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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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..
In a new cycle of linked nonfiction prose-pieces, Eliot Weinberger creates another "vortex for the entire universe." ("Boston Review") "If you dream of a jaguar, people are coming. If the jaguar bites you, they are not people." --Eliot Weinberger, from "Lacandons" Internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative writers today, Eliot ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
"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
Bei Dao, the internationally acclaimed Chinese poet, has been the poetic conscience of the dissident movements in his country for over twenty years. He has been in exile since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. Unlock presents forty-nine new poems written in the United States, and may well be Bei Dao's most powerful work to date. Complex, full ...
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