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The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's into the Night Life and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's-as if they were taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul. The twenty-nice poems of the title section form an integrated sequence in which the poet's eye sees beneath the "surface of the round world," while the section entitled "Oral Messages" was particularly written to be read aloud and communicated in the voice of our times. A measure of the poet's success in this is evident in that the paperback edition of a Coney Island of the Mind is now in its nineteenth printing with a total of 300,000 copies in print.

James Laughlin has been called the American Catullus. Like that most Greek of ancient Latin poets, he elevates his everyday subjects with wit and clarity of language. Love and hate, death and aging, politics, literature, travel, the horrors of war - Laughlin's muse speaks of all these things with a fresh directness that makes his poems both timeless and contemporary. The founder of New Directions, Laughlin's efforts as publisher and poet have been to prolong and extend the old poetic traditions. Poetry for him is, in Gertrude Stein's phrase, a "continuous present" in all times and cultures. Laughlin developed his distinctive tight metrics with the advice of William Carlos Williams. A longer, comical line is found in the recent poems of Laughlin's doppelganger, Hiram Handspring. The Man in the Wall follows Laughlin's recent Collected Poems (Moyer Bell Limited).

"In The Red Notebook, Auster again explores events from the real world - large and small, tragic and comic - that reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel room - all these form the context for a singular kind of ars poetica, a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling."--BOOK JACKET.

Beloved storyteller Judith A. Lansdowne introduces the first in a spellbinding new trilogy set against the backdrop of Blackcastle estate -- home to ancient mysteries and passionate new romances alike... — A LONG-LOST FRIENDSHIP... — The Reverend Richard Dempsey accepts the comfortable living in the hinterlands offered him by the Duke of Berinwick. But when Dempsey arrives at St. Milburga's of the Wood, he discovers the church in ruins, his patron dead, and Berinwick's family threatened by a madman. Years ago, Richard Dempsey would have risked everything for Veronica Longwood. Now that she is the widowed Duchess of Berinwick, will he still risk all to protect her and her children from the consequences of an ancient rivalry? BECOMES A NEW FOUND LOVE Behind a calm and commanding facade, Veronica Longwood Thorne hides a heart filled with grief and guilt. Haunted by memories of her one great sin and appalled by the multitude of sins that flowed from it, the Duchess of Berinwick wishes nothing more than to hide herself away from everyone. Until Richard Dempsey reappears in her life. Until this long-lost friend provides her with a solid arm to lean upon, a pair of practical eyes through which to see herself, and all the balm and strength she requires to overcome her own inadequacies, foil a villain, and seize a second chance at love..

The story of two young men who come to a picturesque beach town. Seen prismatically through the viewpoints of the town's residents, they offer a variety of worldviews. Yet are they really twins or a single person?

Johannes Bobrowski is widely regarded as the most important German poet of this century. He began to write poetry on the Eastern Front in 1941 where, as a 24-year-old German soldier in Kaunas, he saw the "slavering wolves" of the SS drive the "grey processions" over a hill to death. A prisoner-of-war in Russia until 1949, he returned to Berlin to write with a purpose: to inform his countrymen of the history and myths of Eastern Europe and to preserve the memory of his childhood home. The poems in Shadow Lands reflect Bobrowski's hope, in the words of Michael Hamburger, "that he might succeed poetically in bearing witness to that vanished world," that is, the world of Eastern Germany before the war. With an almost surreal lyrical beauty, he evokes the pre-Christian era of the gods and heroes of the ancient Prussians. The poems also resonate with the most eloquent and picturesque descriptions of Bobrowski's homeland - its rivers, its forests and quiet villages - ultimately leaving us with a sense of "the hiddenness of all perfect things." Personally intense and far-reaching, these poems have been treasured for their originality, their beauty, and their broad and lasting appeal.

Kamau Brathwaite, who won the 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, has revised his celebrated 1979 Casa de las Americas collection, Black + Blues, for its first edition by a U.S. publisher. A rich and beautiful collection, Black + Blues is cast in three parts - "Fragments," "Drought," and "Flowers."

Vzpomínkový i esejisticky meditativní „pedagogický“ text o Libni padesátých let a především o Hrabalově příteli, malíři a grafikovi Vladimíru Boudníkovi (1924–1968). Na hrázi Věčnosti, v domě na libeňské periferii, plyne život svým vlastním tempem. Doktor (přezdívka Bohumila Hrabala), grafik Vladimír Boudník a filozof Egon Bondy vedou svérázné diskuse o pravé podstatě umění a odmítají brát na zřetel reálný čas. Podle knihy byl natočen stejnojmenný film s Bolkem Polívkou, Arnoštem Goldflamem a Jiřím Menzelem v hlavních rolích.

Essays on a variety of cultural topics and personalities.

"The concluding novel in Joyce Cary's "Second Trilogy," Not Honour More (1955) takes up at the point Prisoner of Grace (1952) ends. The setting is Palm Cottage, the remnant property of the Slapton-Latter family and now the scene of an unhappy ménage consisting of Captain Jim Latter (retired), his wife Nina (née Woodville), and her former husband, Chester Nimmo. It is 1926, the year of the General Strike. Nimmo, once a Cabinet Minister, sees the situation as his chance for a political comeback, while Jim, head of the emergency civilian police, feels it his duty to take his stand, however desperate, against "the grabbers and tapeworms... sucking the soul out of England." For Nina, the trapped go-between, their inevitable clashes can lead nowhere but disaster. Not Honour More is Jim's book, "my statement, so help me, as I hope to be hung." -- Publisher

"Every year, at the height of summer, the remote Argentine village of Laborde holds the national malambo contest. Centuries-old, this shatteringly demanding traditional gaucho dance is governed by the most rigid rules. And this festival has one stipulation that makes it unique: the malambo is danced for up to five minutes. That may seem like nothing, but consider the world record for the hundred-meter dash is 9.58 seconds. The dance contest is an obsession for countless young men, who sacrifice their bodies and money as they strive to become the champion, knowing that if they win?in order to safeguard the title?s prestige?they can never compete again. When Leila Guerriero traveled to Laborde, one dancer?s performance took her breath away, and she spent a year following him as he prepared for the next festival. The result is this superlative piece of journalism, told with tremendous economy and power."--Amazon.com.

"Here are three of Denise Levertov's finest books: The Freeing of the Dust (1975), Life in the Forest (1978), and Candles in Babylon (1982). This new compilation - beginning where Denise Levertov's Poems 1968-1972 left off - testifies not only to Levertov's technical mastery, but also to her spiritual vision. Some of Levertov's best war poems, the result of her visit to North Vietnam in 1972, are contained in this collection. Poems 1972-1982 enables readers to observe a crucial phase in Levertov's poetic development."--BOOK JACKET.

This book is wrote by French poet and painter Henri Miaux. Michaux went to Asia for a journey in 1931. During the 8-month journey, he visited India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Korean and Malaysia. It is after this long journey that Michaux published the book Abarbarian in Asia which recorded what he saw, heard, felt and thinking in Asia.

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A visiting professor of Swedish named Lars Gustafsson finds himself involved in "a sudden series of bizarre events" in Austin, Texas, in 1974.

As Denise Levertov comments in her brief foreword to The Life Around Us, she has "shared with most poets in every time and place an ardent love of what my eyes and other senses revealed to me in the world we call 'nature'." Yet in this selection of sixty-two poems chosen by the author "celebration and fear of loss are necessarily conjoined." The Life Around Us shows us both the eternal renewal of the natural world and its imperilment.