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The Dying Animal (Movie Tie-in Edition/Elegy) (Vintage International)

63 reviews
Philip Roth

Vintage, 2008

A history of 20th-century sexual America
I think you have two choices when reading this book: be utterly horrified, or take it as a succinct bit of honesty about sex. Which you choose will depend, in all likelihood, on whether you're a woman or a man. Many women will see it as rank misogyny. I don't begrudge them that belief. I happen to think, on the contrary, that it is an absolute masterpiece. It does for the sexual revolution what ...

Hesiod and Theognis (Penguin Classics): Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies

10 reviews
Hesiod, Theognis

Penguin Classics, 1976

Ian Myles Slater on: West's Hesiod Translation
Some of the other reviews offered with M.L. West's translation of Hesiod's "Theogony" and "Works and Days" for the Oxford World's Classics actually refer to Dorothea Wender's verse translation of the same works, plus a charming version of the collection of lyrics attributed to Theognis, published in the Penguin Classics. That is a worthwhile version -- although the joining of the peasant-oriented ...

Elegy for Iris

35 reviews
John Bayley

Picador, 1999

Wonderfully rambling
I've spent the last 3-4 years writing a memoir (Baby Catcher). Therefore, I'm immersing myself in creative NF and memoir, and this is one of the best. Only a consummate writer such as John Bailey could have pulled this off. I've heard others complain about his rambling style, meandering between distant past, near past, and present (and I haven't seen the movie yet), but I found the transitions ...

Elegy for a Lost Star (The Symphony of Ages)

22 reviews
Elizabeth Haydon

Tor Books, 2005

The Calm Before the Storm...
Elegy for a Lost Star is, perhaps, one of the most gripping and breathe-taking book of the series. Once again, we have Achmed and Grunthor coming closer and closer to completing Ylorc, and Rhapsody being pregnant with Meridion. Ashe, Anborn, Gwydion and Llauron are there as well in all there glory. And Anwyn just won't die... This book caused me to double-take on my favorite character, Achmed ...

Duino Elegies and the Sonnets of Orpheus

3 reviews
Rainer Maria Rilke

Mariner Books, 2005

one of many useful translations
"Nonce " doesn't need to wait for another poet to translate Rilke. There are already lots of superb choices, each of which lends a different quality to the work. What's best about these Poulin versions is their clarity. Stephen Mitchell has found a supple, authoritative voice for an American version of Rilke, and Edward Snow has done vivid and forceful translations, too, especially of the New ...

Elegies A Song Cycle

1 review
William Finn

Alfred Publishing, 2006

Awesome
An incredible collection spanning a wide variety of musical styles and emotions, all based around love and loss. The songs range from hysterically funny (Passover, My Dogs) to incredibly intimate and heartfelt (Anytime, Saying My Goodbyes). The piano reductions in the book have been rhythmically simplified from what is played on the soundtrack, but the chords are very specific and what is there ...

Elegy On Toy Piano (Pitt Poetry Series)

2 reviews
Dean Young

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005

The mysteries of life, death, and everything in between
Elegy On Toy Piano is the sixth collection of poetry from Lenore Marshall Prize finalist Dean Young. The brief, free-verse wordplay mourns the tragedies of life, from the loss of a beloved family pet to the end of a lovers' relationship, but also stretches beyond grief to portray a wide range of mixed of emotions, acknowledging the bad with the good. A serious-minded reflection on the mysteries ...

Elegy (Pitt Poetry Series)

2 reviews
Larry Levis

University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997

There is an afterlife, but it is this one.
If we, the reader, are skeptics and believers of the possibility of art, if we imagine that there is another space language occupies outside of that small room that is our lives, if we are willing to accept ironies and unwillingly acknowledge the tragedy that has always been the recurring theme of the individual, then this book is the past, the present, and future of our desire to live. It's ...

Elegy: Poems

5 reviews
Mary Jo Bang

Graywolf Press, 2007

The fifth collection of poetry by Professor of English Mary Jo Bang
The fifth collection of poetry by Professor of English Mary Jo Bang, Elegy uses free verse to communicate the loss of an only child in the prime of life. Eschewing self-pity, false comfort, or blame, Elegy burns with the power of heartbreak and the timelessness of memory. Highly recommended. "How Beautiful": A personal lens: glass bending rays / That gave one that day's news / Saying each and ...

