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Author: Charles Simic Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0547691750 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 79
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In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and american present-a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise. “Simic writes so simply that his words fall like drops of water, but they ripple outward to evoke an ominous and numinous world” (Washington Post Book World).
Author: Charles Simic Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780156421829 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 66
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Mixes the haunted world of the poet's East European memory with the American present in verses that fill the wee hours of the evening with angels, pigs, riddles, cemeteries, and dolls that smile
Author: Wayne Koestenbaum Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1619028204 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 192
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Hotel Theory is two books in one: a meditation on the meaning of hotels, and a dime novel (Hotel Women) featuring Lana Turner and Liberace. Typical of Wayne Koestenbaum’s invigoratingly inventive style, the two books — one fiction, one nonfiction — run concurrently, in twin columns, and the articles “a,” “an,” and “the” never appear. The nonfiction ruminations on hotels are divided into eight dossiers, composed of short takes on the presence of hotels in the author’s dreams as well as in literature, film, and history. Guest stars include everyone from Oscar Wilde to Marilyn Monroe. Hotel Theory gives (divided) voice to an aesthetic of hyperaesthesia, of yearning. It is an oblique manifesto, the place where writing disappears. A new mode of theorizing — in fiction, in fragment, through quotation and palimpsest — arises in this dazzling work.
Author: Adam Mogelonsky Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 510
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The future of upscale and luxury hotels is total revenues. No longer simply a matter of driving occupancy, properties in these categories must find ways to encourage guests of all segments to spend across a variety of ancillary revenue streams such as dining, wellness, golf and activities. For the brand and owner’s side, this optimizes profitability, while for the guest this augments the experience to maximize satisfaction – a true win-win. Broken down by sections corresponding to each major hotel operation, this book gives hoteliers the tools and inspiration to execute a total revenue-focused commercialization strategy.
Author: Steven Lee Beeber Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1933368799 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 353
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Perfect for dipping (even while drowsing), this collection of lively, literate riffs make sleeplessness not just tolerable but fun. Millions can't sleep; millions more sleep with those who can't sleep. This collection is ideal for both the casual light sleeper and the dedicated insomniac (as well as their bedmates), delighting and distracting night owls with irresistible fiction, articles, blogs, art, photographs, comics, and more. Fiction, including previously unpublished stories by Aimee Bender and Arthur Bradford; essays from Yale neurobiologists to Priscella Becker; the probably true fictions like Jonathan Ames's masturbation solution to insomnia; comic writing from Howard Cruse and Seth Tobocman; poetry from Charles Simic and Rebecca Wolff; Davy Rothbart of FOUND magazine chips in some found texts--all combine to offer a nighttime companion for the sleepless reader.
Author: Bruce Weigl Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 0810152231 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 89
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Finalist, 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Throughout his award-winning career, Bruce Weigl has proven himself to be a poet of extraordinary emotional acuity and consummate craftsmanship. In The Abundance of Nothing, these qualities are on full display, animating and informing poems that combine rich, metaphoric imagery with direct, powerful language. Deftly weaving history and everyday experience, Weigl transports readers from the front lines of the Vietnam War and all the tangled cultural and emotional scenes of that time to the slow winds of the American Midwest that softly ease the voice of the veteran returning home. Though the poems struggle with themes of mortality and illness, violence and forgiveness, the poet’s voice never wavers in its meditative calm, poise, and compassion. Elegiac yet agile, ethereal yet embodied, The Abundance of Nothing is a work of searching openness, generous insight, and remarkable grace.
Author: Helen Vendler Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674821477 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 280
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This work comprises essays on American, British and Irish poetry, showing contemporary life and culture captured in lyric form. It explains the power of poetry as the voice of the soul, rather than the socially marked self, speaking directly through the stylization of verse.
Author: Haris Vlavianos Publisher: The Chinese University Press ISBN: 9882370497 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 68
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This pocketsized paperback is one of the twentyfour titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2017 is "Ancient Enmity". IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. From 22–26 November 2017, over 20 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme "ncient Enmity". Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.
Author: Charles Simic Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0593534948 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 97
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From one of America's most beloved poets, a piercing new collection reflecting on the characters and encounters that haunt us through this life and into the next Leading us into a city stirring with gravediggers and beggars, lovers and dogs, Charles Simic returns with a brilliant collection full of his singular wit, dark humor, and tenderheartedness. In poems that are often as spare as they are monumental, he captures the fleeting moments of modern life—peering inside pawnshop windows, brushing shoulders with strangers on the street, and walking familiar cemetery rows—to uncover all the beauty and worry hiding in plain sight. As the poet reflects on a lifetime’s worth of pleasure and loss, he recalls instances when he “made excuses and hurried away,” and considers the way memory always trails just behind. No Land in Sight is a testament to all we leave in our wake and, simultaneously, all we hang on to: the passing minutes, the evening’s stillness, and the many lives we inhabit in dim thresholds and bright mornings alike.
Author: Michelle Perrot Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300167091 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 384
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An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France’s prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives—the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to today, examining its myriad forms and functions, from royal king’s chamber to child’s sleeping quarters to lovers’ trysting place to monk’s cell. The history of women, so eager for a room of their own, and that of prisons, where the principal cause of suffering is the lack of privacy, is interwoven with a reflection on secrecy, walls, the night and its mysteries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including architectural and design treatises, private journals, novels, memoirs, and correspondences, Perrot’s engaging book follows the many roads that lead to the bedroom—birth, sex, illness, death—in its endeavor to expose the most intimate, nocturnal side of human history.
Author: Charles Simic
Author: Charles Simic
Author: Wayne Koestenbaum
Author: Adam Mogelonsky
Author: Steven Lee Beeber
Author: Bruce Weigl
Author: Charles Simic
Author: Helen Vendler
Author: Haris Vlavianos
Author: Charles Simic
Author: Michelle Perrot