Graywolf press jan 2007 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The American debut of Basque writer Kirmen Uribe's 'simple, devastating poems' (Bob Holman)Whenever we're saddened everything looks dark,When we're heartened, again, the world crumbles.Every one of us keeps forever someone else's hidden side,If it's a secret, if a mistake, if a gesture. -from 'May'Kirmen Uribe has become one of the best-known Basque-language writers-an important contemporary voice from a vital but largely unknown language. Meanwhile Take My Hand presents Uribe's poetry to American readers in both the original and in the poet Elizabeth Macklin's skillful and award-winning translations.In these poems are the drug addicts of Spanish fishing towns, the paved-over rivers of urbanized medieval cities, the remains of loving relationships, whether entirely uprooted or making do with a companionable silence. The Basque phrase Bitartean heldu eskutik, which became the book's title-Meanwhile Take My Hand-Uribe has said is 'what you say when there's nothing at all you can say.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Neck Deep and Other Predicaments is an innovative and engaging nonfiction debut by 'an original new voice' (Publishers Weekly) and the winner of the 2006 Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeIn this sparkling nonfiction debut, Ander Monson uses unexpectedly nonliterary forms--the index, the Harvard Outline, the mathematical proof--to delve into an equally surprising mix of obsessions: disc golf, the history of mining in northern Michigan, car washes, topology, and more. He reflects on his outsider experience at an exclusive Detroit-area boarding school in the form of a criminal history and invents a new form as he meditates on snow.…