Khurbn & Other Poems

Khurbn & Other Poems PDF Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211093
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Book Description
In Yiddish, khurbn is the word for 'total destruction, ' the word for what the English-speaking world calls the Jewish 'Holocaust' of World War II. This is the author's precisely personal, horrifying, tender, and structurally astute masterpiece, it is the great middle-length poem of our times.

Khurbn & Other Poems

Khurbn & Other Poems PDF Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811211093
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Book Description
In Yiddish, khurbn is the word for 'total destruction, ' the word for what the English-speaking world calls the Jewish 'Holocaust' of World War II. This is the author's precisely personal, horrifying, tender, and structurally astute masterpiece, it is the great middle-length poem of our times.

Seedings & Other Poems

Seedings & Other Poems PDF Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213318
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Book Description
A collection of poetry which contains the title poem, a celebration of poets and friends, and four other sections--Improvisations, Twentieth Century Unlimited, An Oracle for Delfi, and 14 Stations.

A Paradise of Poets

A Paradise of Poets PDF Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214278
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Book Description
A Paradise of Poets is Jerome Rothenberg's tenth book of poetry to be published by New Directions, beginning with his Poland/1931(1974). In considering the title of his newest collection, he says: "Writing poetry for me has always included an involvement with the life of poetry--& through that life an intensification, when it happened, of my involvement with the other life around me. In an earlier poem I spoke of this creating a paradise of poets ... I do not of course believe that such a paradise exists in any supernatural or mystical sense, but I have sometimes felt it come to life among my fellow poets and, even more, in writing--in the body of the poem." In Rothenberg's hands, the body of the poem is an extraordinarily malleable object. Collage, translation, even visual improvisation serve to open up his latest book to the presence of poets and artists he has known and to others, past and present, who he feels have somehow touched him, among them Nakahara Chuya, Jackson Mac Low, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Federico Garcia Lorca, Kurt Schwitters, and Vitezslav Nezval. Kenneth Rexroth once commented: "Jerome Rothenberg is one of our truly great American poets who has returned U.S. poetry to the mainstream of international modern literature. No one has dug deeper into the roots of poetry." With A Paradise of Poets, it is clear that this evaluation is as fresh today as it was twenty-five years ago.

Poland/1931

Poland/1931 PDF Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Book Description
Jerome Rothenberg's Poland /1931, a continuing series of ancestral poems, has been appearing in installments over the course of five years, published in limited edition by various small presses.

Poems for the Game of Silence

Poems for the Game of Silence PDF Author: Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Book Description
"I look for new forms and possibilities," writes Jerome Rothenberg in Poems for the Game of Silence, "but also for ways of presenting in my own language the oldest possibilities of poetry going back to the primitive and archaic cultures that have been opening up to us over the last hundred years." It is this combined sense of mystery and authenticity, in words and new structures that approach archetypal chant, that informs his poetry. First published in 1971, this volume brings together a selection of Rothenberg's early groundbreaking work: a wide range of experimental forms, both written and oral, set beside renderings of Native American, Australian, and other primitive songs, as well as the ancestral poems exploring his own origins that look forward to his later poetry.

Opposing Poetries

Opposing Poetries PDF Author: Hank Lazer
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810112655
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Book Description
Begins a series presenting collections of survey articles pivoting around the notion of computation. The inaugural topics include generalized rational approximation subject to linear constraints, matrix exponential approximations in the numerical solution of differential equations, unbounded fan-in circuits, and fixpoint semantics for a Petri net model of definite clause logic programs. Each article is self-contained and all assume a high sophistication in mathematics. Future volumes may focus on a special subfield such as computational graph theory, approximation, or computability. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Five Plays; Comedies and Tragicomedies

Five Plays; Comedies and Tragicomedies PDF Author: Federico GarcĂ­a Lorca
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200905
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Book Description
Two additional comedies, published here in book form in English for the first time, are The Billy-Club Puppets -- a guignol-type farce with delicate wit; and The Butterfly's Evil Spell, an "insect comedy" about a beetle-poet who aspires to be a butterfly.

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur PDF Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811207577
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Book Description
In this masterful play, Tennessee Williams explores the meaning of loneliness and the need for human connection through the lens of four women and the designs and desires they harbor--for themselves and for each other.

The German Lesson

The German Lesson PDF Author: Siegfried Lenz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Book Description
"The German Lesson marks a double triumph--a book of rare depth and brilliance, to begin with, presented in an English version that succeeds against improbable odds in conveying the full power of the original." --Ernst Pawel, New York Times Book Review

Soulstorm

Soulstorm PDF Author: Clarice Lispector
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811210911
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Book Description
The twenty-none stories in Soulstorm were originally published in two separate volumes in 1974--A Via Crucis do Corpo (The Stations of the Body) and Onde Estivestes de Noite (Where You Were at Night)--and are now combined and sensitively translated into English by Alexis Levitan.