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Locos: A Comedy of Gestures

Alfau, Felipe / Mccarthy, Mary
Locos: A Comedy of Gestures
The interconnected stories that form this novel take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the 1001 Arabian Nights and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young author. "For them, " he complains, "reality is what fiction is to real people." First published in 1936 and long neglected, this elegantly inventive novel anticipates works like Pale Fire and One Hundred Years of Solitude. In Locos, Felipe Alfau creates a ...

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YEAR OF THE OLIVE OIL

North, Charles
YEAR OF THE OLIVE OIL
Poetry. "Charles North writes urban idylls: fragments of perceptions, things seen and thought about: 'Exfoliating the leather of a wallet stuffed with dry goods.' Wit is never distant from the scenes he invents, a metaphysical wit suggestive of Marvell, and one that is not satirical, but informed with pity. His joy in words, and the things words adumbrate, is infectious: we catch a contagion of enlightenment. To me, he is the most stimulating ...

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Singing Softly/Cantando Bajito

Monteflores, Carmen De
Singing Softly/Cantando Bajito
A moving and powerful novel that explores how the forces of colonialism, misogyny and racism emerge in the lives of a family affected by this history. The language of the narrative is rich and evocative and the characters are both real and surreal in the intensity of imagination. An important book."--Susan Griffin "A novel worth reading."--"New Directions for Women

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Light Like a Summons

Choo, Mary / Fridel, Margaret / Kernaghan, Eileen
Light Like a Summons
I recommend this book to you. It is a book of poetry whose authorship is plural, but I hesitate to call it an anthology because of certain conventions which the mention of the term causes the reader to expect. This is a book whose mythic spectrum is broad. I took on the project as editor because the body of work presented to me by the publisher and the five poets was various, superb, and challenging. See what you think." - J. Michael Yates

CHF 19.50