Where Shall I Wander
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Where Shall I Wander
You meant more than life to me. I livedthrough you not knowing, not knowing Iwas living.I learned that you called for me. I came to where you were living, up a stair. There was no one there.No one to appreciate me. The legality of itupset a chair. Many times to celebratewe were called together and wherewe had been there was nothing there,nothing that is anywhere. We passedobliquely,leaving no stare. When the sun was donemuttering,in an optimistic way, it was time to leavethat there.-- from The New Higher
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Unrecounted
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Unrecounted
A keepsake of one of the greatest writers of our time,Unrecounted comes as an unexpected gift to all the readers who loved W.G. Sebald.W.G. Sebald and Jan Peter Tripp were friends from their schooldays.Unrecounted combines 33 of what W.G. Sebald called his micro-poems—miniatures as unclassifiable as all his works—with 33 lithographs by the acclaimed artist Jan Peter Tripp. The art and the poems do not explain one another, but rather engage in a kind of dialog. The longer I look at the pictures of Jan Peter Tripp, Sebald comments in his essay, the better I understand that behind the illusions of the surface, a dread-inspiring depth is concealed. It is the metaphysical lining of reality, so to speak. The lithographs portray with stunning exactness pairs of eyes: among them the eyes of Beckett, Borges, Proust, Jasper Johns, Francis Bacon, Tripp, Sebald, Sebald's dog Morris. The poems are anti-narrative, epiphanic and brief as haiku. What the author calls time lost, the pain of remembering, and the figure of death here find a small home.
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School Of The Arts
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School Of The Arts
The darkly graceful poems inMark Doty's seventh collection explore the ways in which we are educated by the implacable powers of time and desire. The world constantly renews itself, and the new brings both possibility and erasure. Given the limits of our own bodies, how are we to live within the inevitability of despair?This is the plainest of Doty's books, its language stripped and humbled. But whatever depths are sounded in these poems, their humane and open music sustains. Art itself instructs us. Lucian Freud's startling renditions of human skin, Virginia Woolf's ecstatic depiction of consciousness, Caravaggio's only-too-real people elevated to difficult glory -- all turn the light of human intelligence upon the night of time.Formally inventive, warm, at once witty and disconsolate,School of the Arts represents a poet reinventing his own voice at midlife, finding a way through a troubled passage. Acutely attentive, insistently alive, this is a book of fierce vulnerability.
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Bosh And Flapdoodle
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Bosh And Flapdoodle
No contemporary poet, in America, is likelier to become a classic than A. R. Ammons.—Harold BloomBosh and Flapdoodle is A. R. Ammons's last completed collection of poetry. Written over a six-week period, the book offers a series of candid, alternately hilarious and heartbreaking ruminations on age, illness, and death, while still finding room for the poet's always penetrating observations of daily life and natural events.
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The Space Between Our Footsteps
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The Space Between Our Footsteps
A collection of poetry from 19 Middle Eastern countries. Contributors include Yehuda Amichai, Nazim Hikmet, and Chaibia Tallal. Illustrated with color paintings.
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The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
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The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
Translated for the common reader, this new version of the classic literary epic follows the author and his guide, Virgil, on their immortal journey through the nine circles of hell in search of divine justice. Original.
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The Book of Hours
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The Book of Hours
This is the first volume in 40 years to offer English readers a translation of Rilke's three-part poem series about the role of the artist.
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