This title features nineteen different translations of a single poem with comments on each version by Eliot Weinberger and an introduction contributed by Octavio Paz.
A massive bilingual volume representing the complete poems of Mexico's leading poet. It also includes a useful appendix of notes by Paz himself. The translations have been done by a variety of well-known poets and other writers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Strand, Denise Levertov, John Frederick Nims, and Eliot Weinberger.
This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non-fiction prose. Borges' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes.
Tequila is a national drink of great variety and complexity, inextricably entwined with the history and culture of Mexico. "Tequila" is the first book in English that is a wonderful A-Z guide to everything about tequila. Includes recipes for both cocktails and cooking with tequila. Full color.
In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. "Hindoo Holiday" is an intimate and very ...
These essays were originally given as lectures in Buenos Aires by the blind Jorge Luis Borges, in 1977. He delivered them entirely from memory, including their copious quotations, and they were transcribed by others. Borges's topics include Dante, Buddhism, nightmares, and (the last lecture) blindness. This brief volume encapsulates everything ...
Possessor of one of the 20th Century's most fecund--and intelligent--imaginations, Jorge Luis Borges wrote on virtually everything, and in almost every conceivable form, reflecting the encyclopedic knowledge he acquired through both a rigorous education and his career as a librarian. In honor of his centennial, this three-volume edition of his ...
This volume of 24 essays by the celebrated translator of Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz contains poetic meditations on culture, history, and poetics. The diverse subject matter includes Iceland, India, Hong Kong , Vikings, Aztecs, the Amazon, Hugh MacDiarmid, J. R. Ackerley, mole-rats, pop-stars, and the prophesies of dogs..
A beautiful gift edition of Figures & Figurations: the collaboration between the Nobel Prize laureate Octavio Paz and his wife of thirty years, the artist Marie Jose Paz.
An anthology of poems written by American authors since 1950, edited by the distinguished essayist and literary critic. Works by William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and Charles Olson are included.
A groundbreaking anthology of classical Chinese translations by giants of Modern American poetry. A rich compendium of translations, The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry is the first collection to look at Chinese poetry through its enormous influence on American poetry. Weinberger begins with Ezra Pound's Cathay (1915), and ...
During the past several years, Eliot Weinberger's inventive prose has earned him a reputation as a candid social observer and penetrating essayist. 'Works on Paper' is the first collection of his writings, twenty-one pieces that juxtapose the world as it is and the world as it is imagined--by artists, poets, historical figures, and ordinary people.
Originally appearing abroad in a variety of publications, the topical and personal essays in WHAT HAPPENED HERE track Eliot Weinberger's response to the events of September 11, 2001, and to the administration of President George W. Bush, "whose ignorance of almost everything in the world," says Weinberger, "borders on the pathological." The early ...
"Nothing stands still in this poetry: the wind blows the trees, the lake water ripples and the ever-present road runs in and out of the hills."-American Poetry Review
A celebration of contemporary poetry from around the world, "World Beat: International Poetry Now" from New Directions is a treasure trove that will satisfy and fascinate poetry lovers. A mosaic of twenty-eight foreign and American poets, "World Beat" is an extraordinary compilation, unlike any other anthology, of the poetry being written today. ...
The Iraq war has unleashed such a torrent of opinion...impassioned polemic, neo-con apologia, world-weary cynicism...that it feels like the important truths are being lost in a media feeding-frenzy. Eliot Weinberger eschews the rhetoric of the soapbox in an extraordinary montage of facts, sound-bites and testimonies. He assembles an uncompromising ...
The first major book of short prose poetry in Spanish, "Eagle or Sun?" exerted an enormous influence on modern Latin American writing. Written in 1949-50 by Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz, "Eagle or Sun?" has a mythopoeic "place" Mexico -- a country caught up in its pre-Columbian past, the world of modern imperialism, and an apocalyptic future ...
"Muhammad" is a shimmering, lyrical biography of the Prophet, composed from the words of Muslims throughout the centuries. Drawing on a variety of Islamic sources, from the hadith, or sayings of Muhammad and his companions, to Abbasid and Persian texts, Weinberger weaves a subtle, mystical prose poem, spanning Muhammad's birth and childhood; his ...
Gu Cheng (1956-1993) is one of China's most celebrated contemporary poets. His early death ended a literary career that was influenced by the Cultural Revolution and that reawakened the lyricism of Chinese poets during the 1980s. Offering a unique blend of brooding imagism and political innuendo, Gu Cheng's poetry traces complex changes in the ...
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