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4 reviews

Ecco Press, 1988

fabulous
Do yourselves a favour and read the unforgettable poems of the century's least acknowledged, but greatest, poet.

Good cheap food

8 reviews
Miriam Ungerer

Ecco Press, 1982

Good Cheap Food
I first picked up this book in the '70's when I was living "off the land" in Colorado. It worked then as well as it does now; with time-tested, not be be had elsewhere, recipes. I still find myself caught up in her funny, entertaining writing style. And the recipe for Brunswick Stew is not to be left untested!

Praise (The American poetry series ; v. 17)

4 reviews
Robert Hass

Ecco Press, 1979

The most important book of poetry I own.
I can't imagine having not read this beautiful volume of poems. Haas is a master. His poems are holygraphic. You end up being inside them! What he does with time and space is unequaled in all of poetry. No, I'm not his mother! I'm just a totally awed reader who thinks great poetry is one of the hardest things in the world to write. Praise be to Praise!

Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World

8 reviews
Paul Bowles

The Ecco Press, New York, 1987

An excellent collection of timeless philosophical essays
I must disagree with the review written by T. Ross. The essays on travel are not dated any more than Paul Bowles wonderful prose is, which borders on the poetic. Certainly these essays were written in the fifties, but Bowles portraits of North Africans (and European settlers) are so vivid one can almost feel them breathe. The essay concerning Mustafa, a male Muslim and his beliefs should be ...

Human Wishes: Poems by Robert Hass

8 reviews
Robert Hass

Ecco Press, 1989

A Seminal Work of Contemporary Poetry
I must begin by saying that Robert Hass' body of work is without many rivals in the world of contemporary American poetry, thus to call this book his "most accomplished" -which I wholeheartedly believe- is not to say that the rest of his poetry volumes are not wonderful and, in some cases, stunning. Still, "Human Wishes," in my opinion, stands out as a work of delicate craft and compassionate ...

In the garden of the North American martyrs: A collection of short stories

13 reviews
Tobias Wolff

Ecco Press, 1981

Characterizations that resonate
The characters in Tobias Wolff's short stories are typically ordinary people in relatively ordinary circumstances yet he creates through them such vivd glimpses of humanity that we recognize our friends ,relatives,neighbors and ourselves in them. Powerful writing that is subtle and yet somehow unforgettable. All of his short fiction collections are equally enjoyable and I would have a hard time ...

Verdura: Vegetables Italian style

12 reviews
Viana La Place

Ecco Press, 1999

Great recipes but not all vegetarian
There's some of everything in this cookbook but if you're vegetarian or vegan be prepared to alter the recipes here and there. There's a recipe for chicken broth and another for beef broth and they're used in a bunch of the recipes -not a big deal - I just substitite a nice vegetable broth and all is well. Anchovies are used here and there too. For the vegan - you'll need to do your own ...

Ararat

4 reviews
Louise Gluck

Ecco Press, 1990

Her Best Work
Probably the most influential book of poetry published in the language in the last two decades; solidified (and spawned a generation of mimics of) what is now widely recognized as The Gluck Style: spare, unblinking but not unflinching, tough, mournful, deceptively simple. The book, rightfully, that all her other books (except The Wild Iris) may be judged. "Long ago I was wounded.." it ...

The End of Beauty

5 reviews
Jorie Graham

Ecco Press, 1987

Enchantment!
When I first read through this book, my mind was set on the auto-pilot of mere linear sense, trying to get some meaning from the poems. Mistake! At a second reading, I let myself drift along with the embracing flow and only then did I experience the sense of Jorie's words. I thought of how I had experienced James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, and though not comprehending the words or even able to ...

A Sportsman's Notebook

4 reviews
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Ecco Press, 1986

Brilliant
This book has some of the best short fiction ever written. Hemingway said, "Tolstoy wrote the best books, BUT TURGENEV WAS THE GREATEST WRITER." And then he went on to praise the short story "A Rattle of Wheels" above all other Turgenev stories. So if Hemingway thought Turgenev the greatest writer, and "Rattle of Wheels" the greatest story he wrote, then he certainly thought "Rattle of Wheels" ...

