Graywolf press apr 2014 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Hamilton is able to sustain a complex narrative through stripped-down poems . . . leavened by a wry humor.' -The New York Times Book ReviewI wanted to read an essay in your wrist.The afternoon seemed endless. Out the window,a lane to the right was bending away,taking with it the figure moving down it.Alone for a quarter of an hour,looking in, plotting the argument,all the marks of lucidityand brevity in that attempt,that benefit of rhetoric:the true but unlikely moment. -from 'Summered'Corridor, Saskia Hamilton's third collection, is a study of motion and time. Its glanced landscapes, its lives seen in passing, render the immeasurable in broken narratives. These poems are succinct in order to travel quickly-they have unexpected distances within their reach. They are dauntless and alert in their apprehension of the natural kingdom at the frontier of so many unnatural ones. And they inhabit the realm of contemplation which, for Hamilton, is charged with eros.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Intricately imagined and timely . . . Maazel is an entertaining writer with a dry, droll sense of humor.' -The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice\* Shortlisted for the Believer Book Award \* Fiona Maazel's Woke Up Lonely follows a cult leader, his ex-wife, and the four people he takes hostage. It's about loneliness in America, North Korea, espionage, a city underneath Cincinnati, cloud seeding, and eavesdropping. It's also a big, sweeping love story.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other By confronting pain-real and imagined, her own and others'-Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory-from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration-in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.…