Author: Lucian Blaga
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Andrei Codrescu's translations of Lucian Blaga's best poetry introduce one of twentieth-century Europe's finest poets to the English-speaking world.
At the Court of Yearning
Author: Lucian Blaga
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Andrei Codrescu's translations of Lucian Blaga's best poetry introduce one of twentieth-century Europe's finest poets to the English-speaking world.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Andrei Codrescu's translations of Lucian Blaga's best poetry introduce one of twentieth-century Europe's finest poets to the English-speaking world.
The Poetry Lesson
Author: Andrei Codrescu
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691178054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and Adderall), you blindfold them and lead them by the hand into a labyrinth made from bones. Then you tell them their assignment: 'Find the Grail. You have a New York minute to get it.'"--The Poetry Lesson The Poetry Lesson is a hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course taught by a "typical fin-de-siècle salaried beatnik"--one with an antic imagination, an outsized personality and libido, and an endless store of entertaining literary anecdotes, reliable or otherwise. Neither a novel nor a memoir but mimicking aspects of each, The Poetry Lesson is pure Andrei Codrescu: irreverent, unconventional, brilliant, and always funny. Codrescu takes readers into the strange classroom and even stranger mind of a poet and English professor on the eve of retirement as he begins to teach his final semester of Intro to Poetry Writing. As he introduces his students to THE TOOLS OF POETRY (a list that includes a goatskin dream notebook, hypnosis, and cable TV) and THE TEN MUSES OF POETRY (mishearing, misunderstanding, mistranslating . . . ), and assigns each of them a tutelary "Ghost-Companion" poet, the teacher recalls wild tales from his coming of age as a poet in the 1960s and 1970s, even as he speculates about the lives and poetic and sexual potential of his twenty-first-century students. From arguing that Allen Ginsberg wasn't actually gay to telling about the time William Burroughs's funeral procession stopped at McDonald's, The Poetry Lesson is a thoroughly entertaining portrait of an inimitable poet, teacher, and storyteller.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691178054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and Adderall), you blindfold them and lead them by the hand into a labyrinth made from bones. Then you tell them their assignment: 'Find the Grail. You have a New York minute to get it.'"--The Poetry Lesson The Poetry Lesson is a hilarious account of the first day of a creative writing course taught by a "typical fin-de-siècle salaried beatnik"--one with an antic imagination, an outsized personality and libido, and an endless store of entertaining literary anecdotes, reliable or otherwise. Neither a novel nor a memoir but mimicking aspects of each, The Poetry Lesson is pure Andrei Codrescu: irreverent, unconventional, brilliant, and always funny. Codrescu takes readers into the strange classroom and even stranger mind of a poet and English professor on the eve of retirement as he begins to teach his final semester of Intro to Poetry Writing. As he introduces his students to THE TOOLS OF POETRY (a list that includes a goatskin dream notebook, hypnosis, and cable TV) and THE TEN MUSES OF POETRY (mishearing, misunderstanding, mistranslating . . . ), and assigns each of them a tutelary "Ghost-Companion" poet, the teacher recalls wild tales from his coming of age as a poet in the 1960s and 1970s, even as he speculates about the lives and poetic and sexual potential of his twenty-first-century students. From arguing that Allen Ginsberg wasn't actually gay to telling about the time William Burroughs's funeral procession stopped at McDonald's, The Poetry Lesson is a thoroughly entertaining portrait of an inimitable poet, teacher, and storyteller.
Complete Poetical Works of Lucian Blaga, 1895-1961
Author: Lucian Blaga
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) is judged by many to be Romania's most original philosopher and greatest poet of the twentieth century, little known in the English-speaking world. Blaga the poet is inextricably bound up with Blaga the philosopher. He pursued similar goals in poetry and philosophy: to uncover the meaning of existence and to account for man's place in the universe.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) is judged by many to be Romania's most original philosopher and greatest poet of the twentieth century, little known in the English-speaking world. Blaga the poet is inextricably bound up with Blaga the philosopher. He pursued similar goals in poetry and philosophy: to uncover the meaning of existence and to account for man's place in the universe.
At the Court of Yearning
Author: Lucian Blaga
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814204962
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Poems by a noted twentieth-century Romanian poet, banned in his home country for their great insight
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814204962
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Poems by a noted twentieth-century Romanian poet, banned in his home country for their great insight
Zalmoxis
Author: Lucian Blaga
Publisher: Histria Books
ISBN: 1592110541
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) is judged by many to be Romania’s most original philosopher and greatest poet of the twentieth century. While scholars with access to his works in Romanian are well-aware of their importance, his work has remained, up to now, little known in the English-speaking world. The book represents one of the first efforts to make Blaga’s work accessible to an international audience. Zalmoxis is Blaga’s first play and one of his most important literary works. It underlines much of his philosophy and also reflects his poetry. Blaga’s attachment to Expressionist ideals is discernible in his treatment of the characters primarily as vehicles of ideas and his preference for primitive nature over the cultured metropolis. This book includes an introduction by Keith Hitchins of the University of Illinois, one of the leading historians of Romania in the United States and a scholar intimately acquainted with Blaga’s life and work. In it, he discusses the life of Lucian Blaga, and the importance of his literary and philosophical work. The translation is by Doris Plantus-Runey from Wayne State University in the United States.
