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Jorge L. Borges

New Directions, 2009

Seven Remarkable Lectures Worth Seven Readings
I am fascinated by the genius of Jorge Luis Borges. "Seven Nights" is a short collection (121 pages) of seven lectures given over seven evenings in the summer of 1977 in Buenos Aires. Borges was almost fully blind and spoke informally, without notes, as was his usual style. He exercised his great memory with skill; he shifted effortlessly across literary genre, across the centuries, across ...

Borges: Selected Non-Fictions

13 reviews
Jorge Luis Borges

Penguin, 2000

A True Lover of Books
Borges claims in one of these articles that he was "more proud of the books he has read than the books he has written." I imagine I would feel the same way, had I written any books! And I think this statement captures the unifying theme of this compendium. Herein Borges will astonish and charm you with the breadth, variety, and whimsy of his literary taste. The book is a compilation of ...

An Elemental Thing (New Directions Paperbook)

1 review
Eliot Weinberger

New Directions, 2007

Wow!
There are some music albums that make you listen to music differently than you ever had before. 'An Elemental Thing' has forced me to read differently. It's not an ungainly monster like Proust or an unreadable trainwreck like Naked Lunch. Nonetheless, it has taken my thinking and my own internal narrative (at least for the duration of my reading) into weird sideways hallways and inexplicable ...

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987

7 reviews
Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger

New Directions, 1987

Sing the Voice Fantastico
Octavio Paz has since passed through this world leaving behind a beautiful web of words with the tapestry of things seen and unseen. Paz does an ambidextrous job of mixing in elements of surrealism with the bone of natural objects and that which is very real. His, and the translator Eliot Weinberger ... along with the help of other poet translators to include Bishop, Levertov, Tomlinson--all of ...

The Total Library

1 review
Jorge Luis Borges

Allen Lane, 2000

A wonderful collection of Borges' non-fiction
This is a wonderful collection of Borges' non-fiction. It is a marvelous book to read and ponder. The only thing I could have wished for is a larger print font. I find I have to read this one with a magnifying glass. I suppose I shouldn't complain because there is SO much material. I will give this 5 stars just for the wealth of good reading it has to offer.

Sunstone - Piedra de Sol

2 reviews
Octavio Paz

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1991

Este es un poema necesario.
Paz ha creado una joya de incalculable valor. Con toda la plasticidad que un genio puede brindarle a un texto, San Octavio recorre en Piedra de Sol todos los grandes temas de la poesía y con ello, del hombre. Es tan natural el desempeño de sus letras que es necesario hacer un esfuerzo para asimilar que nos han llevado de un confín a otro, de la magia a la realidad, de la mujer a la soledad, ...

A Tree Within (A New Directions Paperbook, 661)

2 reviews
Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1988

A stunning achievement by a giant of 20th century poetry
Octavio Paz wrote some of the most remarkable poetry and prose of the 20th century. The collection of poems entitled "A Tree Within" represents one of his most memorable achievements. A remarkable diverse blend of short lyrics and longer, Whitmanesque creations, "A Tree Within" is definitely a collection that bears careful reading and re-reading. The book is richly studded with multicultural ...

Altazor (Wesleyan Poetry)

1 review
Vicente Huidobro

Wesleyan, 2004

Poetry for People Who Love Avant-Garde Latin American Poetry
Altazor is probably Vicente Huidobro's best poem. Who's Vicente Huidobro you ask? The least known of the top echelon of Latin American avant-garde (or "vanguardista" in Spanish) poets of the 20th century. Impressive enough in Spanish, with its incredible wordplay and thought-provoking imagery, what's more impressive is Eliot Weinberger's translation. He's the only one who's ever published a ...

Karmic Traces

2 reviews
Eliot Weinberger

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2000

Kafka, Vikings, & MTV: The Merging Point of Criticism & Art
Aestheticians have, I think, long wrestled with the question of whether art's value lies in its spontaneity or its control. The spontaneous, like a volcano, will cover more intellectual ground, whereas the controlled, a sort of rose in the irion filings, gives us the precision of high aesthetic achievement. Here in Weinberger's book of essays, as much art as about art (or politics, culture, ...

