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Tormented Mirror, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780822957638
Pub Date: 22 Feb 2001
Description:
This is the first book in the Pitt Poetry Series by this popular and enigmatic poet, considered the foremost writer of prose poetry in America. In eleven collections over thirty years, Edson has created his own poetic genre, a surreal philosophical fable, easy to enter, but difficult to leave behind. In The Tormented Mirror, Edson continues and refines his form in seventy-three new poems.
Cathedral Of The North Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780822957379
Pub Date: 18 Jan 2001
Description:
Set against a fantastic backdrop of religious imagery, myth and dreams, science fiction, and the stark realities of a northern factory town, Voisine's poems carefully detail the life of a common hero and his family.
Short History of Syriac Literature Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 308
ISBN: 9780971309753
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2001
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
The 1887 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica contained an extensive article on Syriac Literature by the late Professor W. Wright. The article was later reprinted in this book, with additional notes.
Process Philosophy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9780822961284
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2000
Description:
Process Philosophy surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as "process philosophy." Process philosophy views temporality, activity, and change as the cardinal factors for our understanding of the real—process has priority over product, both ontologically and epistemically. Rescher examines the movement’s historical origins, reflecting a major line of thought in the work of such philosophers as Heracleitus, Leibniz, Bergson, Peirce, William James, and especially A.
Jukung-Boats from the Barito Basin, Borneo Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 157
ISBN: 9788785180407
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2000
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
Jukungs are boats that are constructed over hollowed out and expanded tree trunks, before being crafted by boatbuilders into a variety of sizes, from simple small baots to large passenger-ferries. Erik Pedersen, an architect, became interested in these boats while living in Borneo, and has here collected a unique body of material on these fascinating vessels.
Signs and Abominations Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9780819564566
Pub Date: 27 Nov 2000
Description:
Signs and Abominations is a radical tour de force that interrogates the relationship between religion and art at the end of the 20th century in penetrating and sensuous prosody. It can be read as a series of damaged likenesses: humans as the damaged image and likeness of God, poems and other works of art as necessarily incomplete attempts to approach and represent the numinous and the ineffable.The reader is guided through its five interconnected sections by diverse voices: Michelangelo, Andres Serrano, Flannery O'Connor, Emily Dickinson, Soren Kierkegaard, Augustine, to name a few.
Mavericks on the Border Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780813121802
Pub Date: 22 Nov 2000
Description:
Twentieth-century authors and filmmakers have created a pantheon of mavericks -- some macho, others angst-ridden -- who often cross a metaphorical boundary among the literal ones of Anglo, Native American, and Hispanic cultures. Douglas Canfield examines the concept of borders, defining them as the space between states and cultures and ideologies, and focuses on these border crossings as a key feature of novels and films about the region.Canfield begins in the Old Southwest of Faulkner's Mississippi, addressing the problem of slavery; travels west to North Texas and the infamous Gainesville Hanging of Unionists during the Civil War; and then follows scalpers into the Southwest Borderlands.
She Didn't Mean to Do It Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780822957386
Pub Date: 22 Nov 2000
Description:
Winner of the 1999 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The thirty-three narrative, linguistically-adventurous poems in She Didn't Mean To Do It range freely among styles and voices. Examining human emotions and behavior in all their contradictions, Daisy Fried turns a perceptive eye on those around her. Fried integrates metaphoric flights and idiosyncratic narrative, surprising us with the details—"I saw that the wisteria/in dusk its same color hung (heavier than/the breasts of stabbed and stabber ever would be)"—while her characters traipse across lines and pages.
Ravishing DisUnities Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780819564375
Pub Date: 03 Nov 2000
Description:
In recent years, the ghazal (pronounced "ghuzzle"), a traditional Arabic form of poetry, has become popular among contemporary English language poets. But like the haiku before it, the ghazal has been widely misunderstood and thus most English ghazals have been far from the mark in both letter and spirit. This anthology brings together ghazals by a rich gathering of 107 poets including Diane Ackerman, John Hollander, W.
Shorter Views Cover
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780819563699
Pub Date: 03 Sep 2000
Description:
In Shorter Views, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Samuel R. Delany brings his remarkable intellectual powers to bear on a wide range of topics. Whether he is exploring the deeply felt issues of identity, race, and sexuality, untangling the intricacies of literary theory, or the writing process itself, Delany is one of the most lucid and insightful writers of our time.
Caught between Worlds Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780813121642
Pub Date: 27 Jul 2000
Illustrations: illus
Description:
The captivity narrative has always been a literary genre associated with America. Joe Snader argues, however, that captivity narratives emerged much earlier in Britain, coinciding with European colonial expansion, the development of anthropology, and the rise of liberal political thought. Stories of Europeans held captive in the Middle East, America, Africa, and Southeast Asia appeared in the British press from the late sixteenth through the late eighteenth centuries, and captivity narratives were frequently featured during the early development of the novel.
Zinc Fingers Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9780822957249
Pub Date: 20 Jul 2000
Description:
In Peter Meinke’s eleventh collection, he writes poems of humor and sadness. His poems speak truth with the self-assurance of a man willing to laugh at himself and, by extension, he invites us to laugh at ourselves as well.
Black on Black Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780813121635
Pub Date: 08 Jun 2000
Illustrations: illus
Description:
Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B.
Macroeconomic Policy Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 450
ISBN: 9789979544401
Pub Date: 10 May 2000
Imprint: University of Iceland Press
Description:
Sixteen essays being the proceedings of a conference celebrating the tenth abbiversary of the Institute of Economic Statistics at the University of Iceland; focussing on macroeconomic analysis of issues related to Icelandic economy, this volume fills a gap and will raise the standard of economic debate.
Hill Man Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9780813121659
Pub Date: 02 May 2000
Description:
After writing Hill Man, Janice Holt Giles said, "I was struck by its strength. It is the most realistic ridge book we have written, completely honest and presenting the truest picture of most of the ridge men."Giles originally published the book in paperback in 1954 under the pseudonym John Garth.
Simon Says Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780963818348
Pub Date: 01 May 2000
Description:
This visceral collection by Jan Freeman takes the reader by the throat, combining a metaphysics of grief with gut-wrenching humor. Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.