Red Colored Elegy

1 review
Seiichi Hayashi

Drawn and Quarterly, 2008

A Difficult Read
I pre-ordered this book without knowing anything about it or Seiichi Hayashi other than that both were highly regarded in Japan. D&Q have been publishing underground manga written in the 70's and I was hoping it would be something like the first three English offerings from Tatsumi (e.g. Good-Bye). It's far from it. Red Colored Elegy was difficult for me to read. The panels are in sequence, ...

Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum (Great Lakes Books)

10 reviews
Heidi Johnson

Wayne State University Press, 2004

Compelling
"Angels in the Architecture" is a first-rate homage to a former asylum, the Traverse City State Hospital of Michigan. Heidi Johnson has masterfully combined her hauntingly beautiful photographs with both archival material and first-hand reports from the trenches. The result is a powerfully compelling journey into the soul of a once vibrant institution that provided care to thousands of its ...

Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition

6 reviews
Rainer Maria Rilke

North Point Press, 2001

The Epitome of Poetry
For me, at least, Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies are the very epitome of poetry. I know others who, even though they admire Rilke above all other poets, prefer other "Rilke" poems, such as "Evening." For me, however, it has always been, and always will be, the Elegies. Certainly they are the most extravagant and elusive of Rilke's poems, even for those who count others among their ...

Stations Of Desire: Love Elegies From Ibn 'Arabi And New Poems (Ibis Editions)

3 reviews
Michael Sells

Ibis Editions, 2000

Making a great poetry accessible to modern readers
People might have different views of Sells' own poetry, but no one can disagree that he is a great translator. I have read many translations of Arabic poetry, and I must say that Sells' translations are the best. They perfectly convey the rhythm, the poignancy, the beauty of the original language. Ibn Arabi's poems are great in Arabic, but it's a challenge to render them into modern English and ...

November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg

2 reviews
Kent Gramm

Indiana University Press, 2001

An amazing achievement
Kent Gramm's latest book, November, Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg, is a remarkable achievement. This work contains a profound series of meditations on history, loss, values, idealism, and patriotism, inspired by Gramm's sojourn, throughout the month of one November, in and around Gettysburg. Although his search for the exact spot where Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg address is the ostensible ...

The Diviners: A Play in Two Acts and Elegies

2 reviews
Jim Leonard

Samuel French Trade, 1983

Diviners Warms Your Heart and Revives Your Mind
The Diviners is written with a peerless awareness of the theatrical process and a stirring intimacy. The action flows naturally, without blackouts, and directors, actors, and designers all have the opportunity to push their limits through the balanced framework of this powerful story. The story, which concerns an Indiana family raising a traumatized child who forges a friendship with a ...

In My Father's House: Elegy for an Obsessive Love

8 reviews
Miranda Seymour

Pocket Books, 2008

Superb writing and a great story
I don't usually add reviews to Amazon, but after reading that one person found this book "sophomoric," I had to respond. I don't know which book entitled, "Thrumpton Hall" that particular reviewer is referring to, but it can't be this one. Ms. Seymour's memoir of her family's stately house is a wonderful story, and she gives it great life. If you like Evelyn Waugh or Nancy Mitford, this book ...

Epiphanies & Elegies: Very Short Stories

3 reviews
Brian Doyle

Sheed & Ward, 2007

Short book - short review!
Wonderful! But then I love anything Brian Doyle writes. He makes you laugh, he makes you cry. He makes you just feel good.

The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

27 reviews
Sven Birkerts

Faber & Faber, 2006

A good cause, perhaps a good case
It is understood that modern technology allowed the masses in remote areas to have access to information. But at what cost? Does the Internet substitute for traditional reading? Does "Clicking" on links on your monitor erase the enthusiasm one you found in flipping the pages of an old manuscript? The author made a serious case. Did he succeed in arguments? Probably he did. Interesting book for ...

Stained Glass Elegies: Stories (Revived Modern Classic)

3 reviews
Shusaku Endo

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1990

As eloquent and powerful as anthing you'll ever read.
This is a collection of short stories spanning a twenty year period from the late 50's to the late 70's, and in these stories we come across most of Endo's favourite themes - martyrs of Christianity in Japan, the stories of those who apostatized (gave up their religion for fear of torture and persecution), Endo's own prolonged illness and his fear of suffering, and his own religious ...

the true keeps calm biding its story
Rusty Morrison

Small Press Distribution, 2008

In the aftermath of her father's death, the speaker of Rusty Morrison's exquisitely formed poems takes a step-by-step accounting of her transformation as she reconciles herself to loss. This book-length sequence is the silvery underside of elegy, a lyric of living acceptance paced with "the linen texture of right silences."

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