The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry

2 reviews
Eliot Weinberger

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2004

Making It New
The rediscovery of Greek and Roman literature kickstarted the Renaissance in Europe. In a similar way, though on a somewhat smaller scale, the conveniently Imagist makeover of Chinese poetry by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell undoubtedly had a seismic and far-reaching effect on later 20th century American poetry. In his learned Introduction to this outstanding and indispensable Anthology, Weinberger ...

New Collected Poems (with CD)

2 reviews
George Oppen

New Directions, 2008

The Clarity of Compassion
This volume constitutes the most complete collection of Oppen's work to date-- many poems of which have not been anthologized until now. The centerpiece of the collection is Oppen's wonderful book-length poem-- Of Being Numerous. This Pulitzer-prize-winning poem is concerned with the dilemma of seeing the world through the eyes of solitude versus seeing the world through the eyes of what it is ...

Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal (New York Review Books Classics)

13 reviews
J.R. Ackerley

NYRB Classics, 2000

Sly and Witty
This is one of those books that I will always keep by my bed as a reminder not to take myself too seriously in any capacity. I found this a terribly funny book, mostly becuase it rang so true. Ackerley is fabulous company, shockingly observant and brutally honest, even when it plunges him into bad light. We tip-toe so carefully around so many of the subjects he faces head on - racism, ...

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: How a Chinese Poem Is Translated

7 reviews
Eliot Weinberger, Editor Paz

Moyer Bell Ltd, 1987

Nothing is more difficult than simplicity
Poetry, said Robert Frost, is what gets lost in translation. Poetry, says Eliot Weinberger in the introduction to this small volume, is that which is worth translating. Both, of course, are right. That is what I like about poetry. It tolerates different points of view, a multitude of interpretations. A poem, or its translation, is never 'right', it is always the expression of an individual ...

Works on Paper, 1980-1986

1 review
Eliot Weinberger

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1986

The First Review!?!
Eliot Weinberger is hands-down the finest American essayist around. Read this book as a primer.

Everything & Nothing

5 reviews
Jorge Luis Borges, Jorge Borges, ...

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1999

100th anniversary of Borges' birth
The introduction to this celebratory volume "shocked" me - Borges was first published in English in 1962. Within five years, a farm kid like myself was familiar with him. Obviously, he work immediately was recognized as exceptional, out of the ordinary ... This slim volume provides an enjoyable reminder of his other works or a great introduction to the themes and style of Borges. The volume ...

A Tale of Two Gardens: Poems from India 1952-1995

2 reviews
Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1997

Poetic Ambassador
A Tale of Two Gardens is a collection of poems dealing with Nobel laureate Octavio Paz relationship with the great nation of India. He made many trips there over the years. Paz was also the Mexican ambassador to India. (He resigned the position in 1968 to protest government assault on protesters.) There were still later sojourns to India afterwards. Mutra is a really strong poem. It is a ...

American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders

2 reviews

Marsilio Publishers, 1993

Excellent Book
This is an excellent cross-section of late twentieth century poetry....of course it leaves some favorites out and includes poets I am not particularly enamored with but ultimately I have used this book a great deal.....highly recommended...I am especially pleased with the inclusion of Ronald Johnson......very interesting work....

Mitch Epstein: Work

2 reviews
Mitch Epstein

Steidl, 2006

Great transaction
Great to deal with. Would have recieved product as scheduled if DHL did'nt lose it for a couple of days during shipping, but this was not the sellers fault.

Eagle or Sun?

3 reviews
Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger

Peter Owen Ltd, 1990

Past Present and Future Mexico
A superb collection of early writings from 1949-50, Paz explores Mexico from three fronts, past, present and future. Influenced by Surrealists his prose is vivid and colorful as he explores the relationship between language and poet, reality and language and his vision of the past. His exploration of the apocalytic future, as foretold by the Aztec calendar stone is haunting. The world lost a ...

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2 reviews
Bei Dao

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2000

exile, yes, beautiful & necessary exile
the book, also, never mentions barbed wire but makes barbed wire come to mind. Bei Dao's writing is some of the most pressing, urgent poetry I have ever read. The man is a great poetic genius. With lines about such things as the wind closing its iron fist, Bei Dao speaks with power & elegance against repression & of the absolute importance of the individual. This book is very important. Bei ...

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