Of Being Numerous
9 best books like Of Being Numerous (George Oppen): Memories of the Future, Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings, 77 Dream Songs, Blue Hour, My Life, The Book of Frank, Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, Poésies / Une saison en enfer / Illuminations
| Author | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky |
| ISBN | 1590173198 |
Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room;...
| Author | Alexander Pushkin |
| ISBN | 0140446753 |
Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed. "The Tales of Belkin", his first prose...
| Author | John Berryman |
| ISBN | 0571207693 |
Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers, connecting the backlist and...
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 0060099135 |
"Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called 'the [lost] presence beyond appearance.' The longest poem, 'On Earth,' is a transcription of mind passing from life into death, in the form of an abecedary, modeled on ancient gnostic hymns. Other poems...
| Author | Lyn Hejinian |
| ISBN | 1931243336 |
Recognized today as one of the great works of contemporary American literature, My Life is at once poetic autobiography, personal narrative, a woman’s fiction, and an ongoing dialogue with the poet and her experience. Upon its first publication by Sun & Moon Press (the edition reprinted here)...
| Author | C.A. Conrad |
| ISBN | 1933517492 |
Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional "Frank" poems and an essay by Eileen Myles.Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a "voyeuresque surreal portrait," The Book of Frank is also, in the words of candid portrayal of human cruelty and its resultant...
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
| Author | Stanley Crouch |
| ISBN | 0062005596 |
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz and culture in America.
Throughout...
The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological...
Poésies / Une saison en enfer / Illuminations
| Author | Arthur Rimbaud |
| ISBN | 2070409007 |
Ici, point de jolis poèmes ciselés, de fleurettes ni de petits oiseaux. Pas de rimes savantes ni d’audaces de versification. La Saison, ce n’est pas ce genre de poésie. C’est une plongée au cœur d’une âme effrénée qui traverse une crise morale et intellectuelle aux allures de cataclysme....