Publisher: Histria Books
ISBN: 1592110541
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) is judged by many to be Romania’s most original philosopher and greatest poet of the twentieth century. While scholars with access to his works in Romanian are well-aware of their importance, his work has remained, up to now, little known in the English-speaking world. The book represents one of the first efforts to make Blaga’s work accessible to an international audience. Zalmoxis is Blaga’s first play and one of his most important literary works. It underlines much of his philosophy and also reflects his poetry. Blaga’s attachment to Expressionist ideals is discernible in his treatment of the characters primarily as vehicles of ideas and his preference for primitive nature over the cultured metropolis. This book includes an introduction by Keith Hitchins of the University of Illinois, one of the leading historians of Romania in the United States and a scholar intimately acquainted with Blaga’s life and work. In it, he discusses the life of Lucian Blaga, and the importance of his literary and philosophical work. The translation is by Doris Plantus-Runey from Wayne State University in the United States.
New Orleans, Mon Amour
Author: Andrei Codrescu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the streets and voodoo queens live around the corner; where cemeteries are the most popular picnic spots, the ghosts of poets, prostitutes, and pirates are palpable, and in the French Quarter, no one ever sleeps. Codrescu's essays have been called "satirical gems," "subversive," "sardonic and stunning," "funny," "gonzo," "wittily poignant," and "perverse"—here is a writer who perfectly mirrors the wild, voluptuous, bohemian character of New Orleans itself. This retrospective follows him from newcomer to near native: first seduced by the lush banana trees in his backyard and the sensual aroma of coffee at the café down the block, Codrescu soon becomes a Window Gang regular at the infamous bar Molly's on Decatur, does a stint as King of Krewe de Vieux Carré at Mardi Gras, befriends artists, musicians, and eccentrics, and exposes the city’s underbelly of corruption, warning presciently about the lack of planning for floods in a city high on its own insouciance. Alas, as we all now know, Paradise is lost. New Orleans, Mon Amour is an epic love song, a clear-eyed elegy, a cultural celebration, and a thank-you note to New Orleans in its Golden Age.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the streets and voodoo queens live around the corner; where cemeteries are the most popular picnic spots, the ghosts of poets, prostitutes, and pirates are palpable, and in the French Quarter, no one ever sleeps. Codrescu's essays have been called "satirical gems," "subversive," "sardonic and stunning," "funny," "gonzo," "wittily poignant," and "perverse"—here is a writer who perfectly mirrors the wild, voluptuous, bohemian character of New Orleans itself. This retrospective follows him from newcomer to near native: first seduced by the lush banana trees in his backyard and the sensual aroma of coffee at the café down the block, Codrescu soon becomes a Window Gang regular at the infamous bar Molly's on Decatur, does a stint as King of Krewe de Vieux Carré at Mardi Gras, befriends artists, musicians, and eccentrics, and exposes the city’s underbelly of corruption, warning presciently about the lack of planning for floods in a city high on its own insouciance. Alas, as we all now know, Paradise is lost. New Orleans, Mon Amour is an epic love song, a clear-eyed elegy, a cultural celebration, and a thank-you note to New Orleans in its Golden Age.
No Time Like Now
Author: Andrei Codrescu
Publisher: Pitt Poetry
ISBN: 9780822965824
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Codrescu's own words: "I wrote my first book of poems, License to Carry a Gun (Big Table, 1970), when I first lived in New York City, 1967-1970. Those were troubled times and I was 21 years-old. Decades later the city has changed and the times are still troubled. These poems, 2016-2018, try to find out just how changed my dear city and how troubled my days."
Publisher: Pitt Poetry
ISBN: 9780822965824
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In Codrescu's own words: "I wrote my first book of poems, License to Carry a Gun (Big Table, 1970), when I first lived in New York City, 1967-1970. Those were troubled times and I was 21 years-old. Decades later the city has changed and the times are still troubled. These poems, 2016-2018, try to find out just how changed my dear city and how troubled my days."
It was Today
Author: Andrei Codrescu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Andrei Codrescu's new work is the perfect tonic for America's political, literary, and cultural hangovers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Andrei Codrescu's new work is the perfect tonic for America's political, literary, and cultural hangovers.
The Art of Forgetting
Author: Andrei Codrescu
Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
ISBN: 9781937679613
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"his spelling casts a spell"
Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
ISBN: 9781937679613
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"his spelling casts a spell"
So Recently Rent a World
Author: Andrei Codrescu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566893008
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A poetry selection that follows the upswell, downfall, and wake of 41 years of wrestling the muse.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566893008
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A poetry selection that follows the upswell, downfall, and wake of 41 years of wrestling the muse.