michael mcirvin (13 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. With CD! A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. None (illustrator). paperback/cd edition. 183 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. Ladikos, Jordan (illustrator).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The compact intensity of Michael McIrvin's poems links him to the strongest vein of American modernist and postmodern poetry, but their philosophical fire is entirely McIrvin's own and constitutes a unique contribution. His Dog may be the most forcefully developed metaphor since Ted Hughes' Crow, but all his work shows an intensely illuminating focus on those moments when perception and metaphysics intersect.William DoreskiMichael McIrvin's analysis of the modern American psyche is far beyond almost any other living US poet. His poems are among the best informed and most intelligent you'll find. In fact, McIrvin's vision quest and its resultant insights into the complexities of human nature and the natural world exceed what most poets can ever hope to achieve.Leonard CirinoMcIrvin's voice leads us safely through his unique landscape; half myth, half to help us make sense of our loneliness and suffering. It is its honesty that distinguishes his poetry, that enables it to reach back in time and rescue us from ancient walls and distances. McIrvin's power, clarity, and compassion assure Optimism Blues a secure place in 20th century literature.Simon PerchikThe authentic voice of Western man remains Job's. Michael McIrvin's Optimism Blues is in that ancient tradition: petitioning, pleading, deploring, damning, praying. Author of one of the most brilliant, most needed essay collections in the past decade, Whither American Poetry, McIrvin pursues with painful integrity and philosophical and poetic passion the classic issues. He offers us poems that are the 'infinite herd of his sorrows,' but poems that are also sexy and erotic and tender and funny. Poems that speak 'Dios in the same breath as devastar.' Michael McIrvin is a poet who will not compromise his dark vision precisely because his dream is 'the salvation of the world.'Sharon Doubiago.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Zeke Reilly has visions of future events. He can't summon visions or do anything about the circumstances they reveal, no matter how tragic, and so he thinks of his condition as more affliction than talent. His spells are mostly embarrassing until Zeke sees things that frighten him. He realizes too late that one of his more cryptic intuitions is a murder by his own hand, an act he can neither escape nor explain. When he goes into hiding for this crime and is implicated in another he merely witnessed, he begins to think he is more cursed than afflicted, but while on the run he meets Cindy-her nom de phone sex Cindy Sweet Stuff-and their love affair is a brief respite in a life careening toward an uncertain end. Zeke has to leave Cindy behind and flees to Mexico. On this journey, which he thinks an attempted escape from his destiny, Zeke meets shamans of various levels of authenticity and the members of a native revivalist cult at war with a drug lord. Cindy goes to great links to locate him, but Zeke is pursued by bounty hunters tied to a trafficker in black market organs and so is always just beyond her reach.Ultimately Zeke discovers the reason for his visions in the ancient lands of the Aztec, Maya, and Toltec, and he begins to understand that he has been racing toward his destiny. Déjà Vu and the Phone Sex Queen is the story of a man's search for meaning in an absurd world where even tragic experience is commercialized, where traditional cultures are subsumed by mass culture, where violence is a fact of daily life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Literary Fiction. Sonny woke up blue one day, 'not sad . but actually, absolutely, from head-to-toe, blue.' So begins the journey of this former CIA agent, now a drunken convenience store clerk, toward a perverse reconciliation of his former role in geopolitics and his destiny. First, however, he must untangle why, more than two decades after his banishment, his former employer would go to such lengths to mark him for death. His search for answers embroils him in issues of tribal sovereignty, terrorism, and the drug trade as seen from the 'other side,' and he is forced to journey to Mexico where he meets another former operative who doubles as a jaguar shaman, a Mayan holy man whose prophesies include Sonny, and a ten year-old boy whose role in his people's future is both mythic and bloody-as is Sonny's. He is haunted by flashbacks of his work for the CIA in Mesoamerica, including the act for which he was 'excommunicated,' but his darkest realization is that violence and greed are not just the facts of his former life come back to haunt him but the mechanisms of history.

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.