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Essayist Eliot Weinberger sets his sights on the Bush team with brilliant, thought-provoking, funny consequences. Written for publication in magazines abroad, translated into sixteen languages, and collected here for the first time, Eliot Weinberger's chronicles of the Bush era range from first-person journalism to political analysis to a kind of documentary prose poetry. The book begins with the inauguration of George W. Bush in January 200l...

Looks at Chinese poetry through its enormous influence on American poetry. This book gathers some 200 poems by nearly 40 poets, from the anonymous early poetry to the great masters of the T'ang and Sung dynasties. It also includes translations by Pound, a selection of essays by five translators and biographical notes that are a collage of poems.

With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories, fables, and meditations about the ten thousand things in the universe: the wind and the rhinoceros, Catholic saints and people named Chang, the Mandaeans on the Iran-Iraq border and the Kaluli...

A celebration of contemporary poetry from around the world, "World Beat: International Poetry Now" from New Directions is a treasure trove that will satisfy and fascinate poetry lovers. A mosaic of twenty-eight foreign and American poets, "World Beat" is an extraordinary compilation, unlike any other anthology, of the poetry being written today. For some seventy years, New Directions Publishing has brought literary America the world, introduci...

For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into the realm of poetry and narrative. Full of stories, yet written in a condensed, imagistic language, his essays are works of the imagination where all the facts are verifiable. As entertaining as fiction and as vivid as poems, making unexpected stops in odd corners of the globe or forgotten moments i...

Recounts the friendship between propaganda photographers Refik Veseli and Mosha Mandil and how their lives intersected with the foreign relations efforts between Albania and China. Consists primarily of archival photographs from the 1970s with captions in which the author assumes the voice Veseli.

Many of the twenty-eight essays in Oranges & Peanuts for Sale have appeared in translation in seventeen countries, some have never been published in English before. They include introductions for books of avant-garde poets, collaborations with visual artists, and articles for publications such as The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, and October. One section focuses on writers and literary works: strange tales from class...

I go out of the darkness Onto a road of darkness Lit only by the far off Moon on the edge of the mountains. -Izumi Shikobu Over the years, thousands of readers have discovered the beauty of classic Japanese poetry through the superb English versions by the great American poet Kenneth Rexroth. Mostly haiku, these poems range from the classical and medieval to modern poetry, with an emphasis on folk songs and love lyrics. Because women played s...

Moss covered paths between scarlet peonies, Pale jade mountains fill your rustic windows. I envy you, drunk with flowers, Butterflies swirling in your dreams. -Ch'ien Ch'i This exquisite gift book offers a wide sampling of Chinese verse, from the first century to our own time, beginning with the lyric poetry of Tu Fu, moving to the folk songs of the Six Dynasties Period, on to the Sung Dynasty, and to the present. Also represented are some ...

Der New Yorker Eliot Weinberger ist einer der engagiertesten Publizisten in den USA. Sein Lieblingsfeind ist George W. Bush, seine Liebe aber gehört dem babylonischen Gewirr der kulturellen Zeichen aus aller Welt und allen Zeiten. Darüber schreibt er seit Jahren seine Essays genannten Prosastücke. Es sind Texte von großer poetischer Schönheit. Scheinbar unverbunden handeln diese Bruchstücke aus 4000 Jahren Natur- und Menschheitsgeschichte vom ...

This is the first collection of his writings, twenty-one pieces that juxtapose the world as it is and the world as it is imagined--by artists, poets, historical figures, and ordinary people.

During the past several years, Eliot Weinberger's inventive prose has earned him a reputation as a candid social observer and penetrating essayist. 'Works on Paper' is the first collection of his writings, twenty-one pieces that juxtapose the world as it is and the world as it is imagined--by artists, poets, historical figures, and ordinary people.

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Unpredictable and uncanonical, Eliot Weinberger's essays are the "outside stories" of cultural migrations. The fifteen pieces collected here range from the history of the Salman Rushdie affair to the dream of Atlantis, from the turf wars among ethnographic filmmakers to the unlikely romance between poetry and espionage, from the pilgrims in Plymouth to the students in Tiananmen Square. Above all, Weinberger's concern is poetry--whether written...

Der Ruhm Eliot Weinbergers als einer der brillantesten Essayisten der Gegenwart ist in den letzten Jahren beständig gewachsen. Höchste Zeit also, nun eine Auswahl seiner besten und schönsten Essays auch auf deutsch zu präsentieren. Bei Weinberger kann man nie voraussagen, über was er als nächstes schreiben wird: ob über Träume von Wikingern, aztekische Rituale oder Erinnerungen von Hindus, ob über lachende Fische, weissagende Hunde oder das Li...