The Restless Mind

GRABER, KATHLEEN. Correspondence. Saturnalia Books: 2005. ISBN: 0975499033

96 pages. "Correspondence," writes Mark Doty, "is a fresh accomplishment, swift with feeling and intelligence, the work of a restless critical mind mapping its way toward a way to bear the weight of love." Kathleen Graber's debut book takes us on a trip through history and time, varying her subjects with speed and seamlessness, to a dizzying, dazzling effect. From the Philadelphia Eagles to Cornell's boxes, from a fertility clinic to Daguerre's prints, from Kafka to running over two cats, from Annette Benning to Marianne Moore, Kathleen Graber's poems embrace what her inquisitive mind traverses, ensnaring past and present, familiar and foreign, soulful and scientific, in a celebration of chaos that is generous and healing." The Table of Contents of this book is as follows: Between Laurelton & Locust Manor Terra Incognita Romantic Museum The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction After a Student, 15, Declares He Will Renounce the World for God The Letters: A Mnemonic for Forgetting: L is for Laburnum The Off Season Equivalent Difference The Language of Bees Oracle, With Lines from Montale's "La Farandola Dei Fanciulli" The Letters: A Mnemonic for Forgetting: E is for Elegies, or Enough to be Counted Anniversary Mysterium Cosmographicum Physics Das Passagen-Werk The Letters: A Mnemonic for Forgetting: T is for the Twofold In the Museum of Dreams From Fragments Thinking of the Summer Solstice The Letters: A Mnemonic for Forgetting: H is for the Hidden Another Postcard The Horse Latitudes Pastoral The Letters: A Mnemonic for Forgetting: E is for Eros Beyond Saying Notes. Winner of the Saturnalia Book Prize 2005. Kathleen Graber is the recipient of fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She is a graduate of New York University's Creative Writing Program and teaches in the Expository Writing Program there. Softcover. Brand new book.

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Tuten, Frederic: TINTIN IN THE NEW WORLD: A ROMANCE: New York Riverhead Books 1996
ISBN: 1573225290 Very Good +++ Roy Lichenstein

FICTION: NOVEL: 5 1/8 x 8 inches. 239 pages. Cover is from a collage (TINTIN READING), created by Roy Lichenstein expressly for this book -- A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Herge (Georges Remi) has created a beloved Character who has had adventures all over the world -- even the moon. Now, Tuten has created a novel for Tintin, a new adventure, to explore the "dark, restless geography of his own mind". Walter Mosely, the respected novelist, says this is "an adventure no one should miss". Very small edgewear. Tiny wear and faint creases to spine ends and corners. Bottom of last few pages dampstained. First Riverhead Edition Paperback

[SW: FICTION, Novel, A Romance, TINTIN in the New World, Frederic Tuten, Beloved Character. Comic Books, Adventures, Foreign Countries. Explores His Own Mind.]

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Cesarini, David. Arthur Koestler. the Homeless Mind. New York: The Free Press, 1999.
0684867206, Text pristine, clean & unmarked, tight to spine - 646 pages. Book description: "David Cesarani paints an explosive portrait of Koestler that bridges the gulf separating public and private life, contrasting the work of a genius against the backdrop of his tormented soul and brutal private life. In England, Cesarani's revelations led to the removal of Koestler's bust at the University of Edinburgh, so strong were the feelings roused by his dissection of Koestler as a thinker and as a man. A central European Jew born in 1905, Koestler was molded by his times. Uprooted by war and revolution and hounded by prejudice, he struggled to make sense of a world on the edge of apocalypse. His search for meaning, identity and belonging swept him up in the raging ideological torrents of his times -- Zionism, Communism, anti-Commun ism and both hard scientific and esoteric mystical pursuits -- and culminated in an idiosyncratic and deeply personal ideological position that has confused and eluded critics and commentators. Equally restless in his personal relationships, Koestler made and broke friendships and marriages. His violent affairs with women were legendary, but until now the shocking details of his private life were hidden from view by loyal friends and obscured by the Olympian prose of his autobiograp hical writing. Cesarani is the first to make unrestricted use of Koestler's private papers. He also draws on previously secret documents held by the KGB and the FBI, which expose the depth of Koestler's involvement in the Communist Party and, later, his relations with the CIA. Once a Communist, Koestler eventually rejected Marxism and led the intellectual counterattack that culminated in the fall of the Berlin Wall. His speculations on human nature and the future of mankind in the atomic age were stamped upon a generation that lived in the shadow of the bomb. But alongside his brilliance and charm was a darker side, fully plumbed here for the first time, which led ultimately to the tragic dual suicide with his third wife, Cynthia, in 1983. With Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind David Cesarani has ensured Koestler's place in the pantheon of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century as surely as his forceful, provocative and groundbreaking study is guaranteed to reignite the controversy that swirled around Koestler in his life and his death, in his work and his actions. "
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Hardcover, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Durpre, Louis. (Soren Kierkegaard.). KIERKEGAARD AS THEOLOGIAN: THE DIALECTIC OF CHRISTIAN EXISTENCE.. Sheed and Ward, New York, (1963).,
229 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "...presents, systematically but without distortion, the main movements of Kierkegaard's theology, and thus enables the reader to grasp both the sweep and significance of a man who has justly been called the first great modern theologian...Through extensive quotations from Kierkegaard as well as through his own sympathetic but judicious commentary, the author conveys the restless vitality of Kierkegaard's mind, forever trying to shape the ti meless truths of Christianity to the doubts and queries of the modern mind; forever addressing itself to the anguish of modern existence in the tones of Christian compassion." Free front endpaper is clipped, light edge wear to boards, light wrinkli ng to top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling, tiny chips and tears at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, light rubbing/soiling, light waterstain at bottom of spine/panels area. VG-/G.

[SW: SOREN KIERKEGAARD DANISH PHILOSOPHERS THEOLOGY THEOLOGIANS RELIGION DIALECTIC SIN,]

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