Blueschild baby

2 reviews
George Cain

Ecco Press, 1987

Where's Georgie Cain?
Well, that's what I remember as the author's name, to this novel of heroin addiction. I read it in the early '70's and have been looking for a copy for nearly that long. I remember the cover of a dog-earred paperback with the picture of a young man with a star-spangled bandana tied around his head. A first person account of a young African-American's dive into the murky sump of living the ...

Materialism: Poems

3 reviews
Jorie Graham

Ecco Press, 1995

She Is the Yummiest Poet
Book aside, I just want to sleep with Jorie Graham.

The Art of Charcuterie

2 reviews
Jane Grigson

Ecco Press, 1991

Innkeeper in St. Andrews, NB
I picked this out-of-print book up in a tiny little store on the island of Bequia last Spring. I read it from cover to cover and found it to be one of the best written and interesting cookbooks I've ever seen. Her style is captivating and her depth of knowledge unparalleled. Her recipes are fantastic! A great little book if you can find it!

The Essential Shakespeare (Essential Poets)

2 reviews
William Shakespeare, Ted Hughes

Ecco Press, 1992

Essential Shakespeare
As a 3rd Year English Student, I highly reccomend this collection. While I already own the Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, this book I find offers a unique way of reading Shakespeare. Ted Hughes offers a brilliant introduction in which he relates how Shakespeare can be read on two very unique levels. Plays in their entirety, and the way that this book offers selections, exerpted speeches ...

Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel

3 reviews
Evan S. Connell

Ecco Press, 1995

from beginning to end
this book held me captive from begining to end. The first page he describes the death of his brother, pulled apart while chained to horses, sort of a medievel torture. The rest of the book follows his search for his brother, in a sort of "wandering mind", best described as rantings. (I am not a poetry critic nor will I ever pretend to be, so forgive the short descriptions) This is the first ...

Essential Burns (Essential Poets)

2 reviews
Robert Creeley

Ecco Press, 1989

THE ESSENTIAL BURNS, VOL. 11 OF ECCO PRESS POETRY SERIES
Perhaps because Shakespeare, Swinburne and Homer are three of my all-time favorite poets, Robert Burns blows me away. His words (filled with an intriguing old Scottish dialect) are like lyrics, verses of songs--tumultuous one moment and subtle and serene the next, but always apparent that swarthy Scottish accent. In this little, GIFT-SIZED book, THE ESSENTIAL BURNS, the most appealing poems for ...

Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories

2 reviews
Stuart Dybek

Ecco Press, 1995

Magical Realism in the Realest of Cities
This is my favorite collection of short stories by any contemporary author. Stories like "Blood Soup" contain bizarre, unforgettable characters and the author's unique, horrified yet loving view of Chicago mainly through the eyes of children. The neo-gothic setting of the "city of big shoulders" (as Carl Sandburg put it) is a perfect backdrop to stories of love, violence, and growing up.

Journal of Katherine Mansfield

3 reviews

Ecco Press, 1983

The lifetime of one of our greatest writers
I first heard of this book in a 1927 review of it by Dorothy Parker (available in the 1944 edition of The Portable Dorothy Parker, as well as subsequent editions I believe, including the 1973 one). Parker's review is beautifully apt. She says, "I think that the Journal of Katherine Mansfield is the saddest book I have ever read. Here, set down in exquisite fragments, is the record of six lonely ...

The Life of Jesus

2 reviews
Marcello Craveri

Ecco Press, 1989

A closely reasoned look at the evidence in the life
This is an eye-opening book. Craveri is clear-eyed about the evidence in the various biblical accounts and in other historical testimony about what exactly went on in the early days of Christianity. His narrative even has a villain: St. Paul, who translated, transformed Christ's message into an other-worldly vision of what should be the aim of the ordinary Christian. For Craveri, Christ's ...

Bells in Winter

2 reviews
Czeslaw Milosz

Ecco Press, 1988

Beautiful and indestructible poetry
Like just a handful of poets (Yeats comes instantly to mind), Czeslaw Milosz has surrendered none of his artistic powers to old age. Yet the poems collected here, which date back as far as 1936, indicate that the future Nobelist was playing at the top of his game from the beginning. The shorter lyrics, like "Ars Poetica?", are true marvels. And while the longer sequences can be a touch uneven, ...

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