Also contains the Minority report: the foreign affairs powers of the Constitution and the Iran-Contra Affair; Nicaragua; Iran; disclosure and investigations; putting Congress' house in order; and recommendations. Extensive appendices contain additional views of several Representatives and Senators.