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River Of Earth Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780813113722
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1978
Description:
First published in 1940, James Still's masterful novel has become a classic. It is the story, seen through the eyes of a boy, of three years in the life of his family and their kin. He sees his parents pulled between the meager farm with its sense of independence and the mining camp with its uncertain promise of material prosperity.
Bus to Veracruz, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780822952961
Pub Date: 07 Nov 1978
Description:
In Shelton’s fourth collection of poems, he writes of the desert Southwest, and through it gives his unique view of the world. The poems speak of landscape, marriage, freedom, and death.
Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780813114163
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1977
Illustrations: illus
Description:
Mysterious vanishing hitchhikers, travelers beset by headless dogs, and long-dead moonshiners come alive in this collection of ninety-six Appalachian folktales. Set in coal mines and remote farm cabins, in hidden hollows and on mountain tops, some of these stories look back to the days when West Virginia was first settled; others reflect the rancor and brutality of the Civil War. But most of these tales guide us through the recent past of the uncommonly rich folk heritage of West Virginia.
The Tennis Court Oath Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 94
ISBN: 9780819510136
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1977
Description:
John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their clashing interplay a structure of dazzling brilliance and strong emotional impact.
Taking on the Local Color Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780819510853
Pub Date: 01 Jan 1977
Description:
Cynthia Genser's landscapes, like those of D.H. Lawrence, are analogues of human emotions; her men and women exist in their effects-prototypes one minute, passionate and distinctly visible individuals the next.
Claiming Kin Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
ISBN: 9780819510839
Pub Date: 01 Jan 1976
Description:
Poems devoted to family and the physical world.
Etai-Eken Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780822952633
Pub Date: 15 Dec 1975
Description:
Etai-Eken is a legend told in a series, a cycle of poems, which is to say, told in different languages. The action of the poems in the poem is their moving in and out of the legend by the changes of access to the larger legend; an access of the present in the ancient, of the present’s knowledge and experience of it.
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 1023
ISBN: 9780819560483
Pub Date: 31 Jul 1975
Series: Wesleyan Edition of The Works of Henry Fielding
Illustrations: 1 facs. 1 Map.
Description:
The Wesleyan edition of Tom Jones is widely acknowledged as the best available, and this new paperback reproduces the handsomely composed text and notes of that edition. A new Critical Introduction, a brief chronology of Fielding's life, and a selected bibliography of relevant criticism especially designed for student use have been added. The map – A Geography of Tom Jones – has been retained, while the General and Textual Introduction and six bibliographical Appendices of the two volume clothbound edition have been omitted.
Axion Esti, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9780822953180
Pub Date: 11 Nov 1974
Description:
The Axion Esti is probably the most widely read volume of verse to have appeared in Greece since World War II and remains a classic today. Those who follow the music of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis have been especially drawn to Odysseus Elytis's work, his prose is widely considered a mirror to the revolutionary music of Theodorakis. The "autobiographical" elements are constantly colored by allusion to the history of Greece, thus, the poems express a contemporary consciousness fully resonant with those echoes of the past that have served most to shape the modern Greek experience.
Windows and Stones Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780822952282
Pub Date: 15 Sep 1972
Description:
An International Poetry Forum Selection, translated from the Swedish by May Swenson with Leif Sjöberg. Tomas Tranströmer 2011 Nobel Laureate in Literature “Tomas Tranströmer, who is today one of Sweden’s most distinguished poets . .
The Theater of the Bauhaus Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 110
ISBN: 9780819560209
Pub Date: 01 Jul 1971
Illustrations: 78 b&w illus.
Description:
Few creative movements have been more influential than the Bauhaus, under the leadership of Walter Gropius. The art of the theater commanded special attention. The text in this volume is a loose collection of essays by Oskar Schlemmer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Farkas Molnár (who in an illustrated essay shares his vision of a total theatre space), with an introduction by Bauhaus leader Walter Gropius.
Tattooed Desert, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780822952190
Pub Date: 15 Feb 1971
Description:
Shelton says of his work: "I consider myself a regionalist and a surrealist. I have lived in the desert for ten years and hope that my work reflects that fact." In the forty-seven poems in this collection the poet moves backward and forward through time but always in the same landscape, the desert-mountains of southern Arizona, which foster his surrealistic view of his interior conflict.
Dylan Thomas’ Early Prose Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780822952152
Pub Date: 15 May 1970
Description:
This first full-scale treatment of the early prose of Dylan Thomas demonstrates the unity of his total work. Pratt argues that the inward journey of the poetic imagination which is implicit in poetry is often explicit in prose. Her study of ThomasÆ early prose alongside his early poetry helps to elucidate all of his writing.
When Thy King Is A Boy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9780822952145
Pub Date: 15 May 1970
Description:
C.D. Wright has described Roberson’s work as “lyric poetry of meticulous design and lasting emotional significance," comparing its musical qualities to the work of saxophonist Steve Lacy, jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
Al-Farabi's Short Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 132
ISBN: 9780822983828
Description:
During the years 800-1200 A.D., Arabic scholars studied many of the works of Greek philosophy, and recorded their interpretations.
Art, Mind, and Religion Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 158
ISBN: 9780822983989
Description:
This volume offers an unusual variety of topics presented during the sixth annual Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy. The subjects covered include: refuting J. L.