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Divertimenti and Variations

Doderer, Heimito Von
Divertimenti and Variations
Fiction. Translated from the German by Vincent Kling. A story collection by the acclaimed Austrian novelist of the early and mid twentieth century, DIVERTIMENTI AND VARIATIONS mediates traditional and experimental fictional technique to explore an authentic self and creates musically-based narrative forms. These narrative experiments were begun in 1923, not long after the publication of Joyce's Ulysses, with its fugue-like "Sirens" chapter. Tr...

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Yingelishi: Sinophonic English Poetry and Poetics

Stalling, Jonathan
Yingelishi: Sinophonic English Poetry and Poetics
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Music. The nearly supernatural nature of this groundbreaking work can be glimpsed in the book's title: YINGĒLISHI (Chanted Songs, Beautiful Poetry): SINOPHONIC ENGLISH POETRY AND POETICS. When read aloud, YINGĒLISHI (pronounced yeen guh lee shr) sounds like an accented pronunciation of the word "English, " while the Chinese reader sees the Chinese characters for "chanted songs, beautiful poetry." Stallin...

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The Cry at Zero

Joron, Andrew
The Cry at Zero
Poetry. Essays. In THE CRY AT ZERO, Andrew Joron ranges through literature, science, and philosophy as he maps a poetics, and gripping poetic ontology, that responds to the disturbing politics of our time. Confronting postmodern skepticism, Joron begins from the premise that poets are "chained to the impossible, " and that the poetic "cry" exceeds specific social crises. Joron teaches us that more than ever before there us a distinct and obvio...

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Shadow Sharp Marsh Grass

Tartar, Helen
Shadow Sharp Marsh Grass
Poetry. A vivid portrait of poetic concern and attention, SHADOW SHARP MARSH GRASS exhibits an expansive personal ecology, where the meeting between the natural world and the human is foregrounded. The writing turns on the elliptical compression of classical Chinese poetry, meditations on place and domesticity, and a deep incorporation of mythology and religion, resulting in a poetry that is uncommonly generous and inclusive.

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Mothers

Zucker, Rachel
Mothers
Literary Nonfiction. "MOTHERs is a howling storm of a book. In this desperately digressive essay, the poet Rachel Zucker narrates her complicated path to becoming and not becoming her mother, the storyteller Diane Wolkstein. Zucker turns her intelligent eye outward and inward, including everything she knows about mothers, stories, poems, and consequence itself. In mythic terms, the essay is about a poet who doesn't want to turn into a storytel...

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