Communal Nude: Collected Essays (Gluck Robert)(Paperback)

Communal Nude: Collected Essays (Gluck Robert)(Paperback)

The collected essays of the cofounder of the New Narrative movement, on theory, identity, poetry, and muses from Kathy Acker to Georges Bataille.I read and wrote to invoke what seemed impossible--relation itself--in order to take part in a world that ceaselessly makes itself up, to 'wake up' to the

The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged (Frost Robert)(Paperback)

Potentialities: Collected Essays (Agamben Giorgio)(Paperback)

This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays written over a period of more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. The volume opens with an introduction in which the editor situates Agamben's work with respect to both the history of philosophy and contemporary

Margery Kempe (Gluck Robert)(Paperback)

Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century maiden and Jesus Christ. Margery Kempe is a tale of romantic obsession. It chronicles two

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Wang Esm Weijun)(Paperback)

Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to

Proofs and Theories (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and also dwells on lives and poems. The book includes writings on T.S. Eliot, George Oppen, Sylvia Plath, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, and John

Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings (Smithson Robert)(Paperback)

Since the 1979 publication of The Writings of Robert Smithson, Robert Smithson's significance as a spokesman for a generation of artists has been widely acknowledged and the importance of his thinking to contemporary artists and art critics continues to grow. In addition to a new introduction by

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (Hardwick Elizabeth)(Paperback)

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form,

Collected Essays - 1986-2011 (Kureishi Hanif)(Paperback / softback)

A new paperback edition of Hanif Kureishi's wide-ranging and thought-provoking

The Collected Essays of Virginia Woolf (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback)

A collection of the finest essays written by one of the greatest essay writers in the English

Collected Poems (Rendall Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Robert Adams: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews (Adams Robert)(Paperback)

A now classic text on the art, Why People Photograph gathers a selection of essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs. Adams also writes brilliantly on Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Judith Joy

Art Can Help (Adams Robert)(Paperback)

A collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society In Art Can Help, the internationally acclaimed American photographer Robert Adams offers over two dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of

Philosophical Essays: From Ancient Creed to Technological Man (Jonas Hans)(Paperback)

Philosophical Essays is a pivotal volume in the collected works of Hans Jonas (1903-1993), one of most important German-American philosophers of the last half of the 20th century. Of the four books published in English during his lifetime, it is the only one to include contributions from his three

The Best American Essays 2021 (Atwan Robert)(Paperback)

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz 'A warm, witty, and welcome presence who confides in her readers' (Daniel Gilbert), TheNew Yorker's Kathryn Schulz selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best

Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (Carson Anne)(Paperback)

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as 'the most exciting poet writing in English today.' Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and

Collected Poems (Hayden Robert)(Paperback)

Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including A Ballad of Remembrance, Words in the Mourning Time, The Night-Blooming Cereus, Angle of Ascent, and American Journal, which

Collected Poems (Lowell Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the 'only recent American poet - if you don't count Eliot - who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English tradition'. This book compiles a comprehensive selection of Lowell's poems, from the early triumph of

Contemporary Painting in Context (Petersen Anne Ring)(Paperback)

The essays collected in Contemporary Painting in Context examine the transformation and expansion of the field of painting over the last decades in relation to the more general lines of development in contemporary culture and visuality. The contributors address a range of important issues ?

Letters of Intent - Selected Essays (Ozick Cynthia (Author))(Pevná vazba)

A selection of essays by the acclaimed and beloved writer Cynthia Ozick, collected by David

Wild Iris (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Wild Iris' in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane

Seven Ages (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

In contemplating her own death, Louise Gluck confronts the possible and the inevitable in this, her ninth and boldest

The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays (Leys Simon)(Paperback)

An NYRB Classics Original Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao's Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence,

The Best American Travel Writing 2019 (Wilson Jason)(Paperback)

An eclectic compendium of the best travel writing essays published in 2018, collected by Alexandra Fuller. BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING gathers together a satisfyingly varied medley of perspectives, all exploring what it means to travel somewhere new. For the past two decades, readers have come to