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An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative writers today, Eliot Weinberger has taken the essay into unexplored territories on the borders of poetry and narrative where the only rule, according to the author, is that all the information must be verifiable. With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger ...Show more
Angels and Saints - With a Guide to the Illustrations by Mary Wellesley by Eliot Weinberger; Anon (Notes by)
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
From a litany of angelic voices, Weinberger's lyrical meditation then turns to the earthly counterparts, the saints, their lives retold in a series of vibrant and playful capsule biographies, followed by a glimpse of the afterlife.Threaded throughout Angels and Saints are the glorious illuminated grid p ...Show more
New Collected Poems by George Oppen; Michael Davidson (Editor); Eliot Weinberger (Preface by)
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Category: Poetry
George Oppen's New Collected Poems gathers in one volume all of the poet's books published in his lifetime (1908-84), as well as his previously uncollected poems and a selection of his unpublished work. Oppen, whose writing was championed by Ezra Pound when it was first published by The Objectivist Pres ...Show more
New Directions Anthology Of Classical Chinese Poetry by Weinberger Eliot
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Category: Poetry
The first general anthology ever to consider the process of translation by presenting different versions of the same poem by various translators, as well as examples of the translators rewriting themselves. The collection, serves as an introduction to the art and tradition of Chinese poetry.
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty-from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth's loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, "Eliot ...Show more
The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the entire universe" (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger chronicles a nineteenth-century journey down the Colora ...Show more
The Life of Tu Fu by Eliot Weinberger
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Category: Poetry
For over fifty years Eliot Weinberger has been celebrated for his innovative literary and political essays--translated into over thirty languages--as well as his trailblazing translations from the Spanish. In his exquisite new book The Life of Tu Fu, Weinberger has composed a montage of fifty-eight poem ...Show more
Two American Scenes by Lydia Davis & Eliot Weinberger
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Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets Ser.
Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet" series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing "found material." Excerpts: It was given to me, in the nineteenth century, to spend a lifetime on this earth. Along with a few of the sorrowsthat are appointed unto men, I have had innumerabl ...Show more
What Happened Here? by Weinberger, Eliot
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Wildlife by Eliot Weinberger
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Weinberger’s essays are like encyclopaedias in miniature, crammed with curious details that make you wonder at the strangeness of creation, and the ability of humans to make it even stranger. Wildlife is a collection which celebrates birds and fish, dogs and flies, ticks and mole-rats, and those two leg ...Show more