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A selection of the dazzling work of one of the finest writers of her generation and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a poet of elegant restraint, emotional depth, and moral vision. Beginning with several dozen new poems that have appeared in The New Yorker, among others, this volume is a tour through Zarin's five exquisitely made collections, beginning with The Swordfish Tooth, published in 1988. Zarin, a poet in the line of Elizabe...

Inverno ist die Geschichte einer Liebe, die sich über Jahrzehnte erstreckt. Inverno ist auch die Geschichte von Caroline, die in einem Schneesturm im Central Park steht und darauf wartet, dass ihr Handy klingelt, sie steht nur wenige Meter von der Stelle entfernt, an der sich Alastair dreißig Jahre zuvor als Junge in den Bäumen versteckte. Wird Alistair sie nun also anrufen? Und wie sie da steht und wartet, rauschen die Jahre an ihr vorbei - m...

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A daring, heartbreaking novel, Inverno is the book that J. D. Salinger's Franny Glass might have written a few decades into her adulthood.Caroline waited for fifteen minutes in the snow. After a little time had passed, she was simply waiting to see what would happen. It was entirely possible he would not come. If he did not come, she would be in a different story than the one she had imagined, but it was possible, she knew, to imagine anything...

From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on two cities, Venice and Rome-each a work of art, both a monument to the past-and on how love and loss shape places and spaces.Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situ-a traveler moving through beloved streets, sometimes accompanied, sometimes solo. With her, we see, anew, the Venice Biennale, the Lagoon, and San Michele, the isl...

What do a whatchful fly and a weight-bearing whale have in common? A grateful saint -- a saint whose life of work and devotion to God wouldn't have been the same without the loyalty. the friendship of a lion or a blackbird, an eagle or a deer. Other saints in these stories -- two of the liveliest are women -- deal cleverly with animals who act up: snakes in one instance, greedy geese in another. But in each of these stories, the commonality of...

An intertwining round of episodes in the life of New York writer Zarin. Whether writing about coats she owned, vanished restaurants, a newlywed journey to Italy, or the inner life of the "New Yorker" staff she knew as a young woman, Cynthia shows how persistent the past is in returning with entirely new lessons.

This exquisite prose debut from prize-winning poet Cynthia Zarin is a poignant exploration of the author's experiences with love, work, and the surprise of time's passage. Zarin charts the shifting and complicated parameters of contemporary life and family in writing that feels nearly fictional in its richness of scene, dialogue, and mood. The writer herself is the marvelously rueful character at the center of these tales, at first a bewilder...

With Orbit, prize-winning author Cynthia Zarin confirms her place as an indispensable American poet of our time.In this, her fifth collection, Zarin turns her lyric lens on the worlds within worlds we inhabit and how we navigate our shared predicament-the tables of our lives on which the news of the day is strewn: the president speaking to parishioners in Charleston, the ricochet of violence, near and far. Whether writing about hairpin turns i...

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Albert, a dachshund, is a city dog who likes to jump in taxis unobserved and tour the city. Simple text and lively illustrations capture the spirit of a short dog with sky-high ambitions. Full color.