Graywolf press jan 2006 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The eagerly anticipated second collection by poet and esteemed critic Stephen Burt Flaunting your useless knowledge has failed you again,Though it was all they had taught you. -from 'Like a Wreck'Consult any childhood development guide and you'll find the term 'parallel play': when children under two are placed together, they'll play separately but won't interact. They are more fascinated with their immediate surroundings than with each other.Stephen Burt's second collection of poems, Parallel Play, describes lovers, friends, travelers, and revelers attempting lives dependent on each other but still pulled inevitably into preoccupations of their own self-awareness. When there are many obstacles-overeducation, narcissism, extended adolescence, nomadic existence-how can Americans crawl out of the nursery and coexist if they increasingly have to learn to do so as adults.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kate Braverman grew up in Los Angeles in the late 1950s at the time when glitz was just beginning to be manufactured. Her Los Angeles was made up of stucco tenements, welfare, and the marginalized. It wasn't a destination city, it was the end of the line. Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles chronicles the trajectory of Braverman's Left Coast generation with a voice of singular power. She was an antiwar activist in Berkeley, a punk-rock poet on Sunset Strip, a single mother in the East L.A. barrio, and a woman in recovery at AA meetings in Beverly Hills. By 1990 she was married and settled into a life of writing and teaching. In her forties, Braverman did the unthinkable and moved from Beverly Hills to New York's Allegheny Mountains to a 150-year-old farmhouse. In wide-ranging transmissions, Braverman deftly contrasts the social histories of Los Angeles with her new, timeless rural community; describes the effects of the changing seasons on her Californian, sun-drenched soul; and marvels at how a remote farmhouse can offer surprising consolations. Library Journal calls Braverman a 'literary genius'; Rolling Stone describes her as having the 'power and intensity you don't see much outside of rock and roll.' Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles offers an eccentric and insightful view of social and individual transformation.…