Jacques Roubaud

"Composed of 150 poems, with a title taken from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, and partly a response to the poetry of Raymond Queneau, this collection explores Jacques Roubaud's many poetic modes. He skips from the strict form of the sonnet to the freedom of prose poetry without abandoning the melancholy playfulness that has defined his lengthy writing career. A selection of Roubaud's best recent work, The Form of a City describes not only Paris, but also its people, its writers (and those of the Oulipo in particular), its monumental past, and its unsteady response to change."--Publisher's website.

"Mathematics: The New Golden Age offers a glimpse of the extraordinary vistas and bizarre universes opened up by contemporary mathematicians: Hilbert's tenth problem and the four-color theorem, Gaussian integers, chaotic dynamics and the Mandelbrot set, infinite numbers, and strange number systems. Why a "new golden age"? According to Keith Devlin, we are currently witnessing an astronomical amount of mathematical research. Charting the most significant developments that have taken place in mathematics since 1960, Devlin expertly describes these advances for the interested layperson and adroitly summarizes their significance as he leads the reader into the heart of the most interesting mathematical perplexities - from the biggest known prime number to the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture for Fermat's Last Theorem."--BOOK JACKET.

The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. Designed for a reader with only a modest mathematical background, this biography brings out the central importance of e to mathematics and illuminates a golden era in the age of science.

149 p. ; 19 cm

Cast as a dialogue among six interlocuters, this lyric, pensive blend of poetry and prose considers light from a variety of perspectives-- philosophical, physical, ethical, and metaphorical--all of them beautiful. As with so much of Roubaud's work, a delicate humor and a deep compassion engage to create a lovely and responsible text. --Fence Books.

Die Künstlerin Rebecca Horn versteht sich als Erfinderin, Regisseurin, Autorin, Komponistin, Poetin,aber allem voran als Choreografin. Sie nutzt die Idee von Inkorporierung und schafft Sinnbildertechnisch-körperlicher Vernetzung: von ihren ersten Papierarbeiten in den 1960er Jahren undden frühen Performances und Filmen der 1970er Jahre über die mechanischen Skulpturen seitden 1980er Jahren bis hin zu den raumgreifenden Installationen seit den 1990er Jahren. Dabeibedient sich Horn wiederholt der Sprache des Tanzes als Medium und Katalysator für ihre choreo-grafischen Fiktionen. Der Katalog zeigt eine Auswahl ihrer Arbeiten aus sechs Jahrzehnten, er ent-hält Installationsaufnahmen ihrer ausgestellten Kunstwerke, und unveröffentlichtes historischesBildmaterial.Rebecca Horn, geb. 1944, zählt mit ihrem transdisziplinären Werk zu den international be-deutendsten Künstler·innen der Gegenwart. Sie nahm an zahlreichen Ausgaben der documenta,der Venedig-Biennale, der Sydney-Biennale, Tokyo-Biennale, São-Paulo-Biennale und CarnegieInternational teil. Hendrik Folkerts ist Kurator für internationale zeitgenössische Kunst und Aus-stellungsleiter am Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Jack Halberstam ist Direktor am Institut forResearch on Women, Gender and Sexuality an der Columbia University. Jana Baumann ist Senior-Kuratorin im Haus der Kunst in München. Nancy Spector ist Kuratorin, die Positionen im Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum in New York und im Brooklyn Museum innehatte. Timothy Baum, Experte fürDada und Surrealismus, war Wegbegleiter und Performer in Rebecca Horns filmischen Arbeiten.

"What is poetry today, and how does it fit into our lives? Through a series of intelligent, personal, and often humorous essays, the great French poet and fiction writer explores the role of poetry in society and what poetry means to each of us. This is simultaneously a profound and highly readable work on language and meaning."--Publisher's website.

The makers of a movie of Charles Dicken's Little Dorrit are haunted by the original characters, who are themselves haunted by the city in whose coils they are cuaght.

"Written in the years following the sudden death of Roubaud's wife, Some Thing Black is a profound and moving transcription of loss, mourning, grief, and the attempts to face honestly and live with the consequences of death, the ever-present "not-there-ness" of the person who was/is loved."--BOOK JACKET.

"The second installment in Roubaud's "Hortense" series opens with a murder of a dog at the Church of Sainte-Gudule. Chief Inspector Blognard and his sidekick Arapede are on the scene, as is our narrator, Jacques Roubaud. While they track down the Poldevian criminal, teenage girls argue the relative merits of the boy bands Dew-Pon Dew-Val and Landau Valley, Pere Sinouls tries to program a computer to take his place at the organ so that he can continue to practice Beeranalysis, and the clientele of the Gudule Bar debate the reality of Infinity. Time is running out for the Inspector, however, as the murderer puts into action his plot to kidnap our heroine Hortense, a 22-year-old philosophy student whose buttocks are so beautiful their description has been banned from the printed page."--BOOK JACKET.

The attractive young fiancee of Prince Gormanskoi of Poldavia, Hortense enjoys a sexy romp through myriad subplots among a cast of characters mirroring those in various Shakespearean plays, most notably Hamlet.