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A haunting tableau of a lost world...From the author of The Hungry Wolves of Van Diemen's Land comes this unforgettable portrait of an era now lost forever.The Thresher chronicles the 1980s and '90s, as seen through the eyes of ambitious young men who rebel, using the form of rebellion most common at the time: being in a band.The Thresher is no mere exercise in nostalgia, but an exploration of the conflict between individualism, nationalism an...

In this, the first full-length study of Clayton Eshleman's poetry, poet and scholar Paul Christensen descends into the torch-lit underworld, the cave of the soul, that Eshleman has been exploring in his work for more than three decades. "In the caves of Dordogne, " Christensen writes, "Eshleman discovered an underworld in actuality, a labyrinth in which Paleolithic humanity daubed and slashed their marks, their primordial psychic images." He a...

Was hören wir, wenn wir der Stadt lauschen? Welche Spuren hinterlässt sie in uns? Wer ist am anderen Ende, wenn wir telefonieren? Kennen wir die, die an der Straßenecke stehen, verzaubert von den Lichtern und Geräuschen der Stadt? Lars Saabye Christensens Roman spielt im Oslo der Nachkriegszeit - er erzählt darin auf berührende, süchtig machende Weise von den Sehnsüchten und Nöten seiner Bewohner, deren Schicksal unauslöschlich mit der Stadt u...

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Parkinson's disease--a chronic disorder that causes a progressive loss of nerve cell function in the part of the brain that controls muscle movement--is an incurable neurological condition with debilitating symptoms. Over 1.5 million Americans are affected, and the numbers continue to grow. From the first moment of her Parkinson's diagnosis, author Jackie Christensen took charge and educated herself on every aspect of her condition. Now, as a ...

This book looks at issues surrounding admissions of alcoholism and attempts to lead a sober life by Japanese men in Tokyo.

Charles Olson was an important force behind the raucous, explicit, jaunty style of much of twentieth-century poetry in America, this study makes a major contribution to our understanding of his life and work.

Depictions of an alcohol-saturated Japan populated by intoxicated salarymen, beer dispensing vending machines, and a generally tolerant approach to public drunkenness, typify domestic and international perceptions of Japanese drinking. Even the popular definitions of Japanese masculinity are interwoven with accounts of personal alcohol consumption in public settings, gender norms that exclude and marginalize the alcoholic. And yet the alcoholi...

From the Chihuahuan deserts of Mexico to the cellars of the Pentagon and the flaming ruins of Iraq, this poetry compilation merges the personal with the political. While retaining an intimate and unembellished tone, it confronts topical issues--notably the United States' wars abroad--and explores various universal themes, including aging, coping honestly with regret, dealing with fear, and desiring forgiveness. Powerful and lyric, these poems ...

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How is it that the Soviet superpower became the economically dependent Russia of the late 1990s? Based upon impressive archival research and extensive fieldwork, this timely study compares the politics of Gorbachev and Yeltsin as the attempted to throw off the enduring economic legacies of Stalinism.Because workers and labor policy lay at the heart of the communist experiment, Christensen focuses upon the organization and activism of the Russi...

Like many a pioneer exiting the eastern forests, Paul Christensen felt the strangeness of an alien landscape when he first arrived in Texas in 1974. Schooled in the cool colors of life and poetry in the urban East, he approached his new career in the Southwest with missionary zeal and purpose: to discover the land and the kind of people and poetry it produced.West of the American Dream is a multifaceted account of that search. Christensen shar...

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